Cory DoctorowInterview
Activist, writer, journalist
Adapted from Cory Doctorow's interview on Uses This, published 26 March 2022. 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
I use Steelcase Leap chairs; my first one (bought from a guy shutting down his dotcom bust and selling everything on a San Francisco sidewalk in 2001) was $20 and lasted for nearly 20 years.
Communication
Productivity
I use LibreOffice for formatted text and bookkeeping and the odd slideshow.
Browser
Security
I use VeraCrypt for secure storage.
Coding & Development
I compose most of my fiction and long-form nonfic, as well as blog posts in Gedit, a text editor, usually with emacs keybindings.
Media
I use Rhythmbox for my MP3 collection.
I use the GIMP to create and edit images for my blog.
Other
On the desktop, I've been an exclusive Ubuntu user since about 2005.