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Living Room / Happy birthday Deozaan

« on: January 01, 2023, 10:24 PM »

People may not realize how much work Deozaan does behind the scenes on this forum in keeping it clear of spam, and just being a wonderful source of positivity.
Deo I hope you have a wonderful birthday! 

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: What is NANY plus Mug Alternate Image

« on: December 31, 2022, 08:20 PM »

Updated post above to show the alternate mug design as well as the traditional one.

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: NANY 2023 submission: Amazon Spending Analysis Utility

« on: December 31, 2022, 08:02 PM »

Congratulations on getting this working

ps. It was terrifying to see my amazon spending plotted.

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Living Room / Re: Happy New Years Eve

« on: December 31, 2022, 06:44 AM »

Yes, happy new year to everyone -- I hope 2023 will be filled with pleasant surprises for you all. 

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Living Room / Re: Game with ecosytem

« on: December 30, 2022, 07:27 PM »

Some reviews that focus on some negatives:
https://www.polygon....ws-ps4-playstation-4
https://www.rockpape...om/rain-world-review

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Living Room / Re: Game with ecosytem

« on: December 30, 2022, 06:28 PM »

To me it looks very compelling, like the designer captured something quite extraordinary in terms of creating an emotionally compelling world where it feels those creatures are alive and real.. I'm glad to hear the reviews are more positive than it seemed at first.

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Living Room / Game with ecosytem

« on: December 30, 2022, 03:28 AM »

I stumbled across this video.. These games that seem simulation-based seem so intriguing:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=GMx8OsTDHfM

https://store.steamp...p/312520/Rain_World/

Cost: $8
Reviews don't seem so good.

I'm not sure I would play the game myself but I'm quite curious to watch more videos on it.

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Living Room / Re: How to setup KVM switch?

« on: December 28, 2022, 09:08 PM »

Do I have to connect each laptop to the KVM switch via both a USB and a HDMI cable? That's alot of cables!

I haven't used a KVM for a long time but:

Quick answer is yes.. All computers need to connect to the KVM with at least two cables, a video cable and at least one usb cable.  And then the KVM has a video cable connecting to your monitor and at least one usb cable connecting the mouse and keyboard, and possiblyo other usb devices like webcam.

I'm not sure how well webcam will be switchable, but it sounds like maybe youd need a (powered) hub for all your usb devices (keyboard, mouse, webcam) and just be connecting that to the KVM and switching which pc the hub connects to.

Some KVMs use their own software, I think many do not.  Some work better than others.  One way in which they differ is the maximum resolution supported -- so make sure the KVM you get can handle your max display resolutions.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Disappeared LBC?

« on: December 27, 2022, 06:08 AM »

It used to be that you could use the ctrl+alt+shift+L hotkey to bring LBC up if it was moved off screen by a monitor resolution change or something similar, but i don't know when that stopped working.
Let me check into it and remind myself of the commandline options and such..

LBC does automatically keep some backups, so the first thing might be to find these backups, in the directory where your launchbar is, and preserve them.

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Living Room / Merry christmas and happy holidays to all

« on: December 24, 2022, 07:23 PM »

I hope everyone is having a nice holiday season -- christmas if you celebrate it, and all the other holidays at this time of the year.
Stay warm and safe.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lastpass hacked proper

« on: December 24, 2022, 02:20 AM »

If they don't have the hash, and it's correctly secured with 256-bit AES, you're still safe, right?

Assuming everything was coded well, and that you used a sufficiently strong master passphrase to encrypt your password collection.  But if you did not use a strong master password...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lastpass hacked proper

« on: December 23, 2022, 04:50 PM »

What's insane is all of these password managers are absolutely fanatical about convincing you to put your passwords on the web -- ostensibly so that you can sync to multiple devices, but perhaps more importantly so they can sell subscription software as a service regular fees.

Roboform has been pathological about forcing people to move to their roboform "everywhere" plan where your all of your sensitive password data is stored on their servers.  It's getting well past the stage of being ridiculous.

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: What is NANY plus Mug Alternate Image

« on: December 12, 2022, 08:00 PM »

And a little badge for participants as well:

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: What is NANY plus Mug Alternate Image

« on: December 12, 2022, 07:59 PM »

Hamradio made a new alternate image for the NANY mug given to participants:


And here's the standard mug design:

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: December 12, 2022, 01:24 AM »

This is oddly compelling.. I do love seeing all of these unusual cover songs on youtube:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=aVevvbFNKiY

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: What is NANY plus Mug Alternate Image

« on: December 11, 2022, 07:35 AM »

Thanks for posting this.. Ive been so busy coding stuff I haven't had much time to encourage others to participate!

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Be aware with online help: Screenshot Captor Quick-Capture bar turns on camera

« on: December 10, 2022, 12:47 PM »

Just to clarify, the feature you are talking about on the quick capture bar of Screenshot Captor is the function to grab a screenshot from your webcam, which you can also trigger from the main Capture menu of Screenshot Captor (near the bottom).  It doesn't record video just brings up a preview window showing the webcam view and a button you can press to capture an image from it.  I can see how it would be a suprise if you triggered it not knowing what it did!

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: cert warning dcmembers

« on: December 07, 2022, 10:17 PM »

Should be fixed now -- thank you for letting me know about the problem! 
-jesse

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: cert warning dcmembers

« on: December 07, 2022, 08:33 AM »

Thanks for the heads up, I'll contact support and figure out what's going on.

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Living Room / Re: Funny Animal Videos

« on: November 26, 2022, 09:47 PM »

that cat is amazing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fully operate my Android using my laptop's touchpad and keyboard?

« on: November 25, 2022, 08:54 PM »

It's certainly easy to operate your android tablet with a nice small standalone bluetooth keyboard and mouse..

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Living Room / Re: Happy Thanksgiving 2022

« on: November 25, 2022, 06:50 AM »

Thank you for saying so, Deo.  I'm sorry I haven't been on the site as much in the last 2 years as I was the previous 15 -- for some reason wrapping my head around doing this YouTube streaming channel feels like it is taking up all of my spare bandwidth..  But I'll try to do better in 2023..

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Living Room / Happy Thanksgiving 2022

« on: November 24, 2022, 02:27 PM »

Happy thanksgiving and friendsgiving to everyone at donationcoder.com!


-jesse (mouser)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: combine two png images

« on: November 08, 2022, 03:25 PM »

I wonder why I didn't try this before making the question

Well it's a bit of a hidden function -- I really should add a menu item that will also do it, so at least people can find the function in the menus.
The blend mode stuff is weird.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: combine two png images

« on: November 08, 2022, 02:11 PM »

In Screenshot Captor you can bring up an image and then drag another image on top of it -- which will bring up some choices from SC asking you how you want to "combine" them.  One option is to add the dropped image as a "resizable" object on top.
Give it a try and let me know if it does what you want.