I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well.

It gets relegated to playing Fraggle Rock and Bluey on repeat for my kiddo these days, but I am absolutely in love with the software.

What are some other FOSS gems that are a better experience UX/UI-wise than their proprietary counterparts?

EDIT: Autocorrect turned something into “smaller” instead of what I meant it to be when I wrote this post, and I can’t remember what I meant for it to say so it got axed instead.

  • /home/pineapplelover
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    939 months ago

    Signal. Who else is making a post quantum secure e2ee algorithm and making sure the code is open source and not duplicating the keys everywhere? Thank goodness for the kind devs on this project and for other FOSS projects everywhere!

      • @duncesplayed
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        169 months ago

        Because we already know how quantum encryption works.

        It’s like how we proved the Halting Problem was undecideable long before the first computer was ever built.

      • @beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
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        29 months ago

        I’m guessing they can say the methods of encryption are “1 way” ie unreversable, and therefore quantum resistant (the way that quantum solves equations).

        • @dukk@programming.dev
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          69 months ago

          Not quite, no encryption is truly irreversible (that’s the point). We’ve built quantum computers and we know how they work. We found weaknesses in the prime number generation that powers most encryption, so we’ve built around that.

    • @Lemmchen@feddit.de
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      79 months ago

      The time when they essentially went closed source to implement MobileCoin in kind of a covert operation really didn’t do them any favors, though.

      • /home/pineapplelover
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        29 months ago

        Session is definitely an option. They have an interesting decentralization approach but idk if they have quantum resistant e2ee yet.