FOSS or otherwise
For my work, Bluebeam.
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JPEGView It’s a simple but powerful image viewer (don’t be misled by the name, it can view most any standard image formats).
It feels weird to even have an opinion on such a simple piece of software, but this is the type of tool that reminds you of what software could be like. When you open an image, you see the image. No loading time. No unnecessary toolbars. No fucking pop-ups to update the software to get the latest AI tools.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s plenty powerful. It’s got all the tools you’d expect: viewing EXIF data, cropping, rotating, brightness/color correction. It even has some more advanced tools: navigating collections of photos (including nested folders), viewing a collection as a slideshow or movie, perspective correction, batch-renaming… The impressive part is that it does all this without getting in the way of it’s job: viewing images.
Unfortunately, the project has been abandoned, though it appears to have been forked here (I haven’t actually used this version, but hopefully they haven’t changed too much).
I thought so too, yet here I am on arch linux now.
I guess I could run it under wine or something if I really needed it.
There is notepadqq, if I remember correctly.
Nice find!
Maintained by a Hungarian too, coolio.
I feel like the text editors we get by default do all the things I ever wanted notepad++ for anyway.
There’s still something nice about np++ though, sure it might be unnecessary on Linux but it just feels familiar and reliable
Absolutely. Nothing wrong with np++ for sure. But it does feel like something someone had to make just to make up for the shortcomings of built-in options in Windows.
Termux on Android.
I’ve got some videos on my phone I might want to watch on random computers, so I serve them up with NGINX. I’ve got wget-created mirrors of some old websites on my phone, so I serve them up with NGINX. Other files I may want to move out from my phone to untrusted computers on the network can too be served up simply by NGINX.
I’ve got the full Wikipedia zim file from Kiwix on my Micro SD card, so I run kiwix-serve (behind NGINX).
I’ve got all the music on my phone, naturally the phone is then running my Navidrome server (behind NGINX).
Of course, I may want to manage this from a computer, so it’s running SSH server.
My phone is always connected to VPN and uses NextDNS, naturally I may want to use this with other computers, but I can’t install software to computers I don’t own (I mean, I can, but … it would be disliked), naturally it is then running Tiniproxy HTTP proxy server.
Some desktop GUI apps can be useful on a phone too. noaa-apt, Kid3, Audacity, desktop Firefox, Handbrake because I am too dumb for ffmpeg, so I run XFCE DE on it. Naturally, I can access it from a computer (I know) too, after all it’s accessed via a VNC server.
Am I stupid enough to expose something using HTTP protocol running on my phone to the internet? Of course I am! I can use cloudflared.
Do I want to encrypt a file? I can use GPG.
Do I want to create a compressed archive? I’ve got TAr and GZip.
Do I want to browse Gopher? I’ve got Lynx.
SSH or telnet somewhere? The clients are there.Christ on a bike, this comment reads like I’m having a stroke
Do I want to download a car? I have PoterZebie on LilypaD for 3gb and a portable SD kaZoo
nginx
why not just
python -m http.server 1234?I feel like NGINX is simplest to configure. And it’s in the repos already, so I don’t see the advantage here.
Easy to do redirects, directory listings, serving a static website, setting mime types of specific files, basic user authentication, using HTTPS, using it as reverse proxy, limiting request types, limiting bandwidth, and making the directory listings far nicer with fancyindex module. That’s all I need and it’s pretty simple to do with NGINX. I don’t know what the Python HTTP server does, nor how to use.
if you said Caddy, I’d believe you more – but nginx requires a lot of configuration.
python http server simply does a directory listing in the folder it is invoked in, and if there is an index.html file present it will serve it by default. Easy for hosting files/images from your phone
Why on earth do you run this all on your phone as opposed to on a home server?
Because… I can.
And it’s portable.
I code nearly exclusively over termux+ssh.
I code from an android tablet, by ssh’ing into a linux server running arch linux for development. I used vim+plugins for years, but now helix as it supports rust and typescript well.
A xiaomi pad 5 pro, with an external keyboard. I switched to coding remotely a few years ago, so its nice to have a portable device with like 12 hours of battery life.
Thanks for giving me many hours of something to do
www.start.me launcher page. I have all my links on all devices in the same place. My first step when i install a browser.
No offline, he typoed the url btw. I use it because I’m old and miss the old web portal days like igoogle before they ditched it. I made my own page that simulates an igoogle-like web portal, very customizable except you can’t, for some really strange reason, click the header of an RSS feed to get to that page’s home.
Would be sorta meh for me, except I made a sub-page with only 1 column that makes the best start page for a phone I’ve ever seen, because I made it myself with stuff I want to see all at once when I start my phone browser. That 1 feature makes it worthwhile.
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My first instinct was to say GIMP or Firefox, but I could still use Krita or Chromium in those cases.
I’d say Anki then. I don’t know of any other FOSS flashcard app this good, and I have so much saved on it that losing it would be devastating.
How does one use flashcards?
I think vim (and other text editors with vim bindings). I’ve gotten so accustomed to the vim way of doing things that I can’t go back
My first thought is that my work requires office365 mail and my discovery that davmail exists has been a godsend. I’m not going to install outlook on my linux pc, so being able to check those emails using any client (claws in my case) is a massive convenience upgrade from relying on firefox to login.
Jellyfin, NZB360, HortusFox, HomeAssistant (soon), Docker?
NZB360 is an app for Android to manage the *arrs, sabnzbd/torrent client and whatever else you want. Quite useful.
HortusFox is sort of you own wiki, inventory and diary for plants you have at home. Like keeping track of watering, fertilizing, communication between other parties (like your SO to not double water your plants)
Obsidian.
Since the Internet in general is getting harder to find genuine information, it is becoming increasingly important to save anything important to you. One day it could just disappear without warning. Obsidian can be used for an offline knowledge base. Design it however you like. I do recommend NOT watching YouTube Obsidian “gurus”, their system works for them not you.
Yep, today I’d say obsidian and syncthing, they’re the bread and butter of my life right now. Although it feels sad and weird to see the small app I discovered 2 years ago starting to enter the «selling template» and «enhance your experience» that notion also took a few years ago «althought it’s a completly different company culture»
What’s the premise?
Personally for me, it allows me to dump stuff out of my noggin good or bad. That way I can stop thinking about it and move on. A form of self reflection. I have a bad habit to hold onto thoughts and go down a rabbit hole with them in an unhealthy fashion. Basically journaling but I can store things I have learned long term.
The beauty of it is Obsidian (or really any other writing app) allows you to develop a system of writing for you. I’m not the typical writer but Obsidian allows me to write without worrying about the organization so much.
Note taking multi tool: https://obsidian.md/
It’s a notepad.
But then you go down a rabbit hole if you look beyond that Basically think about what could happen if your notes in different tabs could link to each other and extrapolate from there.
It takes up 6 of my 24 hours each day just to think about starting to actually take some notes. It’s awesome.
I do recommend NOT watching YouTube Obsidian “gurus”, their system works for them not you.
One of these is actually what got me started with it. I do not rigidly adhere to their system but it was a nice starting point I have since adapted to my own style. If I had gone into it blind I would have made a lot less progress because I’m kind of dumb when I have nothing to go off.
