FOSS-y
- 3D: Blender
- Automation: Python, Ansible and Bash
- Calendar: ProtonCalendar
- Chess: Lichess
- DesktopOS: Pop!_OS
- Drive: ProtonDrive
- eBook: Calibre
- E-Mail: ProtonMail
- FOSS Android Apps Center: Droidify
- Flashcards: Anki
- Git Repos: Codeberg
- IDE: AstroNvim
- Keyboard: Keychron Q1 HE QMK
- Laptop Firmware: Coreboot
- Maps: OpenStreetMap and OrganicMaps
- Messenger: Signal
- Music Player: cmus
- Office: LibreOffice
- Password Manager: Bitwarden
- RaspberryPi: Raspbian
- Raster: GIMP
- Recording: OBS and GPU Screen Recorder
- Shell: Fish
- SmartphoneOS: GrapheneOS
- Terminal: Alacritty
- Tried Game Engines: Bevy and Godot
- Typing Test: Monkeytype and Keybr
- VPN: MullvadVPN
- Vector: Inkscape
- Video Player: mpv and VLC
- Virtualization: Quickemu
- Weather: OpenMeteo
Why Obsidian when there’s so many good foss note-taking apps?
You could list it, but I tried to migrate Obsidian to Logseq. For now, I have no time. I mostly write MarkDown though.
Why todoist and not tasks.org
I don’t know what to say about people who I told about lichess but still think chess.com is better
Maybe just say why it is better:
- No ads / subscriptions
- No tracking
- Free software is really fast
- You can do many projects with Lichess
- Clean non-cluttered UI
So, in summary, it’s not hyped up (marketing), clean, no tracking, free chess.com experience.
I don’t know what are the advantages’ chess.com has over Lichess right now. The chess should be free.
Chess dot com tells me what opening I played
(Because Lord knows I don’t)
Lichess does tell too.
Not during the play though, only during analysis
Ah I see so you can look up in game what are the best responses for your opening. Smart.
95% paypal, linguee and banking apps
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Id say around 80% since I use a lot of foss programs and only use linux/android/openwrt/brother printers. The other 20% is random proprietary stuff like steam I guess to be generous.
Nearly 100%. All Linux and AMD. The biggest part that isn’t is BIOS. As far as programs go I can think of almost nothing I use that isn’t FOSS. I guess Discord.
1 FreeBSD server with zfs mirror for storage and various server software
1 FreeBSD laptop for development
1 Linux laptop for software that doesn’t support FreeBSD
1 Linux desktop for work.
The rest of the family is 100% windows though :/
Ages ago someone wrote a bash script that would calculate your “stallman score”, essentially checking the license of every package in your system.
absolutely-proprietary?
nmap isn’t Foss?!?
From absolutely-proprietary:
“the FSF considers the v7.9x license to be non-free - however, the previous license was apparently non-free also”That’s all I know
Well, we need that back!
It’s called vrms (virtual RMS) and Debian at least packages it.
7 out of 705 installed packages are non-free packages on my RPi server.
It’s called check-dfsg-status since Stallmann stepped down after his controversial statements in Minsky’s Epstein scandal.
TIL
😮
Home gateway with LibreCMC, Nextcloud and a bunch of services I need, completely free software down to the wireless module firmware. On my computer I use Parabola GNU/Linux-libre modified to load a non free firmware for my graphics card. Being a x86-64 based system, there are non free firmwares in ROMs. I also run proprietary video games in an unprivileged container. Everything else is fully free.
I use a LibreCMC router too, I love it! I have an OpenWRT network switch (VLAN support) with 100% free software in the OS layer; I believe some firmware blobs were removed as well. I have OpenBSD on all my systems and run Whonix VMs in vmm. All my hardware has Libreboot with IME fully removed, 100% blobless in the BIOS. I didn’t update my EC or microcode. I strictly use free software and removed anything proprietary, including non-free firmware packages. All system updates get routed through Tor. I don’t use a dedicated GPU since I don’t play video games anymore. I truly learned to value freedom over entertainment. Learning coding has been my main thing since I got rid of everything proprietary, and let me tell It feels super empowering.
You are a purist. I love it.
Mostly
I still have Intel WiFi and a phone which requires firmware to work correctly.
I also recently installed Lego star wars in Bottles for fun. I also use the web a lot which uses non free JavaScript.
😮😮 JS is non-free?
The engine probably is free, but the code it runs often is not.
isnt all JS technically code-available though?
so at least we have that going for it.
Even then, it might be minified or even obfuscated
You can’t run, study, modify and distribute it
All FOSS except Nvidia drivers and processor microcode!
next graphics card will definitely be an AMD
UEFI?
Laptop is foss except bios. Desktop has apu and wifi firmware.
I have all the blobs, I like my hardware to work
Linux desktop with an Nvidia GPU, two Linux laptops, android phone. I’m struggling to think of any closed source productivity apps I still use, and I play games from Steam. NAS is running whatever Synology crap it came with, I haven’t tried fucking with the firmware on my Epson, my 3D printer runs Marlin and my laser engraver runs GRBL.
On my home PC everything is FOSS. I’m a serious hobby user of Inkscape and GIMP. No advantage to using commercial alternatives.
Work PC is all commercial software. For me FOSS CAD doesn’t come close.
OS
- Linux on my laptop, had hackintoshed a 2015 MacBook Pro before to run macOS Sonoma, and that ran on this device before
- Windows on my desktop to play games from studios that are owned by a certain Chinese investment company starting on T.
- stock Android on my SM-A536B since LineageOS isn’t ported (yet) to this device.
(Semi)Libre Software
- Zed
- Eternity for Lemmy
- Tubular (NewPipe + Sponsorblock and ReturnYTDislike)
- Tusky for Mastodon
- Rust (the language)
Proprietary software
- GSuite (for collaboration)
- Games and game launchers (namely Steam on PC and on laptop and Epic
shittygames launcher on PC)
I’d consider my setup 8/10 FOSS.
Why is Zed (Semi)Libre Software? Do you know something that I don’t?
The collaboration feature + the inclusion of GitHub login and Copilot. Though those can be stripped out if you don’t want them.
