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.

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

Libresprite is the open source alternative and it's nearly identical.

Sync between devices doesnt require a subscription?

I use it on my desktop, laptop and phone, no issue

Never paid a dime

Aseprite is free if you compile it yourself, isn't it?

I love Immich, but I'm afraid to donate because they're part of FUTO which looks sketchy and I know there was some drama about them.

As a former Eclipse user I can vouch for this as well.

Haha no

I paid for a license of obd jscan for my vehicle since it is specific to Dodge/Jeep it can do everything, including activation of features and access to all data in the vehicle. I had to buy a more expensive vlink adapter, but it was only $20 or so. It has saved me tons of money so far. I was able to program keys, activate remote start (had to install a hood switch), and have been able to diagnose several issues with things like tpms and abs.

+1 for Torque, pay once and it does exactly what it's supposed to do and doesn't bother you with anything else.

Used the free version, don't know why I updated to paid, WORTH IT ($5). I'll never not have a BT adapter ($4) on my car computer and Torque on hand. Worth it just to read check engine lights.

Wife's car occasionally throws, and sometimes clears, a minor emissions error, kills the cruise control. The passenger can reset it rolling down the interstate and we're back in business.

I haven’t used Reaper in a while, but you can technically use it for free with full features by perpetually using it in trial version mode right?

This would have been mine. I generally only donate rather than buy software, but reaper is an exception.

Same with Renoise, though I haven't bought it yet myself. Pretty cheap by Western standards, especially compared to the big DAWs, but excellent for its particular workflow, i.e. a tracker. It's actively developed too.

I came to say Davinci Resolve. I got it for $300 with the "Speed Editor" keyboard and a lifetime license. Worth every penny.

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.

https://kaleidoscope.app on macOS is a super nice tool for diffs as well.

I've tried so many other open source or free software for diffing and Beyond Compare is still the best, if only I could convince my company to pay for a license for it

Yes. This. 100%.

Even if it wasn’t the most reasonable to license, it’d still be the most flexible and “hackable”.

Fucking hate advertisements that go out of their way to interrupt you.

The rest of that sentence literally defines the procedure of advertising.

I've never seen ads and I use the usual free TeraCopy at home. Are there supposed to be ads? (I don't have a pihole or anything that'd be blocking the ads at the network level)

Honestly I’ve use it, it’s good but uses far my resources that it should.

KOreader is the FOSS alternative and while its interface sucks. Its reader is excellent.

I bought the pro version of this app years ago, but after jailbreaking my Kindle and installing the open source KOreader on it, I've moved to the KOreader app on Android and Readest app on Ios as it comes with built in reading position sync and it can directly connect to my Calibre OPDS server to download the books

This. I don't if there even exists a FOSS solution which is as reliable as MakeMKV

But it's free.

If you hadn't, I would've added it.

I just wish I could disable the Google search box on my Google Pixel home page and replace it with a Kagi search bar (that opens in my default browser though; not like Qwant does, that forces you to use their own browser).

Also like Transmit and DaisyDisk, even though you have less fancy FOSS alternatives for that, which work just as well.

Affinity is apparently considering porting their suite to linux, so hopefully that'll happen.

edit: source: https://techcentral.co.za/affinity-for-linux-canvas-next-big-move-could-reshape-the-desktop-software-market/274861/