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Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if Tailscale counts because it's mostly open source (with options to run your own server), but I use it constantly to connect to Home Assistant and Jellyfin on my home server, as well as pairing it with NextDNS (pihole is possible for those that want to go that route) for ad blocking and Mullvad to use them as an exit node.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can selfhost it with headscale (the server). It's really simple to set up and use. I'm also considering moving to zerotier because a) it's completely opensource and b) the wifi management software I'm looking into (openwisp) has native integration

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  • Voyager --> feddit for android
  • Fossify --> essential apps for android
  • syncthing -- > more use cases than i thought
  • paperlessngx --> finally going digital
  • obtainium --> get android apps directly from their github

I am still learning and try to replace my stuff with open soure software

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Some good recommendations. Im using voyager now to type this :P syncthing is so versatile. I have my devices sync my rom save files so i can pick up and play retro games and carry on from the same place across devices.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

PCSX2. It's an open-source PS2 emulator, and a dang good one at that. It has a high degree of compatibility and functionality. I absolutely adore it since so many of my favorite games happen to be PS2 games, and after playing some of my favorite games on this emulator, I realized just how much the PS2's native resolution doesn't do the graphics of the PS2's best games justice.

It is also free and available for Windows, Linux, and macOS!

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Love PCSX2. I play a lot of old games as they have a charm to them and no micro transactions

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Same! Have you played the Ratchet and Clank original trilogy? The old games have this special charm to them that I don't really see in the newer games of the series.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you happen to have easy access to the ROM, how's "Star Wars: Racer Revenge" run?

It's the less popular but more fleshed out spiritual successor to the N64 pod racing game - the PS2's take nailed the physics - the two engines and racer pod are (or at least feel like) three separate entities, and playing in first person view with the engines controlled separately by the left and right joysticks feels fucking magical.

Tried to run it on PCSX2 years ago, but it was one of the few games that meshed so poorly with the emulator that it wasn't playable. I'm guessing the emulator has seen some improvements since then - could definitely use a nice shot of nostalgia.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I haven't played that game yet! But there's an excellent wiki which allows you to check each game's compatibility. It looks as though the game has some issues with visual glitches when rendering in hardware mode. In software mode, it is rendered more accurately but the resolution cannot go beyond PS2 native.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mine will probably be Bottles.

The team behind that application did a fantastic job. Wine was due for something much more user friendly like this. And integration with Proton, allowing 3D acceleration is the cherry on top.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Great choice, i prefer bottles over wine for that reason

[โ€“] [email protected] 105 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bitwarden / Vaultwarden, no other password manager I've tried before has really worked for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hello fellow bitwarden user! I also self-host my server with vaultwarden

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Bitwarden or KeePassXC is my favorite too :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 127 points 2 months ago (9 children)

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
[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have kdeconnect on my i3wm.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Iv never tried it on my wm. Ill dow load it and give it a shot.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Zotero

If you're in any flavor of academics from middle school to doctorate program or otherwise writing papers that require strict citation formatting, drop what you're doing and click that link.

Or probably YouTube it or something first so you can see why it's so much better than your standard internet citation generators.

Don't forget to share the intel with your classmates!

Edit - honorable mention to Desmos for 99% of your calculator needs... with the unfortunate exception of exams, cuz phone.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

This, logseq, and PKM in general for me. I guess it's not really "can't live without" because I hardly know where to start, but the possibilities for organizing my mess of a brain are enticing.

It would probably help to have a project to work on and actually use the things rather than diving too deep into PKM conceptually... Really wish I knew about them in school, though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I wish i knew about this during my degree

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

it's the sort of tool that is really just fundamental now and should be ubiquitous and promoted and taught and talked about every where there is knowledge work. Even more so as there's a great open source version of the tool.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Spottube, like Spotify but without the shitty ads, play limitations and tracking.

Every. Day. In the kitchen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I tried this, it was a pretty cool app. Has it been facing any issues since youtube is trying to block 3rd party apps using their api? My piped app sometimes goes down and i need to wait for an update to fix it

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Works for me.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Aegis as an authentication App

Aves as gallery

Proxmox bare metal hypervisor for homeserver

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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.

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