• dishpanman@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Adding the following that i have not seen mentioned yet:

    Docker - I literally run most of my server programs with docker now. Home Assistant, Jellyfin, and many others.

    Tiny Media Manager that I use to scraper and organize my media library

    Tiny Tiny RSS to combine my news sites into one aggregator. I actually saw this post on it since Lemmy has RSS feeds!

    Openwrt I run as my home router.

    I2P but it’s still pretty clunky.

    Nomachine I use as a remote desktop client.

    RocketDock I still use on my windows desktop after windows removed the programs toolbar.

    ImageJ/Fiji I use for image processing, it’s from the NIH, with a bunch of Java plugins.

    Gluetun I use to run my vpn client

    Kodi for multimedia

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 months ago

          Basically like a sort of mini-VM.
          What it solves (for me) is dependency hell.

          No need to install a quadrillion dependencies and solve if two different programs want the same package but maybe different versions.
          Instead of fiddling with that, the image isolates the components.
          This way I could run 5 different web servers on different ports.

          Yes they complicate troubleshooting but the upsides are way more valuable to me.

          • raldone01@lemmy.world
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            27 days ago

            For me it actually simplifies troubleshooting by a lot. No worries when messing around inside the container. Maintainers are looking at the same picture as you and can reproduce everything more easily.

            Without docker I could never run all the services I am currently.

  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I dislike the implication that the most useful apps are not free.

    I always feel more comfortable using FOSS software, even if it doesn’t look as nice as the commercial option.