I love Godot for making video games.
Simple enough for a hobbyist, powerful enough for a developer. Free and open source
So, what are you working on at the moment?
BTW Godot is really nice, maybe lacking a bit in the documentation but nothing showstopping.
Sadly, I've had to take a break from gamedev for a while to develop some more employable skills. That's not to say you can't get a job in gamedev, but if I don't do the indie thing then I'm sure I'll lose my passion for games.
I try to get away from the grind for a bit with a game jam here and there though. Those end up on my Itch page (link in my bio if you're curious)
My most recent foray was a deck builder where you play as a witch running a potion shop. Your cards controlled what ingredients you had and did things to your cauldrons or customers. The scope got out of control and we missed the deadline for the jam with no end in sight. A tale as old as time 😅
Lately I've been thinking that something I'd like to do is a Vampire Survivors-esque cooking game. Roguelike, monsters, and snacks, what's not to like?
Couldn't find your bio, care to share that itch page?
Personal life first of course!
Working in game dev is rewarding but exhausting and usually not very well paid but you learn a lot ( like keeping deadlines 😉).
I separate hard any game I'm brewing at home and just follows the flow, if it becomes something then I'll maybe finish it, which means nonpressure and you can make any game you want (IMO).
I'd love testing a roguelike vampire snacking game 😁!
If you have a local transit agency that it works with, the Transit app is great. I wouldn’t feel nearly as comfortable taking the bus/subway without it; my city’s website is not great to try to navigate while changing plans on the fly. Transit will give you multiple options and show you on a map how to get there from where you are.
It also lets you gamify taking the bus by giving people a rank in exchange for providing location data while on the bus. I’m top 40 on my local line. 😎 And you can send other people a little generic thank you that makes hearts fly up on their screen if they’re providing location data for a bus on a line you’re viewing.
Overall 10/10, great balance of fun and utility.
What do you think of Transit vs. Citymapper?
I haven’t extensively tried or used Citymapper (I just downloaded it to compare now), so this is going to just be initial impressions:
I’d say I prefer Transit just because it shows how far the bus is down the line from you, while that info doesn’t seem to be shown on Citymapper. I also don’t like that Citymapper doesn’t make the subway line names reflect the local transit line colors (ex: A line is blue, B line is red, etc) the way Transit will.
I do like that Citymapper has the subway map built in, but my city also has a bus map available that they didn’t include.
That said this is probably completely regional, go for whichever one works best for you.
I just gotta say Transit provided free permanent upgrades to people who rely on it and can't afford the subscription. This was before transit agencies started providing them to users.
Edit. As they had shifted to a premium service for some features.
My city has fully integrated the Transit app into our bus system, so you can also buy and scan your tickets within the app, including monthly passes and 10-use "punch cards". Just activate the QR code as you're boarding. It's awesome.
That’s cool! My city doesn’t use Transit for ticketing sadly, but they do work with Apple/Google Wallet at least.
A couple of years ago I made a table when switching from OSX to Linux, the table is still quite up to date: https://jeena.net/why-i-switchedfrom-osx-to-linux
Nice site. Congratulations on your wedding . I wish you and your family all the best ❤️🙏
I for one would like to recommend Bitwig - I like that better than Ardour.
I like Bitwig also better, the only problem is the price, I just can't justify it for how little I'd use it nowadays.
Newpipe, KDEconnect, Vlc, KeepassXC, Syncthing, convert (CLI program for converting files eg jpg to PNG ), Yakuake (a dropdown terminal)
Special shout-out to KDE Connect. You can instantly share files between your phone and your PC, remote control your PC, share your clipboard, notifications and so much more. With two clicks, you can share a link that instantly opens on your PC. It's all so smooth! And it's also available for Windows if you need it.
Aegis, Bitwarden, Librewolf, Mullvad and MEGA on my desktop
foobar2000 is an awesome music player
Got a game on a library other than Steam, but want access to all the Steam workshop mods for said game because nobody posts them anywhere else?
Then you want WorkshopDL. I would be stuck with a minimally modded RimWorld if not for this, because I got the game on GOG, and I'm not paying for it and all the DLC again just to get access to the workshop.
Never knew that was a thing
Do you mean on phones? Windows? Macs? Watches?
I like Merlin on iOS cos it identifies birds by their calls.
Android users can use 'BirdNET' it's FOSS and works most of the time.
Merlin is also on Android too for anybody looking for it
LocalSend. File transfer between any devices with (almost) any OS over LAN. No account required. The best file transfer app I've ever encountered by far.
StreetComplete. Get motivated to go outside with quests to help complete OpenStreetMaps. Surprisingly addictive. Requires an OpenStreetMaps account.
f.lux. Remove the blue light from your computer monitor in the evening to help you fall asleep more easily. Redshift. As above. Not quite as good, but works on some OS/System configurations that f.lux can't handle.
Pulsar. A community version of the discontinued Atom text editor. Highly extendable and configurable. Great for small programming tasks or opening text files with an obscure syntax. Has most of the packages built for Atom.
Home Assistant. For automating your house and more (controlling smart lights and appliances, monitoring solar panel output, weather forecasts, printer diagnostics, delivery tracking...). A dedicated device (Raspberry Pi, old laptop) is highly recommended. A bit of a learning curve, but hard to live without after using it.
Voidtools Everything is a gamechanger on Windows. It can search my entire PC instantly opposed to Windows Explorer taking minutes. You can also configure it to work with 3rd party file managers like Freecommander and eliminate Explorer from your workflow entirely.
Don't really have that problem on my Linux distro but that would've helped so much when I was on windows. Idk how many times I searched for something and just left the room to wait.
Krita (without any kind of unnecessary unsupported and unofficial AI plugins btw). It's one of the few free programs that I like so much I paid for them.
I've also been getting a lot of mileage out of Tiny Media Manager.
Any more of a clue? What is your focus right now?
There isn't a specific thing I'm looking for, that the point of the post.
(not sure what's going on with Lemmy. I'm getting message/comment notification well after reasonable times. Yours has taken 21 days to appear.)
Fair enough.
Having enjoyed the open source Logseq to make a proper archive of the bits of knowledge I accumulate, I reluctantly moved on to Obsidian, which is proprietary.
Obsidian is much the better product, Logseq feels lacking and in need of a guiding hand and significant funding.
That said I used Logseq for over a year and enjoyed my time.
Both products work on Markdown files which are plain text and are useful in a standard editor and therefore will outlive Logseq and Obsidian.
For drawing, definitely Paint Tool SAI! When I began drawing digitally, a friend gifted me two programs for me to use, Illustrator and Paint Tool SAI. I ended up settling on the latter. It is a very old program that got released in 2008, but it is lightweight, fast, stable, and has really good blending and pen stabilization options!
I like the Arduino framework. GrapheneOS and Portal 2.
GameMaker is awesome for... making games, but also automation and simple apps as well. Excel can be used for automating things and be a useful calculator. I like doing digital art on Artrage as it has realistic tools and has a simpler interface without all that clutter. The Kustom apps (android) are awesome for making live wallpapers, lock screens, smart watch faces, and widgets. GraphicsGale is useful for pixel art. Offline Games (android) is a compilation of... offline games. They're well made and worth the no-ads purchase. I think that's about all my personal favorites unless I include Boost for lemmy
Dzr is a great accountless player for deezer with a CLI version and GUI version that runs in Visual Studio Code
Scoop is my favourite package manager on Windows. I'm also familiar with Winget and Chocolatey, but something has always felt off with them.
AltSnap is something that lets you drag and/or resize a window by holding the Win key and then clicking anywhere on the window instead of having to reach for the edges or the titlebar.
ClickMonitorDDC is my go-to for controlling brightness of desktop monitors. Also, on my work laptop I've set it to sync the laptop display brightness with the brightness of the external monitors. In combination with a macropad/keyboard with rotary encoders it is pretty good. Sadly, it's practically abandonware at this point - the original site is down and there are only a few mirrors - but it still works fine for the most part.
Clink + Clink completions + oh-my-posh + fzf is my favourite combo for the command line. The cool thing about oh-my-posh is that it's multiplatform and that its configuration is portable, so I can also install it on top of bash/zsh and have the same prompt I'm used to.
FanControl is something that I can't believe exists as a free app. It's so much better than motherboard vendor software for the same purpose - not only works reliably, but also lets you do things that the motherboard software usually does not - e.g. linking a case fan curve to the GPU temp. Last time I used GNU/Linux I had to manually write configs for lm-sensors, which works, but is a tedious process. I just found out about CoolerControl - looks promising, but haven't tried it myself.
Snagit, it's like Windows snipping tool on steroids. I was introduced to it at work and loved it so much I bought a license for my personal computer.
I'm also a huge fan of Dashlane for managing my passwords. It's one of the pricier options, but it works so much better than everything else I've tried (and has a nicer UI, too)
I mostly use this on my desktop running win10, but GridPlayer for playing shows off an external hard drive.
At one point had it on my laptop running a Debian based OS, but I must have uninstalled/removed it somehow because I couldn't find it a few days ago when I needed it. Thankfully I found an appimage as I couldn't find it in the repos. And as I am writing this comment, I checked to see if it was available through flatpak and it is.
Love it because I can have my shows take up the full program area and stay that way when I change program resolution. I try that with other programs and it either doesn't fit the whole program area or doesn't take up the area when I change program size.
Only thing I wouldn't really recommend it for is shows with subtitles since I have yet to figure out if it even supports subtitle files. Couldn't watch the latest season of a show on it and had to switch to VLC because of that.
Mullvad, Ente Auth, VS Codium, Librewolf, VLC, Steam
Anyone have a good alternative to photopea for Windows/Linux? Please don't say gimp :(
I love photopea but the subscription model is lame. It turns it into another Photoshop.
I need something to do occasional art in that will survive my slow Linux transition.
I quite like Krita
Looks great!
I'll give it a go. Thank you!
Gimp is for photo editing.
Krita is for digital painting.
Another suggestion I have is pinta. But I really only do super simple edits like cropping, adding text, etc
rethink is quite good firewall for phone, it lets you actually control programs internet connections and see where they try to connect. doesnt need root.
Here's a mixture of applications, some for Linux, some for Android, some for both. And some of them might work on other platforms as well, but I'm not sure.
Borg for making backups. For the first glance it could look overwhelming, but after reading through the quick start guide, it's really easy to use.
VeraCrypt for encryption of removable media.
Megalodon as a Mastodon client.
Voyager as a Lemmy client. It has a very weird and unintuitive UI, but there are no ads and the content is well readable, well presented.
OsmAnd for offline navigation. It's especially great for cycling and hiking, as even the most insignificant trails are on the map. It isn't free, but it's cheap.
Thunderbird for emails. Until recently I just used the online interface for my emails, but ever since I got a Proton subscription and multiple aliases with it, I started to use Thunderbird so I can see everything in one place, and also it has advanced filtering capabilities (the best of any email client I've ever used).
Proton Calendar, just for the sake of not to use Google.
Firefox with uBlock Origin. These two together is the bare minimum nowadays if you are thinking about browsing the internet.
VS Code for smaller stuff. Not gonna list my extensions here, but there are a few less known ones that I always install.
Zed is in early development, but if it gets as mature as VS Code, I'll consider using this instead.
JetBrains IDEs for software development. It makes me cry every year when I spend a buttload of money on renewing my license, but for me it's worth it. No other IDE ever made it so easy for me to set up and work with projects.
Dia for UML or database schema diagrams, and bunch of others. Sadly it's a bit outdated, but it's simple and easy to use.
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