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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:

    1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
    2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
    3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

    Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

    Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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    Calibre: great e-book manager

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    • P [email protected]

      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:

      1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
      2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
      3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

      Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

      Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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      freac: free audio converter 🙂

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      • P [email protected]

        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:

        1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
        2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
        3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

        Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

        Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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        Workrave: screen break reminder

        I recommend v1.11 because the v1.10 UI is very retro 😅

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        • P [email protected]

          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:

          1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
          2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
          3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

          Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

          Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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          GEDKeeper: genealogy software with many functions

          (disclaimer: I contributed to this project 🙂 )

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          • P [email protected]

            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:

            1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
            2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
            3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

            Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

            Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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            MusicBrainz Picard: superb mp3 tagger with online metadata lookup feature and audio track fingerprinting

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            • P [email protected]

              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:

              1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
              2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
              3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

              Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

              Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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              Open Hardware Monitor: track and visualise CPU/GPU/HDD/etc. performance over time

              (I've been using the original repo that I see hasn't been updated in some years, this is a more active fork.)

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              • P [email protected]

                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:

                1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
                2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
                3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

                Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

                Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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                qBittorrent: only for your legal torrenting needs from e.g. archive.org 😆

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                • P [email protected]

                  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:

                  1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
                  2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
                  3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

                  Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

                  Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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                  and lastly, Tor Browser: anonymous web browser to evade state censorship and surveillance

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                  • P [email protected]

                    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:

                    1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
                    2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
                    3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

                    Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

                    Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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                    librewolf a privacy-focused fork of the latest stable firefox (win,linux,mac)

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                    • kazerniel@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                      Calibre: great e-book manager

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                      Also has a great deDRM tool I used to remove kobo DRM!

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                        Helix Editor: A fast, post-modern text editor that combines modal editing and syntax awareness built in Rust for programmers.

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                        Helix is my favorite editor. It's like Vim, but less obtuse because you can see the text you're about to perform an action on before you take it.

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                        • P [email protected]

                          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:

                          1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
                          2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
                          3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

                          Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

                          Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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                          gitolite for when a shared git folder is not enough but you don't want a full gitlab. Provides SSH-based access management for a bunch of git repos.

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                            You should know that there is no longer an official syncthing app and a clone has taken its place. It's buggy but it works.

                            Permissions are a bit tricky to set up but I believe the clone app does it correctly by asking for full file browsing permissions.

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                            Just to be clear, there is no official app for Android (and, I assume iPhone). If you are using SyncThing on desktop or laptop computers, there are downloads at the official syncthing.net site. On Linux, it should be available from your distribution.

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                              I can also recommend Bitwarden which is a hosted password manager (enabling e.g. automatic sync). The commitment to FOSS is not as great (there have been some controversies AFAIK) but self-hosting is possible.

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                              A little trick for people who are worried about putting business / work passwords in web-hosted managers such as Bitwarden: put just the username in Bitwarden, and put all the full information into KeepassXC.

                              Bitwarden will recognize the site and fill in the username - meaning you are at the correct site and are not being phished. Then, you can fill in the password from KeepassXC. This gives the benefits of browser-based managers while keeping more sensitive passwords (and recovery info) local-only.

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                                I love syncthing, but never managed to get permissions to work right on any of my android phones. I chalk that up to phone vendor fuckery though.

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

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                                • F [email protected]

                                  I love LocalSend, the only downside is that both devices must be on the same network. So it won't work for sending a file to someone else at a bar.

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                                  What if they connect to your hotspot?

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                                  • pseudo@jlai.luP [email protected]

                                    What happened to Audacity? I rarely use it and I only do basic stuff but it was always a very good experience for me.

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                                    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.

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                                    • P [email protected]

                                      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:

                                      1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
                                      2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
                                      3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

                                      Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

                                      Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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

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                                      • P [email protected]

                                        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:

                                        1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
                                        2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
                                        3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

                                        Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

                                        Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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                                        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/

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                                        • P [email protected]

                                          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:

                                          1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
                                          2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
                                          3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

                                          Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post

                                          Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

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                                          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.

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