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uBlock Origin leading the pack by at least a furlong.
VLC is a big one for me.
some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it’s not yet associated with vlc
“Hey… it looks like your going to have to buy a codec…”
manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly
People buy codecs?
default behaviour of Windows Media Player…
Oof
Literally never heard of the end user being billed for the codecs.
[Edit]: I think I should rephrase. Could I please be informed about how are codecs priced?
I wonder what are the ToS, is this $0.79 all that you have to pay to use it for commercial purposes?
Always have been. It’s either included in licensing a software or operating systems. VLC ffmpeg and other open source software are a bit of a grey area since they don’t make money from the software strictly speaking.
+1 VLC will dutifully try to play even corrupted to hell files that any other media player would just fail with some form of “can’t play, file is corrupt”
VLC is pretty great. I would say IINA is at least a close second on Mac. Haven’t had a problem playing anything in it yet.
VLC runs great on Mac and Android as well
It even runs on iOS. It’s one of the only ways to play videos that aren’t in Apple’s bullshit proprietary format.
Yeah I personally prefer IINA on the Mac because of how native the interface is. Neither VLC or IINA has had trouble paying any video files I have.
Wasn’t there some big thing where they tried to buy it and the person that made it was just like “nah”
VLC just managed to get some newer video files to play for me on a 10 year old tablet that wouldn’t play them with it’s included video player. It was also one of the only apps on the play store that would still work on that old tablet as well. It’s been my go-to video player for years now, terrific software 🥂
I agree that it’s cool and all, but I just really don’t like VLC. It’s ugly, bad UX and misses some major features. I love other similar and also free ones thoigh, like PotPlayer, MPC and MPV.
It won’t keep track of my place in a Playlist to resume so I trashed it.
The Dialer.
- Comes with every phone
- 10+ digit number instantly connects you with millions of people, services, and institutions
- 3 digits connects you with life-saving emergency support
- Very low-latency voice support
- High quality audio (most of the time)
- No ads
- No obnoxious UI
All kidding aside, I’m routinely astounded at how we have yet to top the ease and utility of old-fashioned phone service.
Until you said kidding I was sold. “Where can I find this elusive beast??”
I still can’t get used to calling programs apps
It is a little strange. But even way back in the day we called PC software meant for user interaction “software applications”.
Yeah I think people started calling software applications “programs” because that’s easier to say.
And then Steve Jobs’ made his biggest contribution to civilization and popularized the term app, which is even easier to say.
Linux
Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, OBS (open broadcast software), Linux distros of various sorts, openHAB, LibreOffice, Firefox (and plugins like uBlock), PiHole, VirtualBox, Notepad++, Paint.NET, VLC, 7-Zip, FileZilla…
I’m sure there’s more.
Gimp is a bit of a stretch.
I’ve used it a lot, but unlike most of the others on this list, the commercial product (Photoshop) is so much better that I’m willing to shell out the monthly fee to use it over Gimp.
Back when Photoshop was $300 (600 todays money) It was fine for non-professional work.
It could use a little UI finesse, a content aware fill without plugins, and a regular human usable macroining system.
But for 90% of non-professional work clone, dodge, smudge, burn, masking and curves are perfectly serviceable.
I’ve found a nice workflow in gimp to touch my photos. It works wonderfully
I’m not sure what field you’re in and photoshop certainly is the standard but Affinity has been great for my needs and is pay once if you’re looking to avoid SAAS
https://www.photopea.com/ has everything I need for daily graphic touch ups.
Yeah, it does all i need and uses a format that will be compatible long into the near future, very useful.
Vectorpea is available too.
Wikipedia. Not an app but still deserves a mention.
I’d say the same about archive.org too.
Wikipedia is free because it’s wrong a lot.
People pay for facts, not opinion. When it comes to “news.”
Well… that’s not true exactly…
Besides… innit like 1 guy runnin’ all o’ Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is as accurate as printed encyclopedias, in at least one study.
The Wikimedia Foundation only has one CEO, but many members, and Wikipedia has tens of thousands of contributiors that are not foundation members.
7zip
I haven’t used windows in about 15 years on my personal machines but see 7zip referenced everywhere…why is it so popular? Can windows 10/11 or whatever we’re on now not compress/extract most things itself or do people prefer it for some reason (nice interface etc)?
I’m always amazed when I’m following a tutorial written for windows and it says “download and install 7zip, then extract the file using 7zip”. I just right click the file and extract it…
Windows only recently got support for 7z and RAR. For the several decades before that, it supported neither.
Recently? Feels like it’s been more than a decade now…I could be wrong though
You are wrong. Until recently Windows did not natively support 7z or unrar.
Looks like just 2 years ago. My bad!
Windows can do that, but opens archives as folders and will run executables by extracting them to a temp folder without dependencies. And the unpack dialogue is cumbersome, with 7zip you get a simple right click -> extract here / to folder dialogue, that somehow still is too much to ask of the main OS.
New pipe, I didn’t see anyone mentioned it
Besides, I use Linux, Organic maps, Signal, VLC, KDE on daily basis and THANK YOU good people on internet for making my life happier!
Basically every decent free thing that runs on Linux, including Linux itself - it’s amazing that it’s all free.
Any reason to use newpipe over YouTube vanced?
Librewolf, FFmpeg, Vim, Wine
Fucking entire Fedivere with No ads.
Get outta here you Hedge Fund Manager! Leave our apps alone!!
Can’t believe no one has mentioned Home Assistant. Automation engine for home and have local control over almost everything “smart” at home.
You got a link to that? It has a pretty generic name so I want to make sure I look up the right product. 😅
This one? https://www.home-assistant.io/
Yeah that one
Home Assistant is awesome! It’s the only way to control your house without giving out all your data to Amazon, Google or apple.
Voyager.
Can you provide a bit of info on it? What is it for and how does it stand out among the other apps or programs?
Lemmy mobile client
It’s the closest thing to Apollo or Narwhal for Reddit, but for Lemmy.
Big thing is that the dev is very active and responsive to feedback. Which is really useful given Lemmy is in its developmental phase for the most part.
Unlike Sync which while good is largely abandoned thses days.
And they recently added user tagging like on RES for Reddit. It’s so useful. Been using it like mad lately to identify trolls and sealions.
Check out !voyagerapp@lemmy.world.
It’s a fantastic Lemmy client for mobile, and the devs are quite active and responsive.
e: link format
It’s my favorite client I’ve been using since it was a web app
Have you tried phtn.app? It’s gorgeous.
First I’ve heard of it but it looks nice
I like the mlem testflight and arctic for iphone, mlem sometimes cant display an image tho
LocalSend, Immich, Signal, Aurora store, Radio Garden, Gray Jay, yt-dlp, and Bitwarden just to name a few
yt-dlp is crazy… I didn’t get that one until recently because I thought it was just for YouTube videos and didn’t really ever want to download YT videos… But no, that shit works for nearly every site I’ve thrown at it. If you have any interest in downloading porn, its perfect for it.
So I’ve heard.
Yeah the rumors are there aren’t they. Our friend told us.
Localsend is a real godsend. Getting stuff from my phone to my pc without having to search the files.
and bro that shit transfers in the blink of an eye! It’s crazy good!
With the ease of us and speed it’s actually faster than wired for small to medium sized files.
