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What's something that's free that everyone should know about? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I'll start by plugging Harvard's free courses catalog as well as Udemy

Edit: Gonna add 2 more I remembered-

Blender - I wish I had more time to learn it, but I did start the infamous "Donut Tutorial" once!

Watch Cartoons Online - Lots of good older stuff!

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[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (14 children)

lichess.org is a fantastic online chess platform for players of all skill levels. it's free and---what's more--it's ad-free (unlike the parasitic organisation that's squatting on the chess.com domain).

it has one-on-one on-demand match-ups, tournaments, puzzles, user-published training courses, multiple chess variants, and so much more.

it's one of only two online resources to which i deem donating regularly worthwhile (the other being wikipedia).

do check it out. chess is one really healthy mental habit to inculcate.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Your neighbor's trash. It's stunning what I find and fix, refurbish, repurpose or sell. Had a friend that used to cruise her hood on trash day, her and her husband would load the truck, sell it back to 'em on a Saturday garage sale. 12-14 hours biweekly work, ~$400 every other weekend.

My wife's friends dumpster dive at Walmart, though I question how that's possible. Most big box stores make that impossible. Dunno. In any case, it's wild what these stores chunk out. If Lowe's would let me, I'd haul home a pickup full every week.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

People think I'm some sort of TV repair wizard but it's very easy to fix up dumpster TVs if you have a little patience and space. Broken TVs fall into two categories - broken screen or broken board (doesn't turn on, error screens, flickering). Stick to more popular models and when you find a broken screen, take the board and note the model. When you find a broken board of the same model, just swap it. It usually really is that easy. You can work in the opposite direction too and collect good screens waiting for good boards, but that starts to take up a lot of space quick because you're storing whole TVs at that point.

You will also inexplicably find a fully working 55" TV sitting at the dumpster 10% of the time.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My 55" was thrown out by a neighbor, power issues. $8 in eBay capacitors fixed it, but I did something wrong and shorted it while hanging, lost the magic smoke.

Fine. For $60 I got a new board off eBay. Still have a unit in my bedroom waiting to fix.

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[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

khanacademy.org

Great resource for really well taught contents on an extensive variety of fields

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I know lemmy is social media for people with a favorite Linux distro so I’m preaching to the choir here, but so much software is free as in speech it is truly wonderful. It’s like the only thing I love about being a millennial

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Gonna take this as a jumping off point to mention some software.

Wanna get into video editing? Shotcut's pretty solid in my experience.
Into mind-mapping stuff? You might give Freeplane a look.
Have a drawing tablet & want to use it to take handwritten digital notes? Check out Xournal++.
Cross-platform Notepad++ alternative? Might give CudaText a try.

Could list off more but will leave it at a few for now.

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 32 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Yucata - online boardgames, take your turn when you can, no pressure.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yucata is fine for asynchronous play but if you're looking for live online action

https://boardgamearena.com/

Is the way to go. Just can't start certain premium games yourself but you're fine to join any game that other people start

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 days ago (20 children)

LMMS - free and open source garage band. It's a little weird on how you do a song, but it's pretty great.

Tips: Look at Beats and Baselines Editor and Piano Roll Editor first to probably get you where you want to be.

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[–] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To add a couple more FOSS programs, OBS Studio and kdenlive are both really robust video production and editing software.

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[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 30 points 3 days ago (16 children)

VLC: the only media player you’ll ever need. Peak FLOSS.

Audacity: free, robust audio editing/effects tool. Not a proper DAW but so feature rich some people treat it like one. Another peak FLOSS.

Freesound.org: huge library of free audio, all Creative Commons/non royalty shit. Effects, music, you name it. Been around for literally 2 decades, is run by a non-profit. Definitely a relic of a bygone era

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[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 days ago (8 children)

In Canada, crown land camping and Christmas trees. You can camp on crown land and cut up to 10 cubic metres of wood a year.

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