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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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Screenshot Captor / Re: My Captor Screenshot is slow

« Last post by james48 on October 05, 2025, 07:23 AM »

Thank you, you're right, I've moved 75% of the screenshots to a different folder, and now it's working better.
I'd like to know if the Task Manager data is correct; I now see that the program is 32-bit.

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Living Room / Re: want to get a new 3d printer in 2025

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2025, 12:11 PM »

I recently ended up buying a Creality K2 Pro recently.  The difference between a 3d printer from 2018 and 2025 is incredible.  Faster, multicolor, but most of all so much more reliable in terms of prints succeeding.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: My Captor Screenshot is slow

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2025, 12:10 PM »

I have noticed this can happen if you have a lot (hundreds) of screenshots in your screenshot folder, try moving them someplace else.  There are even some menu options under the MoveTo menu to help you file away older screenshots.

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Screenshot Captor / My Captor Screenshot is slow

« Last post by james48 on October 04, 2025, 10:02 AM »

Hello, my Captor Screenshot is slow. Is it possible to speed up the program?
I have to wait after every action.

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Living Room / Re: Seeking Recommendations for Lightweight Batch Image Resizing Tools

« Last post by Mark0 on October 02, 2025, 11:52 AM »

If still interested, I would say IrfanView.
Start it, hit the 'B' key and you are immediately in the batch convert/resize/etc. section, which support dirs recursions, files lists, and it's all in all very quick and straight-forward.