Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

[resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I use Syncthing-Fork on my android phone, which seems to work fine.

[resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

What if they connect to your hotspot?

[osugi_sakae@midwest.social]

Around 4 or 5 years ago, the Audacity project was acquired by a company that has several other open source music / audio related programs. The first few months did not go well because the company did several things with Audacity that the community didn't like (like the telemetry that others have mentioned). It seemed like the company was trying to take an uber-popular open source project and convert it into something not in keeping with community expectations. Some forks of Audacity were started.

As others have said, the controversy seems to have died down. Gentoo at least, and probably many other Linux distros, have Audacity and not the forks in their repositories.

[resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

NotallyX. Basically free, open source Google Keep, for anyone that enjoys that app.

[osugi_sakae@midwest.social]

krusader is a dual-paned file manager for KDE. It runs on Linux (of course), MS Windows, and Mac OSX.

Folder sync is what makes krusader outstanding, even if you don't care about dual-pane file management. Open the two folders you want to sync in the panes and go to Tools > Synchronize Folders. You can synchronize both ways, exclude files, delete lone files, etc. Very powerful.

Being a KDE app, krusader does not skimp on features, so there are lots of other things that krusader can do.

link: https://krusader.org/

[osugi_sakae@midwest.social]

krename is another excellent, but not as well known as it should be, KDE app.

krename can rename files and directories, and directories recursively, to almost anything. You can rename:

• using information from the files or about the files (image info, date / time info, etc)
• with templates (like #### for incrementing 0001, 0002, 0003, etc)
• by adding parts of the original file name (first three characters then the last 4 characters, for example)
• using find and replace (spaces to underscore, remove special characters, etc), including regular expressions
• by changing case

or with a mix of everything.

krename has a simple mode and an advanced mode for renaming, so you don't have to jump into the deep end with the features.

You do have to be careful with some of the file info functions - it will happily try to rename a movie or a pdf with (non-existent) image EXIF info, for example. That would result in a file with a name you did not intend.

[darkan15@lemmy.world]

There is an intro video to see the features, is really good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0

[sergio@lemmy.world]

Vassal - an open-source (LGPL-2.1) boardgame engine. basically, people build different modules for each game they want to play, then they can play that game over the internet or solo. Mostly focused on "chit-and-hex" style wargames.

• https://vassalengine.org/
• https://github.com/vassalengine/vassal

[darkan15@lemmy.world]

Same, have used it for years, both on terminal and with qtpass GUI, on Linux and Windows desktops, the lack of a maintained android client, has me looking into keepassxc and vaultwarden, still haven't made a switch.

[comradegreetingcard@lemmy.ml]

and it's fork https://github.com/TrashboxBobylev/Rat-King-Adventure

[spez@sh.itjust.works]

I mean yeah technically it's not FOSS. But the code is open to review and doesn't do anything shady.

[duamerthrax@lemmy.world]

I'll have to try it the next time I have time, but I'm also trying to switch to a real linux phone. Right now, I have to wait for a friend to travel to the EU to be there while Pine64 has what I'm looking for in stock.

[golden_zealot@lemmy.ml]

Yea! I forgot it did that as well, but when that happened I had that same reaction of "holy crap, anything proprietary isn't even close to being this good".

[mrbobs@lemmy.one]

Just started using this a few weeks ago and I was very impressed with it. Had all of the functions/features I needed.

[callyral@pawb.social]

aria2. From the website:

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. aria2 can be manipulated via built-in JSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces.

[golden_zealot@lemmy.ml]

Yea, I have to sit down and watch a few of their videos - I like that they went through the trouble to make a lot of video content for all of the features and uses as well, makes it really convenient to learn about passively.

[callyral@pawb.social]

strudel. From the website:

With Strudel, you can expressively write dynamic music pieces.

The best place to actually make music with Strudel is the Strudel REPL

It's really fun to make music in it, I recommend trying it out!

link to repo (codeberg)

[kazerniel@lemmy.world]

ooo nice, maybe I could switch away from Total Commander after like 25 years

[core_of_arden@lemmy.ml]

Thunderbird - a brilliant e-mail program, which also handles contacts, newsfeeds, calender and more.
It's available for multiple platforms, like Android, Windows, Linux and so forth...

[core_of_arden@lemmy.ml]

Firefox - the original private webbrowser. Even though some people don't like the options in it (like those that let you stream Netflix and other DRM content). If people care about privacy, they use this browser, or one that is made from it...