I try to keep things simple and use refurbished hardware and open source, privacy friendly software as much as I can. This is not an exhaustive list, mostly focused on what I enjoy and would recommend.
Hardware
- Refurbished Macbook Pro 2015
- Refurbished iPhone SE
- Bowers & Wilkins PX noise cancelling headphones
Software
- Firefox with uBlock origin and DuckDuckGo as default search engine
- VSCodium (fork of VS Code without Microsoft's telemetry) as code editor
- FreeTube for access to YouTube
- KeePassXC as password manager
- NetNewsWire as RSS reader
- Tofu for 2FA
Services
- Tutanota for encrypted email and calendar, running 100% on renewable energy
- SimpleLogin for email aliases
- Cryptee for end-to-end encrypted notes
- Ente Photos for end-to-end encrypted online photo storage
- eBooks.com to buy ebooks
- Mastodon for social media
- I'd love to use Signal, but need Whatsapp and Messenger to stay connected with friends and family
- Airalo for local eSIMs from anywhere when travelling