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Useful Websites.

  • https://www.ifixit.com/ - free repair manuals
  • https://alternativeto.net/ - Crowd sourced listings for software alternatives
  • https://www.opensourcealternative.to/ - Similar to alternativeto, but focuses on FOSS alternatives.
  • https://fediverse.observer/ - Listings for various federated services
  • https://opengameart.org/ - Free user made assets for your projects.
  • https://huggingface.co/ - Open source AI model
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/ - Hacker News
  • https://hackernoon.com/ - More tech news
  • https://odysee.com/ - Video hosting platform and great alternative to googles youtube. 
  • https://twcclassics.com/audio/years.html - archive of audio used for weather forecasts.
  • https://downloads.khinsider.com/ - archive of video game soundtracks
  • https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page - An archive of anti-consumer controversies that companies hope you forget about.
  • https://muted.io/ - free music learning tools

Drawing, modeling, animation applications.

  • https://inkscape.org/
  • http://krita.org/
  • https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama
  • https://www.gimp.org/
  • https://www.darktable.org/
  • https://animeeffectsdevs.github.io/
  • https://libresprite.github.io/#!/
  • https://github.com/hidefuku/AnimeEffects
  • http://synfig.org/
  • https://maurycyliebner.github.io/
  • https://www.blender.org/
  • https://www.bforartists.de/
  • http://www.wings3d.com/

Audio recording, editing, DAW programs.

  • http://ardour.org/ - Full feature DAW
  • https://github.com/stargatedaw/stargate
  • https://www.bespokesynth.com/
  • https://lmms.io/ - Complete but less popular DAW
  • https://beepbox.co/ - Lightweaight browser based DAW 
  • https://famistudio.org/ - DAW for making NES and SNES type music
  • https://pernyblom.github.io/abundant-music/ - Procedural music generation application.
  • https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/boscaceoil/blob/master/README.md - looping MIDI music application.
  • https://www.openutau.com/ - Vocals synthesizer

Game engine and general programming

  • https://redotengine.org/
  • http://twinery.org/ - Write branching text based stories, "choose your own adventure".
  • https://www.renpy.org/ - Branching stories with graphics, "Visual Novels".
  • https://scratch.mit.edu/ - Basic 2D game engine featuring code building blocks.
  • https://gdevelop.io/ - More advanced and feature rich 2D game engine.
  • https://microstudio.dev/
  • https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
  • https://love2d.org/
  • https://monogame.net/
  • https://www.stride3d.net/
  • https://defold.com/

Video editing apps.

  • https://kdenlive.org/en/ 
  • https://www.openshot.org/
  • https://mifi.no/losslesscut/
  • https://natrongithub.github.io/ - compositing software
  • https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/event/davinciresolvedownload
  • https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/


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