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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025
« Last post by Tuxman on October 16, 2025, 03:34 PM »
All Linux distributions are the same kernel with varying desktop themes. Try GhostBSD. It’s Ubuntu without a shitty kernel.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025
« Last post by Deozaan on October 16, 2025, 03:25 PM »
I could never figure out how to get ESU to work on my primary machine. For some reason the Windows Update screen says "some of these settings are managed by your organization" but I don't have an organization. I must have tweaked something in the registry or group policy years ago to keep it from rebooting on me when it updated itself. 🤷‍♂️

But I did get it to work on another computer that's almost never on these days. :D

Anyway, I just learned about Zorin OS, and I think I'm going to check it out soon. It's Ubuntu-based, but has included features to make it easy to transition from Windows, such as handling Windows .exe or .msi files/installers (probably with Wine).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Chat app recommendations
« Last post by Deozaan on October 15, 2025, 07:39 PM »
This isn't necessarily a recommendation because I haven't really used it, but it appears as though the FOSS software called Tox (like "talks") might fit your requirements:

https://tox.chat/

I think it is P2P, so it's kind of locally hosted, but definitely decentralized/distributed. And it's end-to-end encrypted, so that should alleviate any concerns about proprietary work stuff.



There's also an open-source Discord alternative called Stoat (previously called Revolt) that you can try, but again I haven't really used it other than installing it and tinkering with it for a few minutes (a few years ago):

https://stoat.chat/
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General Software Discussion / Re: Chat app recommendations
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on October 14, 2025, 02:42 PM »
IRC?  ;D
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General Software Discussion / Chat app recommendations
« Last post by Target on October 12, 2025, 09:50 PM »
Anyone got a chat app they can recommend?

Work has been using discord but there have been issues for some users and they're looking for an alternative

Must be locally hosted, do file sharing, and run across iOS and PC. 
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by Edvard on October 11, 2025, 06:07 PM »
We've had discussions on the best music to listen to while coding, how about coding some music?


What really makes it is she describes what she's doing as she does it.  Vibe along and make some bangers here -> https://strudel.cc/
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Living Room / Re: Seeking Recommendations for Lightweight Batch Image Resizing Tools
« Last post by Edvard on October 11, 2025, 06:02 PM »
Can't get much lighter than ImageMagick, though the interface is a command-line, so that may be off-putting, but once you get the parameters right, it's one and done in record time.  There are so many ways to resize an image, it's pretty ridiculous, and you can do additional operations like cropping, adding borders, etc.  Give it a shot if you're interested, and read the docs, you'll have a much better time.
https://imagemagick..../script/download.php
https://usage.imagemagick.org/resize/

After that, I'd recommend either Irfanview or XnView:
https://www.xnview.com/en/
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025
« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 09, 2025, 06:11 AM »
I don't know about other countries but in the UK MS are giving free Extended Support for 1 year without having to login to an MS account for computer use or cloud backups. You do have to register for ESU by loging in to an MS account - but I did not have to change from local user login to achieve this. Done it on 2 computers so far.

I also have two Windows 11 machines (a gaming laptop and a mini desktop) and not finding them particularly annoying.
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Cloudflare protection?
« Last post by Deozaan on October 08, 2025, 01:12 AM »
I don't have an opinion on the file downloads, but what about switching to Anubis for the website in general? Cloudflare seems heavy handed and very inconvenient for legitimate users.

Cloudflare always makes me wait a few seconds and then makes me click the little checkbox, wait a few more seconds, then finally loads the page. And it seems like 10 minutes later it challenges me again. And it doesn't seem to help much with the spammers.

In contrast, Anubis makes your computer perform "proof of work" which takes a couple seconds and then it automatically loads the page when it's finished. No user interaction is required.

More details at the above linked GitHub page, or the main site:
https://anubis.techaro.lol/
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Living Room / Re: Seeking Recommendations for Lightweight Batch Image Resizing Tools
« Last post by rjbull on October 05, 2025, 05:38 PM »
Nowadays I mostly use FastStone Image Viewer, as it's easy to use and can rename with templates as well as resize, in one pass.  I don't think it does recursion, but the same company's FastStone Photo Resizer appears to, though not tried by me.  Both are free for home users.

Resizing doesn't really get easier than Peter Bone's Resize, an old program that works well, but you might find it too simple for your needs.
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