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sgt-puzzles. Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle collection.
Contains a bunch of simple puzzles, of the minesweeper and sudoku style. Loopy is my favorite.
Available for Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, and anything with a web browser and a mouse. Packaged in Debian and F-droid, and probably many other places.
I like it for time wasting in lines at the DMV, for a low-stakes game when anxious, and for falling asleep.
NextCloud - Self hosted personal cloud solution that you can run on Docker or bare metal.
+1 to Librera, I read downloaded fanfics on it when I'm on a long trip with no Wi-Fi. Very customizable, and can have an extremely dim dark mode.
Its good, i started using it because it allows you to inverts the colors, so you can turn your pdfs into white text on black background.
VLC (VideoLAN media player): play media files, DVDs, network streams and more. Just works,
Silverbullet is like Trilium or Obsidian a markdown notes app, which is lightweight and highly customizable (by css and scripting). And all files could be forever accessed as simple markdown-files in an easy folder structure without much overhead. The database is only for indexing and could be restored anytime.
LibreOffice - simply the best office suite there is (IMHO). I was a MS-office user for years, but since I switched, I haven't looked back...
Inkscape - the best vector graphics program out there. So easy to use, and so powerful.
Firefox - the original private webbrowser. Even though some people don't like the options in it (like those that let you stream Netflix and other DRM content). If people care about privacy, they use this browser, or one that is made from it...
GIMP - unlike Krita - which is made for drawing - this is made for photo-editing. It's like Photoshop. The learning curve is a bit steep, but it is really powerful.
Krita is certainly made for painting and also animation, but you can also edit photos with it, best to have both, GIMP and Krita, they are great complementing tools.
qBittorrent: only for your legal torrenting needs from e.g. archive.org :>
Mihon Manga reader for android. Allows auto aggregation from web sources to make tracking and reading manga smooth and easy
strudel. From the website:
With Strudel, you can expressively write dynamic music pieces.
The best place to actually make music with Strudel is the Strudel REPL
It's really fun to make music in it, I recommend trying it out!
Thunderbird - a brilliant e-mail program, which also handles contacts, newsfeeds, calender and more. It's available for multiple platforms, like Android, Windows, Linux and so forth...
Just wanted to say that mobile Outlook had a stroke trying to let me login to my school account after doing a mandated password change, while Thunderbird let me login issue free. So yeah, Thunderbird is where I check my mail now (outside of my proton mail account)
CoolerControl - Fan control for Linux based on any available sensors.
I find it much easier to use than fancontrol included with lm_sensors and much more reliable for me.
MusicBrainz Picard: superb mp3 tagger with online metadata lookup feature and audio track fingerprinting
Vassal - an open-source (LGPL-2.1) boardgame engine. basically, people build different modules for each game they want to play, then they can play that game over the internet or solo. Mostly focused on "chit-and-hex" style wargames.
Syncthing: Continuous, private, and encrypted file synchronization across multiple devices without using the cloud.