What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?

gila , 4 hours ago

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nosnahc , 3 hours ago

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

roux , 3 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

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 , 2 hours ago

Warpinator works great too

leraje , 3 hours ago

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.

Shape4985 OP , 3 hours ago

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

xantoxis , 2 hours ago

• uptime kuma

superkret , 1 hour ago

Termux. A command line Linux system running on top of unrooted Android.
It lets you interface with your phone’s functions (GPS, calls, etc.), and install packages to extend functionality.
Turned my phone into a mobile network troubeshooting device, and I can ssh into my server on the go.

With AnLinux you can install a full standard linux system in it, including a GUI, and connect to it with a VNC viewer. (AnLinux is just a helper script linking to some dude’s repo, so if you are at all security-minded, you can also bootstrap and install any Linux distro manually).
So you can have a Debian with Gnome desktop running on your unrooted phone.

CanadaPlus , 1 hour ago

Oh my god, that’s amazing. I’m getting on something that can be rooted posthaste, but in the meanwhile…

ari_verse , 1 hour ago

Two candidates for my best-discovery-of-the-year prize,

Ptyxis terminal: gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxisA modern take at a terminal, gtk-4 native, gpu accelerated, container-aware etc that replaced tilix in my setup. And it comes neatly packaged as a flatpak

LogSeq notes: github.com/logseq/logseqA different approach to note taking & journal. Very nice looking, rich plugin ecosystem, could use some performance boost but I think they are working on it

Big shootout to flatpak/flathub that for me has finally taken off, I converted all of my regular desktop apps to flatpaks. Went from 3-4 apps last year to ~20 (including Firefox libreoffice, even my terminal app) this year and not looking back. This has made doing a major host SW upgrade almost painless for the first time in 25+ years using Linux desktops.

vala , 49 minutes ago

The TIC80 fantasy console. It’s like Pico8 but open source.

0485919158191 , 49 minutes ago

Gotta be my Synology NAS. Although the and isn’t free. The software is open source.

I moved always from every cloud storage provider to my own private cloud instead! Could not be happier!

My wife loves it too!

XTL , 27 minutes ago

I don’t think I’ve found amazing things recently. Things worth using and things better than the alternative and things that are promising to maybe one day be great, yes.

But I’ll single out one little thing: dust. github.com/bootandy/dust

Dust is meant to give you an instant overview of which directories are using disk space without requiring sort or head. Dust will print a maximum of one ‘Did not have permissions message’.

Dust will list a slightly-less-than-the-terminal-height number of the biggest subdirectories or files and will smartly recurse down the tree to find the larger ones. There is no need for a ‘-d’ flag or a ‘-h’ flag. The largest subdirectories will be colored.

It’s like a killer combination of du and sort oneliners that actually shows me what I want to know: What’s the big stuff in this dir.