I’m always eager to find new amazing sites i’ve never heard of, which ones would you recommend?

      • parrot-party
        8•1 year ago

        It’s browser based which means there’s no bare metal CPU or GPU calls in can make. It all has to go through the browsers interpreter. That massively limits it’s potential.

        • simple
          4•1 year ago

          It’s browser based which means there’s no bare metal CPU or GPU calls in can make.

          Here’s hoping WebGPU can fix that in the future.

    • GeekFTW
      11•1 year ago

      Very much not a professional user, but thanks to Photopea I have had no need to have Photoshop/Gimp/forget-what-else-I’ve-used for a few years now and I like it that way!

    • Haunting_Tale_5150
      3•1 year ago

      I always, always recommend Photopea for those who can’t install programs like adobe or free ones like firealpaca/paint dot net. It’s extremely powerful.

  • kuontom
    44•1 year ago

    Every Noise At Once: Recommend this website to find new music that suits your tastes. Play around with the options at the top, best way to see what they do.

    • Eavolution
      7•1 year ago

      Thanks, that’s an hour of my life going listening to things like funeral doom

      • leraje
        2•1 year ago

        Check out Rise To The Sky, a lot of their stuff is on YouTube. Gloriously heavy misery.

    • Calcharger
      2•1 year ago

      I remember this when it first started out, holy fucking shit it’s grown.

    • sokolobo
      1•1 year ago

      Thank you for introducing me to: Enbilulugugal “Return to Hellrokken Goatsex”

      • patchw3rk
        2•1 year ago

        It’s their music video that really ties it all together.

  • nevemsenki
    14•1 year ago

    12ft.io, because the sheer amount of nagwalls are getting absurd. I gladly subscribe to newspapers I frequently read, but without being able to check them out I wouldn’t sub to any (or very few) of them.

    Also tosdr.org . Not bad to have an idea what terms you’re accepting…

      • Balssh
        1•1 year ago

        What’s the difference between scihub and arvix? I have heavily used arvix for my thesis and this is the first time I hear about scihub.
        LE: apparently I cannot spell arxiv right

        • TZUI1hRq
          1•1 year ago

          ArXiv is for pre-prints. These are papers that have not yet undergone peer review. There is also bioRxiv, medRxiv, and others that are for specific field. SciHub is a piracy site for downloading papers. It is very useful, even when you have “legal” access to papers, because you can quickly load a paper using its DOI.

  • redcalcium
    12•1 year ago

    I rarely use windows these days, but when I do, I always visit ninite.com when setting a new windows installation to install several common apps in a single go. Very handy.

    The Internet Archive ( archive.org ) is extremely useful, not just for its Wayback Machine which allows you to see historical copies of a huge chunk of the internet (very useful when the web page you attempt to visit is no longer exist), but it also host a large collection of old media and softwares. Need to install an old copy of Windows XP to run an old software? You can find Windows XP installer there. Need to borrow digital book? They even have a huge digital book library there. If you find the service useful, please donate them some money if you can because the Internet Archive is extremely important to the modern internet and could use all the money it can get.

    • SuperNintendoChalmers
      3•1 year ago

      Great post. The Internet Archive is a wonderful resource; I particularly enjoy browsing their vintage gaming magazine/fanzine collections, and reading old copies of High Times!

    • kaladininskyrim
      1•1 year ago

      These days, there is also choco for people who want to install apps via the terminal like apt install or brew install

    • Hobovision
      2•1 year ago

      It may not have the bs, but I’ve looked at wikivoyage for some places I’m familiar with and the recommendations are really weird or sub-par for the most part, especially for food and drink.

    • Clairvoidance
      2•1 year ago

      All these Amazon replacements, yet no replacement on the site for Amazon the shopping website :(

    • QuestioningEspecialy
      1•1 year ago

      Alternativeto.net is an alternative alternative.

      We have one mission: helping you find the right software for your computer, mobile phone or tablet. Our main focus is to give you alternatives to software you already know and want to replace. Based on our users recommendations we list great alternatives to the applications you want to replace. By joining the site you can participate in the process of making these recommendations better, so please join in!

  • m0nt1c3ll0
    7•1 year ago

    As a DIYer I tend to use YouTube first for all my home repairs (appliances, electronics, etc). There tends to always be someone who is in my shoes before me so I can find the tutorials pretty quickly.

  • 52fighters
    5•1 year ago

    I use Firefox with temporary containers and a combination of DDG & Google to get around paywalls.

    1. Once you have temporary containers installed in Firefox, find an article that’s behind a paywall. I read the Financial Times, for example.
    2. Copy the title of a story.
    3. Open a new tab.
    4. Search the story title in DDG using the g! at the end. For example, “Xi sees ‘progress’ in China-US ties at meeting with Blinken g!”
    5. Find the story and click on it. Enjoy your read.
  • cateye
    5•1 year ago

    https://search.marginalia.nu/ is a great little search engine for research. It favors results that would most likely be buried in the larger engines, excellent for finding lesser known sources.

    Also the “random” button is a lot of fun, and fairly nostalgic if you remember the late 90s-early 00s web. Lots of geocities style personal websites still out there apparently.