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Adding the following that i have not seen mentioned yet:
Docker - I literally run most of my server programs with docker now. Home Assistant, Jellyfin, and many others.
Tiny Media Manager that I use to scraper and organize my media library
Tiny Tiny RSS to combine my news sites into one aggregator. I actually saw this post on it since Lemmy has RSS feeds!
Openwrt I run as my home router.
I2P but it’s still pretty clunky.
Nomachine I use as a remote desktop client.
RocketDock I still use on my windows desktop after windows removed the programs toolbar.
ImageJ/Fiji I use for image processing, it’s from the NIH, with a bunch of Java plugins.
Gluetun I use to run my vpn client
Kodi for multimedia
Windows
- MPV - Video Player
- DaVinci Resolve - Best Free Video Editor
- Audacity - Audio Recorder
- TeraCopy - File Copy Tool
- Rufus, BalenaEtcher, Ventoy - Bootable USB Creator
- Wireguard, OpenVPN - VPN Client
- ShutterEncoder - Media Converter
- Revo Uninstaller - App Uninstaller
- Throttlestop - CPU Tweaker
- Peace, EqualizerAPO - Audio Equalizer
- Voicemeter - Virtual Audio Mixer
- Qbittorrent - Torrent Client
- Raindrop - Bookmark Manager
Android
- Aegis - Authenticator
- Wireguard - VPN Client
- NextDNS Manager - DNS Manager
- MPV - Video Player
- NewPipe, GrayJay, LibreTube - YouTube Client
- FUTU Voice Input
- FUTO Keyboard
- Aves Gallery
- Delta Icon Pack
- K9 Mail - Mail Client
- QKSMS+ - SMS App
- Perplexity Ai - GPT
- Wavelet - Audio Equalizer
- SafeSpace - Encrypted Vault
- AppOps - App Permission Manager
- Shizuku - Required by AppOps
FUTO voice and keyboard are open source, but not free… Just sayin’
Payment is optional.
Davincis great, they lost some hype for me since you now need premium for the free user created addons
I love Aves’ functionalities and speed, but I can’t stand its UI design. Who TF thought it would look good to have a bright and glowing ring around photo folder thumbnails in an otherwise minimalistic UI?
The dev is also a dickhole
I am not surprised but please elaborate.
https://github.com/deckerst/aves/issues/464
Look at his response to this. This is one I can remember off the top of my head, there are plenty more.
I really didn’t like the UI too at first. It felt odd since no app looks like that.
Now that I’m used to it’s functionality, I am totally blind to the colorful rings. I barely notice the colors.
Oh I just noticed I can turn it off.
But it still has a white ring on every folder which is ugly.
I’d add to both of these - KDE Connect - for sending files and clipboard between phone, tablet and PC
QKSMS isn’t maintained anymore. There is an active fork called: QUIK
Off the top of my head from daily use;
- Borg backup, powerful backup software for self-hosted oriented users or enterprise automation.
- proxmox, hypervisor that is performant and easy to setup for simple and complex virtualization needs.
- bitwarden (combined with vaultwarden self-host), password management, secrets management, and available on basically all platforms and browsers. Self hosting your vault gives you peace of mind over who has your most sensitive data.
- obsidian, a great notes app with polished cross platform applications that don’t do any funky proprietary storage shenanigans. Files are files and folders are folders.
- kate (and most of the KDE suite), premiere Linux desktop environment suitable for customization and all the expected luxuries user would expect from windows or macOS. Kate specifically is a noticeable modern upgrade over notepad++ and rivals VSCode for programmers.
Could you expand on what you mean by ‘complex virtualization needs’ - I read this phrase sometimes but would appreciate an expert’s perspective 🙏
My only point was to explain that proxmox is great free software because it supports both simple virtualization needs, such as having several different VMs or containers running on one headless system with very little overhead, and complex multi-system setups that include multiple machines running proxmox and clustered together for both reliability and redundancy with distributed services and applications.
VSCode. I don’t get why Microsoft hasn’t monetized it but I’m glad it is free. Has so many extensions and gets great updates, even if I don’t understand half of the stuff in their patch notes when I open up the program.
Another one is a little program called Stacher that basically serves as GUI for yt-dlp. It’s a very pretty one though! And all the settings and buttons are super great. I’m not very good with CLI stuff so I’m glad it exists for free, saves so much time.
Vscodium exists
I use it daily. There’s no reason to use VSCode when this is there
The practical differences from the two are so minor that you can practically switch it out and use vscodium and not see a difference
you are the product 😉
LocalSend, Immich, Signal, Aurora store, Radio Garden, Gray Jay, yt-dlp, and Bitwarden just to name a few
Photopea Fully functional Photoshop in your browser. Amazing.
I just wish I could download and install it, rather than have it require a constant Internet connection.
Not free as in freedom
Home Assistant
YES! Proprietary home-automation ecosystems are a confusing mishmash of standards, and Matter is only just barely starting to change that. Home Assistant is the glue that sticks them all together. I can have expensive Hue smart bulbs, cheap HomeKit bulbs I found in the clearance bin, Magic Home RGB LED controllers, Sonoff smart switches, a garage door opener connecting via MQTT, and it easily connects to all of them and presents a uniform toggle switch for all of them. I can switch all my (smart) lights on and off from a menu on my GNOME desktop. No fighting with proprietary apps for each different ecosystem. Home Assistant is amazing in how boring and unremarkable it makes the implementation details.
Anything which is Libre/OpenSource
7 zip, VLC, Paint.net, proxmox, home assistant
Anki flash cards. I use it everyday and commercial programs can’t hold a candle to it.
Voyager.
Can you provide a bit of info on it? What is it for and how does it stand out among the other apps or programs?
Lemmy mobile client
It’s the closest thing to Apollo or Narwhal for Reddit, but for Lemmy.
Big thing is that the dev is very active and responsive to feedback. Which is really useful given Lemmy is in its developmental phase for the most part.
Unlike Sync which while good is largely abandoned thses days.
And they recently added user tagging like on RES for Reddit. It’s so useful. Been using it like mad lately to identify trolls and sealions.
Check out [email protected].
It’s a fantastic Lemmy client for mobile, and the devs are quite active and responsive.
e: link format
It’s my favorite client I’ve been using since it was a web app
Have you tried phtn.app? It’s gorgeous.
First I’ve heard of it but it looks nice
I like the mlem testflight and arctic for iphone, mlem sometimes cant display an image tho
Up. Sent from Voyager.
That reminds me to send them a few bucks anyway, done ✅
The Dialer.
- Comes with every phone
- 10+ digit number instantly connects you with millions of people, services, and institutions
- 3 digits connects you with life-saving emergency support
- Very low-latency voice support
- High quality audio (most of the time)
- No ads
- No obnoxious UI
All kidding aside, I’m routinely astounded at how we have yet to top the ease and utility of old-fashioned phone service.
Stremio + torrentio plug-in.
My wife and I haven’t paid for a subscription in 5 years and watch everything we want
Language Transfer
Shosetsu. It lets you download book seriisls off many different sources. I like to keep my royal road books up to date there.
