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

  • jaxxed@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 days ago

    I switched to niri about a year ago. It’s perfect for those who like tiling WMs but want a more natural flow, without constant window resizing.

    Niri with waybar, fuzzel, and tessen give a pretty complete desktop.

  • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1261·
    2 months ago

    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@lemmy.mlOP
      161·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
      8·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        2 months ago

        There’s also a still in-development rival for GNOME, Valent. And it’s a native program and not just a shell extension. I prefer it, and maybe it even has more features.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

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

  • Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
    74·
    2 months ago

    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

    • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      Same. I’m still primarily a Plex user for the player (it’s just easier for sharing libraries with everyone) but I love the arr stuff. Just got readarr setup for audio books and audiobookshelf for the player which is really nice.

      Probably my favorite feature of the arr suite is in Radarr and list subscribing. I’ve got mine connected to some good letterboxd lists along with things like tmdb popular to keep my library up to date with recent stuff. Also there’s some podcasts I listen to like The Rewatchables. I just subscribe to the lists of movies on letterboxd and I can easily keep up with the podcast.

    • SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

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

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I’ve never been able to figure out how to use usenet. Do you have any suggestions on how to get started?

            • TunaLobster@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 months ago

              I’ve been very happy with a couple of indexers that I have paid for. I haven’t needed to really jump into the invite only world. There really is A LOT of content available easily. I’m sure more niche content might need more select access, but for me I haven’t gotten there. There was one Charlie Brown I have on VHS that took forever to find a better copy of, but I did eventually get a better version.

      • Scrollone@feddit.it
        1·
        2 months ago

        Only some countries need VPNs. If your country doesn’t care about piracy (e.g. Italy, Spain or Eastern Europe) just don’t bother paying for a VPN.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    762·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • IamG0rb@infosec.pub
    66·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • xantoxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      2 months ago

      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.)

    • Graphy@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      Oh nice I was wondering if there was like an all in one place to put my shitty automations. I’ve been oddly fixated on automating my blinds.

    • maiskanzler@feddit.nlDeutsch
      3·
      2 months ago

      Pretty cool, I use it as well. Works with basically everything thanks to the big community.

      I just wish it allowed for proper programming of the automations. I despise the YAML-as-code hack they are using. I get it, it’s much easier to offer a GUI editor for such a format. It feels very limited and cumbersome compared to regular programming though.

    • bastion@feddit.nl
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, as far as FOSS I almost actually can’t live without: HomeAssistant controls my spring pump to the cistern so that the pipes don’t freeze.

  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.ml
    57·
    2 months ago

    Notesnook.

    I was previously using Obsidian, which is great! but didn’t like that it was closed source. I then went on to try various options [0] but none of them felt “right”. I eventually found notesnook and it hit everything I was looking for [1]. It’s only gotten better in the last year I started using it and just recently they introduced the ability to host your own sync server, which is one of the requirements it didn’t initially make, but was on their roadmap.

    [0] Obsidian, Standard Notes, OneDrive, VSCode with addons, Joplin, Google Keep, Simple Notes, Crypt.ee, CryptPad (more of a collabroation suite, which I actually really like, but it did not fit the bill of a notes app), vim with addons, Logseq, Zettlr, etc.

    [1] Requirements in no particular order:

    • Open source client and server.
    • Cross-platform availability as I use Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android.
    • Cross-platform feature parity.
    • Doesn’t fight me over how notes should be taken - looking at Logseq’s lack of organization.
    • Easy notes syncing.
    • End-to-end encryption (E2EE). It’s about to be 2025, if the tools you’re picking up aren’t E2EE, you’re letting unknown strangers access your data and resell it. It doesn’t matter what their privacy policy says as that can always change and/or they can get compromised/compelled to expose your data.
    • Ability to publish notes.
    • Decent UX.
  • Meltrax@lemmy.world
    56·
    2 months ago

    Jellyfin. Use it daily. Dropping more and more atreamjnf services, it’s been awesome.

    Honorable mentioned to Revanced.

    • Teppichbrand@feddit.org
      41·
      2 months ago

      I just installed Jellyfin on my Raspi 4 and I’m not happy. It’s so laggy and slow I can barely use it. What is your setup?

      • xthexder@l.sw0.com
        17·
        2 months ago

        A Raspberry PI should be fine for direct play, but it doesn’t really have the processing power to transcode. Check to see which mode you’re in.

        If you want the ability to live transcode, you’d probably have better luck with an old laptop or PC with a dedicated GPU (Even the lowest end ones have the same video encoding hardware in each generation, I use a GTX 1050).

        • maiskanzler@feddit.nlDeutsch
          3·
          2 months ago

          Or a somewhat recent Intel Computer, maybe around 2017 onwards or even older. It can absolutely be a low-tier device As long as the processor has Intel Quicksync it’ll be a breeze to do live transcoding. No dedicated graphics necessary!

          • yonder@sh.itjust.works
            6·
            2 months ago

            I remember how the jellyfin documentation specifically recommends against RPIs since they have no hardware transcoding. I personally use a 4th gen i3 in a mac mini and it can do what I want, though I don’t use it heavily.

        • skoell13@feddit.org
          1·
          2 months ago

          This. I have an LG Oled TV that can nearly trascode everything so I didn’t allow my user to use transcoding and forcing it to do direct play (there is also a plugin for it). Works like a charm. The only thing not supported are VobSubs but otherwise I had no issues.

      • jetsetdorito@lemm.ee
        12·
        2 months ago

        on a pi you’ll have to transcode the media for Direct Play beforehand. Pretty much anything that’s not in h264 aac format will lag

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        2 months ago

        Your pi is the problem if you are trying to playback incompatible H.265 content or stuff with incompatible subtitles like SSA-subtitles in anime.

        My advice (if you can) get a mini-pc like a NUC (used or new) and do everything you did on the Pi.
        Besides that, watch tutorials on how to set it up properly or take your time to get docker to know. With docker you’ll just need to set up video permissions and the rest is taken care of by the container.

        • Vittelius@feddit.org
          2·
          2 months ago

          He’ll, even an Intel based thin client would probably be enough. You can get them on eBay for like 30 bucks, which is about as much as a pi costs. You’ll probably have to replace the ssd though. That’ll set you back an additional 30 bucks.

      • ECB@feddit.org
        4·
        2 months ago

        Not a raspi, but I had similar issues on my opensuse HTPC which turned it to be related to issues with (or missing) media codecs in Firefox.

        After (re)installing all of them, it worked like a charm.

      • Meltrax@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        I have Jellyfin running in a container on my little home server. I’ve never tried it on a RaspPi so I can’t really speak to its performance there.

    • glitch1985@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      What apps do you use revanced for? Maybe it’s just me but the two apps I use haven’t had new revanced versions in 6+ months.

    • hikaru755@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 months ago

      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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
    47·
    2 months ago

    Mine will probably be Bottles.

    The team behind that application did a fantastic job. Wine was due for something much more user friendly like this. And integration with Proton, allowing 3D acceleration is the cherry on top.

  • 🐋 Color 🔱 ♀@lemm.eeEnglish
    45·
    2 months ago

    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@lemmy.mlOP
      15·
      2 months ago

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

      • 🐋 Color 🔱 ♀@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 months ago

          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.

        • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          2 months ago

          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.

  • superkret@feddit.org
    41·
    2 months ago

    Termux. A Debian-based 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, lets me grep through my sms, 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 could have a Debian with Gnome desktop running on your unrooted phone.

  • nicerdicer@feddit.org
    40·
    2 months ago

    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)

      • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
        16·
        2 months ago

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

        Pathetic.

        • Alsephina@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

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

          • XTL@sopuli.xyz
            3·
            2 months ago

            Depends on the machine and… maybe other things. I used to think that, too, but on my current machines I can step backwards just fine.

            It’s probably a much more intensive operation requiring processing a lot of the file from before and throwing away current buffers or something.

      • nicerdicer@feddit.org
        7·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
          8·
          2 months ago

          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.

        • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 months ago

          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@feddit.org
            4·
            2 months ago

            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.

            • Daddy Kuma@r.nfEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              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@discuss.tchncs.de
                3·
                2 months ago

                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.

                • Daddy Kuma@r.nfEnglish
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  Yep, but if it only he need to remux then is less time than reencoding.

              • nicerdicer@feddit.org
                1·
                2 months ago

                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).

            • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
              2·
              2 months ago

              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.

      • baatliwala@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        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…

        • nicerdicer@feddit.org
          2·
          2 months ago

          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.

          • Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            2 months ago

            Ooh nice - if it is indeed a UI it would be perfect for my grand-aunt. We went through many such alternatives, but all stopped working after a while

            • nicerdicer@feddit.org
              2·
              2 months ago

              You might be lucky: there is a gui availiable for yt-dlp on GitHub. I just looked it up. The descripition reads:

              Graphical interface for the command line tool yt-dlp, which allows users to download videos from various websites, including YouTube. It is designed to be more user-friendly and accessible for those who are not comfortable using the command line.

              Link: https://github.com/dsymbol/yt-dlp-gui

              Edit/addition:

              There are online services availiable (for instance https://yt5s.com/en173) that basically do the same as Cobalt.tools. I assume that they don’t put any emphasis on privacy tho.

  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
    36·
    2 months ago
    • 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.