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[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Kodi—It can connect to a media source via FTP, so I was able to effortlessly connected it to my online storage to download shows and movies from it to watch on the fly, and on my TV no less. Without that, it'd be a huge pain just to get the file onto my TV.

SmartTube—It's an ad-free YouTube video app for Android TVs, and it has Sponsorblock included. You could say it's YouTube Vanced for Android TVs.

Discord bots—I've setup my own personal Discord server (no other humans allowed in it) and set it up with various bots that do things ranging from posting tweets/ posts from Twitter/ Bluesky to letting me know when specific channels have uploaded a new video on YouTube or gone live on Twitch. I've also got another bot monitoring some RSS feeds.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, OBS (open broadcast software), Linux distros of various sorts, openHAB, LibreOffice, Firefox (and plugins like uBlock), PiHole, VirtualBox, Notepad++, Paint.NET, VLC, 7-Zip, FileZilla…

I’m sure there’s more.

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[–] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 69 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fucking entire Fedivere with No ads.

[–] noocratius@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Amax@lemmy.ca 56 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Can't believe no one has mentioned Home Assistant. Automation engine for home and have local control over almost everything "smart" at home.

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 403 points 3 days ago (20 children)
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[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

OrganicMaps, all the trails I've been to so far in the US are available for offline navigation. No need to precache via gmaps and pray it won't get deleted

Edit: OpenStreetMap which powers this is what AllTrails uses, but I'm not sure if they contribute back or not

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[–] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (15 children)

Adding the following that i have not seen mentioned yet:

Docker - I literally run most of my server programs with docker now. Home Assistant, Jellyfin, and many others.

Tiny Media Manager that I use to scraper and organize my media library

Tiny Tiny RSS to combine my news sites into one aggregator. I actually saw this post on it since Lemmy has RSS feeds!

Openwrt I run as my home router.

I2P but it's still pretty clunky.

Nomachine I use as a remote desktop client.

RocketDock I still use on my windows desktop after windows removed the programs toolbar.

ImageJ/Fiji I use for image processing, it's from the NIH, with a bunch of Java plugins.

Gluetun I use to run my vpn client

Kodi for multimedia

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[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 315 points 3 days ago (6 children)
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[–] omxxi@feddit.org 88 points 2 days ago (5 children)

firefox

considering the big monopoly of chrome based is not really free, it's paid by google or microsoft mining user data

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[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Stremio + torrentio plug-in.

My wife and I haven't paid for a subscription in 5 years and watch everything we want

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 71 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Godot

I cant believe it has a better user experience than unity, an app that has a 412 USD/month paid plan

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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I think Blender is a very honorable mention, especially since the team that makes the software has also used it to make some really impressive short films, such as Big Buck Bunny. Who knows, maybe some indie studio can use it to make some truly wonderful stuff (and I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case).

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[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 106 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

Practically every single FOSS application I use is highly useful to me, and of course, free, so I'll just list them all here.

  • Immich - A full-featured replacement for Google Photos, has a sleek UI, face detection, albums, a timeline, etc.
  • Paperless-ngx - Document management system, saves me a ton of paper hoarding, and makes everything easily searchable with OCR.
  • Syncthing - Simple file synchronization between my devices, on my terms. Doesn't share data with big tech companies about my files, and hooks up extremely fast P2P connections that beat cloud-based services by a long shot.
  • Metube & Seal - Simple interfaces for downloading with yt-dlp, can download from YouTube, but also many other sites. Doesn't spam you with popup ads or junk redirects like those "youtube downloader" type sites. Seal is my favorite of the two, but is only on Android.
  • Image Toolbox - Insanely feature-packed app for doing practically anything you could want to an image. Converting formats, clearing EXIF data, removing backgrounds, feature-packed editing, OCR, convert to SVG, create color palettes, converting PDFs to images, decode and encode Base64 to and from images, extract frames from gifs, encrypt & decrypt files, make zip files, and a lot more. All local.
  • Rustdesk - No-nonsense remote desktop, tons of features, simple file transfer, cross-platform compatibility, and P2P communication without needing a third party server if you so choose.
  • LibreOffice - Essentially everything you'd get with Office 365 (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint) but without the $150 price point. Compatible with the same file formats, and has the same functionality.
  • Cashew - Feature rich financial app for budgeting, tracking purchases, saving for goals, etc. Doesn't have automatic import, but I find that manually putting every transaction in keeps me aware of my spending much better than before, so for me it's quite worth it. Install directly from the APK, or use on web though. The version on the app stores has some features locked behind a paywall.
  • Linkwarden - Bookmark manager with cross-platform support, a web interface, automatic tagging, automatic archiving of any saved links in multiple formats, collaborative sharing capabilities, and more. It's free, but you can also pay $3/mo if you want them to host it for you.

Edit: And Umbrel (on Raspberry Pi) if you want to host things more easily. Basically just a much more hands-off, user-friendly docker for people who don't want to tinker as much.

Edit 2: Non-FOSS, but Obsidian is the best note taking app I've ever used. Great selection of community-made plugins (which are FOSS) for additional functionality, and all notes are in standard cross-software-compatible Markdown. No locked-in proprietary formats.

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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 58 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Vim. Every computer I've owned since the early 1990s has had some version of Vi on it.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Or Emacs, if you want a full operating system as your text editor!

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[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Traccar - a GPS tracker.

It tracks devices around on a map and records stats about them. Used by fleet managers to monitor thousands of vehicles simultaneous, and also people like me with just two. The interface is a little quirky, but otherwise it's a very solid and capable program. It shows a web map with live positions of the devices, battery state, speed, direction and other datapoints.

My wife and I like to know where the other is because we both do dangerous shit solo. (She horseriding, me motorbiking, and we've both got health conditions). I get notifications when she enters any number of geofences, and can see where she is at any time - and vice versa. This has eased anxiety for both of us.

Initially we used Life360 which is a nice and easy app to use. Then we found out that they sell your information to actively work against you. Not just basic stuff for advertising, but your driving habits, speed, style, accelleration rates - to car insurance companies so they can raise your policy costs, or potentially deny your claim entirely. (Just one reference but there's heaps more)

So we went self-hosted. Traccar is free and I keep our information private. Install a small app on your phone and register it, and done. Or it integrates with dozens of commercial and open source tracking systems.

Disclaimer - not involved with the project, just a user and a fan.

(Just noticed my wife's left her phone behind when she went off riding... I guess no system's perfect!)

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[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 182 points 3 days ago (12 children)
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[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 145 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Krita. I had a uni licence for Photoshop for years, even took a Photoshop course but still kept using Krita. It has an intuitive UI and all the tools I'll ever need.

RStudio+R is way better than any of its proprietary alternatives.

Blender. I'm no 3D modling expert but it does everything I as a hobbyist want to do with it and so much more. Nowadays, the UI is pretty decent, too.

Finally, the Lagrange browser is really good. The gemini protocol is kinda niche though, but if you're interested it's unreasonably pretty, well optimized and has a great UX. The guy who maintains it really puts his heart and soul into it.

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