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(Context: Most companies including Nintendo claim that any act of piracy is a lost sale, which is completely a lie)

Sorry, I think options like Firefly III for that might not be sufficient for small business, but it was the only great Foss personal finance software for a long time.

Odoo is the gold standard for business. I think they also have a business finance app? It isn’t free, but the cost is reasonable.

Otherwise, I use Leantime for project management. If you work in a project-based or contract-based company (like consultancy or design house), then it has a lot of project & product features including time tracking with a plugin. Not financial though.

Oh boy! Here goes

Desktop:

• Bazzite
• KDE Connect
• KiCAD
• FreeCAD
• Plasma
• LocalSend
• Thunderbird
• Bitwarden
• Code OSS
• Krita
• CoreCTRL
• LibreOffice
• CuteCOM
• KopiaUI
• Calibre
• Heroic Games Launcher
• Lutris
• PrusaSlicer
• Okular
• Inkscape
• FluffyChat
• SyncThingy
• Elisa
• Haruna
• Kdenlive
• YouTube Downloader GUI
• Paperwork (stille can’t get network scanners working on Bazzite with sane set up)
• Solar
• ProtonUp-QT

Phone:

• AntennaPod
• Immich
• Aegis
• Heliboard
• Organic Maps
• Breezy Weather
• Aurora Droid
• K9 mail
• Signal
• Fluffy chat
• Home Assistant
• Eternity
• Findroid
• Gadgetbridge
• Fitotrack
• Loop habits
• Tuta
• StreetComplete
• Wireguard
• Unit converter untimate
• mastodon
• ntfy
• newpipe
• KDE Connect
• bitwarden
• findroid
• localsend
• material files

server:

• Leantime
• Bookstack
• Immich
• Jellyfin
• Home Assistant
• Traefik
• Crowdsec
• Authelia
• Dozzle
• Glances
• full *arr suite
• transmission + wireguard
• paperless-ngx
• cloudflare-ddns
• syncthing
• valheim server
• Boinc
• stash
• ntfy.sh

If I donated $5 per month to each of these projects I would be broke 😂

Here in Belgium we have cryptographically signed tokens on our legally mandated IDs.

You can use that token to do all sorts of things (my company uses them as authorship signatures for our quality system for medical devices), but if we had some standard like that, then we could have some software that would have a OTP based on that that is a huge list of valid OTPs in a website API or so, not linked to the token itself. (So you would have to trust this software that generates the OTP). You will get people using the same OTP, but that wouldn’t matter because it would just be a validity check. Lind of like the old product key generators for games.

Sure this could be abused or gotten around by a programmer or hack, but for 95% of the population it would be effective age verification without giving away any information or statistics. Sure, people could also abuse it and save a code and use it constantly, but then they would already have been verified. Sharing a code around would also happen with teens, but it would be far more effective than not, especially for the low stakes of age verification.

Hibernation doesn’t work at all on my windows HP work laptop. Sleep has gotten way way better on Linux in the past 2 years even. My desktop that would be buggy going in and out of sleep has now been flawless such that I auto sleep it after 30 minutes.

Battery life on Linux still sucks though.

Literally the 2nd post on !tech@programming.dev is about mega corporations financials. Many other posts are about legal cases of megacorporations.

It seems to be less about technology, and more about the market and software drama/politics.

At least no musk spam.

What? MX Linux is a Debian remix in the style of antiX I thought?

Those trackpads better have damn good palm reject because getting to those thumbsticks without brushing the trackpads will be impossible for many people.

Stacked partisan right wing judges, hand selected to put right wing optics over the actual law is what can happen, and what Mitch McConnell has been busy with for decades.

Nice try FBI.

In all seriousness, matrix encrypted chat would be better.

You pretty much have to get into self-hosting to truly have great replacements.

Google music - tidal, or qobuz are the same thing but not as bad as Spotify. Otherwise you can self host navidrome or jellyfin->finamp

RSS Feed: choose from like 10 Foss projects on fdroid

Google home: Home assistant is self hosted and like 10x better and can integrate with more things

PDF scanner: Microsoft Lens (not FOSS) but really really really good, doesn’t require a Microsoft account, doesn’t have extra permissions, and barely has telemetry. If you are OK with >10x slower, there is OSS Document scanner

VPN: ProtonVPN, Mullvad, maybe PrivateVPN. You have to pay for one. The app is wireguard or openvpn

Google photos: Immich is pretty much a perfect replacement

WhatsApp you literally can’t get away from. Signal is the easiest replacement, but i could only get mg core friends on it.There is no way 99.9% of people can get their friends and family to switch to matrix or XMPP.

Also in UT1999 right? It sits in my memory, but all my friends only played ut1999 until like 2012 lol.

Better compared to the MK4S price since you get the enclosure with it.

That being said, definitely high compared to bambu, but that is also because bambu takes advantage of much lower labor, operating, and land costs in china. It is quite normal for EU-designed and certainly EU manufactured products to be more expensive.

I always seed the big ones, but sadly, rolling release distros outside of Arch and smaller distros have abandoned torrents because they change snapshots too frequently and/or don’t have the user mass to support it.

Interesting, when I started using FreeCAD I had 0 training, and I have managed to make it work just fine. Was mostly frustrated by the topological naming problem, but that is fixed now.

You can do quite complex things with it.

You just have to put in a bit of effort and think in an additive sketch-extrude workflow. But yeah, not easy to transition from solidworks.

To be honest. I had a similar question for my girlfriend for drawing with krita. A drawing tablet + a traditional laptop is better for almost everyone except students who will be taking notes in class and people who have to be drawing in a chair or meeting room with no desk setup.

Otherwise a drawing tablet is more accurate, faster, and with better features than a 2-in-1. Much better sensitivity, generally better pressure and tilt functions, and a much better feel (more like paper)

You don’t even have to spring for a Wacom. They have been resting on their laurels for over a decade and have become completely uncompetitive in the past 5 years (kind of the Intel of drawing tablets).

An XPPen Deco Pro Gen II (as an example) has good ergonomics, rotary knobs for zooming, rotating, and scaling, and works over Bluetooth. Their Linux drivers (4.0.x) are pretty great at a fraction of the price of a Wacom or the price difference between a traditional laptop and a 2-in-1.

It ends up being way more ergonomic also to look at a screen and not having to hunch over a tablet. It just takes a week or so to get used to not looking at your hands.

I hope they fixed the broken shoulder button problem. That tiny piece of plastic should be replaced with spring steel for sure for such a high-ware part.

Had 2 break on me. Sent one back, fixed the 2nd via hot glue for a while and a 3d-print when I got a printer. 3rd one has still held up (5€ at the sellout along with the steam link)

And then you have Blender, Krita, OBS, VLC, bitwarden & Let’s Encrypt.

But tons of corporate contribution to big open source projects so it is sometimes grey.

Well the gadgetbridge comment is not really true.

It can’t pull activities from Strava, runkeeper, or similar or push to them. Syncing across services via APIs or Heath Connect stops it from really being a proprietary watch software replacement or a google fit replacement as they all do that and it is a core function because people want to use the apps they want to use. For example, lifting tracking from Progression or similar which other apps like gadgetbridge or strava just aren’t made for. It doesn’t have the functionality built in to cover every activity set.

GPX is extremely limited and is only GPS data, not good for fitness trackers as they track all sorts of activities. TCX or FIT are better, but of course managed by Garmin. There isn’t really an open alternative standard. I guess the closest we come is the Health Connect API which is completely local interoperability.

Just send the energy directly back to the power executives houses with a high power laser. They want the energy for free so badly to pad their profits and buy a 5th yacht, give it to them 😉