LocalSend, a cross platform alternative to airdrop and nearby share.
My family uses it for almost all of our filesharing. IPhone to android, iPhone to windows PC, android to macbook, etc. Its works really, really well.
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Ooh I use apps that use the Magic Wormhole library. There's a linux app for it called Warp and several android apps, all FOSS.
Paperless-ngx that allows you to self host an easily browseable archive of your documents. Fully featured with OCR, ML-powered categorization and the works.
Syncthing, a peer to peer file synchronize that basically everyone needs, they just don't know it.
It's insane how many services sell file synchronisation as a premium feature when syncthing can do it for free and no one seems to use it
The best part is it works with Android as well. Whenever I turn my computer on, all my photos on my phone sync to my computer to a folder that gets regularly backed up (using Vorta which is an excellent and easy to use open source backup program for Windows, Linux, and Mac)
For images I highly recommend Immich. It's the Google Photos equivalent, and it works excellently.
I use SyncThing for documents, but photos from my phone go to Immich.
OpenStreetmap as an alternative to the closed source maps.
OrganicMaps or OsmAnd to navigate and StreetComplete or EveryDoor to improve it.
Yes yes. It's so satisfying contributing to OSM and seeing my changes pop up in OrganicMaps knowing it might help somebody and support open mapping data. I wonder if Wikipedians feel that way.
The Humanitarian OSM Team is cool too https://www.hotosm.org/
streetcomplete is a great companion app. It makes it really easy to add points of interest and help collect other data. I've already made over a thousand edits using it.
KepassXC for PC and KeepassDX for Android phones.
I personally would recommend it over Bitwarden since with Bitwarden you NEED internet to access your passwords, and even if is open source, i canmot trust it, security breaches can happen in any time, having your vault locally stored helps a lot.
There are more but i can't Remember them right now.
You don't need internet to access the passwords stored in Bitwarden if you have their local clients installed. It stores an encrypted copy of your database locally to your device which syncs (updates) over the internet.
I just tried because you made me doubt, but you can access your passwords offline with bitwarden. Your argument about trusting a third party is far more pertinent, i'm choosing to trust them but thats really my choice. It is also a limited trust: even in a case of a data breach, bitwarden is encrypted end-to-end with your password, even if someone gets access to your data they wont be able to read it without your master key.
Don't you still need internet to access your passwords if you want to use Keepass across devices?
Nope, sonce your Keepass database is store locally, all you need is Syncthing, you won't beleive how easy it is to use.
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These would also be my top two apps. Absolutely essential pieces of kit IMO.
The android integration is just so good these days. Syncing is the only minor issue but it is minor.
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Immich. Just found out about it, still gotta try, but looks good, an app that allows you to configure a Google Photos like app locally hosted, with automatic phone backups
Jitsi - Open-source and self-hosted video conference platform. You can even try it directly on their website.
IPFS - A distributed file sharing technology which is wonderful for file or site hosting (edit: wether it is uncensorable is open for debate)
Rust - A programming language and a powerful compiler that creates compiled memory-safe programs and can be used nearly everywhere
Fedora + KDE - A combination of a stable modern OS and a complete desktop environment
Wine - launch Windows programs on the latter
Lemmy
Bonus : AlternativeTo to find good open-source alternative software
Lemmy
Never heard of it...
TrailSense, an easy to use, comprehensive wilderness tool.
The goals of the developer are fun to consider:
Goals
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Trail Sense must not use the Internet in any way, as I want the entire app usable when there is no Internet connection
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Features must provide some benefits to people using the app while hiking, in a survival situation, etc.
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Features should make use of the sensors on a phone rather than relying on stored information such as guides
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Features must be based on peer-reviewed science or be verified against real world data
Likewise, the features being developed under those goals are great for getting outside:
Features
- Designed for hiking, backpacking, camping, and geocaching
- Place beacons and navigate to them
- Follow paths
- Retrace your steps with backtrack
- Use a photo as a map
- Plan what to pack
- Be alerted before the sun sets
- Predict the weather
- Use your phone for astronomy
- And more
How does the metal detector work? I've never heard of a phone being able to do that.
It uses the magnetic field sensor on the phone (compass). It can only detect magnetically active metals and also kinda weakly, but it's quite fun!
KDEConnect - I use it on Windows and android phone. Very nice when you get security codes or links on phone, want to send files or when I want to control audio|video and I watch from the couch.
in general: Fdroid nearly always has a more feature rich and performant alternative
VSCodium is the open source part of VSCode, so I prefer to use that.
Mull is firefox on android without the proprietary parts. Heliboard is a good android keyboard.
yunohost it's basically an os that easily lets you selfhost, by having an extremely big amount of selfhosted services packaged with scripts that autonatically set everything up and all of that trough a clear and modern web interface.
Ruffle: You may not know it but most old Flash games (and basically every anmiation) can be played again with this, modern and in a Browser sandbox. Website owners can include it in the backend with a few lines of code and all flash games work again automatically, and it's also available as desktop app :D
linux, unironically. literally all local infrastructure is running on windows, despite the security risks this entails.
DietPi, for setting up an SBC (ie raspberry pi) with common server software. very good for a first-time self hoster like myself.
Bitwarden an open source, simple password manager it does it's job very well
Xournal - a great way to draw on pdfs
Yep, fantastic for annotation, doesn't rasterize other layers, keeps the quality intact
wowwww, i think i just found the one note replacement i needed
Keepass/KeepssXC/KeepassDX (password manager for desktop)
Syncthing to synchronize database between devices.
Video Downloader. https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader
Strips all junk off any video url so you have the mp4 or mkv.
Use this to add youtube videos/playlists to jellyfin. Doesn't have to be youtube. Downloads any videos from a link.
Can also save audio only from video links if you want to.
Universal UnifiedPush support so we can manage our own push notifications through something like NextPush on your Nextcloud. At that point I could completely remove Google Play Services from my phone without much trouble.
croc is a tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders.
https://schollz.com/tinker/croc6/
- allows any two computers to transfer data (using a relay)
- provides end-to-end encryption (using PAKE)
- enables easy cross-platform transfers (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- allows multiple file transfers
- allows resuming transfers that are interrupted
- local server or port-forwarding not needed
- ipv6-first with ipv4 fallback
- can use proxy, like tor
Another thing like that I wish I'd discover sooner is syncthing - it's really intuitive, just point it to a folder and it syncs stuff across your devices automatically. With it, a lot of cloud storage, backup and file transfer applications and features are completely redundant.
EDIT: Ah, I did not scroll far enough to see that this recommendation is literally the next comment from this.
Owncast Stream whatever you want on your own platform and announce natively to the Fediverse!
IDK why but tons of folks think it's not feasible as they need million dollar computers. I've streamed to 70+ open streams, albeit as a test, on a like $5/month VPS. The key is that the resources needed are how many qualities you're transcoding, not how many folks are viewing. Yes bandwidth is needed for each viewer, but that's significantly less than people imagine.
Full transparency I run the [email protected] community, but I'm in no way affiliated with the project. I just love open platforms and open source.
GrapheneOS!
I would like lemmy as a whole to know more of this comic. Hell, the entire tech and coding space. Look, i love tech but some of you guys can be absolute bellends to people not knowing something and it turns plenty of people off from even learning.
"WhAt YoU dOn'T kNoW hOw To MaKe A fIlE? It'S eAsY, iF yOu DoN't KnOw ThEn YoU sHoUlDn'T bE uSiNg ThIs PrOgRaM!!!"
My brother in Christ maybe they want to learn, some people are neurodivergent and they don't pick up new information as easily the first go around
Sorry rant over
Thanks for making me feel like an idiot for not knowing things after age 30.
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