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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

SGG ,

Make sure you get a reputable VPN to avoid issues with any “questionably acquired” content.

pythonoob ,

Any suggestions? I currently have a nord subscription but it’s about to run out and I’m considering moving.

Nugget ,

Mullvad is the gold standard

gamermanh ,
@gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Proton

Mullvad is good like the other guy said but Proton has port forwarding, which if you don’t wanna be a HnR jerk you wanna do

tyler ,

Just use Usenet.

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.

bikooo2 , (edited )

You can convertí the files in another playable format with Handbrake, probably you Won’t need Change the codecs of the files only the container and the conversión will be fast than reencoding all

ColeSloth ,

You can, but it’s a lot of number crunching time to convert a bunch of files like that, as opposed to just using a different player.

nicerdicer ,

Yes, this would be an option (that I did not think of). But I assume that it would be easier to download the same file in another file format, as there will be probably an improvement regarding the video resolution (480p versus 1080p or higher).

ColeSloth ,

Thankfully, vlc’s audio offset function is very easy to quickly adjust and save. As long as the audio delay is consistent you can adjust it pretty quickly.

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.

Alsephina ,

Are there any FOSS apps that can do this? MPV can move frame by frame but moving back is so unusably slow.

Tattorack ,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

Need to keep Cobalt Tools in mind. Was looking for something like that.

Ardyssian ,

How does it compare to yt-dlp?

nicerdicer ,

Warning, I might be wrong:

yt-dlp seems to be operated with command lines, whereas cobalt is a user interface in an opened browser tab. You paste the link of the desired video or audio source into a search bar and you can toggle different settings (bitrate, file format, video output size etc.). The desired file will be appearing as a download into your download folder.

roux , (edited )
@roux@hexbear.net avatar

I’ve known about it for longer but just started using KDE Connect over the last year or so.

It’s got some bugs, at least for me. Like sometimes my phone won’t connect to my computer or like the SMS feature takes forever to load, but having something akin to Pushbullet but free from enshitification has been really great.

newerAccountWhoDis ,

Warpinator works great too

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.

xantoxis ,

Thirded. Immich has no right to be as good as it is after such a short time. Completely took down my google photos, finally, and I still have face recognition, word search and automatic backup from my phone.

G0rb ,

HomeAssistant, it’s such an awesome Tool. You want to combine your plant sensors with air quality sensors and an plant light? Easily done. You want to forward your mastodon follower count to an mqtt-LED-Pixel-Clock? No problem.

It’s just an amazing piece of software.

a4ng3l ,

Truely a nice one. The community around it is quite cool as well.

xantoxis ,

My favorite thing I’ve done with hass is put a color-changing light bulb by my front door. It’s connected to the weather forecast. I know what the weather will be at a glance without a website or going outside. (Where I live, it’s not always obvious when I’m gonna get rained on.)

yournamehere ,

Nuclear and RiMusic are great so i dont need spotify/YTmusic or something.

proxmox really made me enjoy selfhosting again.

christian ,
@christian@lemmy.ml avatar

I remembee nuclear for the convincing testimonials shown on their website

yournamehere ,

FREE and open source

weststadtgesicht ,

Those testimonials are hilarious, I love that kind of self-deprecating humor (or the confidence to stand up to critics).

nuclear.js.org

xantoxis ,
Shape4985 OP ,
@Shape4985@lemmy.ml avatar

Some great apps on here, downloading some of the suggestions to try out

ace_garp ,
@ace_garp@lemmy.world avatar

DeltaChat.

It packetises and encrypts chats, using email(SMTP) as the transport medium. Sends downsampled pics, videos or push-to-talk audio by default. Can send full quality pics, videos, or attachments too, as a file.

Integrates with Jitsi Meet to connect video-calls.

It’s available on F-Droid, and you can use a seperate free-email-address(100MB limit) for the SMTP backend (from nine.testrun.org ), or use your own existing email address.

Elegant and robust.

Laborer3652 , (edited )

Cool concept but really sucks if you’re the only recipient using DeltaChat. Plus it comes with all the privacy drawbacks of email. And I get tons and tons of spam so anything I actually care about is quickly buried.

leraje ,
@leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Vorta for Borg Backup - for linux and MacOS. You use it remotely but I use it for local backup because a) its encrypted b) its Borg so awesome and c) easy to use. I just pointed it at my home directory, told it where to place the encrypted backups and how often to make them.

I’ve had to recover files twice and recovery is just as easy is set up.

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

overcast5348 ,

I just checked out fWallet and it doesn’t support importing random PDFs so that’s a huge downside to me since a lot of events I attend only send a PDF with barcodes/QR codes.

Andromxda , (edited )
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Oh I only thought about the .pkpass use case, as that’s what I’ve been using PassAndroid for, before I switched to fWallet.

MicrowavedTea ,

I actually tried fWallet first but it couldn’t import my .pkpass file at the time and it didn’t show any errors so I just gave up. I might try it again next time I have a ticket.

10_0 ,

I second URL check

asexualchangeling ,

Obviously KDE Connect is amazing but URL check is really great too, pretty much every link on my phone goes through it first

nosnahc ,
@nosnahc@lemmy.world avatar

Klipper, for 3d printing. Most of current manufacturer use it as primary software for their printers.

gila ,

LiveCaptions

10_0 ,

Newpipe + sponsorblock

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

eighty ,

Amazing journaling/personal information managment software. I love that once you understand how it works, you can journal however you like and it “maps” out how your connect concepts. Not exaggerating when I say it helped me piece a lot of concepts and personal themes together

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