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

[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.