• ArchRecord@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Practically every single FOSS application I use is highly useful to me, and of course, free, so I’ll just list them all here.

    • Immich - A full-featured replacement for Google Photos, has a sleek UI, face detection, albums, a timeline, etc.
    • Paperless-ngx - Document management system, saves me a ton of paper hoarding, and makes everything easily searchable with OCR.
    • Syncthing - Simple file synchronization between my devices, on my terms. Doesn’t share data with big tech companies about my files, and hooks up extremely fast P2P connections that beat cloud-based services by a long shot.
    • Metube & Seal - Simple interfaces for downloading with yt-dlp, can download from YouTube, but also many other sites. Doesn’t spam you with popup ads or junk redirects like those “youtube downloader” type sites. Seal is my favorite of the two, but is only on Android.
    • Image Toolbox - Insanely feature-packed app for doing practically anything you could want to an image. Converting formats, clearing EXIF data, removing backgrounds, feature-packed editing, OCR, convert to SVG, create color palettes, converting PDFs to images, decode and encode Base64 to and from images, extract frames from gifs, encrypt & decrypt files, make zip files, and a lot more. All local.
    • Rustdesk - No-nonsense remote desktop, tons of features, simple file transfer, cross-platform compatibility, and P2P communication without needing a third party server if you so choose.
    • LibreOffice - Essentially everything you’d get with Office 365 (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint) but without the $150 price point. Compatible with the same file formats, and has the same functionality.
    • Cashew - Feature rich financial app for budgeting, tracking purchases, saving for goals, etc. Doesn’t have automatic import, but I find that manually putting every transaction in keeps me aware of my spending much better than before, so for me it’s quite worth it. Install directly from the APK, or use on web though. The version on the app stores has some features locked behind a paywall.
    • Linkwarden - Bookmark manager with cross-platform support, a web interface, automatic tagging, automatic archiving of any saved links in multiple formats, collaborative sharing capabilities, and more. It’s free, but you can also pay $3/mo if you want them to host it for you.

    Edit: And Umbrel (on Raspberry Pi) if you want to host things more easily. Basically just a much more hands-off, user-friendly docker for people who don’t want to tinker as much.

    Edit 2: Non-FOSS, but Obsidian is the best note taking app I’ve ever used. Great selection of community-made plugins (which are FOSS) for additional functionality, and all notes are in standard cross-software-compatible Markdown. No locked-in proprietary formats.

  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I dislike the implication that the most useful apps are not free.

    I always feel more comfortable using FOSS software, even if it doesn’t look as nice as the commercial option.

    • TehBamski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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?

          • SamuelRJankis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            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.

  • dishpanman@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 months ago

          Basically like a sort of mini-VM.
          What it solves (for me) is dependency hell.

          No need to install a quadrillion dependencies and solve if two different programs want the same package but maybe different versions.
          Instead of fiddling with that, the image isolates the components.
          This way I could run 5 different web servers on different ports.

          Yes they complicate troubleshooting but the upsides are way more valuable to me.

          • raldone01@lemmy.world
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            29 days ago

            For me it actually simplifies troubleshooting by a lot. No worries when messing around inside the container. Maintainers are looking at the same picture as you and can reproduce everything more easily.

            Without docker I could never run all the services I am currently.