In the spirit of Follow Friday, what is your favorite underappreciated open source project? Answers with and without a Fediverse presence are valid, but website and/or source repo links are strongly encouraged.
I like LocalSend, it's a cross platform AirDrop work-alike for Windows, Linux, Mac, PC, Android and iOS.
My father is 78 and does all his online stuff on a potato 15“ #HP laptop (4GB RAM, 128 GB ssd and an Intel N something processor) from 2016. Because of #endof10 I sat down with him yesterday and installed
@linuxmint. He already used #firefox and #thunderbird. Another requirement was a working #HP office printer/scanner should work with both printing and scanning. We booted into the live system and voilá! The printer just popped up. Tested the scanner: just works! 1/n
He tested the document scanner again. He is not a man of many words and his only comment was: „This is easier than in Windows, where I have to use the HP-App, which has a lot of settings.“ Because he always shared images from his Android phone to his laptop via email, I added #localsend to the mix. He tested it: works fine and is easy to understand. Last change I made was installing #onlyoffice as Libreoffice alternative, because the GUI is simpler and more like the one he is used to. 3/n
@heiseonline Das #FOSS tool #localsend kann man dazu schon heute recht problemlos verwenden. Bin ich übrigens über euren Newsletter Open Source Spotlight drauf aufmerksam geworden.
@itsfoss I am always on the lookout for new/better software, but it's going to take something special to beat the ease, efficacy and universality of #LocalSend. 💪🏼
@tertle950
@kdeKDE you can. I found it a bit unreliable sometimes because iOS does iOS stuff behind the scenes. The Android client is solid on my devices.
I swap between #localsend and #kdeconnect . Most of the time I don't need all the extras bundled with KDE Connect.
@kdeKDE I use KDE connect (always connected) and #LocalSend sometimes #plainapp depends on my need and mood. Does the job and reliable than link(I've used it, bad experience).