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Mark Tyler’s Painting Program
Good god this is both simple and convoluted.
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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.avidemux.org/
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
I don’t really care about this, but I do use it occasionally to cut apart videos.
Quite straightforward to use for simple video editing and appending. It took me almost no time to learn.
Good for transcoding and merging audio into video.
I use avidemux_gtk
avidemux2_cli(on Wikipedia)
https://www.keepassx.org/
A password manager.
I found KeePassx while exploring replacing Firefox, and when looking at replacing web browser components. I wanted something cross-platform and open source.
Abandoned 2021-12-09 – official statement
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(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/geeqie/
http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/
A straightforward and lightweight image viewer.
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Software > Web browsers >
(on Wikipedia)
Linux > http://www.palemoon.org/
http://www.palemoon.org/
A web browser which is essentially a fork of Firefox. Pale Moon keeps the simpler UI before the astonishingly terrible changes Firefox made.
A very good browser. Newer addons targeting the latest Firefox which are addicted to its new interface will not work with Pale Moon, since Pale Moon lacks that interface. Older addons or proper UI-agnostic addons will work fine.
Software >
(on Wikipedia)
http://openscad.org/
The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
In general, this is a wonderful program. A great editor, and it’s quite easy to use.
Unfortunately, it really is for programmers. While I can muddle through everything, I’m not a programmer so it’s extremely time consuming for me to make anything.
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Software > Animation, Video editing >
(on Wikipedia)
(on Steam)
https://www.blender.org/
A Free and open source 3d creation suite and video editor.
3d editing: Said to be very difficult to use, and it is. There is an argument that in mastering it one gains a huge set of capabilities with one tool. I was unable to get that far.
Video editing: Defaults are stupid and features are missing. Maybe it’ll be passable in a few years.
It has a portable zip, with no install required. Yay!
(on Wikipedia)
https://wiki.bitmessage.org/Main_Page
A secure communications tool which sends messages through a network of users which it doesn’t need to trust.
It can be thought of like Tor for email.