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- Taking the opportunity to plug my own recent project: canireplaceit.com
You can see some collection, and I'm building some advanced research capabilities to it.
For now, you can see if you can fully replace an app with a sub, with oss alternatives, or free alternatives.
Heavily vibe coded but all the apps out there didn't have what I needed, a list of features, what exactly is missing, if there is an sso tax or not, licenses, cheaper alternatives, if there are some tjat genuinely can't be replaced and why.
Lemme know what you think about it and what I should add to it
- I like the retro ebay style page design.
- I want a debloated (electric) car.by flaburgan
- I find my Mii Electric qualifies.by brnt
- Volkswagen Polo I. It even does have some lights.by cocodill
- Slate? Or just remove the cellular modem from a Tesla and you have a more or less "dumb" car.by drnick1
- There are a lot of electric cars that are relatively normal, usually from more traditional auto manufacturers.
Toyota bZ/bZ Woodland, the entire Hyundai/Kia lineup, Honda Prologue, Jaguar i-pace, original Audi e-tron
I haven’t seen the newer Nissan infotainment system, not sure about that one.
Are these without tech? No, not at all, but they do have fast and simple interfaces that are designed to dump you into CarPlay/Android Auto with ease, and a good amount of them retain separated climate controls that live outside the screen.
Obviously if you want something like a 2008 Accord that’s not really going to be a thing, but almost everyone who isn’t Tesla or Rivian is surprisingly conventional. If you haven’t done much EV shopping and your impression of EVs is “they’re all like Tesla where everything is in the screen” that isn’t true at all. For example, Kia/Hyundai EV models have absolutely zero difference between the gas models and EVs in terms of control design. Toyota’s latest infotainment system is as basic and straightforward as it gets.
by Grombobulous - Someone should add Kanboard for project management tools (like Trello): https://kanboard.org/
Really lightweight and nice!
by KronisLV - How is “bloat” measured here? Or is this simply a list of open source alternatives to commercial products?by WalterGR
- The inclusion of Tailscale here was a little surprising to me. I'm betting on the latter.by joshuat
- I think in general maintainers would be better served by declaring Performance is a Feature earlier in their projects and rejecting contributions that add surface area to the API at the expense of throughput on the existing surface area.
Wrapping modules to expose additional functionality for a niche in a problem domain is tricky. You will end up with some code duplication and some predictability issues with your timelines, but the end result will be better for it.
Long ago someone convinced me that 'Strangling a Service' could also be applied to APIs. The base module should be as simple as possible but no simpler, and more esoteric features should be shunted off to another module. And then in the case when features are antagonistic to each other, they can live in parallel in separate wrappers.
The tricky part there is writing unit tests in the base to defend the negative space that these features fit into. This feature depends on an invariant in the base API that will break everything if merged.
by hinkley - Cool site, though browsing through “most popular” I absolutely wouldn’t call Nextcloud “debloated.”by Grombobulous
- While I kind of agree, is there a more debloated replacement?by a96
- In the TV and Media section (https://debloat.dev/c/tv-media) there are 11 recommendations and 4 of them are XBMC.
There used to be so many options for media centres. What happened?
by hnlmorg - I think it's just a pretty consolidated space? Kind of like ebook management, which was dominated by Calibre for so many years (this changed recently).
But unlike ebooks, media centre management is a fair bit more complex since it involves supporting many different media formats and many forms of acceleration or transcoding.
So the big projects - Kodi for local media and Jellyfin for streaming - have a lot of inertia because they tend to support whatever you throw at them.
by piaste - Sign in with Google or Github only? No, thank you.by reconnecting
- The irony is strong with this one
- Not able to access the site on Firefox "Error Code: SSL_ERROR_INTERNAL_ERROR_ALERT"
- Same here, but it works on chromium, eww and lynx.by kmstout
- Same. I hate HSTS. Not everything needs to be encrypted.by MetroWind
- I tried to access this at work but was blocked by FortiGate.by steve_taylor
- Same, works on Chromium but not Firefox.by EvilGoose
- Bitdefender blocked it for being malware apparentlyby voidUpdate
- Why does it have almost 400 upvotes, while it's serving an up to date cert signed by Certificate Authority expired in 2024 ? Do people really ignore such issue and click through warnings so easily?
It would be better to have a pure http site, instead.
by szszrk - Same, it's not just you. I'm wondering if this is an exotic symptom of the site running out of capacity.by JoshTriplett
- Seems to be overloaded.
I wonder if the site needs a bit more bloat to handle the load, or a bit less.
by cortesoft - I've been a big fan of https://alternativeto.net/ and using their "open source" and "self-hosted" filters. Even looking through the non-FOSS alternatives for a particular application/site can be helpful; sometimes a for-profit company will take a different approach to solving a problem and it will give me other ideas to consider.by maples37
- https://madeineurope.dk is by far the easiest to navigate imo, but all the alternatives are of course european given the website name (can also filter by open source).by tjek
- i've found this site easier to use and have better results than alternativeto. https://openalternative.co/by bdlowery