• confuser@lemmy.zip
          1·
          2 years ago

          Is open street map data pretty accurate? I don’t expect google mas level of accuracy but I think its important that I can rely on the maps when I don’t know anything about where I’m at

          • SeekPie@lemm.ee
            0·
            2 years ago

            I did a month long trip around western Europe (Italy, France, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden) and used Organic Maps as my only navigation app. Worked well for everything I used it for. Even the metro data was accurate. Also, in my home country, Estonia, it’s even better than Google Maps, because it has bike navigation integrated.

  • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
    46·
    2 years ago

    Krita. I had a uni licence for Photoshop for years, even took a Photoshop course but still kept using Krita. It has an intuitive UI and all the tools I’ll ever need.

    RStudio+R is way better than any of its proprietary alternatives.

    Blender. I’m no 3D modling expert but it does everything I as a hobbyist want to do with it and so much more. Nowadays, the UI is pretty decent, too.

    Finally, the Lagrange browser is really good. The gemini protocol is kinda niche though, but if you’re interested it’s unreasonably pretty, well optimized and has a great UX. The guy who maintains it really puts his heart and soul into it.

    • Yprum@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 years ago

      The fact that you put those examples together with this Lagrange browser made me curious enough to check it, I had never heard of Gemini protocol before. So, simply put, thank you for sharing about this, I’m going to be installing Lagrange and start checking out geminispace.

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        It’s a lot of fun. It only took me a couple of hours to figure out how to make a “site”.

        gemini://motion.chrisco.me

        Our local community is getting into it.

      • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        2 years ago

        Cool! Every once in a while, I open the browser and check what’s going on in the gemini://midnight.pub

  • astrsk@fedia.iodeleted by creator
    39·
    2 years ago

    Off the top of my head from daily use;

    • Borg backup, powerful backup software for self-hosted oriented users or enterprise automation.
    • proxmox, hypervisor that is performant and easy to setup for simple and complex virtualization needs.
    • bitwarden (combined with vaultwarden self-host), password management, secrets management, and available on basically all platforms and browsers. Self hosting your vault gives you peace of mind over who has your most sensitive data.
    • obsidian, a great notes app with polished cross platform applications that don’t do any funky proprietary storage shenanigans. Files are files and folders are folders.
    • kate (and most of the KDE suite), premiere Linux desktop environment suitable for customization and all the expected luxuries user would expect from windows or macOS. Kate specifically is a noticeable modern upgrade over notepad++ and rivals VSCode for programmers.
    • littletoolshed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Could you expand on what you mean by ‘complex virtualization needs’ - I read this phrase sometimes but would appreciate an expert’s perspective 🙏

      • astrsk@fedia.iodeleted by creator
        1·
        2 years ago

        My only point was to explain that proxmox is great free software because it supports both simple virtualization needs, such as having several different VMs or containers running on one headless system with very little overhead, and complex multi-system setups that include multiple machines running proxmox and clustered together for both reliability and redundancy with distributed services and applications.

  • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    2 years ago

    May be a bit out there, but on Android, Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a rogue lite game that is free and extremely fun to play. No ads, not very demanding on your phone, still gets updates, and easy to pick up and play when you’re out traveling.

    Its a very hard game, where knowledge is very important, as well as experimentation.