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No, it's my actual username
Definitely Blender. I'd consider myself a medium grade expert at using it for CAD, solid modelling, 3D printing, yet there are vast sections of it I have never touched, and appear to be so rich that you could build a career around them without overlapping with my skill set.
Blender used to be so difficult to use. It has come a long way and I genuinely like using now, not just forced to because of budget limits.
Kdenlive, just wow. I knew absolutely nothing about video editing, and it was so user-friendly, that it only took me a day to create something with it. Such great software.
@CCatMan @div, easy, show them tis analyse of Reddit, made with bLacklight. (the TowerData which appears is known to use even keylogger to profile the user).
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
That's an amazing tool you've found! No clue that existed until now.
@Choco1ateCh1p, this and some others must be in any bookmark
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en
https://sucuri.net/malware-detection-scanning/
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url
https://privacyscore.org
https://www.urlvoid.com
https://browserleaks.com
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
https://linkunshorten.com
To check Android apps
https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
Linux! The responsible for my knowledge in computing and a great deal of English..Linux is the power!
I switched to Linux Mint full-time a few months ago and it's blown me away with how good it is.
After 13 years using Linux I still can't believe it's free!
I wish Firefox used QT or there was a KDE browser that was better maintained
Check out VSCodium. It's VSCode compiled without all the Microsoft bits.
Omnivore! It's just a "read it later" app, but so nice to use. I enjoy newsletters again, because they all go there instead of in my emails, and they all have a uniform look to them now. Sorting by labels and syncing highlights to my Obsidian inbox page are great features. And they said bulk editing is coming soon.
Also bitwarden, lichess, and qbitorrent.
For me it is KDE Plasma desktop. By far the most powerful, customizable, flexible and innovative of the computer desktops today. And despite all these features and power it is still one of the more lightweight ones.
Also there are other great KDE apps and GNU/Linux operating system in general. Just love how they respect my digital rights and freedoms and my privacy and I do not need to use proprietary alternatives which are just getting more bloated and include more and more spyware. Not to mention their constant dumbing down of the interface and closing it up.
Honestly, Lively Wallpaper. You can set anything as your wallpaper and it'll work wonderfully: a video streaming directly from YouTube, a Unity game, a shader, a browser tab, a gif... You name it!
And the API supports sound input so anyone can make their sound visualizers now. I always wanted to do that as a kid after being an og WMP fanboy and finally got that knocked off my bucket list
I kinda have the opposite response. I've been a mostly open source guy for the last 20 years so when I see what kind of half baked proprietary tools people buy I'm always shocked how much money mediocre software costs.
Up until not too long ago, it seemed like if the leading proprietary tool was half baked, the open source tool was a quarter baked. Take office suites. OpenOffice was pretty consistently ten years behind MS Office. Or GIMP was constantly lagging behind Photoshop in usability, but now is a very good photo editor. The exception has always been development tools, where you get a nice confluence of motivation to volunteer and people knowing what they want.
As a creative: Blender. It was always a good program but thank god they finally started hiring people, that actually know how to design a usable UI. I remember the times when the devs refused to change the simple default selection to the worldwide standard: left mouse button.
Yeah and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
Did you know that Blender use to unironically use Shift+Ctrl+Alt+C for a surprisingly common operation?
I don't actually remember what for, 2.79 was years ago, but I think it placed the object origin at the center of the geometry
...and so many more
OBS is the one that gets me. A lot of streamers I follow talk about how they use OBS because it's such a reliable standard and works the way they expect. Pretty cool that an open source app is the standard for something as mainstream as livestreaming.
Jellyfin
Blender
Darktable
Bitwarden / Vaultwarden
wtf BLENDER is open source???
Yep, there are quite a few forks of it too, eg. one for artists with a friendlier UI, a CAD-focused one, a game engine one etc.
Wow, TIL; I had always thought of it as an open source project, but I guess it wasn't always!
In May 2002, Roosendaal started the non-profit Blender Foundation, with the first goal to find a way to continue developing and promoting Blender as a community-based open-source project. On July 18, 2002, Roosendaal started the "Free Blender" campaign, a crowdfunding precursor.[19][20] The campaign aimed at open-sourcing Blender for a one-time payment of €100,000 (US$100,670 at the time), with the money being collected from the community.[21] On September 7, 2002, it was announced that they had collected enough funds and would release the Blender source code. Today, Blender is free and open-source software, largely developed by its community as well as 26 full-time employees and 12 freelancers employed by the Blender Institute.[22]
qbittorrent
Fedora OS. I mean, its a fully viable, up to date, no tracking operating system. After trying it im seriously thinking people buy windows only because they're used to it. Now it's my daily driver "even" for gaming (Praise our Lord Gaben and Proton).
As someone in IT I have mixed feeling about this. Linux machines make great servers, ok workstations, and God awful corporate endpoints. Say what you will about Microsoft and windows, when you need to manage policies impacting large number of endpoints, active directory (when configured correctly) is a beast of a solution.
Now if we are talking about someone at home browsing the web? Use whatever gui/os you like. I do agree, more people should try Linux just to be exposed to something different.
I love FreeCAD and i use everytime I can. It has an incredible range of features and is (becoming) stable enough. But, sadly, the world of CAD is fu¢{|Ng proprietary, if you are not 100% compatible with the Autodesk stuff nobody will ever consider using it on a production environment (e.g. architecture or construction). And off course, Autodesk does it's best to keep file exchange uncomfortable
And it's the reason of affordable licenses for students. Once students are used to the drug, they have no other choice to continue with the expensive workflow. And companies have to follow
I abide by the side of the fence that something performing well means it probably is open source, rather than not.
An open source project's only reason for existing is to work and do its job.
Most paid apps trade userfriendlyness for less features, and making a dollar is sometimes more important than making sure it went to good use.
Krita, Blender, VLC
EDIT: Xonotic, OBS
Cura. I've been using it for over a decade, and it is still hands down the best 3D printing slicer. S3D (I think that was it's name) was on top for a while, but was ~$200 for features that really weren't worth the money.
@dl007 kde and vlc
KDE is the reason I stayed on Linux way back then
Honestly - I used to think the same way. I've tried Linux multiple times and it never "stuck".
When I got my Steam Deck, though, I realized that the desktop mode was actually quite good. I had tried KDE before and it was always meh at best - slow and usually janky. When I heard that the Deck used KDE Plasma I was worried.
But I had such a great time with my Deck that I realized, "Hey, Linux actually seems usable now." I tried Linux Mint on a Live USB and noticed it got like 90% of the way there, but it had issues with multiple monitors.
Then I tried KDE Neon. And it was great! Multiple monitors worked fine, I have all the tools I need for work, and honestly it's such a step up from Windows glitching out or nagging me with a notification to get Xbox Game Pass or whatever or putting ads in the Start menu.
I've had KDE Neon as my daily driver for about a month now, without a single problem. I recommend giving it another look if you're like me and haven't tried Linux in a while.
More than anything else, Ghidra.
thanks for using Leebra!
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