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.

Syncthing, a peer to peer file synchronize that basically everyone needs, they just don't know it.

OpenStreetmap as an alternative to the closed source maps.

OrganicMaps or OsmAnd to navigate and StreetComplete or EveryDoor to improve it.

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.

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

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.

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

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.

Xournal - a great way to draw on pdfs

Bitwarden an open source, simple password manager it does it's job very well

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

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.

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

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.

TrailSense, an easy to use, comprehensive wilderness tool.

The goals of the developer are fun to consider:

Goals

• Trail Sense must not use the Internet in any way, as I want the entire app usable when there is no Internet connection

• Features must provide some benefits to people using the app while hiking, in a survival situation, etc.

• Features should make use of the sensors on a phone rather than relying on stored information such as guides

• 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

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

MusicBrainz Picard

Amazing music tagger and batch renamer, for those of us who still have all our music as files.

Keepass/KeepssXC/KeepassDX (password manager for desktop)

Syncthing to synchronize database between devices.

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 !owncast@lemmy.world community, but I'm in no way affiliated with the project. I just love open platforms and open source.

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.

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.

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

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.

Claude 3. Most people don't even know what it is, let alone the fact that it's as good and better than GPT4 in some ways.