⭐ "I really love this and would go out of my way to recommend this to others"

🌧️ "I've had negative experiences with this in the past, but I would still recommend it"

Reading

• The Bryant Review - Tech-focused commentary and reviews from a couple creators

Linux

Distros

Desktop

• ⭐ Universal Blue (Fedora) - Atomic (rpm-ostree) container-first immutable distros distributed through GHCR. I use Bazzite on all my systems!

Server

• openmediavault (Debian) - NAS-focused distro and web configuration UI, ideal for home servers and other light usage

SBC, TV box, etc.

• debian-on-amlogic (Debian) - Debian builds for Amlogic TV boxes with useful scripts to install to NAND flash
• 🌧️ DietPi (Debian) - Very well supported extremely light distro for anemic devices (experience is too focused on new users, feels bloated)

Wine

• AffinityOnLinux - Affinity v2/v3
• 🌧️ Autodesk Fusion 360 for Linux - Fusion 360 (not compatible with immutable OS, but a good starting point)

Software

• MusicBrainz Picard - Extensive tool for standardizing your music library's tags and keeping them up to date with MusicBrainz
• Lutris - Game manager and Wine wrapper/GUI
• Feishin - Spotify-like client for Jellyfin, Navidrome, & OpenSubsonic
• ONLYOFFICE - LibreOffice fork that looks like Microsoft Office
• LibreWolf - Barebones FireFox builds with privacy-centric defaults

Android

• ⭐💲 OctoApp - Universal app for managing network-connected 3D printers
• ⭐💲 Symfonium - Feature-rich music player with local, Jellyfin, and OpenSubsonic support
• Cromite - Chromium fork with built-in ad-blocking, privacy enhancements, and user scripts
• Finamp - Music player client for Jellyfin

Server

• ⭐ Navidrome - Tag-focused, MusicBrainz-first, OpenSubsonic-compatible music streaming server
• ⭐ Immich - Google Photos lookalike and alternative
• ⭐ slskd - Config-driven lightweight Soulseek client for headless devices
• 🌧️ Jellyfin - Fully open source alternative to Plex for Movies & TV (not recommended for music or books)
• Home Assistant - Smart home hub with support for everything under the sun
• Traefik - Reverse proxy with excellent Docker integration
• Mailrise - SMTP server for multi-platform push notifications
• ddns-updater - DDNS updater for most DNS providers out there

Services

• ⭐💲 Fastmail - Australian email-first service with many great features (much cheaper than Proton if you just want email!)
• ⭐💲 Kagi - No-nonsense paid search with fine control over your results (forum lens, exclude AI, etc.)
• 💲 Nebula - Independent streaming site from the Wendover circle of creators

Arcade

Rhythm

• TWO-TORIAL - Community written guides on getting arcade rhythm games running on non-arcade hardware
• Bottersnike's SEGA Documentation - Technical notes and documentation for SEGA arcade games and the RingEdge platform, extremely useful for troubleshooting
• Bottersnike's Amusement IC Tool - Conversion between different card ID formats & NFC scanning for supported devices

Recipes

• Thee Burger Dude - Vegan recipes for things that would typically contain animal products
• Adam Ragusea - Recipes for home cooking that don't suck to cook at home. I started cooking because of this guy!

DIY

Crafts

Fursuit Making

• ⭐ Matrices - Incredibly descriptive, in-depth tutorials for fursuit making and other preliminary topics
• fursuitmak.ing - Fursuit making tutorials and resources, with a focus on modern techniques such as 3D printing. Seems a little abandoned, but still a nice resource
• FursuitMaterials - Mega list of vendors for fursuit-related supplies

Plush Making

• Plushify - Automated tool for rough prototyping of plushies from 3D models
• Diffeomorphism - Tutorials and introductions to plush making and forms from scratch

YouTube

Tech

• Cathode Ray Dude - In-depth showcases and explanations of obscure and overlooked technology
• Technology Connections - Introductory videos on common appliances and formats that you wouldn't normally think twice about
• Tech Tangents
• Tech Ingredients
• James Lambert - N64 game developer with commentary on relevant N64 related topics

History

• Our Own Devices - Explanations of vintage tech and commonalities that doesn't typically get much coverage

Education

• Acerola - Game development (and generally computer science) explainers with a focus on graphics
• Aurailus - Voxel game engine developer with occasional explainers on obscure topics
• nanofix - Repair tech making tutorials for basic, intermediate, and advanced topics typically focused on soldering
• Watch Wes Work - Vehicle mechanic with in-depth explainers of problems and how to fix them
• The Honest Carpenter

Gaming

• camwing
• The Cursed Judge
• James-Money

Making

• BPS.space and BPS.shorts
• Someone Should Make That
• Marius Hornberger
• Chris Borge

Food

• Adam Ragusea - Home cooking recipes & food-centric podcast (with a focus on politics)

Urbanism/Transit

• About Here - Vancouver-centric short overviews of unique housing related topics. My favorite urbanism channel on YouTube!
• Paige Saunders - Montreal-centric political commentary focused on urbanism and transit
• notsmoothsteve - Toronto-area transit history and project coverage

Vlogging

• sincere on main - Veganism and dealing with millennial/gen Z problems

Psychology & Self Help

• Newel of Knowledge - Easily digestible self-help videos for 21st century mental health problems

Assets

Icons

• Lucide - Large set of modern icons (built upon the Feather icon set) (MIT/ISC)
• Tabler Icons - Very large set of modern icons (MIT)
• Memory - 22x22 pixelated icons for monotone displays (Apache 2.0)
• SVG Repo - Extremely large repo of icons in all sorts of themes (Custom/CC0)
• Simple Icons - Brand logos

Fonts

• Fontsource - Open source fonts (with npm packages for distribution)

Unsorted

• Digital Signals Theory - Comprehensive virtual textbook on the processing of digital signals