For me, that would be Secure CRT. I have yet to find a terminal emulator that matches its feature set. If you regularly manage hundreds of machines using various connection protocols (serial and ssh mostly in my case) It’s worth the $$$, and so far there hasn’t been any subscription nonsense. I liked using it at work so much I forked over the dough to have it at home.
None of the free alternatives do everything I need.
I’ll also mention a few iOS apps. One is Sun Surveyor. It’s an AR app that shows you the position of the sun, moon, and galactic center at any given time. The other would have to be Radarscope. It’s a weather radar app, but it’s a really good weather radar app.
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This one’s debatable, but I use it all the time. Plasticity is 3D modelling software that attempts to bridge the gap between practical CAD programs and software meant for 3D artists like Blender. It’s not cheap considering Blender is free, but it’s buy once use forever, and at (I think) $150 it’s within reach of an individual hobbyist who knows what they want and is willing to pay for it.
TeraCopy if you move lots of data around.
However, even with a pro license, I still got an ad notification in my task area recently pushing their other software. Fucking hate advertisements that go out of their way to interrupt you.
Fucking hate advertisements
that go out of their way to interrupt you.The rest of that sentence literally defines the procedure of advertising.
Well yeah, just emphasizing I already paid for your software.
Demand a refund or compensation.
I should. But I bought it multiple years ago and I didn’t care that much. But I will definitely think twice next time I need some software to not use them.
I’ve never seen ads and I use the usual free TeraCopy at home. Are there supposed to be ads? (I don’t have a pihole or anything that’d be blocking the ads at the network level)
No, I could have just kept using free. But I was using it a lot and felt like I should pay for it, otherwise free software may not be available in the future. I think it was like $20.
Symphonium, a music app for android (maybe also iOS, dunno). I’ve tried so many other apps for both local and remote music, none of them come even close - I particularly like the pre-caching and rolling cache features, as there are some places I go regularly where connection is spotty, and they allow me to stream pretty much uninterrupted from my subsonic server.
It’s FOSS software but I use it so much I donate to support it. FreeCAD. Yeah its interface isn’t the best. But compared to Fusion for my workflow it’s so much bettwr
And only getting better with every iteration.
I know many would not agree, but for me it’s 1Password. I use it dozens of times a day - not just for passwords, but also for credit cards, social security numbers, notes, and maybe the most useful, SSH keys. My whole family is covered for $5/month, a laughably low sum.
BuzzKill for Android.
PocketCasts used to be, before they went subscription.
PocketCasts is subscription? I don’t think I’ve seen anything indicating that to me and I know I’m not paying a subscription for it.
If you bought it before it went freemium, you’re grandfathered in.
Linux, KDE, Firefox, etc… we are ALL supposed to “pay” somehow for it, whatever our means and however we can.
When we consider free and open source software NOT paid software, we are sabotaging the very things we love.
Hard disagree. Please tell me where Linus said he expects normal users to “pay” (or whatver you meant with the quotes.) The thing that makes these revolutionary is that they are free in a world where everyone is always trying to get something from you.
There is literally no expectation of money or commits or anything. Don’t shame people for using FOSS the way FOSS was intended. If you are well off and want to support them do it! Authors will appreciate it, but dont try to turn FOSS into yet another guilt trip.
Why are you deforming my words? You are free to have your own opinion and you are welcomed to disagree but when are arguing against something I did NOT say then you are not trying to have an honest conversation.
Anyway, on the spirit of discussing anyway (despite the risk of talking past each other) what do you imagine would happen if nobody, including Linus, would contribute (not necessarily financially) to FOSS? If nobody at all build FOSS or supports FOSS, there is no FOSS, as simple as that.
just adding: foss is what is supposed to happen in a world where the increased productivity through automation benefits everyone vs the ‘bottom line’. foss has always been my tiny island of space communism :)
tiny island of space communism
can you please expand a bit? What does that mean? Never heard this before.
I think you are missing the point
Well my point, which might be different from OP but I still is important and thus why I brought it in the discussion is :
- paying for software is important
- FLOSS is important
and thus ideally we would pay (again, however one can) AND have FLOSS anyway. I don’t see why we would have to settle for proprietary software.
In the world of music production Reaper is an insanely good deal with a fantastically refreshing licensing system.
Same with Renoise, though I haven’t bought it yet myself. Pretty cheap by Western standards, especially compared to the big DAWs, but excellent for its particular workflow, i.e. a tracker. It’s actively developed too.
I haven’t used Reaper in a while, but you can technically use it for free with full features by perpetually using it in trial version mode right?
The developer is pretty insistent on saying that Reaper is NOT free but also that stupid licensing schemes for other DAWs like the horrid iLok and others only punish people who actually buy the software, which is self-defeating since the pirates are unaffected by the ways in which the tool is made worse for people who actually bought the tool legally.
I bought it simply because of how incredibly refreshing this was, free open source DAWs have gotten better since I did but there used to be barely any accessible, lowcost ones that were fully featured enough to be useful. Now there are open source options like Muse and LMMS but the thing about Reaper is it isn’t a budget DAW, in many ways it is an industry leading software.
Reaper can do more than 99.9999% of people are capable of using it for.
This would have been mine. I generally only donate rather than buy software, but reaper is an exception.
Kagi. Search that actually works, with no ads. Worth every penny.
Another happy Kagi user here, and I also hate sounding like a shill but I’m really so glad I use their product. Not having to parse through ads and AI slop when I’m busy and looking for info is so helpful when I’m trying to work.
how is it better than ddg? genuinely asking
I like ecosia
They have ads but… they donate their profits to help the coimate
They even have a breakdown of their economy on their site
I don’t know, I never personally used DDG much pardon (I should have, can’t recall why I didn’t).
DDG still does top ranking of advertisers even though they aren’t directly targeted to you. Kagi puts the most relevant information to your search regardless to what it is you search. You’re also able to uprank and downrank different sites you want to see more or less of in your searches. For example if you’re someone who looks up a lot of medical terms for work or something you can completely block sites like WebMD from taking over the results making it harder to find more relevant information to it. Not my exact use case but have been a Kagi user for probably 8 months now and it’s 100% worth it for the rankings as well as Kagi Translate since it has a proofread feature that replaces Grammarly for me as a dyslexic that has to write a lot of emails.
thanks very much for this info. i can see the appeal of personal ranking. appreciate the details.
Why do I always see so many down votes when Kagi is mentioned?
I think it might be one or both of:
- people are sick of seeing it mentioned. I’m not a shill, I just really like the product.
- they are indignant about Kagi occasionally using Yandex when it compiles search results
In both cases, meh. I’m answering the OP question with my opinion, and hopefully somebody finds it useful.
Also that Kagi is working alongside AI instead of resisting it. I’m not thrilled about that part either, but it’s not a complete deal breaker for me since I can just choose not to use it.
Thanks so much! I wouldn’t have known about it had people not talked about it. It’s only been a much or two since switching to kagi and I’ve been happy with it.
Some people don’t like the Dev also.
I didn’t downvote, but probably because they’re a young USA-based search engine that requires login to use - which is usually a huge red flag for privacy, and their privacy of user searches is claimed but has never been verified by any kind of audit - another significant red flag.
Why trust another for-profit Palo-Alto search company with your search data, assist their (potential) tracking by logging in, and pay for it in the process?
Wouldn’t using their Privacy Pass solve this?
Kagi is definitely worth it.
I’ll be a lifer for Kagi. I still twitch my way to Google sometimes from a lifetime of habit and every time, it’s like a little check-in, and I think, “oh, god, it can’t have gotten this much worse since last time, can it?”
I do not use MacOS anymore but when I did I have bought. Pixelmator Its really good. It was bought by Apple now though.
Wish there would be something similar for Linux :( Gimp is like the opposite of intuitive.
Affinity is apparently considering porting their suite to linux, so hopefully that’ll happen.
edit: source: https://techcentral.co.za/affinity-for-linux-canvas-next-big-move-could-reshape-the-desktop-software-market/274861/
Why not use PhotoGIMP, which is a Photoshop UX on GIMP? https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
It’s just not as nice.
An actually good alternative to Adobe software is the excellent Affinity suite.
Affinity is good, but the issue is that Affinity is proprietary. That’s my problem with it.
I paid for a copy of the Torque app on android. It lets you use bluetooth OBD2 adapters to connect to your car’s ECU for reading live engine data and trouble codes. The pro paid version unlocks a lot more customization for data logging screens, allows you to save live data logs to your phone, and enables a wider range of readable codes… Makes a huge difference diagnosing weird engine issues in cars 1996 and newer.
I paid for a license of obd jscan for my vehicle since it is specific to Dodge/Jeep it can do everything, including activation of features and access to all data in the vehicle. I had to buy a more expensive vlink adapter, but it was only $20 or so. It has saved me tons of money so far. I was able to program keys, activate remote start (had to install a hood switch), and have been able to diagnose several issues with things like tpms and abs.
Used the free version, don’t know why I updated to paid, WORTH IT ($5). I’ll never not have a BT adapter ($4) on my car computer and Torque on hand. Worth it just to read check engine lights.
Wife’s car occasionally throws, and sometimes clears, a minor emissions error, kills the cruise control. The passenger can reset it rolling down the interstate and we’re back in business.
+1 for Torque, pay once and it does exactly what it’s supposed to do and doesn’t bother you with anything else.
Total Commander on Windows. It can be used for free with the nag dialog, but I paid for it since I was using it every day.
Automate on Android: it’s an automation tool with its own programming ‘language’ like Tasker, except visual. Tasker has some weird and cumbersome idioms, while Automate is mostly regular programming mapped onto its visual blocks. Plus it doesn’t require buying more apps for additional functionality like Tasker. Alas, it can’t do custom dialogs or onscreen buttons, so I might still need Tasker for that.
Unified Remote on Android: nice remote control for the desktop machine, with the ability to add custom controls programmed in Lua (iirc).
Magic Dosbox on Android: it allows adding custom onscreen controls tailored to each game.
Functional Ear Trainer and Perfect Ear on Android: nice training for hearing notes and rhythm, though I can’t say they did much for my lazy ass.
Sunvox on Android: a music tracker with modular synths. Seems to be the only full-blown tracker on Android. Alas, doesn’t seem to be very good with samples, the workflow is a bit cumbersome, but I need to properly try that yet. The app has been around for ages, I’ve seen it twenty years ago for Palm and Windows CE. There are also desktop versions, which are free iirc. (Also, the author can’t currently receive payments from Google Play since he’s in Russia. It’s better to write to him and arrange payment via bitcoin or such, afaik he’s happy to provide the full app that way.)
On Mac, there are many open-source utils for tweaking the interface, but paid Bartender and Hazeover are better than alternatives. One hides extra menu icons, the other dims background windows.
Alfred on Mac, a launcher: you called it up with a hotkey, and type a few letters to run an app or, crucially, a custom action. It’s unmatched by alternatives, especially on Windows and Linux. Typing a couple letters into Alfred is often quicker than cmd-tabbing to an app. And it’s way better for frequent actions than mousing around.
I’m also planning to buy Renoise, the cross-platform music tracker. It does about everything the big DAWs do, but with the keyboard-centric workflow. Pretty cheap too.
I also use Total Commander for Android. It’s the only file manager on Android that makes sense to me.
Yeah, the Android app is great, and is free. The open-source Ghost Commander is lacking in polish in comparison.
The only thing I’m missing from TC on Android is filtering the list with keyboard entry instead of jumping to the file that begins with those letters. The former is much better, as shown by Double Commander.
Gimp.
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P.S. This is a joke and I am very proud of it.
Your joke made me laugh, and I’m proud of you for making it.
Fight club 5e. If you play enough D&D it becomes quickly worth it. It’s also proven useful in helping our new players get their characters setup more quickly.
It is very slow to be updated. Has he said if there is a plan to update to current rules? Last update was 2+ years ago. I loved the app, I purchased it, but as of now it is useless.
Pdf Xchange is one I use a lot. Wish they’d make a Linux version instead of just saying to use Wine. I’d buy it again if they’d released it on Linux to get some of the newer features (correct scans, monochrome recoloring, delete all children, dark page mode).
Bitwarden. It’s free and open source, but you can pay for a subscription if you don’t want to self host for synchronisation between devices. It’s very cheap and no doubt worth it.
Also Aseprite, for pixel art and custom format exports.
For real, I had been using Bitwarden for a couple of years for free and it never once had to show an ad to ask me to buy it’s subscription. I just realized that it was giving me tons of value, and that prompted me to buy the (fairly priced) subscription. That’s a gold standard imo.
I saw a banner in the extension telling me the premium version existed once, but it wasn’t very intrusive
what kind of synchronization between devices are you referring to? I’ve never had a subscription and have used multiple vaults on numerous different devices
Basically storing an encrypted backup of your secure content so that a password you add to bitwarden on desktop can be accessed via your phone, accessible via a login.
ok, that’s basic cloud sync, which is a core free feature of Bitwarden, not a premium feature. you don’t need to purchase a subscription for that, it’s literally the fundamental purpose of any modern password manager and is completely free in Bitwarden
Yeah it does look like cloud sync is free now. I was a pretty early adopter of bitwarden so I believe originally you had to pay for cloud sync support, but I may be wrong.
Still, I’ll continue to support them because they’re the only password manager I’ve used that has some semblance of mutual respect.
Libresprite is the open source alternative and it’s nearly identical.
Aseprite is free if you compile it yourself, isn’t it?
It used to be gpl licensed
Right, but it’s still free (even for commercial use) under the current license so long as you compile it from source yourself and don’t share the binary. The author just has some weird thoughts about the GPL.
Sync between devices doesnt require a subscription?
I use it on my desktop, laptop and phone, no issue
Never paid a dime
