Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I’ve really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Ublock Origin. The amount of people going through life exposing themselves to ads is tragic. It’s so unhealthy and most people aren’t aware that there is a simple and free way of protecting yourself from the psychological warfare that corpos use against society

  • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoEnglish
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    10 months ago

    PC:

    1. Libreoffice – the best, most customisable and powerful office software available
    2. Onlyoffice – alternative for less-advanced users who are used to the UI of contemporary MSO
    3. Zotero – great bibliography manager useful when writing scientific papers: lets you collect books, journal articles and all other types of sources, automatically finds full text PDFs online, fills in metadata and then inserts dynamic citations in thousands of different, customisable styles. Also generates bibliographies. Works with LO, MSO and GDocs
    4. Caprine – clean Facebook Messenger client (web wrapper based)
    5. TeXStudio – my LATeX editor of choice; integral (ha!) when formatting maths-heavy documents

    Android:

    1. Cloudstream — free streaming app, works with SFlix, Sodastream, PH and other legally dubious streaming providers. Takes some trickery to set up though.
    2. Osmand — OpenStreetMap client with offline (optional online) navigation and plenty of plugins; loads of customisation
    3. Material Files — nicest file manager, especially for rooted devices
    4. Showly — freemium open-source TV and film tracker. Syncs with Trakt.tv
    5. Simple Gallery — out of all Simple Apps by this developer, this is the only one which is in fact superior to its alternatives. Highly customisable, powerful, lightweight gallery app
  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    10 months ago

    Blender is my favorite open source tool I wish I knew how to use :)
    I’d love to use it for creating my own designs and took several attempts at learning it. But I always end up giving up on it due to lack of time and energy.

      • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
        1·
        10 months ago

        Any cloud server, any linux server on your network, any virtual machine… is a network hard drive. No need to mess around with shares, permissions or server side settings (caveat: Your ssh user on the remote server DOES need to have the access you want to the files you want… but also duh). Want to edit config files on a remote server in your local text editor? You can. Want to mount your media server in your home directory on your Ubuntu laptop and watch your videos in VLC? You can. Want to just open Finder windows where one is your working directory on a cloud server and one is your home directory on your local machine and just drag files between them? You can. Want to share a hard drive between your Mac, your Windows machine and your Linux Mint laptop and just open the network share with one simple line in the terminal? You can.

        The remote server just needs to be running SSH (that’s it! You don’t need ANY OTHER SERVER SIDE code) and you can mount ANY PART OF IT’S FILE SYSTEM like a network drive. It’s file system agnostic on the server side as well. Implementations for Mac and Windows in addition to Linux. Although, admittedly, the non-Linux implementations are a bit janky… but I’m almost a pure Linux user, so that doesn’t affect me… I DO have it running on my MacBook and my Mac Mini, but I barely use those.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    1·
    10 months ago

    Yunohost! If you want to get started self-hosting some services, check out Yunohost. It’s super easy to setup and run, active development and community, and just awesome. I found it so much easier than docker-based projects. I used to have it running on an old eeepc netbook, but now I have a dedicated tower server for it.

  • Bob@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    I’ll second Openstreetmap, I use it exclusively. There’s also a set of lightweight versions that are locally hosted, so I use osmap.nl if I want to quickly look at where something is. It also forces the names to the language of the server, so you can use it to improve a second language.

    I use an adblocker on my phone called Blokada. It blocks adverts in apps as well as on websites, so I don’t get adverts if I play something like Words With Friends for example. Also blocks adverts on Youtube which is an absolute godsend. Advertising is one of the few things I get irrationally upset about.

    I make music using LMMS. It has its limitations but it’s quite versatile if you’re handy with it. This song was made in it for example: https://on.soundcloud.com/dTqgb

    I use Betterbird for email on my PC. It’s Spartan in design, which is what I’m into, and you can sign in with multiple addresses. I use K-9 Mail on my phone which has the same advantages.

    I use an app called Saisonkalender to look at what veg is in season. Quite niche but it’s handy for ordering ingredients for soup of the day in work.

    I have a game on my phone called Lexica which is basically Boggle. It’s good fun.

  • peppy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    10 months ago

    Obsidian for Knowledge base, note taking. https://obsidian.md

    Edit: TIL not open source. sorry. They even had a Github and all. I wasn’t paying attention. I have to move now :(

    • wrath-sedan@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      Yeah seconded that it’s not FOSS but still a great app. Logseq is a good FOSS alternative for a knowledge base, and I really like Zettlr for long form md writing and note taking too.

  • Voyager@psychedelia.inkEnglish
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    10 months ago

    OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an open-source (open data) project. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative mapping platform that allows users from around the world to contribute, edit, and use geographical data. The data and software behind OSM are open-source, which means they are freely available for anyone to view, use, modify, and distribute under open licenses.

    The data contributed to OpenStreetMap islicensed under the Open Database License (ODbL). This license allows for the free use of the data as long as proper attribution is given and any derivative works are also made available under the same open license.

    I got addicted to using and contributing on OSM daily and enjoy spending my time improving the map. In fact a lot of closed source maps such as Google Maps and Apple Maps pull from some of the OSM data, so everyone gets to benefit from contributions.

    In case you’re looking into this out of curiosity, check out the Beginner’s Guide and try to verify that the data around your neighborhood is correct and maybe add a point of interest (PoI) or a street name or two. Beware, it gets addictive quite fast.

    OSM is also used for humanitarian use thanks to the HOT tasking platform. For example the majority of relief effort in Turkey’s February earthquake, Sri Lanka flooding, and the recent Marocco earthquake. Mapping can literally help save lives. It’s fun and easy too!

  • Shurimal@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Home Assistant. If you ever want to do home automation properly, this is the way. Works with pretty much anything—Zigbee, zWave, BT LE, MQTT—while keeping things manufacturer agnostic, local, private and highly responsive (your commands don’t need to go through some server 3000 km away and won’t have ugly 1 second latency as a result).

    DAVx⁵ and Radicale to sync contacts and calendars between devices without snooping middle-men.

    Syncthing to sync any files between devices. Works remotely, too, thanks to Syncthing relays.

    Navidrome for your personal music streaming service.

    Debian, Docker, Docker Compose and Portainer as the backbone to run all your services.

    And many others.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      01·
      10 months ago

      I’d actually recommend Podman over Docker nowadays. It’s basically a drop in replacement and embraces open source while Docker’s moving more in the direction of a closed monetized model.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
    01·
    10 months ago
    • Xonotic is an open source FPS with an active community. If you liked Quake 3 and Unreal, then I can highly recommend checking it out. It’s got lots of active servers, and perfectly captures old school FPS vibes.
    • Calibre is a great way to manage ebooks
    • Logseq is a great way to organize notes and ideas
  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
    01·
    10 months ago

    Xtreme Download Manager. Cross platform clone of IDM and insanely valuable if you are a regular downloader. (Though I would argue IDM is better and more polished if you mainly use Windows.)

    JDownloader. Cross platform. Do you have dozens of annoying file sharing website links (1fichier, MediaFire, MEGA, Gofile, Sendspace, Turbobit, UploadRar) with even more annoying time limits between downloads? Do you find file sharing websites with ads and popups annoying? Throw all your links into this tool. Start. Go sleep. Do your work.

    MediaInfo. Cross platform, and allows to view every possible detail about video and audio files. This is for nerds and media encoder nutjobs like me.

    Calibre. Cross platform. THE BEST E-BOOK READER AND ORGANISER ON EARTH.

    Bonus for Linux: Thunar is the best file manager, if you do not want a complicated dual pane TC style tool. Nautilus is a close second, because they refuse to have Backspace key as directory up shortcut.