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Living Room / Re: Whoever understands NFTs let's make one for DonationCoder
« Last post by wraith808 on March 22, 2021, 04:51 PM »
To me, this article, and its line of thinking, come across as moral panic akin to "rock music is evil" by people who don't understand (or like?) new things. Especially because the people involved in that article seem to think that NFTs exist only on Ethereum where minting them is (currently) very expensive in terms of both electricity and cryptocurrency. But I just sit back in bemusement and think of the adage "a fool and his money are soon parted."

-Deozaan (March 22, 2021, 02:58 PM)


To add to this, the fact that there are costs associated with 'minting' NFTs and that people are doing it for the most superfluous of reasons seems to be the primary reasons for naming it a pyramid scheme, which seems disingenuous at best, in all honesty. There are no get rich quick schemes, and NFTs are no exception to that rule.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Deozaan's To-do List
« Last post by wraith808 on March 20, 2021, 07:30 PM »
Right now I'm taking some classes in Unity to get up to speed, then I guess I'll take a look there.
-wraith808 (March 19, 2021, 07:09 AM)

I've been increasingly unhappy with the direction Unity is taking over the years. Admittedly, my PC is getting long in the tooth, coming up on its 10th birthday this year. But despite the fact that virtually everything else I do on this machine feels like it runs pretty much as well as it did when the PC was new, it feels to me like Unity is getting more bloated and sluggish and buggy as the years go by. And that's despite the fact that they announced a few years ago that their focus would be on giving Unity "performance by default." I'll resist the temptation to rant on the subject further and just say that my increasing displeasure with Unity is why I started looking into other options and decided to give Godot a try.
-Deozaan (March 20, 2021, 11:05 AM)

The only reason I'm looking at Unity first is because I bought a humble bundle with some classes in it. I think Godot will be more like what I'm looking for, but knowing Unity has no real downsides other than the time it takes.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Deozaan's Simple Text Editor
« Last post by wraith808 on March 20, 2021, 09:05 AM »
This is designed for plaintext only. But it probably shouldn't crash when an unsupported format is loaded. Upon further investigation, it looks like I made a mistake in attempting to gracefully handle errors when loading files. It was confusing because printing the error (which is an integer) to the debug log will automatically convert it to a string. But I attempted to add a more helpful message to the log and concatenate the error to the message, not realizing that string concatenation doesn't automatically cast the integers to strings.

-Deozaan (March 20, 2021, 02:35 AM)

Can you limit the extensions to *.txt only? That's a clear sign that it's a text editor for the purposes of this small test, since you didn't really intend it for anything.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Idea: ScreenshotCaptor QR-Code Scanner
« Last post by wraith808 on March 20, 2021, 09:03 AM »
Seems like you have the basis of something in your RaptureReplica. It seems like it would be out of place in ScreenshotCaptor, personally.
355
Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Advanced Properties by KodeZwerg
« Last post by wraith808 on March 20, 2021, 09:01 AM »
I moved your post here since this is really an EARLY 2022 NANY not a NANY 2021.
-mouser (March 20, 2021, 05:32 AM)

Maybe that should get you to make a NANY 2022 area?  ;D :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Deozaan's To-do List
« Last post by wraith808 on March 19, 2021, 07:09 AM »
That's cool! I've been meaning to look at Godot. Right now I'm taking some classes in Unity to get up to speed, then I guess I'll take a look there. But your non-game projects have me really interested in Godot now.
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Living Room / Re: Whoever understands NFTs let's make one for DonationCoder
« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2021, 07:28 AM »
The good news for users of Ethereum is that they are taking steps to transition to proof of stake.
-Deozaan (March 17, 2021, 03:18 AM)

For anyone that didn't know what Proof of Stake was, I did the research for you as I didn't know either.

Proof of Stake (PoS) (via Investopedia)
358
Living Room / Re: Gizmo's is saying farewell - leaving behind a huge legacy!
« Last post by wraith808 on March 16, 2021, 05:10 PM »
So how long has it been since techsupportalert started pushing full-page popup ads, did I miss the start or is this new?

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Does not make me want to revisit.   :o
-x16wda (March 15, 2021, 08:15 PM)

Guys and Rhiannon have taken over the site and have to push ads because otherwise the site will shut down due to lack of funding (in less than 5 months or so).
-panzer (March 16, 2021, 11:23 AM)

There's ads and there's that thing. No matter how much they need money, that kind of ad isn't right.
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Living Room / Re: Gizmo's is saying farewell - leaving behind a huge legacy!
« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2021, 09:50 PM »
Might be like WinPatrol after the sale... DOA :(
360
LaunchBar Commander / Re: Alphabetise The Menu
« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2021, 09:49 PM »
Uh, what menu?  What do you happen to be talking about?  :huh:
-BGM (March 15, 2021, 08:56 PM)

Considering the fact that it's in LBC, I just figured the OP meant the items in LBC.
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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten
« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2021, 03:24 PM »
I've started to combine a new editor with my VS Code workflow - Deepdwn (https://billiam.itch.io/deepdwn). I love the way that it uses YAML to categorize and tag the content, and they work well together. The only thing that doesn't like the combination is markdownlint, but I just turned off the offending rule.
362
Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!
« Last post by wraith808 on March 10, 2021, 09:16 PM »
Fancy! And Nice Color!
363
General Software Discussion / Re: youtube downloader?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2021, 01:29 PM »
At least more often than not.
-Tuxman (March 09, 2021, 12:24 PM)

You give yourself too little credit. After a few false starts, I've had no problems recently.
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General Software Discussion / Re: youtube downloader?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2021, 12:04 PM »
Hi guys. I started learning how to edit videos and now I have the need to download audio from one video from YouTube. Who knows if you can download only the audio track?
-AndrewGreen (February 19, 2021, 08:02 AM)

You can use 4K YouTube to MP3 if you can get it to work. I haven't been having the problems with 4K that others in this thread report they are having.
-Deozaan (March 09, 2021, 11:33 AM)

Yaydl also has the option to just download the audio track, and it worked splendidly for me.
365
N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021: yaydl
« Last post by wraith808 on March 03, 2021, 07:52 AM »
Yeah... I'm using this pretty much exclusively now.
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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten
« Last post by wraith808 on March 02, 2021, 09:00 AM »
I just found something new- but I'm not sure about its practical use for me - https://orgmode.org/

It's primarily for organization to create a living document. It's more of a note-taking language for technical purposes, with formatting and such a second-class citizen. It reminds me of Jupyter notebooks. As I use my Zettel to format and track my blog posts, I think it wouldn't work for me. It has features that make me tempted to try it out, though.

There's an extension for Visual Studio: https://marketplace....me=tootone.org-mode- source at https://github.com/v...mode/vscode-org-mode, but it doesn't seem to have the primary power of Org-mode (blocks, code execution, macros, etc).

I'm really not up on going back to EMACS, so perhaps this is a non-starter.
367
Living Room / Re: Is it possible to work on two laptops from the screen of one of these laptops?
« Last post by wraith808 on February 21, 2021, 04:30 PM »
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)

This is the reason that you've been advised several times to do your research first on your own.  Only you will know the full parameters of what will work for you, and people are likely to dismiss things that might be perfect for you, simply because they're not you.
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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately
« Last post by wraith808 on February 18, 2021, 02:04 PM »
Mortal



Pretty decent retelling of Norse myths from a more thriller perspective.  Reminded me of Ragnarok

Outside the Wire



Medium-rate action flick with a heavy handed but not especially well written morality message baked in.  Decent action, though nothing that really enforces the fact that he's superhuman.  Training day wannabe.
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Developer's Corner / Free Copy of the newest version of the Object Pascal Handbook
« Last post by wraith808 on February 17, 2021, 12:13 PM »
https://lp.embarcade...ontentDelphiBirthday

It requires a bit of information and an agreement that they will contact you, but I figured some might be interested
370
Living Room / Re: Need hardware (and software) to reset power when internet connection is lost
« Last post by wraith808 on February 14, 2021, 02:28 PM »
I do have a soldering iron. I'm almost completely inexperienced with soldering, but I have replaced a couple of microswitches in my computer mice a few times.
-Deozaan (February 14, 2021, 01:03 PM)

If you want to get familiar again before trying on your actual parts, there are a few kits on there. I used to pick them up to hone my skills when there was a lapse in my soldering. And they make cool gifts. :)

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0006HJSIW/

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B004NVVV3W/
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Living Room / Re: Need hardware (and software) to reset power when internet connection is lost
« Last post by wraith808 on February 14, 2021, 02:23 PM »
The reason this is a problem anytime I'm not immediately available to spring into action is because I also keep my RasPi connected to at least one cryptocurrency peer-to-peer network in which I can be penalized or deemed less trustworthy if someone tries to connect to my device and it doesn't respond. It's not making me rich, but it's earning me a decent amount of money simply for keeping a device running/connected that I'm already leaving running/connected 24/7 anyway as my personal media server and whatnot.
-Deozaan (February 14, 2021, 02:10 AM)

You buried the lede. What is that, and how does it work? Maybe on a new thread. That sounds interesting...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave browser not deleting history
« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2021, 09:42 PM »
Did you try to get support on their site? I just tried it on one of my boxes, and it worked.
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Living Room / Re: Need hardware (and software) to reset power when internet connection is lost
« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2021, 09:40 PM »
Another perspective with this device:
It depended on a server running under the control of the creator to set it up, (I don't even know if it's still running).
It was a Kickstarter project run by someone who apparently has a history of thinking up good ideas but then never fully follows through with them after an initial run. There are a ton of reports of people not receiving anything or that they didn't work properly.
-4wd (February 13, 2021, 04:28 PM)

Thanks for chiming in. I never had a problem with mine, and used a throwaway google account for the service, so never knew things went so badly. I stopped using it a while ago when I was able to get my own modem.

But yeah, I don't think it would be too hard or expensive to hack this together yourself- I just used that because I didn't want to reinvent the wheel and it worked for me.
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Living Room / Re: Need hardware (and software) to reset power when internet connection is lost
« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2021, 03:19 PM »
I had this problem a while ago and looked into this solution:

http://whatimade.tod...01-and-single-relay/

I ended up getting in on a Kickstarter project that basically packaged that without me having to do it.  They still sell those items.

https://shop.wireboot.com/
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Living Room / Re: Web service to let supporters vote rankings
« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2021, 01:20 AM »
If you're looking for just ratings (either star or percentage), there are several plugins that do that. Use a table plugin that supports CSV import, and I think you can get it sans coding. What you're talking about, I've never seen before.
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