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What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (15 children)

Fluent Reader – to very quickly get a lot of news which I need for work
Beeper – for the 100 chat apps I need to use to stay in contact with my friends who don't use Matrix
Nheko – for the based friends who have [matrix] accounts and chats with industry professionals in my field
FluffyChat – mobile device [matrix] client
Logseq – as second brain, works better for me than Obsidian
Jameica – for online banking and accounting
K-9 Mail / Thunderbird – mail client
DecSync CC – for synchronising contacts with multiple devices through Syncthing
ActivityWatch – to track everything I do in case I forget to book time in my corporate time sheet, or if I want to know how long I played games in contrast to programming
KDE Plasma – best desktop environment boosting my productivity to about 140% of what I could do with Windows 10
Qalculate! – very fast and easy to use scientific calculator, can also do conversions like "1h50min → min" or "15€ → $"
Aegis – TOTP generator for mobile
VLC – plays everything you throw at it
mpv – plays everything you throw at it, if you installed the right codecs, and also does fancy ML-based GPU upscaling in my case
KeePassXC, KeePassDX – password managers integrated on Desktop, Laptop, Tablet and Phone
Syncthing – to automatically and seamlessly sync all my devices (Laptop, Desktop, Tablet, Phone, second Laptop, Servers, …)
Firefox Developer Edition, Librewolf – browsing the web without Chromium
Chromium – for PWAs like Teams, Outlook, Discord

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

whats the difference between the keepass forks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

KeepassXC is for desktop, while DX is for Android.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

are they ran by the same group?

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