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What pieces of software can you recommend that's free, efficient and does not bullshit around? (kbin.melroy.org)
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Notepad++ - This piece of software is a very advanced form of Notepad. Fuck that basic Notepad shit that Windows or any other OS gives you. This one is all you'll ever need for basic note-taking needs. But it does a hell of a lot more. One thing I love about it is that, if for any reason I put my PC to sleep, it crashes, power outage, I can run this again and everything I've ever written and no matter how many tabs - it's all retained.

AIMP - The definitive media player that you'll ever need for just playing stuff (music only, sorry if I mislead those thinking it can do video). Winamp and all the other software are just around for nostalgia (though Winamp has it's uses where you need it to play specific formats like video game music such as SNES with .SPC). One feature that attracted me to it was, it used to infuriate me when I am playing something and something crashes in any other media player. And you boot up that media player and you have to play your playlist all over again or that song from the beginning.

Not AIMP, if I accidentally close it, crash or whatever, I can bring it back up and it'll have the song or whatever on Pause so I can resume. Why isn't shit like this more implemented in software?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you're looking for a temporary email service for anonymous online registration, tempmail.so is a decent choice. https://www.tempmail.so/

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Speedcrunch!! Speedcrunch is a text based calculator that I just recently found, and already cannot live without. The syntax is very intuitive. If you're a programmer, you will feel right at home. Now, I do all my bit twiddling in speedcrunch before it gets to code.

It also works on Windows. At work, I have a Windows and Linux machine, and it is pinned to the taskbar on both.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

MPD and whatever front end you like for what's the best music player going, imo. You can tweak your player to your liking, MPD will play any format supported by ffmpeg, has some forks for further functionality, handles big libraries like a champ (I'm sitting at 54,758 files in mine without issue), can serve music streams online and be remotely controlled, and even has ridiculous features like the ability to handle gopher urls for media/streaming.

It's also as lightweight as you want it to be. MPD+ncmpcpp for playback use a whopping 66MB of ram for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I got sick of fucking around with windows administrator tasks so I just wrote my own. It's crude. It's not pretty but I'm sick of having my job undermined by windows settings being forced on me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Geany,qbtorrent,Vlc Media Player,LocalSend,obs,KdenLive (Atleast in Linux),Cinnamon (Forked from gnome 3 With a traditional Ui)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
  • VLC media player is the gold standard
  • Open broadcasting software / stream labs for broadcasting and studio management
  • Ffmpeg for video editing
  • Yt-dlp for downloading video
  • audacity MP3 editing
  • Plex / jellyfin / Stashapp for media server
  • Pixlr for cloud photo editing
  • Yarn / chocolatey / Asdf / node / poetry - package management
  • Flaresolver, pihole, home automation, nginx
  • Qbit-*arr for file sharing
  • Massgrave for windows activation
  • Filezilla for ftp (upgrade hosting)
  • Depending on bullshit level: discord, Google workspace offers custom domain Google accounts
  • Anything past that I write for myself or find a project with a dockerfile
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