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I have been noticing that Google Play is overrun with adware, trialware, and freemium kinds of apps. Really hard to find FOSS and truly free apps....

I’m looking to replace WPS Office which comes by default with Xiaomi phones, what FOSS alternatives do you recommend?...

Hello! I’m currently using Musicolet as music player app on my android phone, and I really really really like its features. the ones I use the most are the possibility to reorganize the queue just by dragging songs, and the “boolean” operations on playlists (for example, If I have the “favourite” playlist with a lot of...

Hello! I was looking for some foss music player for android, and my search engine proposed me this article: androidfoss.com/open-source-music-players/...

I am looking for a contact manager to replace a google account or iCloud account....

I know the correct answer is to stop using Facebook, but there’s a couple communities I follow for certain updates I can’t get anywhere else....

Is there a FLOSS service that hosts events and can be used to distribute .ics files only with a link?...

Edit: And in the end, it’s back to good old Fedora with Xfce. I guess I’m an old man, fixed in my ways. Haiku was interesting, but not nearly as stable as needed. OpenSuSE with Xfce was rough, it requires more polish....

Buggy software, not so user friendly, things don’t work, new things to learn…...

The page says it gets updated every 1-5 months and F-Droid says the last update was over a year ago. Is it still being developed?

Im looking for something like comic life 3 but preferably open source. i would like to put ai generated images or photos into a comic with ease but with the power of open source or free. is there a software like this that lets you just drag and drop images and it helps make a comic or something? also im not a fan of free trials,...

I wanna buy an ebook reader but i don’t want any amazon or other companies shit in there, just something i can connect to my pc, pass ebooks in different formats into it and read.

Or a privacy respecting way on the web.

Hey all. I’m looking for a bulk episode renaming application for Linux, preferably GUI. Before switching, I used Rename My TV Series 2 on Winblow. But I can’t seem to get it to work on my Pop_os 22.04. Any good alternatives would be appreciated. Thanks!...

(single quotes around best for subjectivity) I’m trying to get all of my Android using friends and family into the Fediverse....

Pretty much what the titles says. I’m looking for a good foss android app for budgetting. Any recommendations is appreciated :)

I’ve been looking at options for controlling my Ubuntu Media Center computer from Android. Mainly Mouse, but Keyboard is good too. Looked at a lot of stuff but the most interesting ones were:...

I only saw the app once while scrolling around on f-droid; tried it but it seemed too empty to be useful. The only place I’ve since seen it even being mentioned is this post, but that’s also not specifically about the app. I’m genuinely curious about what exactly the point is of GNU/Jami. Is it just a p2p version of...

Is Haven still the only thing out there? It doesn’t seem to even be available any more from what I could find.

I’m currently using a found version of Adobe Audition and I love it but I want to find a FOSS alternative. I have tried Audacity in the past but it is/was missing a lot of the features I require. Anyone have a good recommendation?

For me its honestly a ton of my work software (digital forensics), shit is too niche to be replaced by good FOSS options. Cellebrite, Magnet Axiom, etc. Autopsy is great and free and has a linux version but it simply cannot get the same level of data without a pretty nutty level of custom code....

Hi, for a while I’ve been using LanguageTool and Deepl Write to fix my spelling and grammar, mostly when writing in English....

Over the years, my photo library has been managed by numerous apps (Picasso, iPhoto, gthumb, etc) and stored in multiple cloud and local drives. As a result I have a number of duplicates that I’d like to eliminate for easier organization. Is there a FOSS app that would assist with this task?

A good friend of mine just asked me if we can have a watch party in the upcoming days over the internet, so we can watch a movie together. They live in another country....