Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.
I don’t think I’ve found amazing things recently. Things worth using and things better than the alternative and things that are promising to maybe one day be great, yes.
But I’ll single out one little thing: dust. https://github.com/bootandy/dust
Dust is meant to give you an instant overview of which directories are using disk space without requiring sort or head. Dust will print a maximum of one ‘Did not have permissions message’.
Dust will list a slightly-less-than-the-terminal-height number of the biggest subdirectories or files and will smartly recurse down the tree to find the larger ones. There is no need for a ‘-d’ flag or a ‘-h’ flag. The largest subdirectories will be colored.
It’s like a killer combination of du and sort oneliners that actually shows me what I want to know: What’s the big stuff in this dir.
I use gdu
Looks nice.
For those looking for an interactive variante, check out ncdu: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncdu
I use dust all the time at work, it’s fantastic.
Termux. A Debian-based Linux system running on top of unrooted Android.
It lets you interface with your phone’s functions (GPS, calls, etc.), and install packages to extend functionality.
Turned my phone into a mobile network troubeshooting device, lets me grep through my sms, and I can ssh into my server on the go.With AnLinux you can install a full standard linux system in it, including a GUI, and connect to it with a VNC viewer. (AnLinux is just a helper script linking to some dude’s repo, so if you are at all security-minded, you can also bootstrap and install any Linux distro manually).
So you could have a Debian with Gnome desktop running on your unrooted phone.That sounds fucking awesome
Oh my god, that’s amazing. I’m getting on something that can be rooted posthaste, but in the meanwhile…
And here I thought this is running with the Android subsystem in a limited environment utilizung “plugins” as the packages.
That sounds so coolanlinux feels like junest but configured it with gui and vnc , I might use it someday.
Not to mention that with proot, you can even run kernels greater than that native to your phone.
Mine is kdeconnect which does what local send does plus so much more.
- using phone to control laptop
- getting phone notifications send to your pc
- can browse phone’s storage directly from pc
- find my phone function
I found it to be more than I needed. I still have it installed, but use localsend more often
GSConnect works great for GNOME too.
There’s also a still in-development rival for GNOME, Valent. And it’s a native program and not just a shell extension. I prefer it, and maybe it even has more features.
Kde connect is great, iv always thought about using it but never got round to it as im current using a wm instead of a desktop environment. If i was to switch to a desktop environment kde would be my first choice as it has so many features.
I have kdeconnect on my i3wm.
Iv never tried it on my wm. Ill dow load it and give it a shot.
I tried the iOS beta until it expired. Didn’t know it ever made it to the app store.
It used to be considered a security risk back in the day. Maybe it just a security “unknown”
I’ve had issues with it for file sharing, so far that I’m sticking to LocalSend, but I really need to explore KDEConnect further, as I haven’t explored the rest of its features.
Wait kdeconnect is Foss?! Can I fix the atrocious gui myself?!? 😂
That application rules but it looks like butt on my workstation.
May I suggest valent?
I’m sure they’d welcome a pull improving the UX! https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde I think the implementation of the protocol is pretty well isolated from the UI, so pretty radical UI changes should be relatively easy
I just may…
Yeah no complaints on functionality! It’s great!
I’ll take a slight tangent to this topic and talk about FOSS software I’ve recently had to give up that I really really miss: Autokey. Autokey is a rough equivalent to AutoHotKey on Windows, it can do anything from on the fly text replacement (type teh and it will correct to the, or type *date and it fills in today’s date) right up to firing whole Python scripts. it doesn’t work on Wayland (apparently there are security features that prevent it from working the same way it does on X11?), and I’ve yet to find a replacement for it that does.
Immich as an alternative to Google Photos, it has all the main features but it’s self hosted.
Is it stable yet to use it? I’ve seen it and it looks promising, but it’s also under active development.
I’ve never had anything bad happen to my library, but I do back it up regularly. The only “bad” thing might be there’s often breaking changes where you just need to update your docker compose yml when you pull a new immich update.
Immich is insanely good. No more needs to be said.
Jellyfin and the .arr suite.
It’s absolutely incredible and I am so greatful to anyone with the skillset and dedication to develop and maintain things like these.
Currently playing with Proxmox and HomeAssistant too.
Hat of to all of you legends involved in FOSS
Same. I’m still primarily a Plex user for the player (it’s just easier for sharing libraries with everyone) but I love the arr stuff. Just got readarr setup for audio books and audiobookshelf for the player which is really nice.
Probably my favorite feature of the arr suite is in Radarr and list subscribing. I’ve got mine connected to some good letterboxd lists along with things like tmdb popular to keep my library up to date with recent stuff. Also there’s some podcasts I listen to like The Rewatchables. I just subscribe to the lists of movies on letterboxd and I can easily keep up with the podcast.
Make sure you get a reputable VPN to avoid issues with any “questionably acquired” content.
Any suggestions? I currently have a nord subscription but it’s about to run out and I’m considering moving.
Mullvad is the gold standard
Proton
Mullvad is good like the other guy said but Proton has port forwarding, which if you don’t wanna be a HnR jerk you wanna do
Only some countries need VPNs. If your country doesn’t care about piracy (e.g. Italy, Spain or Eastern Europe) just don’t bother paying for a VPN.
Just use Usenet.
I’ve never been able to figure out how to use usenet. Do you have any suggestions on how to get started?
I know it’s reddit but this is a good guide. https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/18q7r0f/usenet_starter_guide/
Beyond that DM me for indexer invites if you seriously go down this path. Happy to help with any technical questions as well!
I’ve been very happy with a couple of indexers that I have paid for. I haven’t needed to really jump into the invite only world. There really is A LOT of content available easily. I’m sure more niche content might need more select access, but for me I haven’t gotten there. There was one Charlie Brown I have on VHS that took forever to find a better copy of, but I did eventually get a better version.
I’ve known about it for longer but just started using KDE Connect over the last year or so.
It’s got some bugs, at least for me. Like sometimes my phone won’t connect to my computer or like the SMS feature takes forever to load, but having something akin to Pushbullet but free from enshitification has been really great.
Warpinator works great too
My RSS reader! I use NetNewsWire.
NetNewsWire is amazing. I just wish they had a browser version I could use on a non Mac device.
Adding to RSS.
I use FreshRSS to sync to Readably over Fever API.
Works very well!
RSS reader are a game changer. Ill have a look at this one. At the moment im using fluent reader
My choice is
screenon the CLI. It’s an old one, but I just learned about it this year and it’s been amazing helpful doing complex, long-running tasks via SSH.Screen is great! My favorite though is
byobu, a pretty screenscreenis liketmux, right? So you can split your CLI, open a new window/tab to open more Bash/Vim instances?Yep! You can have multiple named screens, log them all individually, and they’ll keep processes running even if you disconnect. Never used
tmuxbutscreenis usually installed on the systems I’m working on.tmux is a modern screen replacement.
Screen is great, i used it for a long time to keep my Minecraft server process running on a raspberry pi. I recently just switched from screen to tmux
In that same vein, give zellij a look! I use it pretty constantly whenever I’m sshing in a nominatim server
I didn’t discover it this uear, but I started using QGIS professionally when the small city that hired me to, among a lot of other duties, be the new GIS department.
Turns out they thought ArcGIS cost the same as like Office or Acrobat, and they didn’t budget for it for the fiscal year that started 2 weeks before I started working.
Anyway, I’ve gotten pretty good with QGIS, and we’re sticking with it. It does everything I need it to do, and I can still pull stuff from most REST servers.
We’ve been using QGIS at my company for almost 8 years at this point and I really love it. The python integration and deep plugin repository render it head and shoulders above ESRI. Although I admit for enterprise solutions many will still require the turn-key solutions esri offer.
As a GIS person all I can is …fuck yeah. I’m for better or worse deeply embedded in the ESRI world but I’ve started dabbling in FOSS GIS software and honestly it’s all damn good. I don’t understand how ESRI charges what they do. Also, FME is amazing if you haven’t tried it yet (not free or open source) but awesome for quick visual development and data ETL.
I will give ESRI credit for their online stuff. It’s expensive, but it’s also pretty great. We’re actually thinking about getting an online subscription but no software licenses.
Honestly not a bad way to go about it
They tried to nickel and dime me on a $4000/yr product, but I’m just giving them the nickel.
I use this for architecture and it’s saved me so much time
Turns out they thought ArcGIS cost the same as like Office or Acrobat, and they didn’t budget for it for the fiscal year that started 2 weeks before I started working.
ESRI is in the position that Microsoft and Adobe want to be in, a de-facto monopoly.
Magic Wormhole - it’s been around awhile but it’s super useful for moving files from your internet connected server to your phone without going through multiple hops copying stuff to you local machine and finding a cable.
Beets. Awesome CLI tagging manager for music libraries.
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Aegis as an authentication App
Aves as gallery
Proxmox bare metal hypervisor for homeserver
try out Gallery (yes, it’s really called just “Gallery”), I’ve found it to be the best one out there, even better then aves
Thx for the tipp just installed it for testing
Used Aegis for Years but manual backups became tedious.
Ente auth is my new one for anyone who wants E2E Sync!
Ill look into the first 2, I’ve never heard of them. Proxmox has always interested me, once i get myself a home server i was going to try it out.
Just installed proxmox on a 10+ year old ThinkPad with an i5 and home assistant runs much quicker now
You can run proxmox in a VM and have it run VMs to try it out. It also works on standard desktop hardware which is what I running it on.
Home Assistant. I only installed it to help me control my solar/battery but I ended up putting other things on it and fell down a rabbit hole.
That’s how it starts. Before you know it you’ll be buying no-name smart bulbs from Ali Baba and investigating custom firmware for full local only control.
Have you done other home automation that you could compare it to?
Not really. Only the odd thing on a brand’s app, which isn’t really comparable.
