One of the first places I stop when I visit someone's website is, if they have it, a /uses page. It's one of those things that satisfies my curiosity and maybe, just maybe, I will get an idea or two!
As the result of a few things, like the spike in hardware prices, hardware compatibility, and colour management, I recently decided to retire my Linux desktop and return to the Mac.
I am running macOS Tahoe. The return of lickability.
I find Tahoe's "Liquid Glass" interface profoundly unattractive when compared to Gnome's GTK4/Adwaita. If aesthetics had been the main (or only) thing that factored into my computing choices, I'd have stuck with my Debian 13 install.
I am using an M4 Mac mini, which I customized a little, to come with 32GB of memory and 512GB of internal storage. It replaced a late-2019 Dell Precision 3630 Tower with an Intel Core i5-8500 and 32GB of DDR4 running Debian 13.
I use one monitor: a 32" 4K Samsung.
I recently retired my long-serving IBM Model M from 1993 and replaced it with a WOBKEY Crush 80 Reboot Pro (in purple, of course). What a heavy and wonderful-sounding dream of a keyboard to be typing on!
Since I have always been more-or-less pleased with Apple's bundled software (such as Safari, Mail, Messages, Photos, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Music, etc.), I mostly rely on on them for my needs.
There are a few others, however!
As the result this year's surgery (and necessary downtime), in the Spring, I decided that it was time to take my mid-2014 13" MacBook Pro out of the drawer, have the battery replaced, and get it working again!
Since the last supported version of macOS for this laptop is Big Sur, I recently installed Debian 13 and am happily running this classic Linux distribution with the Gnome desktop environment (which I find to be the prettiest of them all).
Given its age and role as a laptop for blogging on this mostly-text website, in addition to Firefox for browsing, I am using Thunderbird for email, Apostrophe for markdown editing, Gnome's default terminal (though I'd love if Debian supported better integration with a GTK4/Adwaita terminal like Console), and, of course Shortwave for web radio.
I'm a basic girl with basic needs: so long as I can type some markdown and occasional HTML, CSS, and even-more-occasional Nunjuks, run npm run build and a little git push, I'm a happy camper! 🏕️
As a sometimes anxious and indecisive lady, I spent nearly two years going back-and-forth as to whether I just wanted to go back to a flip phone for my mobile needs. In the end, I decided that it would be better to stick with a smart phone due to the features that I use.
As of November 2025, I use an iPhone 16. In Ultramarine, of course.
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Last Update: July 10, 2026