James BridleInterview
Writer, artist
Adapted from James Bridle's interview on Uses This, published 12 April 2018. 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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I have a 2013 MacBook Air which I am keeping going as long as I can.
I have a Fairphone 2, which is about two years old now and part of the same de-Appling process.
I recently used a bunch of Philips Hue lightbulbs in an artwork and now we have them in the house, which is a small concession to the Internet of Things, which I am deeply suspicious of.
I feel I should also mention my (five year old) Kindle Paperwhite, which despite very, very bad feelings about Amazon I still believe is the best piece of tech design of the last decade and, given how much I read and how far I live from Anglophone bookstores, is utterly indispensable.
Communication
Productivity
Writing is done in endless series of .txt files with whatever text editor is to hand, and any further editing in LibreOffice Writer.
Along with Keynote, this is the only application I really miss (LibreOffice Impress is a pig I am learning to live with).
Security
I use ExpressVPN and a couple of backup services most of the time.