Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.
Syncthing; it’s a modern miracle
Well, I guess we’re a little past the year mark but I really like Lemmy and Jerboa lol.
This isn’t exactly “can’t live without,” that would be HomeAssistant. But what I Immediately thought of?
This is an RTS game in the spirit of Total Annihilation.
- labor of love
- fully 3d, including ability to rotate or raise/lower view
- tens of thousands of units without hardware lag for reasonably modem hardware (3-4 years old)
- all shots actively rendered, leading to:
- realistic friendly fire
- even air units can get hit by ballistic shots targeting land units (although odds are fairly slim)
- redirect-unit-to-dodge micro is effective in some situations
- meaningful terrain
- radar will have blind spots based on line-of-sight
- radar gives clear indicator of coverage during placement
- two factions, almost 200 units each, with tier 1, 2, and 3 units. A third (currently playable with a setting change) faction is in the works.
- crafty, non-cheating ai opponents
- free server hosting (!)
- active servers all times of day
The overall feel and balance of the game is great. The changes they make to balance are generally light and reasonable, and the game had a good community.
Fam and friends play together often.
Proxmox, if that counts, life changing.
I’ll go with FreeCAD. I’ve known about it for a while and tried it about 5-10 years ago but have given it another look as I try to get back into CAD stuff and hate the restrictive licenses of commercial products. It has come a LONG way and is far more intuitive to use than it used to be.
Have you heard? The release candidate of 1.0 dropped just a few days ago. It looks very interesting.
My favourite recent one is Yunohost, which makes it super easy to spin up a little self-hosted server with a bunch of apps. I’ve been having good fun with that and a spare Raspberry Pi lately.
It’s not quite as point-and-click, but I’m using Docker for that because Yunohost kept messing up updates. Most server apps will have some instructions on how to run them in docker, especially a
docker-compose.yml
file, so you don’t have to rely on the Yunohost team to package said app.The way I do it is that I put each suggested compose file in their own file, and import them in my main docker-compose.yml file like this:
version: '3' include: - syncthing.yml
Then just run
docker compose pull && docker compose up -d
every time you change something or want to update your apps, and you’re good to go.Software updates in particular are waaaaaayyy easier on Docker than Yunohost.
This has uncovered my shameful Linux confession lol - I don’t understand Docker at all. I think I’m reasonably okay with Linux stuff, I can put an Arch install together without using the archinstall script, I got NixOS up and running without too much trouble etc. but I just can’t get my head around how Docker is supposed to work for some reason.
For self-hosting purposes, Docker = lightweight disposable VMs that are configured via
docker-compose.yml
. All important data should be in “volumes”, which are just shared folders between the host and the container.The end result is that you can delete and re-create containers at any time and they should just pick up where they left off from the data that’s in these volumes.
Each individual published image has some paths they want to use for that; everything is usually specified in their example docker-compose files.
If you’re not a dev, don’t even try to understand Dockerfiles, it’s not for you.
LaTeX and maybe NixOS with hyprland (both for the first time)
Jellyfin Sonarr Radarr Prowlarr stack
*chef’s kiss*
Add a private torrent indexer and/or Usenet and it’s perfection.
There’s also Homarr for those who prefer a nice and easy frontend to install the arr suite and more.
Syncthing
Locate command. I know it’s a command in thw terminal but since I had to apt install it I’m adding it here.
I absolutely love it.
Freetube.
Once they added quick playlist functionality earlier this year, it was over for YouTube for me.
At this point it has everything I need and could only use small QoL improvements to be absolutely perfect for me.
Ad and sponsorblock integration is sweet too
I also prefer freetube to the containerized web hosted softwares like Invidious because I sit at a personal computer all day.
Variety - a silly taskbar program that changes my background randomly from my own selected sources with added random quotes. I have it set to change my background every 3 hours and the quotes every hour I think. I just can’ live without it anymore.
paperless-ngx, after having to turn my apartment upside down to find some paper documents.
Thank you for reminding me of this one! I keep forgetting to try it out
Oh wow! Every now and then I feel like I needed something like this. Thanks!
Beets. Awesome CLI tagging manager for music libraries.
I picked up KdenLive for video editing and it’s pretty freaking good imo