Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.
This was the year I tried out Darcs & Pijul. With conflicts being less problematic & easier to collab without patch order mattering, you gotta wonder why all of this effort is still put into bolting stuff atop Git instead of moving on & helping the tooling in this space.
Second place would be Movim as a decentralized social media platform built atop the XMPP server you are already running.
Proxmox, if that counts, life changing.
Same. I went from one overly complicated Debian install to two dozen neat and self contained VMs that do one thing each. I even tricked a Windows VM into not knowing that it’s a VM, so I can game with anticheat games.
Got any recommended sources for someone looking to do the same thing? My home server is approaching 18 years old, was looking to set up something neat and tidy to replace it when it eventually fails. Tricking a windows vm sounds pretty useful too!
I don’t have a good primary source, its been a lot of disparate googling. But if you have any questions at all, let me know. I love helping
I might take you up on that, thanks for the offer!
Image Toolbox Its a photo editor with everything you need. Its really really powerful and so fleshed out. Everytime I use it, I discover something new. The only sad thing is, that I can’t donate in XMR otherwise I’ve would of donated. If you have an android, download it and try it. It’s a must have on any phone imo.
Immich - Such a polished piece of software that I couldn’t imagine storing all my images without
Seconding this. Legitimately better than Google photos in a lot of ways, even if you don’t care about the data ownership aspect. If you’ve ever been annoyed at how Google Photos handles face detection / grouping, you’ll love Immich.
Thirded. Immich has no right to be as good as it is after such a short time. Completely took down my google photos, finally, and I still have face recognition, word search and automatic backup from my phone.
Have you done other home automation that you could compare it to?
I second local send :)
I’ve seen that on one windows machine with a weird network sharing issue.
I had to once refresh like three times. But it works for me from fedora laptop to android or iPhone and vice versa. Its great app!
Revanced
Some great apps on here, downloading some of the suggestions to try out
Aegis as an authentication App
Aves as gallery
Proxmox bare metal hypervisor for homeserver
Ill look into the first 2, I’ve never heard of them. Proxmox has always interested me, once i get myself a home server i was going to try it out.
Just installed proxmox on a 10+ year old ThinkPad with an i5 and home assistant runs much quicker now
You can run proxmox in a VM and have it run VMs to try it out. It also works on standard desktop hardware which is what I running it on.
try out Gallery (yes, it’s really called just “Gallery”), I’ve found it to be the best one out there, even better then aves
Thx for the tipp just installed it for testing
Used Aegis for Years but manual backups became tedious.
Ente auth is my new one for anyone who wants E2E Sync!
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
GSConnect works great for GNOME too.
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.
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.
Wait kdeconnect is Foss?! Can I fix the atrocious gui myself?!? 😂
That application rules but it looks like butt on my workstation.
May I suggest valent?
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
I just may…
Yeah no complaints on functionality! It’s great!
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.
Iv never tried it on my wm. Ill dow load it and give it a shot.
I tried the iOS beta until it expired. Didn’t know it ever made it to the app store.
Bitwarden / Vaultwarden, no other password manager I’ve tried before has really worked for me.
Vaultwarden is what really makes this solution great!
Bitwarden or KeePassXC is my favorite too :)
- Voyager --> feddit for android
- Fossify --> essential apps for android
- syncthing – > more use cases than i thought
- paperlessngx --> finally going digital
- obtainium --> get android apps directly from their github
I am still learning and try to replace my stuff with open soure software
+1 for Fossify, great set of apps.
Some good recommendations. Im using voyager now to type this :P syncthing is so versatile. I have my devices sync my rom save files so i can pick up and play retro games and carry on from the same place across devices.
Mine will probably be Bottles.
The team behind that application did a fantastic job. Wine was due for something much more user friendly like this. And integration with Proton, allowing 3D acceleration is the cherry on top.
Great choice, i prefer bottles over wine for that reason
