Definitely Blender. I’d consider myself a medium grade expert at using it for CAD, solid modelling, 3D printing, yet there are vast sections of it I have never touched, and appear to be so rich that you could build a career around them without overlapping with my skill set.
Blender used to be so difficult to use. It has come a long way and I genuinely like using now, not just forced to because of budget limits.
And like having full Python interface is insane for how powerful it can be even to begginers - but the crazy bastard made it easier with geometry nodes
Linux! The responsible for my knowledge in computing and a great deal of English…Linux is the power!
I switched to Linux Mint full-time a few months ago and it’s blown me away with how good it is.
After 13 years using Linux I still can’t believe it’s free!
Blender and KDE
Was going to say Blender as well. It’s mind blowing really. What sets Blender apart from most others though is not the feature set (which is massive) but the UI/UX, which is usually something open source apps are lacking in.
Jellyfin, such a great little media server.
Yeah, the reddit community is great to… Need a way to bring them here. 😭
@CCatMan @div, easy, show them tis analyse of Reddit, made with bLacklight. (the TowerData which appears is known to use even keylogger to profile the user).
https://themarkup.org/blacklightThat’s an amazing tool you’ve found! No clue that existed until now.
@Choco1ateCh1p, this and some others must be in any bookmark
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en
https://sucuri.net/malware-detection-scanning/
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url
https://privacyscore.org
https://www.urlvoid.com
https://browserleaks.com
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
https://linkunshorten.comTo check Android apps
https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
2nd this! It’s come so far in the past 2 years!
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There’s already a ton that they support. They just rolled out to my LG as well. Unfortunately I think they’re having issues publishing with Tizen on the official store but you can sideload it if you want. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-tizen
[Edit] they have a pretty good list of supported clients here (press the ‘all’ filter) https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients/all
I kinda have the opposite response. I’ve been a mostly open source guy for the last 20 years so when I see what kind of half baked proprietary tools people buy I’m always shocked how much money mediocre software costs.
Up until not too long ago, it seemed like if the leading proprietary tool was half baked, the open source tool was a quarter baked. Take office suites. OpenOffice was pretty consistently ten years behind MS Office. Or GIMP was constantly lagging behind Photoshop in usability, but now is a very good photo editor. The exception has always been development tools, where you get a nice confluence of motivation to volunteer and people knowing what they want.
- Freecad
- Linux
- GitLab
- Wireguard
- Firefox
- Prusaslicer
- Klipper
- Wikipedia
- Jellyfin
- Nextcloud
- Navidrome
- Home Assistant
- Syncthing
I’ve been a Nextcloud user for many years (owncloud before that). It’s an amazing application.
The Linux ecosystem as a whole
You have got to have one of the best names on this server (unless it is actually an error)
No, it’s my actual username
Krita, Blender, VLC
I’ll also add Inkscape to the other art apps.
Definitely
Eh, the UI kinda sucks. I agree that it’s still incredible for a free and open source app
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Firefox is the first to come to mind. Also all the KDE software (when run in KDE).
I wish Firefox used QT or there was a KDE browser that was better maintained
Lord, I could not agree more. Fun fact: the document preview feature in the Kate text editor still uses KHTML!
KDE’s stuff is amazing.
- Blender
- the whole *arr stack
- osu!lazer
- proton
- MultiMC (back then when it used to be “new” and everyone was using TechnikLauncher and the FTB launcher. So 2016/17)
- Element
Edit:
- Stable Diffusion
- LLaMA (kinda open source)
- Firefox
- Chromium/Node/Electron
- VSCode
- FFMPEG
Vortex
Yeah kde is doing great
KDE is the reason I stayed on Linux way back then
qbittorrent
Was just gonna say this. The king of torrent software, thousands of finished github issues, and still going strong.
Stockfish chess engine
Lichess to add onto the chess stuff
Syncthing, for me. Keep it running on a VPS, and you’ve obliterated the need for personal cloud services
Oof, this one is vital. I don’t know where I’d be without it.
Huh. Can you explain that one for me? I like the idea but how does it get rid of the need of cloud services? I take it you mean running a VPS yourself?
Sure! I’ve had a cheap VPS on digitalocean for a few years, mainly just to host a few web pages for friends / family. Just found their guide to getting synching running you can pretty much follow for any server you’re running.
So tldr; I get a
sync
directory that’s always going to be the same on a Linux laptop, a Mac desktop, an Android phone, etc. It’s amazingly useful- and yes, I’m aware of the irony that DO is technically a cloud service (you could always take this to the next level and run a physical server on your own)
I love SyncThing, been using it to sync my programming projects between machines (desktop, laptop, other laptop…) and it’s been rock solid on a Vultr host