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mathemachristian ,

Guix!

sag ,

Lemmy

save_the_humans ,

spotDL. Searches YouTube to download whole Spotify playlists and includes artwork and metadata.

orcrist ,

Nothing. Discovered mine long before.

corsicanguppy ,

ZFS. It’s come so far, and it has so far to go. but it’s a good concept for sure.

Reverendender ,

I feel like if Sun had come out on top (instead of fucking Oracle), the tech space might be a better place

Paul ,

I can live without Logseq but for work and keeping a log of how that worked (other than bash history) It’s really useful

tilefan ,
@tilefan@lemm.ee avatar

Revanced

ElvenMithril ,

I second local send :)

nicerdicer , (edited )

Not discovered in the past year, but in the year before that:

Blender (program for 3D modelling, animation and rendering)

cobalt.tools(web-app for downloading video or audio content from youtube and other websites)

VLC (media player that plays almost everything)

Zacryon ,
@Zacryon@feddit.org avatar

media player that plays almost everything

What doesn’t it play?

nicerdicer ,

I discovered that VLC isn’t so good at playing .flv files. This are video files that are saved in the Adobe Flash Video container format. I have some episodes from cartoon series which I downloaded years ago. Sometimes there are no playback issues with VLC, but sometimes the audio track is delayed. For this reason I have installed IINA, but I like VLC’s user interface better.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Weirdly enough I often find things playing back better in IINA than VLC even though as I understand it they’re basically the same under the hood. I also find the reverse occasionally as well.

whyNotSquirrel ,
@whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works avatar

Banjo

baatliwala ,

It’s not good at displaying anime fansubs if they have complex typesetting. I have to use MPC-HC + madVR. Sadly those fansub styles are a dying breed…

Reverendender ,

Corrupted files

MicrowavedTea ,
  • URLCheck: Bring back the “open link with…” functionality of android with so many more features
  • PassAndroid: I was looking for a wallet-type app to store tickets. This is the perfect combination of simple but works.

I also started using KDEConnect recently just for the remote input function and I already consider it essential.

LemmyHead ,

+1 for urlcheck and add Rethink firewall for me

moreeni ,

KDE connect is 🔥🔥🔥

stsquad ,

Magic Wormhole - it’s been around awhile but it’s super useful for moving files from your internet connected server to your phone without going through multiple hops copying stuff to you local machine and finding a cable.

voklen ,

Immich - Such a polished piece of software that I couldn’t imagine storing all my images without

hikaru755 ,

Seconding this. Legitimately better than Google photos in a lot of ways, even if you don’t care about the data ownership aspect. If you’ve ever been annoyed at how Google Photos handles face detection / grouping, you’ll love Immich.

Lojcs ,

“Can’t live without” is an overstatement, but here are mine:

  • Kvaesitso, search focused android launcher. I used to really like nova launcher’s local search and navigated my phone mostly using that. But once gensture navigation became a thing I had to stop using nova and replicate the experience in Samsung launcher with various local search apps that were lacking in comparison. Tried to go back a couple times once gestures with 3rd party launchers got better but found my old setup still too ugly and sluggish to go back to. Recently I randomly came across Kvaesitso on fdroid and it was everything I ever wanted out of a launcher.
  • Amberol music player. Not the ideal music player I’d like but at least it’s not Elisa.
  • Kid3, audio file tag editor. It has much better workflow/automation than mp3tag that I used in windows, and it seems if you spend some effort on it you could add more automation to make it even better.
Imhotep ,

I wish one of those search based launchers would implement a t9 keyboard for searching apps so I could replace Appdialer (which isn’t open source)

i_am_not_a_robot ,
@i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk avatar

Home Assistant. I only installed it to help me control my solar/battery but I ended up putting other things on it and fell down a rabbit hole.

stsquad ,

That’s how it starts. Before you know it you’ll be buying no-name smart bulbs from Ali Baba and investigating custom firmware for full local only control.

Reverendender ,

Have you done other home automation that you could compare it to?

themadcodger ,
@themadcodger@kbin.earth avatar

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 ,

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 ,

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.

Im_old ,

good to know, thank you for the insights! Tbh Tailscale/headscale has been quite stable, so maybe I’ll stay were I am. Or move to nebula because why not? :D

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