- LibreWolf, a privacy-optimized fork of Firefox
- Mull, hardened Firefox for Android.
- EteSync with self-hosted Etebase, an end-to-end encrypted solution for syncing calendars and contacts.
- Molly, a hardened Signal fork for Android.
- Accrescent, a secure, alternative app store for Android. Still in an early stage of development though.
- UnifiedPush, a privacy-friendly notification system.
- LibRedirect, a browser extension that automatically redirects you to private frontends for privacy invasive websites.
- movie-web, a web app that let’s you watch any movie/tv show for free. I highly recommend it.
- Seal, an amazing Android app for downloading videos. YTDLnis is an alternative.
- Cobalt downloader, a website that let’s you download basically everything imaginable from the internet. All kinds of posts, photos and videos from various social media platforms and many other websites.
- Linkwarden, a bookmark manager that can be self-hosted. Also check out Omnivore and wallabag.
- ArchiveBox, a self-hosted app for archiving websites.
- Tube Archivist, a self-hosted app for archiving YouTube videos/playlists/channels.
(I love downloading and archiving stuff lol)
Is EteSync free? It seems to be offering trials and paid plans.
That’s for their cloud hosting. But the self-hosted variant is completely free.
This is fantastic! Just started switching over to Librewolf and Mull. I discovered xBrowserSync in the process, which is a great way to sync browser bookmarks. https://www.xbrowsersync.org/
If you only use Firefox-based browsers, you don’t actually need the extension. You can simply enable Firefox Sync in the LibreWolf settings and it’s end-to-end encrypted by default.
Firefox. Fuck chrome amiright
Definitely Syncthing.
Great app to sync my phone with my laptop.
I have an extensive syncthing set up but I find the mobile app a battery hungry
Syncthing-fork which fixes battery drain issue and others as well. I’ll just leave this here for your battery needs: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/
Lemmy
(applause)
Fuck Lemmy. I’m only here because there is nothing better (yet)
668 comments in 1 month. It means you like the content of lemmy
Yes. The content produced by the users.
Lemmy devs are making the same mistake reddit made. They’re throwing the users under the bus, when its the users that make the platform.
You can start your own instance, and you could even develop a compatible, federated protocol like kbin. That’s the beauty of the fediverse.
Starting my own instance would just make me legally vulnerable because the tools for moderation dont exist.
I will likely jump to sublinks when available, which was created because of these issues.
pivpn for wireguard setup:
newpipe and libretube for youtube:
And the entire Fossify app suite in Android:
scrcpy for connecting to my Android screen from my laptop:
kde connect for general android/laptop connectivity:
The Fossify apps do look pretty slick.
Gadgetbridge lets you connect and get data from supported smart or fitness watch without manufacturers app. Completely local.
Joplin for notes, and Rclone drastically improves any cloud services.
Errm, Wireshark. Please bear with me.
Wireshark is a shining example of an open source project completely and utterly crapping on the closed source competition. As a result we all benefit. I recall spending a lot of someone else’s money on buying a sort of ruggedized laptop with two ethernet ports to do the job back in the day.
Nowdays, I can run up a tcpdump session on a firewall remotely with some carefully chosen timings and filters and download it to my PC and analyse it with Wireshark.
OK, all so convenient but is it any use?
Say you have a VoIP issue of some sort. The PCAP from tcpdump that you pass to Wireshark can analyse it to the nth degree. Wireshark knows all about SIP and RTP (and IAX) and you can even play back the voice streams or have them graphed so you can see what is wrong or whatever. That’s just VoIP, it has loads of other dissectors and decorators built in.
So what?
The UK (for example) will be dispensing with boring old, but reliable, POTS (Plain Old Telephony System) by 2025. Our entire copper telephony and things like RedCare (defunct soon) will go away.
We are swapping out circuit switching for packet switching. To be fair, a lot of the backend is already TCP/UDP/IP that is shielded away from us proles. When SoGEA (Single Order Generic Ethernet Access) really kicks in then the old school electric end to end connection will be lost in favour of packet switching, which never fails (honest guv).
If you are an IT bod of any sort, you really should be conversant with Wireshark.
Android
Audile like SoundHoud and Shazam but open source
Funkwhale a federated cloud community music streamer app
Innertune find new songs from YT Music
Open Video Editor edit videos
Heliboard successor of OpenBoard
Tubular successor of NewPipe
ZipXtract a zip extractor
Wger fitness app
Please just a reminder, consider contributing to these apps developers.
coffee keeps display awake
- OpenWrt
- Syncthing
- VeraCrypt
- KeePassXC
- GNUCash
Shotcut helped me get rid of the heavy, bloated Premiere Pro.
I switched from Shotcut to Kdenlive as it seemed a lot more feature rich to me, still FOSS obviously
I plan to give it a try.
Have you used Davinci Resolve? Curious how it compares to that.
Resolve isn’t open source. But Kdenlive might be a good alternative, it has more features than Shotcut.
naps2 for printer/scanners. Better than anything I’ve used for scanning. Also great for arranging small documents.
- lets you rearrange page order easily before saving the scan as a pdf
- has OCR
- lets you import documents into the pdf so you can layer scanned notes/typed documents easily into a single doc
- quick interface
Software that comes with printer/scanners usually suck
- ShareX
- Fan Control must have for windows 10/11. FOSS
Together with the ShareX extension (FF and Chromium), using with FileCoffee (setup script), a killer app
(FileCoffee isn’t OpenSource, but i recommend it as one of the most private host and sharer (images, multimedia, video, documents, presentations, text…), 100% free (account (free) optional), made in the EU (Netherland), best replacement of Imgur, which is a little less than spyware.)
I use also
And to turn off the bad habits and sniffings of Windows
Cheers for recommendations.
I use:
- proton VPN
- Portmaster
- Wintoys = Windows debloater (I also have another tool that has almost all debloaters for Windows)
- Xnviewer = image viewer (will be checking out the one you’ve suggested)
- CopyQ (Clipboard manager)
- Start11 (Not open source but a good tool for taskbar customisation)
- QuickLook (selecting a file or folder then pressing the space bar, you can view a document, video, folder, or song without having to open it)
- HotKeyP - App launcher (I turn off all start-up apps and use this tool to launch all the desired apps with a single hotkey)
- Flow Launcher - I can’t use Windows without Flow Launcher; it’s my universal search engine for everything.
Never heard of wintoys. How does it compare to win-debloat-tools?
It’s not that powerful but does the job, but if you want more advanced ones. This tool has almost every single one of them. With one click, you can download any debloater.
https://github.com/xemulat/XToolbox
Edit: it also has windows optimiser tools.
Instead of Start11, use Rainmeter (FOSS), to customize not only the taskbar, but almost the whole UI + all kind of widgets. You can create your own skin (scripts), or use one of the hundreds made by the community in Deviantart and other sites (links in the homepage). Complete Wiki and tutorils. Before i forgot that i use also FreeTube and SMplayer as externplayer, if FreeTube fails, Gimp and Krita, but i think that these are already well known apps.
LogSec for students, project organization, and the aspiring corkboard conspiracy theorist in your life wanting to be the next Mark Lombardi. Use markdown in a free flow style notes app that has powerful tools to connect ideas, so you can focus on the information as opposed the organization. Semantics instead of syntax, as it were.
Where it the data stored, this looks really interesting.
In markdown files, locally on your computer
Oh that’s cool. How easy would it be to sync those files between devices?
