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Linux.

At least $100 per system, if not more.

ZFS

SSH.

Alternatively, Postgres.

Off the top of my head from daily use;

• Borg backup, powerful backup software for self-hosted oriented users or enterprise automation.
• proxmox, hypervisor that is performant and easy to setup for simple and complex virtualization needs.
• bitwarden (combined with vaultwarden self-host), password management, secrets management, and available on basically all platforms and browsers. Self hosting your vault gives you peace of mind over who has your most sensitive data.
• obsidian, a great notes app with polished cross platform applications that don’t do any funky proprietary storage shenanigans. Files are files and folders are folders.
• kate (and most of the KDE suite), premiere Linux desktop environment suitable for customization and all the expected luxuries user would expect from windows or macOS. Kate specifically is a noticeable modern upgrade over notepad++ and rivals VSCode for programmers.

GIMP

Home Assistant

Emacs

May be a bit out there, but on Android, Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a rogue lite game that is free and extremely fun to play. No ads, not very demanding on your phone, still gets updates, and easy to pick up and play when you're out traveling.

Its a very hard game, where knowledge is very important, as well as experimentation.

Photopea Fully functional Photoshop in your browser. Amazing.

Pretty much every major open source project at this point. I need to start looking into donating to the programs I use the most.

Libby ebook reader/browser

Apples
Edit: I steal my neighbours apples

It depends on how you define "app" and "free". But for free (as in beer) smartphone apps I really like.

• tidy
• Librera Reader
• these pre-packaged apks for the onnx text to speech engine which uses the piper voices that can be used in conjunction with the above Librera Reader to turn any compatible text doc to an audio book.

audacity

neovim

calibre

mpv

Its a bit more than an app, but QGIS is like, actually amazing. Also GDAL (and PDAL).

Wasted (Android Only)

Can nuke your phone's data if not unlocked for X amount if time, along with many other triggers for a wipe.

Very useful considering the political climate of one of the most powerful nations in the world has someone done a nazi salute behind the presidential podium.

Warning: I am not a lawyer. You might get in legle trouble for using this app (Such as "Destruction of Evidence" charges)

Aside from the obvious FOSS offerings, there is a ton of free music software out there, including plugins for your favorite DAW.

While we are at it, Reaper is not free but they are also not going to bug you to pay for it. It is so good and inexpensive that they mostly rely on the honor system for payment.

I recently learned about an app called Snappy Driver Installer Origin. It's a minimal FOSS program that checks our PC for the drivers it has, needs installed, or updated and goes about it quickly. It's also portable so it's great if you want it on a install thumb drive.

There are so many apps out there that try to get you to buy or pay a subscription for this feature and others, so it's been a breath of fresh air for me to have learned about and use it.

Im going to throw libre office in. Spreadsheets are so versatile. You always here about this is done so badly they are using spreadsheets but that just shows how friggin powerful and versatile they are and the other parts of the suite are nice to.

Image Toolbox, full of useful feature for image editing

Shosetsu. It lets you download book seriisls off many different sources. I like to keep my royal road books up to date there.

Voyager and pipepipe

fall guys