• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 month ago

      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

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      +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”

    • frunch@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      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 🥂

    • Letsdothis@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      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?

      • bss03@infosec.pub
        2·
        1 month ago

        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.

    • Boozilla@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      It is a little strange. But even way back in the day we called PC software meant for user interaction “software applications”.

      • boonhet@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 month ago

        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.

    • Boozilla@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Blender is incredible. I am no master by any means, but I use it all the time for 3d printing. And I’m blown away by what actually-talented people can do with it.

  • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    1 month ago

    Krita. I had a uni licence for Photoshop for years, even took a Photoshop course but still kept using Krita. It has an intuitive UI and all the tools I’ll ever need.

    RStudio+R is way better than any of its proprietary alternatives.

    Blender. I’m no 3D modling expert but it does everything I as a hobbyist want to do with it and so much more. Nowadays, the UI is pretty decent, too.

    Finally, the Lagrange browser is really good. The gemini protocol is kinda niche though, but if you’re interested it’s unreasonably pretty, well optimized and has a great UX. The guy who maintains it really puts his heart and soul into it.

    • Yprum@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      The fact that you put those examples together with this Lagrange browser made me curious enough to check it, I had never heard of Gemini protocol before. So, simply put, thank you for sharing about this, I’m going to be installing Lagrange and start checking out geminispace.

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        It’s a lot of fun. It only took me a couple of hours to figure out how to make a “site”.

        gemini://motion.chrisco.me

        Our local community is getting into it.

    • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      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…

      • vividspecter@lemm.ee
        4·
        1 month ago

        Windows only recently got support for 7z and RAR. For the several decades before that, it supported neither.

      • viking@infosec.pub
        1·
        1 month ago

        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.

  • ArchRecord@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    Practically every single FOSS application I use is highly useful to me, and of course, free, so I’ll just list them all here.

    • Immich - A full-featured replacement for Google Photos, has a sleek UI, face detection, albums, a timeline, etc.
    • Paperless-ngx - Document management system, saves me a ton of paper hoarding, and makes everything easily searchable with OCR.
    • Syncthing - Simple file synchronization between my devices, on my terms. Doesn’t share data with big tech companies about my files, and hooks up extremely fast P2P connections that beat cloud-based services by a long shot.
    • Metube & Seal - Simple interfaces for downloading with yt-dlp, can download from YouTube, but also many other sites. Doesn’t spam you with popup ads or junk redirects like those “youtube downloader” type sites. Seal is my favorite of the two, but is only on Android.
    • Image Toolbox - Insanely feature-packed app for doing practically anything you could want to an image. Converting formats, clearing EXIF data, removing backgrounds, feature-packed editing, OCR, convert to SVG, create color palettes, converting PDFs to images, decode and encode Base64 to and from images, extract frames from gifs, encrypt & decrypt files, make zip files, and a lot more. All local.
    • Rustdesk - No-nonsense remote desktop, tons of features, simple file transfer, cross-platform compatibility, and P2P communication without needing a third party server if you so choose.
    • LibreOffice - Essentially everything you’d get with Office 365 (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint) but without the $150 price point. Compatible with the same file formats, and has the same functionality.
    • Cashew - Feature rich financial app for budgeting, tracking purchases, saving for goals, etc. Doesn’t have automatic import, but I find that manually putting every transaction in keeps me aware of my spending much better than before, so for me it’s quite worth it. Install directly from the APK, or use on web though. The version on the app stores has some features locked behind a paywall.
    • Linkwarden - Bookmark manager with cross-platform support, a web interface, automatic tagging, automatic archiving of any saved links in multiple formats, collaborative sharing capabilities, and more. It’s free, but you can also pay $3/mo if you want them to host it for you.

    Edit: And Umbrel (on Raspberry Pi) if you want to host things more easily. Basically just a much more hands-off, user-friendly docker for people who don’t want to tinker as much.

    Edit 2: Non-FOSS, but Obsidian is the best note taking app I’ve ever used. Great selection of community-made plugins (which are FOSS) for additional functionality, and all notes are in standard cross-software-compatible Markdown. No locked-in proprietary formats.

    • dishpanman@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Syncthing is awesome for home devices backups like phone pictures and videos and computer documents that can be version controlled. I also use Local Send app to share files between phones and computers in the house.

    • Not a replicant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Some of your data flows through Syncthing servers (but I agree that’s a great product, I use it myself) LibreOffice works for entry-level users, but it does not have the same functionality as MSOffice. And the UI sucks as much as MSOffice.

  • omxxi@feddit.orgEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    firefox

    considering the big monopoly of chrome based is not really free, it’s paid by google or microsoft mining user data

  • John@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    1 month ago

    Home Assistant, not only an App but it changed the way i look at IoT/Smarthome and in that way it brings me a lot of comfort.