Hello everyone, I want to use more free and open-source tools that also protect privacy. Can you please share the FOSS apps or tools you use every day and find most helpful?
Not favourite but very useful these last two months for losing some weight.
Trale, it does one thing and it does it well. Keeps track of body weight and makes a graph.
FitBook, for counting calories. I think it can do some other things but I only use it for that.
It might not be an obvious one but GIMP.
Adobe are ripping off my work and violating my clients privacy if I use Photoshop to process their images. So I use GIMP instead.
Gimp just isn’t great though. Luckily, the Affinity Suite exists.
Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Linux.
or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Linux + Rust.
I also daily use Firefox, Thunderbird, VSCodium, Signal, KeepassXC, DAVx5 and Radicale for calendar syncronization.
What I don’t use each and every day but what are among my favorite FOSS projects are KiCad for electronics design and CoMaps for navigation.
Same of my favorites:
Catima (Loyalty Card & Ticket Manager for Android)
Gadgetbridge (A free and cloudless replacement for your gadget vendors’ closed source Android applications)
Heliboard (keyboard)
Jellify (music client for Jellyfin)
Jetbird (client for Netbird)
Jellyfin (media system)
Lissen (client for audiobookshelf)
LocalSend (open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop)
Obtainium (install and update apps directly from their release pages)
OSS Document Scanner
Tusky (client for mastodon)
Voyager (client for Lemmy)
AntennaPod
Newpipe, I can see YouTube and download the audio and video if I want and I can see it without ads
I also uses it.
I use librewolf for browsing (with the temporary containers addon), nheko for matrix, thunderbird (of course)… that has pgp functionality built in.
When it comes to web browsing I think it is a good idea to use more than one browser. For most general use stuff I use librewolf and already mentioned. I do all my work related stuff, banking and purchasing in chromium. Unfortunately we’re back in the days of internet explorer when a lot of mainstream sites are broken and only work well on one browser. But the uses I mentioned are not as important in regards to privacy so it works for me.
Crypto sites are also often to be built for a chromium base, but I like to keep those separate and use Brave for that.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I heard that Matrix client is lagging behind the others in terms of cryptography?
FUTO Keyboard. Im not sure whether it’s truly FLOSS, but either way, it’s a great substitute for any proprietary keyboards that come in Android phones
My own link collector, mostly.
Tubular, a fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike integration! Use it all the time lol, probably too much
keepassxc+nextcloud
