FOSS or otherwise

  • edric@lemm.ee
    2·
    4 months ago

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

  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 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.

  • Kcg@lemmy.ml
    1·
    4 months ago

    www.start.me launcher page. I have all my links on all devices in the same place. My first step when i install a browser.

  • Noxious@fedia.io
    1·
    4 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

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Android. As bad as it is, if I had to use iOS or Linux phones it would be even worse, at least with the current state of Linux phones.

    But actually, maybe if Android didn’t exist, the FOSS community would focus more on Linux phones and they would be an actually good option. Maybe Android shouldn’t exist?

  • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    4 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.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    1·
    4 months ago

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

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      0·
      4 months ago

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

      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        4 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
            1·
            3 months 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.)