A complicated edit window in an application to control lighting systems. There is a list of different controls on the left and, on the right, the Pattern selection control is being edited. There are patterns named such as Circle, Triangle and Two dashes

And because I'm a nerd, the first thing I did with the lasers was hook them up to QLC+ (sorry, I missed #FreeSoftwareAdvent) and defined a new custom fixture. However, as the laser is unbranded with no model number or writing on it (was very cheap from […]

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 24: Ubuntu Mate

I've saved the biggest until last. I've been using Ubuntu on the desktop since 2004 with 4.10. I'd been using various distributions, and hadn't really settled on any, then a member of Cumbria LUG mentioned Ubuntu. I tried it, found that it just worked […]

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 23: F-Droid

F-Droid is my preferred app store for Android. I use the Google Play store to install apps that I can't find in F-Droid, but where possible, I install apps from F-Droid. Some of the Android apps I've mentioned this month aren't available on the Google Play […]

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 22: Kanboard

Kanboard is the project management software we use at @office@gts.authorhelp.uk. As the name suggests, it uses a kanban model. We set up a swimlane for each project, with "To do", "In progress", and "Done" columns. Each task gets a card in the "To do" column […]

I late to #freesoftwareadvent so decided to just to follow and see what others suggested.

However after 21 days I've only seen one mention of a file manager.

So I'm going to mention 2.

When I'm working on a headless Linux server 99% of the time i install […]

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 21: Thunar

Thunar is the XFCE file manager. I don't use XFCE, although I have used it in the past on old machines. I don't use Thunar as a general file manager, but I do use the bulk rename functionality, which I find very useful.

I've tried other bulk rename programs […]

Neil Brown (@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk) Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is F-Droid, a Free software app store for Android. (As in, the app is FOSS, and the apps available in the default repo are FOSS.) F-Droid also runs the default repository ...

Si miráis en mastodon todos los posts con #freesoftwareadvent veréis una recopilación de aplicaciones libres para multitud de propósitos. Por ejemplo,
mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/115756...

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 20: Sympl

I've been running my own servers for years, always with Debian. I use Sympl to simplify the management of them.

It's a collection of scripts and templates. If I want to set up a new website, I create the folder for it in the appropriate place, and Sympl […]

Tusky - Mastodon client for Android Tusky is a lightweight Android client for Mastodon, a free and open-source social network server.

#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 19: Tusky

I joined the fediverse in late 2022, and I soon discovered Tusky, a Mastodon client for Android. I've been using it ever since.

Nowadays my account is on GoToSocial rather than Mastodon, but Tusky works just as well with GoToSocial.

https://tusky.app/

@Tusky

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 18: GadgetBridge

A little while ago, I bought a PineTime watch. GadgetBridge is the software I use to connect it to my phone, so that it can display notifications etc.

It works well for me. It shows me graphs of battery life and steps over time, and I've used it to […]

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 17: CoMaps

I mentioned earlier this month that I joined #OpenStreetMap in 2006. Back then, many areas were blank or only sparsely mapped.

That was nineteen years ago. At some point between then and now, coverage became comprehensive enough that it's feasible to use […]

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 16: AntennaPod

I listen to a lot of #podcasts, and I've tried various podcast clients. I mostly listen on my Android phone, but every now and then it's useful to listen on my laptop, so it's handy to have a way of synchronising the list of podcasts, progress, etc […]

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 15: Nextcloud

SyncThing is great for synchronising files, but I also have a self-hosted Nextcloud server. If I only wanted to synchronise files, I'd probably just use SyncThing, but I use Nextcloud for things like CalDav for calendars and CardDav for contacts as well as […]

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 14: SyncThing

SyncThing is a great solution for syncing files between machines without a central server. I use it primarily for files related to my business and writing. We could use Nextcloud, and I do have a Nextcloud server for other things, but I prefer not to take […]