For me, that would be Secure CRT. I have yet to find a terminal emulator that matches its feature set. If you regularly manage hundreds of machines using various connection protocols (serial and ssh mostly in my case) It’s worth the $$$, and so far there hasn’t been any subscription nonsense. I liked using it at work so much I forked over the dough to have it at home.

None of the free alternatives do everything I need.

I’ll also mention a few iOS apps. One is Sun Surveyor. It’s an AR app that shows you the position of the sun, moon, and galactic center at any given time. The other would have to be Radarscope. It’s a weather radar app, but it’s a really good weather radar app.

EDIT:

This one’s debatable, but I use it all the time. Plasticity is 3D modelling software that attempts to bridge the gap between practical CAD programs and software meant for 3D artists like Blender. It’s not cheap considering Blender is free, but it’s buy once use forever, and at (I think) $150 it’s within reach of an individual hobbyist who knows what they want and is willing to pay for it.

  • Bazoogle@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    The list is literally endless, and more often than not specific to what you specifically need. Here are some things I have setup:

    • If my wife texts me “911” it turns my ringer volume to 100%
    • When my phone battery is below 5% and my home wifi is not nearby, it will send a text to my wife to let her know my phone might die
    • I split my photos into different folders based on GPS coordinates in the exif data. I have one for home and work, then a default
    • Backup files to my server when I am on my wifi
    • Tracks how much time I am spending at work by checking when I am near my works WiFi
    • Auto-enable Wire guard when I leave my home network
    • Stores my phones location whenever it disconnects from my cars bluetooth (basically a local parked car location reminder)
    • If I turn on my flashlight while pressing the volume down button it instead opens a “flashlight app” that is just a solid color on the screen. This allows me to use a light source without it being the full brightness of the flashlight. Nice when you have a sleeping partner
    • I have been using DailyYou and forget to take pictures, so I have it open the app for me every 30 minutes after the reminder notification until I take the picture.

    I have also used it previously for job specific tasks. Like I had a button on my home screen that would open a menu with a list of options, and then I would select one of the options. It just saved that selected text and the current time into a file so I could reference what time I did something.

    If you have any sort of smart home, the options just keep growing.

    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      6 days ago

      I do have a smart home and spend way too much time playing around with it, but haven’t done much with Tasker yet. The only thing I use it for right now BT presence detection to trigger a task enabling wifi and disabling location.

      Interesting and useful info, thanks for sharing.