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+title: How I Pick Software
+description: My personal criteria for selecting software
+date: 2025-10-19
+tags:
+  - "meta"
+---
+
+## Introduction
+
+So recently I have somewhat been forced into thinking about the software I use.
+Reasons range from moral disagreements to software bloat to trust. So I wanted
+to describe a little bit about how I pick my software.
+
+In each section I will align a score from 1-5, 1 being the worst and 5 being
+the best, and then at the end I will tally up the score and see if it is worth
+using. Be warned that there are some special cases that will not follow this
+tally system.
+
+## Criteria
+
+### Morality
+
+This is likely the most important part of picking software for me. But it goes
+much deeper than "is this company a war profiteer?". It also goes into the
+potential impacts of the software. For example, let's take a look at shinigami
+eyes, this browser extension at a first glance seems innocent and like it would
+help protect transgender people online from transphobic people. However, the
+same way that it can guide a trans person to safety, it can be utilized by
+transphobes to disregard trans positive content and further push them into a
+transphobic bubble. For this reason I would give shinigami eyes a 3/5 for morality.
+
+### Alternatives
+
+When picking software I always want to make sure that there are alternatives.
+Sometimes there are not any alternatives with all the features I need, or even
+any alternatives at all. In the latter case I no longer really have a choice so
+I provide it 100 points, which is almost an automatic pass.
+
+In the case where there are alternatives I will look into them both and see
+what I need most between them. For example, let's take a look at wezterm and
+ghostty, both are amazing terminal emulators, they both have tabs and splits,
+but wezterm is a lot more customizable whereas ghostty is a lot faster and
+more native feeling on macOS. In this case I would give wezterm a 4/5 and
+ghostty a 5/5 making it win this category.
+
+### Trust
+
+Can I trust this software? is the biggest question here. Trust can be earnt and
+lost, but it also starts at different base levels. I have much less trust in
+google products since they often shut down for business and then force you to
+an alternative weather you like it or not. On the other hand, open source
+software can mitigate a fair amount of this since I can fork or keep copies of
+the software from versions that I like or trust.
+
+### Do I really need it?
+
+This is usually the final question I ask myself before using this software. The
+ultimate challenge because this is the ultimate veto. A real application that
+has not made it past this stage was a shopping list app since I can just
+remember my shopping list.