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What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without? (lemmy.ml)

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Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I'll take a slight tangent to this topic and talk about FOSS software I've recently had to give up that I really really miss: Autokey. Autokey is a rough equivalent to AutoHotKey on Windows, it can do anything from on the fly text replacement (type teh and it will correct to the, or type *date and it fills in today's date) right up to firing whole Python scripts. it doesn't work on Wayland (apparently there are security features that prevent it from working the same way it does on X11?), and I've yet to find a replacement for it that does.

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