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Whats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try?
  • That was very likely Street Complete which is self explanatory and a great way to start. You are adding all kinds of useful information about any kind of object or building with this.

    There's also Vespucci which allows to alter the whole map (ie edit streets, POIs and so on) but takes a lot more to get familiar with.

  • The older I get, the truer this becomes
  • That serious conversation area has crossed my mind many times too! Or a crowd-sourced extension to highlight engaging comments.

    On reddit in particular I was exhausted to go into the comments only to scroll past heaps of accounts making the same tired jokes and low effort jabs they've seen around the topic before. Anything to skip the millionth 'falling out of the window' or 'getting shot in the back of the head twice' joke.

  • Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
  • There's also KeePass2Android. I opted for this because it brings a very useful feature called QuickUnlock. Your opened database gets locked in standby but you can reopen it with just the last 3 characters without needing to retype the whole passphrase.

    @aux@lemmy.world

  • TIL that on Firefox you can unload tabs from memory without closing them
  • I use the addon Sideberry (for vertical tabs) and it brings the option to unload specific tabs with it's context menu.

    I don't get why about:unloads doesn't let the user decide which specific tabs they want to close.

  • Hmm
  • I sometimes had a very small piece of paper scribbled with stuff I couldn't remember while learning but turns out this way I knew what I had written down there and didn't need it afterall :D

    One time I accidentally forgot about that tiny paper though and my teacher actually found it on some stairs and recognized my handwriting.

  • Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads.
  • Thanks for your input! To me the three I listed feel very similar to what I had with Boost/Sync, probably because they were inspired by them in their main aspects. Admittedly though for me it's just some tweaks and I'm happily scrolling away whereas B/S offer a litany of settings to customize every aspect of your browsing and posting experience which is very attractive, especially for more heavy users.

    Nice to hear about your positive interactions with the dev. That sounds awesome and certainly is a good argument for supporting him in particular but also other developers delivering quality software be it open source or not.

  • Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads.
  • Yes, thanks for pointing that aspect out. I get the motivation to collect data to serve ads but I wish to stay with privacy respecting options too and I hope the contributors to those clients see enough donations to make their efforts worthwhile as well.

  • Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads.
  • It's seriously a great app, so I don't get the fuss about Sync either. I've been a Sync and Boost user before but I'm very content with the apps we already got for Lemmy so I won't throw in another one to choose from.

    I've been switching between Liftoff, Voyager and Thunder because they all seem to good to just lose them right now lol

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