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• LibreWolf as my browser (it's a more secure and private version of Firefox, comes with a pre-installed adblocker and removes all the unnecessary junk) (Flatpak) with some of the following extensions:
  • LibRedirect for redirecting privacy-invasive websites to private frontends
  • ff2mpv
  • Read Aloud (text-to-speech)
  • Buster for solving CAPTCHAs
  • Dark Reader
  • Violentmonkey for userscripts like Lemmy Universal Link Switcher (it's really useful)
  • DownThemAll
  • Search by Image
  • Server-Status (GitHub) shows information about a web server like country/region (via local GeoIP database lookup), SSL certificate information and more. Good open source alternative to Flagfox.
• Thunderbird for emails (Flatpak)
• Proton Mail Bridge (Flatpak)
• Merkuro Calendar
• Ptyxis (Flatpak) as my terminal. It's optimized for containers (e.g. distrobox). foot is a pretty good alternative if you want something more minimalistic and don't care about containers. There are countless other good options like Kitty, Alacritty, Konsole, WezTerm and many others.
• Emacs as my IDE
• KWrite, Kate or NotepadQQ for quickly editing text documents. There's also Apostrophe for GNOME.
• QOwnNotes for local/Nextcloud-synced notes (Iotas for GNOME) There are other good options like Trilium Notes or Joplin.
• Speech Note speech-to-text note-taking (https://piped.video/watch?v=zlLVgTB42Bo)
• Akregator as my RSS client (Newsflash for GNOME)
• Strawberry as my music player (Amberol or Rhythmbox if you're on GNOME)
• Spot for Spotify (Flatpak)
• Cider for Apple Music (unfortunately not FOSS anymore)
• Feishin for connecting to my self-hosted Navidrome music server
• rescrobbled for saving my music listening history to Last.fm. Also works with self-hosted ListenBrainz.
• Jellyfin Desktop for connecting to my self-hosted Jellyfin media server
• mpv as my video player (Celluloid on GNOME)
• FreeTube for watching YouTube videos
• This modded YouTube Music client that has an adblocker and many other cool features: https://th-ch.github.io/youtube-music/
• Kasts for listening to podcasts (also has the ability to sync with gpodder.net or self-hosted GPodder on Nextcloud)
• LibreOffice (Flatpak) There's also OnlyOffice.
• Skanpage for scanning documents
• GNUcash for accounting
• Notesnook or Standard Notes for end-to-end encrypted note-taking
• Anki Flashcards (Flatpak)
• Logseq (FOSS Obsidian alternative)
• Flameshot for screenshots (GitHub, Flatpak)
• Kdenlive for video editing
• GIMP, Krita and Inkscape for graphics stuff
• Blender for animation stuff
• Natron for VFX
• LMMS and Ardour for music production
• Virtual Machine Manager for creating/managing KVM/QEMU VMs (Boxes for GNOME)
• Nextcloud Desktop for connecting to my home server
• Signal Desktop (Flatpak) There's also Flare for GNOME, which uses GTK instead of Electron and feels more native (Flatpak)
• Element (or NeoChat if you use KDE, Fractal for GNOME) for Matrix
• WebCord for Discord. There are some native GTK clients like Abaddon and Dissent.
• Paper Planes (Native GTK Telegram client)
• Konversation or HexChat for IRC (Polari on GNOME)
• Tokodon as my Mastodon client
• qBittorrent for downloading torrent content. (You can use KTorrent on KDE and Fragments on GNOME)
• Pika Backup for taking backups (There's a pretty good video about it: https://piped.video/watch?v=W30wzKVwCHo)
• Timeshift for btrfs snapshots
• Gradience to customize GTK4 appearance
• Bitwarden for syncing my password database with my self-hosted Vaultwarden server (also works with their public cloud syncing option). Use KeePassXC if you prefer something entirely local.
• LocalSend for sharing files on the local network (basically works like AirDrop) (also works over NetBird or Tailscale btw)
• NetBird for creating a flat VPN network between my devices
• KDE Connect for better integration with my phone. Also works over NetBird btw. Check out GSConnect if you're on GNOME.
• KRunner for quickly finding files or applications (Ulauncher for other desktops, rofi for window managers)
• Safing Portmaster (Firewall and DNS blocking solution. Check out OpenSnitch if you just need a firewall)
• LACT for controlling AMD GPUs
• Flatseal for managing Flatpak permissions (On KDE this is integrated in the system settings)
• Bottles for managing Wine prefixes (Flatpak)

If you like gaming:

• Lutris for managing my games
• Heroic for Epic Games and GOG
• Prism Launcher for Minecraft
• Dolphin for emulating Wii and GameCube
• Ryujinx for emulating the Switch
• RPCS3 for PS3 emulation
• Vita3K for PSVita emulation
• PPSSPP for PSP
• Cemu for Wii U emulation

For the CLI:

• fish shell
• starship
• tmux
• fd as an alternative to find
• bat instead of less (written in Rust, has some nice syntax highlighting)
• ripgrep
• fzf
• zoxide
• yt-dlp
• streamlink
• ncmpcpp
• ncspot
• newsboat

Just use the Flatpak, it makes everything much easier:
https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.librewolf-community

SteamOS is arch-based and immutable

You mean hallucinations like this one?

Well, they manually removed that one. But there are much better ones:

You mean answers like this one?

But now some genius doesn’t read the fine print and hooks up 2 or 3 on the same circuit. There is no electrician that tells him that’s dangerous because it’s all self installed and he doesn’t know any better. And all of a sudden you are up to 26.5A and you got glowing, smoking wires in your walls…

Ok sure, that makes sense. This might actually be an issue.

I always hated Samsung for their shitty business practices, and the way they dealt with their customers in terms of device repairability

Support the QMMP and WACUP projects

Except he's probably American or Canadian. Look at his profile.

These systems automatically turn themselves off during an outage.

Plug-in systems are built around a microinverter that feeds solar energy back into the home via a standard wall jack.

What the actual fuck?

What's wrong with that? That's how basically any balcony solar system works.