For me, that would be Secure CRT. I have yet to find a terminal emulator that matches its feature set. If you regularly manage hundreds of machines using various connection protocols (serial and ssh mostly in my case) It’s worth the $$$, and so far there hasn’t been any subscription nonsense. I liked using it at work so much I forked over the dough to have it at home.

None of the free alternatives do everything I need.

I’ll also mention a few iOS apps. One is Sun Surveyor. It’s an AR app that shows you the position of the sun, moon, and galactic center at any given time. The other would have to be Radarscope. It’s a weather radar app, but it’s a really good weather radar app.

EDIT:

This one’s debatable, but I use it all the time. Plasticity is 3D modelling software that attempts to bridge the gap between practical CAD programs and software meant for 3D artists like Blender. It’s not cheap considering Blender is free, but it’s buy once use forever, and at (I think) $150 it’s within reach of an individual hobbyist who knows what they want and is willing to pay for it.

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    3 days ago

    Some of my most used:

    • Automatically disable wifi and connect to my Wireguard server through mobile data when I’m not at home, then enable wifi and shut down WG when I return home. My self hosted apps are automatically connected without having to expose any detectable app ports to the Internet.
    • Detect when I’m roaming to execute variations on some tasks.
    • Enable location only when in the car and using Maps, disable otherwise.
    • Voice notifications when my phone battery drops below 25%, or 45% when I’m in the car.
    • Change the display timeout to 5 minutes when in the car and charging, and back to 1 minute otherwise.
    • zipkag@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      Any chance you’d be willing to share some of those configurations? Especially the wireguard one. For some reason I have the hardest time getting something working to connect to wire guard using tasker when I leave home.

      The others I’d love to see and learn from also if you’d be willing to share. Thanks!

      • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 days ago

        I had trouble getting Wireguard to connect when using Tasker on another phone. Turning on a tunnel in a task only worked intermittently. If you’re experiencing the same thing the work around is adding a step to start WG and then connecting the tunnel, but if I remember correctly I had to include a step to return to the previous app so I wouldn’t end up with the WG UI left on the screen.

        I do have one task shared on taskernet.com that may be of use. Go to https://taskernet.com/?public and deselect the “Basics” tag at the top, then search for “wireguard”. Look for Wireguard Autoconnect. It’s designed to connect a WG tunnel, then run an app and maintain the tunnel as long as the app is still on the screen. It drops the tunnel if you switch to another app or the launcher. Someone else has uploaded one that connects WG when not on your home SSID, but doing that requires location to be left on all the time, something which I avoid.

        Would have no problem sharing my other configs but they’ve become too complex to do that easily. Everything’s interconnected and nested with tasks setting and clearing multiple variables and then calling other tasks based on events and those variables. I’m no expert but am glad to help if you have questions and am on Lemmy often. DM me.