What free things online should everyone take advantage of?

What free resources do you know on the internet that everyone should use?

Potential Category Ideas

  • FOSS Software
  • Quality of Life
  • Public Services
  • Other List of Lists
  • Personal Finance
  • Github Awesome Repositories
  • Firefox Addons
  • Free Research/Books
  • Piracy Sites & Lists
  • Real Life Resources

Links and Resources

superminerJG,

yt-dlp for downloading video/audio from a number of sites, not just YouTube.

Screw YT Premium.

sag,

Internet is beautiful communities and subreddit mirror on lemmy.

AlmightySnoo, (edited )
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Also, if you want to get in shape:

ace_garp,
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This free software and media helps a lot: perthfreeculture.org

Fudoshin,
@Fudoshin@feddit.uk avatar

If women want free penis pictures and rape threats they can visit any ‘incel’ community and state “I am a woman” then sit back and wait.

I do not recommend this.

leraje,
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Awhile ago, a user on r/casualuk posted a list of UK based stuff that was either free or cheap (food/entertainment/etc). They mirrored it in a few places and I bookmarked the github mirror. Doesn’t look like it’s been updated for a year or so though and I ain’t prepared to head to reddit to check the original.

Tippon,
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I just checked the Reddit thread and the OP took it down in protest of Reddit’s API changes.

leraje,
@leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Ah OK. Glad I bookmarked the mirror then.

AlmightySnoo, (edited )
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MOOCs.

They’re free unless you want a “certificate”, which has no practical value and is mostly useful if you want to motivate yourself a bit more and want to support their business model.

Go browse Coursera and edX and learn to your heart’s content.

Also, if you’re coding, watch recordings of conferences about your programming language, e.g. CppCon/C++Now/CppNorth for C++, PyCon/PyData for Python etc…

Crafter72, (edited )
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Internet Archive - Very useful for general usage internet but not for specific needs (check fmhy).

Have I Been Pwned? - Periodically use this to check whether your email/online presence is compromised or not.

Bitwarden (or if you want to self-host it use Vaultwarden) - Personally I used this password management so I can keep my pass and you can auto generate passwords with custom parameters if needed.

Curated OSINT resources - You want to ID someone online? this resources can help you to do so, though you also need to understand the basics. It may not work if person you’re looking for does not have a much online presence.

ObsidianZed, (edited )

Just shared this earlier but under certain conditions (in the US), you can actually file taxes for free.

apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers/

BallShapedMan,
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Freetaxusa does this too, you only pay for state as far as I know.

FenrirIII,

It’s completely free if you live in a state with no income tax

fsxylo,

Been using that my entire adult life. Fuck turbo tax.

BallShapedMan,
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world avatar

That should be everyone’s life motto!

hperrin,

If you’re not a fan of your current email provider, I’ve created one that automatically organizes your email and helps prevent spam and phishing:

port87.com

rikudou, (edited )
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baby-journal.app if you have kids and value privacy (disclaimer: I’ve written the app).

Edit: It’s an app for tracking your baby activities, like feeding, sleeping, diaper changes etc. Fully end-to-end encrypted and fully open source and self-hostable, installable on both iOS and Android.

all4one,

What’s this do? There’s no explanation or screenshots or anything.

rikudou, (edited )
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Added a description.

corsicanguppy,

“Try my app because I wrote it”?

rikudou,
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No, use the app if you value privacy and don’t want companies to sell data about your kids just so they can give you better ads.

But you do you, for all I care, people twisting other people’s words are not really someone whose opinion I care about.

Rapie,

Why does the data need to go online in the first place?

rikudou,
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Because multiple people can have access to the same data, like two parents, possibly a nanny etc.

HipsterTenZero,
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fmhy.pages.dev

basically this thread, already filled out. Free media, heck yeah.

Greg,
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Free tier cloud services like AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, and Azure. I use free tier VMs to host random services like VPNs, Mastodon instance, etc.

Tailscale has a free tier to connect your devices, VMs, and home servers.

GitHub pages is great for hosting any simple website for free.

fidodo,

Don’t forget about cloudflare. With their free caching and cdn a well optimized site can run for barely anything. With GitHub actions and pages you can have a fully static site hosted completely for free.

shinigamiookamiryuu,
inlandempire,
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www.khanacademy.org

Anyone can learn anything. For free. Education is a human right. We are a nonprofit because we believe in a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Instead of ads or subscriptions, we are supported by individual contributions from people like you. Please join us today.

Dadifer,

Are you the original Khan?

mako,

The vertical line next to the text means it’s a quote

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