Try to avoid duplicates, keep it interesting.

    • M137@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      VLC is so bad, IMO. There are so many things it does really badly or doesn’t do at all that any other alternative (like MPC) does well. It doesn’t help that it’s ugly as sin, too.

      • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        What’s with the hate on VLC? It’s done more than what I’ve ever wanted. You can also use it to download YouTube videos and stuff. It’s the bees knees, man!

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.deEnglish
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    11 months ago
    • Fluent Reader – to very quickly get a lot of news which I need for work
    • Beeper – for the 100 chat apps I need to use to stay in contact with my friends who don’t use Matrix
    • Nheko – for the based friends who have [matrix] accounts and chats with industry professionals in my field
    • FluffyChat – mobile device [matrix] client
    • Logseq – as second brain, works better for me than Obsidian
    • Jameica – for online banking and accounting
    • K-9 Mail / Thunderbird – mail client
    • DecSync CC – for synchronising contacts with multiple devices through Syncthing
    • ActivityWatch – to track everything I do in case I forget to book time in my corporate time sheet, or if I want to know how long I played games in contrast to programming
    • KDE Plasma – best desktop environment boosting my productivity to about 140% of what I could do with Windows 10
    • Qalculate! – very fast and easy to use scientific calculator, can also do conversions like “1h50min → min” or “15€ → $”
    • Aegis – TOTP generator for mobile
    • VLC – plays everything you throw at it
    • mpv – plays everything you throw at it, if you installed the right codecs, and also does fancy ML-based GPU upscaling in my case
    • KeePassXC, KeePassDX – password managers integrated on Desktop, Laptop, Tablet and Phone
    • Syncthing – to automatically and seamlessly sync all my devices (Laptop, Desktop, Tablet, Phone, second Laptop, Servers, …)
    • Firefox Developer Edition, Librewolf – browsing the web without Chromium
    • Chromium – for PWAs like Teams, Outlook, Discord
  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    • Termux
      Holy hell. So much it can do. Right now I am using it to transcode MPEG2 videos to AV1. With CRF 25, Preset 5, with a 480p30 video I get 5fps in Termux on my older Snapdragon 860. Meanwhile my laptop’s Ryzen 3 3200U does 2fps.
      You can run different server applications. Some are supported natively (e.g.: Tinyproxy, Privoxy, Squid HTTP proxy, apache2, nginx, navidrome, OpenSSH, TigerVNC, rsync, xorg-server, xwayland, xrdp,…) and some can run in proot (e.g.: Jellyfin, NextCloud). If you already have some web server and want it public, there’s cloudflared too, so you can access it via Cloudflare tunnel.

    • RTL-SDR driver
      Allows connecting RTL-SDR on Android and starting RTL-TCP server.

    • SDR++
      The best general-purpose SDR app available on Android, GNU+Linux, Windows and MacOS.

    • KDE Connect
      Nicely connects phone with a computer. Data transfers, remote control, finding your phone, synchronizing notifications.

    • LibreTorrent
      Great client for Android.

    There’s more, but those I don’t use daily, or have already been mentioned.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I’m probably dumb and wrong, but I feel like Firefox is going in a bad direction along with Ubuntu.

      Like I think in 10 years there will be a business tier paid Ubuntu OS that ships with Firefox, and after like 3 or 4 iterations, it will be the IE of the future.

      Current Firefox user. Writing is on the wall. Looking for new browser. And OS.