A curated list of amazing open source software you may have not heard of

I’d like to toss in Handy which is a FOSS and Cross-Platform speech to text app. Basically you assign a keyboard shortcut and it will transcribe whatever you are saying and put it into a text box. Similar to Superwhisper or others.

It’s built on top of the amazing work of whisper.cpp so it should be accelerated on most machines using the Vulkan backend with Linux/Windows and on MacOS will take advantage of metal for M series Macs.

I’m the creator of Handy but want to share it, it will always be FOSS.

Github is here: GitHub - cjpais/Handy: A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.

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I use pinpoi to convert addresses to GPS coordinates

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Thanks. I was getting lazy with the in-post links after putting them in OP.

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Keynote is a super useful personal information manager for windows. It’s free and open source.

This one I hadn’t heard of until yesterday. It’s basically the file(1) command on a lot of steroids:

https://securityresearch.google/magika/demo/magika-demo/

Jan - Idiot-proof llama.cpp on the desktop, works with AMD! https://www.jan.ai/

Upscayl - Easy AI photo/digital art upscaling, also works with AMD! https://upscayl.org/

Both cross platform if I recall, at least Linux & Windows

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I gotta try this out

I found this through

Neat yt algorithm find, the demo looked cool

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Video idea for L1T: Level 1 Tech’s favorite open source software.

What open source software does L1T / crew use? (Both professionally, and personally?)

What is your favorite open source program?

What limitations or gaps do you experience?

What frustrates you about existing solutions?

What specific closed source program do you rely on, that you would love an open source alternative to?

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Mealie docker container for food recipies
Bentopdf docker container for manipulating pdf files
Netbootxyz docker container for tftp boot assorted operating systems and much more

Moode music server/client Raspberry PI image to play and serve music to a whole house setup or just a single set of speakers.

See my post in What are you self-hosting? - #106 by wr250 for links

Edit: speelin

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add amdgpu_top

For those who enjoy nvtop and radeontop.

amdgpu_top combines radeontop mesuresments with nvtop like graph. See the --gui flag

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Similar to easyeffects but for windows is EQ APO. No compressor included but it supports VST plugins so there’s a vast array of audio effects that be used on audio inputs and outputs.

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Winboat(in beta but great ) GitHub - TibixDev/winboat: Run Windows apps on 🐧 Linux with ✨ seamless integration · GitHub

Powertoys:GitHub - microsoft/PowerToys: Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows · GitHub

Linutil : GitHub - ChrisTitusTech/linutil: Chris Titus Tech's Linux Toolbox - Linutil is a distro-agnostic toolbox designed to simplify everyday Linux tasks. · GitHub . Linutil is a distro-agnostic toolbox designed to simplify everyday Linux tasks.

winutil: GitHub - ChrisTitusTech/winutil: Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility - Install Programs, Tweaks, Fixes, and Updates · GitHub
Windows Utility - Install Programs, Tweaks, Fixes, and Updates. Great for debloating winslop 11

Bcuninstaller : GitHub - BCUninstaller/Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller: Remove large amounts of unwanted applications quickly. · GitHub

Not open source anymore, mobaxterm : https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ it is freemium but you can get the premium license for free but I would recommend buying it if you can

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Topgrade: GitHub - topgrade-rs/topgrade: Upgrade all the things · GitHub . Really good if you have a lot stuff from different package managers but if you can script something to do that would be better.

Blip: https://blip.net/ Not open source but it completely free . They have a business plan but I don’t think anyone will need it here

Zenmap/nmap: https://nmap.org/

Found a better android IP camera thingy, this one seems to be actively maintained and has stable options for h264

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How more people don’t know about this one I can’t wrap my head around, but for sure my nod is to Microsoft Garages Mouse Without Borders project for Windows. Use the same keyboard and mouse to manage as many as 4 Windows endpoints on your network by just moving the mouse to the systems display.

Why this isn’t part of Windows is beyond me. Like how you can make so many new file types from the Windows desktop context menu, but cannot make the one file everyone instinctively ALWAYS puts on the desktop…A new .rdp shortcut. Why we still tinker with Windows is beyond me, but while you do, get this app.

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Sorry to double-tap but Ditto is so underrated also. Clipboard history manager for Windows.

Ditto - Clipboard Manager | Ditto

One of the first Chocolatey community packages I slap on any new Win build.

Another treemap for your drive: WizTree (Not open source, but free). Although I have to say WinDirStat has improved A LOT while I wasn’t looking.

ImHex looks awesome! It seems to be the open source alternative to an editor I’ve been using for years (decades?) at this point - 010 editor (it’s paid, but I think it deserves mention for being the OG and still excellent).

How can I forget JDownloader2? Must have for download management, scheduled download check and automation, archiving pretty much anything. Works on Mac, Win, Nix, NAS OS’s, Docker project frequently updated. If you self-host just Tailscale or otherwise VPN and setup new dl’s to your storage on-prem while on the go. Can’t recommend this one enough.

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unigetui:GitHub - Devolutions/UniGetUI: UniGetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers. Could be terribly described as a package manager manager to manage your package managers · GitHub
I only use on windows 11 boot (yes I unfortunately still windows installed on one of my systems ) but it apparently work with linux as well

Dysk, for Linux/Mac.

Are you tired of df -h? Do you want to see clearly and easily how much free space you have on EVERY mounted disk? Dysk does that. Pics on Github.
It might exist in your distros repo. It does on Manjaro.

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