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2 days and counting

by LM

Free Software is a great resource in an emergency. You can freely give copies of the software to anyone who needs it. You have the source code, so you can modify it for your specific needs if it doesn't quite do the job. Here's the list I put together for Hardware Freedom Day for Open Hardware and Free Software that could be useful in an emergency or during a power outage: https://codeberg.org/lmemsm/delightful-off-grid-open-tech I would love to hear your suggestions for useful Free Software to have in an emergency. Do you know of other useful lists of FLOSS for emergency situations? Please share the links. Also, if you have any other suggestions (Free/Open hardware, software, etc.) that I can add to my Off Grid Open Tech list, please let me know. Have a great Software Freedom Day 2025 and be safe. Sincerely, Laura

Sept. 18, 2025

3 days until SFD2025

by LM

Three days and counting until Software Freedom Day 2025. Thought I'd post something useful for SFD. Here are some links to lists of Free, Libre, Open Source remote communications software: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/14124.html https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/better-than-zoom-try-these-free-softwar… https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Remote_Communication What's your favorite FLOSS alternative to proprietary communications software? Thanks to all the people who have shared their favorite Free Software on this list and social media platforms. Have a great SFD2025.

Sept. 17, 2025

Re: 4 days and counting

by Adam Bolte

On Wednesday, 17 September 2025 4:15:45 am Australian Eastern Standard Time Marcos Marado wrote: > In the past few years I've been using rhythmbox, not because I like it but > because it is what I found that "gets the work done". I used to use rhythmbox also, but for quite some years now have been very happy with Quod Libet. It has plugins to do everything I could imagine wanting or needing, and it has a simple clean layout. It's all Python-based too which I appreciate. When I get new CDs (which still happens from time to time), I use Sound Juicer to rip them to to flac. However, other times I get music from Bandcamp and elsewhere, where tag aren't as I would like, and Quod Libet is also great at adding or adjusting tags as needed. As a KDE Plasma user these days (having transitioned from Xfce a few years back when I needed Wayland for something), I have also experimented with Elisa, but I'm just too big of a fan of Quod Libet's Panned Browser layout mode. If I need to convert flac files to mp3 for compatibility with something, there is ffmpeg at the ready for this, and a whole lot more. In fact, I used it just today in a little script to add metronome ticks to drama audio tracks, so I can keep my target cadence while listening to them while running. I had to ensure the tracks always ended right on a tick (with a tiny bit of padding) so the metronome would be consistent if tracks are shuffled. It worked out great! For video, I too dig mpv. -Adam

Sept. 17, 2025

Re: 4 days and counting

by Marcos Marado

Hi, On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM LM <lmemsm(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I can't believe we're only 4 days away from Software Freedom Day 2025. > FLOSS question for today, what's your favorite Free, Libre, Open > Source music player? I like the lightweight combo of FLTK based flrec > that works with sox. Sox, the swiss army knife of sound processing > utilities is a very useful program. I'm also a fan of qmmp. Thank you for these e-mails, they're fun! In the past few years I've been using rhythmbox, not because I like it but because it is what I found that "gets the work done". I was a fan and user of Amarok for many years, until its development stalled, and forks and alternatives like clementine showed up but never quite managed to take over - and I haven't been satisfied with a music player ever since. I know that "Amarok is back" since last year, and I'm looking forward to try out the new/modern versions, but it is not available for the current version of Ubuntu LTS which is what I am using in the machine I'd use it on, so I might just wait for Ubuntu 26.04 before trying it... -- ~marado

Sept. 16, 2025

4 days and counting

by LM

I can't believe we're only 4 days away from Software Freedom Day 2025. FLOSS question for today, what's your favorite Free, Libre, Open Source music player? I like the lightweight combo of FLTK based flrec that works with sox. Sox, the swiss army knife of sound processing utilities is a very useful program. I'm also a fan of qmmp. Feel free to get some chatter going on about Software Freedom Day on any of the social media platforms you're on. Please use #SFD2025 in your posts so others can find and boost or like them. If you want anything posted or shared about your event on the Digital Freedom Foundation social media accounts, please let me know.

Sept. 16, 2025

Re: 5 days and counting

by Marcos Marado

Hi there, On Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 20:03 LM <lmemsm(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Only 5 days left until Software Freedom Day 2025. Is your event on the map? > If not, now's the time to add it: > https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/archive?view=list > > Today's Free Software sharing topic, what's your favorite FLOSS media > player? Do you prefer vlc, mplayer, mpc, xine, smplayer, kodi? Have > another program you'd recommend? I've been a regular user of xine and vlc, but later and for many years mplayer. Recently I switched to mpv, a "more modern" mplayer, compatible with the 'old mplayer' but with a faster paced development and new features, particularly useful for streaming use cases. mpv is the new mplayer :-) https://mpv.io/ -- ~marado

Sept. 16, 2025

5 days and counting

by LM

Only 5 days left until Software Freedom Day 2025. Is your event on the map? If not, now's the time to add it: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/archive?view=list Today's Free Software sharing topic, what's your favorite FLOSS media player? Do you prefer vlc, mplayer, mpc, xine, smplayer, kodi? Have another program you'd recommend? Have a great Software Freedom Day 2025.

Sept. 15, 2025

Re: 6 days and counting

by Jurgen Gaeremyn

Ah... The elephant on my computer is Inkscape — I absolutely love that one. But I'll pick one little gem out — not sure if it's a graphics program or not, but it most certainly is graphical and you can design with it... so here goes nothing: LeoCAD — the program to create Lego designs. Greetings, Jurgen PS - recently learned a cool trick in Thunderbird: if you want to reply plaintext to a plaintext mail... just hold shift when clicking on the reply button... Op 14/09/2025 om 17:24 schreef LM: > We have 6 days until #SoftwareFreedomDay2025. To celebrate, let's all > share some of our favorite FLOSS programs. What's your favorite FOSS > graphics program? Personally, I can't pick just one. Gimp, Inkscape, > Graphicsmagick and Imagemagick are great. As are DarkTable, > RawTherapee, MTPaint and TuxPaint. However, some lesser known FLOSS > graphics programs I like are GrafX2, LodePaint and I.mage. What FLOSS > graphics programs do you use? > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com

Sept. 14, 2025

Re: 6 days and counting

by luisdaniel＠tuta.io

I use myPaint, pinta, inkscape and gimp. One of these days I'll learn Krita properly. -- Protegido com Tuta Mail: https://tuta.com/free-email 14/09/2025, 16:34 por lmemsm(a)gmail.com: > We have 6 days until #SoftwareFreedomDay2025. To celebrate, let's all > share some of our favorite FLOSS programs. What's your favorite FOSS > graphics program? Personally, I can't pick just one. Gimp, Inkscape, > Graphicsmagick and Imagemagick are great. As are DarkTable, > RawTherapee, MTPaint and TuxPaint. However, some lesser known FLOSS > graphics programs I like are GrafX2, LodePaint and I.mage. What FLOSS > graphics programs do you use? > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com >

Sept. 14, 2025

Re: 6 days and counting

by Marcos Marado

I'm fan of The GIMP: for someone who doesn't do graphics or design commonly, but still has to do the casual crop, image editing or poster, I have had gimp in my toolbox for the past few decades, as a tool "easy enough" for me and more powerful than I need it to be. On Sun, Sep 14, 2025, 16:26 LM <lmemsm(a)gmail.com> wrote: > We have 6 days until #SoftwareFreedomDay2025. To celebrate, let's all > share some of our favorite FLOSS programs. What's your favorite FOSS > graphics program? Personally, I can't pick just one. Gimp, Inkscape, > Graphicsmagick and Imagemagick are great. As are DarkTable, > RawTherapee, MTPaint and TuxPaint. However, some lesser known FLOSS > graphics programs I like are GrafX2, LodePaint and I.mage. What FLOSS > graphics programs do you use? > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list -- sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com > To unsubscribe send an email to sfd-discuss-leave(a)mailman3.com >

Sept. 14, 2025