A library card and library resources such as Libby

You can always take advantage of me.

I'm free and online.

Open Library allows you to digitally borrow a ton of books for free. It's not the greatest experience since the books they own are scanned and not digital copies, but it's good enough, and their catalogue is not half bad.

If piracy counts: Piracy.

MIT Open Courseware

https://ocw.mit.edu/

https://fmhy.pages.dev/

basically this thread, already filled out. Free media, heck yeah.

https://www.khanacademy.org/

Anyone can learn anything. For free. Education is a human right. We are a nonprofit because we believe in a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Instead of ads or subscriptions, we are supported by individual contributions from people like you. Please join us today.

Free Covid tests if you live in the US.

https://www.covid.gov/tools-and-resources/resources/tests

All the piracy and freemediaheckyeah subs

Archive.org

Free tier cloud services like AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, and Azure. I use free tier VMs to host random services like VPNs, Mastodon instance, etc.

Tailscale has a free tier to connect your devices, VMs, and home servers.

GitHub pages is great for hosting any simple website for free.

Just shared this earlier but under certain conditions (in the US), you can actually file taxes for free.

https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers/

https://github.com/auctors/free-lunch

Found this a whole ago.

Internet Archive - Very useful for general usage internet but not for specific needs (check fmhy).

Have I Been Pwned? - Periodically use this to check whether your email/online presence is compromised or not.

Bitwarden (or if you want to self-host it use Vaultwarden) - Personally I used this password management so I can keep my pass and you can auto generate passwords with custom parameters if needed.

Curated OSINT resources - You want to ID someone online? this resources can help you to do so, though you also need to understand the basics. It may not work if person you're looking for does not have a much online presence.

For ebooks versions of books that are no longer under copyright: project gutenberg.

https://www.gutenberg.org/

And similarly for audiobooks: Librivox. It's a website and is also available as an app.

https://librivox.org/

MOOCs.

They're free unless you want a "certificate", which has no practical value and is mostly useful if you want to motivate yourself a bit more and want to support their business model.

Go browse Coursera and edX and learn to your heart's content.

Also, if you're coding, watch recordings of conferences about your programming language, e.g. CppCon/C++Now/CppNorth for C++, PyCon/PyData for Python etc...

https://baby-journal.app if you have kids and value privacy (disclaimer: I've written the app).

Edit: It's an app for tracking your baby activities, like feeding, sleeping, diaper changes etc. Fully end-to-end encrypted and fully open source and self-hostable, installable on both iOS and Android.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

Awhile ago, a user on r/casualuk posted a list of UK based stuff that was either free or cheap (food/entertainment/etc). They mirrored it in a few places and I bookmarked the github mirror. Doesn't look like it's been updated for a year or so though and I ain't prepared to head to reddit to check the original.

If you’re not a fan of your current email provider, I’ve created one that automatically organizes your email and helps prevent spam and phishing:

https://port87.com

The colourblindness simulator.

Internet is beautiful communities and subreddit mirror on lemmy.

yt-dlp for downloading video/audio from a number of sites, not just YouTube.

Screw YT Premium.

Also, if you want to get in shape:

• Couch to 5K: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/running-and-aerobic-exercises/get-running-with-couch-to-5k/
• the "8 Minute" guy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSkOCul_mRMIVCSy0f3tqQoauOzKRsMWe