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.
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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.
package disabler pro. I have a samsung phone and disables the bloat. It has to be side loaded.
Vegas Pro - it’s pretty easy and user-friendly
Mindomo apparently. I did in days, what wasted years…
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.
it doesn’t know the galactic center but otherwise check Trail Sense on f-droid. the astronomy tool has a 3d mode that shows where the sun and the moon is. oh it says there will be visible meteor showers in a few hours!
The only software I would buy again instantly is Tasker (Android).
I have it too but don’t use it. What do u use it for?
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.
Immich https://immich.app/
Absolutely amazing and it’s technically free, but please donate if you can, they fucking deserve it.
Being able to host your own photos and have ai to help identify faces WITHOUT internet or giving your private photos to the tech giants is worth every penny.
I’m hoping that Zed Editor will become worth the money some day. It’s currently a bit lagging compared to Cursor, unfortunately.
nzb360 that I got a perpetual license for at 10eur. It’s so easy and convenient to torrent stuff for my Jellyfin.
Niagara launcher is free but I paid for the perpetual license. It’s a third party launcher that I really like.
I’m also a Jetbrains fan depending on the language, they have so much support for everything just out of the box and are on Linux.
Also games, but I guess people don’t want to hear those here. Factorio was definitely worth.
ChatGPT
Microsoft
Twitter
Adobe
Spotify
Few ones i could think of
don’t forget google drive, and facebook without ads
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Nice ragebait
mullvad vpn
Total Commander on Windows. It can be used for free with the nag dialog, but I paid for it since I was using it every day.
Automate on Android: it’s an automation tool with its own programming ‘language’ like Tasker, except visual. Tasker has some weird and cumbersome idioms, while Automate is mostly regular programming mapped onto its visual blocks. Plus it doesn’t require buying more apps for additional functionality like Tasker. Alas, it can’t do custom dialogs or onscreen buttons, so I might still need Tasker for that.
Unified Remote on Android: nice remote control for the desktop machine, with the ability to add custom controls programmed in Lua (iirc).
Magic Dosbox on Android: it allows adding custom onscreen controls tailored to each game.
Functional Ear Trainer and Perfect Ear on Android: nice training for hearing notes and rhythm, though I can’t say they did much for my lazy ass.
Sunvox on Android: a music tracker with modular synths. Seems to be the only full-blown tracker on Android. Alas, doesn’t seem to be very good with samples, the workflow is a bit cumbersome, but I need to properly try that yet. The app has been around for ages, I’ve seen it twenty years ago for Palm and Windows CE. There are also desktop versions, which are free iirc. (Also, the author can’t currently receive payments from Google Play since he’s in Russia. It’s better to write to him and arrange payment via bitcoin or such, afaik he’s happy to provide the full app that way.)
On Mac, there are many open-source utils for tweaking the interface, but paid Bartender and Hazeover are better than alternatives. One hides extra menu icons, the other dims background windows.
Alfred on Mac, a launcher: you call it up with a hotkey, and type a few letters to run an app or, crucially, a custom action. It’s unmatched by alternatives, especially on Windows and Linux. Typing a couple letters into Alfred is often quicker than cmd-tabbing to an app. And it’s way better for frequent actions than mousing around.
I’m also planning to buy Renoise, the cross-platform music tracker. It does about everything the big DAWs do, but with the keyboard-centric workflow. Pretty cheap too.
I also use Total Commander for Android. It’s the only file manager on Android that makes sense to me.
Yeah, the Android app is great, and is free. The open-source Ghost Commander is lacking in polish in comparison.
The only thing I’m missing from TC on Android is filtering the list with keyboard entry instead of jumping to the file that begins with those letters. The former is much better, as shown by Double Commander.
Bitwarden. It’s free and open source, but you can pay for a subscription if you don’t want to self host for synchronisation between devices. It’s very cheap and no doubt worth it.
Also Aseprite, for pixel art and custom format exports.
what kind of synchronization between devices are you referring to? I’ve never had a subscription and have used multiple vaults on numerous different devices
For real, I had been using Bitwarden for a couple of years for free and it never once had to show an ad to ask me to buy it’s subscription. I just realized that it was giving me tons of value, and that prompted me to buy the (fairly priced) subscription. That’s a gold standard imo.
I saw a banner in the extension telling me the premium version existed once, but it wasn’t very intrusive
do games count? If yes, Terraria
i have over 375 hours on 2 games(Terraria and TModLoader) for the 5 USD i paid to get the game
BeyondCompare. I’ve used it for all my Windows text comparison needs for decades. It also handles comparing spreadsheets and directory structures.
I’m sure BeyondCompare is much more powerful, but have a look at WinMerge if you don’t know it yet. I keep being impressed by it for being free and OSS.
It’s FOSS software but I use it so much I donate to support it. FreeCAD. Yeah its interface isn’t the best. But compared to Fusion for my workflow it’s so much bettwr
And only getting better with every iteration.
