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Secure file sending: croc
Dedjplication: Czkawka
Sorting tool: Phockup
OCR: OCRmyPDF
Nebula, the overlay network thing. It connects all of my servers together, and me to my servers.
Next cloud and only office. Bye bye google drive
Jellyfin bye bye Plex and Netflix
Android
I use the Unison file sync tool to keep backups of all my important files on flash drives and servers. For mobile devices I do use Syncthing because MTP is painfully slow and taking the SD card out of the device to plug it in is too much of a hassle, but I would rather use Unison.
SC-Controller, although it seems to have been abandoned.
Gpodder-adaptive
ChimeraOS. If you have a non-steam gamerdeck, I recommend backing up the Windows 11 install and replacing it with this outright. It's based on the Steam Deck OS and makes the process of selecting a game much faster because Windows 11 is bloated as shit.
Helix text editor has been in my rotation recently, I like it a lot as a regular nvim user.
Just migrated from Arch to NixOS recently. Nix+Flakes+Home-manager define my entire system, including config files and pinned package versions, using three files. My system has never felt more stable and reproducible. I even found a flake which lets you declaratively manage Flatpaks (nix-flatpak).
I live and die by Simplenote. It's one of the apps I'm in multiple times per day every day of my life.
I got a Brother embroidery machine only to find that making anything other than the most basic patterns required a very pricey proprietary program. Thankfully I found Ink/Stitch, an open source plug-in for InkScape. It's still a little rough around the edges, but after getting used to its foibles, it's very capable with the right amount of elbow grease. The main dev is active and very helpful in their issues.
I used to use [a Windows 3.1 shrink-wrapped software package] that offered notepads and appointment calendars. Then I switched to Linux. That was 16 years ago. To take the place of the Windows application, I had to write my own list-maker from scratch. Today, there's a new python3-pyqt5 version (under GNU General Public License) of my script for Linux and Windows desktops to help maintain the equivalent of index-card files. Obviously this is not something you'd use just to be like everybody else. I use it because I don't really know how others handle their everyday lists and I can't think of an easier way. If you, too, suspect it ought to be easier than it is, it may be. Please look at Tonto2. Thanks.
Hammerspoon. Pretty necessary Mac software to make it work the way you want.