The sort of program that once set up, just ticks along without fuss or bother forever.
For me, as I’m replacing the vms today which I set up five years ago and haven’t needed to touch since;
- HAProxy
- KeepaliveD
Not easy to learn, but once they’re running, they both go on forever.
awk
Firefox + uBlock Origin + sponsorblock. Set it and forget it.
I haven’t seen an advertisement or a sponsored segment on my desktop in over a decade, and same with my phone for several years. I’m astonished how willing most people are to put up with a constant barrage of ads coming from devices they own
can i interest you in an AdNauseam instead? It blocks ads, but it also “clicks” the links to poison the data.
That’s literally what I was about to mention as well. I would just suggest that you change the clicking frequency from the default, which is every single ad, to just moderate, so that they don’t detect that you’re clearly sabotaging the system and may otherwise discount your clicks.
But yeah, be sure to mention that AdNauseam is a uBO fork. There’s literally no reason not to move to it.
Isn’t it better to let them wither and die due to no clicks, rather than encourage them?
Linux
It ‘was’ uCollage, but whiny, obnoxious, ungrateful LiGNUts ruined it like many other unpaid softwares by driving a critical developer (Ueberzug) to quit or sellout.
Many LiGNUts probably work for Microsoft, because Microsoft gains when they cause issues, and mislead and lie to people.
Wake up new niche Linux drama just dropped
The Linux Kernel.
Vlc.
Yakuake. Nothing major but a nice quality of life upgrade for terminal work.
Syncthing. Absolutely ace bit of software. I remember it being a little questionable in 2013, but today it performs exactly the same task, just more reliably. Love it.
Yep I love it. It’s how I keep my password manager synced between devices. It can be finicky to set up but just works without thinking after that.
Good shout! I use syncthing myself to sync all my useful stuff between multiple devices seamlessly.
nano 😎
nano
Systemd
*grabs popcorn*
Just it always makes you wait for ~3 min and shows: … wait for something to be Configured (25s / no limit). :-)
If that happens to you, maybe you should open the logs and figure out why it is happening.
The other thing has logs too…
Nano
Vim because its everywhere and is super powerful. It can even be used for some light scripting. GCC to make my own programs. Python as well, same thing and also portable. All the programs that come with mint and become part of the background like the terminal emulator. All of it, pretty awesome. Jellyfin has been a mainstay as well.
As phil Collins would say… Su su su sudo
Anything from Debian. I even run Debian-Testing, and it’s rock solid. Also, Linux mint, on my other partition.
Supernotes.app
Linux Mint
Rockbox
Sayonara music player
Syncthing
Rockbox
I desperately wish my Rockbox consistently worked without crashing or freezing once a week.
