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What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?
  • Check out Ondsel. They're working on improving FreeCAD and making the workflow not suck.

    Still definitely a work in progress, but the dimension/constraint tools and 3D feature naming are already lightyears better in their version.

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    Any distros you reccomend with these requirements
  • Maybe EndeavourOS (a convenient installer for Arch) with a desktop that supports Wayland.

    I run that with Gnome in Wayland mode on my desktop and with Sway (Wayland equivalent of i3) on my laptop and I've been very happy with that. You could also run KDE if you prefer

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    what are .webp files and why has my online experience been plagued by them?
  • Why do so few apps (besides browsers) seem to support it? E.g. Win10 photo viewer and seemingly all my messaging apps

    The format itself sounds good, and I see it everywhere online, but is there some reason it's unsupported?

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  • Don't ask why. I have no idea either...

    This is a pickup truck painted in the gilded style of the Orthodox Church

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    Look at that little bacon fish crawling out of the bacon tide pool. It's evolving!

    I hope this is the right place to post. I'm still pretty new to this

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    What custom ROMs would you recommend?

    I have a Pixel 4a 5G, which still works great but it's nearing the end of security updates. I see a lot of options on listicle articles, but I'm curious to hear from some real people

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    What is the state of rootless ad blockers for Android?
  • I use DNS66 downloaded from F-Droid. It registers itself as a VPN, but it's actually a DNS filter, not a VPN. It works to filter ads on most apps, and you can individually disable it for specific apps if needed.

    I also use the Firefox app, which supports a few add-ons (much less than the desktop version), including uBlock and some similar options

    I'd recommend one or both. They're working great for me on a non-rooted Pixel 4a 5G

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    Smartwatch advise
  • I have the Galaxy Watch 4 and I like it. Here's a screenshot of the heart rate settings. On my current setting, it monitors continuously while exercising (including a long walk) and every 10mins while still.

    It can also monitor blood oxygen continuously, but only during sleep (presumably to check for sleep apnea). While awake, you can take a manual blood oxygen measurement

    Screenshot of heart rate settings

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    Alright, I've had enough. Youtube is Garbage
  • Same. A lot of science and history YouTubers post there. And there's a lot of early releases and exclusives like Real Engineering's amazing D-day series. Pretty inexpensive and totally worth it

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    What’s the best distro for gaming on linux? Any tips and tricks?
  • I think most distros will work just fine. It's gotten so so much easier since Valve invested in Proton to make the Steam Deck work.

    Personally, I'm on EndeavourOS with Gnome and it works fine for all my Steam games on an AMD GPU. Years ago, I was on Linux Mint, and that worked just fine for gaming too.

    One caveat: if you have an Nvidia GPU, driver support can sometimes be a headache (or at least it was several years ago when I had one). Some distros claim better out of the box support for Nvidia, like Pop OS

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    Is Lemmy THE reddit alternative for you? Are you thinking about moving somewhere else?
  • I sure want it to be

    Federation and an open source code base should prevent one team's dumb decisions from being able to wreck a whole platform, like reddit, twitter, digg, and others before

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  • So Elon gutted Twitter, and people jumped ship to Mastodon. Now spez did... you know... and we're on Lemmy and Kbin. Can we have a YouTube to PeerTube exodus next? With the whole ad-pocalypse over there, seems like Google is itching for it.

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