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Our list of free software for remote work

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Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by nicolaslem »

LeoTinnitus wrote: post #20
zie wrote: post #3

What do you use for back-office things, like accounting, inventory, etc?

Gnucash or Kmymoney. I used to hate gnucash but I have basically become an accountant with my own life. For businesses it can definitely be used for minimal crm tracking and invoices.

I love Gnucash but I am not sure that it is the best tool for remote/distributed work since it cannot be used by multiple users concurrently without corrupting data.

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Post by deadbunny »

LeoTinnitus wrote: post #18
wiradikusuma wrote: post #13

Is the best, free (not necessarily open source), email desktop client still Thunderbird?

Dealing with exchange is a pain. OWL or something charges like 10 a year to get it to work with a 30 day trial. Works flawlessly but I just can't be bothered to pay for it right now. I may hit a point though where I I just will do it. Also a unified calendar is out of the question.

I'm using davmail + thunderbird to access my O365 emails + calendar. Works flawlessly for me but does mean you have to have a separate application running to provide the gateway. I run mine on the same machine as my email client but you could easily host it on a server and connect via that.

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Post by zdkl »

LeoTinnitus wrote: post #19
ipnon wrote: post #6

I'm glad to see Mastodon is gaining commercial acceptance.

It's like Twitter to me when it first launched. What honestly is the allure of it? It's really just real time Twitter with chat functions but I am probably really naive to it's uses

My very personal opinion is that the allure is mostly to people with PR/Marketing/Comm tendencies. It's basically crack for individuals or roles who thrive on attention & engagement with others (or the illusion of it, if we're going to be cynical).

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Post by seanpackham »

MarcellusDrum wrote: post #30
SkyMarshal wrote: post #25

In case any PureOS people are reading this, consider making the info on PureOS security in your wiki easier to find. You say in your blog post to "See the PureOS wiki to learn more about the extensive security features in PureOS." You link to your wiki's front page[1], but the word "security" is nowhere to be found on that page. And if you click through to the only page that seems like it might have section on securi…

Searching for this on Google give back 5 results, with only 1 that is semi-relevant[1], which is their FAQ page. They don't have a question specifically about security, but they talk briefly about it while answering other questions. inurl:tracker.pureos.net/w/ "security" [1]: https://tracker.pureos.net/w/faq/

Thank you, I've updated the link. Let me know if you'd like to hear more about the security features and I can get Kyle (security) and Jeremiah (PureOS) to jump into this thread.

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Post by kalendos »

Softcadbury wrote: post #44

Any recommendations for some party games ? We tried https://jackbox.tv/ with some colleagues yesterday evening, that was pretty fun.

Depending on the group taste, these suggestions might help!

- Drawful 2. Free on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/442070/Drawful_2/

- Pictionary clones. I like https://sketchful.io/

- Local coop games via Steam Remote Play. https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay

- Virtual scape rooms.

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