What is the point of Flatpak, AppImage, Snap, etc?
I don’t understand what problem they are meant to solve. If you have a FOSS piece of software, you can install it via the package manager. Or the store, which is just a frontend for the package manager. I see that they are distribution-independent, but the distro maintainers likely already know what’s compatible and what...
Self-hostable FOSS Resume AI?
Are there any you know of?...
Any efforts to port Firefox's offline translations to other programs?
Open source translators for Android and CLI are mostly using proxy for Google Translate or barely working LibreTranslate....
Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption ( www.patrick-breyer.de )
This would probably fit in better in the technology community and I’m pretty sure it has been shared already, so sorry for the duplicate, especially since it was already on the !privacyguides and and !europe communities....
FOSS-Firmware for printers?
We all are pretty annoyed at how the printer industry is screwing customers over. There are a few printers that are really good but most of them suck and try to suck out your money by demanding ink when none is needed....
Looking for a ios keyboard
Maybe I’m asking to much but is there a decent foss iOS keyboard ? Or anything similar what won’t be sucking my privaChi
FOSS rss news feed
Can you recommend a good FOSS RSS news feed? Until now I was reading It‘s FOSS but it has the worst design of any feed I’ve ever seen....
FOSS for encrypted storage container?
I have a bit of data that has to be encrypted and stored into a file so that it can be moved across file systems and possibly OSes. Disk encryption like dm-crypt and a loop device isn’t appropriate as it may not exist on another OS....
How the Reddit Blackout is Hurting Big Tech ( www.youtube.com )
Searching a Mind Map FOSS software
Hi, I need a Mind Map software for building a network of people that I know. Can you suggest me something FOSS please?
What's the dial with Chrome over Chromium?
A huge amount of users use chrome instead of chromium, but what are the advantages of this? To me it just seems closed source chromium with trackers and a colorful logo Is there some pro in using chrome?
any equivalent to mediainfo for cbz/cbr files?
Hello everyone,...
ReVanced Android playback speed shortcut?
I'm a huge fan of changing playback speed when playing videos, and finally got fed up with the cumbersome interface in the official YouTube app on Android (as well as the ads...)....
Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability ( lwn.net )
Famous Minecraft YouTuber Mumbo Jumbo plays FOSS Minecraft-like; Actually super enjoys it. ( youtu.be )
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/651713...
iOS users, what browser do you use?
I currently use Brave on my iPhone. It's pretty good, since it has built-in ad and tracker blocking; but if there's something better I'd like to know....
A script to find subreddits you subscribed to on reddit, in the lemmyverse. ( gist.github.com )
EDIT: The script has been updated a few times. It now has new features. You should check it out again, even if you already have....
What are you're favorite FOSS games to play and why?
I love Endless Sky, it's honestly one of my favorite games! I have a pack of cool SciFi art that I found on Nexus and I've been slowly replacing the stock photos for my personal game. I'm also a sucker for TeeWorlds, it is delightfully infuriating and hillarious to play. I know that's baby's first FOSS games but I'm new to open...
What do you think about Apple and its ecosystem? (And a little conversation I had with a colleague)
I want to talk about this because of a conversation I had with a colleague on a lunch break a few days ago. I am a doctor, and I was talking to him about how angry I was (and still am) about the fact that the COVID vaccines, when they were first invented, were not made public, but instead were patented and sold. This basic fact...
Traditional photo management?
Hey Lemmy!...
Arrested for using Linux, Windows 11 loses users, Better FOSS Firmware - Linux & Open Source News ( tilvids.com )
France arrested people for being private and using Linux...
Self hosted FOSS software
I just recently started playing around with an old pc as my homeserver and am curious of any recommendations for lesser known self hostable foss software that you would recommend
Jerboa v.0.0.32 backported to Android 5.0 ( github.com )
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/445277...
Niche FOSS Android apps that are useful
These are some of the apps that I use daily. Suggest yours and I will add it to the list....