• zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2181·
    1 year ago

    Gonna go with Firefox as both my most-used piece of open-source software, and the software I see as most important to its ecosystem. If Firefox fails then we’ve just got Chromium-based browsers and, I guess, Safari.

    • stokholm@feddit.dk
      10·
      1 year ago

      There something I don’t understand. How does one use Bitwarden daily? It generates, remembers and autofill passwords, right? I rarely enter a password anywhere. What am I missing? Please educate me.

      • Gordon Freeman @lemmy.zip
        40·
        1 year ago

        There are certain sites which terminate your sessions after a while. For example, banking sites or most government portals. In such situations, the auto fill function is very handy.

        • ironhydroxide@partizle.com
          11·
          1 year ago

          Also the fact that if you use a shared machine at all to login, it’s best practice to intentionally log out of everything, and clear cookies/cache when you’re done.

      • Countmacula@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        Like the other commenter said, I use it for sites that tend to sign me out after a few hours. I also use it for work things that sign out every session.

      • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Way way late to this, but I’ll also say: Firefox and other privacy-focused browsers have an option to delete all of your browsing history and cookies when you close the browser, which also logs you out of anything you were using. It’s a good practice if you’re being mindful of how much tracking data you are letting be collected from you.

  • colonial@lemmy.world
    1191·
    1 year ago

    Firefox and its derivatives. They’re the last free bastion preventing a Chromium monopoly on the browser market, which is hugely important - especially these days with Google’s push for Mv3.

      • Hauke@feddit.de
        39·
        1 year ago

        Kind of odd to use Signal (a privacy and security focused messenger) on Windows 7 (an EOL and thus highly unsecure operating system).

        • m0nka@discuss.tchncs.de
          51·
          1 year ago

          it is a development machine with highly specialised tools - Altium Designer, SolidWorks, IDA Pro, Altera Quartus, etc.

          Upgrading the OS is not a trivial thing as would be on a phone or tablet. Also when upgrading the OS it would make sense to upgrade the HW as well, and that is a major investment. And Signal is just not important really to warrant that.

          I would still use it on my phone though, but on the PC is just Viber unfortunately (whatsapp dropped as well).

          • toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl
            1·
            1 year ago

            I wouldn’t say upgrading the OS on a phone or tablet is trivial… Especially when compared to a PC. Upgrading the OS on a PC is much easier.

            • Hauke@feddit.de
              3·
              1 year ago

              Both is trivial in my opinion. The problem is OP using ancient software that only runs on an ancient OS. In this case upgrading is not trivial. Even though upgrading is a major investment in this case, it only gets worse the later its done. Typical case of technical debt

              • toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl
                1·
                1 year ago

                Well, it depends on the phone and tablet of course, but given how many cannot be rooted anymore thee days, I’d say it’s no longer trivial.

  • Alperto@lemmy.ml
    71·
    1 year ago

    Blender by a huge mile. Yes, there’s tons of other software like Linux, of course, but Blender is such a powerful, well managed, economically viable and healthy (community) project that it should be shown as an example of how Open Source should be.

    My biggest hurdle with other projects is the fanboys, because many times they’re quite toxic, insulting everybody who doesn’t adore the project and don’t accept constructive criticism.

  • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    69·
    1 year ago

    Ill throw in some obscure ones I use daily.

    • StemRoller. It’s an AI-powered toolthat takes an mp3 and separates each instrument into its own file. Im a musician, and having access to stems like this is a game changer.

    • Carla is a tool for hosting VST plugins without the need for a full DAW. I primarily use Amp Simulators, and this has become a mandatory tool on any computer I use. It’s also maintained by the creator of KXStudio.

    • DingleBoone@reddthat.com
      2·
      1 year ago

      Just downloaded and tried StemRoller. Definitely impressed, I’d say it works marginally better than any of the “free” (aka trial version, need to pay for full features) stem separators I’ve tried online, so very happy to find this!

    • Barbacamanitu@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      Both of these sound interesting, though I can’t really think of a use for running vsts without a DAW. For a moment I thought it would be nice to play synth without opening a daw, but if I decide to record something I played I have to set it all up again.

      • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        1 year ago

        I use Ampsims nearly exclusively. When I’m practising or just noodling I don’t have any intention to record. Carla has a much smaller footprint than a standard DAW, and therefore less energy usage.

        Keep in mind I’m a string instrument player primarily. I don’t play with synths or anything like that.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

      Firefox, Thunder, LibreOffice, Kdenlive, Audacity on GNU+Linux … (I’m no pro which is why I’m on Ubuntu but even still, I haven’t paid for software in years)

  • gandalftheBlack@lemmy.ml
    421·
    1 year ago

    Proxmox, opnsense, fdroid, and many more on r/selfhosted (now on lemmy also) .

    sunshine, moonlight ( play my games anywhere in the world, games run on my pc at home)

    Firefox (the best browser against google monopoly), thunderbird (best mail client)

    LineageOS, microG, Mozilla Location services, Magisk, aurora store (let me use Android without any of google tracking)

    Bitwarden, Proton mail/vpn, Nextcloud (finally no gmail tracking)

    Jellyfin, kodi (lets me create my own Netflix)

    GNU/Linux, GNOME, KDE and host of other Linux projects. No more windows tracking. Also if you want to really know how the OS works, you should start tinkering with Linux. I expanded my knowledge base by just using Linux as daily driver.

    The list just goes on and on. I am so grateful for all the open source devs that put their time in developing these tools.

    For those wanting to go further, checkout https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

  • zabadoh@lemmy.ml
    411·
    1 year ago

    LibreOffice is equal to any office software out there, and has been much more stable than OpenOffice, and works without an internet connection unlike Google Docs.