Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

  • bastion@feddit.nl
    32·
    2 days ago

    This isn’t exactly “can’t live without,” that would be HomeAssistant. But what I Immediately thought of?

    Beyond All Reason

    This is an RTS game in the spirit of Total Annihilation.

    • labor of love
    • fully 3d, including ability to rotate or raise/lower view
    • tens of thousands of units without hardware lag for reasonably modem hardware (3-4 years old)
    • all shots actively rendered, leading to:
    • realistic friendly fire
    • even air units can get hit by ballistic shots targeting land units (although odds are fairly slim)
    • redirect-unit-to-dodge micro is effective in some situations
    • meaningful terrain
    • radar will have blind spots based on line-of-sight
    • radar gives clear indicator of coverage during placement
    • two factions, almost 200 units each, with tier 1, 2, and 3 units. A third (currently playable with a setting change) faction is in the works.
    • crafty, non-cheating ai opponents
    • free server hosting (!)
    • active servers all times of day

    The overall feel and balance of the game is great. The changes they make to balance are generally light and reasonable, and the game had a good community.

    Fam and friends play together often.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      2 days ago

      Well we can’t live without a modern game that acknowledges how awesome Total Annihilation is as an idea so effectively that means we can’t live without Beyond All Reason/The Spring Engine right?

      I mean Forged Alliance Forever is amazing and I am zero percent bashing it… and ok I guess we would still have Planetary Annihilation, and that game looks pretty awesome too…so I suppose technically we could live without Beyond All Reason but I doubt even the Planetary Annihilation devs would be happy about that world, I know the FAF community wouldnt be happy lol.

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
    18·
    2 days ago

    I’ll go with FreeCAD. I’ve known about it for a while and tried it about 5-10 years ago but have given it another look as I try to get back into CAD stuff and hate the restrictive licenses of commercial products. It has come a LONG way and is far more intuitive to use than it used to be.

  • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.mlEnglish
    19·
    2 days ago

    My favourite recent one is Yunohost, which makes it super easy to spin up a little self-hosted server with a bunch of apps. I’ve been having good fun with that and a spare Raspberry Pi lately.

    • ebc@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 day ago

      It’s not quite as point-and-click, but I’m using Docker for that because Yunohost kept messing up updates. Most server apps will have some instructions on how to run them in docker, especially a docker-compose.yml file, so you don’t have to rely on the Yunohost team to package said app.

      The way I do it is that I put each suggested compose file in their own file, and import them in my main docker-compose.yml file like this:

      version:  '3'
include:
    - syncthing.yml

      Then just run docker compose pull && docker compose up -d every time you change something or want to update your apps, and you’re good to go.

      Software updates in particular are waaaaaayyy easier on Docker than Yunohost.

      • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        This has uncovered my shameful Linux confession lol - I don’t understand Docker at all. I think I’m reasonably okay with Linux stuff, I can put an Arch install together without using the archinstall script, I got NixOS up and running without too much trouble etc. but I just can’t get my head around how Docker is supposed to work for some reason.

        • ebc@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 day ago

          For self-hosting purposes, Docker = lightweight disposable VMs that are configured via docker-compose.yml. All important data should be in “volumes”, which are just shared folders between the host and the container.

          The end result is that you can delete and re-create containers at any time and they should just pick up where they left off from the data that’s in these volumes.

          Each individual published image has some paths they want to use for that; everything is usually specified in their example docker-compose files.

          If you’re not a dev, don’t even try to understand Dockerfiles, it’s not for you.

      • Zoidberg@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 days ago

        There’s also Homarr for those who prefer a nice and easy frontend to install the arr suite and more.

  • hjjanger@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    Locate command. I know it’s a command in thw terminal but since I had to apt install it I’m adding it here.

    I absolutely love it.

  • bluewing@lemm.ee
    14·
    2 days ago

    Variety - a silly taskbar program that changes my background randomly from my own selected sources with added random quotes. I have it set to change my background every 3 hours and the quotes every hour I think. I just can’ live without it anymore.

  • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    Freetube.

    Once they added quick playlist functionality earlier this year, it was over for YouTube for me.

    At this point it has everything I need and could only use small QoL improvements to be absolutely perfect for me.