Chevereto is the easiest and most powerful image host out there, and (luckily for me) has a free version!
The internet is all about personal blogs and everyone having the freedom to express their opinions online. Wordpress software is the backbone for >75% of all websites, personal and corporate, in the WORLD. Their massive following, plugins, and ease of use make blogging fun and easy for anyone to get started.
Own your own data; no ad targeting, choose what data you want to share with whom, decentralized, and fun to set up! Make an account on my site now or set up your own.
Own your own data and know who visits your websites. How can I market to them? What are my demographics? Who should I be targeting?
This is by far the coolest thing I have installed. Not only is it a Google Cloud or iCloud or OneDrive solution, but it also has auto camera upload with their free mobile app, collaborative document editing with live editing, and free WebRTC video chat called Spreed.
Say you have a giant link that you need to give somebody. With YOURLS, you can shorten any long link to, in my case, only 12 characters. Pretty sweet IMO.
PeerTube is still very new and I do not use it at all, but the concept is great. I want to have a YouTube like site, without all the Google stuff. I was the 30th instance ever made: now, there are over 350 instances!
searX is a privacy-respecting, open source, hackackable search engine like Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo, but it does not track or store any information about your searches and you can host it yourself. You can even set it as your default search engine if you are so inclined!
Plex is Freemium software (you have to have an account with them, and basically all features are free except some over-the-top premium features like DVR, Tidal, etc.) that you can install on your computer that organizes your music, tv shows, and movies all into a seamless, well put together interface, and let’s you access it from anywhere in the world. I have approximately 2TB of videos and music that I can take with me using Plex. One of the coolest things is that if you sign up, you can Share your libraries with your friends and have all kinds of content to listen/watch.
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product that lets you emulate many different operating systems including Windows, Linux, and Mac. I use it to run Ubuntu 20.04 for an added layer of security.