What are some useful links everyone should know?

cll7793@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 195 points –

I'll start with one of the most useful singular list of lists on the internet.

https://github.com/topics/awesome

"An awesome list is a list of awesome things curated by the community. There are awesome lists about everything from CLI applications to fantasy books. The main repository serves as a curated list of awesome lists."

Just about anything you can think of is within this list. Enjoy!

PS: Thank you mods for your work moderating submissions. The quality and relevance of posts here is refreshing. This has to be my favorite community on Lemmy.

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Might not be for everyone, but I'm proud to present: https://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/index.php

This is brilliant, but the inclusion of "I don't fucking like that" means that I will, quite unfortunately, still not be making dinner.

I just spent over 45 seconds hitting "I don't fucking like that" and realized my brain just wasn't compatible with the website

https://archive.org/web/ Archive of saved web pages.

consensus.app Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to extract and distill findings directly from scientific research

browse.feddit.de Find Lemmy communities across instances.

detexify.kirelabs.org Find LaTeX symbols by drawing them.

Ninite Install and Update All Your Programs at Once [on Windows]

patorjk.com/software/taag Text to ASCII Art Generator.

webhook.site Webhook.site lets you easily inspect, test and automate any incoming HTTP request or e-mail

CyberChef - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

Diagrams.net AKA draw.io - a web/desktop app for creating diagrams, flow charts, tables, infographics, or maps of networks or relationships

What Unicode character is this? - Input a string, and get back the Unicode code point and character name for every character in the string

Passmark

I use this Android benchmark website whenever a sibling asks me, "what phone should I get?"

It's not a precise comparison. (In fact, it rates different carrier software running the same LG G710 phone hardware as anything from 7,000 to 8,000.) And it reminds you of its imprecision several times.

But some phones made today benchmark like they're seven years old. And the site helps you avoid those egregious cases.

https://www.androidbenchmark.net/

AlternativeTo.net

The name is pretty self-explanatory, but even if you don't know the exact program you're looking for, the search tool can find you programs based on a description like, "photo editor" or "markdown editor."

It's one of the first places I go when looking for software. Especially open source software.

https://alternativeto.net/

Ah not really a link, but a request. I used to know a website where you could look at an apple product line and see when it was due for a refresh so that you could make a decision to wait or buy used. I bloody can't remember the site and Google searches are pointless for any keywords like apple refresh and product. The site was not "the verge".

For Android phones, the list of best FLOSS apps available from F-Droid:

https://lemmy.world/post/108566

The list is at this link:

https://alternativeto.net/list/28655/the-ultimate-f-droid-setup/

Honestly, alternativeto.net on its own is probably worthy of being an answer to this question. That is an extremely useful website.

I've made a few thousand dollars on some of the paid survey apps. That's useful to me! It's tedious as can be but Qmee, Attapoll, Survey Spin, and Leger opinion have paid me about 3K in the last year and a half. I have bought myself many pairs of shoes and two new coats and a ton of other stuff.