Regarding libraries, this is such a socialist idea, that enriches society and educates the people. I wonder why no one thought to defund them, because think of the lost profits for companies like Amazon, etc. /s

But maybe people elect politicians, and perhaps they should look for their constituents rights first? I know that’s an utopia, but imagine the world…

Isn’t the US famous for their prison for profit, where prisons are privately owned and states need to pay if there are fewer incarcerated people inside?

To me, this sounds straight from 1984.

I didn’t know there were almost as many Germans as Americans, the majority of Reddit users were Americans which has created Americocentric perspective on a lot of topics which from a European perspective was quite annoying.

Welcome

https://tailscale.com/blog/introducing-tailscale-funnel/ check this out

You know you can circumvent CGNAT with Tailscale, Zerotier, Cloudflared or just Wireguard?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weawow here you go

Weawow - the greatest weather app ever created. No ads 4.9 review in the Play Store, highly recommend it.

Termux

Tasker

Homeassistant

ChatGPT

Files by Google - actually it is pretty good and allows you to transfer files peer to peer with other devices

Anytype - Notion alternative

DuckDuckGo - for app tracking and blocking of tracking requests

Wireguard

ZeroTier One

ReadEra

TradingView

JustETF

Infinity for Lemmy

The rest were already mentioned here

Invest in ETFs.

Say goodbye to your free time. Linux is a huge rabbit hole.

Ffmpeg, VLC

Pihole, Kubernetes, ffmpeg, VLC, pretty much we are so technologically advanced because there is so much free and open source software. If it wasn’t for it we would be ages behind technologically.

Yeah, was about to say that yt-dlp is currently much better

I recently read an article about how the “Open XML” M$ format was artificially made super cumbersome and complex so that it makes open source software support it almost impossible.

The article was written by one of the Libre office collaborator who was saying that they are intentionally introduced bugs so that we never see a better adoption of it in open source tools.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome awesome lists of various topics and resources, super helpful.

Who are obsessed with endless growth ideas and introducing subscription models so that you end up with countless of subscriptions.

That’s a great list, I have bookmarked a bunch of those entries, Thanks for sharing it.