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KiCad. It’s an electronics design tool on par with commercial options in the industry, which cost a ton of money. Ever since the UI facelift it got a few years ago, it has become my go-to option. They are even working on integrating circuit simulation and finite element analysis, which is just crazy.
Organic Maps
Organic maps is great bit I wish it had real time traffic data. For that reason I normally use magic earth instead.
Also on iOS—looks promising
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magic-earth-navigation-maps/id1007331679
Thank you very much for pointing out that app exists
Organic maps is so good
there’s been many a time i’ve been out in the middle of nowhere with a friend or family member and google maps stops working on their phone, and i get to pull out OM and save the day :^)
Can you provide a bit of info on it? What is it for and how does it stand out among the other apps or programs?
It’s a beautiful, FOSS, offline/local Google maps-like app for Android that uses Open Street Map data.
There are plenty of other offline/local map apps, some paid, some free, but they are nowhere near as polished.
Practically all of the free map services use OSM.
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
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.
That’s very promising to hear!
Forgot to add, that it also gets updated faster than Google Maps. A roundabout that was built, took about a week to be added to Organic Maps, on Google Maps it took more than a month.
Aside from the obvious FOSS offerings, there is a ton of free music software out there, including plugins for your favorite DAW.
While we are at it, Reaper is not free but they are also not going to bug you to pay for it. It is so good and inexpensive that they mostly rely on the honor system for payment.
Also shout-out to airwindows. Absolutely fantastic plugin collection, and entirely free!!!
Edit: also, while I’m at it, Orca is a great, though very weird, sequencer.
check out ardour
Read Era. They also have a paid option but the free is great as it is!
Wikipedia
Don’t forget to donate!
But then it’s not free anymore /s
Wikipedia
app
Reee
To be fair, they have an app
That’s true
That reminds me, I should donate
Google Maps
google products aren’t free, you pay with your soul.
Well, jokes aside, they are useful but if you are dependent on them google has way too much power over you. Personally, I would be fucked if google decided to ban my account for some reason. And they have demonstrated they will not unban you even if they make mistake.
Proton. Literally makes any of the big linuxes into the streamos people are waiting for
Wikipedia. Not an app but still deserves a mention.
Libre Office
I miss when apps were specific to phones and we kept desktop computers out of it.
Godot
I cant believe it has a better user experience than unity, an app that has a 412 USD/month paid plan
Thanks, checking this out.
One story that I should write down because I always tell it when discussing Godot since it’s a great example of why Godot is better than other engines is that a while back I was doing a single player game for a game jam, because I was testing it with multiple controllers I wanted that it would pick any controller (it’s a single player game after all, no one cares which controller I’m using) and was annoyed at the fact that every game engine requires you to create mapping for all controllers individually to do this, e.g. “controller 1 button A”, “controller 2 button A”, etc. So I went into the code for Godot and added a couple of lines that allowed me to create a mapping for all controllers, i.e. “Any controller Button A”. This felt so useful that I wondered why no engine has it, so I submitted a PR and last I checked Godot is still the only engine that allows for “any controller” style mapping.
I was waiting for that.
Home Assistant
YES! Proprietary home-automation ecosystems are a confusing mishmash of standards, and Matter is only just barely starting to change that. Home Assistant is the glue that sticks them all together. I can have expensive Hue smart bulbs, cheap HomeKit bulbs I found in the clearance bin, Magic Home RGB LED controllers, Sonoff smart switches, a garage door opener connecting via MQTT, and it easily connects to all of them and presents a uniform toggle switch for all of them. I can switch all my (smart) lights on and off from a menu on my GNOME desktop. No fighting with proprietary apps for each different ecosystem. Home Assistant is amazing in how boring and unremarkable it makes the implementation details.
I dislike the implication that the most useful apps are not free.
I always feel more comfortable using FOSS software, even if it doesn’t look as nice as the commercial option.
Image Toolbox, full of useful feature for image editing
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Warning: IANAL
It’s only destruction of evidence if it’s evidence of a crime. You can destroy data for countless reasons that are not crimes, but it might be up to you to show that it’s unrelated to a crime. Most large companies have a data destruction policy for that reason. If it gets called out in court (usually in civil cases), they can point to that policy. The docs weren’t shredded/erased to hide wrongdoing; they just haven’t been used in 24 months and that’s when our policy says to delete.
(Such as “Destruction of Evidence” charges)
Just checked my state’s law. It specifies “intentionally” destroying the evidence. If you have it set up to do it after a certain amount of inactivity, your intent is not to destroy evidence. By all means a corrupt judicial system or police force could still abuse it. But it shouldn’t be illegal (at least in my state).
