1y ago

What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis?

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Fluent Reader – to very quickly get a lot of news which I need for work
Beeper – for the 100 chat apps I need to use to stay in contact with my friends who don't use Matrix
Nheko – for the based friends who have [matrix] accounts and chats with industry professionals in my field
FluffyChat – mobile device [matrix] client
Logseq – as second brain, works better for me than Obsidian
Jameica – for online banking and accounting
K-9 Mail / Thunderbird – mail client
DecSync CC – for synchronising contacts with multiple devices through Syncthing
ActivityWatch – to track everything I do in case I forget to book time in my corporate time sheet, or if I want to know how long I played games in contrast to programming
KDE Plasma – best desktop environment boosting my productivity to about 140% of what I could do with Windows 10
Qalculate! – very fast and easy to use scientific calculator, can also do conversions like "1h50min → min" or "15€ → $"
Aegis – TOTP generator for mobile
VLC – plays everything you throw at it
mpv – plays everything you throw at it, if you installed the right codecs, and also does fancy ML-based GPU upscaling in my case
KeePassXC, KeePassDX – password managers integrated on Desktop, Laptop, Tablet and Phone
Syncthing – to automatically and seamlessly sync all my devices (Laptop, Desktop, Tablet, Phone, second Laptop, Servers, …)
Firefox Developer Edition, Librewolf – browsing the web without Chromium
Chromium – for PWAs like Teams, Outlook, Discord
- Now I really want to know what you do for a living.
  
  That's classified. Let's say I need OSINT for it :p
  
  Nice! :)
  
  ?
  
  Sounds like trading to me
  
  Kind of IT security.
- I've been on the beeper waitlist since July, how long did it take for you to get in?
  
  I think it was about 6-9 months.
- whats the difference between the keepass forks
  
  KeepassXC is for desktop, while DX is for Android.
  
  are they ran by the same group?
  
  Keepass is the oldest one and only for Microsoft Windows. KeePassX is a discontinued project. KeePassXC is a community fork and my choice. Not sure about KeePassXD, maybe an Android version.
- Thanks for the links provided !
- Are you sure beeper is opensource?
  
  The client itself isn't, but their server implementation is and you could do the same with Element.

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