-Tech Tools That I Use

This short blog post simply lists some technical tools that I use and generally recommend.

Update 23.Dec.2025: I moved this article here:

• https://www.jpw3.com/articles/2025/November/tech-tools.html

You can see more posts about these by searching this blog, for example:

• https://deliverystack.net/?s=vscodium
• https://deliverystack.net/?s=linkedin

See also:

• https://deliverystack.net/2025/11/09/my-writing-tools-and-process/

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 lightweight text editor, and a file manager.

I insatalled something I can’t remember to customize Fedora’s GNOME UI a bit. Possibly something like:

• https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/gnome-tweaks/gnome-tweaks/

I always install batcat to replace cat/more/less (and maybe head?):

• https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

I’m trying the Superfile console file manaager:

• https://deliverystack.net/2025/11/23/starting-out-with-superfile/