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A website for debloated open source alternatives

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Re: A website for debloated open source alternatives

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Post by flaburgan »

Grombobulous wrote: post #62
flaburgan wrote: post #29

I want a debloated (electric) car.

There are a lot of electric cars that are relatively normal, usually from more traditional auto manufacturers. Toyota bZ/bZ Woodland, the entire Hyundai/Kia lineup, Honda Prologue, Jaguar i-pace, original Audi e-tron I haven’t seen the newer Nissan infotainment system, not sure about that one. Are these without tech? No, not at all, but they do have fast and simple interfaces that are designed to dump you into CarPla…

The only electric car that I drove was a Peugeot 208e. I liked it a lot, but just the fact that the car has a SIM card with 4G connection is already weird for me. Why would my car connect to the internet? I also have doubts about the GPS... And I absolutely do not want Android Auto. Anything related to Google or any GAFAM is a big no for me.

Re: A website for debloated open source alternatives

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Post by eterm »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #68

FWIW, this site is fast, works perfectly with a text-only browser, e.g., links (1.4MB static binary), elinks, or without a (bloated?) browser, e.g., retrieve all the pages, catenate and read as a single HTML file or convert it to, e.g., SQL, CSV or a plain text file All the /p/ URLs are in the sitemap, all the site's pages can be retrieved over a single TCP connection https://debloat.dev/sitemap.xml This, i.e., retri…

I about to splutter that 1.9MB is a huge sitemap, but it's 12kB.

Do you mean crawling the entire sitemap and concatenating the results is 1.9MB?

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Post by hnlmorg »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #36
hnlmorg wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not that difficult to be honest. VLC / ffmpeg can do most of the heavy lifting. And there’s no shortage of libraries for rendering in a UI. There used to be dozens of options to choose from. Multiple different XBMC forks. Multiples different Subsonic forks. Multiple different DNLA servers. Multitudes of web-based servers. CLI MP3 servers. Independent media centres for a variety of different consoles. Maybe that’…

I would love to see an Open Source media center that supports streaming services. I wouldn't care if the services say "we only support 1080p for browsers / open source, anything more needs a locked-down device". (Perhaps the project could have some add-on you can buy that's a physical hardware dongle for doing 4k HDR and emitting HDCPed HDMI.) I already live with that for watching on my laptop. Just having watchable…

The issue is many streaming services require DRM in the browser.

I can’t recall if Chromium supports that, I have a feeling Google only include that DRM in Chrome. But if it is available in Chromium then you might be able to build an Electron app.

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Post by RadiozRadioz »

maples37 wrote: post #52

I've been a big fan of https://alternativeto.net/ and using their "open source" and "self-hosted" filters. Even looking through the non-FOSS alternatives for a particular application/site can be helpful; sometimes a for-profit company will take a different approach to solving a problem and it will give me other ideas to consider.

Some of the information on there is useful, but I'd say that alternativeto.net is an almost perfect example of a bloaty & hostile website. OP's website is much more pleasant.

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Post by bluebarbet »

RadiozRadioz wrote: post #75
maples37 wrote: post #52

I've been a big fan of https://alternativeto.net/ and using their "open source" and "self-hosted" filters. Even looking through the non-FOSS alternatives for a particular application/site can be helpful; sometimes a for-profit company will take a different approach to solving a problem and it will give me other ideas to consider.

Some of the information on there is useful, but I'd say that alternativeto.net is an almost perfect example of a bloaty & hostile website. OP's website is much more pleasant.

Seems it's always the same trade-off: either a commercial site with an opaque business model, or a weekend passion project which might go away when the hobbyist in question finds they have other (or more lucrative) things to do.

Re: A website for debloated open source alternatives

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Post by bdlowery »

maples37 wrote: post #52

I've been a big fan of https://alternativeto.net/ and using their "open source" and "self-hosted" filters. Even looking through the non-FOSS alternatives for a particular application/site can be helpful; sometimes a for-profit company will take a different approach to solving a problem and it will give me other ideas to consider.

i've found this site easier to use and have better results than alternativeto. https://openalternative.co/
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