What apps have you been using this year? Have you found new apps to fill a gap in your previous open-source use?

What is something that you wish had a good open-source alternative but does not at this time?

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Syncthing/Syncthing-Fork. Simply the best cross-system file synchronization app. Peer-to-peer, no cloud storage.

https://syncthing.net/

Scrcpy (Screen Copy). App that mirrors your Android phone to Windows. When I switched away from a Samsung phone I lost the ability to run an app from my phone on my PC desktop. This restores that.

https://github.com/genymobile/scrcpy/

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm also using Syncthing to sync up my notes between my laptop and phone. It's been great! Less Google doc use.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I tried to set this up last week and found it was buggy and unreliable as hell on android.

    Maybe I did something wrong, but same server side and 2 different android phones, I open the app after some time has passed and the light thing is green but server shows disconnected. The slide out menu has "restart" greyed out. I force close and reopen the app, then it starts working again.

    Does not seem reliable.

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