Kotatsu and Mira, both on F-Droid. Kotatsu makes it easier to read manga without a subscription and you can add your own DRM-free manga. Mira is similar but adds anime and K-drama streaming as an option as well.

Even though I am subbed to Crunchyroll, having an option to watch if I have to cancel to save money, that's very helpful.

Recently, UnifiedPush where I can (currently just Megalodon for Mastodon sadly) as an alternative to using Google's push notifications.

Secure file sending: croc
Dedjplication: Czkawka
Sorting tool: Phockup
OCR: OCRmyPDF

Readeck

Nebula, the overlay network thing. It connects all of my servers together, and me to my servers.

Next cloud and only office. Bye bye google drive

Jellyfin bye bye Plex and Netflix

linux

I use the Unison file sync tool to keep backups of all my important files on flash drives and servers. For mobile devices I do use Syncthing because MTP is painfully slow and taking the SD card out of the device to plug it in is too much of a hassle, but I would rather use Unison.

ChimeraOS. If you have a non-steam gamerdeck, I recommend backing up the Windows 11 install and replacing it with this outright. It's based on the Steam Deck OS and makes the process of selecting a game much faster because Windows 11 is bloated as shit.

SC-Controller, although it seems to have been abandoned.

Gpodder-adaptive

Android

• Podcini
• deku sms
• carrion
• linksheet
• florisboard beta
• gptassist
• grayjay
• [mastodon, lemmy, peertube] redirect
• markor
• german only: kleine wettervorschau, öffi
• saveto... + shelter/island
• wormhole, localsend: sending files over internet or local wifi (when creating a hotspot it works without wifi too)

Hammerspoon. Pretty necessary Mac software to make it work the way you want.

I live and die by Simplenote. It's one of the apps I'm in multiple times per day every day of my life.

Helix text editor has been in my rotation recently, I like it a lot as a regular nvim user.

Just migrated from Arch to NixOS recently. Nix+Flakes+Home-manager define my entire system, including config files and pinned package versions, using three files. My system has never felt more stable and reproducible. I even found a flake which lets you declaratively manage Flatpaks (nix-flatpak).

I got a Brother embroidery machine only to find that making anything other than the most basic patterns required a very pricey proprietary program. Thankfully I found Ink/Stitch, an open source plug-in for InkScape. It's still a little rough around the edges, but after getting used to its foibles, it's very capable with the right amount of elbow grease. The main dev is active and very helpful in their issues.

I used to use [a Windows 3.1 shrink-wrapped software package] that offered notepads and appointment calendars. Then I switched to Linux. That was 16 years ago. To take the place of the Windows application, I had to write my own list-maker from scratch. Today, there's a new python3-pyqt5 version (under GNU General Public License) of my script for Linux and Windows desktops to help maintain the equivalent of index-card files. Obviously this is not something you'd use just to be like everybody else. I use it because I don't really know how others handle their everyday lists and I can't think of an easier way. If you, too, suspect it ought to be easier than it is, it may be. Please look at Tonto2. Thanks.

QGIS

Powerful mapping and geographic analysis software.

https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs