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General Software Discussion / Re: Cannot claim free space in C:\

« on: March 31, 2021, 02:43 AM »

I don't think changing the download location could magically claim lost space in c:\

-hulkbuster (March 30, 2021, 11:41 PM)

It would actually, when you change the location, part of the process is to ask you if you want to move the existing files to the new location, to which you'd answer "Yes".

Instant 40GB+ drive space freed up.

If you're trying to say, in a round about way, that you have no other drive than C: then you're right ... and you could have said this earlier.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: March 30, 2021, 07:02 PM »

First try was with Vivaldi (still doesn't work after third verification).

-dantheman (March 30, 2021, 06:30 PM)

Just tried the Presearch one above in Vivaldi, (Vivaldi   2.9.1699.4 (Official Build) (64-bit)), and it worked OK - had to double-click the bookmarklet.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cannot claim free space in C:\

« on: March 30, 2021, 06:30 PM »

Run WizTree, when it's finished, drill down on the left side to the directory that's using the most space, then take a screenshot of the WizTree window, (including the right side), and post it here ... because atm we have no idea what we're dealing with.

It could be 150GB of AVIs, 130GB of old Windows patches, 160GB of VM VHDs ...

eg.

Largest thing I've got is Docker's VHDX.


A suggestion, never, ever download stuff to your C drive. Microsoft might think this is the greatest idea on Earth, having a single drive in which everything is stored in a directory tree from Hell but it isn't, it's a shit idea.
(I'd expand it to anything that's not the OS you don't have on C unless absolutely necessary.)

BTW, to bypass the Recycle Bin use Shift+Delete.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: March 30, 2021, 06:00 PM »

NOTE: This was all written on a tablet, tables would have looked better but editing on a tablet is painful to say the least. (It actually looks better in Preview than Posted.)

So basically, if Presearch is selected, then this is the part i would use
%22http://engine.presearch.org/search?q=%22+q.replace(/\s+/g,%22+%22)
to replace Google's?

-dantheman (March 30, 2021, 02:04 PM)

Not even that much, google.com -> engine.presearch.org, everything else is the same.

Don't look at the JavaScript, look at example search URLs from the search engines themselves:

[Select]

https://   www.google.com          /search?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com  (Google - original)
https://   engine.presearch.org    /search?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com  (Presearch)

[Select]

https://   www.google.com/search     ?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com  (Google - original)
https://   qwant.com/                ?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com  (Qwant)
https://   duckduckgo.com/           ?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com  (DDG)
https://   startpage.com/sp/search   ?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com  (Startpage)

The second section in each case is the minimum that needs changing.
All other sections of test searches on the engines are identical.

NOTES:

• I removed unnecessary crap from the example URLs, eg. setting strings, tracking, etc, so all are the minimum that are required for them to work.
• www.google.com is google.com in the bookmarklet.

Did use 4wd's last script and it isn't responding.

I tested all four of the ones I changed and they all worked for me. The Presearch version in the last post was a copy/paste of the previous, which was copy/paste out of my browser, (Opera).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cannot claim free space in C:\

« on: March 30, 2021, 02:05 AM »

WizTree - Find out where the space is being used first.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« on: March 30, 2021, 12:24 AM »

I couldn't give a shit less about CO2 or any of that, but electric motors are AMAZING.

-Renegade (March 29, 2021, 10:31 PM)

Meh, broaden your horizons and go for a Koenigsegg Gemera 

Combined power output of 1700 bhp
Power output from the three motors – one for each rear wheel producing 500 bhp and 1000 Nm, and one E-motor on the crankshaft that produces an extra 400 bhp and 500 Nm to power the front wheels – add up to 1400 bhp as individuals and 1100 bhp when combined. In addition to the TFG’s 600 bhp (at 7500 rpm) and torque of 600 Nm (2000 rpm to 7000 rpm), the combined power output of the Gemera is 1700 bhp or 1.27 MW.

The most amazing part of the car is the TFG, (Tiny Friendly Giant), engine: 600hp from a 2 litre, 3 cylinder, multi-fuel, twin-turbo, cam-less design.

Never really got the hype about the Bugatti Veyron, 1000hp from a W16 engine ... whereas Koenigsegg had 900hp -1600hp from V8's on biofuel, far better engineering IMHO.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: March 29, 2021, 09:28 PM »

Let's start with a site search on Donationcoder for mouser in Google, you'd enter:

Code: Text [Select]

1. mouser site:donationcoder.com

After hitting Enter the URL becomes:

Code: Text [Select]

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com

Same search on Presearch gives a URL of:

Code: Text [Select]

1. https://engine.presearch.org/search?q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com

Your original bookmarklet, (which is what a bookmark consisting of JavaScript is generally called):

Code: Javascript [Select]

1. javascript:q=%22%22+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text);if(!q)q=prompt(%22Search%20terms%20[leave%20selection%20and%20box%20blank%20to%20list%20all%20pages]%20...%22).replace(/\s\+/g,%22%252B%22);if(q!=null)location=%22http://www.google.com/search?q=%22+q.replace(/\s+/g,%22+%22)+%22+site:%22+location.hostname;void(0);

Within it is the same format site search URL as for Google above, (%22 is HTML escaped ASCII for quote, " - ignored for the purposes of simplified explanation):

Code: Text [Select]

1. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22+q.replace(/\s+/g,%22+%22)+%22+site:%22+location.hostname

You have code replacement for your entered search term:

Code: Text [Select]

1. q.replace(/\s+/g,%22+%22)

ie. mouser
And addition of the current site URL:

Code: Text [Select]

1. location.hostname

ie. donationcoder.com

The format of the search terms is basically identical between Google and Presearch, shown above in the individuals URLs, this bit:

Code: Text [Select]

1. q=mouser+site%3Adonationcoder.com

The only difference is the base URL:

Code: Text [Select]

1. https://www.google.com/search?

Versus:

Code: Text [Select]

1. https://engine.presearch.org/search?

So it becomes a simple text replacement to switch from Google to Presearch, the same applies to the other search engines listed above, so the bookmarklet becomes:

Code: Javascript [Select]

1. javascript:q=%22%22+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text);if(!q)q=prompt(%22Search%20terms%20[leave%20selection%20and%20box%20blank%20to%20list%20all%20pages]%20...%22).replace(/\s\+/g,%22%252B%22);if(q!=null)location=%22http://engine.presearch.org/search?q=%22+q.replace(/\s+/g,%22+%22)+%22+site:%22+location.hostname;void(0);

So no coding required, just observation

BTW, haven't bothered explaining the rest of the JavaScript involved because:

• it's not really relevant to the original query and,
• I'd have to read up to understand it also

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: March 29, 2021, 06:28 PM »

Did try to replace Google.com with Qwant.com and it doesn't work.

-dantheman (March 29, 2021, 02:10 PM)

Qwant doesn't use the search keyword:

Code: Javascript [Select]

1. javascript:q=%22%22+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text);if(!q)q=prompt(%22Search%20terms%20[leave%20selection%20and%20box%20blank%20to%20list%20all%20pages]%20...%22).replace(/\s\+/g,%22%252B%22);if(q!=null)location=%22http://www.qwant.com/?q=%22+q.replace(/\s+/g,%22+%22)+%22+site:%22+location.hostname;void(0);

Neither does DDG:

Code: Javascript [Select]

1. javascript:q=%22%22+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text);if(!q)q=prompt(%22Search%20terms%20[leave%20selection%20and%20box%20blank%20to%20list%20all%20pages]%20...%22).replace(/\s\+/g,%22%252B%22);if(q!=null)location=%22http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22+q.replace(/\s+/g,%22+%22)+%22+site:%22+location.hostname;void(0);

Startpage different again:

Code: Javascript [Select]

1. javascript:q=%22%22+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text);if(!q)q=prompt(%22Search%20terms%20[leave%20selection%20and%20box%20blank%20to%20list%20all%20pages]%20...%22).replace(/\s\+/g,%22%252B%22);if(q!=null)location=%22http://startpage.com/sp/search?q=%22+q.replace(/\s+/g,%22+%22)+%22+site:%22+location.hostname;void(0);

Presearch:

Code: Javascript [Select]

1. javascript:q=%22%22+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text);if(!q)q=prompt(%22Search%20terms%20[leave%20selection%20and%20box%20blank%20to%20list%20all%20pages]%20...%22).replace(/\s\+/g,%22%252B%22);if(q!=null)location=%22http://engine.presearch.org/search?q=%22+q.replace(/\s+/g,%22+%22)+%22+site:%22+location.hostname;void(0);

Just input the search into an engine and use the relevant part of the URL:

https://engine.presearch.org/search?q=thought+site%3Adonationcoder.com

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General Software Discussion / Re: List And Print Folders And Subfolders

« on: March 29, 2021, 11:54 AM »

Me don't understand .
1. Is a portable program ?

-Contro (March 29, 2021, 11:48 AM)

They're standard Windows commands, no need to carry them around.

Code: Text [Select]

1. tree <dir> | clip

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: March 29, 2021, 11:46 AM »

Without seeing the script it's a bit hard to comment but you should be able to change any occurrence of google.com to qwant.com, (my default search engine), I believe the query format is similar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Sync: move files on one side but *dont* copy any?

« on: March 28, 2021, 10:44 AM »

... but with many files I can see no reason for the different modified date / size.

-tomos (March 28, 2021, 05:01 AM)

This could be due to metadata, adding metadata will increase the file size without affecting the image.

Usually I resort to something like Beyond Compare or enable the extra metadata fields in DOpus.

My personal preference in this case would be to combine the separate file structures onto another drive, any filename clashes would be auto-renamed.
Then I'd run Antidupl, (set at 0%), over that file structure to remove dupes, (ie. leave the original sources alone).

I've had to do this twice for friends whose backup software was doing recursive backups ... it was fun removing a couple of hundred GBs of dupes 🙄

I found it was the fastest method, do the copies then let Antidupl take care of working out what could be removed based on image data, (they did not have any metadata requirements so I could ignore this).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA Drop Zone javascript link extractor and launcher

« on: March 23, 2021, 05:05 PM »

I would think a UserScript would be a better option, have the links replaced directly in the page.

BTW, just tried a search on Ancestry and it comes back with full links here, (wife uses Ancestry all the time via the local library portal).

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Living Room / Re: Whoever understands NFTs let's make one for DonationCoder

« on: March 21, 2021, 07:26 PM »

An opinion piece on the current NFT craze:

NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money

“NFTs are entirely for the benefit of the crypto grifters. The only purpose the artists serve is as aspiring suckers to pump the concept of crypto — and, of course, to buy cryptocurrency to pay for ‘minting’ NFTs.”

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Living Room / Re: Free eBooks

« on: March 12, 2021, 01:36 AM »

ffmpeg Quick Hacks - Free to celebrate 1 year in publishing by V. Subhash

Original Reddit post

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any taskbar hiding applications?

« on: March 10, 2021, 05:48 AM »

TaskbarActivate still works under Windows 10, increase the delay before the Taskbar is expanded.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« on: March 08, 2021, 02:03 AM »

love to hear how you're going to use it..

-mouser (March 07, 2021, 10:39 PM)

I'm thinking image classification atm, there's a few projects on GitHub that use TensorFlow (Lite) so I thought I might have a play around.

Having spent quite a few hours classifying hundreds of digital photos which is just a drop in the thousands I have, it'd be nice to see if the Accelerator can speed up the process by using low powered hardware rather than having a full desktop doing it.

Plus it's cheap enough that it's worth playing with.

It could also end up sitting in a drawer because I've decided to put it in the "too hard basket" 

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« on: March 07, 2021, 10:26 PM »

Something new in my quest to turn my RasPi into SkyNet: Coral Accelerator

The Coral USB Accelerator adds an Edge TPU coprocessor to your system, enabling high-speed machine learning inferencing on a wide range of systems, simply by connecting it to a USB port.

...

The on-board Edge TPU coprocessor is capable of performing 4 trillion operations (tera-operations) per second (TOPS), using 0.5 watts for each TOPS (2 TOPS per watt).

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General Software Discussion / Re: USH-II SD Card compatible with my HP?

« on: February 28, 2021, 08:10 AM »

I do have a fast thumb drive that I've been using.  Of course it sticks out of the side, daring me to break it off.

-kunkel321 (February 27, 2021, 08:13 PM)

You could get one of those tiny usb sticks, I've only seen them go up to 64gb though.

-tomos (February 28, 2021, 03:45 AM)

SanDisk Ultra Fit is available up to 512GB and the Samsung Fit Plus up to 256GB.
The previous version of the SanDisk Ultra Fit used to get very hot and throttle the transfer speed badly, I have one.
No idea what the new version is like.

I also have a 128GB Integral Fusion flash drive, very small and works pretty well for a brand I'd never heard of before, they're available up to 512GB.

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General Software Discussion / Re: USH-II SD Card compatible with my HP?

« on: February 27, 2021, 08:52 PM »

I found a tutorial on youtube, and apparently you have to take the whole bloody thing apart to access it.  Like really, the laptop is in pieces before you can get to the RAM.

-kunkel321 (February 27, 2021, 08:13 PM)

My Dell has to be completely disassembled if I want to change the RAM or SSD, no fun at all after doing it twice.

Yours actually looks easier so it shouldn't be a problem to just change the HDD for an SSD if work allowed it and considering it's a 6 y.o. 2.5" mechanical drive, (if it's original), that would probably be the best way to increase the storage, longevity, speed, and decrease the weight.

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General Software Discussion / Re: USH-II SD Card compatible with my HP?

« on: February 27, 2021, 04:11 PM »

According to the drivers available it uses a Realtek chip for the card reader and RealTek only list one on their website, the RTS5169 which supports SD version 2.

According to SanDisk, UHS-II was part of SD version 4, (UHS-I was version 3).

HP Drivers
Realtek
SanDisk

Considering the drivers are dated 2015 and it wasn't until ~2014 that UHS-II was available in very very few cameras, the odds are against it being incorporated into a laptop of that age.

You should also be aware that SD version 2 apparently also specifies a maximum of 32GB for a SDHC card.

SDXC (SD v3) cards aren't supported.

EDIT: Shades snuck in before me

The Short Version: A decent USB 3 flash drive will be faster and is available in larger capacities than any SD card your laptop can handle.

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Living Room / Re: Is it possible to work on two laptops from the screen of one of these laptops?

« on: February 26, 2021, 07:59 AM »

Ideally, I would like to have my laptops' lids closed and still fully operate them (e.g. video, audio, navigation etc), would that be possible?

-kalos (February 26, 2021, 04:33 AM)

Make up your mind, original post says control both from one which implies one has its screen open ... for which you were given various free software solutions, (which you haven't bothered to try).

Now you want both laptop screens closed, for which the only way you're going to get a cheap solution is if someone gives you: a KVM, a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse, and a USB hub.

Get off your butt, go down the Op Shops, (charity shops), and you'll probably find everything except the KVM.

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General Software Discussion / Re: For the love of all that is holy stop the ctrl+MouseWheel text scaling - SOLVED

« on: February 22, 2021, 05:56 AM »

Thank you. By the way, do you or anyone know the name of that program that keeps Desktop icons neatly arranged the way one wants it to stay?

-ich thys (February 21, 2021, 06:37 PM)

Only one I've used is DesktopOK, doesn't keep icons in position but it does allow you to save/restore their positions.

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Living Room / Re: Is it possible to work on two laptops from the screen of one of these laptops?

« on: February 21, 2021, 05:41 PM »

So far you've been provided about 5 possible solutions, but you obviously haven't tried any of them yet.

-Ath (February 21, 2021, 02:31 PM)

Welcome to the Kalos Zone.

The output ports can be connected to a monitor and a keyboard but ideally, I would like to connect them to my laptop.

-kalos (February 21, 2021, 01:16 PM)

You want to connect the monitor output to your laptop, fine, add a HDMI->USB adapter so you can plug the KVM HDMI output back into your laptop ... laptop HDMI ports are rarely bidirectional.
Then you've also got to run a program that captures that input and displays it.

As for the USB, you want to connect a USB host to a USB host, do some research on why that won't work.

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother.

-Shades (February 21, 2021, 04:39 PM)

Trust me, you are not alone ... except I would drop the 'Sometimes' 

I am a bit disappointed that no one suggested a KVM switch.

I think this is the cheapest and easiest solution with almost no latency. I am not sure why no one knew about that.

-kalos (February 21, 2021, 12:12 PM)

Don't assume no one knew about something because they kept to the constraints in your original post.

A KVM was not suggested because it requires extra hardware, (keyboard/monitor).

Another idea that doesn't meet your initial requirements, virtual KVM, eg. Synergy, Mouse Without Borders, Input Director.

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General Software Discussion / Re: For the love of all that is holy stop the ctrl+MouseWheel text scaling - SOLVED

« on: February 19, 2021, 05:05 PM »

I'm glad I saw this. Been having trouble with my vision and new laptop screen displaying text a little smaller than I can comfortably read without squinting. Your problem is my solution, in a sense. I've tried your ctrl plus mouse wheel, and so far it works to enlarge text in Brave and Edge (which seems to stay that way until deliberately changed), as well as MS Word 2003 (which reverts with file switching).
My plain Jane mouse; Amazon Basics 3-Button USB Wired Computer Mouse (Black).
Even better yet, the browsers don't add an unwanted bottom scroll bar in the process; they just make text more readable. Thank you.

-ich thys (February 19, 2021, 11:22 AM)

There's also the standard hotkeys, Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, Control+0 ... Zoom in, zoom out, and zoom 100%.

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General Software Discussion / Re: For the love of all that is holy stop the ctrl+MouseWheel text scaling - SOLVED

« on: February 15, 2021, 04:13 PM »

A bit of AutoHK to apparently fix it:
https://answers.micr...ca-bf0f-d985bfdd5a59