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Just like with the products page, there are no sponsorships or affiliate links here, only honest recommendations.Indie Wiki Buddy
Indie Wiki buddy is an extention for Chromium and Firefox (including Firefox for Android) that encourages the use of independent wikis.
For those unaware, Fandom is a popular wiki farm that hosts hundreds of thousands of wikis. In recent years, they've been criticised for excessive and intrusive ads, as well as accepting money to edit locked pages and effectively turn them into ads, sticking a middle finger to their communities' hard work.
Indie Wiki Buddy helps to encourage the support of independent wiki platforms by suggesting over 450 alternatives to Fandom and other corporate wiki farms. The extension is highly customisable and works across popular alternative search engines like DuckDuckGo, Brave, Ecosia, and more.
Read more and get the extension here!
Files Community
As much as I'd love to be able to use Linux all the time, I have to keep a Windows installation for my job. The community Files app makes the Windows experience that much more tolerable.
Available from files.community, with an optional donation of £7.49 GBP if you download it via the Microsoft store (please do donate if you can!), Files is an open-source alternative to Windows explorer with much better performance, customisability, and integrations than the Windows default.
password-store
password-store, or pass, is a tool to manage passwords via the command line. Though it's build for unix, many clients and GUI wrappers exist for other platforms.
For the effort of managing your own PGP keys, you get the ability to store passwords without paying for a service like LastPass or DashLane, which are also high-profile targets for hackers.
ArchWSL
ArchWSL is exactly what it sounds like: Arch linux on Windows Subsystem for Linux. Another thing that makes using Windows that much more tolerable. It's developed and maintained by yuk7.
For the inevitable asks: I'm using WezTerm as my terminal emulator, tmux multiplexer with the Nord theme, Oh My Posh (no relation) for my prompt, and Neofetch as my fetch script. My wallpaper is River to Riverwood by Nicky Nuka, via Wallpaper Engine.
I do have a couple of minor issues, like it thinking that it's being hosted on Windows 10 (I'm using 11), and sometimes Windows' binaries aren't added to the PATH automatically, but for the most part it works perfectly!