Free and Open Source Software

While looking for open source dive log applications on F-Droid (in preparation for my Advanced Open Water Certification) and I found an app called Subsurface and apparently it is as developed by none other than Linus Torvalds himself.

Hello my name is Daniel Hanrahan and I am wondering if my games here are fun and they do allow add-on mods. If you are wondering yes these games are the final product but that does not mean it won’t get updates because there is always a chance of that happening. Do you think these games follow both the modular and malleable philosophies for software or tools in general Sincerely, Daniel Hanrahan

Hello my name is Daniel Hanrahan and I created a barter facilitator application and do you think it is the future of commerce: https://github.com/Daniel-Hanrahan-Tools-and-Games/Barter_Facilitator Sincerely, Daniel Hanrahan

I'm quite fond of this music player, but development has since ceased and I've been looking around for an active fork; does anyone happen to know of one?

I'm looking to get a used router on which to install libreCMC, but the list of supported hardware is quite short. I'd prefer to find something locally, and I doubt that I'd be able to find these particular models. However, I do not intend to use WiFi at all, so I wonder, are there any more recent routers that work 100% with libreCMC except for the WiFi? Preferably something with at least 4 Ethernet ports.

Open Letter collecting signatures: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of #AI Technologies in #Academia (25 June 2025).

I heard of a few wikis and desktop apps which are FOSS, some has UI's which look a bit old for, there are a few things like logseq I might try but from trying for a bit, i dont know how suitable it is for my usecase, but I want something that would be more specialized or at the very least have features that would be amazing for world building, (on a desktop app preferably but self hosted works too), like timelines, references to other pages, common stuff like Tags, Categories, and Taxonomies, graph view potentially, good search, templates. I don't need all the features I listed, just some or what your think aligns with what I am looking for.

I'm asking for a friend, since I also am interested.

Good day! I'm looking for is a way of creating rules to intercept, modify, drop, and replace HTTP requests and responses, hopefully even with regex(or similar) capabilities.

Hello folks!

I am considering getting a foldable now, or slightly later when they mature a bit, and I would like to put a custom ROM with a better-privacy or at the very least a FOSS community driven OS, which ROM's exist currently that is tailored towards foldables, also I have a heavy preference to ROMS that take advantage of a Foldables physical features (fingerprint reader), or side-by-side view, and other things.

Alternative to GPG

Hey,

I know for sure that I'm looking for libre video chat software that has these features for the other person, not necessarily for me: - no need to create an account - mobile-friendly web app

Mozilla announced Pocket is retiring on July 8th, 2025.

My city has a budget shortfall of $400,000 and they're looking at cutting firefighter positions, arts funding, and parks funding to make up the shortfall. They also, incidentally, spent over $400,000 on just Microsoft office licenses last year, which doubled in cost from the previous year. My goal is to fix the budget shortfall, or at least take a big bite out of it, by switching all users who can't specify what advanced (see: VBA) features they use from MS Office onto LibreOffice, since it provides all the same basic functionality and interoperable file formats. As a stretch goal, I'd love to persuade them to get on Linux, but that might be a bridge too far for most folks at the city.

Sci-Hub alternative websites for accessing academic papers for free:

This comment encouraging me to try out NoScript Security Suite (Firefox) changed my life. googletagmanager is used everywhere!

Hi guys! I'm using a lot of NativeAlpha. It's a very complete app, but I think I'm having an issue with the instagram usage. Can it be that instagram is taking it in a weird way. I mean, since I began to using it, I'm having several signs of automatic usage and suspicious activities. Changed the password and keep going the same, with Meta warning me that my account can be suspended or deleted

Over the past few months, I embarked on a rewarding digital journey to move away from US big tech and towards more European [EU], open source [FOSS], privacy-oriented [P], and decentralized [D] alternatives.

Like SearchXNG but for chatbots.

The other day I switched Linux distros, wiped disk, and somehow realised that OMEMO is a weird freaky thing and now I cannot see any message from my computer, even though I have everything visible on my Conversations Android app.

I've been using Fossify Phone since Simple Phone went south, but it's been such an inconsistent experience.

Personally I'm a huge sucker for list launchers. Been using the Olauncher since before I even knew what foss means. Also tried the mLauncher, the Easy Launcher and ultimately settled on the YAM Launcher since that one has a weather widget, lets you switch between a list of apps and a list of your contacts and has some neat customization options. My question is if you use a list launcher which one did you pick and why? I'm not neccessarily looking for an alternative since I'm very happy with YAM but it never hurts to explore options.

I use VPN 24/7 and to minimize fingerprinting I keep my cell phone's time in the same location as my VPN. I would like to know if you know any FOSS app where I can put the time of my location in the status bar, I've been looking for a long time but so far I haven't found any :(

I found Adobe acrobat was good at ocr but I’m on Linux now.

Go to your phone homescreen and look at the app dock (the bottom row that contains some apps and stays the same when you switch pages).

Hey there,

Hi all, I'm curious of anyone knows of any FOSS event ticket organizers/wallets for Android. I'm trying to not use my google wallet and I have a couple shows coming up where service might be spotty. Everything I've seen so far is just for retail rewards cards or credit cards.

Rn I'm using Metro, app has a bit of bugs, music stops randomly even after setting battery optimization to unrestricted and hasn't been updated since April 2023. What do y'all suggest?

I’m writing my PhD and sometimes feel like I’m losing my mind trying to balance home and work tasks, thesis tasks, personal and household habits, and potential connecting these to notes. I really struggle if everything isn’t in one place I can’t keep track of it.

Looking for something that is kind of whiteboardy-pinteresty way of creating idea boards from images, text, links, etc. that isn’t tied to a subscription and I have full control of. Any ideas?

Hi community, I work for a non-profit and have been using SignUpGenius for members of our organization to sign up to do monthly trainings. However, I find SUG to be clunky, ugly, and challenging to navigate whenever I need to change/update something. I've been searching for comparable products, but haven't found any that quite suit our needs.

Hey, so I decided that a calorie counting app like Yazio could help me figure out my recent weight gain.

Hello everyone! I am interested in replacing the Google Speech Recognition and Synthesis app on Android. For Speech-to-Text (STT), I've tried Whisper and FUTO, and settled on the latter because it seemed to be more versatile. Also, FUTO seems to have some decent recognition, but not yet capable of handling all the languages that I want. Regardless, so far happy with STT. The only annoyance I have is that it does not appear as an option in the settings for Speech recognition :(

I just can't find any!