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

127 points

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’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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7 points

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

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116 points

Lemmy

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It’s been a bit over a year for me, otherwise this would be the answer.

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104 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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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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Is Desmos open source?

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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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Jellyfin and the .arr suite.

It’s absolutely incredible and I am so greatful to anyone with the skillset and dedication to develop and maintain things like these.

Currently playing with Proxmox and HomeAssistant too.

Hat of to all of you legends involved in FOSS

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Same. I’m still primarily a Plex user for the player (it’s just easier for sharing libraries with everyone) but I love the arr stuff. Just got readarr setup for audio books and audiobookshelf for the player which is really nice.

Probably my favorite feature of the arr suite is in Radarr and list subscribing. I’ve got mine connected to some good letterboxd lists along with things like tmdb popular to keep my library up to date with recent stuff. Also there’s some podcasts I listen to like The Rewatchables. I just subscribe to the lists of movies on letterboxd and I can easily keep up with the podcast.

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7 points

Make sure you get a reputable VPN to avoid issues with any “questionably acquired” content.

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16 points

Just use Usenet.

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I’ve never been able to figure out how to use usenet. Do you have any suggestions on how to get started?

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3 points

Any suggestions? I currently have a nord subscription but it’s about to run out and I’m considering moving.

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9 points

Mullvad is the gold standard

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Proton

Mullvad is good like the other guy said but Proton has port forwarding, which if you don’t wanna be a HnR jerk you wanna do

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Only some countries need VPNs. If your country doesn’t care about piracy (e.g. Italy, Spain or Eastern Europe) just don’t bother paying for a VPN.

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