No.391[View All]
Do you use any software that other people may not know about that you like?
I started using (and eventually even bought!) this thing called
Wallpaper Slideshow after trying a bunch of free ones and getting frustrated.
https://www.gphotoshow.com/wallpaper-slideshow-pro.phpBasically, you give it folder(s) of your choice and it will assemble a collage image of them and make it your background. You can configure it with a timer that changes it and I have it set to 15 minutes. I had originally used
John's Background Switcher that someone thankfully linked to me a few months ago: >>91800
https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/I liked this one more because there's less wasted space, more options, and it just generally seems to assemble the image better. I turn it off before I go to bed each night though because I'm worried that it's keeping my hard drive active all day, which probably isn't good. I should maybe research that sometime...
This pairs well with something like
Grabber (
https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber ) that can bulk download tags from booru sites.
Of course, this stuff is kind of wasteful if you don't have an extra monitor with a wallpaper that's largely visible, but I find myself like that sometimes so it's pretty nice.
No.2540
>>2539Oh cool. I will test that out later.
No.2896
Handbrake - A very easy to use program that lets you massively optimize videos and convert them to other formats.
https://handbrake.fr/Hydrus - Basically an offline booru on your PC that lets you make custom tags and also mass download images from websites using tags or just simply a URL. You can also set up auto downloaders too, typically I set them to artists I like. It also has a browser extension to easily send images to it.
https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/ No.2900
>>391On windows there's a (live) screen painting and recording tool (including recording sections of the screen) called zoomit. It's also now embedded in Powertoys if you have that. It's quite nice
No.2901
>>2896Hydrus was something I was looking at doing alongside something like Everything were I was on the fence about a file explorer replacement. But if it's easy to download and sort to I'll quit procrastinating and just get it.
No.2902
Hydrus is something I've been procrastinating trying for quite a long time now. I've heard talk of people AI tagging images and then sorting them with Hydrus so that's probably the efficient way to do things now if you have tens of thousands or more images to tag and organize.
No.2909
>>391THAT'S MY WIFE!!!!! (Deleted my previous post because it was low effort and spammy)
The only software I use that I haven't heard of anyone else using is Imagepipe from the F-Droid app store. Gonna be honest, it's a pain in the ass but it does work.
No.2937
>https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-EasySwiss army knife thing for executable files.
>https://hostsfileeditor.com/GUI program to enable/disable or add/remove hosts file entries.
>https://www.kovaak.com/sensitivity-matcher/Program for matching your sensitivity between games. Helpful for when you can't find a conversion online or when the mouse sensitivity slider values aren't granular enough but there's a config file with an exact value that you can tweak to get it exact.
>https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10Tool for disabling a bunch of windows bloat features and telemetry datamining. Definitely back your shit up before using this, I had to reinstall because I was ticking things willy nilly.
>https://archive.org/details/flashplayer_32_sa_20210130Legacy flash desktop player for when ruffle doesn't work. Was an official adobe product that they discontinued in like 2020 but still works fine.
>https://github.com/AlDanial/clocCount lines of code
>https://fearless-assassins.com/files/file/1656-rinput/Forces raw mouse input for when games don't have it. Useful for older games especially call of duty titles.
>https://www.special-k.info/I can't live without this one, it's a videogame optimization toolkit thing that injects into your game and lets you do all sorts of shit like cap your frames and monitor latency. Useful for basically all games imo. DON'T USE ON MULTIPLAYER GAMES.
>>2536>icaros+rep
>>2538>subtitle edit+rep i use this for OCRing image-based subtitles so I don't have to reencode when uploading anime scenes to youtube
No.3145
Flashpoint Archive is an easy way to play old flash games. They have a very good selection and I don't think they use ruffle so it's less buggy.
No.3277
cmus, a simple TUI music player.
https://cmus.github.io/ No.3278
Does anyone know if there's something like a Windows 10 / 11 port of the XP version of the Windows Photo Viewer, the one that is able to play .gifs? I know that you can restore the 7 version of WPV on both 10 and 11, but sadly, that one is without .gif support.
No.3279
>>3278JPEGview might work. Very fast and views all image types + .gif.
No.3280
>>3279Sounds great, thank you! Gonna try that one out for now.
No.3789
I've been very annoyed with the small size of icons in Windows 10 on this higher resolution monitor and after a bunch of searching I found a solution! Also the same company makes a bunch of other desktop customization stuff that I'm trying out! I'll probably make the icon sizes a little bit smaller, but LOOK!
The taskbar is done with
ObjectDock https://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/ Desktop stuff is done with
Fences https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/Unfortunately ObjectDock has some weaknesses, like not showing a little hover pop-up preview if you have multiple windows of a program open like a browser or folders. Maybe I can find a way to sneak in the old taskbar somewhere.
And of course for wallpaper I'm still using the thing I mentioned in the OP.
No.4188
Atmosphere is a nice piece of software for
wangblows that generates background noises and sounds, seemingly abandoned by the developers and even the website is long gone. The default sounds it comes with are kinda bad though, but as I suspected, you can very easily change them by replacing the original files in the bin folder with your own by exporting an OGG file and renaming it into .isx using audacity. I tried VLC but Im assuming any media player can play these files to check which ones you want to replace.
I just changed the campfire sound into a nice swaying trees sound, there's also a whole array of sounds that play at random intervals (like thunder and a bunch of nature noises) which you can change to your liking.
No.4311
WACUP (WinAmp Community Update Pack) -
https://getwacup.com/I've been using WinAmp as my standard music player for well over 20 years and just recently found out that there's a project called "WACUP" that strives to improve and maintain the classic WinAmp experience. That said, I can't outright recommend WACUP and mostly just want to bring attention to the project in the hopes that it will improve in the future.
As of right now, it sadly comes with a lot of default settings that I personally dislike, such as automatically getting cover art and lyrics from the internet, and the settings are so absolutely convoluted that it takes around half an hour just to take a look at everything.
I normally use WinAmp 5.24 or WinAmp Lite 5.666 (I honestly forgot about the differences, but those are the two versions I have archived) and the only thing I like better about WACUP right now is that it supports formats like .vgz and some tracker ones right out of the box. It also comes with a handy waveform seeker.
No.4409
Would any anon here be willing to share a Torrent client for which seeding can be reliably turned off? Or any helpful information regarding this matter. I am aware of the old uTorrent builds and the modifications one can make to Deluge to allow for this, but both of those methods for some reason sadly only last for a couple of minutes at best. Small files work fine, but once a download has been active for over 5 minutes or so, my client very slowly starts to upload again.
This seems to be a really touchy subject on the general internet, but some people prefer this approach over anything like VPNs for media for which you only care to not distribute it if you're outside the US.
No.4410
Probably look into blocking upload for the torrent client with a firewall rule? Or is that not what you're looking for?
No.4411
>>4410I do have to admit that I wouldn't know how to do that properly with my severe lack of knowledge regarding networking. I did try an outbound rule for the client, but that seemed to kill downloads as well.
No.4412
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>>4411Apparently it does get in the way of downloads as well:
Why Blocking Outbound Traffic Kills Downloads
Torrent clients need to:
Initiate outbound connections to peers and trackers.
Send requests for file pieces to other users.
Communicate with trackers or DHT nodes (for peer discovery).
So if you block all outbound traffic for the torrent client:
It can’t request pieces → no downloads.
It can’t contact trackers/DHT → no peers found.
Even if someone tries to upload to you, your client won't be able to complete the handshake.Any reason why setting the upload speed to 1kbps won't do?
If you're using qbittorrent you can set the "Maximum number of upload slots" to 0.
Other than that, I don't know of any other way, sorry.
No.4413
>>4412Damn... As for using 1 kb/s, I haven't tried for a couple years now and shall do so later, but I remember it not having made a difference to the accidental upload behavior, still hovering around 30 kb/s even with the limit. I don't know if there is a minimum threshold you need to cross for someone to make a case against you, which is why ideally not a single byte would ever make it over.
>If you're using qbittorrent you can set the "Maximum number of upload slots" to 0.Thank you so much, I really appreciate your help! My old uT build has that option too, but I'm gonna give qB a try and see if it behaves more accurate.
I did play around a little bit in uT's advanced settings just now and was able to finish a longer test download with 0 B uploaded, so I might be on the right track now. It still reports an active upload speed of the usual 30 kb/s, but the total bytes thankfully stay at 0, so I hope that activity only comes from client responses.
No.4415
>>4414Same thing here! When it comes to more niche things, it's often hard to find them traditionally hosted and you "have" to resort to P2P and its gigantic ecosystem. I'm not too big a fan of VPNs, but may I ask which one you're using? Perhaps I should get with the times and add an extra layer.
I hope the supposed resurgence of sailing will eventually result in some innovation. Perhaps some system to do with scrambled data that can only be unscrambled with a key, rendering any download completely fair game pre local rescramble and somehow making sharing unpunishable for good. Not an IT guy though, that's probably way worse of a thought than it sounds to me.
No.4416
>>4415I2P+Torrenting is already possible. It's not fast or popular, but it is possible.
If the current system didn't work in vast majority of the world, torrent client developers would start pushing solutions immediately in order to not be irrelevant.
Japanese filesharing client PerfectDark for example has a reputation system. I2P gives reputation based on your shared bandwidth.
It would be possible for someone to combine a bunch of discovered technological solutions to build an anonymous reputation system where you have to share to get good download speeds without letting the users know the reputation of whoever they are interacting with or who they are by having a share more get more protocol when it comes to downloads.
Nobody has any incentive not to seed in such a protocol because seeding will improve your own downloads. The problem is breaking into the mainstream which is ideally something done with a "PopcornTime"-like client that just so happens to be using I2P only and being preloaded with eveything a normal would want to watch and a community organizing to be on standby to seed all these boring movies and shows in order to grow the protocol.
No.4417
>>4415>I ask which one you're using?Haven't done it in years unfortunately. I can't remember the URL or anything.
No.4418
>>4415>VPNMullvad is a reputable one. They have a "no bullshit policy", no affiliate links or advertisement through influencers, no deals, no free mode, just a flat €5 fee every month. The account isn't tied to your email or anything, it's just a randomly generated number. Have been proven to keep no logs, and say that in the event that they have to change any of their strict privacy policies due to changes in laws in their country, they will close shop.
No.4419
>>4415Avoid torrents all together and pay the small fee for USENET access. Everything is available on there that you could find on public/private torrent trackers. But with no requirement to seed. I keep using USENET and don't mind the $20 or so a year to keep access to it because it is a massive archive of media without any of the problems that come with p2p. No one has ever been cut off by their ISP or sent a love letter for downloading content off USENET that I know of. It has much more redundancy than anything else and people actually fill requests when you ask for them. You also get access to a pretty decent discussion platform that automatically filters out non-techies by default.
If you aren't willing to pay than look into IRC+XDCC. Most stuff is mirrored on there that is available through USENET. Tons of things that claim to have zero seeds on torrent trackers are quietly being served on XDCC bots with good upstream speeds.
The nature of the torrent protocol means you'll have to have a little upstream going out to communicate with the rest of the swarm to request parts of the file. That's just how it is.
No.5247
>>391Handbrake (
https://handbrake.fr/ ) Is a very cool program that lets you re encode whatever video you throw at it
I've personally used it quite a lot, because my computer cannot play anything beyond 720p videos, which is actually not as annoying as it sounds. It makes you value whatever it is that you want to watch
I also have a little question; Can any of you anons reccomend a simple and lightweight tool for editing videos that works on linux? I'm looking for something similar to Windows Movie Maker
No.5249
>>5247I use kdenlive but it's neither simple nor lightweight. Not too familiar with GUI video editing tools, so I don't know what else is out there. Handbrake is certainly easier to use, I think of it as a pretty flexible GUI front-end to ffmpeg. I've used it when I was on Windows.
For the kind of re-encoding use cases such as you needing to turn videos 720p, I'd use command-line ffmpeg.
No.5250
>>5247>simple ... lightweight ... editing videos on linuxShotcut is one, but I haven't had to edit video in years so don't remember how good/bad it is.
No.5252
>>5250i use it for cutting up and splicing video and it works well enough
No.5253
>>5250I've tried it before. It isn't that lightweight, and feels reeeal clunky
Thanks for the help though
No.5254
Since the thread is active right now and speaking of re-encoding: Does anyone know if there's a nice and lightweight program that re-encodes a video according to a specified target file size? The encoder should basically ignore quality degradation and just do the best it can with the settings and file size specified.
I'm using Handbrake myself, but haven't found such an option, meaning I'm instead constantly changing the quality slider and converting until I get the desired size.
No.5256
>>5254ffmpeg should be able to do that.
No.5257
>>5255That's really good info, I never knew about the anime history behind it and was only aware of the other versions.
>>5256Thanks! I kind of feared that.. I really need to figure out how it works, it's always scared me how complicated all the documentation looks.
No.5267
>>4419>IRC+XDCCThank you very much for the advice. Are there any go-to methods for searching, aside from those two big search engines that immediately pop up on Google? Just asking to make sure, because some stuff that I know has like 100+ entries on various public trackers either doesn't show up on there at all, or there are only 1 or 2 old versions. I'm too inexperienced to know if XDCC might just not be all that good when it comes to specific things like plugins and such.
No.5268
>>5247>Can any of you anons reccomend a simple and lightweight tool for editing videos that works on linux?reaper
No.5292
QuickLook (Windoze) -
https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLookenables previewing files from explorer by toggling space, a la macOS. can't live without it.
my favourite command-line program is
tree(1), I have --gitignore and -F defaulted for it in an alias.
No.5295
>>5292I use QTabBar and I think comes with a similar feature by default. Is so cool.
No.5303
You know, somehow it hasn't been mentioned even though I've been using it for years.
YT-DLP, the thing that lets you easily download stuff from youtube and other streaming sites.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlpIt replaced another program, uhh... what was it.. youtube-dl I think? It's a command line thing, but it's very simple to use. You open a command window/powershell and do
yt-dlp [youtube url] -S res,ext:mp4:m4a --recode mp4 The last part converts it to MP4 because it doesn't always do that for some reason. Make sure to keep this updated because youtube likes to break it every few weeks lately.
No.5306
>>5303-x is a useful argument if you just want to download sound, it will remove the video afterwards and leave you with an audio file. I've done this to download a bunch of seiyuu radio program episodes.
No.5370
I've been in love with AzPainter lately and have been using it to draw rather than Krita. It's snappy and opens instantly and hardly uses any RAM, nice and portable.
No.5371
Afraid that what helps me is probably Windows stuff everybody know:
- EarTrumpet: Improve the sound and volume system tray icon after they ruined in W11. Works nicely with W10 too.
https://eartrumpet.app/- Greenshot: Everybody has their favourite screenshots application, and this is mine. Also available for Mac
https://getgreenshot.org/Coolsoft VirtualMidiSynth: I haven't used it since I got a SoundBlaster with hardware midi capabilities, but I suppose it will help if I play Crispy Doom on the MiniPC.
https://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth- VanVasco Karaoke player: Yes, I did sing every Slayer opening in .kar format when there was nobody at home and hoped no one would find out.
https://archive.org/details/tucows_193502_vanBasco_s_Karaoke_Player No.5372
>>5370true, i also use it for quick image editing
it opens instantly because it uses its own gui toolkit
inspired me to make my own gui toolkit too
>>5303>The last part converts it to MP4 because it doesn't always do that for some reason.because some codecs aren't compatible with mp4 container
>Make sure to keep this updated because youtube likes to break it every few weeks lately.it prefers to use extractors that break often so they need frequent updates
that's why i prefer to use my own extractor which breaks less often
No.5377
>>5372you're the guy i just talked to on /g/ about your own gui tooklit right?