Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I’ve really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yunohost! If you want to get started self-hosting some services, check out Yunohost. It’s super easy to setup and run, active development and community, and just awesome. I found it so much easier than docker-based projects. I used to have it running on an old eeepc netbook, but now I have a dedicated tower server for it.

  • Bob@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I’ll second Openstreetmap, I use it exclusively. There’s also a set of lightweight versions that are locally hosted, so I use osmap.nl if I want to quickly look at where something is. It also forces the names to the language of the server, so you can use it to improve a second language.

    I use an adblocker on my phone called Blokada. It blocks adverts in apps as well as on websites, so I don’t get adverts if I play something like Words With Friends for example. Also blocks adverts on Youtube which is an absolute godsend. Advertising is one of the few things I get irrationally upset about.

    I make music using LMMS. It has its limitations but it’s quite versatile if you’re handy with it. This song was made in it for example: https://on.soundcloud.com/dTqgb

    I use Betterbird for email on my PC. It’s Spartan in design, which is what I’m into, and you can sign in with multiple addresses. I use K-9 Mail on my phone which has the same advantages.

    I use an app called Saisonkalender to look at what veg is in season. Quite niche but it’s handy for ordering ingredients for soup of the day in work.

    I have a game on my phone called Lexica which is basically Boggle. It’s good fun.

  • peppy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Obsidian for Knowledge base, note taking. https://obsidian.md

    Edit: TIL not open source. sorry. They even had a Github and all. I wasn’t paying attention. I have to move now :(

    • wrath-sedan@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Yeah seconded that it’s not FOSS but still a great app. Logseq is a good FOSS alternative for a knowledge base, and I really like Zettlr for long form md writing and note taking too.

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Blender is my favorite open source tool I wish I knew how to use :)
    I’d love to use it for creating my own designs and took several attempts at learning it. But I always end up giving up on it due to lack of time and energy.

      • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Any cloud server, any linux server on your network, any virtual machine… is a network hard drive. No need to mess around with shares, permissions or server side settings (caveat: Your ssh user on the remote server DOES need to have the access you want to the files you want… but also duh). Want to edit config files on a remote server in your local text editor? You can. Want to mount your media server in your home directory on your Ubuntu laptop and watch your videos in VLC? You can. Want to just open Finder windows where one is your working directory on a cloud server and one is your home directory on your local machine and just drag files between them? You can. Want to share a hard drive between your Mac, your Windows machine and your Linux Mint laptop and just open the network share with one simple line in the terminal? You can.

        The remote server just needs to be running SSH (that’s it! You don’t need ANY OTHER SERVER SIDE code) and you can mount ANY PART OF IT’S FILE SYSTEM like a network drive. It’s file system agnostic on the server side as well. Implementations for Mac and Windows in addition to Linux. Although, admittedly, the non-Linux implementations are a bit janky… but I’m almost a pure Linux user, so that doesn’t affect me… I DO have it running on my MacBook and my Mac Mini, but I barely use those.

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Ublock Origin. The amount of people going through life exposing themselves to ads is tragic. It’s so unhealthy and most people aren’t aware that there is a simple and free way of protecting yourself from the psychological warfare that corpos use against society

  • Genghis@monero.town
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    1 year ago

    This app isn’t fully ready yet but Accrescent is a secure and private app store for Android. It aims to be a better alternative app store on Android rather than using the Google Play Store. It currently has 11 apps right now and more to come soon.

    Highly recommend to check out and support this project cuz this appstore is the best out there right now security and privacy wise.

  • Shurimal@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Home Assistant. If you ever want to do home automation properly, this is the way. Works with pretty much anything—Zigbee, zWave, BT LE, MQTT—while keeping things manufacturer agnostic, local, private and highly responsive (your commands don’t need to go through some server 3000 km away and won’t have ugly 1 second latency as a result).

    DAVx⁵ and Radicale to sync contacts and calendars between devices without snooping middle-men.

    Syncthing to sync any files between devices. Works remotely, too, thanks to Syncthing relays.

    Navidrome for your personal music streaming service.

    Debian, Docker, Docker Compose and Portainer as the backbone to run all your services.

    And many others.