Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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    This isn’t exactly “can’t live without,” that would be HomeAssistant. But what I Immediately thought of?

    Beyond All Reason

    This is an RTS game in the spirit of Total Annihilation.

    • labor of love
    • fully 3d, including ability to rotate or raise/lower view
    • tens of thousands of units without hardware lag for reasonably modem hardware (3-4 years old)
    • all shots actively rendered, leading to:
    • realistic friendly fire
    • even air units can get hit by ballistic shots targeting land units (although odds are fairly slim)
    • redirect-unit-to-dodge micro is effective in some situations
    • meaningful terrain
    • radar will have blind spots based on line-of-sight
    • radar gives clear indicator of coverage during placement
    • two factions, almost 200 units each, with tier 1, 2, and 3 units. A third (currently playable with a setting change) faction is in the works.
    • crafty, non-cheating ai opponents
    • free server hosting (!)
    • active servers all times of day

    The overall feel and balance of the game is great. The changes they make to balance are generally light and reasonable, and the game had a good community.

    Fam and friends play together often.

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      Well we can’t live without a modern game that acknowledges how awesome Total Annihilation is as an idea so effectively that means we can’t live without Beyond All Reason/The Spring Engine right?

      I mean Forged Alliance Forever is amazing and I am zero percent bashing it… and ok I guess we would still have Planetary Annihilation, and that game looks pretty awesome too…so I suppose technically we could live without Beyond All Reason but I doubt even the Planetary Annihilation devs would be happy about that world, I know the FAF community wouldnt be happy lol.

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      Loved TA as a kid. Played it for countless hours on GameSpy and EA Zone. Will definitely give this a try, thank you!

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    Well, I guess we’re a little past the year mark but I really like Lemmy and Jerboa lol.

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      Same. I went from one overly complicated Debian install to two dozen neat and self contained VMs that do one thing each. I even tricked a Windows VM into not knowing that it’s a VM, so I can game with anticheat games.

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        Got any recommended sources for someone looking to do the same thing? My home server is approaching 18 years old, was looking to set up something neat and tidy to replace it when it eventually fails. Tricking a windows vm sounds pretty useful too!

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    I’ll go with FreeCAD. I’ve known about it for a while and tried it about 5-10 years ago but have given it another look as I try to get back into CAD stuff and hate the restrictive licenses of commercial products. It has come a LONG way and is far more intuitive to use than it used to be.

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    My favourite recent one is Yunohost, which makes it super easy to spin up a little self-hosted server with a bunch of apps. I’ve been having good fun with that and a spare Raspberry Pi lately.

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      It’s not quite as point-and-click, but I’m using Docker for that because Yunohost kept messing up updates. Most server apps will have some instructions on how to run them in docker, especially a docker-compose.yml file, so you don’t have to rely on the Yunohost team to package said app.

      The way I do it is that I put each suggested compose file in their own file, and import them in my main docker-compose.yml file like this:

      version:  '3'
      include:
          - syncthing.yml
      

      Then just run docker compose pull && docker compose up -d every time you change something or want to update your apps, and you’re good to go.

      Software updates in particular are waaaaaayyy easier on Docker than Yunohost.

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        This has uncovered my shameful Linux confession lol - I don’t understand Docker at all. I think I’m reasonably okay with Linux stuff, I can put an Arch install together without using the archinstall script, I got NixOS up and running without too much trouble etc. but I just can’t get my head around how Docker is supposed to work for some reason.

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          For self-hosting purposes, Docker = lightweight disposable VMs that are configured via docker-compose.yml. All important data should be in “volumes”, which are just shared folders between the host and the container.

          The end result is that you can delete and re-create containers at any time and they should just pick up where they left off from the data that’s in these volumes.

          Each individual published image has some paths they want to use for that; everything is usually specified in their example docker-compose files.

          If you’re not a dev, don’t even try to understand Dockerfiles, it’s not for you.

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      Oh wow! Every now and then I feel like I needed something like this. Thanks!

  • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N
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    Freetube.

    Once they added quick playlist functionality earlier this year, it was over for YouTube for me.

    At this point it has everything I need and could only use small QoL improvements to be absolutely perfect for me.

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      I also prefer freetube to the containerized web hosted softwares like Invidious because I sit at a personal computer all day.

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    Variety - a silly taskbar program that changes my background randomly from my own selected sources with added random quotes. I have it set to change my background every 3 hours and the quotes every hour I think. I just can’ live without it anymore.

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    Notesnook.

    I was previously using Obsidian, which is great! but didn’t like that it was closed source. I then went on to try various options [0] but none of them felt “right”. I eventually found notesnook and it hit everything I was looking for [1]. It’s only gotten better in the last year I started using it and just recently they introduced the ability to host your own sync server, which is one of the requirements it didn’t initially make, but was on their roadmap.

    [0] Obsidian, Standard Notes, OneDrive, VSCode with addons, Joplin, Google Keep, Simple Notes, Crypt.ee, CryptPad (more of a collabroation suite, which I actually really like, but it did not fit the bill of a notes app), vim with addons, Logseq, Zettlr, etc.

    [1] Requirements in no particular order:

    • Open source client and server.
    • Cross-platform availability as I use Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android.
    • Cross-platform feature parity.
    • Doesn’t fight me over how notes should be taken - looking at Logseq’s lack of organization.
    • Easy notes syncing.
    • End-to-end encryption (E2EE). It’s about to be 2025, if the tools you’re picking up aren’t E2EE, you’re letting unknown strangers access your data and resell it. It doesn’t matter what their privacy policy says as that can always change and/or they can get compromised/compelled to expose your data.
    • Ability to publish notes.
    • Decent UX.
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    Locate command. I know it’s a command in thw terminal but since I had to apt install it I’m adding it here.

    I absolutely love it.