For me, that would be Secure CRT. I have yet to find a terminal emulator that matches its feature set. If you regularly manage hundreds of machines using various connection protocols (serial and ssh mostly in my case) It’s worth the $$$, and so far there hasn’t been any subscription nonsense. I liked using it at work so much I forked over the dough to have it at home.
None of the free alternatives do everything I need.
I’ll also mention a few iOS apps. One is Sun Surveyor. It’s an AR app that shows you the position of the sun, moon, and galactic center at any given time. The other would have to be Radarscope. It’s a weather radar app, but it’s a really good weather radar app.
Symphonium, a music app for android (maybe also iOS, dunno). I’ve tried so many other apps for both local and remote music, none of them come even close - I particularly like the pre-caching and rolling cache features, as there are some places I go regularly where connection is spotty, and they allow me to stream pretty much uninterrupted from my subsonic server.
I know many would not agree, but for me it’s 1Password. I use it dozens of times a day - not just for passwords, but also for credit cards, social security numbers, notes, and maybe the most useful, SSH keys. My whole family is covered for $5/month, a laughably low sum.
Personally: Synergy (a formerly OSS software KVM). GlassWire.
Professionally: IntelliJ. Datadog.
donate the money to somebody who runs a fediverse server. running servers costs money every month, and that can’t be eliminated either because hardware can’t be optimized out of existence.
Who knew a PDF editor would become so useful.
I’m pretty sure the free version has more features than adobe reader.
And if you don’t want to pay, you can demo all of the paid features. Saving the file will put a watermark on every page, but if you print-to-pdf before you save, no watermark. Great if you just need to merge a few files or do some quick stuff once in a while.
I paid for Ardour, but it is also free.
Just a teensy iOS/macos extension, but Vinegar is awesome for watching YouTube.
I would have said the Affinity suite of stuff, but they recently sold out to Canva, and fuuuuuuuck them.
Agreed on Affinity. At least my old licenses still work. But yeah, fuck them.
Everyone around me is saying that DaVinci Resolve is great. It cost not an insignificant summ, so whether it actually worth it I will have to report later
Have you tried the free version? Unless you’re running a large scale production studio, the free version should cover you.
Even the iPad version is amazing for quick stuff. No ads, no watermark, and no render limits and all the other junk that the other “free” apps are filled with.
They make their money on expensive hardware.
I am using free version for the last 4 years at least to edit a YouTube show and a podcast. I don’t do anything really fancy, just basic editing, a bit of colour correction, a lot of audio cleanup.
Everyone is saying that starting version 20 they have some cool plugins that save a ton of time
Currently paying for a task app called Planndu, it’s awesome
I don’t normally do the whole trolling thing, but I gotta say I was tempted to write “Windows” with no explanation just to see how poorly it would go.
windows are good for letting the fresh air in but it’s no software so you missed the point here
I think there was this paid C++ LSP that I gave a try to when looking into UE that one I liked. 1password, it’s just great and the yearly cost is negible. FilePilot if you still have to use windows like I do.
Jetbrains Intellij IDEA Ultimate. 100% worth the price.
Big fan of the all products pack.
As a former Eclipse user I can vouch for this as well.
Haha no
Why not?
Why should I pay a thousand bucks a year for it? I mean have you heard of emacs and neovim?
Perhaps purchasing as a company. For me as a person the everything pack is under $300/year. And repeat subscriptions get a discount, so I’ll pay even less for it next year.
TeraCopy if you move lots of data around.
However, even with a pro license, I still got an ad notification in my task area recently pushing their other software. Fucking hate advertisements that go out of their way to interrupt you.
Fucking hate advertisements
that go out of their way to interrupt you.The rest of that sentence literally defines the procedure of advertising.
Well yeah, just emphasizing I already paid for your software.
Demand a refund or compensation.
I should. But I bought it multiple years ago and I didn’t care that much. But I will definitely think twice next time I need some software to not use them.
In the world of music production Reaper is an insanely good deal with a fantastically refreshing licensing system.
This would have been mine. I generally only donate rather than buy software, but reaper is an exception.
I haven’t used Reaper in a while, but you can technically use it for free with full features by perpetually using it in trial version mode right?
Yes!
The developer is pretty insistent on saying that Reaper is NOT free but also that stupid licensing schemes for other DAWs like the horrid iLok and others only punish people who actually buy the software, which is self-defeating since the pirates are unaffected by the ways in which the tool is made worse for people who actually bought the tool legally.
I bought it simply because of how incredibly refreshing this was, free open source DAWs have gotten better since I did but there used to be barely any accessible, lowcost ones that were fully featured enough to be useful. Now there are open source options like Muse and LMMS but the thing about Reaper is it isn’t a budget/hobbyist DAW, in many ways it is an industry leading software so even with good FOSS DAWs out there Reaper is still well worth it.
In specific, a lot of people use Reaper for live performance of software instruments as Reaper is an efficient beast at running complex chains of software effects efficiently… and yet a lot of people also use Reaper for mixing and production because it has such high quality audio processing capabilities. Reaper is a behemoth.
Reaper can do more than 99.9999% of people are capable of using it for.
Kagi. Search that actually works, with no ads. Worth every penny.
I’ll be a lifer for Kagi. I still twitch my way to Google sometimes from a lifetime of habit and every time, it’s like a little check-in, and I think, “oh, god, it can’t have gotten this much worse since last time, can it?”
Another happy Kagi user here, and I also hate sounding like a shill but I’m really so glad I use their product. Not having to parse through ads and AI slop when I’m busy and looking for info is so helpful when I’m trying to work.
Kagi is definitely worth it.
Why do I always see so many down votes when Kagi is mentioned?
I think it might be one or both of:
- people are sick of seeing it mentioned. I’m not a shill, I just really like the product.
- they are indignant about Kagi occasionally using Yandex when it compiles search results
In both cases, meh. I’m answering the OP question with my opinion, and hopefully somebody finds it useful.
Some people don’t like the Dev also.
Thanks so much! I wouldn’t have known about it had people not talked about it. It’s only been a much or two since switching to kagi and I’ve been happy with it.
