Kornel LesińskiInterview
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Adapted from Kornel Lesiński's interview on Uses This, published 17 November 2017. 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 use a 2014 MacBook Pro with Retina Display.
I use it with the Belkin Thunderbolt dock, so I've been living in the "everything in one port" future for a while.
I've got an now-old 30" Dell WFP3008.
My other monitor is a 4K Samsung U28D590.
I scribble on my iPad or Pixel XL.
I've got the Daydream VR headset for the Pixel.
Its controller significantly improves interaction in VR compared to Cardboard, but it has a fatal flaw: it has created another axis of Android fragmentation.
I have a Pebble Time --- now a zombie.
I've got it because the Mac Pro is on an "accidental" 5-year hiatus, and today there just aren't any Macs with high-end GPUs.
The last bit of hardware is my beloved Herman-Miller Mirra chair.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
I've tried Vivaldi, but it was too slow and buggy for me.
Coding & Development
I use iTerm2, for lots of small reasons.
It does everything that the stock Terminal does, but a little bit better.
One thing I don't use command line for is git.
I'm not going to type hashes --- I'd rather click and drag things in GitX.
In some areas it feels higher-level than JavaScript, but it's still as close to the metal as C.
Media
Other
The fingerprint sensor is so fast and so conveniently placed, that I use it, despite knowing that Android's hardware security is weak sauce.
I might switch to an iPhone, because Apple's Android to iOS migration assistant can't be any worse.
I've also got an AMD-Ryzen-based PC with elementary OS as my secondary computer for number crunching.