TrailSense, an easy to use, comprehensive wilderness tool.

The goals of the developer are fun to consider:

Goals

• Trail Sense must not use the Internet in any way, as I want the entire app usable when there is no Internet connection

• Features must provide some benefits to people using the app while hiking, in a survival situation, etc.

• Features should make use of the sensors on a phone rather than relying on stored information such as guides

• Features must be based on peer-reviewed science or be verified against real world data

Likewise, the features being developed under those goals are great for getting outside:

Features

• Designed for hiking, backpacking, camping, and geocaching
• Place beacons and navigate to them
• Follow paths
• Retrace your steps with backtrack
• Use a photo as a map
• Plan what to pack
• Be alerted before the sun sets
• Predict the weather
• Use your phone for astronomy
• And more

Syncthing, a peer to peer file synchronize that basically everyone needs, they just don't know it.

Bitwarden an open source, simple password manager it does it's job very well

VSCodium is the open source part of VSCode, so I prefer to use that.

Mull is firefox on android without the proprietary parts. Heliboard is a good android keyboard.

linux, unironically. literally all local infrastructure is running on windows, despite the security risks this entails.

Jitsi - Open-source and self-hosted video conference platform. You can even try it directly on their website.

IPFS - A distributed file sharing technology which is wonderful for file or site hosting (edit: wether it is uncensorable is open for debate)

Rust - A programming language and a powerful compiler that creates compiled memory-safe programs and can be used nearly everywhere

Fedora + KDE - A combination of a stable modern OS and a complete desktop environment

Wine - launch Windows programs on the latter

Lemmy

Bonus : AlternativeTo to find good open-source alternative software

Xournal - a great way to draw on pdfs

The todo.txt format and the software being built around it.

Namely sleek and ntodotxt

Shotcut an amazing video editor.

Openwrt Routers can be fun too!

btop is a TUI (or TTY) resource monitor and management tool

• Very intuitive and easy to use
• Highly configurable
• Supports mouse
• Option to filter processes
• Theming support

Keepass/KeepssXC/KeepassDX (password manager for desktop)

Syncthing to synchronize database between devices.

PostmarketOS to actually own your phone.

Universal UnifiedPush support so we can manage our own push notifications through something like NextPush on your Nextcloud. At that point I could completely remove Google Play Services from my phone without much trouble.

Immich. Just found out about it, still gotta try, but looks good, an app that allows you to configure a Google Photos like app locally hosted, with automatic phone backups

GrapheneOS!

Claude 3. Most people don't even know what it is, let alone the fact that it's as good and better than GPT4 in some ways.

For all note taking, I enjoy ZimWiki.

Gnu Guix. By default Guix uses only free libre software, but there are ways to install it with a non-free kernal. Systemcrafters has a guide (this is what I used) as well as non-guix (guix repo for non free software).

A more private and secure messenger than WhatsApp, signal and telegram, like simplex

I use Arch btw. 😅 (well, actually I don't any more, but this had to be here)

linux

Helix is a modal text editor, but I haven't used it as much as I'd like because it lacks the plugins I use in Neovim.

I say this a lot, but "nomacs" image viewer/editor. I take a lot of time lapse videos and I have directories of like, 50000 identically-sized images each on a smb server over gigabit ethernet and nomacs can open from a directory and quickly cycle through the photos using the arrow keys, without resetting the current pan/zoom setting (important for me), without any trouble. It takes about as long to open the directory of photos as it takes for my samba client to download the directory data.

It also has a lot of cool little quality of life features, including lots of shortcut keys for overlaying metadata and such. It has basic image editing capability as well. The only other image viewer I use is digikam, which is more for organizing personal photos. Otherwise it's all nomacs, baby.

MusicBrainz Picard

Amazing music tagger and batch renamer, for those of us who still have all our music as files.

Floorp. It's open source fork of Firefox made by mostly Japanese developers. It's noticably faster, privacy focused than the original and have more customisation options.

I'm surprised it's not well known to be honest.

Vorta is a great program for backing up files. Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

I think two assumptions to this whole 10k people/day metric cause it to be inaccurate pseudoscience:

1. It assumes people learn things at random times, causing the distribution to average over 30 years.

2. It assumes everyone learns a thing by age 30. If you talk to anyone over 80 years old I guarantee they'll tell you they don't know everything.

It's a sweet sentiment, but it bugs me how people keep quoting this like there's any truth behind it.

Couple I've come across recently and haven't seen here yet:

micro - a nano-style terminal text editor with modern features and plugins.

termscp - a terminal FTP (et al) client heavily inspired by WinSCP.

Typst, Nix, Git, Blender