Matt LeeInterview
Filmmaker, free software hacker
Adapted from Matt Lee's interview on Uses This, published 3 August 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 also have a ThinkPad T440S, also with 16GB of RAM but a full terabyte of SSD.
The movies are filmed using a Canon XA10 camera, which I picked because it has XLR inputs.
Sound is recorded using a Rode shotgun microphone or a Xoom H4N recorder.
I have a Google Pixel phone, which seems to lock up about once every two days, and a couple of Apple products that don't get used much at all, but it can be interesting to know what they're up to.
Communication
GNU social uses the OStatus protocol, which is also used by Mastodon to build a federated social network.
Productivity
I also use a tool called Pandoc for doing things like producing PDFs of books from Markdown.
Coding & Development
Pretty much everything I've ever written down on a computer since the early 1990s has been in GNU Emacs.
I use a script called Textplay to turn the Fountain markup into HTML.
Design
Video editing is done entirely in Blender, which is by far the most stable video editing tool I've used on GNU/Linux.
Media
I'd like to find an alternative to Audacity that doesn't lock up the sound on my computer too.
Storage
Other
Once GNOME has better support for HiDPI displays I will put Debian on the Dell, so I don't have to think too much about what I'm doing.