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small44 ,

Not discovered last year but ffmpeg.Crazy how many tools it can replace and how many usecase it has

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.

nicerdicer , (edited )

The funny thing is that said .flv files could be played with VLC without any issue at the time I acquired them. I downloaded a bunch of cartoon episodes in this file format back in 2010 (?) when once-click-hosters like Megavideo were a big thing then. I was able to play them with the then current version of VLC without any problems.

Since then there were several updates with VLC and some time along the way it suddenly didn’t work that good anymore. I might add that this file format is not very common today (it was, when Adobe Flash was still around), so today there might be no incentive to maintain any old codecs for these type of files any longer.

When it gets worse with dwindling playback compatibility I probably have to acquire these files with a more recent file format (e.g. .mp4) in the future.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

It also in more recent years had an update that messed with it’s vcd playback ability. Don’t remember exactly the problem but I had a rip of an old vcd and was pleased that it played it back no trouble, and even from the original disc too but then a couple of years later it changed so I had to do something to extract an mpeg2 stream or something to get it to work and it from then on had audio issues that had never been there before.

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

Anafabula ,
@Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

The Stargate SG-1 DVDs for some reason. All others I tried work fine.

SplashJackson ,

It can’t go back one frame at a time yet hsd no problem going forward at the same pace.

Pathetic.

ElvenMithril ,

I second local send :)

clark ,
@clark@midwest.social avatar

For some reason it never works for me, can’t locate the other device I want to send to/from.

Sterile_Technique , (edited )
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world avatar

Zotero

If you’re in any flavor of academics from middle school to doctorate program or otherwise writing papers that require strict citation formatting, drop what you’re doing and click that link.

Or probably YouTube it or something first so you can see why it’s so much better than your standard internet citation generators.

Don’t forget to share the intel with your classmates!

Edit - honorable mention to Desmos for 99% of your calculator needs… with the unfortunate exception of exams, cuz phone.

Shape4985 OP , (edited )
@Shape4985@lemmy.ml avatar

I wish i knew about this during my degree

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

it’s the sort of tool that is really just fundamental now and should be ubiquitous and promoted and taught and talked about every where there is knowledge work. Even more so as there’s a great open source version of the tool.

degen ,

This, logseq, and PKM in general for me. I guess it’s not really “can’t live without” because I hardly know where to start, but the possibilities for organizing my mess of a brain are enticing.

It would probably help to have a project to work on and actually use the things rather than diving too deep into PKM conceptually… Really wish I knew about them in school, though.

otter ,

It’s actually recommended by a lot of profs now where I am, which is really nice

They overhauled the UI recently and it looks nice and modern too

LodeMike ,

Where’s the source code for the first one?

tja ,
@tja@sh.itjust.works avatar

On GitHub

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Is Desmos open source?

Corno ,

PCSX2. It’s an open-source PS2 emulator, and a dang good one at that. It has a high degree of compatibility and functionality. I absolutely adore it since so many of my favorite games happen to be PS2 games, and after playing some of my favorite games on this emulator, I realized just how much the PS2’s native resolution doesn’t do the graphics of the PS2’s best games justice.

It is also free and available for Windows, Linux, and macOS!

Shape4985 OP ,
@Shape4985@lemmy.ml avatar

Love PCSX2. I play a lot of old games as they have a charm to them and no micro transactions

Corno ,

Same! Have you played the Ratchet and Clank original trilogy? The old games have this special charm to them that I don’t really see in the newer games of the series.

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Sterile_Technique ,
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world avatar

If you happen to have easy access to the ROM, how’s “Star Wars: Racer Revenge” run?

It’s the less popular but more fleshed out spiritual successor to the N64 pod racing game - the PS2’s take nailed the physics - the two engines and racer pod are (or at least feel like) three separate entities, and playing in first person view with the engines controlled separately by the left and right joysticks feels fucking magical.

Tried to run it on PCSX2 years ago, but it was one of the few games that meshed so poorly with the emulator that it wasn’t playable. I’m guessing the emulator has seen some improvements since then - could definitely use a nice shot of nostalgia.

Corno ,

I haven’t played that game yet! But there’s an excellent wiki which allows you to check each game’s compatibility. It looks as though the game has some issues with visual glitches when rendering in hardware mode. In software mode, it is rendered more accurately but the resolution cannot go beyond PS2 native.

conciselyverbose ,

I haven’t played much of the older ones, but I really enjoyed Rifts Apart. It’s beautiful, but it’s also mechanically super polished and fluid, and while the storytelling isn’t really my style, I think they do it reasonably well.

TheTechnician27 ,
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world avatar

And if you haven’t used it in a while, we recently made a blog post giving a rundown of the changes leading up to our most recent major release.

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 🔥🔥🔥

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Just want to drop in some alternatives, LinkSheet is pretty similar to URLCheck with many of the features, and fWallet in my opinion has nicer UI/UX than PassAndroid

sun_is_ra ,

Mine is kdeconnect which does what local send does plus so much more.

  • using phone to control laptop
  • getting phone notifications send to your pc
  • can browse phone’s storage directly from pc
  • find my phone function
Shape4985 OP , (edited )
@Shape4985@lemmy.ml avatar

Kde connect is great, iv always thought about using it but never got round to it as im current using a wm instead of a desktop environment. If i was to switch to a desktop environment kde would be my first choice as it has so many features.

tun ,

I have kdeconnect on my i3wm.

Shape4985 OP ,
@Shape4985@lemmy.ml avatar

Iv never tried it on my wm. Ill dow load it and give it a shot.

otter ,

I found it to be more than I needed. I still have it installed, but use localsend more often

theshatterstone54 ,

I’ve had issues with it for file sharing, so far that I’m sticking to LocalSend, but I really need to explore KDEConnect further, as I haven’t explored the rest of its features.

foggy ,

Wait kdeconnect is Foss?! Can I fix the atrocious gui myself?!? 😂

That application rules but it looks like butt on my workstation.

Bronzie ,

Jellyfin and the .arr suite.

It’s absolutely incredible and I am so greatful to anyone with the skillset and dedication to develop and maintain things like these.

Currently playing with Proxmox and HomeAssistant too.

Hat of to all of you legends involved in FOSS

The_Che_Banana ,

Spottube, like Spotify but without the shitty ads, play limitations and tracking.

Every. Day. In the kitchen.

Shape4985 OP ,
@Shape4985@lemmy.ml avatar

I tried this, it was a pretty cool app. Has it been facing any issues since youtube is trying to block 3rd party apps using their api? My piped app sometimes goes down and i need to wait for an update to fix it

Interstellar_1 ,
@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Works for me.

The_Che_Banana ,

I had a shit time with on my shitty Samsung shit phone, but now have a moto and there are zero issues.

mathemachristian ,

Guix!

sag ,

Lemmy

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

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?

save_the_humans ,

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

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)

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