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📅 November 13, 2020

Bloat Free, FOSS CLI Weather Apps

This should be the correct way to check the weather.

Thousands of apps and websites allow you to check the weather. Some more accurate than others, but they all ( well 99.9% of them ) have one thing in common. Bloat. They track you and load various of scripts that have nothing to do with you checking what’s the weather going to be like. But they come with a nice UI and it only costs $0.99.

So how to avoid all the unnecessary and potentially harmful bloat? By using free and open source projects that will allow you to check the weather with just one command.

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📅 November 13, 2020

Safe Eyes Helps Prevent Eye Strain

Safe Eyes is a free and open source tool that helps Linux users to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI).

Safe Eyes is a free and open source tool that helps Linux users to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI). The whole purpose of Safe Eyes is reminding you to take breaks while working on the computer for a long time. The break screen asks you to do some exercises which will reduce your RSI.

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📅 November 3, 2020

Screego: Multi User Screen Sharing

a free and open source screen sharing tool

You can’t throw a rock today without hitting a screen-sharing piece of software. Especially today with all this casedemic bullshit. But most apps come with drawbacks.

Both parties need to have the same software installed and running. Most of the time that’s proprietary software. And most of the time screen sharing can be laggy and/or comes with a poor image quality.

Screego aim’s to fix that. It’s free and open source, good image quality and generally low letency. And all you need is a web browser. However, it’s worth mentioning that Screego only allows you to share your screen and nothing else. Not even audio.

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📅 October 31, 2020

Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments With pipx

pipx allows you to install and run python applications in isolated environments

pipx is a tool to install and run any of these thousands of application-containing packages in a safe, convenient, and reliable way. In a way, it turns Python Package Index (PyPI) into a big app store for Python applications.

It’s closely related to pip. In fact, it uses pip, but is focused on installing and managing Python packages that can be run from the command line directly as applications.

Best of all, pipx runs with regular user permissions. pipx never needs to run as sudo.

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📅 October 31, 2020

Touchegg Brings Apple-like Touchpad and Touchscreen Multi-touch Gestures to Linux

Apple-like multi-touch gestures for your Linux machines

There’s a lot you can say about Apple’s laptops, but everybody agrees that the build quality, speakers and the trackpad are ( probably ) the best in the industry .

And speaking of the trackpad, if you’ve ever used a MacBook you know how impressive its multi-touch gestures are and how much they can help you be more productive with your workflow.

If you’re running Linux, and miss ( or wish to have ) those multi-touch gesture, you’re in luck because there’s an old project that was recently revived and it’s purpouse is to bring Apple-like multi-touch gestures to your Linux machine.

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📅 October 30, 2020

VSCodium is a Truly Free and Open Source Version of Visual Studio Code

VSCode without Microsoft telemetry, branding and licensing.

I dare you to find a list of “open source text editoris” without Atom, Visual Studio Code and Sublime ( all of them or at least 2 ). Visual Studio Code is almost always on every list. And that’s because it’s an excellent editor, however it is NOT open source.

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📅 October 28, 2020

HOW TO: Install YouTube-DL

youtube-dl is not dead. you can still install it, here’s how…. linux, macOS and windows

youtube-dl’s GitHub repo was taken down because the RIAA are a bunch of whiny spoiled brats. For some reason, some people are under the impression that just because GitHub complied right away to a absurd request, youtube-dl as a project is dead. At least for now until it finds a new home.

No it’s not, if you already have it installed it is still working. And if you don’t, you can install it just as easy as before.

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📅 October 28, 2020

Croc Allows Secure P2P File Transfer Between Any Two Computers

easily, fast and securily send files, folders and text between any two computers

When it comes to file sharing, there are plenty of options for you to choose from. Most of them are slow because you first need to upload the file(s) to a cloud somewhere and then share the download link, and some of them are secure and anoynymous like onionshare.

So here’s yet another tool that you can use: croc. A CLI tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders.

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📅 October 28, 2020

USBImager: A Very Minimal Cross Platform App to Create Bootable Flash Drives

A very minimal GUI app that can write compressed disk images to USB drives

When it comes to creating bootable flash drives, Ventoy is one of the greatest tools ever made even though most people recommend Etcher. And why wouldn’t Etcher be recommended? It’s cross-platform and open source, it’s easy to use and has a beautiful UI.

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📅 October 23, 2020

HOW TO: Background and Foreground Processes

learn how to background and foreground a process to help you better multitask in the terminal ( Linux & macOS )

Most programs, when invoked from the shell, run in the foreground taking over your terminal and preventing you from doing other work without opening a new terminal window. But there’s a better way: bagrounding and foregrounding processes.

This works on both Linux and macOS, however there are slight differences. Here’s a simple example to help you understand how to background and foreground a process…

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