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/