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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.

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This one's debatable, but I use it all the time. Plasticity is 3D modelling software that attempts to bridge the gap between practical CAD programs and software meant for 3D artists like Blender. It's not cheap considering Blender is free, but it's buy once use forever, and at (I think) $150 it's within reach of an individual hobbyist who knows what they want and is willing to pay for it.

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[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 54 points 5 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Bitwarden. It's free and open source, but you can pay for a subscription ~~if you don't want to self host for synchronisation between devices. It's very cheap and no doubt worth it.~~

Also Aseprite, for pixel art and custom format exports.

Edit: looks like both these programs are just straight up fully featured and freely available now.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Sync between devices doesnt require a subscription?

I use it on my desktop, laptop and phone, no issue

Never paid a dime

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For real, I had been using Bitwarden for a couple of years for free and it never once had to show an ad to ask me to buy it's subscription. I just realized that it was giving me tons of value, and that prompted me to buy the (fairly priced) subscription. That's a gold standard imo.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago

I saw a banner in the extension telling me the premium version existed once, but it wasn't very intrusive

[–] deceiver@infosec.pub 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

what kind of synchronization between devices are you referring to? I’ve never had a subscription and have used multiple vaults on numerous different devices

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Basically storing an encrypted backup of your secure content so that a password you add to bitwarden on desktop can be accessed via your phone, accessible via a login.

[–] deceiver@infosec.pub 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

ok, that’s basic cloud sync, which is a core free feature of Bitwarden, not a premium feature. you don’t need to purchase a subscription for that, it’s literally the fundamental purpose of any modern password manager and is completely free in Bitwarden

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah it does look like cloud sync is free now. I was a pretty early adopter of bitwarden so I believe originally you had to pay for cloud sync support, but I may be wrong.

Still, I'll continue to support them because they're the only password manager I've used that has some semblance of mutual respect.

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

Libresprite is the open source alternative and it's nearly identical.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Aseprite is free if you compile it yourself, isn't it?

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Right, but it's still free (even for commercial use) under the current license so long as you compile it from source yourself and don't share the binary. The author just has some weird thoughts about the GPL.

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Hmm odd. So there isn't really much of a difference between using libre sprite and aseprite.