Clay ShirkyInterview
Writer, teacher (NYU)
Adapted from Clay Shirky's interview on Uses This, published 15 April 2014. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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My web phone is a Galaxy S, which includes a physical keyboard (a dying amenity.) The S, like most 'bar of soap' designs, is optimized for lots of things, with the notable exception of synchronous voice.
I keep an iPod Touch and a Windows box in the office, but most iPh?o[d|(ne)] software comes out for Android as well now.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
(My browser is Chrome because duh.)
Coding & Development
My writing tools have gone through three phases: 1993-2003, mainly emacs in a telnet window.
Media
Storage
Other
Red Hat Enterprise Desktop+ 3 others
I added a desktop running Red Hat in 1996.
I used BeOS for a month or so in 1997, which was beautiful but didn't play well with others.
I dropped Windows in 2000, when OS X became Unix-with-a-non-suck-GUI and stopped crashing.
Auxiliary features include not being able to look things up on Wikipedia and not being able to play Subway Surfer.
The last time I booted Windows to do anything other than download an .iso was to try BioShock Infinite (good story, amazing world, meh combat, like everyone said.)