Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.
- bastion ( @bastion@feddit.nl ) 19•3 days ago
This isn’t exactly “can’t live without,” that would be HomeAssistant. But what I Immediately thought of?
This is an RTS game in the spirit of Total Annihilation.
- labor of love
- fully 3d, including ability to rotate or raise/lower view
- tens of thousands of units without hardware lag for reasonably modem hardware (3-4 years old)
- all shots actively rendered, leading to:
- realistic friendly fire
- even air units can get hit by ballistic shots targeting land units (although odds are fairly slim)
- redirect-unit-to-dodge micro is effective in some situations
- meaningful terrain
- radar will have blind spots based on line-of-sight
- radar gives clear indicator of coverage during placement
- two factions, almost 200 units each, with tier 1, 2, and 3 units. A third (currently playable with a setting change) faction is in the works.
- crafty, non-cheating ai opponents
- free server hosting (!)
- active servers all times of day
The overall feel and balance of the game is great. The changes they make to balance are generally light and reasonable, and the game had a good community.
Fam and friends play together often.
- supersquirrel ( @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ) 3•2 days ago
Well we can’t live without a modern game that acknowledges how awesome Total Annihilation is as an idea so effectively that means we can’t live without Beyond All Reason/The Spring Engine right?
I mean Forged Alliance Forever is amazing and I am zero percent bashing it… and ok I guess we would still have Planetary Annihilation, and that game looks pretty awesome too…so I suppose technically we could live without Beyond All Reason but I doubt even the Planetary Annihilation devs would be happy about that world, I know the FAF community wouldnt be happy lol.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English8•2 days ago
Well, I guess we’re a little past the year mark but I really like Lemmy and Jerboa lol.
- nickwitha_k (he/him) ( @nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ) 15•3 days ago
I’ll go with FreeCAD. I’ve known about it for a while and tried it about 5-10 years ago but have given it another look as I try to get back into CAD stuff and hate the restrictive licenses of commercial products. It has come a LONG way and is far more intuitive to use than it used to be.
- supersquirrel ( @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ) 2•3 days ago
That is great to hear, definitely seemed like FreeCAD was REALLY basic in the past, but there is such a big gap for a really fully featured FOSS Cad software!
- CrabAndBroom ( @CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ) English10•3 days ago
My favourite recent one is Yunohost, which makes it super easy to spin up a little self-hosted server with a bunch of apps. I’ve been having good fun with that and a spare Raspberry Pi lately.
- ebc ( @ebc@lemmy.ca ) 2•2 days ago
It’s not quite as point-and-click, but I’m using Docker for that because Yunohost kept messing up updates. Most server apps will have some instructions on how to run them in docker, especially a
docker-compose.yml
file, so you don’t have to rely on the Yunohost team to package said app.The way I do it is that I put each suggested compose file in their own file, and import them in my main docker-compose.yml file like this:
version: '3' include: - syncthing.yml
Then just run
docker compose pull && docker compose up -d
every time you change something or want to update your apps, and you’re good to go.Software updates in particular are waaaaaayyy easier on Docker than Yunohost.
- CrabAndBroom ( @CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ) English2•2 days ago
This has uncovered my shameful Linux confession lol - I don’t understand Docker at all. I think I’m reasonably okay with Linux stuff, I can put an Arch install together without using the archinstall script, I got NixOS up and running without too much trouble etc. but I just can’t get my head around how Docker is supposed to work for some reason.
- ebc ( @ebc@lemmy.ca ) 1•2 days ago
For self-hosting purposes, Docker = lightweight disposable VMs that are configured via
docker-compose.yml
. All important data should be in “volumes”, which are just shared folders between the host and the container.The end result is that you can delete and re-create containers at any time and they should just pick up where they left off from the data that’s in these volumes.
Each individual published image has some paths they want to use for that; everything is usually specified in their example docker-compose files.
If you’re not a dev, don’t even try to understand Dockerfiles, it’s not for you.
- SpeedySparticus ( @SpeedySparticus@feddit.dk ) 1•2 days ago
croc
- Jediotty ( @Jediotty@beehaw.org ) 1•2 days ago
I picked up KdenLive for video editing and it’s pretty freaking good imo
- SagXD ( @sag@lemm.ee ) 69•4 days ago
Lemmy
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 14•4 days ago
It’s been a bit over a year for me, otherwise this would be the answer.
- darklamer ( @darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 66•4 days ago
Bitwarden / Vaultwarden, no other password manager I’ve tried before has really worked for me.
Bitwarden or KeePassXC is my favorite too :)
- Gregor ( @gregor@gregtech.eu ) 13•4 days ago
Hello fellow bitwarden user! I also self-host my server with vaultwarden
- darklamer ( @darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•4 days ago
Vaultwarden is what really makes this solution great!
- ᗪᗩᗰᑎ ( @KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml ) 37•4 days ago
I was previously using Obsidian, which is great! but didn’t like that it was closed source. I then went on to try various options [0] but none of them felt “right”. I eventually found notesnook and it hit everything I was looking for [1]. It’s only gotten better in the last year I started using it and just recently they introduced the ability to host your own sync server, which is one of the requirements it didn’t initially make, but was on their roadmap.
[0] Obsidian, Standard Notes, OneDrive, VSCode with addons, Joplin, Google Keep, Simple Notes, Crypt.ee, CryptPad (more of a collabroation suite, which I actually really like, but it did not fit the bill of a notes app), vim with addons, Logseq, Zettlr, etc.
[1] Requirements in no particular order:
- Open source client and server.
- Cross-platform availability as I use Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android.
- Cross-platform feature parity.
- Doesn’t fight me over how notes should be taken - looking at Logseq’s lack of organization.
- Easy notes syncing.
- End-to-end encryption (E2EE). It’s about to be 2025, if the tools you’re picking up aren’t E2EE, you’re letting unknown strangers access your data and resell it. It doesn’t matter what their privacy policy says as that can always change and/or they can get compromised/compelled to expose your data.
- Ability to publish notes.
- Decent UX.
- lesnout27 ( @lesnout27@feddit.org ) 2•3 days ago
I started using Zettlr after Obsidian and i am pretty happy with it (besides one or two little things). I’ll also look into Notesnook
- save_the_humans ( @save_the_humans@leminal.space ) English3•4 days ago
Lol love the use of references. So glad you posted this. Looks fantastic.
- krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 days ago
Nice ive been using obsidian as well I’ll give this a shot
Currently im using standard note but id love to give this a try. I first heard of it from techlore
- IamG0rb ( @G0rb@infosec.pub ) 35•4 days ago
HomeAssistant, it’s such an awesome Tool. You want to combine your plant sensors with air quality sensors and an plant light? Easily done. You want to forward your mastodon follower count to an mqtt-LED-Pixel-Clock? No problem.
It’s just an amazing piece of software.
- maiskanzler ( @maiskanzler@feddit.nl ) Deutsch2•4 days ago
Pretty cool, I use it as well. Works with basically everything thanks to the big community.
I just wish it allowed for proper programming of the automations. I despise the YAML-as-code hack they are using. I get it, it’s much easier to offer a GUI editor for such a format. It feels very limited and cumbersome compared to regular programming though.
- bastion ( @bastion@feddit.nl ) 1•3 days ago
Yeah, as far as FOSS I almost actually can’t live without: HomeAssistant controls my spring pump to the cistern so that the pipes don’t freeze.
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 27•4 days ago
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.- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 6•4 days ago
Oh my god, that’s amazing. I’m getting on something that can be rooted posthaste, but in the meanwhile…
- Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•4 days ago
And here I thought this is running with the Android subsystem in a limited environment utilizung “plugins” as the packages.
That sounds so cool - tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 days ago
Not to mention that with proot, you can even run kernels greater than that native to your phone.
- jetsetdorito ( @jetsetdorito@lemm.ee ) 21•4 days ago
Immich as an alternative to Google Photos, it has all the main features but it’s self hosted.
- Scrollone ( @Scrollone@feddit.it ) 1•3 days ago
Is it stable yet to use it? I’ve seen it and it looks promising, but it’s also under active development.
- jetsetdorito ( @jetsetdorito@lemm.ee ) 2•3 days ago
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.
- vividspecter ( @vividspecter@lemm.ee ) 12•3 days ago
paperless-ngx, after having to turn my apartment upside down to find some paper documents.
- Railison ( @Railison@aussie.zone ) English2•3 days ago
Thank you for reminding me of this one! I keep forgetting to try it out
- nighty ( @nigh7y@lemmy.ml ) 1•3 days ago
Oh wow! Every now and then I feel like I needed something like this. Thanks!
- bluewing ( @bluewing@lemm.ee ) 10•3 days ago
Variety - a silly taskbar program that changes my background randomly from my own selected sources with added random quotes. I have it set to change my background every 3 hours and the quotes every hour I think. I just can’ live without it anymore.
- RandomVideos ( @RandomVideos@programming.dev ) 9•3 days ago
Linux and godot