What's something that's free that everyone should know about?
I'll start by plugging Harvard's free courses catalog as well as Udemy
Edit: Gonna add 2 more I remembered-
Blender - I wish I had more time to learn it, but I did start the infamous "Donut Tutorial" once!
Watch Cartoons Online - Lots of good older stuff!
Back in the windows 7 days we were sitting at Christmas lunch and my dickhead cousin started bragging about all the different video playing apps he used, without looking up from his lunch my grandpa goes "I only use one, vlc, only an idiot would use anything else.", then continued eating without looking up, my cousin looked shitty and I just left to go laugh outside.
I don't care if you believe me or not that's your business, my cousin is an arrogant asshole, the type to bring his house plans to Christmas lunch and spread them where we're about to eat lunch while standing there demanding people admire his shitty house and my grandpa doesn't give a shit. When he retired in the 90s he got into building computers which lead him to piracy, he introduced me to piracy and is why I'm the pirate I am now.
It was random af, he's usually a chill quiet dude lol.
We used to have family pirate nights where we'd visit the video store, rent out all the games we could, go home burn copies of them all, take them back the same day and grab more, they didn't know or care. I've taken over his role now and now I set up pirate streaming apps for my family.
Another peak FLOSS.
Actually, Audacity lost this status when Muse Group bought it out. There was a huge community fuss over this especially in /r/Audacity when the company started adding data-tracking to it, and the protests eventually died down because they just kept muscling through their decision like Reddit did with its changes.
I still use Audacity, to be fair, but may consider Ardour that another user mentioned here...
Their "data tracking" was just telemetry to figure out what buttons people were actually pressing.
I use Ocenaudio for quick audio edits anyways.
All the same, I did switch to Ocenaudio when I heard the news. Works pretty good.
Tenacity is a decent (not perfect) Audacity replacement.
Is that a fork of Audacity? I think I remember reading about that around the time of the hullabaloo...
Yep it is.
Audacity: free, robust audio editing/effects tool. Not a proper DAW but so feature rich some people treat it like one. Another peak FLOSS.
If you need what I understand to be considered a full-on DAW, there's Ardour, which is also FLOSS.