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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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General Software Discussion / Re: youtube downloader?

« Last post by wraith808 on February 10, 2021, 07:00 AM »

youtube-dl is back up.  I use tuxman's yaydl.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Explorer "File manager" Alternative

« Last post by wraith808 on February 05, 2021, 06:52 AM »

BTW, it's been 4.5 years since DOpus v12 came out ... didn't realise I'd been using it that long.

-4wd (February 04, 2021, 08:03 PM)

I keep wondering if I should upgrade- I'm just cautious about the same thing happening as last time.  I upgraded to 11 after holding off for a while, and a little over the time that he gave for free upgrades, 12 came out.  11 works fine, so I just figured I'd wait until the next version came out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Great Suspender - Chrome extension to use less CPU/RAM

« Last post by wraith808 on February 05, 2021, 06:50 AM »

I had it disabled also, and Brave had not flagged it.  But I definitely saw a few strange things, and my browser had become noticeably slower at times accessing sites at different times.  I'd suspected it my be TGS, but not for that reason...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Yet another image viewer

« Last post by wraith808 on February 04, 2021, 10:15 PM »

Or my imgfloat program

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=36580.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Explorer "File manager" Alternative

« Last post by wraith808 on February 04, 2021, 04:55 PM »

......I have all of those except Total Commander, but I replaced that with Altap Salamander.  I use DO whenever possible on my primary machines, and XYPlorer portable everywhere else.

-wraith808 (February 04, 2021, 12:38 PM)

@wraith thanks... What made you make the move from total Comander to atap salamander

-sphere (February 04, 2021, 03:01 PM)

I think I phrased that badly- I meant I used Altap Salamander instead of Total Commander.  I've never used any of the *Commanders.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Great Suspender - Chrome extension to use less CPU/RAM

« Last post by wraith808 on February 04, 2021, 04:31 PM »

Oh!  That explains a lot!  Thanks for the heads up!

Direct link to start of recent problems:

https://github.com/g...suecomment-773498592

I'd noticed some weird urls blocked by Malwarebytes recently that I didn't know the source of, even after trying to track them down.  I guess this explains it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Explorer "File manager" Alternative

« Last post by wraith808 on February 04, 2021, 12:38 PM »

Apparently I "collect" file managers, because over the years I've purchased, xplorer2, Total Commander, XYplorer, and DirectoryOpus.  As others have said, DO is probably the most feature-rich.  Personally, my go-to usually falls back to XYplorer.  Do note that, XY is natively portable.   With DO, you can buy a portable version, but it will be tied to a particular usb stick. 

-kunkel321 (February 04, 2021, 09:14 AM)

I have all of those except Total Commander, but I replaced that with Altap Salamander.  I use DO whenever possible on my primary machines, and XYPlorer portable everywhere else.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Explorer "File manager" Alternative

« Last post by wraith808 on February 04, 2021, 07:43 AM »

I doubt whether I use even 20% of what DOpus is capable of but I'm comfortable with it and I'm happy to support the developer.

-4wd (February 04, 2021, 05:54 AM)

Same here.  And I just learned a lot more from your post

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Living Room / Re: Share Your 2020 Top Ten List(s)!

« Last post by wraith808 on February 02, 2021, 08:44 PM »

Do you mean Cyberpunk 2077?

-Deozaan (February 02, 2021, 12:02 PM)

Yes.

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Living Room / Re: Share Your 2020 Top Ten List(s)!

« Last post by wraith808 on January 29, 2021, 07:08 PM »

I have interest- just no time

My top 10 Video Games of the year (in no particular order)

Cyberpunk 2077 (PC)
The Elder Scrolls Online (PC)
Satisfactory (PC)
Rocksmith (PC)
Wasteland 2 (PC)
Dying Light (PC)
Grim Dawn (PC)
Conan: Exiles (PC)
Marvel Contest of Champions (Mobile)
Marvel Future Fight (Mobile)

Interesting to note is the fact that only 2 of those are purchases in 2020.  I do have a couple that are on my to play list that might end up on that list.

If I limit it to only games that I purchased in the last year the list changes drastically.

Cyberpunk 2077 (PC)
Satisfactory (PC)
Beat Saber VR (PS4)
Iron Man VR (PS4)
Rogue Squadron (PS4)
Soulcalibur VI (PS4)
Tekken 7 (PS4)
Walking Dead Saints and Sinners VR (PS4)
Metro Exodus (PS4)
Borderlands 2 VR (PS4)

A lot of PS4 Games in the line up restricting it in that manner.  A lot of it can be chalked up to the fact that I tend to play the same games on PC, while on PS4, I'm more willing to just dive in, so a lot of my PC purchases are languishing in the backlog.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Batch Word Text Replacer

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2021, 07:04 AM »

Just a note: Office 2010 is not supported anymore by Microsoft, in the same way that Windows 7 isn't supported anymore.[…]

-Shades (January 25, 2021, 08:43 PM)

Yeah, it's supposed to be end of life since october of 2020, but they still published patches for it this month (for example KB4493145). Maybe someone over there forgot about it?

-ConstanceJill (January 28, 2021, 02:46 AM)

If it's a critical patch, they still publish them a while after, I've found.

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General Software Discussion / Re: wanted: file manager for moving files (possibly with speed limit)

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2021, 02:17 PM »

In trying to remember the *Commander options, I ran across one that I think I'll try.  The price tag is a bit extreme (up there with DOpus), but it is a perpetual license, unlike DOpus. https://fman.io/

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General Software Discussion / Re: wanted: file manager for moving files (possibly with speed limit)

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2021, 01:24 PM »

I know Skwire uses Altap Salamander (so it must be good :-)
https://www.altap.cz/

Doesn't XYplorer have a free version -- hmm, still available but not supported/updated since 2017. You may even find a portable version in portable apps or somewhere... https://www.xyplorer.com/free.php

-tomos (January 26, 2021, 01:05 PM)

XYPlorer stopped updating their free version, though it's still free.  Altap Salamander is also very good- I used it for years on machines where I didn't have DOpus installed until I switched to XY.

Other options that I know of include FreeCommander, DoubleCommander, and OneCommander, though I haven't used any of them.

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Living Room / Re: My new project is now live: Co-op For Two on YouTube

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2021, 09:15 AM »

Congrats!

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

« Last post by wraith808 on January 23, 2021, 09:59 PM »

Same here.  It also gets me into my work systems from home without having to either (a) use their machine or (b) give them access to mine.  I set up a VM using VirtualBox, connect to VPN from there, and then RDP into my work box.  The other options are nice in a bind, and I've used them before.  But RDP is my choice when it's available.

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

« Last post by wraith808 on January 22, 2021, 07:17 AM »

There are enough free software tools, already mentioned above, that don't need a Windows Pro license.

-Ath (January 22, 2021, 04:54 AM)

I think that she was just offering an alternative.  If they have a pro license already, then this is the path of least resistance.

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Living Room / Re: Does this gadget exist? Physical light-up bulb with programmable triggers

« Last post by wraith808 on January 16, 2021, 01:40 PM »

Hey, what's your Youtube channel abour?

-kunkel321 (January 16, 2021, 10:00 AM)

https://www.donation....msg443025#msg443025

That's the thread in which he introduces the project.

I might aughta play with some of this stuff one of these days - But the (lack of IoT security) paranoid in me makes it difficult

-Stoic Joker (January 16, 2021, 07:52 AM)

Because of that, there are some things I won't use IOT, but others... if someone turns my lights on and off, I don't really care.  I just keep it behind a firewall on a different subnet.

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Living Room / Re: Does this gadget exist? Physical light-up bulb with programmable triggers

« Last post by wraith808 on January 15, 2021, 09:21 AM »

Yeah! ...I'm not crazy.

Something like this perhaps?

-Stoic Joker (January 15, 2021, 05:46 AM)

Same thing as what I mentioned above- just a different brand

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Living Room / Re: Does this gadget exist? Physical light-up bulb with programmable triggers

« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2021, 10:49 AM »

While doing a livestream on my youtube channel i realized it would be nice to have a dedicated little light bulb that could be triggered to turn on in certain events, like if a certain person used a certain keyword in the chat, etc.

It would be nice to have a programmable little piece of lightup hardware (arduino? raspberry pi?) for such purposes..

-mouser (January 14, 2021, 08:46 AM)

I did something similar using a hacked Amazon Dash Button, A simple smart outlet, and IFTTT.

Since you're just using twitch notifications, you don't need the button to send the signal... hook it up to the twitch actions to hit the Meross smart plug in IFTTT.

And those are just the prebuilt actions.  If you have a pro account on IFTTT, you can create custom actions, and use webhooks from the Twitch API

The IFTTT options for Twitch -



Lifx bulbs are a bit more expensive, but I prefer those to the plugs.

You can also set up chat bots to listen for certain things in chat- refer to the API reference:  https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/irc

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Living Room / Re: My new project is now live: Co-op For Two on YouTube

« Last post by wraith808 on January 12, 2021, 08:05 AM »

This sound scary but youtube probably recommended me your video and I watched it without knowing it was you.

I'm surprised now after read this post.

-flamerz (January 12, 2021, 12:14 AM)

Perhaps from your browsing habits they know that you visit this forum?  It would be interesting to see the link that they drew, and how they did it.