The sort of program that once set up, just ticks along without fuss or bother forever.

For me, as I’m replacing the vms today which I set up five years ago and haven’t needed to touch since;

  • HAProxy
  • KeepaliveD

Not easy to learn, but once they’re running, they both go on forever.

  • Peasley@lemmy.world
    10·
    5 days ago

    Firefox + uBlock Origin + sponsorblock. Set it and forget it.

    I haven’t seen an advertisement or a sponsored segment on my desktop in over a decade, and same with my phone for several years. I’m astonished how willing most people are to put up with a constant barrage of ads coming from devices they own

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      can i interest you in an AdNauseam instead? It blocks ads, but it also “clicks” the links to poison the data.

      • Prathas@lemmy.zip
        3·
        5 days ago

        That’s literally what I was about to mention as well. I would just suggest that you change the clicking frequency from the default, which is every single ad, to just moderate, so that they don’t detect that you’re clearly sabotaging the system and may otherwise discount your clicks.

        But yeah, be sure to mention that AdNauseam is a uBO fork. There’s literally no reason not to move to it.

    • madthumbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      216·
      7 days ago

      It ‘was’ uCollage, but whiny, obnoxious, ungrateful LiGNUts ruined it like many other unpaid softwares by driving a critical developer (Ueberzug) to quit or sellout.

      Many LiGNUts probably work for Microsoft, because Microsoft gains when they cause issues, and mislead and lie to people.

  • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    19·
    7 days ago

    Syncthing. Absolutely ace bit of software. I remember it being a little questionable in 2013, but today it performs exactly the same task, just more reliably. Love it.

    • JillyB@beehaw.org
      4·
      6 days ago

      Yep I love it. It’s how I keep my password manager synced between devices. It can be finicky to set up but just works without thinking after that.

    • Dingaling@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Good shout! I use syncthing myself to sync all my useful stuff between multiple devices seamlessly.

    • Elting@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Cant get VLC working properly on my linux and I miss having it. Ive been thinking about switching to LMDE because of it.

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
        2·
        5 days ago

        I think ffmpeg imploded or something? And maybe VLC is maintaining their own fork? But it got split into a bunch of pieces or something, I don’t know, but maybe installing one of the alternate sources of the ffmpeg packages might work for you.

      • utopiah@lemmy.ml
        1·
        5 days ago

        Consider alternative ways to get it, e.g. static binary, other package managers e.g. am, AppImage, etc.

        • Elting@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          Yeah, I only tried what I assume was the snap version, and then APT which I suspect redirects to installing the snap version (maybe not though since this is mint and not direct ubuntu?) In any case I have a few more tendencies towards LMDE which will probably make me end up there eventually.

  • barzaria@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 days ago

    Vim because its everywhere and is super powerful. It can even be used for some light scripting. GCC to make my own programs. Python as well, same thing and also portable. All the programs that come with mint and become part of the background like the terminal emulator. All of it, pretty awesome. Jellyfin has been a mainstay as well.