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Paying for software is stupid… 10 free and open-source SaaS replacements
Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative. Let's take a look at 10 FOSS tools designed to replace popular tools like MS Office, Notion, Heroku, Vercel, Zoom, Adobe, and more.
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LibreOffice
LibreOffice related projects. LibreOffice has 26 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.GitHub
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…he knows it’s an alpha, right? Right?
Can someone tell him that the main reason hyprland sucks is that there’s no metaphor for hiding a window, but leaving the app running? And tossing it to a not-currently-visible workspace isn’t a solution and is pretty damn asinine.
Also, create a settings GUI. This isn’t the 1960s.
Fedora KDE suddenly wont boot properly
I am running Fedora KDE 40 alongside Windows 11 23H2, (the PC in question is also sometimes used by a few other family members, which is the reason I still have Windows) When I tried restarting into Fedora today, everything appeared fine, I selected the normal boot fedora option in GRUB, and the normal loading screen showed up. to be then followed by the cursor appearing for a while before it simply disappears, the screen goes black & turns back on stuck on a screen which is completely black with a terminal-like cursor in the very top left, It will then stay stuck thet way until you forcibly turn off the power. This hasn't happened before. I tried a live boot and checked the partition... It dosen't seem any different than normal. One thing I did notice is that yesterday on the login screen the sleep and restart option where bugged out, but I wouldn't think that's relevant? Can anyone help. I'm not sure what could be happening.
EDIT: here are some pics of the logs, I still dont know why this happened or really what to do, I'm still fairly new to this
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Are you using the rpm-fusion mesa drivers or Fedora's (assuming you use Intel / AMD card)?
You can connect to wifi via tty using nmcli command: nmcli --ask dev wifi connect CoolNetwork123
Tumbleweed Faces Regression with Wicked as Network Stack
Tumbleweed Faces Regression with Wicked as Network Stack
With the switch to dbus-broker as D-Bus implementation in Tumbleweed Snapshot 20240825, a regression was introduced: When using Wicked for network configurat...openSUSE News
Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1040526
A judge has dismissed the majority of claims in a copyright lawsuit filed by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI.The lawsuit was initiated by a group of developers in 2022 and originally made 22 claims against the companies, alleging copyright violations related to the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant.
Judge Jon Tigar’s ruling, unsealed last week, leaves only two claims standing: one accusing the companies of an open-source license violation and another alleging breach of contract. This decision marks a substantial setback for the developers who argued that GitHub Copilot, which uses OpenAI’s technology and is owned by Microsoft, unlawfully trained on their work.
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Despite this significant ruling, the legal battle is not over. The remaining claims regarding breach of contract and open-source license violations are likely to continue through litigation.
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How to install the game CLAW from Internet Archive
Hey guys,
Recently I wanted to play Claw but I lost my old cds. So I decided to get the game from Internet Archieve.
When downloaded I got these files from it
- CLAW_2018_meta.sqlite
- CLAW_2018_meta.xml
- CLAW.BIN
- CLAW.CUE
- __ia_thumb.jpg
- Claw_1997_Game_Cover.jpg
I have no clue how to use theses files. If it is possible to convert to an exe, then I might be able to run through bottles.
Thanks for all the help
Claw : Monolith Productions : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Claw is a 2D side-scroller platform video game published by Monolith Productions in 1997 about an anthropomorphic pirate cat who sets on a quest to find an...Internet Archive
the bin and cue files are a cd/dvd image. IIRC you can't mount those directly, but you can convert them to iso with bin2iso (there are probably other tools too)
iso file you can mount something like mount -o loop /path/to/my-iso-image.iso /mnt/iso and then pull the files out from there.
As for directly pulling files out from bin/cue.. dunno.
I don't know if this applies to CLAW, but many games back then had their audio stored as CD Audio Tracks. If that is the case, you might want to actually emulate a CDROM drive instead of just extracting the files. There is a CDROM emulator for Linux, called CDEmu, which can read CUE/BIN CD Images.
Oh, and that game seems to have an ancient 16-bit installer, which might not work on modern systems. However, according to WineHQ Appdb one can just copy the files from the CD and it works.
WineHQ - Claw
Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.appdb.winehq.org
Fyra personer dömda för mord i Västberga och Tullinge. Södertörns tingsrätt har dömt fyra personer för inblandning i skjutningar i Västberga och Tullinge. Anstiftaren och skytten dömdes till fängelse o 10 år respektive 12 år trots att de vid skjutningarna endast var 15 år respektive 16 år.
Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧
Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats
This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems worldwide based on over 5 billion monthly page views.StatCounter Global Stats
Dinosaur footprints from Africa and South America are a match
- Paleontologists found matching Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints in Brazil and Cameroon, showing where dinosaurs walked before Africa and South America split.
- The footprints, mostly from three-toed theropods, date back 120 million years and reveal how dinosaurs migrated across the supercontinent Gondwana.
- Geological evidence supports that these areas were connected before the continents drifted apart, forming the South Atlantic Ocean.
Dinosaur footprints from Africa and South America are a match | Popular Science
The tracks from a once-unified landmass are now 3,700 miles and an ocean apart.Laura Baisas (Popular Science)
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Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean
Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean
An international team of researchers led by SMU paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents.Science X (Phys.org)
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The Voth are pushovers, I can destroy one of their city ships with a Miranda Class.
Oh what's with the 15 other ships flying around the area? Don't mind them. Just my bros. Totally solo'd. Mhmm.
Man, what is it with Sci fi and having futuristic tech from Dino-descendants.
I'm not complaining, I want more.
A nova explosion may soon be visible in the night sky. Here's where and when to look
A nova explosion may soon be visible in the night sky. Here's where and when to look
Keep an eye on the sky for the second half of 2024 and you might be able to witness a rare astronomical event. A space scientist explains how nova events work and where to look.PBS News
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Twilight zones discovered deep underground – and sceintists don't know what they are
The mysterious zones have the power to slow down seismic waves by up to 50 per cent, yet experts don’t know what they’re made of or what role they play.
These strange black holes (figuratively speaking) are located within the Earth’s lower mantle – near the core – and are known as ultra-low velocity zones (ULVZs).
Mysterious wave-swallowing structures discovered deep inside Earth's mantle
Some of the Earth’s most “extreme features” have been discovered deep, deep underground, and scientists can’t work out what they are.Harriet Brewis (indy100)
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Neutron Star Mergers Could Be Producing Quark Matter
The Aftermath of Neutron Star Mergers - Universe Today
When neutron stars merge the result is usually a black hole. But sometimes its a more massive, stable neutron star.Evan Gough (Universe Today)
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Qgis?
(err well, qfield/ qcloud..)
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in reply to pnutzh4x0r • • •I don't like statements like "paying for software is stupid". Developers for Free software have this long standing issue that many people don't want to pay them. Paying and using closed source proprietary software is stupid, especially if there is good free and open source libre alternatives.
We need to figure out a monetization plan how to make people want to pay for free software. This will not only incentivize doing Free software, it also makes it possible for people making a living out of it. Everyone benefits from it!
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in reply to thingsiplay • • •aGPLv3 is a good business model. If companies are using your kit in their closed source projects, they need to pay you
donationware is abandonware. We brand it Apache2.0 or MIT
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in reply to pnutzh4x0r • • •I just want you to know how much I appreciate the fact that you typed out the list of repos mentioned in the video, since you know many people are not going to watch the video but still want the information.
I mean this. Thank you. You are awesome and deserve cake.
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in reply to pnutzh4x0r • • •eg LibreOffice and Adobe apps.
But I guess it only requires a different title as the list itself is useful
AHemlocksLie
in reply to Joël de Bruijn • • •Joël de Bruijn
in reply to AHemlocksLie • • •SAAS isn't about subscription perse although they have them of course. Its about "not needing to take care of".
It's software on "someone else's computer" just as with public cloud.
In a SAAS construct a provider does the hosting, computing, connection, install, configuration and maintenance. Absolving clients from that burden.
Comparing proprietary desktop applications (even with a subscription) with FOSS alternatives is useful, it's just not SAAS.
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in reply to AHemlocksLie • • •My understanding is roughly, for example:
Some caveats: Word handles spellchecker in their cloud and clippy 2024 (Copilot) integration blurs the line.
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in reply to pnutzh4x0r • • •Paying for software is stupid… 10 free and open-source SaaS replacements
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in reply to pnutzh4x0r • • •CAD. Free solutions compared to commercial ones (SolidWorks, Inventor, Fusion360, Onshape) are like comparing Photoshop to an open source Paint clone.
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in reply to Engywook • • •Now I'll go back to watching youtube videos on my payed Grayjay.
Engywook
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in reply to Engywook • • •An alternative video client. Mostly known for pulling add free youtube. But you can have several sources like patreon or nebula.
The app is free and source available but they ask you to buy a license if you like it.
It's made/supportes by futo
Edit: changed "open source" to "source available"
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in reply to Stitch0815 • • •> Grayjay Core License 1.0
nope, that's not open-source
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in reply to chebra • • •Ah thanks
A bit more context would have been nice but anyway
I was not aware of the distinction.
Grayjay is source available. But you are essentially not allowed to do anything with/to it.
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in reply to Engywook • • •Not triggered by this emotional outrage bait
it either costs your time or money or both. There is no situation where anything is free.
I'm currently fixing, not mine, repos. I have the skill level to fix other coders design issues. One at a time.
This is costing me time. Not just in doing the work, but all the time leading up to gaining the skillset to be at this level.
Put a price tag on that. (i'm not boasting; actually having to do this grind)
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in reply to pnutzh4x0r • • •It’s very misleading to say “paying for software is stupid” and not consider the total cost of ownership. TCO includes things like infrastructure and maintenance. As an exec, I am constantly faced with two choices: free software that might do what I want or paid software that sort of does what I want. At face value, you would immediately tell me to get the free stuff. That’s where you miss TCO.
(Read the last paragraph if you think the business lens is bullshit)
Every FOSS solution I run requires me to deploy and maintain it. I only have so many hours in the day so at some threshold I have to hire more and more people to deploy and maintain. Integrating? That’s on me too because I’m using free software so now I need a resource to glue things together. My “free” option actually costs a portion of my engineering resources. I’m also on the hook for failures. Running my own ERP? I need to have support staff on-call to handle outages.
Every paid solution I run costs can require some of those thing
... show moreIt’s very misleading to say “paying for software is stupid” and not consider the total cost of ownership. TCO includes things like infrastructure and maintenance. As an exec, I am constantly faced with two choices: free software that might do what I want or paid software that sort of does what I want. At face value, you would immediately tell me to get the free stuff. That’s where you miss TCO.
(Read the last paragraph if you think the business lens is bullshit)
Every FOSS solution I run requires me to deploy and maintain it. I only have so many hours in the day so at some threshold I have to hire more and more people to deploy and maintain. Integrating? That’s on me too because I’m using free software so now I need a resource to glue things together. My “free” option actually costs a portion of my engineering resources. I’m also on the hook for failures. Running my own ERP? I need to have support staff on-call to handle outages.
Every paid solution I run costs can require some of those things. Let’s ignore paid licenses and just focus on things I can completely outsource. This means I’m no longer on the hook for deployment and maintenance, so if I can show the cost of the paid software is less than my TCO, it’s a better deal. If I have a good relationship with the vendor, I might be able to delegate my integration needs to their product pipeline. I might be able to purchase a support contract that’s cheaper than running my own.
At some point every company will outgrow certain software. It’s a constant reevaluation of the costs of paid vs TCO of free and when I need to spend resources making it do something it doesn’t. A managed telemetry stack like Sumo or New Relic allows me to scale quickly but cheaply until I have the revenue to build an in-house team to instrument fucking everything.
The exact same logic applies to my time. I could run free everything. That comes with a higher TCO (usually). I say this as someone who has rebuilt dot files repos on the dot every three years and been running Linux since you could get it in a book at B Dalton at the indoor shopping mall so my tolerance for personal TCO is very high. However, I don’t change my own oil. It’s free! I could do it myself! I don’t want to. I buy certain things, like software, in my personal life because the TCO of FOSS is higher than I want to pay. I have outgrown Windows and Mac so I have some level required cost in Linux. I pay for some things like storage and routing solutions even though I could build and deploy and maintain all of that myself. Sometimes I just want my shit to work and not have to do it myself.
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