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[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 168 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

YT-DL is greater than YT-DLP?

Edit: Oh, it’s an arrow. Got it.

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 145 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Simplemobiletools --> Fossify is pretty epic

[–] greencactus@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Do the Fossify versions already have new features? I'll still using Simple Mobile Tools from F-Droid, without ads, and am asking if it makes sense to download Fossify apps already

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 17 points 2 years ago

They have material you by default instead of the weird accent theming there was before

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No big changes yet afaik but its a good idea to switch anyways

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[–] VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 124 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The unmaintained repo has a link in the readme pointing to the best fork

[–] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 72 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My dad comes home with the milk

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[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

This is the problem, making the fork known to the userbase of the original software. When the Atom text editor was killed by Microsoft we decided to fork it as Pulsar but it was an uphill struggle to really get the word out. We got a massive boost when the youtuber Distrotube featured us in an episode and again with an itsfoss article but we still routinely find people who have been using Atom without knowing we even exist.

[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

TIL Pulsar exists

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

You found some more by commenting about it now.

But if the fork is on GitHub there are some ways to search for the most maintained forks, albeit not with the GitHub tools which is unfortunate

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[–] littletranspunk@lemmus.org 75 points 2 years ago (9 children)

It may be a game, but....

Pixel Dungeon -> Shattered Pixel Dungeon

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[–] dan@upvote.au 74 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Keep in mind that software doesn't have an expiry date. If a piece of software is unmaintained and doesn't have an active fork but it still fulfills your use case and doesn't have any major issues, there's no need to replace it. Some of the software I use hasn't seen any updates in five years but I still use it because it still works.

Edit: As an example, a lot of people still use WinDirStat even though the latest release 1.1.2 is now 17 years old.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd say that problems mostly come from the need to update dependencies in case of vulnerabilities being discovered. But not every software needs elevated privileges or can become a vector of attack, I guess

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Desktop - Linux - Yes, likely. If not, here's a flatpak
Desktop - Windows - Maybe it still runs in a compatibility mode?
Desktop - iMac - Here's an emulator, good luck.

Mobile - PostMarketOS - Yes, likely. If not, here's a flatpak
Mobile - Android - Maybe? Try it and see if you get permission denial
Mobile - iPhone - Fuck you, no.

[–] dan@upvote.au 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Windows is pretty good with backwards compatibility, probably the best out of anything. I can run Visual Basic apps I wrote in the early 2000s on Windows 11 and they still run fine. Some old 32-bit games work fine too. You can even run some 16-bit Windows 3.0 apps on 32-bit Windows 10 if you manually install NTVDM through the Windows features (it was never ported to 64-bit though)

Linux is okay for backcompat but I'm not sure an app I compiled 20 years ago would still run today.

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[–] IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

WinDirStat works but is super slow though. WizTree is a much better modern equivalent.

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[–] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 66 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 67 points 2 years ago

The fork is yt-dlp

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[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 58 points 2 years ago (18 children)
[–] TxzK@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 years ago

Yeah Fogejo is amazing. Moved all my personal projects from GitLab to Codeberg recently. Wish I knew about it sooner

[–] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I want to like Forgejo but the name is really terrible.

Is it "forj-joe"? Nah, that double-J sound is way too awkward.
Do you then merge the J sounds to make "forjo"? If so, why not just call it that?
Is it maybe "for-geh-joe"? That seems the most likely to me, but then that ignores the "build < forge" marketing on their website.

I know it's pretty inconsequential, but it feels weird using a tool that you don't even know how to pronounce the name of.

[–] rvgamer06@leminal.space 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There is an official pronounce on the site. It comes from Esperanto anyway.

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[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, like the other person mentioned, the origins of the word and its pronunciation are the very first thing in the FAQ on their website. It's pronounced more like for-jey-oh.

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[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 54 points 2 years ago (7 children)
[–] mggnn@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago

StarOffice -> OpenOffice -> LibreOffice

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[–] alien@lemm.ee 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

it's a wonderful feeling when that happens!

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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Even better when someone forked it away from proprietary, closed-source, publicly-traded, for-profit, US-based, account-required, training-AI-on-your-code-then-selling-it-back-to-you Microsoft GitHub forge/social media network often with vendor lock-in to some other forge without all that BS.

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[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 30 points 2 years ago (8 children)

"PIN number"

vs.

"FOSS software"

Who'd win in a fight?

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] dan@upvote.au 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (9 children)
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[–] yojimbo@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 years ago (15 children)
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[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Paperless -> Paperless-ng -> Paperless-ngx

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Mplayer -> MPV

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Clementine -> Strawberry :)

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 20 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Slic3r -> PrusaSlicer -> SuperSlicer

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[–] lung@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

vim, or better yet, neovim

come to the 21st century, we have lua

and plugins, and syntax highlighting, and multi buffer/multi window support, and LSP support so you can Go to Definition like in an IDE, and wAY more normal mode commands than anyone could ever hope to memorize. also when you do cw it deletes the word immediately instead of putting a dollar sign at the end before purring you in insert mode, and regex substitutions highlights text in the buffer as you type so you can see what you're about to replace. it's really quite cool. if you're new to programming and/or feel like committing heresy you can even skin it to look and work like VS Code. people like to joke that we're slowly but surely becoming emacs and they're not entirely wrong.

but the important thing is the lua.

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[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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