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What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago by henrikx@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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For me it is the note taking/PKMS tool SilverBullet.

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[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 28 points 9 months ago

Borg for backup. I'm really surprised it's not more widely known. It's an incredible piece of software.

Also, not really lesser known software, but a lesser known feature of file systems including the ones we use in FOSS operating systems: extended file attributes - useful to add metadata to files without modifying them.

[-] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago

As an add-on (sort of) to Borg, I was told about Vorta yesterday and installed it to run scheduled, encrypted backups of my local machine to an external drive, but you can also ssh to a remote server if you wish. Works like a dream.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

Borg, Vorta, Star Trek is everywhere. Why did they name these for the evil guys? Could have named it "The Sisko", everyone know he is infallable.

[-] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 5 points 9 months ago

restic is better.

[-] mea_rah@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

There's also Rustic. It uses the same repository format as restic. It already has some pretty neat features and since latest release a ton of built-in backends.