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General Software Discussion / Re: Twitter harakiri‘d. All was gone.

« on: January 22, 2023, 06:39 PM »

I was never interested in social media, but

-rjbull (January 22, 2023, 04:57 PM)

But you are here, on this forum, which is an older form of social media. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Twitter harakiri‘d. All was gone.

« on: January 22, 2023, 11:03 AM »

Most of us on there are Friendfeed refugees that needed a place to call home (that wasn't Facebook), after Facebook killed off Friendfeed. It's also a decent substitute for Medium, supporting similar style long form articles (Texts), formatted with markdown.

Feature-wise, it's a bit like if Twitter, Facebook, and Medium were whipped up together in a blender, but without any of the stupid corporate BS or drama. It was built by a fellow Friendfeed refugee who fully understood what it was that we all really wanted.

It has an API, if you want to roll your own tools and apps that can work with it, or you can use this guide and example to import your activities from your other social networks and websites, with IFTTT.

It has groups, but they aren't listed anywhere officially, and you can't search for them, which is why I created this group to catalog the English speaking ones. Between this and the Firehose, they would be your best options for finding people to follow.

Or you could follow me, or at the very least hit up my subscriptions list, which has most of the English speakers on Mokum.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Twitter harakiri‘d. All was gone.

« on: January 22, 2023, 03:41 AM »

I deleted my account when he lost his privacy and security execs. It wasn't much of a loss for me, though, considering my main social media usage has been on Mokum for quite a number of years, now.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: November 17, 2022, 05:10 AM »

What if Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive cockroach?

-Arizona Hot (August 21, 2022, 05:01 PM)

It would probably end up something like this:

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General Software Discussion / Re: If you own a Logitech MX Master 2S mouse, don't upgrade to Options+

« on: October 22, 2022, 12:14 PM »

Good to see you app! Haven't seen you aroudn recently!

-wraith808 (October 21, 2022, 09:34 AM)

 I am at one of those pesky crossroads where you become rather busy trying to figure out what to do with the next chapter of your life. In other words, currently unemployed and trying to decide what comes next.

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General Software Discussion / If you own a Logitech MX Master 2S mouse, don't upgrade to Options+

« on: October 21, 2022, 04:21 AM »

The Logitech MX Master 2S mouse is not yet compatible with the new Logi Options+ software. Installing it will cause your mouse to have severe bluetooth connectivity problems, making your mouse unusable.

Despite this, a glitch is causing the software to being pushed out to MX Master 2S owners. If you get the notification to upgrade, or see the link to do so on your current software dashboard, don't do it! Stick with the older Logitech Options software you already have.

If you do inadvertently install the Options+ software, you'll have to plug in a USB mouse so that you can uninstall it, then un-pair your MX Master 2S, power it off and back on again, then re-pair it with your computer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to check several sites daily with ease?

« on: February 13, 2022, 11:47 PM »

I also use RSS to keep track of YouTube Channels.

-Shades (February 12, 2022, 01:22 PM)

I have a locally installed Wordpress multisite (Bitnami) and use one of my sites to import Youtube videos, using a paid autoposting plugin (WP Automatic). Once I have watched a video, I just delete the post by clicking on the admin bar.

What is nice about using this plugin is that it can also automatically import videos by keyword, rather than from specific channels, OR by keyword from a specific channel or playlist. And it can import content from a lot of other sources, too, not just Youtube.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to check several sites daily with ease?

« on: February 13, 2022, 11:23 PM »

I have a list of sites I visit, some daily, some weekly, and some monthly, and I don't want to forget to visit them (they give away free stuff). In order to ensure I do remember to visit them, I use a Notezilla note to automatically open them on a specific time & date, and it repeats daily, weekly, or monthly, as required. Since I always have Notezilla open any way, it doesn't use any extra resources that it wouldn't normally have already used.

If you have Notezilla or another sticky note app, or task scheduler, or anything else capable of opening a URL and scheduling it, that you normally use any way, that could be a good solution for you.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2022: Desktop Maid

« on: January 05, 2022, 02:08 AM »

If you say so. I never "tasted" an application before. 

-GrumpyCoder (January 03, 2022, 10:48 PM)

You're missing out! You haven't lived until you've tasted an application.

-Deozaan (January 04, 2022, 04:20 PM)

They make great appetizers. 

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

« on: December 09, 2021, 04:33 AM »

And from one of my favourite places on the planet, The HU ft. Jacoby Shaddix:

-4wd (December 09, 2021, 04:20 AM)

I love The HU! 

Really love this one:

I don't buy very many CDs these days, but I bought theirs.

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

« on: December 03, 2021, 06:50 PM »

I am not really one for Christmas music, but this one is great:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera Start Page Question

« on: November 04, 2021, 07:53 PM »

Okay, so how well does Pale Moon deal with the asshat sites that "require" Chrome? Pale Moon Site says it's Goanna based - never heard of it - so what's it Goanna do when it encounters the Chromium canvas control and friends?

-Stoic Joker (November 04, 2021, 06:52 AM)

Goanna is a fork of Mozilla's Gecko. It's not perfect, but no solution ever is. If you come across a site that doesn't work with it, report it to the developer. You'll find that Pale Moon supports much more than the last Gecko based version of Firefox does.

However, should you end up needing a working user agent switcher add-on, for sites that engage in browser bigotry for no good functional reason, contact me privately. I have an old Firefox one that has been edited to work with Pale Moon, that I can't share publicly.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera Start Page Question

« on: November 03, 2021, 04:06 PM »

Hay, while we're playing whose got the most browsers.

-Stoic Joker (November 03, 2021, 03:38 PM)

And now you know why I have so many browsers. 

You can launch Pale Moon with the -P parameter to force it to show the Profile Manager, which would allow you to launch multiple instances of Pale Moon, each using a different profile. Each profile would have it's own everything...bookmarks, history, cookies, add-ons, etc. The Profile Manager also lets you quickly and easily create new profiles on the fly, as well as delete those that you no longer need. To force Pale Moon to always show the Profile Manager, just append the -P parameter to the shortcut target that you use to launch the browser.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera Start Page Question

« on: November 02, 2021, 04:06 PM »

You can populate the start page with a bunch of dials at once by selecting multiple bookmarks and pasting them into the Fast Dial favorites folder.

-MilesAhead (November 01, 2021, 09:56 AM)

It supports folders, too.

I use Opera for work, and Vivaldi for everything else. (I love Vivaldi's multi-level tab stacking, a feature that Opera unfortunately does not have.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera Start Page Question

« on: October 30, 2021, 02:37 PM »

Under Settings, scroll to the bottom and then click to show advanced settings. Then keep scrolling till you get to the Start Page settings, and turn this switch on:

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

« on: September 22, 2021, 06:27 PM »

I’ve been listening to a lot of Symphonic Metal lately.

-40hz (September 21, 2021, 08:24 PM)

If you've never heard of a band called Shadow Gallery, you should check them out.

https://www.youtube....Yr6ZrJvEdZ3ZE54RS9jH

And something very special that's not on that playlist, just for Pink Floyd fans:

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Living Room / Re: Let Inspirobot inspire you

« on: September 21, 2021, 10:01 AM »

I've been collecting these on and off for about 4 years. Here's just a small sample.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« on: July 17, 2021, 02:20 AM »

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Microsoft unveils Windows 365, a Windows 10 PC in the cloud

-Arizona Hot (July 14, 2021, 07:09 PM)

Yeah, about that...

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: June 28, 2021, 09:55 PM »

Leaked footage of Microsoft hardware partners at the Windows 11 requirements design meeting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 11 Announced

« on: June 28, 2021, 02:08 AM »

Your CPU may not have TPM 2.0. My still-quite-capable quad-core (8 threads) Core i7-2600K 3.4GHz CPU certainly doesn't have TPM 2.0 since I bought it in 2011.

-Deozaan (June 28, 2021, 01:03 AM)

 Ordered at the very tail end of 2019, booted up for the first time, January 2020. That's 1.5 years of use before Microsoft decided that it's "obsolete".

That's ok though, because I now think Windows in general has come to its end of life, for me, even if it could be installed on this laptop. My next laptop will come with some sort of Linux pre-installed, not Windows. (How's ReactOS coming along, btw?)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 11 Announced

« on: June 27, 2021, 05:57 PM »

Comment from SlashDot looks to be spot on:

"Windows 11 is Microsoft's kiss and make up gift basket to manufacturers for Windows 10. They want the Google Chromebook "5 years and dead" Model and were pissed that MS gave Windows 10 away for free to anyone on 7 or 8 and kept the Minimum requirements so low. Everybody upgraded, no one bought new computers and cue the PC recession.

Now that MS basically killed any PC over 4 years old, Either PC sales will skyrocket now or once 2025 hits."

-Shades (June 27, 2021, 04:55 PM)

And having an older laptop with higher hardware specs than most of the brand new crap available on the current market won't save your ass from obsolescence, any more.

My 2.90GHz quad core CPU doesn't qualify, even though it meets the minimum requirements of 1 GHz and at least 2 cores, simply because it's not on their list, by name.

There's no more reason to spend more to buy the best spec laptop available, in the hopes of lengthening the time between laptop purchases. Microsoft can and will kick one of your hardware components off their list, even if it is physically more than capable of running their OS, just to force you to buy a new laptop.

Save your money, buy mediocre...or make sure your kick-ass hardware is 100% Linux compatible.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 11 Announced

« on: June 27, 2021, 04:04 PM »

YAY! 



And for anyone else that is wondering exactly what those system requirements are, and if there are some very simple changes you can make to put yourself in the "not qualified" category, Have a look at this:



Not that I actually did anything to deliberately cause the incompatibility. Microsoft just doesn't like my i7-4910MQ CPU @ 2.90GHz for some reason. And that's ok with me, at least for now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 11 Announced

« on: June 26, 2021, 06:36 PM »

Well, this is an absolute deal breaker for me.



https://www.microsof...ws-11-specifications

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Really tiny reviews for creating, organising, analysing and reorganising writing

« on: April 20, 2021, 03:41 PM »

Notezilla has an advantage you may not have considered, and that is a custom desktop wallpaper designed to suit your own personal organization, workflow, or brainstorming needs.

This is an example of what I am currently using (sticky notes hidden for privacy reasons):



No, it doesn't come with this wallpaper, but it is easy enough to design one in any graphics program. Then just set it as your desktop wallpaper, and you'll be able to drag & drop notes to any column or box that you need to.

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021 Entry: Free Movies (website)

« on: April 16, 2021, 07:46 PM »

Impressive work!   

-daddydave (April 16, 2021, 05:34 PM)

Thank you!