Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About
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Immich is a photo/video hosting solution à la Google photos
This looks awesome. I've been looking for something like this for ages
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OsmAnd, mobile app for navigation and maps. Offline, based on OSM, can do anything. I use it for checking out and bookmarking places, finding POIs and pubic transport stations, routing (especially for bike and foot), measuring distances, and so on. It can also show and record tracks, do car navigation, edit OSM points, and more stuff that I don't use.
Pro/plus/full version free on FDroidI want to like this, but because there's no GTFS/public transport timetables, it makes it kinda impossible to use it to get around cities that publish their transport data.
PT is the one thing I'm still stuck on Google maps for. I REALLY want an open source alternative.
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I found Signal and Matrix to be easier to use, albeit less private as it leaks some metadata.
To be fair, unlike Signal and Matrix, Tox does not rely on external server, it is full P2P. In that regard, setting up a Tox network is infinitely simpler.
Also, the only thing you leak is your IP address that end up in tox DHT, which is a necessity for peers to be able to reach you. It could easily be hidden behind Tor or a VPN. -
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Syncthing: Continuous, private, and encrypted file synchronization across multiple devices without using the cloud.
Syncthing has been a wonder to discover. Basically replaced any desire for me to rely on the cloud.
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KDE Connect: An app for iOS, android, pretty much every flavor of linux, windows, etc. that lets you connect any devices together to share files, show notifications of other devices, use your phone as an input device(keyboard, mouse), control multimedia applications(start, play, stop, etc.), trigger commands, and everything else if you make a plugin for it.
For some reason, I just can't get my Kubuntu desktop and Android phone to talk to each other with this. It does weirdly connect just fine on Arch/EndeavourOS, though.
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I want to like this, but because there's no GTFS/public transport timetables, it makes it kinda impossible to use it to get around cities that publish their transport data.
PT is the one thing I'm still stuck on Google maps for. I REALLY want an open source alternative.
Magic Earth is spotty on public transit, but it does have it, at least. And it is based on OSM. I usually just use my local transit app for accurate timetables, anyway.
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Immich is a photo/video hosting solution à la Google photos
I gotta figure out how it works and go through the setup one of these days. I've just been using Syncthing for my photos currently.
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Its good, i started using it because it allows you to inverts the colors, so you can turn your pdfs into white text on black background.
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Calibre: great e-book manager
Shoutout to Kovid Goyal for creating an awesome piece of software.
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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!
wrote last edited by [email protected]How is this better or an improvement over standard tidal cycles? Been using tidal cycles for a few years now. Even did a show with it!
Fwiw I love Haskell. Is it just a port to Js or does it add features?
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I mean yeah technically it's not FOSS. But the code is open to review and doesn't do anything shady.
I think the term most would use in this case would be "source available"
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
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Mihon Manga reader for android. Allows auto aggregation from web sources to make tracking and reading manga smooth and easy
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
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NextCloud - Self hosted personal cloud solution that you can run on Docker or bare metal.
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Syncthing: Continuous, private, and encrypted file synchronization across multiple devices without using the cloud.
I'd love to use this but I just mostly don't use multiple devices at the same time, so I don't see how the sync would ever happen.
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Beware that syncthing is a bad backup strategy as it will update to sync the broken file (or even file deletion).
I advice to do some other sort of backup. Even a simple shell script that copies selected folders into selected location that you run from time to time is a better one.Edit1: I've looked at my script, I use rsync for that.
Syncthing can easily be set to retain the last n copies. And you only need one or two to protect against corruption because you aren't editing a corrupted file. Likewise a lot of the KeepassX clients can snapshot periodically too. Been doing this for years with no issues over Linux/Win/iOS and Android.
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Unfortunately, its not reliable. For large media files it gets stuck. Also, sometimes the local server is not discoverable on the other end. Even though I tried the troubleshooting step.
I had tested with windows and android so it could be different on Linux.
I've never personally had these issues. Sent large files without problem and never had discovery issues.
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.
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- Blender
- MyPaint
- Krita
- Openshot
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I'd love to use this but I just mostly don't use multiple devices at the same time, so I don't see how the sync would ever happen.
I have an instance on my phone running 24/7 which does the bridge.
But i dont use much storage, i mainly work with text files, so the pc at work syncs with my phone, and when i get home my own pc gets the files from my phone immediatly.
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For some reason, I just can't get my Kubuntu desktop and Android phone to talk to each other with this. It does weirdly connect just fine on Arch/EndeavourOS, though.
Maybe kubuntu has some weird firewall default settings. When i tried using opensuse some years ago, it took me quite some time to figure out that it was its firewall that wasnt letting me use my printer and some other stuff i cant remember
