Snowflake Challenge: Day 7

[lebateleur]

Challenge #7

Make a list of fannish and/or creative resources. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Want to record a podfic, edit together a soundtrack, or do something else cool with audio? Audacity is where it's at.

Forget Goodreads. If you want to retrieve trivia about a book or find on-point recommendations of similar things to read that you'll probably like, LibraryThing is where it's at.

Forget Microsoft. If you want to write, log your media consumption, or make a few icons, LibreOffice and Open Office are where it's at.


これで以上です。

Comments

[muccamukk]

I also use The Story Graph instead of Goodreads (DEATH TO AMAZON CORP).

I had Open Office for the longest time (like the last three laptops), and then like this year someone explained to me that it had basically stopped updating ten years ago, and LibreOffice was the one with mod cons now. So I switched, and WHAT A DIFFERENCE!

[dandelionblizzard]

This also happened to me! Why did nobody tell me about how amazing LibreOffice is?!

[lebateleur]

Weirdly, I know some folks who still swear by Open Office today (even with the alternative). But for me, LibreOffice is the way to go. Glad you have now heard the Good Word!

[dandelionblizzard]

Honestly – OpenOffice made me distrust free open-source software. I thought it was all gonna be janky and terrible like that, so I steered clear for years. LibreOffice is part of what brought me back into the light. People can come together to build something great for free!

[lebateleur]

Ooh, I did not know about The Story Graph—thank you for the rec! I will definitely check this out. (Also: DEATH TO AMAZON CORP.)

And yeah, for me LibreOffice has definitely been the way to go since the fork, but I know a fair few number of people who are still ride or die for Open Office.

[kyokosasagawa]

Oh man, I didn't know LibraryThing still existed???? I remember it was THE goodreads alternative back in the day but I never got around to registering.

[lebateleur]

It's not the alternative—LibraryThing came first! By a couple of years, in fact. They did away with paid memberships several years ago, too, so do check it out if you're interested. I'm a huge fan of their stats and recommendation engines.

[lightbird]

Thanks for the link to LibraryThing! I've been looking for an alternative to Goodreads.

[lebateleur]

LibraryThing is the OG booklogging site and I am a dyed-in-the-wool fan. LT transitioned to a 100 percent free model several years ago, so do check it out if you're looking for an alternative!

[got_quiet]

Librarything rec buddies! =D

[lebateleur]

Yes! I've 💖ed LT since day one—glad there are more fans out there!

[svgurl]

I'm going to check out LibreOffice and Open Office. Thank you for sharing! :D

[silveradept]

Audacity ran into some hot water some time ago about possible privacy issues, which spawned a lot of forks, which also kind of mostly died, but a similar program named ocenaudio seemed to have survived and continued on, in case someone has issues with Audacity.

LibraryThing not only has friends in StoryGraph, but also in a project called BookWyrm that's trying to get itself off the ground, and could use people to both test it and possibly contribute to it as well.

Heck yeah, LibreOffice. It's been excellent at producing compatible documents and materials since a few releases ago, and has been my daily driver since.

[lebateleur]

Oh man, I was not aware of the Audacity issues. I'll look into those (and ocenaudio)—thanks for the heads up on that. And for BookWyrm as well, which I also hadn't heard of.

It's been really gratifying to see how many people are interested in (or already use!) LibreOffice. I am not at all enchanted with the way Microsoft has been steadily eroding users' control over their own computers and role in the shift toward a rent-to-never-own economic model, and am very glad when people vote against these things with their choices.

[silveradept]

Oof, yes, I am with you on how terrible the trend of "your license no longer allows you to have a physical copy, not for you to use it without an always-on Internet connection" is, and I'm kind of hoping that with all the work that Valve is dumping into Proton and the Steam Deck that I might be able to keep all of my library and migrate fully off Windows before I have to upgrade to 11 of I want to keep the security fixes going. At which point they will probably announce the sunset date for it and when we'll have to upgrade to 12.