Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About
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My only complaint with KeePass is that if any corruption occurs, your passwords are borked. I use KeePass for non-critical accounts, like Lemmy, etc. I don't trust myself or the sync enough for storing my bank or other identity passwords.
KeePassXC can automatically keep a backup when it makes changes.
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Lichess: A popular free, open-source online chess platform offering play, puzzles, and tournaments.
Lichess got me back into chess after many years.
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beancount: double-entry accounting from text files.
Also, ledger.
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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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The Zim Desktop Wiki. Backed by files stored in git, lightweight and fast, ideal to capture and organize unstructured information.
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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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simple-scan. Scans documents with zero fuss. Easy and intuitive which is important for software that is not used frequently.
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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.
KDE Connect
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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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Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
wrote last edited by [email protected]agate and amfora, a server and client for the text-based "small web" protocol called Gemini. Allows to publish and read text, images and media in a really simple and accessible way.
(Works also great in a local file network to distribute media and docs).
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ZOOD location, a location sharing app that actually works
wrote last edited by [email protected]Dude you don't even know how long I've been looking for something exactly like this
Edit: shit android only?
Edit 2: doope they're working on ios
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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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Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
I recently found out after creating Linux, Linus Torvalds wanted to make a good open source scuba dive log software. Today, it's probably one of the best, if not the best dive log programs out there and I recently used this myself on a recent dive and it's great.
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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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Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
Trillium Next: The last note taking software you will ever need. It works as a standalone, or in a client/server configuration across almost all platforms.
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FairEmail, email app for Android that has every feature I can imagine. Available on FDroid
This is the closest thing to Thunderbird you can get on Android!
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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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Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
Restic, a reliable backup solution.
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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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Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
Shosetsu is a Free & Open Source Android Novel reader that I use to read my favorite freely available web novels!!
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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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Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
Kodi multimedia center.
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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.
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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rnote Rnote is an open-source vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. It is targeted at students, teachers and those who own a drawing tablet and provides features like Pdf and picture import and export, an infinite canvas and an adaptive UI for big and small screens.
This looks like exactly what I've been searching for. Will try it out when I'm home.
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This is the closest thing to Thunderbird you can get on Android!
What do you mean? Thunderbird literally IS on Android (F-Droid, Google Store).
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I much prefer tmux over screen.
Curious as to why is that. Can you please elaborate?
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What do you mean? Thunderbird literally IS on Android (F-Droid, Google Store).
I didn't realize it was out already. Last I heard they just slapped the name on K9-Mail.
My comparison is vs the desktop version of Thunderbird.
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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.
I wish I could send a whole folder of files at once with this, mine seems to only work one file at a time.
