We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?
PiHole
Agnostic:
- VLC
Windows:
- TotalCommander (Android too!)
- Irfanview
Mac:
- A better finder rename
- Daisy disk
- Iterm2
Linux
It just keeps getting better and more polished.
Actual paid services? Basically only Steam.
FOSS is the only software you can count on to not start nickel and diming you once the subscriber count starts to level out.
Local library
i been to some that don’t have books
Those are called blockbusters and have been gone for some time.
- Sync
- Vyte
- FollowUpThen
- Todoist
- Insight Timer
- DNSimple
- Netlify
BZflag
Torrents.
Procreate. I have payed for it once and it gives me to this day free updates. I had still so much fun drawing.
Kiseido Go Server (KGS)
If KGS’s UI looks like it hasn’t been updated in 20 years, that’s because it’s already perfect. There’s no ads, it’s purely functional, it does exactly what it needs to do and nothing more. If you click on “KGS Plus” you have the option to spend money on lectures given by human pros. Otherwise it’s completely free, and it’s still an active go server that’s been around forever.
7zip and VLC.
Rss.
It’s cool yeah. But not unenshittified. Many sites enshittify their own RSS feeds, demanding workarounds like caching, reformatting, or scraping, using tools like RSSHub.
But you don’t even need the website to support rss, if they enshitified the official rss feed can’t you just paste in the url and bypass it?
Toilet
- Dropout.tv
- Davinci resolve
- Obsidian
- Jellyfin
- Airgradient air quality monitor
Irfanview https://www.irfanview.com/
It’s literally one of the only reasons I’m still using Windows.
No other image viewer is as fast and as useful.
Just installed ifranview via winetricks install program option. Ifranview works on Linux 😀
It’s the VLC of porn photo viewing
xnview for me, and it’s cross-platform
Wow, I used that late 90s or early 2000s it was great.
I will have to try it under WINE in Linux
