No.21043
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://[link-ommited][link-om
mited][link-ommited]
Basically, 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://[link-ommited]/
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://[link-ommited]-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.
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I think most anons use Honeyview to read manga, but I like Quivi.
I have never seen anyone mention it, so: http://[link-ommited][link-ommited]/
PDF reader https://[link-ommited][link-ommited]-pdf-reader
CD ripper https://[link-ommited][link-ommited]/
Tag editor https://[link-ommited][link-ommited][link-ommited]
Besides that I don't think I use any unique software.
At least not anything that the people here wouldn't already know about.
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>>21045>I've been waiting for years for someone to make this thread... couldn't you make one yourself?
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Windows - Multimedia - Audio:
(cross-platform ones will be posted later)
EqualizerAPO - System-wide equalizer. I'm using this to correct my speakers' and headphones' frequency response
https://[link-ommited]/
VB-CABLE - Route audio between different programs
https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited]
RipX - Extract stems from music using machine learning (cracked version below, use at your own risk)
https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited]=sharing
Ultimate Vocal Remover - Remove vocal using machine learning, lots of algorithms to use
https://[link-ommited]
>>21047I just thought this isn't a very /qa/ topic.
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... I think that's it for Windows exclusive stuffs for now. Since OP asked for unknown software I skipped lots of stuffs that I considered well known such as [link-ommited] and Process explorer.
>>21043>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.It's a reasonable concern, but most HDD failure happen during the spinning up period, so it's might be better to keep the HDD spinning 24/7 if it's designed to do so such as data center HDDs.
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For TTS I like to use Balabolka:
http://[link-ommited][link-ommited][link-ommited]
(Have to find the voice files for yourself though)
I also like to use Explorer++:
https://[link-ommited]/
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No.21055
For Windows there are collections of tools made by Windows developers called PowerToys
https://[link-ommited][link-ommited]-00/?p=36543
I installed one to let me view thumbnails of SVG files
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>>21056Desktop Mascot? That sounds pretty interesting and fun
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>>21057Right! These mascots are called "ghosts" and have lots of functions including talking (with text to speech support), check email, RSS, and more.
There are lots of ghosts created by individual makers. They can be downloaded and added to SSP for using. You can find some of them in linked that website.
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>>21059That sounds really similar to a project I've been working on for some time now. Here's a video showcasing it(I've never really made my own WEBMs before so it's an MP4).
I'm not sure if it's exactly the same thing(don't know much japanese), but the way I imagined it, the core assistant program(I call it joshu-core) handles things like bringing up that dialog window for taking input, showing messages in the speech bubble, and other things like that.
Plugins communicate with the main program through Unix domain sockets to send it commands.
For example, to show a message, a plugin needs to send the following JSON to joshu-core:
{
"cmd": "open msgbox",
"params": {
"text": "Message to show",
}
}
There's also some optional parameters but that doesn't really matter.
I plan to use it to create a bunch of plugins, by now I've only done the calculator one, which is probably the easiest (didn't write my own calculator, just the part for communicating with joshu-core, but that could be a fun mini project)
Not trying to hijack the thread or anything, just felt like posting about this somewhere and this topic came up.
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All platforms - Tools:
Barrier - Use one keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers through network
https://[link-ommited]
Crow Translate - Desktop translation program
https://[link-ommited]-transla
te/crow-translate
Textadept - Text editor scriptable with lua
https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited]/
>>21060IMO all too popular that most seasoned linux users know.
>>21061>I'm not sure if it's exactly the same thingThe logic is written in a DSL which specifies what text to display for specific triggered events. The DSL code can call functions in DLLs to get extra features like network connection and system stat monitoring.
So plugins are DLLs loaded by the main program.
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>>21061baste emacs enthusiast trips haver
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>>21062Can vouch for Barrier, it even works cross-platform.
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>>21043These are all for Linux
I recently found rlwrap, it adds readline functionality to commands lacking it. It's very nice.
Other than that, I'm very happy to have put in a bit of time to write two scripts for managing emacs daemons, since I use it extensively. I wouldn't be able to go back.
I guess maybe not everybody would know about slop, a program that lets you select a region of your screen, and prints its coordinates. It's useful for recording/streaming the screen.
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>>21067You don't know the standard GitHub download procedure?
Click "Releases"
Click [link-ommited][link-om
mited].[link-ommited][
link-ommited]
Extract
Run [link-ommited]
The rest is easy since UI is in English
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Oh, I forgot to mention 'everything'! It's an extremely fast program to search for files on your computer. Searching for stuff in the default windows window will take minutes, but it's instant with this thing. It's more handy if you're familiar with search terms, like using "*" as a wildcard like "*[link-ommited]" to show all JPGs with any filename.
https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited]/
>>21048>I just thought this isn't a very /qa/ topic./qa/ is meant to be a fairly 'random' board, just higher quality than what you might expect from that distinction. People can make threads about various things.
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>>21069>/qa/ is meant to be a fairly 'random' boardI knew about this but whenever I want to post tech-related topics I'm aware that /b/ is supposed to be the destination for them because the board title and rules say so. However /b/ is mostly used as site meta board so I don't want to post them there either...
So I just decided to not make any tech related threads at all because I think there isn't a suitable board for them.
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I have a wallpaper program like that that does the same thing but it was free. It's called Wally.
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No.21073
>>21070maybe we/I need to rephrase that. Though I do use it quite a bit for tech if I'm talking about the site.
But at the same time, I made the most recent mouse thread because it relates to my hobbies. It probably needs correction, but I'm not going to stop making posts about NVMe SSD when I'm doing it within the context of technology being used on the site.
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>>21075Forgot to post direct link for those who want to avoid the article:
https://[link-ommited]-try-thi
s/samplebrain
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>>21075"sampling" has a very broad definition, he probably meant something else when he said he didn't like it. There's nothing inherently wrong with recording chunks of audio to manipulate.
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This isn't something I use, but I found it interesting. Some people have brought back MSN Messenger by creating a server to host it again: https://[link-ommited]/
I would be a bit skeptical since you're using someone's server to send private messages, but it's still cool that it exists at all.
It seems they plan to do the same for stuff like ICQ and also AIM and Yahoo's old messenger. Strangely it seems they want to bring back AOL, too, but I'm not sure how that's supposed to work.
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No.21079
>>21078ICQ is still a thing in Hong Kong apparently
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>>21079That's neat. I wonder if they use it for privacy reasons or if people just decided to keep using it. ICQ was interesting because your ID was just your account number. I still have my second ICQ number memorized, but I won't tell anyone!
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As a follow-up to my recommendation of Grabber in the OP I'll describe how I'm using it.
I wanted to download 150k Touhou images, but sadly it seems to bug out the program if you do that, so I'm going character by character. Unfortunately. I'm downloading page by page, so after filtering out a bunch of stuff I have 40-100 pages per character. This is just to queue them, however, as I can set up 300 pages of 100 images each and then do something else.
There is also a filter option: "-grabber:downloaded" to hide images that you've already downloaded with grabber, which is very handy. Supposedly this thing can scan MD5s, too, but I haven't tried that.
As for the files themselves:
I have it set up so that it automatically creates directories for an artist and then fills it with filenames of the character inside brackets followed by the MD5.
The filename option looks like this:
%artist%/[%character%] %md5%.%ext%
The backslash after artist means that creates a directory for it.
I also have the character tags like pic related, which means that if there are more than 2 characters the character names instead become 'group' so I don't have massive (if not impossible) filenames when there's a large group of characters in an image.
For source I'm using gelbooru because it has a ton of images, a large userbase to rate stuff, and of course it has certain content that other image places don't (or charge money for like danbooru). The downside is that tagging is not always thorough or accurate, so I'll need to do a bunch of pruning afterwards. Thankfully, Grabber can keep the data of having downloaded the image even after you download it, so it won't show up for me again.
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No.21083
>>21082And this folder shows an example of the filenames.
Unfortunately, it also shows one of the problems of most booru sites: duplicate images with different MD5s.
Anyway, that's how I use Grabber. It's pretty cool.
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qimgv - fast image viewer
https://[link-ommited]
ahoviewer - image viewer/booru browser/manga reader, lets you open archives and view the images
https://[link-ommited]
czkawka - cli/gui application that finds duplicates, similar images and videos, large files and other things
https://[link-ommited]
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No.21085
>>21080Yeah, its for privacy reasons but considering VK owns it I doubt it's a step up from whatsapp.
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>>21086why not use gimp or [link-ommited]? surely freeware would be easier to deal with than stretching the image and cropping
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>>21087It's not just scaling it down. Pixel graphics have solid, high contrast colors and this lets you tinker with them as a whole. It can also adds a solid line around the graphic which can be a real pain to add with photoshop at the visual size this stuff is at.
It's far from perfect and if I were to make something people would look at for a long time then you'd still need to touch stuff up, but it's pretty great for simple stuff.
This image is at 250% zoom and hopefully it shows enough of a difference to you.
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>>21086I like the kot
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>>21091Ah, I actually use that program a lot. I agree, it's very useful. The replace feature, remove, and numbering are all very good.
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>>21048Ultimate Vocal Remover has been updated with even more models...
It's difficult to know which model is the best to use, I found this webpage with the models ranked with best vocal-instrumental separation quality:
https://[link-ommited]quality_
checker/[link-ommited]
For single model, the "kim vocal model" currently has the best quality. On my PC it takes only 40 seconds to process a 4-minute song with GPU acceleration and the result sounds very good for me.
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I use hexchat as well.
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No.21098
>>21094I like to use Irssi.
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https://[link-ommited]-ppixiv-for-pixiv
an extension for pixiv that completely changes the interface. I really like it and I really dislike how many clicks it took to navigate your favorites and little screen space images took in pixiv.
https://[link-ommited]-panel-for-twitter/
an extension for twitter that let's you customize what you see on twitter and let's you change the ui.
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No.21100
Long list of Windows tools. Some I already use, some I don't.
https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited]-hanselmans-2021
-ultimate-developer-an
d-power-users-tool-lis
t-for-windows
For a bit of software nostalgia I'll point out he's got a bunch of previous versions of the list such as
[link-ommited]-hanselmans-2007-ultimate-developer-and-power-users-tool-list-for-windows]this one from 2007. Skype's on that one. Remember how revolutionary Skype was when it came out, and how much it started sucking when Microsoft bought it?
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>>21101It's already cracked so I'm just using it for free.
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>>21101>>21102Oh, that looks nice. I'm currently using Explorer Patcher on Windows 11 to deal with the taskbar changes. If I could use that without changing the taskbar theme, I might start using that instead.
https://[link-ommited]
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>>21091thunar bulk rename has a less intimidating ui, but is linux only
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>>21104im thinking of getting a linux distro but im a complete noob, which one should i get?
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>>21105How good is your computer? If you have an older one without an SSD use XFCE mint if you have a newer one Kubuntu
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>>21106what is the current state of gaming on linux?
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>>21107>>21107Better. Valve made a very good compatibility layer
https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited]/
Lutris is a very good compliment to it
https://[link-ommited]/
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>>21108nice! thanks, ill check out kubuntu and the valve thing since i just got a spare SSD
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>>21107flatpak also has made it easier to get open-source games and emulators.
https://[link-ommited]/
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>>21110i've heard that it only works on ubuntu, does it work on kubuntu aswell?
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>>21111Flatpak works on all Linux distros, and the "flavors" of ubuntu just use different desktops, all programs for the same version of ubuntu will work.
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>>21108Ah, yeah I remember Valve being pretty pro linux in recent years. Have they finally made it so that linux and windows are basically the same now? Or is there still a fair bit of work to go.
Also how's the steam deck's SteamOS doing in all of this? I know that is also linux, but is it somehow better than regular linux gaming?
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>>21113Linux gaming has worked pretty well for me on both Steam and Lutris. The only issue is games with anti-cheat but anything else I've tried has worked quite well
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>>21113>Have they finally made it so that linux and windows are basically the same now?No. A lot of stuff still doesn't work, but most stuff will work after tweaks. Anti-cheat is a sore point and modding can be a pain.
>Also how's the steam deck's SteamOS doing in all of this? I know that is also linux, but is it somehow better than regular linux gaming?SteamOS doesn't add anything to desktops that big picture doesn't, it's mostly for Steam Deck now.
Really, if you don't have an ideological opposition to non-free software, you should not switch fully if gaming is your 1st priority.
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Games will work but not as good as they do on windows. Either in terms of temps or performance, sometimes both.
If you can be bothered I'd dual boot with win10, that's what I'm doing.
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No.21118
aMule has an ability to set a SOCKS proxy server, which means you can download files over TOR! But you probably wont be able to get a High ID.
https://[link-ommited]/
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No.21119
>>21118https://[link-ommited]/ There's also this, but I'm sure everyone knows about it already
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>>21118There's not much of interest on it to be honest, but it's a cool tool to keep in mind should the clearnet get locked down.
There's a lot of sketchy files on it and most typically pirate-y things are not in English, but it may be of interest to find historical files?
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>>21043microEmacs aka mg - a lightweight Emacs (and dired) clone. It's one of the default editors that come with OpenBSD. If you can run full GNU Emacs, then run it because it's better: https://[link-ommited]
CrystalDisk info - View SMART info (Windows-only): https://[link-ommited]/
Nirsoft ProduKey & Product Key Scanner - get windows cd keys etc. from your PC: https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited][link-ommited]
xfe (aka X File Explorer), a clone of old MS Windows file explorer for Linux: http://[link-ommited][link-om
mited]/
Midnight Commander - a traditional file manager, a clone of Norton Commander: https://[link-ommited] (also read: https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited])
Shattered Pixel Dungeon - roguelike for Android and Linux (get it from F-droid or Play Store or Flatpak/Flathub)
xpdf - a PDF reader for Linux: https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited] (also try mupdf)
CWM (also, see Hikari) - a lightweight and interesting old school WM for Linux and *BSD: https://[link-ommited]
Window Maker - ditto, also very stylish!: https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited]
Quod Libet (and ex falso) - music player and/or tag editor: https://[link-ommited]/ (ex falso is just the tag editor while Quod Libet is a music player with ex falso integrated)
Bleachbit - cross-platform junk cleaner (similar to CCleaner but FLOSS and not a botnet): https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited]
imv - lightweight image viewer for Linux with support for animated gif images: https://[link-ommited]/~exec64/imv/ (contributors needed!)
meld - GUI program that let's you compare and merge plain text/source code files: https://[link-ommited]
System Rescue CD - a Linux liveUSB distro that has a ton of system rescue tools preinstalled: https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited] (use Rufus to copy it to a USB flash drive)
And a lot more: https://[link-ommited][link-om
mited]List_of_applicat
ions
>>21094>>21098Irssi and Hexchat are great.
>>21111You are thinking about Snap (but even it works on most Linux distros). But Flatpak is better than Snap.
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>>21122is monochrome mobius good
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>>21124I've always intended on trying Window Maker. It seems like a better FVWM with less timesink. I always used CWM out of laziness.
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https://[link-ommited][link-ommited]
Been thinking about this ever since I got my Bluetooth headphones. They support LDAC, but Windows has no real bluetooth codec support like Android does. Found this which replaces the Bluetooth driver and adds support for LDAC, AptX LL, AptX HD. It works too. I was skeptical at first, but I tried it out with my Fiio BTR3 which has a little LED indicator that changes color based on codec used, and it absolutely works. I seriously appreciate being able to use LDAC with granular settings. My headphones used to cut out whenever I would walk to the kitchen and stand near my fridge, but now it just cuts down to a lower bandwidth and maintains the connection.
It's paid, but with a week-long trial period. If you buy it before the trial expires, you get a discounted price. Only gripe is that the license is hardware-tied, meaning you need to buy additional licenses for any additional computers you have. The price is discounted for additional purchases, but it still is kind of annoying. Still, I think it's well worth the price.
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No.21130
Nice, a software thread.
Does anyone know any script that blocks users or tage on pixiv? Either that or filters posts based on region? I'm trying to block gaijin on my feed. Some bug man and worse koreans are okay I guess, but western posts I want them out of my feed for the most part. Too much crappy art from them.
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No.21131
somehow AG Grid has become more intuitive through their latest maj. vers update. Everything gets set through a single ```setGridOption``` function that uses a string key to act...
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No.21132
Moved to
>>>/maho/391.
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