Tech Tools That I Use
This short blog post simply lists some technical tools that I use and generally recommend.
Originally published to: https://deliverystack.net/2025/11/28/tech-tools-that-i-use/
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Tool Pages
I use these tools relatively often.
- Google gemini AI: https://gemini.google.com/
- YouTube video transcriber: https://notegpt.io/youtube-transcript-generator
- Convert image to coloring sheet: https://colorifyai.art/photo-to-coloring-pages/
Sites That I Access Directly
I often access these sites directly. Excluding finance sites, most other sites I access through links from these sites.
- https://deliverystack.net - My main blog (add
?s=<term>to search). - https://www.startpage.com - Internet search engine.
- https://proton.me/mail - Email.
- https://mail.google.com - Email.
- https://maps.google.com - Maps.
- https://web.whatsapp.com - Instant messaging.
- https://www.linkedin.com - Business and social network.
- https://wordpress.com - Blogging and social network.
- https://www.youtube.com - Media (videos, podcasts, music) and social network.
- https://slashdot.org - Science news and social network.
- https://github.com - File storage.
- https://proton.me - File storage.
- https://ground.news - News.
Software
I am most aware of my use of the following software:
- Linux (Fedora distribution, somewhat randomly)
- LibreWolf browser (for most browsing)
- Google Chrome browser (when I can't prevent tracking, such as sites that use google authentication anyway)
- Firefox and Tor (part of a three-or-more-browser strategy that I haven't implemented yet)
- VSCodium (to manage any significant writing or coding, though I integrate other editors such as LibreOffice Writer) -** LibreOffice (mostly Writer for docs and Calc for spreadsheets)**
- Thunderbird email client- Proton VPN
- Proton Email client
- Waiting for a Proton Drive client
- Rhythmbox (for music; it's just what came with Fedora)
- GIMP (for working with images)
- Terminal (whatever came with Fedora)
- Audacity (for working with audio)
I sometimes uninstall and then eventually reinstall browsers.
Without paying attention, I sometimes use some other things that came with Fedora, such as an image viewer, a file manager, and a lightweight text editor.
I insatalled something I can't remember to customize Fedora's GNOME UI a bit. Possibly something like:
I always install batcat to replace cat/more/less (and maybe head?):
I'm trying the Superfile console file manaager:
Update 7.Dec.2025: Adding some things I'm trying:
- xclip https://deliverystack.net/2025/12/05/capture-command-line-output-to-the-linux-clipboard/
- pinta (like Paint for Windows)
- glances (like top on steeroids)