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Five open-source apps on Android phone
I replaced Chrome, YouTube, Gboard, and Maps with their open-source alternatives and I'm not going back

I gave my phone a privacy upg

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A laptop screen displaying the Stirling PDF interface.
55+ PDF tools fit inside this Docker container — my files never leave the house

Stop uploading your PDFs to random websites.

Home Assistant running on Linux laptop with Raspberry Pi in front.
I finally fixed Home Assistant’s most annoying dashboard problem

Every device in my house finally boots to the right dashboard.

Laptop screen displaying Windows Paint, LazPaint and GIMP.
Paint is too basic and GIMP is too much — this free app fills the gap

Sometimes I want to edit an image, not begin a new career in image editing.

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Auxio music player with a track playing.
I left Spotify and YouTube Music behind for this refreshingly simple Android music player

Apparently, my carefully collected MP3s were sitting there waiting for streaming fatigue to catch up with me.

KopiaUI application displaying select storage type options.
I wish I had used this open-source backup tool before I lost my files

The app is free but the lesson that convinced me to use it definitely wasn’t.

Desktop Linux running with terminal running on Pixel 9a.
The prediction that Linux had no future aged disastrously

Linux apparently missed the memo explaining that it was supposed to disappear.

Homepage dashboard connecting multiple services
These 6 homelab services are seriously boring and geniunely essential

The bits that still count even after the novelty wears off.

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Docker Desktop and Mac Terminal on a display.
Docker looks complicated until you learn these 7 terminal commands

Docker can look intimidating at first, but these seven commands demystify the platform and help with troubleshooting.

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rowbeat on macbook
This open-source AI app is what I wanted Claude Cowork to be

Goodbye Claude Cowork.

Ornith 9B logo on hugging face.
Ornith 9B gave my 16GB laptop near-35B answers, and it reads images too

My laptop thinks it's running a 35B model.

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Google Drive OneDrive and Dropbox open in browser.
I mounted Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox as one folder on my PC with a single free tool

My file manager doesn't care which cloud holds the file.

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Edge browser showing extensions menu
These open-source browser extensions are the first things I install on any new machine

Your browser is only as good as the extensions running in it.

Close up of the ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 3090 graphics card backplate in the case
[HomeLab #2] Everything I've self-hosted on my homelab, ranked by how much I adore them

I self-hosted dozens of apps on my homelab — these are the ones that stayed

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Close up of Windows 11 desktop showing open source apps
Linux gets most open-source software first but these 5 tools stayed Windows-only

Great apps Linux users can't have yet.

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Glance running in Zen browser on Windows 11 laptop.
I self-hosted one container and stopped needing half my bookmarked sites

I finally have a homepage worth opening.

Laptop displaying classic Windowa Notepad and Legacy Notepad.
A developer rebuilt Notepad without the AI, and now it's exactly what the original was

The interface is wonderfully uneventful, which is exactly how I like my text editors.

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Dual Monitor Bazzite Linux
Your favorite Linux distro probably descends from one of these three operating systems

Your favorite distro may look unique, but its grandparents have probably met mine.

VLC media player cone surrounded by playback and no cost icons
I finally understand why VLC refuses to make money — and it's genius

VLC has never sold an ad, taken an investor, or accepted a buyout. That's not an accident, and the reason is stranger than you'd think.

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Laptop screen showing the VidCoder video conversion app.
This free Windows app compressed my 6GB video to 2GB without the HandBrake headache

I wanted a smaller file, not a postgraduate course in HandBrake settings.

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