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Barrier: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
Edit: Input Leap looks like a promising KVM replacement for Barrier, thanks for sharing!
Kotatsu and Mira, both on F-Droid. Kotatsu makes it easier to read manga without a subscription and you can add your own DRM-free manga. Mira is similar but adds anime and K-drama streaming as an option as well.
Even though I am subbed to Crunchyroll, having an option to watch if I have to cancel to save money, that's very helpful.
Space sniffer http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
It was on life hack.com a decade ago. Literally haven’t seen a single app beat this one.
Logseq pkm note taking/outliner https://github.com/logseq/logseq Syncthing https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing Omnivore, Pocket alternative https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore Bypass Paywalls Clean browser addon https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
Open source AI models and tools like HuggingChat, Whisper
Hammerspoon. Pretty necessary Mac software to make it work the way you want.
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.
Thank you for the detailed reply and the explanations to (mostly) all the jargon :-)
Sweden is also doing a lot of deprecation of old telephony systems, those that I know of is that 2G and 3G are going away by 2025.
The less tech debt we pass onto future generations, the better.
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.
I live and die by Simplenote. It's one of the apps I'm in multiple times per day every day of my life.
Android
Is it just me that can't get carrion to work? I download the databases, set it not to silence unverified calls (cause every call seems to be unverified) and I still miss all my calls cause it silences everything.
Loop habit tracker app on android: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits
They are in the google play store and f-droid i believe
Kde connect on my phone (iphone) and laptop.
Recently installed Linux (Nobara to be specific) and I'm amazed this isn't talked about more. It's so useful! Windows is seriously missing out not having a program like this built in.
They do actually. It's just Android only. I'm also on windows as well
Microsoft has released something similar for Windows. I believe it's called Windows connect for phone? But it does exist.
Yep, although I've found KDE connect to work better. It was more reliable while the windows one kept doing unexpected things
I loathe phonelink so much, after trying to use it for a week.
You will get no argument from me there. I used the one on Windows a couple of times. Wasn't all that impressed. But the one on KDE is the one I use most myself.
I recently switched to tumbleweed kde, so I tried kde connect for the hell of it, and holy crap I have been missing out.
A quick search comes up with "Phone Link" which only seems to work with Windows on the "PC" end, whereas KDE Connect will work everywhere that KDE works, which includes Windows.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/sync-across-your-devices
It really isn't the same as Konnect which is a bloody marvel! I've used it for years.
Yes I think that's what they're calling it now. They used to call it something else. But it generally works everywhere windows works. Though I don't have very many windows machines myself and much prefer KDE connect. But there is something similar. Apple has one too. But it strictly only works with iPhones.
That's why the US is suing them (locking people to Apple devices).
Yes, I just hope it goes better than the whole Microsoft deal. The next president turned around and basically undid all the work of the Clinton administration.
May it be so much better.
Definitely Syncthing.
Great app to sync my phone with my laptop.
It's also great for sharing files with friends/family. I gave a couple of friends a folder address, and we all just drop shit in there that we want the others to see.