Try to avoid duplicates, keep it interesting.
Firefox
I’m probably dumb and wrong, but I feel like Firefox is going in a bad direction along with Ubuntu.
Like I think in 10 years there will be a business tier paid Ubuntu OS that ships with Firefox, and after like 3 or 4 iterations, it will be the IE of the future.
Current Firefox user. Writing is on the wall. Looking for new browser. And OS.
What writing?
Like I think in 10 years there will be a business tier paid Ubuntu OS that ships with Firefox, and after like 3 or 4 iterations, it will be the IE of the future.
I would love that future, to be honest. Currently, Chromium based browsers have no serious competition. Worst case, we can (and have already) forked Firefox (e.g. to Librewolf).
Which browser do you recommend?
Out of all people here to ask that question to, you chose the worst one.
Seriously, what made you decide that what they said makes them a good person to answer any question at all?
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Bitwarden
VLC
VLC is so bad, IMO. There are so many things it does really badly or doesn’t do at all that any other alternative (like MPC) does well. It doesn’t help that it’s ugly as sin, too.
What’s with the hate on VLC? It’s done more than what I’ve ever wanted. You can also use it to download YouTube videos and stuff. It’s the bees knees, man!
MPC doesn’t run on Linux. That’s one point for VLC ;)
- mpv (video player)
- Logseq (knowledge base/journal)
- KISS launcher (android launcher)
- OpenTracks (fitness tracking)
- BreezyWeather (weather)
- KDE connect (app to do shit between pc and phone)
- Tasks (todo)
- AntennaPod (podcasts)
- Hacki (hacker news)
- FlorisBoard (keyboard)
- Unexpected Keyboard (another keyboard)
Logseq is fantastic. I use it every day at work now for both knowledge and also lightweight task management.
Maybe it’s just a me problem, but I always have had troubles getting KDE Connect connecting my phone to other devices than my desktop. My phone and laptop could both be connected to the same wifi and be within inches of each other but refuse to acknowledge their existence. But I have my phone on the other side of the world and I swear it’ll be able to connect to my desktop with no problem.
KDE Connect is a pretty good program, but I can’t recommend it because of the troubles I always have.
I had this too until I discovered my router doesn’t allow communication between devices connected to the 5GHz band. 2.4GHz works fine so now I have everything connected to that
I’ll definitely have to check that out later to see if that fixes the problem.
Thanks for the info.
It’s ability to connect your phone to your computer is honestly awful. It would be better if they just openly popped up a window and told you to pick the IP, but they even have to hide that and not support it on every platform.
My laptop’s plugged in my phone’s on a Wi-Fi network they’re on different VLANs. They could let me search for it by DNS name. They could let me just use a couple of static IPs so when I go from home to work it could find it in either place.
If you have any equipment beyond a crappy one band ap, it’s just going to fight you every time you want to use it.
I love the software, I love the plugins It’s just too damn bad that You have to remember to screw with it every time you think you might want to use it.
Calibre
The iTunes of eBooks.
Calibre Web. And Kavita.
Somewhat self promoting for the first two of these items as I’m directly involved. Leaving out the more obvious ones (Linux distro etc.) as they will have been mentioned. I’ll stick to some of the less known things I use.
- Pulsar - a community-led fork of the discontinued Atom text editor. Lemmy community
- Joplin - note taking app. Lemmy community
- Halloy - IRC client built in Rust and Iced
- Navi - Command line cheatsheet tool
- GitUI - Terminal UI git tool
- Skim - Fuzzy finder
- Dust - Disk usage tool (like
du)
Kudos for including some of the Lemmy communities!
Thanks for highlighting Pulsar.
I always found Atom clunky, but it was instrumental in changing how editors were made, perceived, and used.
It did not deserve the death/abandonment it got.
Atom was my go-to editor while in school–hard to believe it’s been long enough to be abandoned already. I’m going to have to check Pulsar out.
Dust has completely replaced
duin my every day work. Other tools also written in Rust I make use of include Bat for an upgraded experience fromcat, Tokei for quickly counting and recognising codes, and several other security tools like RustScan.I learn about Joplin today. Thank you for sharing your list.
Vim
- Fluent Reader – to very quickly get a lot of news which I need for work
- Beeper – for the 100 chat apps I need to use to stay in contact with my friends who don’t use Matrix
- Nheko – for the based friends who have [matrix] accounts and chats with industry professionals in my field
- FluffyChat – mobile device [matrix] client
- Logseq – as second brain, works better for me than Obsidian
- Jameica – for online banking and accounting
- K-9 Mail / Thunderbird – mail client
- DecSync CC – for synchronising contacts with multiple devices through Syncthing
- ActivityWatch – to track everything I do in case I forget to book time in my corporate time sheet, or if I want to know how long I played games in contrast to programming
- KDE Plasma – best desktop environment boosting my productivity to about 140% of what I could do with Windows 10
- Qalculate! – very fast and easy to use scientific calculator, can also do conversions like “1h50min → min” or “15€ → $”
- Aegis – TOTP generator for mobile
- VLC – plays everything you throw at it
- mpv – plays everything you throw at it, if you installed the right codecs, and also does fancy ML-based GPU upscaling in my case
- KeePassXC, KeePassDX – password managers integrated on Desktop, Laptop, Tablet and Phone
- Syncthing – to automatically and seamlessly sync all my devices (Laptop, Desktop, Tablet, Phone, second Laptop, Servers, …)
- Firefox Developer Edition, Librewolf – browsing the web without Chromium
- Chromium – for PWAs like Teams, Outlook, Discord
Now I really want to know what you do for a living.
That’s classified. Let’s say I need OSINT for it :p
Nice! :)
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Sounds like trading to me
Kind of IT security.
I’ve been on the beeper waitlist since July, how long did it take for you to get in?
I think it was about 6-9 months.
Thanks for the links provided !
whats the difference between the keepass forks
KeepassXC is for desktop, while DX is for Android.
are they ran by the same group?
Keepass is the oldest one and only for Microsoft Windows. KeePassX is a discontinued project. KeePassXC is a community fork and my choice. Not sure about KeePassXD, maybe an Android version.
Are you sure beeper is opensource?
The client itself isn’t, but their server implementation is and you could do the same with Element.
LibreOffice
Well, there’s the usual: GIMP. Lemmy & Firefish instances. Linux OS. Syncthing. Firefox. Inkscape.
qOwnNotes is cool and I don’t hear much about it.
Also shout out to libre games. GZDoom and UnCiv mostly. But MOSTLY GZDoom. GZDoom is a platform, not a game.
My kids love minetest. I play Dday, a quake 2 “ww2” total conversion mod.
iirc the purpose of mintest itself is to be a stepping stone to make other game, but if people are having fun playing it as it is then I’m very glad
When you launch minetest you can select a game and play it.
I heard this years ago when I found out about it. Not to be lazy, but has anyone made another game in it?
Yeah, Minecraft…
Pretty much all I know about Minetest is “It’s not Minecraft, and my friends all play Minecraft.”
Wesnoth’s very fun too!
Firefox
Not that there’s anything wrong with newpipe, just additional information:
Sponsor block is now avaliable on Firefox mobile app. It even works for YouTube videos that are embedded in other sites.
That’s good to know. It’s integrated with ReVanced really well too.
Thank you for pointing that out. I knew Firefox had updated to enable desktop add-ons to work with mobile but I didn’t see Sponsor Block when I took a quick look.
Seems like it is no longer maintained. Unfortunately that means it is only a matter of time until it breaks forever.
Looks like it’s only one update behind though. That’s not too bad.
For now. YouTube constantly changes stuff, requiring changes to newpipe. As no one will merge these into the fork, it will stop working when that happens.
LibreWolf
Hey I use my own app every day. Let me tell you about it. :)
nephele-serve is the dedicated server version that I use to manage all my Jellyfin movies and TV shows. I also back up all my systems to it with DejaDup.
QuickDAV is the desktop app version that I use to transfer files around all of my way too many PCs, tablets, and phones (I develop mobile apps too, so I have a lot of devices). It’s easier (and usually faster) than using a USB stick, and it’s safer than leaving shares open all the time.
They’re both open source and use the same server software, Nephele, that I wrote for my email service, Port87.
Oh I’m also working on putting up a Docker image for nephele-serve and a Flatpak of QuickDAV.
And nephele-serve is now available as a Docker image! :)
why not syncthing for files?
I’m not exactly sure what you mean, since Syncthing doesn’t do either of the things I was talking about.
- Syncthing is for syncing files.
- nephele-serve is for running a dedicated WebDAV server.
- QuickDAV is for transferring files.
Syncthing has its own use cases, they’re just not the ones I use these apps for.
I’d finish earlier telling you which of my software is not open source.
