• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    44·
    5 days ago

    The Dialer.

    • Comes with every phone
    • 10+ digit number instantly connects you with millions of people, services, and institutions
    • 3 digits connects you with life-saving emergency support
    • Very low-latency voice support
    • High quality audio (most of the time)
    • No ads
    • No obnoxious UI

    All kidding aside, I’m routinely astounded at how we have yet to top the ease and utility of old-fashioned phone service.

    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
      103·
      6 days ago

      some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it’s not yet associated with vlc

      “Hey… it looks like your going to have to buy a codec…”

      manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly

        • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
          25·
          6 days ago

          A variation happened to me last week that’s why it came to mind. Was opening an mp4 recorded on a digital camera on a new laptop. So the stock player had a go and gave a message similar to the above. vlc was installed moments later and of course had no issue…

        • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
          3·
          5 days ago

          Yep. You need to pay for the patent with certain codecs, that’s why operating systems with a company behind them usually do not distribute them. Same with a few Linux distros, such as Fedora.

          You can install them and the packages for your os are freely available. Just not from the company making the product in the fear of patent trolls.

        • LongLive@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 days ago

          Literally never heard of the end user being billed for the codecs.

          [Edit]: I think I should rephrase. Could I please be informed about how are codecs priced?

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      27·
      6 days ago

      +1 VLC will dutifully try to play even corrupted to hell files that any other media player would just fail with some form of “can’t play, file is corrupt”

    • M137@lemmy.world
      8·
      6 days ago

      I agree that it’s cool and all, but I just really don’t like VLC. It’s ugly, bad UX and misses some major features. I love other similar and also free ones thoigh, like PotPlayer, MPC and MPV.

    • frunch@lemmy.world
      6·
      5 days ago

      VLC just managed to get some newer video files to play for me on a 10 year old tablet that wouldn’t play them with it’s included video player. It was also one of the only apps on the play store that would still work on that old tablet as well. It’s been my go-to video player for years now, terrific software 🥂

    • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      VLC is pretty great. I would say IINA is at least a close second on Mac. Haven’t had a problem playing anything in it yet.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 days ago

          It even runs on iOS. It’s one of the only ways to play videos that aren’t in Apple’s bullshit proprietary format.

      • million@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Yeah I personally prefer IINA on the Mac because of how native the interface is. Neither VLC or IINA has had trouble paying any video files I have.

  • John@discuss.tchncs.de
    22·
    5 days ago

    Home Assistant, not only an App but it changed the way i look at IoT/Smarthome and in that way it brings me a lot of comfort.

    • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      6 days ago

      I haven’t used windows in about 15 years on my personal machines but see 7zip referenced everywhere…why is it so popular? Can windows 10/11 or whatever we’re on now not compress/extract most things itself or do people prefer it for some reason (nice interface etc)?

      I’m always amazed when I’m following a tutorial written for windows and it says “download and install 7zip, then extract the file using 7zip”. I just right click the file and extract it…

      • vividspecter@lemm.ee
        47·
        6 days ago

        Windows only recently got support for 7z and RAR. For the several decades before that, it supported neither.

      • viking@infosec.pub
        15·
        6 days ago

        Windows can do that, but opens archives as folders and will run executables by extracting them to a temp folder without dependencies. And the unpack dialogue is cumbersome, with 7zip you get a simple right click -> extract here / to folder dialogue, that somehow still is too much to ask of the main OS.

        • Someone64@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 days ago

          It’s likely for 'user friendliness’. Most people don’t even know what an archive is and that it should be extracted so a folder is much more intuitive and familiar to them.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    72·
    5 days ago

    Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, OBS (open broadcast software), Linux distros of various sorts, openHAB, LibreOffice, Firefox (and plugins like uBlock), PiHole, VirtualBox, Notepad++, Paint.NET, VLC, 7-Zip, FileZilla…

    I’m sure there’s more.

  • Nerandza@lemmy.world
    46·
    5 days ago

    New pipe, I didn’t see anyone mentioned it

    Besides, I use Linux, Organic maps, Signal, VLC, KDE on daily basis and THANK YOU good people on internet for making my life happier!

  • Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20·
    5 days ago

    Organic Maps. After switching to graphene, I quickly found plenty of apps replacing the “defaults” I had on stock android, however, a good app for maps was impossible to find until I stumbled over that one. Great UI, local maps, even has a navigation feature. Completely replaces google maps for me.