• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
      2·
      29 days ago

      some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it’s not yet associated with vlc

      “Hey… it looks like your going to have to buy a codec…”

      manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly

        • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
          1·
          29 days ago

          A variation happened to me last week that’s why it came to mind. Was opening an mp4 recorded on a digital camera on a new laptop. So the stock player had a go and gave a message similar to the above. vlc was installed moments later and of course had no issue…

    • TehBamski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      61·
      29 days ago

      Can you provide a bit of info on it? What is it for and how does it stand out among the other apps or programs?

        • confuser@lemmy.zip
          1·
          28 days ago

          Is open street map data pretty accurate? I don’t expect google mas level of accuracy but I think its important that I can rely on the maps when I don’t know anything about where I’m at

          • SeekPie@lemm.ee
            0·
            28 days ago

            I did a month long trip around western Europe (Italy, France, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden) and used Organic Maps as my only navigation app. Worked well for everything I used it for. Even the metro data was accurate. Also, in my home country, Estonia, it’s even better than Google Maps, because it has bike navigation integrated.

    • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      29 days ago

      I haven’t used windows in about 15 years on my personal machines but see 7zip referenced everywhere…why is it so popular? Can windows 10/11 or whatever we’re on now not compress/extract most things itself or do people prefer it for some reason (nice interface etc)?

      I’m always amazed when I’m following a tutorial written for windows and it says “download and install 7zip, then extract the file using 7zip”. I just right click the file and extract it…

  • astrsk@fedia.io
    19·
    29 days ago

    Off the top of my head from daily use;

    • Borg backup, powerful backup software for self-hosted oriented users or enterprise automation.
    • proxmox, hypervisor that is performant and easy to setup for simple and complex virtualization needs.
    • bitwarden (combined with vaultwarden self-host), password management, secrets management, and available on basically all platforms and browsers. Self hosting your vault gives you peace of mind over who has your most sensitive data.
    • obsidian, a great notes app with polished cross platform applications that don’t do any funky proprietary storage shenanigans. Files are files and folders are folders.
    • kate (and most of the KDE suite), premiere Linux desktop environment suitable for customization and all the expected luxuries user would expect from windows or macOS.
    • littletoolshed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      29 days ago

      Could you expand on what you mean by ‘complex virtualization needs’ - I read this phrase sometimes but would appreciate an expert’s perspective 🙏

      • astrsk@fedia.io
        1·
        29 days ago

        My only point was to explain that proxmox is great free software because it supports both simple virtualization needs, such as having several different VMs or containers running on one headless system with very little overhead, and complex multi-system setups that include multiple machines running proxmox and clustered together for both reliability and redundancy with distributed services and applications.

  • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
    12·
    29 days ago

    Krita. I had a uni licence for Photoshop for years, even took a Photoshop course but still kept using Krita. It has an intuitive UI and all the tools I’ll ever need.

    RStudio+R is way better than any of its proprietary alternatives.

    Blender. I’m no 3D modling expert but it does everything I as a hobbyist want to do with it and so much more. Nowadays, the UI is pretty decent, too.

    Finally, the Lagrange browser is really good. The gemini protocol is kinda niche though, but if you’re interested it’s unreasonably pretty, well optimized and has a great UX. The guy who maintains it really puts his heart and soul into it.

    • Yprum@lemmy.world
      2·
      29 days ago

      The fact that you put those examples together with this Lagrange browser made me curious enough to check it, I had never heard of Gemini protocol before. So, simply put, thank you for sharing about this, I’m going to be installing Lagrange and start checking out geminispace.