# what nytpu uses

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Last updated January 16, 2025.


## Computrons

### Hardware

* Thinkpad P16s Gen 2, Ryzen 7 7840U, 32 GiB RAM, 1 TB SSD: main
  everyday computer
* Creative Pebble v2.0: desktop speakers
* Intel i7-5820K, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 16 GiB RAM, stuffed with
  8+ TB disks: NAS, home theater PC, and server to offload
  compilation & Blender rendering to
* Samsung T7: external SSD for extra storage on my laptop that's
  faster than the NAS or when I'm offline
* Raspberry Pi 4B, 4 GiB RAM, 32 GB SD Card: Pi-Hole and some
  miscellaneous services
* OnePlus 7T
* Sony WH-1000XM4: main headphones
* Moondrop CHU II: main earbuds
* Keychron K3
* Logitech MX Master 3S
* SwissMicros DM42, HP-48G, TI-84+ CSE: way too many calculators
  but I use them all regularly because they're each the most
  convenient for different things
* Playdate
* Steam Deck
* Lots of retro (or at least modern-but-discontinued) game
  consoles and computers


### Software

* Qutebrowser
* Lagrange
* Konsole
* tmux + tmuxinator
tmuxinator has profiles to open my email client and such and an
empty window when opening a terminal, and then I have an "editing"
profile that I can point at a code directory that opens neovim with
a previously saved session and with the panes how I like.

* Neovim
Relatively lightly modified. I use fzf.vim to switch between
buffers and have LSPs and Vlime set up, but little else that
doesn't appear in a typical vim config.

* Neomutt
* MPV + TOOLS/umpv script provided with MPV
* Cantata + MPD + mpDris2
I like MPD because I can close the music player with the music
still playing without having it minimize to a persistent icon in
the notification area; and being able to use other frontends to the
same media player if I want. mpDris2 lets the media keys still work
even with Cantata closed.

I specifically use nullobsi's Qt6 fork of Cantata. I don't really
like using a TUI like NCMPCPP which is why I use Cantata.

* Tailscale
Private network between my laptop, NAS, Raspberry Pi, VPS, and
phone. Lets me have them all use Pi-Hole as the DNS server no
matter where I am and without publicly exposing it, and access
stuff on my NAS remotely without needing to publicly expose it
either. Quality software.

* git-annex
For organizing and syncing some subsets of my data between my NAS,
external drive(s), etc.

* Borg Backup
* Pi-Hole + Stubby
I use a Pi-Hole for DNS filtering and (primarily) caching on all my
devices, and Stubby to do DNS over TLS because I absolutely do not
trust Comcast to not mess with DNS queries. And using a custom DNS
over a private tunnel (whether direct DNS over TLS or normal DNS
over Tailscale) bypasses 99.9% of internet filters IME.

Before I switched to using a Pi-Hole over Tailscale for all my
devices, I used to use DNSMasq and Stubby locally on my laptop for
DNS just there.

* Artix
The main OS I use on non-servers, namely my laptop (I also use it
on my NAS too). I just need up-to-date packages and like the AUR,
and *I personally* have had numerous issues with Systemd where I
prefer not to use it when possible.

* Alpine
The main OS I use on servers. It's lightweight, and has stable
releases without them getting uselessly out-of-date like Debian.

* s6 + s6-rc
My favorite init and daemon supervision system. Infinitely faster
than any other (including systemd, and especially faster than
OpenRC), and easy to write scripts for and do things like make user
services and such. Only thing is that the CLI interface is rather
lacking and you'll want to be writing wrapper scripts for a lot of
tasks (Artix already has some good ones).

* ZFS
On NAS only. I use ext4 for all non-RAID setups.


## Photography

### Cameras & Lenses

* Nikon D7200
* Nikkor 70–300 mm ƒ/4.5–5.6 ED VR
* Sigma 18–55 mm ƒ/2.8 EX DC Macro HSM

* Olympus XA

* Bronica EC-TL
* Auto-Nikkor PC 75 mm ƒ/2.8
* Nikkor O 50 mm ƒ/2.8

* Canon AE-1 Program
* Vivitar 28 mm ƒ/2.8
* Canon 50 mm ƒ/1.8
* Kiron 80–200 mm ƒ/4.5


### Software

* Darktable: digital photo and film scan editing
* scanimage: film scanning
* Custom ImageMagick scripts for initial processing of film scans
  (everything but cropping frames and individual frame tuneups)
* GIMP
For some editing tasks that Darktable doesn't do well, or for
things like adjusting colors in intermediate steps of film scan
processing that I don't want imported to the Darktable database.


### Film Stocks & Chemistry

(Just what I typically shoot, I don't exclusively shoot these)

* Kodak T-MAX 400
* Kodak Ektar 100
* Kodak Gold 200
* Agfa Aviphot 200 (infrared photography, resold under a ton of
  different names, like ¾ of Rollei's films)
* Ilford HP5+ 400 (mostly trying to use up what I already have on
  hand)

* D-76 1+1 one-shot
* Standard indicator stop bath
* Two-bath Ilford Rapid Fixer
* Freestyle Photo Arista C-41 kit