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Editing software14

Recording software2

  • Nero

    first cited May 2026has reservations

    “Anyway, as you might have noticed, I have installed from the disc we were just looking at the Nero software that comes with the drive. Although, I'm rather shocked to find that it requires us to enter an email address to use the software.”
    View source at 15:56from May 2026
  • Adobe Audition

    first cited May 2026

    “I don't use AI to edit my audio, although some people in the comments seem to think I do. I don't. It's all set out there in W Audition.”
    View source at 8:30from May 2026

Coding software4

  • Python

    first cited July 2026

    “And so to demonstrate the basics of this, I've got here the Python IDE.”
    View source at 17:24from July 2026
  • Arduino Studio (Arduino IDE)

    first cited July 2024

    “Arduino IDE software”
    View sourcefrom July 2024
  • Pygame

    positive about it

    “Right here I am back again where I've decided to switch to Pygame for robot control Pygame is a set of python modules intended for writing games although here we're just going to use it to read the keyboard”
    View source at 6:26from February 2021
  • M5 Burner

    first cited July 2024

    “…they're creating all kinds of applications which can be uploaded to the device using a piece of software called M5 burner available from M5 stack”
    View source at 13:35from July 2024

AI software6

  • LM Studio

    cited in 4 videosfirst cited July 2026positive about it

    “And the reason for this is because I've installed Bionic on the same computer on which I previously installed LM Studio and downloaded these two models.”
    View source at 3:27from September 2026+ 3 more sources
  • Gemma 4 (12B / E4B local AI models)

    cited in 3 videosfirst cited July 2026mixed views on it

    “Anyway, back here on the 5600G computer, let's also select Gemma 4 E4B as we don't have masses of resources available on this system.”
    View source at 4:30from September 2026+ 2 more sources
  • Gemma 4 12B

    first cited October 2026

    “Also, for comparison, I'm here running LM Studio with the Gemma 412B local AI model loaded. And I've set up a prompt which asks it to summarize the attached text file in about 100 words.”
    View source at 9:04from October 2026
  • Gemini

    first cited September 2026

    “Anyway, I did move on for a final experiment involving current stock prices, which I first of all sourced here using Google Gemini, an online AI rather than a local AI with web access.”
    View source at 15:54from September 2026

Productivity software16

  • Windows

    cited in 3 videos

    “…but we're good we're in Windows here so we'll just download the file over there we'll click on download”
    View source at 2:04from March 2020+ 2 more sources
  • LibreOffice Writer

    cited in 3 videosfirst cited March 2026

    “Let's bring in our test document. And uh Libra Office Writer is certainly usable on this system, but it's more sluggish than we saw on the previous computer.”
    View source at 13:51from March 2026+ 2 more sources
  • Ubuntu

    cited in 3 videosspeaks highly of it

    “Like many people, I find Ubuntu to be very solid and professional. I run it on the Cyber Deck sitting in front of me right now, as well as on many test systems.”
    View source at 20:42from April 2026+ 2 more sources
  • Linux

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited December 2023positive about it

    “As some of you will be aware, I do all of my computing in Linux with the exception of video production and I am planning on moving video production to Linux at some point once all the requisite software I need is available.”
    View source at 6:42from July 2025+ 1 more source

Creator tools2

  • YouTube Studio app

    first cited August 2026positive about it

    “And I want to note I've had no problems whatsoever doing YouTube admin here in YouTube studio on the Milk Five Jupiter 2, with absolutely no flicker or other functionality issues like we saw in some cloud apps a few days go.”
    View source at 18:27from August 2026
  • LightWave 3D

    first cited December 2023positive about it

    “…but it also comes back the fact I rely on a 3D modeling package and rendering package called LightWave and LightWave just has a change of ownership”
    View source at 11:56from December 2023

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Computers33

Monitors1

Peripherals10

Storage25

Everything else

Other51

  • Linux Mint

    cited in 9 videospositive about it

    “I've actually installed Linux Mint on the nvme SSD and I've left the board to boot from Windows err by default”
    View source at 18:25from April 2020+ 8 more sources
  • balenaEtcher

    cited in 4 videos

    “Next, we need to write it to a USB drive, and here in Linux Mint, I'm going to do this using Balena Etcher, just as you can do in Windows, although you can use other imaging software if it brings you more pleasure.”
    View source at 2:54from September 2026+ 3 more sources
  • Windows 10

    cited in 4 videos

    “So, here is my 2018 Asus Sambulk UX 330UA laptop, which is currently running Windows 10 with consumer ESUs.”
    View source at 10:52from June 2026+ 3 more sources
  • Firefox

    cited in 3 videos

    “And I'm also going to open up the Firefox web browser, which I set to preload three web pages, which are the explaining computers index page, a very lightweight page, but also a YouTube page, which is, as we know, much heavier, and also an Amazon page, also quite a heavy page.”
    View source at 3:03from March 2026+ 2 more sources

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