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

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
    5·
    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

    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t understand how people do not get blood red angry at advertising more often. Its the root of a lot of our problems with censorship and they flat out just exploit what little free time we all get.

      By the time I get home I got 3 hours to chill. Then these ads take up 1/3 of that selling me shit I never asked for. They indirectly forced every platform I ever enjoyed to become these homogenous boring vanilla time sinks. That’s because they pay one content safe creator and then the rest start to copy them. Now if I want to avoid ads, I have to pay extra fees which fuck it, the content creators circumvent by putting ads directly into the media.

      We should all be more hostile to any encroachment of ads into our lives. Its weird that instead I see people embracing it like it isn’t a cancer. We’ve lost the freedoms we had on thr internet to these ads and nobody seems to care.

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    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.

  • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    PC:

    1. Libreoffice – the best, most customisable and powerful office software available
    2. Onlyoffice – alternative for less-advanced users who are used to the UI of contemporary MSO
    3. Zotero – great bibliography manager useful when writing scientific papers: lets you collect books, journal articles and all other types of sources, automatically finds full text PDFs online, fills in metadata and then inserts dynamic citations in thousands of different, customisable styles. Also generates bibliographies. Works with LO, MSO and GDocs
    4. Caprine – clean Facebook Messenger client (web wrapper based)
    5. TeXStudio – my LATeX editor of choice; integral (ha!) when formatting maths-heavy documents

    Android:

    1. Cloudstream — free streaming app, works with SFlix, Sodastream, PH and other legally dubious streaming providers. Takes some trickery to set up though.
    2. Osmand — OpenStreetMap client with offline (optional online) navigation and plenty of plugins; loads of customisation
    3. Material Files — nicest file manager, especially for rooted devices
    4. Showly — freemium open-source TV and film tracker. Syncs with Trakt.tv
    5. Simple Gallery — out of all Simple Apps by this developer, this is the only one which is in fact superior to its alternatives. Highly customisable, powerful, lightweight gallery app
  • Granixo@feddit.cl
    2·
    1 year ago

    Krita 🎨🖌️

    It's literally FOSS Adobe Illustrator, why do people don't use it??

  • Voyager@psychedelia.inkEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an open-source (open data) project. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative mapping platform that allows users from around the world to contribute, edit, and use geographical data. The data and software behind OSM are open-source, which means they are freely available for anyone to view, use, modify, and distribute under open licenses.

    The data contributed to OpenStreetMap islicensed under the Open Database License (ODbL). This license allows for the free use of the data as long as proper attribution is given and any derivative works are also made available under the same open license.

    I got addicted to using and contributing on OSM daily and enjoy spending my time improving the map. In fact a lot of closed source maps such as Google Maps and Apple Maps pull from some of the OSM data, so everyone gets to benefit from contributions.

    In case you're looking into this out of curiosity, check out the Beginner's Guide and try to verify that the data around your neighborhood is correct and maybe add a point of interest (PoI) or a street name or two. Beware, it gets addictive quite fast.

    OSM is also used for humanitarian use thanks to the HOT tasking platform. For example the majority of relief effort in Turkey's February earthquake, Sri Lanka flooding, and the recent Marocco earthquake. Mapping can literally help save lives. It's fun and easy too!

  • peppy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    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
      1·
      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.

  • frippa@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Jellyfin, it's pretty simple and if you have a spare computer, a decent connection (and by decent I don't mean even a decent one by 21th century standards, I still have a 100/10mbps ADSL) and a 2/4tb Hdd, you can host your own FOSS Netflix/Hulu with all the shows you want, if you're in a county where "sailing the seven seas" is a huge deal, the only subscription would be a cheap VPN or even better something like real debrid.

  • wrath-sedan@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    For anyone doing academic writing, I use a combination of Logseq, Zotero, and Zettlr. All open source. Collect articles in Zotero. Annotate and take notes on those articles in Logseq with absolutely amazing PDF annotation tools. Write draft in Zettlr which allows me to enter Zotero citations and reference Logseq notes.

    Bonus shoutout to LibreOffice for exporting and formatting the final draft. And that’s your recipe for one all-natural, organic, FOSS thesis!

  • Shurimal@kbin.social
    1·
    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.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      02·
      1 year ago

      I'd actually recommend Podman over Docker nowadays. It's basically a drop in replacement and embraces open source while Docker's moving more in the direction of a closed monetized model.

  • Bob@feddit.nl
    1·
    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.

    • WarpedCarrot@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      I also love OSM, but I often heavily rely on Satellite imagery for orientation.

      For example, when I explore an area, I‘m going to travel to, I almost exclusively look to the city‘s satellite imagery beforehand to identify landmarks and use them for orientation. Unfortunately that doesn’t work well with OSM.

      Has anyone an OSM equivalent for satellite imagery?

      • Byter@lemmy.one
        1·
        1 year ago

        I use OsmAnd on Android and it has a feature to overlay (or underlay) map tiles from multiple sources. I use the OSM tiles as my default and overlay Microsoft's satellite imagery over them, which I can turn on and off (or even adjust opacity with a slider).

      • Bob@feddit.nl
        1·
        1 year ago

        You can look at routes and stops on it and that's about it, but I maintain that Google Maps is awful for public transport. I used to work on the railway and I have some anecdotes about it.

        • iamak@infosec.pub
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh. In Dublin at least Google Maps is pretty good for public transport. OSM doesn't show correct routes

          • Bob@feddit.nl
            2·
            1 year ago

            Ah shame. To be honest I use dedicated public transport websites and apps anyway, or I just do it the old-fashioned way when I'm not away travelling and remember the routes.

  • Vej@lemm.ee
    21·
    1 year ago

    Libre office, a great office option. I've been using it for 15 years. Foreshadowing

    VLC, Plays media. It's a tank. Also Highways use VLC to mark many winter potholes.

    Linux, It's not that hard to use anymore.( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    WINE, not just for one night stands! it's great for running Windows Stuff on Linux.

    Also, and my personal favorite, your mom is free and open source. Mic Drop going to bed. With your mom. Wasn't expecting that twice were you? Well, neither was your mom. Got 'em.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also Highways use VLC to mark many winter potholes

      I was searching for some kind of VLC based image / video processing algorithm to detect potholes

      Was this a joke about how the logo is a traffic cone

      • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
        1·
        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.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    1·
    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.