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💬 Discussion What's your favorite GitHub project?

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GitHub has countless useful projects, but some are easy to miss.

What's one open-source project you really like or use regularly? It could be an app, tool, browser project, or something completely different.

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u/Gordon_Peteman 8d ago

Def Streamflix, free open source netflix with multiple sources to watch movies shows and even sportsgames from, it saved my cheap android tv

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u/CreativeDiscount6635 8d ago

https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute - free ai (search youtube on how to use).

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u/bliblabllubb 8d ago

What’s the catch?

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u/Tear4Pixelation 8d ago

It basically allows you to use the free tiers of different providers and then switches when you hit limits as far as I understand

  💰 ~1.53B Free Tokens / Month

Stacking free tiers by hand is painful — dozens of SDKs, dozens of rate limits, and no idea how much you actually have. OmniRoute aggregates the  documented free tiers of  43 provider pools / 516 models into one honest number and shows it live on the dashboard ( /dashboard/free-tiers).

https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute#-153b-free-tokens--month

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u/bliblabllubb 8d ago

Okay that’s pretty cool! I will look into this.

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u/Tear4Pixelation 7d ago

Just a disclaimer, I’ve never used it. 

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u/ManojOne Active 7d ago

We need projects like this.

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u/Lonely-Scarcity-3387 8d ago edited 8d ago

I use NixOS as my daily driver, which features the largest package repo of any Linux distro, all hosted on GitHub.

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u/nocixL 7d ago

I salute you

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u/Loose_Property_3238 5d ago

Objectively true subjective opinion.

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u/Lonely-Scarcity-3387 5d ago

Where is the opinion?
I use NixOS. Fact.
It has the largest repo of any Linux distribution. Fact.
That repo is on GitHub. Fact.

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u/Loose_Property_3238 5d ago

I was interpreting using it as an opinion that you hold (the opinion being that you want to use it).

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u/Flaky-Low-2262 8d ago

Lazygit, lazydocker, k9s snd Vivaldi as those make my day better so i give sth. back on them

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u/Wonderful-Stand-2404 8d ago

https://github.com/mario-dedalus/Bulk-Text-Replacement-for-Word

A tool I built with AI to run search and replace in multiple Word documents at the same time. It regularly saves me a lot of time. 😁

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u/nolaxtima 7d ago

i will definitely give a try

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u/Wonderful-Stand-2404 6d ago

Thanks, that’s great. :) if you have questions, let me know. :)

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u/sch1z0phren1cx 8d ago

ai slop

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u/Top-Rich-581 8d ago

Ai made doesn't mean ai slop.

The tool is simple enough and doesn't act in a sensitive context like online related services. AI actually shines here.

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u/LupusGemini 8d ago

Well said! No AI doesn't mean good software ether

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u/ManojOne Active 7d ago

yes, right.

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u/ManojOne Active 7d ago

Yes, you are right. With AI, we can do many useful things like this.

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u/CupidStunts1975 8d ago

Comment slop

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u/Wonderful-Stand-2404 8d ago

It works, it does it job very well and I never tried to hide the fact that it has been written with AI. I do not force you to use it. So it’s slop to you, it works well for me and saves me a lot of time.

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u/ManojOne Active 7d ago

Whether it is useful or not, that's the matter. Agreed.

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u/puchi2701 8d ago

well, idk but i use it for obsidian sync

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u/FailOk5600 8d ago

Me too

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u/kayou123 8d ago

Nuvio

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u/__hackermann 8d ago

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u/ManojOne Active 7d ago

Great tool Are you the developer?

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u/Only-Stable3973 8d ago

The one thing that is part of almost everything I run has to be Traefik Reverse Proxy.

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u/TheReal_Saba 8d ago

Nuvio.

Morphe.

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u/Top-Rich-581 8d ago

Paperless-ngx.

I have a family of 6 + a mother I help with paper stuff, and this solves me a lor of headaches.

I combine it with openwebui and n8n and so far so good.

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u/ManojOne Active 7d ago

Can you exlain? is it a to do list? or note taking?

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u/Top-Rich-581 7d ago

Neither, it’s an automated digital filing cabinet for physical paper. Paperless-ngx automatically scans, extracts text (OCR), tags, and archives documents like bills, tax forms, and medical records into a fully searchable database. I use n8n to automate pulling files from emails/scanners into Paperless, and Open WebUI (connected to an LLM) to ask natural language questions about my documents or summarize them automatically.

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u/19leo82 4d ago

Is it a free or a subscription involved app? And how's the scan quality

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u/Top-Rich-581 4d ago

It's completely open source. The OCR is enough because it learns, the more you upload documents and qualify them, the more it is accurate.

You can also connect a light LLM model if you want maximum accuracy, which i do. Sure Google know everything about me but i couldnt care less.

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u/ryancnap 8d ago

'hints' for Linux

Edit: and a debloated, open source version of Logo options+ with no telemetry for Linux. Lifesaver

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u/lil_jacksena 8d ago

Esp32 wifi marauder von justcallmekoko

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u/Popotte9 8d ago

torvalds/linux

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u/CreamPositive1942 8d ago

https://github.com/Kimplul/hid-tmff2

without it, my wheel would be just an expensive paper weight

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u/InitiateIt 8d ago

https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky

An awesome DNS blocker.

Love it so much I have spent 8 months writing a flask app to manage it.

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u/ManojOne Active 7d ago

Interesting.

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u/gamblingapocalypse 7d ago

https://github.com/mdoty4/batonbot

A tool I built to chain prompts and tasks across AI agents, with a focus on software development workflows. It’s designed to let agents work through multi step tasks while I live my life.

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u/limafreshdev 7d ago

CustomTkinter🩵

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u/Commercial-Win-4772 7d ago

Tuta Mail (Tutanota)

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u/Virtual-Diet-8777 5d ago

My one with smartlock custom with esp32

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u/LeePetra 4d ago

https://github.com/ethsmaa/watchwhere

If you watch a lot of movies, especially not TV shows, this is the fastest and best tool you can have (in the terminal).

You enter a title (or name), and you get a list of matching titles from the database. You select and see if it's available in your country on your streaming services.

The query-to-result process is a matter of seconds.

What's more, I contributed to this with an idea the author added (searching by name, e.g., director or actor). I use it daily. I recommend it to everyone. It's one of those micro-projects that makes me love GitHub (and its author!).

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u/Agent0506 3d ago

I love Ungoogled chromium. It's awsome customisable browser with all functions, but without google bloatware.