FOSS or otherwise
I’ve gotten very used to this little free app called Audio Switcher that makes it way easier to switch back and forth between speakers and my headphones.
This is going to be very handy, thanks for the rec
Emacs, of course!!!
I can not imagine trying to get stuff done without it.
It makes organizing, programming, writing, just everything so much easier.
uBlock origin
And sponsorblock!
And DeArrow!
A must for actually knowing the content of LMG videos past the click-bait headlines/thumbnails.
Bitwarden. Otherwise I won’t be able to log on to any of my accounts.
I concur. I would never go back.
Firefox. I hate how inflexible other browser are.
Have you tried out LibreWolf? By default its a bit hard to use since it doesnt save passwords or history or cookies or anything, but you can turn all that on. Its a fork of firefox meant to be more privacy focused. You can still use your firefox account and everything im pretty sure.
The fact, that you can install plugins on a mobile browser
head blown gifKiwi Browser is Android Chrome with desktop extension compatibility.
Firefox > Chrome
Honestly. I use it at home but atm too lazy to move everything again at work. :|
Speaking of which, user scripts. So useful at un-enshittifying the web. Or just personalizing it to scratch those little design itches that annoy you.
any good ones you can recommend?
Eg. I use this for facebook
https://github.com/zbluebugz/facebook-clean-my-feeds
Or eg. for BandCamp I wrote a script that hides the play progress bar so that I can actually focus on the music instead of how many seconds of music there are left.
oh nice – for the second one, you can also use UBO’s eyedropper tool to hide a component by CSS selector
Others browsers, plural?
I guess Lynx exists…
vmlinuz
The entire world would shut down if this disappeared overnight.
I’d be out of a job too
I think the last thing you’d have to worrh about is your job when nearly all infrastructure collapses.
My brain slides toward traffic lights and air traffic control and then I realize traffic control probably wouldn’t matter because any late model car and airplane would probably already be down for the count. No internet, hell no SIM cards.
Android. As bad as it is, if I had to use iOS or Linux phones it would be even worse, at least with the current state of Linux phones.
But actually, maybe if Android didn’t exist, the FOSS community would focus more on Linux phones and they would be an actually good option. Maybe Android shouldn’t exist?
For me it’s iOS, funnily enough. I use Windows for all of our video game machines and Linux for everything else, but I don’t use any Google products or services. After messing around on my computers all the time, I don’t want to even have to THINK about doing things to my phone to make it go. My current phone is six years old and the only reason I’m upgrading this year is to get a 120hz screen, USB-C, and for better low light pictures of cats. And a terabyte would be nice.
Google is a bad company, and Apple isn’t any better. Probably the best option for you would be GrapheneOS on one of the latest pixels, they have intuitive software, 120hz screens, have bad USB-C for years, a good camera, lots of storage, and most importantly GrapheneOS doesn’t use Google or Apple, it’s FOSS.
My biggest concern with graphene is that I don’t really trust that my apps will work on it.
I haven’t looked into it for years, but I do need to use apps like Microsoftone drive, WeChat, banks, etc.
Even if they work I’m concerned that they will see I’m on some modified OS and block my account.
GrapheneOS is awesome, but like I said, no google products and I don’t want to fuck with my phone at all. Apple isn’t perfect, but it’s leagues better than stock Google with app permissions and overall privacy. My six year old phone is still fully supported for at least another year, and I enjoy the OS for the very few things I do on my phone. This is definitely the best option for me.
Maybe just a feature phone and tether it to a laptop?
Firefox, emacs, restic backup, bitwarden, linux/bsd
KeepassXC + KeepassDX
KeepassXC + Keepass2Android with the Inputstick plugin to let me type passwords into other devices using my phone.
Nice, someone else with an InputStick.
Ayy, I respect your taste.
Outlook. /s
Well, Outlook Express was pretty good at the time.
Sadly, OneNote. (I have a stylus)
bash
The kernel. I can take or leave most things, but I’m not going back to the days of writing directly into memory-mapped registers.
Someone always beats me to the funniest response!
Oh, don’t worry. The guy who answered
vmlinuzbeat me to the joke in general :)
But that’s my favorite part
Yt-dlp. It’s basically the only way I download music nowadays.
Someday, when I’m not balls-to-the-wall poor I’ll actually support the artists. Until then, it’s not illegal for personal use, and morally it’s that or just no music.
Speaking of, is there a known way to get around the “sign in” blocking? It’s not working anymore.
It’s fixed in the development versions. If you installed yt-dlp using pip, update with the prerelease flag:
pip install --upgrade --pre yt-dlp. If you manually installed it, runyt-dlp --update-to nightlyor grab the latest dev from their nightly repo.Ah. I’ll switch to pip then. I’ve been using the deb package. Thanks!
I just updated to the newest Ubuntu LTS, which puts pip into system managed mode so you can’t easily install packages outside of a virtual environment anymore.
If you (or anyone who stumbles upon this comment in the future) run into this problem, the new recommended way to install yt-dlp through pip and keep it in your path and up to date is via pipx (
sudo apt install pipx). The syntax is a bit gnarly for pre-releases, so I figured I’d post an update:To install the nightly:
pipx install --pip-args '\--pre' yt-dlpTo update the nightly:
pipx upgrade --pip-args '\--pre' yt-dlpI alias the update command and run it before every download session.
Obsidian
Going back to a “normal” text editor after using Vim for a few years would be horrible
Life without qBittorrent would also be pretty difficult, hell no, I’m not paying for DRM content that requires proprietary software to watch
I really like qbittorrents built in search feature.
Yeah the search is pretty nice, but I prefer my selfhosted instance of bitmagnet
After 20 years on vi/m, I recently moved to vscode with vim plugin and I have to admit… I really like it.
You sinner
Check out zed or lapce. Both are open source but native editors as opposed to chromium with near first class vim support. Much faster but less stable as neither are 1.0 yet. Additionally they have great LSP features.
That being said I just can’t give up my vim and terminal workflow but I’m actively following both projects.
