Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About
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Yea, when chess.com started limiting engine analyses to 1 per day I jumped ship to lichess and never looked back.
Lichess is a lot more liberal with what it considers a mistake. I guess chess.com needs to butter you up.
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I dont get, can you give more context
They will literally ask for some money to get a developer account
https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/
$99 a year
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This might read as a stupid question but ; Do you have to use KDE Plasma as a DE for it to work ?
I have it running on my i3wm
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tmux: A terminal multiplexer that enables managing multiple terminal sessions within a single window, allowing detaching and reattaching sessions to keep programs running in the background.
I have it launch automatically on ssh sessions. If the connection drops, nothing happens, the next time I connect, it automatically reattaches
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I could not believe I didn't find this fun free gem sooner. I'll let the description from F-Droid explain the details:
This is a roguelike twist on the original Breakout formula:
The goal is to catch as many coins as possible during 7 levels.
Coins appear when you break bricks.
They fly around, bounce and roll, and you need to catch them with your paddle.
At the end of the level, you get to pick upgrades.
There are 50+ different upgrades that impact the gameplay in various ways.
Many upgrades will impact your combo, that's the number of coins spawned for each brick broken.
Your "combo" is displayed on your paddle. Your score is displayed in the top right corner of the screen.
Oh, and don't miss the ball, you don't have extra lives.THIS IS SO FUN!
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VLC (VideoLAN media player): play media files, DVDs, network streams and more. Just works,
Unfortunately VLC is also stale
So I've been trying out mpv.net
https://github.com/mpvnet-player/mpv.net
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to publish ios apps you need to run xcode, last time I checked (admittedly it's been 7ish years) - and you need to build on mac hardware. none of which is cheap, especially for devs who don't see any additional revenue from their ios apps.
They also force you to pay a 99USD yearly fee just for the privilege of being a developer.
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I switched to outlook at work. I had a lot of wierd issues with thunderbird. Like how i would sort them newest fisrt, and grouo by conversation. But then when i got a coversation and expanded it. I had to scroll all the way to the bottom to se the latest. Of the last update I got that deleted everything.
I might go back to it. But it's not perfect
First of all, you don't have to go back.
Second of all, being perfect is a pretty high bar for any software - can you mention any on this list, or even commercial ones, that have no flaws or bugs, or could not be better?
Third. I've used it since it was part of Navigator, and I have never lost any data. Without being tech-support for Thunderbird, I might think that you have somehow installed either a different version of Thunderbird, which makes a new user-folder. Your data might still have been there.Sorting is done the same way in Outlook and Thunderbird, by clicking on the subject you want to sort it by. How you couldn't do that, is beyond me...
But, as I said at first - you don't have to go back. I guess you felt like making this post about complaining - something I don't think that any software in this list (or beyond this list) could be above...
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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"
