FOSS or otherwise

  • edric@lemm.ee
    132·
    3 months ago

    Bitwarden. Otherwise I won’t be able to log on to any of my accounts.

  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
    108·
    3 months ago

    The kernel. I can take or leave most things, but I’m not going back to the days of writing directly into memory-mapped registers.

  • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de
    50·
    3 months ago

    On Android, it’s probably a little utility software called Quick Cursor (it’s not FOSS). It’s incredibly convenient being able to spawn a cursor on your phone from thin air that you can use to reach the “unreachable” portions of your screen, especially if you are holding your phone with one hand. Besides being a “phone touchpad” it has a bunch of ways of triggering actions/shortcuts, for example: volume or brightness control, launching an app (I use it for launching a floating calculator, notes…), opening notification shade, copying text (it can copy any text that is under the cursor, even if it’s not selectable)…

    It’s not that I couldn’t go without it, but it changed the way I use my phone and it would feel really weird without it. It feels like it should be a part of the OS.

    • RabbitMix
      7·
      3 months ago

      wow this will legitimately improve my life daily, thanks for sharing

    • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      That seems like a wonderful function. Considering android support external mouse with cursors. I hope someone can make a FOSS version and put it in F-droid.

    • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 months ago

      This is a nice share. I have used Edge Gestures for years (made by the same dev who created Square Launcher, which was my daily driver coming off Windows Phone) and this is a nice augmentation to that.

      I am curious about the usefulness of the functionality behind the paywall. It looks like some of the app launching features could replace what I use edge gestures for, but without a trial to test it I can’t be certain.

      If you use the pro version, can you let me know if there is a way to pick from multiple applications to launch?

      Here’s an example of the application shortcuts in Edge Gestures:

      • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        3 months ago

        So, there are 2 main places for shortcuts/actions: tracker actions and edge actions.

        These are my tracker actions

        I set it so it activates when I tap and hold the tracker, it shows up those shortcuts. If I slide my finger towards one of the shortcuts, it activates it.

        These are my edge actions

        These are actions/shortcuts that you trigger by pushing the cursor to the edge of the screen.

        You can pick any app from your phone or any of the actions available in the app, there are a lot… Like system controls (volume, brightness control, media playback buttons, screen lock, screen rotation, etc.) and you can also make a shortcut for Tasker/MacroDroid/Automate action. So basically, you can make a shortcut for almost anything you can think of.

    • modifier@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 months ago

      That may be the single most intuitive, and intuitively useful, app I have used in years.

      Wow, instant default install.

        • flashgnash@lemm.ee
          1·
          2 months ago

          I used to use neovim for a while, the main reason I migrated to helix was because it just has everything built in, no need to spend hours getting lsps working and everything

          The motions are vastly better than vim though imo, the select as you go thing makes it feel a lot more natural

          (For example, w moves you to the end of the word and selects it, then pressing it again deselects and selects the next word unless you’re in v mode)

          Meaning to delete a word it’s w+d not d+w

          Also very good multi cursor support, instead of typing out a long sed command I can select a block or all, and do S,(regex) and it spawns a cursor on every match which can do everything the normal one can

          As for it being everywhere have you ever used sshfs? It’s always my go-to when editing projects on a remote server and then you can use whatever you want

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    45·
    3 months ago

    Linux, seriously, it’s in my phone, my router, my desktop, my ISP and nearly the entire infrastructure of the internet upon which I rely uses it.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    36·
    3 months ago

    Firefox, uBlock Origin, uBlacklist KDE, Dolphin, Kate, LibreOffice, CherryTree Kid3, Flacon, LosslesCut, qBittorrent, VLC Musicolet, Simplenote, F-Droid, AuroraStore

    • Ledz@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I agree with everything and also with Musicolet, like no other mp3 player felt right until this one, it has everything I like, I listen to downloaded audio books, and can effortlessly change audio speed and pitch, sleep timers, and folder directories.

  • Noxious@fedia.io
    31·
    3 months ago

    Going back to a “normal” text editor after using Vim for a few years would be horrible

    Life without qBittorrent would also be pretty difficult, hell no, I’m not paying for DRM content that requires proprietary software to watch

      • skimm@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Check out zed or lapce. Both are open source but native editors as opposed to chromium with near first class vim support. Much faster but less stable as neither are 1.0 yet. Additionally they have great LSP features.

        That being said I just can’t give up my vim and terminal workflow but I’m actively following both projects.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      7·
      3 months ago

      Someday, when I’m not balls-to-the-wall poor I’ll actually support the artists. Until then, it’s not illegal for personal use, and morally it’s that or just no music.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      3 months ago

      Speaking of, is there a known way to get around the “sign in” blocking? It’s not working anymore.

      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        It’s fixed in the development versions. If you installed yt-dlp using pip, update with the prerelease flag: pip install --upgrade --pre yt-dlp. If you manually installed it, run yt-dlp --update-to nightly or grab the latest dev from their nightly repo.

          • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            29 days ago

            I just updated to the newest Ubuntu LTS, which puts pip into system managed mode so you can’t easily install packages outside of a virtual environment anymore.

            If you (or anyone who stumbles upon this comment in the future) run into this problem, the new recommended way to install yt-dlp through pip and keep it in your path and up to date is via pipx (sudo apt install pipx). The syntax is a bit gnarly for pre-releases, so I figured I’d post an update:

            To install the nightly: pipx install --pip-args '\--pre' "yt-dlp[default,curl-cffi]"

            To update the nightly: pipx upgrade --pip-args '\--pre' yt-dlp

            I alias the update command and run it before every download session.

            (You may need to delete your old yt-dlp binaries before it’ll let you install the new one - use type -a yt-dlp to find them.)