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Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" (wedistribute.org)
What does your desktop look like? (share.jackgreenearth.org)
Here’s mine. No inspiration at all taken from a certain California based company’s OS ;p...
Finally got rid of telegram, congratulations to me (sh.itjust.works)
It was a many months transition, and it’s finally done...
What is your game to de stress ?
I like mini motorways and stardew valley. What about you ?
Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption (community.signalusers.org)
There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak....
Meshtastic - An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices (youtu.be)
Long range (LoRa) mesh networks are interesting alternatives to communication, especially when state actors are blocking internet access for various reasons....
Berty Messenger for iOS and Android - Zero Trust Open Source Peer-to-Peer Messenger based on IPFS protocol (berty.tech)
** Now in Android and iOS app stores **...
Clever perspective puzzler Moncage is now available on Android (and on Steam Games) (www.androidpolice.com)
Optillusion is a new indie developer that just released its first game today, and it’s a doozy. This game is called Moncage, and it’s a drop-dead gorgeous puzzler that offers a uniquely interesting mechanic....
Darling is like Wine for Windows on Linux, but runs macOS software (ostechnix.com)
Darling is a translation layer that allows us to run macOS applications on Linux. It emulates a complete Darwin environment, including Mach, dyld, launchd and everything you’d expect. It lets you to instantly switch to a Bash shell and start running the applications built for macOS in your Linux system....
EasyEffects for Linux - An open source audio effects application for recording audio (github.com)
This application used to be called PulseEffects but it was renamed to EasyEffects after we started to use GTK4 and replaced GStreamer by native PipeWire filters....
How to Remote Play Steam Games Without a Steam Account using Steam Link (lifehacker.com)
Valve is currently testing a new feature on Steam Beta. The “Invite Anyone” upgrade to the existing Remote Play feature allows you, a Steam gamer, to play compatible games with any of your friends. They won’t need to set up an account on Steam to do so; they’ll just be able to hop right in after they click on a hyperlink...
OpenRGB: Open Source RGB Lighting Control For Keyboards, Fans, Mice And Much More for Windows and Linux (www.linuxuprising.com)
Usually each component manufacturer has their own software for controlling RGB lights, with some requiring an online account to function. For Linux users, even that is not usually available since most of these applications are proprietary and Windows only. This is where OpenRGB comes in. OpenRGB is a free and open source...
My categorised list with hundreds of open source alternatives to proprietary software has been updated with even more options (gadgeteer.co.za)
My list is separated into 30 separate categories to help find your area of interest whether it is networking, security, messengers, video editing, education, etc. It is also backed up to the Wayback Machine for future reference....