Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

  • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Mine is kdeconnect which does what local send does plus so much more.

    • using phone to control laptop
    • getting phone notifications send to your pc
    • can browse phone’s storage directly from pc
    • find my phone function
      • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
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        10 months ago

        There’s also a still in-development rival for GNOME, Valent. And it’s a native program and not just a shell extension. I prefer it, and maybe it even has more features.

    • Shape4985@lemmy.mlOP
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      11 months ago

      Kde connect is great, iv always thought about using it but never got round to it as im current using a wm instead of a desktop environment. If i was to switch to a desktop environment kde would be my first choice as it has so many features.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I found it to be more than I needed. I still have it installed, but use localsend more often

    • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
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      11 months ago

      I’ve had issues with it for file sharing, so far that I’m sticking to LocalSend, but I really need to explore KDEConnect further, as I haven’t explored the rest of its features.

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    This was the year I tried out Darcs & Pijul. With conflicts being less problematic & easier to collab without patch order mattering, you gotta wonder why all of this effort is still put into bolting stuff atop Git instead of moving on & helping the tooling in this space.

    Second place would be Movim as a decentralized social media platform built atop the XMPP server you are already running.

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Audiobookshelf. I’ve started using it this year, and I’ve not listened to it for a single day since I started lol. Its amazing to keep track of my podcasts and audiobooks. My only complaint is the app doesn’t do autoplay for podcasts but headset media controls work, and the web client autoplays podcasts, but my media controls don’t work. Even with those minor complaints, its an amazing tool that I don’t know how I’d live without again.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I didn’t discover it this uear, but I started using QGIS professionally when the small city that hired me to, among a lot of other duties, be the new GIS department.

    Turns out they thought ArcGIS cost the same as like Office or Acrobat, and they didn’t budget for it for the fiscal year that started 2 weeks before I started working.

    Anyway, I’ve gotten pretty good with QGIS, and we’re sticking with it. It does everything I need it to do, and I can still pull stuff from most REST servers.

    • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      We’ve been using QGIS at my company for almost 8 years at this point and I really love it. The python integration and deep plugin repository render it head and shoulders above ESRI. Although I admit for enterprise solutions many will still require the turn-key solutions esri offer.

    • Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Turns out they thought ArcGIS cost the same as like Office or Acrobat, and they didn’t budget for it for the fiscal year that started 2 weeks before I started working.

      ESRI is in the position that Microsoft and Adobe want to be in, a de-facto monopoly.

    • Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      As a GIS person all I can is …fuck yeah. I’m for better or worse deeply embedded in the ESRI world but I’ve started dabbling in FOSS GIS software and honestly it’s all damn good. I don’t understand how ESRI charges what they do. Also, FME is amazing if you haven’t tried it yet (not free or open source) but awesome for quick visual development and data ETL.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I will give ESRI credit for their online stuff. It’s expensive, but it’s also pretty great. We’re actually thinking about getting an online subscription but no software licenses.

    • mage@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      NetNewsWire is amazing. I just wish they had a browser version I could use on a non Mac device.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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      10 months ago

      Adding to RSS.

      I use FreshRSS to sync to Readably over Fever API.

      Works very well!

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Zotero

    If you’re in any flavor of academics from middle school to doctorate program or otherwise writing papers that require strict citation formatting, drop what you’re doing and click that link.

    Or probably YouTube it or something first so you can see why it’s so much better than your standard internet citation generators.

    Don’t forget to share the intel with your classmates!

  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    Spottube, like Spotify but without the shitty ads, play limitations and tracking.

    Every. Day. In the kitchen.

    • Shape4985@lemmy.mlOP
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      11 months ago

      I tried this, it was a pretty cool app. Has it been facing any issues since youtube is trying to block 3rd party apps using their api? My piped app sometimes goes down and i need to wait for an update to fix it

  • Fermiverse@feddit.orgDeutsch
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    11 months ago

    Aegis as an authentication App

    Aves as gallery

    Proxmox bare metal hypervisor for homeserver

    • Shape4985@lemmy.mlOP
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      11 months ago

      Ill look into the first 2, I’ve never heard of them. Proxmox has always interested me, once i get myself a home server i was going to try it out.

      • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
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        11 months ago

        You can run proxmox in a VM and have it run VMs to try it out. It also works on standard desktop hardware which is what I running it on.

      • litron3000@feddit.org
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        10 months ago

        Just installed proxmox on a 10+ year old ThinkPad with an i5 and home assistant runs much quicker now

  • themadcodger@kbin.earth
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    11 months ago

    I don’t know if Tailscale counts because it’s mostly open source (with options to run your own server), but I use it constantly to connect to Home Assistant and Jellyfin on my home server, as well as pairing it with NextDNS (pihole is possible for those that want to go that route) for ad blocking and Mullvad to use them as an exit node.

    • Im_old@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      You can selfhost it with headscale (the server). It’s really simple to set up and use. I’m also considering moving to zerotier because a) it’s completely opensource and b) the wifi management software I’m looking into (openwisp) has native integration

      • myliltoehurts@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        I haven’t used tailscale to know how well it works but as a current zerotier user I’ve been considering moving away from it.

        I actually love the idea and it’s super simple to set up but has some very annoying pitfalls for me:

        1. It’s a lot of “magic”. When it fails to work the zerotier software gives you very little information on why.
        2. The NAT tunneling can be iffy. I had it fail to work in some public WiFis, occasionally failed to work on mobile internet (same phone and network when it otherwise works). Restarting the app, reconnecting and so on can often help but it’s not super reliable IMO.
        3. Just recently I’ve had to uninstall the app restart my Mac, reinstall the app to get it to work again - there were no changes that made it stop, it just decided it’s had enough one day to the next and as in point 1, it doesn’t tell you much over whether it’s connected or not.

        Pretty much all of the issues I’ve had were with devices that have to disconnect and re-connect from the network and/or devices that move between different networks (like laptop, phone). On my router, it’s been super stable. Point is, your mileage may vary - it’s worth trying but there are definitely issues.

  • Elaine Cortez@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    PCSX2. It’s an open-source PS2 emulator, and a dang good one at that. It has a high degree of compatibility and functionality. I absolutely adore it since so many of my favorite games happen to be PS2 games, and after playing some of my favorite games on this emulator, I realized just how much the PS2’s native resolution doesn’t do the graphics of the PS2’s best games justice.

    It is also free and available for Windows, Linux, and macOS!

    • Shape4985@lemmy.mlOP
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      11 months ago

      Love PCSX2. I play a lot of old games as they have a charm to them and no micro transactions

      • Elaine Cortez@lemm.eeEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Same! Have you played the Ratchet and Clank original trilogy? The old games have this special charm to them that I don’t really see in the newer games of the series.

        • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          I haven’t played much of the older ones, but I really enjoyed Rifts Apart. It’s beautiful, but it’s also mechanically super polished and fluid, and while the storytelling isn’t really my style, I think they do it reasonably well.

        • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          If you happen to have easy access to the ROM, how’s “Star Wars: Racer Revenge” run?

          It’s the less popular but more fleshed out spiritual successor to the N64 pod racing game - the PS2’s take nailed the physics - the two engines and racer pod are (or at least feel like) three separate entities, and playing in first person view with the engines controlled separately by the left and right joysticks feels fucking magical.

          Tried to run it on PCSX2 years ago, but it was one of the few games that meshed so poorly with the emulator that it wasn’t playable. I’m guessing the emulator has seen some improvements since then - could definitely use a nice shot of nostalgia.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Mine will probably be Bottles.

    The team behind that application did a fantastic job. Wine was due for something much more user friendly like this. And integration with Proton, allowing 3D acceleration is the cherry on top.

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    I’ll go with FreeCAD. I’ve known about it for a while and tried it about 5-10 years ago but have given it another look as I try to get back into CAD stuff and hate the restrictive licenses of commercial products. It has come a LONG way and is far more intuitive to use than it used to be.

  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Notesnook.

    I was previously using Obsidian, which is great! but didn’t like that it was closed source. I then went on to try various options [0] but none of them felt “right”. I eventually found notesnook and it hit everything I was looking for [1]. It’s only gotten better in the last year I started using it and just recently they introduced the ability to host your own sync server, which is one of the requirements it didn’t initially make, but was on their roadmap.

    [0] Obsidian, Standard Notes, OneDrive, VSCode with addons, Joplin, Google Keep, Simple Notes, Crypt.ee, CryptPad (more of a collabroation suite, which I actually really like, but it did not fit the bill of a notes app), vim with addons, Logseq, Zettlr, etc.

    [1] Requirements in no particular order:

    • Open source client and server.
    • Cross-platform availability as I use Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android.
    • Cross-platform feature parity.
    • Doesn’t fight me over how notes should be taken - looking at Logseq’s lack of organization.
    • Easy notes syncing.
    • End-to-end encryption (E2EE). It’s about to be 2025, if the tools you’re picking up aren’t E2EE, you’re letting unknown strangers access your data and resell it. It doesn’t matter what their privacy policy says as that can always change and/or they can get compromised/compelled to expose your data.
    • Ability to publish notes.
    • Decent UX.
  • bastion@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    This isn’t exactly “can’t live without,” that would be HomeAssistant. But what I Immediately thought of?

    Beyond All Reason

    This is an RTS game in the spirit of Total Annihilation.

    • labor of love
    • fully 3d, including ability to rotate or raise/lower view
    • tens of thousands of units without hardware lag for reasonably modem hardware (3-4 years old)
    • all shots actively rendered, leading to:
    • realistic friendly fire
    • even air units can get hit by ballistic shots targeting land units (although odds are fairly slim)
    • redirect-unit-to-dodge micro is effective in some situations
    • meaningful terrain
    • radar will have blind spots based on line-of-sight
    • radar gives clear indicator of coverage during placement
    • two factions, almost 200 units each, with tier 1, 2, and 3 units. A third (currently playable with a setting change) faction is in the works.
    • crafty, non-cheating ai opponents
    • free server hosting (!)
    • active servers all times of day

    The overall feel and balance of the game is great. The changes they make to balance are generally light and reasonable, and the game had a good community.

    Fam and friends play together often.