Mostly because the devs are assholes that are throwing instance admins anf users under the bus by refusing to work on moderation tools and data privacy law related issues.
It's also great for sharing files with friends/family. I gave a couple of friends a folder address, and we all just drop shit in there that we want the others to see.
Try it out. It's free. Install it on a PC or phone, set up a shared folder. Put something in it. Set up syncthing on another phone/computer and use the same folder name. The program takes care of all the network stuff.
And so many other things. I've also used it for "cloud saves" back/forth from my desktop to my steam deck on games that don't support them for various reasons. Dyson Sphere Program being one, because the files can get quite large.
The funny thing is that when Chrome was first released, I was pretty excited that open source web engines were becoming more widely adopted.
Whatever one thinks of the current dominance of Chrome, I vastly prefer it to the time when Internet Explorer 6 had >90% market share. Open standards and FOSS technologies really are a winning cause even if the end products aren't always FOSS.
Recently installed Linux (Nobara to be specific) and I'm amazed this isn't talked about more. It's so useful! Windows is seriously missing out not having a program like this built in.
You will get no argument from me there. I used the one on Windows a couple of times. Wasn't all that impressed. But the one on KDE is the one I use most myself.
A quick search comes up with "Phone Link" which only seems to work with Windows on the "PC" end, whereas KDE Connect will work everywhere that KDE works, which includes Windows.
Yes I think that's what they're calling it now. They used to call it something else. But it generally works everywhere windows works. Though I don't have very many windows machines myself and much prefer KDE connect. But there is something similar. Apple has one too. But it strictly only works with iPhones.
Yes, I just hope it goes better than the whole Microsoft deal. The next president turned around and basically undid all the work of the Clinton administration.
It does, it's called "your phone". In my experience it works more reliably as it uses the cloud, though you still need local WiFi for some reason, it also has screen mirroring, which KDE lacks. However, testy privacy and lacks a bunch of handy tools which KDE connect has
I love the idea of KDE connect, but its over featured and buggy.
Most times I'm trying to send a file, the computer I'm sending to is not visible which requires me to goto that machine and reset KDE Connect. I can't send more than one file or KDE Connect crashes and resetting it on Linux is a proper pain.
Plus I just want to use it to transfer files, yet there is no universal setting for the app, thus I have to turn on/off the features I want per device. And when KDE connect randomly forgets a device and I need to re-pair it I have to disable everything again.
At times Bluetooth file transfer is easier. But then I use it on my iPad, where the app can't work unless its open and in focus. But the alternative is a great big middle finger. Its fantastic and I will deal with the KDE jank.
Wireshark is a shining example of an open source project completely and utterly crapping on the closed source competition. As a result we all benefit. I recall spending a lot of someone else's money on buying a sort of ruggedized laptop with two ethernet ports to do the job back in the day.
Nowdays, I can run up a tcpdump session on a firewall remotely with some carefully chosen timings and filters and download it to my PC and analyse it with Wireshark.
OK, all so convenient but is it any use?
Say you have a VoIP issue of some sort. The PCAP from tcpdump that you pass to Wireshark can analyse it to the nth degree. Wireshark knows all about SIP and RTP (and IAX) and you can even play back the voice streams or have them graphed so you can see what is wrong or whatever. That's just VoIP, it has loads of other dissectors and decorators built in.
So what?
The UK (for example) will be dispensing with boring old, but reliable, POTS (Plain Old Telephony System) by 2025. Our entire copper telephony and things like RedCare (defunct soon) will go away.
We are swapping out circuit switching for packet switching. To be fair, a lot of the backend is already TCP/UDP/IP that is shielded away from us proles. When SoGEA (Single Order Generic Ethernet Access) really kicks in then the old school electric end to end connection will be lost in favour of packet switching, which never fails (honest guv).
If you are an IT bod of any sort, you really should be conversant with Wireshark.
In the UK at least, the POTS (Plain Old ...) copper phone lines carry an electrical current as well as signals and can power the handset. There are certain guarantees about this so that in an emergency your phone will still work so you can dial 999 (our original emergency number) or 112. Our fire regulations require something like 30 minutes before things should start failing. In the real world, you get out immediately and use your mobile.
We have an emergency alarm monitoring system used by businesses. Its generally known as "Red Care" which was a brand run by BT (British Telecom). You have a small device connected to a phone line (and powered by it) and it will monitor your fire detectors and building access control systems and a 24 hour manned monitoring centre will notify you in the event of an emergency. Nowadays, these devices will use your wifi and internet connection. Sometimes: old school is best.
I had redcare via Age Concern for my mum before she went into a home with dementia - it was a few years ago and it was all that was available.
Nowadays, the panic alarms are, I believe, entirely self contained using a sim card and mobile connectivity and include location information - so they are not reliant on local power or internet connection. That locational information could be life saving - one time my mother got very confused, left her flat and was wandering around outside in freezing conditions. Luckily someone heard her calling out and took her home, but she could easily have died that night and was so confused that she didn't think to use her dongle which was still around her neck, and it is doubtful it would have been in range of her base station anyway. A modern system can also include geofencing and even positional data (if someone falls down), takes it off, or battery runs low and automatically alert. Just like redcare, the modern systems are manned 24/7 just the same.
I think we might be writing at cross purposes. The system you had for your mum obviously worked effectively for you and that is the important thing.
POTS provide(s|d) a fixed point of reference - your address is registered against the number for 999 etc; it provides power for a handset or device; Its been like that for a lot of decades! These are cast iron guarantees. A POTS line has guarantees, enshrined in UK law, that mobile etc does not have. POTS is circuit switched (well it was) which means there is a physical path between the ends for the duration of the conversation.
So, by old school, I mean that you currently have important guarantees about telephony in the UK that will evaporate in future. In 2025 or so, we in the UK will have finished migrating from our old school POTS copper lines and will enjoy our smart new SoGEA lines instead. Single Order Generic Ethernet Access. Instead of an emulated circuit switched line we will use VoIP across the entire country. Nothing wrong with that but it probably won't have the guarantees that POTS had.
Red Care is no more - BT have dropped it on the floor as of Feb this year which may indicate that things are not well with our future comms promises. The general system that Red Care was one product of is still available.
This is the important point: Promises (in law) that we used to be able to rely on for comms may (will) be binned.
I know what you mean. You've already read a load of log files on behalf of an "engineer" who seems incapable of doing it themself. You've also eliminated DNS and NTP and laughed at suggestions relating to SFC /SCANNOW.
Then you roll up your sleeves and plug into the Matrix ...
For the past week and a half of a networking fundamentals class I just finished Tuesday, we were learning the basics of Wireshark. So far the biggest problem I've found with it is that I couldn't find a version for Linux so I could use it on my laptop (couldn't get it to work on wine either).
Which distro do you use? Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and Gentoo have packages and I've no doubt that most others do too. On Linux you should not have to go to random websites and download stuff and faff around - use the built in distribution packages. If you are not sure what you've got try this at a command prompt and read the output:
$ cat /etc/os-release
As a last resort, you can run tcpdump on nearly anything and dump to .pcap, transfer that and then open that in Wireshark. Note that modern Windows has a OpenSSH client and server available so getting files around via scp is a doddle. Windows can even do NFS too and there is of course Samba - but CIFS/SMB can be tricksy.
Catima (saves barcodes for gift cards, gym memberships, etc so you don't have to worry about the physical card)
Cofi (nice timer for active guidance through coffee brewing recipes)
10,000 Sentences (a language practicing app that doesn't have a mildly threatening owl 😉)
OSMAnd+ Mapillary, Overlay Maps, and 3D Features (seriously, the best. I only use Google maps to get around traffic these days since, unfortunately, Magic Earth doesn't work very well in my area)
Obtanium (as a gateway to lesser known software, no shipping to an app store required!)
RethinkDNS (an absolutely amazing piece of software that gives you fine-grained control of the domains your apps are talking to. A bit of a battery sync but it's been a game changer for me. On my GrapheneOS setup I use it in the Google sandbox to reduce the amount of data scraping servers my Google apps can talk to)
Accrescent, a secure, alternative app store for Android. Still in an early stage of development though.
UnifiedPush, a privacy-friendly notification system.
LibRedirect, a browser extension that automatically redirects you to private frontends for privacy invasive websites.
movie-web, a web app that let's you watch any movie/tv show for free. I highly recommend it.
Seal, an amazing Android app for downloading videos. YTDLnis is an alternative.
Cobalt downloader, a website that let's you download basically everything imaginable from the internet. All kinds of posts, photos and videos from various social media platforms and many other websites.
Depends on you, if you don't trust their proxies, you can deploy your own. movie-web is basically just a search engine (with a pretty good and user friendly UI/UX in my opinion) that pulls content from other sources.
Not needed, it never connects to the content sources directly, it always uses a proxy. You can even deploy your own proxy for free on Cloudflare or Netlify.
This is fantastic! Just started switching over to Librewolf and Mull. I discovered xBrowserSync in the process, which is a great way to sync browser bookmarks. https://www.xbrowsersync.org/
Borg for backup. I'm really surprised it's not more widely known. It's an incredible piece of software.
Also, not really lesser known software, but a lesser known feature of file systems including the ones we use in FOSS operating systems: extended file attributes - useful to add metadata to files without modifying them.
As an add-on (sort of) to Borg, I was told about Vorta yesterday and installed it to run scheduled, encrypted backups of my local machine to an external drive, but you can also ssh to a remote server if you wish. Works like a dream.
There's also Rustic. It uses the same repository format as restic. It already has some pretty neat features and since latest release a ton of built-in backends.
Paperless has taken me from various stacks of important documents strewn around my apartment, to having all of these things nicely organised and searchable.
Actually you're kinda right, their own license doesn't allow commercial redistribution (kinda similar with CC:NC) which make them not open source. I personally have no problems with that though.
@isthereanydeal therefore it's not open source. See for something to be called "open source" it needs a bit more than just for the code to be readable. The only people who define open source as source readable are the people who don't want to create open source software.
@isthereanydeal Nope. That distinction only appeared when big companies kinda became afraid of open source software, so they wanted to redefine the term, create some confusion, corrupt it..
Together with the ShareX extension (FF and Chromium), using with FileCoffee (setup script), a killer app
(FileCoffee isn't OpenSource, but i recommend it as one of the most private host and sharer (images, multimedia, video, documents, presentations, text.....), 100% free (account (free) optional), made in the EU (Netherland), best replacement of Imgur, which is a little less than spyware.)
Instead of Start11, use Rainmeter (FOSS), to customize not only the taskbar, but almost the whole UI + all kind of widgets. You can create your own skin (scripts), or use one of the hundreds made by the community in Deviantart and other sites (links in the homepage). Complete Wiki and tutorils.
Before i forgot that i use also FreeTube and SMplayer as externplayer, if FreeTube fails, Gimp and Krita, but i think that these are already well known apps.
ddcutil is a daily driver for me, lightweight, hyper compatible, full monitor control. I primarily use it to lower brightness at night but also constantly switching inputs with simple macros so I can share multiple monitors with multiple systems.
KDE itinerary. Keeps track of all my train tickets, airline tickets, hotel bookings, etc... all offline. This is quite handy, especially for via rail in Canada as often internet can be sketchy when you need to bring up your tickets.
To save people some times :
Barrier seems to be an app meant to control multiple devices with the same mouse and keyboard. You need to install the software on all the machines for it to works.
You can then bind a keyboard shortcut to switch device. You can also bind it if you put your mouse at the and of a screen.
My favourite program is CherryTree notes. It's a hierarchical notes app which supports hyperlinking between nodes and to external files, URLs etc. I pretty much use it to organise my whole life! You can have it encrypted and make your own theme as well.
Immich is awesome but has flaws. My workflow has improved with syncthing instead.
Main flaw of immich is being container's deployable only which hurts for various reasons, and devs priority are different from mine (that's unacceptable/irony).
Jokes aside, immich is the best app out there to replace google photos.
But immich require containers and some basic features like sub-path support and in general folder/albums recognition is not there and not really planned clearly for the future.
Kotatsu and Mira, both on F-Droid. Kotatsu makes it easier to read manga without a subscription and you can add your own DRM-free manga. Mira is similar but adds anime and K-drama streaming as an option as well.
Even though I am subbed to Crunchyroll, having an option to watch if I have to cancel to save money, that's very helpful.
Fuck my browser, it keeps suggesting me that one broken link from my history. The correct link is https://movie-web.github.io/docs
Thanks for pointing this out though
Just realized that a little quick start guide would be pretty useful, as the documentation isn't very straight-forward:
You don't need to self-host it, you can, but you don't have to. Just go to any one of the public instances and either install the browser addon, or use this guide to deploy a proxy for free. This is useful if you can't install browser addons, e.g. in the PWA or on a mobile browser that doesn't support extensions. That's it actually, you can now search for any movie/TV show you like and stream or download it completely for free.
Oh this is great! I love Stremio, but the idea of having something like it that runs on a web server where anyone in my house can just use a normal web browser without any additional software is a great improvement.
How are you hosting nextcloud with only office? I’ve tried multiple times to get Only Office working with Nextcloud, and while I can get Nextcloud up and running, Only Office never properly works for me. It always weirdly edit locks files and doesn’t allow basic functionality.
I use the Unison file sync tool to keep backups of all my important files on flash drives and servers. For mobile devices I do use Syncthing because MTP is painfully slow and taking the SD card out of the device to plug it in is too much of a hassle, but I would rather use Unison.
With Unison syncing is a manual process, I run it and it tells me what's changed on each side and I can make changes as appropriate. Syncthing is a bit too automatic for my taste and its conflict resolution is a bit more involved.
Is it just me that can't get carrion to work? I download the databases, set it not to silence unverified calls (cause every call seems to be unverified) and I still miss all my calls cause it silences everything.
I got a Brother embroidery machine only to find that making anything other than the most basic patterns required a very pricey proprietary program. Thankfully I found Ink/Stitch, an open source plug-in for InkScape. It's still a little rough around the edges, but after getting used to its foibles, it's very capable with the right amount of elbow grease. The main dev is active and very helpful in their issues.
ChimeraOS. If you have a non-steam gamerdeck, I recommend backing up the Windows 11 install and replacing it with this outright. It's based on the Steam Deck OS and makes the process of selecting a game much faster because Windows 11 is bloated as shit.
I used to use [a Windows 3.1 shrink-wrapped software package] that offered notepads and appointment calendars. Then I switched to Linux. That was 16 years ago. To take the place of the Windows application, I had to write my own list-maker from scratch. Today, there's a new python3-pyqt5 version (under GNU General Public License) of my script for Linux and Windows desktops to help maintain the equivalent of index-card files. Obviously this is not something you'd use just to be like everybody else. I use it because I don't really know how others handle their everyday lists and I can't think of an easier way. If you, too, suspect it ought to be easier than it is, it may be. Please look at Tonto2. Thanks.
It's niche as hell, but Syncplay lets you sync up the playback of video files through VLC or MPV player as long as everyone has the same video file stored locally. Better quality then steaming and works on low bandwidth connections.
I'm a little bit worried, but like I was saying as long as they keep up with upstream vulnerabilities in dependencies and any bulbs that come up that's ok..software doesn't have to be constantly evolving for it to be useful and usable.
Development isn't super active, but there's still occasional commits to update dependencies and what not. If no security vulnerability has been discovered it doesn't need more than that since it works given the existing feature set.
Lemmy
(applause)
Fuck Lemmy. I'm only here because there is nothing better (yet)
668 comments in 1 month. It means you like the content of lemmy
Yes. The content produced by the users.
Lemmy devs are making the same mistake reddit made. They're throwing the users under the bus, when its the users that make the platform.
You can start your own instance, and you could even develop a compatible, federated protocol like kbin. That's the beauty of the fediverse.
Starting my own instance would just make me legally vulnerable because the tools for moderation dont exist.
I will likely jump to sublinks when available, which was created because of these issues.
Why?
Mostly because the devs are assholes that are throwing instance admins anf users under the bus by refusing to work on moderation tools and data privacy law related issues.
Are they refusing patches, or are you just expecting people to do what you want for free?
They are refusing patches and we as a community do expext them to address serious legal issues that they are being paid by the community to address.
Its funny to watch them make the same mistakes as reddit.
Definitely Syncthing.
Great app to sync my phone with my laptop.
It's also great for sharing files with friends/family. I gave a couple of friends a folder address, and we all just drop shit in there that we want the others to see.
Are you self hosting?
There really isn't any "hosting" with Syncthing. Everyone sharing the folder is kind of hosting.
How did you get to work outside your home network since you have shared folder with friends and family?
Try it out. It's free. Install it on a PC or phone, set up a shared folder. Put something in it. Set up syncthing on another phone/computer and use the same folder name. The program takes care of all the network stuff.
I have an extensive syncthing set up but I find the mobile app a battery hungry
Syncthing-fork which fixes battery drain issue and others as well. I'll just leave this here for your battery needs: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/
Awesome thanks!
And so many other things. I've also used it for "cloud saves" back/forth from my desktop to my steam deck on games that don't support them for various reasons. Dyson Sphere Program being one, because the files can get quite large.
Firefox. Fuck chrome amiright
The funny thing is that when Chrome was first released, I was pretty excited that open source web engines were becoming more widely adopted.
Whatever one thinks of the current dominance of Chrome, I vastly prefer it to the time when Internet Explorer 6 had >90% market share. Open standards and FOSS technologies really are a winning cause even if the end products aren't always FOSS.
Kde connect on my phone (iphone) and laptop.
Recently installed Linux (Nobara to be specific) and I'm amazed this isn't talked about more. It's so useful! Windows is seriously missing out not having a program like this built in.
Microsoft has released something similar for Windows. I believe it's called Windows connect for phone? But it does exist.
Yep, although I've found KDE connect to work better. It was more reliable while the windows one kept doing unexpected things
You will get no argument from me there. I used the one on Windows a couple of times. Wasn't all that impressed. But the one on KDE is the one I use most myself.
I recently switched to tumbleweed kde, so I tried kde connect for the hell of it, and holy crap I have been missing out.
I loathe phonelink so much, after trying to use it for a week.
A quick search comes up with "Phone Link" which only seems to work with Windows on the "PC" end, whereas KDE Connect will work everywhere that KDE works, which includes Windows.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/sync-across-your-devices
It really isn't the same as Konnect which is a bloody marvel! I've used it for years.
Yes I think that's what they're calling it now. They used to call it something else. But it generally works everywhere windows works. Though I don't have very many windows machines myself and much prefer KDE connect. But there is something similar. Apple has one too. But it strictly only works with iPhones.
That's why the US is suing them (locking people to Apple devices).
Yes, I just hope it goes better than the whole Microsoft deal. The next president turned around and basically undid all the work of the Clinton administration.
May it be so much better.
They do actually. It's just Android only. I'm also on windows as well
It does, it's called "your phone". In my experience it works more reliably as it uses the cloud, though you still need local WiFi for some reason, it also has screen mirroring, which KDE lacks. However, testy privacy and lacks a bunch of handy tools which KDE connect has
I love the idea of KDE connect, but its over featured and buggy.
Most times I'm trying to send a file, the computer I'm sending to is not visible which requires me to goto that machine and reset KDE Connect. I can't send more than one file or KDE Connect crashes and resetting it on Linux is a proper pain.
Plus I just want to use it to transfer files, yet there is no universal setting for the app, thus I have to turn on/off the features I want per device. And when KDE connect randomly forgets a device and I need to re-pair it I have to disable everything again.
At times Bluetooth file transfer is easier. But then I use it on my iPad, where the app can't work unless its open and in focus. But the alternative is a great big middle finger. Its fantastic and I will deal with the KDE jank.
I gave this a brief try but it seemed clunky in a gnome environment. Should I give it another go?
Errm, Wireshark. Please bear with me.
Wireshark is a shining example of an open source project completely and utterly crapping on the closed source competition. As a result we all benefit. I recall spending a lot of someone else's money on buying a sort of ruggedized laptop with two ethernet ports to do the job back in the day.
Nowdays, I can run up a tcpdump session on a firewall remotely with some carefully chosen timings and filters and download it to my PC and analyse it with Wireshark.
OK, all so convenient but is it any use?
Say you have a VoIP issue of some sort. The PCAP from tcpdump that you pass to Wireshark can analyse it to the nth degree. Wireshark knows all about SIP and RTP (and IAX) and you can even play back the voice streams or have them graphed so you can see what is wrong or whatever. That's just VoIP, it has loads of other dissectors and decorators built in.
So what?
The UK (for example) will be dispensing with boring old, but reliable, POTS (Plain Old Telephony System) by 2025. Our entire copper telephony and things like RedCare (defunct soon) will go away.
We are swapping out circuit switching for packet switching. To be fair, a lot of the backend is already TCP/UDP/IP that is shielded away from us proles. When SoGEA (Single Order Generic Ethernet Access) really kicks in then the old school electric end to end connection will be lost in favour of packet switching, which never fails (honest guv).
If you are an IT bod of any sort, you really should be conversant with Wireshark.
Thank you for the detailed reply and the explanations to (mostly) all the jargon :-)
Sweden is also doing a lot of deprecation of old telephony systems, those that I know of is that 2G and 3G are going away by 2025.
The less tech debt we pass onto future generations, the better.
In the UK at least, the POTS (Plain Old ...) copper phone lines carry an electrical current as well as signals and can power the handset. There are certain guarantees about this so that in an emergency your phone will still work so you can dial 999 (our original emergency number) or 112. Our fire regulations require something like 30 minutes before things should start failing. In the real world, you get out immediately and use your mobile.
We have an emergency alarm monitoring system used by businesses. Its generally known as "Red Care" which was a brand run by BT (British Telecom). You have a small device connected to a phone line (and powered by it) and it will monitor your fire detectors and building access control systems and a 24 hour manned monitoring centre will notify you in the event of an emergency. Nowadays, these devices will use your wifi and internet connection. Sometimes: old school is best.
I respectfully disagree.
I had redcare via Age Concern for my mum before she went into a home with dementia - it was a few years ago and it was all that was available.
Nowadays, the panic alarms are, I believe, entirely self contained using a sim card and mobile connectivity and include location information - so they are not reliant on local power or internet connection. That locational information could be life saving - one time my mother got very confused, left her flat and was wandering around outside in freezing conditions. Luckily someone heard her calling out and took her home, but she could easily have died that night and was so confused that she didn't think to use her dongle which was still around her neck, and it is doubtful it would have been in range of her base station anyway. A modern system can also include geofencing and even positional data (if someone falls down), takes it off, or battery runs low and automatically alert. Just like redcare, the modern systems are manned 24/7 just the same.
Sometimes old school is not best.
I think we might be writing at cross purposes. The system you had for your mum obviously worked effectively for you and that is the important thing.
POTS provide(s|d) a fixed point of reference - your address is registered against the number for 999 etc; it provides power for a handset or device; Its been like that for a lot of decades! These are cast iron guarantees. A POTS line has guarantees, enshrined in UK law, that mobile etc does not have. POTS is circuit switched (well it was) which means there is a physical path between the ends for the duration of the conversation.
So, by old school, I mean that you currently have important guarantees about telephony in the UK that will evaporate in future. In 2025 or so, we in the UK will have finished migrating from our old school POTS copper lines and will enjoy our smart new SoGEA lines instead. Single Order Generic Ethernet Access. Instead of an emulated circuit switched line we will use VoIP across the entire country. Nothing wrong with that but it probably won't have the guarantees that POTS had.
Red Care is no more - BT have dropped it on the floor as of Feb this year which may indicate that things are not well with our future comms promises. The general system that Red Care was one product of is still available.
This is the important point: Promises (in law) that we used to be able to rely on for comms may (will) be binned.
I was thinking about getting a landline again (US) simply because VoIP and cellular all have issues with latency I find jarring.
I love Wireshark but I hate every day I have to open it up :D
I know what you mean. You've already read a load of log files on behalf of an "engineer" who seems incapable of doing it themself. You've also eliminated DNS and NTP and laughed at suggestions relating to SFC /SCANNOW. Then you roll up your sleeves and plug into the Matrix ...
This thread is about Wireshark, not WireGuard. Two different things.
What?
For the past week and a half of a networking fundamentals class I just finished Tuesday, we were learning the basics of Wireshark. So far the biggest problem I've found with it is that I couldn't find a version for Linux so I could use it on my laptop (couldn't get it to work on wine either).
Which distro do you use? Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and Gentoo have packages and I've no doubt that most others do too. On Linux you should not have to go to random websites and download stuff and faff around - use the built in distribution packages. If you are not sure what you've got try this at a command prompt and read the output:
As a last resort, you can run tcpdump on nearly anything and dump to .pcap, transfer that and then open that in Wireshark. Note that modern Windows has a OpenSSH client and server available so getting files around via scp is a doddle. Windows can even do NFS too and there is of course Samba - but CIFS/SMB can be tricksy.
There's also a flatpak package for it. Wireshark On Flathub
I swear I have selective male blindness because I found it in the package manager for my distro after doing a quick search command.
I'll try to keep this to lesser known apps:
Catima (saves barcodes for gift cards, gym memberships, etc so you don't have to worry about the physical card)
Cofi (nice timer for active guidance through coffee brewing recipes)
10,000 Sentences (a language practicing app that doesn't have a mildly threatening owl 😉)
OSMAnd+ Mapillary, Overlay Maps, and 3D Features (seriously, the best. I only use Google maps to get around traffic these days since, unfortunately, Magic Earth doesn't work very well in my area)
Obtanium (as a gateway to lesser known software, no shipping to an app store required!)
RethinkDNS (an absolutely amazing piece of software that gives you fine-grained control of the domains your apps are talking to. A bit of a battery sync but it's been a game changer for me. On my GrapheneOS setup I use it in the Google sandbox to reduce the amount of data scraping servers my Google apps can talk to)
Cofi seems quite nice! I've already installed it as it seems much better than me using the standard Android stopwatch! Thank you for sharing!
10,000 Sentences is new to me!! I’ll add it to the list of apps that I’ll eventually use to learn a new language. 😏
(I love downloading and archiving stuff lol)
great finds, is this list curated anywhere?
No that was just off the top of my head
It's right there lol
Is EteSync free? It seems to be offering trials and paid plans.
That's for their cloud hosting. But the self-hosted variant is completely free.
How trustworthy is movie-web in terms of anonymity?
Depends on you, if you don't trust their proxies, you can deploy your own. movie-web is basically just a search engine (with a pretty good and user friendly UI/UX in my opinion) that pulls content from other sources.
Compared to torrent, i would say it's more "anonym" since you connect to a server instead of other pc.
As with all these things: do it behind an always-on VPN on a dedicated device.
Not needed, it never connects to the content sources directly, it always uses a proxy. You can even deploy your own proxy for free on Cloudflare or Netlify.
This is fantastic! Just started switching over to Librewolf and Mull. I discovered xBrowserSync in the process, which is a great way to sync browser bookmarks. https://www.xbrowsersync.org/
If you only use Firefox-based browsers, you don't actually need the extension. You can simply enable Firefox Sync in the LibreWolf settings and it's end-to-end encrypted by default.
Joplin for notes, and Rclone drastically improves any cloud services.
Rclone is awesome! It lets you mount cloud storage to directories. It even supports encrypting any backend, so you can use cloud storage privately.
Gadgetbridge lets you connect and get data from supported smart or fitness watch without manufacturers app. Completely local.
Borg for backup. I'm really surprised it's not more widely known. It's an incredible piece of software.
Also, not really lesser known software, but a lesser known feature of file systems including the ones we use in FOSS operating systems: extended file attributes - useful to add metadata to files without modifying them.
As an add-on (sort of) to Borg, I was told about Vorta yesterday and installed it to run scheduled, encrypted backups of my local machine to an external drive, but you can also ssh to a remote server if you wish. Works like a dream.
Borg, Vorta, Star Trek is everywhere. Why did they name these for the evil guys? Could have named it "The Sisko", everyone know he is infallable.
restic is better.
There's also Rustic. It uses the same repository format as restic. It already has some pretty neat features and since latest release a ton of built-in backends.
I use Kopia because it's cross platform (don't know much about Borg so perhaps if is too). Works really well with little interaction.
Paperless has taken me from various stacks of important documents strewn around my apartment, to having all of these things nicely organised and searchable.
Absolutely second this. Its been a game changer
pivpn for wireguard setup:
newpipe and libretube for youtube:
And the entire Fossify app suite in Android:
scrcpy for connecting to my Android screen from my laptop:
kde connect for general android/laptop connectivity:
The Fossify apps do look pretty slick.
Shotcut helped me get rid of the heavy, bloated Premiere Pro.
Have you used Davinci Resolve? Curious how it compares to that.
Resolve isn't open source. But Kdenlive might be a good alternative, it has more features than Shotcut.
I haven't. Too much for my needs.
rclone - you can use cheapest cloud or s3 provider and sync encrypted data. Syncthing - sync across devices.
Grayjay isn't open source
Actually you're kinda right, their own license doesn't allow commercial redistribution (kinda similar with CC:NC) which make them not open source. I personally have no problems with that though.
I think it is: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
It is open source. But the license is not foss at the moment. They expresed their desire to make something that send revenue to creators
@isthereanydeal therefore it's not open source. See for something to be called "open source" it needs a bit more than just for the code to be readable. The only people who define open source as source readable are the people who don't want to create open source software.
Open source is when the source code is available.
Free software is when the source is available and the license lets you exercise your 4 freedoms.
@n0x0n You are wrong though: https://opensource.org/osd
> Introduction
> Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code.
Literally the first sentence.
The definition you are using is being spread by the likes of Meta and Amazon.
Taking only a part of my post does not make sense in this context.
@n0x0n Providing an authoritative source which directly contradicts your statement, that does not make any sense to you? I'm sorry then.
There's a clear difference between open source and free open source software. It is open source but the licence is not "free". Not entirely at least
@isthereanydeal Nope. That distinction only appeared when big companies kinda became afraid of open source software, so they wanted to redefine the term, create some confusion, corrupt it..
You may have a point but there's a difference anyway
Did you unselect your upvote?
@heyoni I'm commenting from mastodon, I don't even see any upvotes. Someone just started downvoting me because they ran out of arguments 🤷♂️
https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
Logseq pkm note taking/outliner https://github.com/logseq/logseq Syncthing https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing Omnivore, Pocket alternative https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore Bypass Paywalls Clean browser addon https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
Open source AI models and tools like HuggingChat, Whisper
+1 for Whisper. Also, I use Piper for the reverse (text-to-speech).
Android
Audile like SoundHoud and Shazam but open source
Funkwhale a federated cloud community music streamer app
Innertune find new songs from YT Music
Open Video Editor edit videos
Heliboard successor of OpenBoard
Tubular successor of NewPipe
ZipXtract a zip extractor
Wger fitness app
Please just a reminder, consider contributing to these apps developers.
Together with the ShareX extension (FF and Chromium), using with FileCoffee (setup script), a killer app
(FileCoffee isn't OpenSource, but i recommend it as one of the most private host and sharer (images, multimedia, video, documents, presentations, text.....), 100% free (account (free) optional), made in the EU (Netherland), best replacement of Imgur, which is a little less than spyware.)
I use also
And to turn off the bad habits and sniffings of Windows
Never heard of wintoys. How does it compare to win-debloat-tools?
Instead of Start11, use Rainmeter (FOSS), to customize not only the taskbar, but almost the whole UI + all kind of widgets. You can create your own skin (scripts), or use one of the hundreds made by the community in Deviantart and other sites (links in the homepage). Complete Wiki and tutorils. Before i forgot that i use also FreeTube and SMplayer as externplayer, if FreeTube fails, Gimp and Krita, but i think that these are already well known apps.
Wow, it's not even in nixpkgs. Not very known at all.Oh, it's a windows app. nvm
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Loop habit tracker app on android: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits
They are in the google play store and f-droid i believe
I use DokuWiki for my personal wiki. Very easy to use.
I just moved to Notion but Dokuwiki was my go-to for well over a decade.
I've switched to BookStack. It's a different take on a wiki, but pretty good concept.
I switched from Mint.com to the FOSS Money Manager EX for desktop a while ago and couldn't be happier.
ddcutil is a daily driver for me, lightweight, hyper compatible, full monitor control. I primarily use it to lower brightness at night but also constantly switching inputs with simple macros so I can share multiple monitors with multiple systems.
KDE itinerary. Keeps track of all my train tickets, airline tickets, hotel bookings, etc... all offline. This is quite handy, especially for via rail in Canada as often internet can be sketchy when you need to bring up your tickets.
Barrier: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
Edit: Input Leap looks like a promising KVM replacement for Barrier, thanks for sharing!
To save people some times : Barrier seems to be an app meant to control multiple devices with the same mouse and keyboard. You need to install the software on all the machines for it to works.
You can then bind a keyboard shortcut to switch device. You can also bind it if you put your mouse at the and of a screen.
Take care you all
To save them some more time: Wayland isn't supported yet, unfortunately.
I think Input Leap is a fork that works on Wayland
I love Barrier but need it to work with wayland.
Check out Input Leap
My favourite program is CherryTree notes. It's a hierarchical notes app which supports hyperlinking between nodes and to external files, URLs etc. I pretty much use it to organise my whole life! You can have it encrypted and make your own theme as well.
Immich is the must for self-hosting photos. Bye Google.
Immich is awesome but has flaws. My workflow has improved with syncthing instead.
Main flaw of immich is being container's deployable only which hurts for various reasons, and devs priority are different from mine (that's unacceptable/irony).
Jokes aside, immich is the best app out there to replace google photos.
But immich require containers and some basic features like sub-path support and in general folder/albums recognition is not there and not really planned clearly for the future.
Kotatsu and Mira, both on F-Droid. Kotatsu makes it easier to read manga without a subscription and you can add your own DRM-free manga. Mira is similar but adds anime and K-drama streaming as an option as well.
Even though I am subbed to Crunchyroll, having an option to watch if I have to cancel to save money, that's very helpful.
Stremio. A free Netflix-like UX for streaming bittorrents.
movie-web is another cool web app for streaming movies/tv shows
That link is a 404
Fuck my browser, it keeps suggesting me that one broken link from my history. The correct link is https://movie-web.github.io/docs
Thanks for pointing this out though
Just realized that a little quick start guide would be pretty useful, as the documentation isn't very straight-forward:
You don't need to self-host it, you can, but you don't have to. Just go to any one of the public instances and either install the browser addon, or use this guide to deploy a proxy for free. This is useful if you can't install browser addons, e.g. in the PWA or on a mobile browser that doesn't support extensions. That's it actually, you can now search for any movie/TV show you like and stream or download it completely for free.
I spent a few minutes googling what the source for the movies is, with no luck. Any insight?
Showbox, VidSrcTo, Goojara, ZoeChip, HDRezka, VidSrc, Nepu, GOmovies, RidoMovies, FlixHQ, SmashyStream, Remote Stream
Thank you!
So not torrents?
No
Oh this is great! I love Stremio, but the idea of having something like it that runs on a web server where anyone in my house can just use a normal web browser without any additional software is a great improvement.
Does movie-web use torrents too?
Recently, UnifiedPush where I can (currently just Megalodon for Mastodon sadly) as an alternative to using Google's push notifications.
Next cloud and only office. Bye bye google drive
Jellyfin bye bye Plex and Netflix
How are you hosting nextcloud with only office? I’ve tried multiple times to get Only Office working with Nextcloud, and while I can get Nextcloud up and running, Only Office never properly works for me. It always weirdly edit locks files and doesn’t allow basic functionality.
linux
I like the energy, but this doesn't qualify as "lesser known"
okay, reroll. uhh... firefox?
Ooooh. So close. Care for a third try?
hmmm... microsoft?
I use the Unison file sync tool to keep backups of all my important files on flash drives and servers. For mobile devices I do use Syncthing because MTP is painfully slow and taking the SD card out of the device to plug it in is too much of a hassle, but I would rather use Unison.
Why do you prefer it over syncthing?
With Unison syncing is a manual process, I run it and it tells me what's changed on each side and I can make changes as appropriate. Syncthing is a bit too automatic for my taste and its conflict resolution is a bit more involved.
Ah thank you, that wasn't obvious to me from its website
Android
Is it just me that can't get carrion to work? I download the databases, set it not to silence unverified calls (cause every call seems to be unverified) and I still miss all my calls cause it silences everything.
It doesnt silence calls for me...
Podcini looks very similar to AntennaPod, what are the differences?
Is DekuSMS similar to Silence?
Could you share a link for wormhole?
Podcini is a drastically modernized fork of it.
DekuSMS is the same princible but updated, Silence is not maintained and should not be used.
https://gitlab.com/lukas-heiligenbrunner/wormhole
Thanks 👍
Secure file sending: croc
Dedjplication: Czkawka
Sorting tool: Phockup
OCR: OCRmyPDF
I got a Brother embroidery machine only to find that making anything other than the most basic patterns required a very pricey proprietary program. Thankfully I found Ink/Stitch, an open source plug-in for InkScape. It's still a little rough around the edges, but after getting used to its foibles, it's very capable with the right amount of elbow grease. The main dev is active and very helpful in their issues.
Hammerspoon. Pretty necessary Mac software to make it work the way you want.
SC-Controller, although it seems to have been abandoned.
Gpodder-adaptive
ChimeraOS. If you have a non-steam gamerdeck, I recommend backing up the Windows 11 install and replacing it with this outright. It's based on the Steam Deck OS and makes the process of selecting a game much faster because Windows 11 is bloated as shit.
I used to use [a Windows 3.1 shrink-wrapped software package] that offered notepads and appointment calendars. Then I switched to Linux. That was 16 years ago. To take the place of the Windows application, I had to write my own list-maker from scratch. Today, there's a new python3-pyqt5 version (under GNU General Public License) of my script for Linux and Windows desktops to help maintain the equivalent of index-card files. Obviously this is not something you'd use just to be like everybody else. I use it because I don't really know how others handle their everyday lists and I can't think of an easier way. If you, too, suspect it ought to be easier than it is, it may be. Please look at Tonto2. Thanks.
QGIS
Powerful mapping and geographic analysis software.
I live and die by Simplenote. It's one of the apps I'm in multiple times per day every day of my life.
GraphCalc
I've tried other calculators & just keep coming back to this one.
https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs
It's niche as hell, but Syncplay lets you sync up the playback of video files through VLC or MPV player as long as everyone has the same video file stored locally. Better quality then steaming and works on low bandwidth connections.
Ete-Sync
Do you self-host Etebase?
Yup :)
Nice, found a follow Etesync/Etebase user. Am I the only one who's worried, because there isn't much development lately?
You know what I want? Bookmarks in Ete-Sync!
Also we were promised native gnome accounts, and while there's part of the work done through Evolution, it doesn't work via the account center.
I just self-host the Firefox sync server. It also uses E2EE. Linux desktop integration would be pretty neat though.
Thanks, didn't think about that. I should have a look!
I'm a little bit worried, but like I was saying as long as they keep up with upstream vulnerabilities in dependencies and any bulbs that come up that's ok..software doesn't have to be constantly evolving for it to be useful and usable.
Isn't it unmaintained?
Development isn't super active, but there's still occasional commits to update dependencies and what not. If no security vulnerability has been discovered it doesn't need more than that since it works given the existing feature set.
coffee keeps display awake
Space sniffer. Best and most underrated program to help clear your computer storage from random shit
Is space sniffer FOSS?
I thought it was closed source. In a similar vein, WizTree is a modern version of space sniffer. It's significantly quicker.
Ah shit I thought the title was free or open source 🤦♂️
uget download manager, aves mobile image viewer
Firefox's inbuilt reader would cut some of the crap
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=sPPTZ2nX1C0&t=20s
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
hourly reminder
Daily
Occasionally
Dunno how known they are, but it took me a while to find them.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Space sniffer http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
It was on life hack.com a decade ago. Literally haven’t seen a single app beat this one.
That looks like WizTree which is what I use
Is it Free Software?