FOSS or otherwise
Emacs.
Emacs is a way of life
There are too many so I’ve compiled them here: Mostly excellent “free” software.
When obligated to pick one it’d be AutoKey: “a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.” Relatively and subjectively speaking, without it I feel hampered like crazy while most other software is “just” convenient.
Why is ReVanced crossed out? Works fine for me
It was broken for a while so I sought alternatives. I just now reinstalled it and updated the list. Thank you for the reminder.
Obsidian.
Nextcloud.
Does everything from GSuite that I need it to, but without looking through everything I upload, and analyzing it for advertising and other purposes that I wouldn’t consent to.
Twenty, even fifteen years ago I would’ve said Windows Notepad / vim. Now I rarely use basic text editors.
I don’t think there’s any technology that can never be superseded.
Joplin because I struggled for years with a consistent way to keep and refer to notes that I could find easily at a moment’s notice and access from any device, anywhere.
(Please don’t tell me about how you use a text editor and markdown in your home directory Like GH* INTENDED because I tried that FOR A DECADE and it didn’t work for me. I’m old and cranky. Get off my lawn! :)
Kate
Termux on Android.
I’ve got some videos on my phone I might want to watch on random computers, so I serve them up with NGINX. I’ve got wget-created mirrors of some old websites on my phone, so I serve them up with NGINX. Other files I may want to move out from my phone to untrusted computers on the network can too be served up simply by NGINX.
I’ve got the full Wikipedia zim file from Kiwix on my Micro SD card, so I run kiwix-serve (behind NGINX).
I’ve got all the music on my phone, naturally the phone is then running my Navidrome server (behind NGINX).
Of course, I may want to manage this from a computer, so it’s running SSH server.
My phone is always connected to VPN and uses NextDNS, naturally I may want to use this with other computers, but I can’t install software to computers I don’t own (I mean, I can, but … it would be disliked), naturally it is then running Tiniproxy HTTP proxy server.
Some desktop GUI apps can be useful on a phone too. noaa-apt, Kid3, Audacity, desktop Firefox, Handbrake because I am too dumb for ffmpeg, so I run XFCE DE on it. Naturally, I can access it from a computer (I know) too, after all it’s accessed via a VNC server.
Am I stupid enough to expose something using HTTP protocol running on my phone to the internet? Of course I am! I can use cloudflared.
Do I want to encrypt a file? I can use GPG.
Do I want to create a compressed archive? I’ve got TAr and GZip.
Do I want to browse Gopher? I’ve got Lynx.
SSH or telnet somewhere? The clients are there.Christ on a bike, this comment reads like I’m having a stroke
Do I want to download a car? I have PoterZebie on LilypaD for 3gb and a portable SD kaZoo
I code nearly exclusively over termux+ssh.
You ssh into your phone? Or you use Termux on your phone to ssh into another machine?
I code from an android tablet, by ssh’ing into a linux server running arch linux for development. I used vim+plugins for years, but now helix as it supports rust and typescript well.
May I ask which tablet you use and why? Do you use an external keyboard? I find your setup really interesting, and would love to know the reasons behind it
nginx
why not just
python -m http.server 1234?I feel like NGINX is simplest to configure. And it’s in the repos already, so I don’t see the advantage here.
Easy to do redirects, directory listings, serving a static website, setting mime types of specific files, basic user authentication, using HTTPS, using it as reverse proxy, limiting request types, limiting bandwidth, and making the directory listings far nicer with fancyindex module. That’s all I need and it’s pretty simple to do with NGINX. I don’t know what the Python HTTP server does, nor how to use.
if you said Caddy, I’d believe you more – but nginx requires a lot of configuration.
python http server simply does a directory listing in the folder it is invoked in, and if there is an index.html file present it will serve it by default. Easy for hosting files/images from your phone
Thanks for giving me many hours of something to do
Why on earth do you run this all on your phone as opposed to on a home server?
Because… I can.
And it’s portable.
JPEGView It’s a simple but powerful image viewer (don’t be misled by the name, it can view most any standard image formats).
It feels weird to even have an opinion on such a simple piece of software, but this is the type of tool that reminds you of what software could be like. When you open an image, you see the image. No loading time. No unnecessary toolbars. No fucking pop-ups to update the software to get the latest AI tools.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s plenty powerful. It’s got all the tools you’d expect: viewing EXIF data, cropping, rotating, brightness/color correction. It even has some more advanced tools: navigating collections of photos (including nested folders), viewing a collection as a slideshow or movie, perspective correction, batch-renaming… The impressive part is that it does all this without getting in the way of it’s job: viewing images.
Unfortunately, the project has been abandoned, though it appears to have been forked here (I haven’t actually used this version, but hopefully they haven’t changed too much).
PieDock
On Windows: EarTrumpet
Being able to quickly change audio outputs is awesome, I am always bouncing between headset and speakers. Also the pop up volume mixer is better than the built in one. Been using ET for years and years, can pry it from my cold dead hands.
What does it do that the standard windows soundmixer doesn’t do? You can change inputs in 2 clicks or ctrl+windows×v
You can pry Vim from my cold dead hands.
What if I swap it out with helix like that statue in Indiana jones
You know, I’ve heard a lot of good things about Helix; if it gets more people using modal editors then I’m all for it. Personally though, I haven’t seen a convincing reason to leave Vim yet.
The biggest reason though is that my editor works literally everywhere. Even without my custom vimrc, vanilla vim is hugely powerful, and to have that on every random server I need to access is a gamechanger for me. Even if all you have is Vi, you still have a very capable editor available.
I mean uh… Crushed by a boulder! Which on Lemmy means you’ll be downvoted into oblivion until they run you off the instance haha.
I will!! Right after I look up the key command that does that.
:h pry
Sure and place neovim there
Jellyfin, NZB360, HortusFox, HomeAssistant (soon), Docker?
Tell me more about NZB360 and HortusFox, I’ve never heard of these before.
NZB360 is an app for Android to manage the *arrs, sabnzbd/torrent client and whatever else you want. Quite useful.
HortusFox is sort of you own wiki, inventory and diary for plants you have at home. Like keeping track of watering, fertilizing, communication between other parties (like your SO to not double water your plants)
wwe.start.me launcher page. I have all my links on all devices in the same place. My first step when i install a browser.
Never heard of that, does it work offline? I’ve been using TiddlyWiki on a cloud drive as a bookmark homepage.
No offline, he typoed the url btw. I use it because I’m old and miss the old web portal days like igoogle before they ditched it. I made my own page that simulates an igoogle-like web portal, very customizable except you can’t, for some really strange reason, click the header of an RSS feed to get to that page’s home.
Would be sorta meh for me, except I made a sub-page with only 1 column that makes the best start page for a phone I’ve ever seen, because I made it myself with stuff I want to see all at once when I start my phone browser. That 1 feature makes it worthwhile.
Newpipe
