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I got a Brother embroidery machine only to find that making anything other than the most basic patterns required a very pricey proprietary program. Thankfully I found Ink/Stitch, an open source plug-in for InkScape. It's still a little rough around the edges, but after getting used to its foibles, it's very capable with the right amount of elbow grease. The main dev is active and very helpful in their issues.
It's niche as hell, but Syncplay lets you sync up the playback of video files through VLC or MPV player as long as everyone has the same video file stored locally. Better quality then steaming and works on low bandwidth connections.
ChimeraOS. If you have a non-steam gamerdeck, I recommend backing up the Windows 11 install and replacing it with this outright. It's based on the Steam Deck OS and makes the process of selecting a game much faster because Windows 11 is bloated as shit.
I used to use [a Windows 3.1 shrink-wrapped software package] that offered notepads and appointment calendars. Then I switched to Linux. That was 16 years ago. To take the place of the Windows application, I had to write my own list-maker from scratch. Today, there's a new python3-pyqt5 version (under GNU General Public License) of my script for Linux and Windows desktops to help maintain the equivalent of index-card files. Obviously this is not something you'd use just to be like everybody else. I use it because I don't really know how others handle their everyday lists and I can't think of an easier way. If you, too, suspect it ought to be easier than it is, it may be. Please look at Tonto2. Thanks.
Daily
- flameshot for screenshot with annotations
- quodlibet for playing music (nice GUI, scriptable with python - wrote a few myself)
Occasionally
- czkawa for deduplication
- manuskript for writing
- tuxguitar for guitar tabs
Dunno how known they are, but it took me a while to find them.
I'm looking for an alterntive to this for windows. If anyone knows people lemme know.
Firefox's inbuilt reader would cut some of the crap
It’s not just a reader for web browsers; you select any text and press the hotkeys, and it takes you to a different window where you can read without any distractions.
Here is a preview of it (First app): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPPTZ2nX1C0&t=20s
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=sPPTZ2nX1C0&t=20s
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
uget download manager, aves mobile image viewer