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

29 points

Aegis as an authentication App

Aves as gallery

Proxmox bare metal hypervisor for homeserver

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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.

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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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Just installed proxmox on a 10+ year old ThinkPad with an i5 and home assistant runs much quicker now

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try out Gallery (yes, it’s really called just “Gallery”), I’ve found it to be the best one out there, even better then aves

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Thx for the tipp just installed it for testing

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Used Aegis for Years but manual backups became tedious.

Ente auth is my new one for anyone who wants E2E Sync!

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

Every. Day. In the kitchen.

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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

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Works for me.

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I had a shit time with on my shitty Samsung shit phone, but now have a moto and there are zero issues.

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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.

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I wish i knew about this during my degree

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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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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.

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It’s actually recommended by a lot of profs now where I am, which is really nice

They overhauled the UI recently and it looks nice and modern too

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Where’s the source code for the first one?

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On GitHub

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Is Desmos open source?

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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
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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.

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I have kdeconnect on my i3wm.

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

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It used to be considered a security risk back in the day. Maybe it just a security “unknown”

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I tried the iOS beta until it expired. Didn’t know it ever made it to the app store.

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I found it to be more than I needed. I still have it installed, but use localsend more often

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I’ve had issues with it for file sharing, so far that I’m sticking to LocalSend, but I really need to explore KDEConnect further, as I haven’t explored the rest of its features.

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Wait kdeconnect is Foss?! Can I fix the atrocious gui myself?!? 😂

That application rules but it looks like butt on my workstation.

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May I suggest valent?

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I’m sure they’d welcome a pull improving the UX! https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde I think the implementation of the protocol is pretty well isolated from the UI, so pretty radical UI changes should be relatively easy

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GSConnect works great for GNOME too.

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There’s also a still in-development rival for GNOME, Valent. And it’s a native program and not just a shell extension. I prefer it, and maybe it even has more features.

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106 points

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

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Bitwarden or KeePassXC is my favorite too :)

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

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Vaultwarden is what really makes this solution great!

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