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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2020, 12:26 AM »That looks pretty good... especially for the price! Put up your own review after using it for a while, if you will.
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It's not from Microsoft. Possibly it's an EOM key that was scrounged from a junked PC, so it was valid at one time, but only for that PC.-x16wda (September 07, 2020, 10:44 AM)Windows 10 Professional includes a 1-PC retail license which means you can install on a single PC and, later, move to another PC where required.(Source)
Retail License != OEM
https://cloudblogs.m...and-volume-licenses/
I'd expect more research from a bunch of techies on a techy forum, to be honest.-Stephen66515 (September 07, 2020, 03:29 PM)
but not much about *why*I don't get what you're missing. I stated the why above. Because it's portable and usable in other applications at the same time. It's also able to be backed up in whatever format I want, and is not locked into a specific vendor's format. Dormouse stated the same concern. What other 'why' are you looking for that might be missing?-JavaJones (September 07, 2020, 09:53 PM)
While I agree with your overall point, again I think this DB or files thing may be a false dichotomy, at least for many people. I've yet to see a compelling real-world example of specific, practical workflows that would necessitate "files" that have no DB component. I think you may feel strongly that your own workflows demonstrate this, so I'd love to hear some examples of how you intend to (or already do) work this way and what significant advantages it brings you (vs. for example an Obsidian plugin that does the same thing as some external tool you use directly on files).-JavaJones (September 06, 2020, 06:08 PM)
WallingWalling is more than just a tool to organize your information. Walling helps you unload your ideas, jot down notes and save bookmarks frictionlessly. It connects those ideas with what you added in the past, creating a network of ideas and resources that's easy to explore and curate from.Walling.app
You can also use Walling to plan and organize ideas when you’re working on a new project, researching a topic, writing an article or just about anything. With your ideas side by side, Walling empowers you to step back and get a high level of understanding on what you're working on and helps you synthesize information more efficiently.
I've been using Walling for about a week and I think I'm sold! It seems to fit with how I'd like a note taking app to work, just throw everything at it and organize a little bit later. There are some features missing and there's no native iOS or Android app yet (the former should be in beta within a week), but I'm definitely liking it so far.
The Walling community can be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook...om/groups/wallingapp
Edit:Walling is free for up to 100 Bricks. You can subscribe to Walling premium to get unlimited Bricks and Walls for $4/mo. Walling also offers Workspaces for teams with centralized billing for $6/mo per team member.-TucknDar (September 06, 2020, 01:12 AM)
I guess I don't see what's political about the inalienable right called free speech, or technology/software that enables it. Sure, you can use your speech in a political way, but speech itself is not inherently political. So far, your posts and my responses to them are the only ones mentioning politics. What's the term for when someone creates the very situation they were trying to avoid?
I agree that Gab and the Dissenter extension are controversial topics. But I think the folks on this forum can manage to talk about a web browser with a built-in comment section without making it political. At least I hope so. . .-Deozaan (September 02, 2020, 11:05 AM)
I don't see how it's any more political than, say, Brave. It's just a privacy and free-speech focused browser. In fact, I believe the Dissenter browser is a fork of Brave with the dissenter extension (comments on every page) built in.-Deozaan (September 01, 2020, 11:35 PM)
This Brave fork was whipped out in literally a few days in response to the recent wave of censorship from Twitter, Facebook, Mozilla etc. Its claim to fame is being integrated with the Dissenter extension (banned from Firefox's and Chrome's extension stores (archive)) which allows you to comment on any article from any website, bypassing their censorship policies.
They marked my encrypted password files as malware and deleted my passwords.Oh- why... yes, that would make for a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day.-wraith808 (August 31, 2020, 11:58 PM)-x16wda (September 01, 2020, 06:40 PM)
What's worse is when you not only have that to deal with, but also the malware protection that is installed marks everything you want to run as a PUP and deletes it. (Bad enough for anyone but utterly ridiculous for a senior tech support lead.)-x16wda (August 31, 2020, 06:22 PM)
The tech department at my new school district (employer) won't let staff be 'administrators' of their computers. I'm trying to talk them into elevating me, but I don't think that they will. I'm wondering how other people cope with this? It's super annoying. I can't run trouble-shooters, or access certain system areas. Worse is that I can't install many of the various computer programs I've come to rely on over the years.
Fortunately, I am able to use a USB stick. I've made a folder at C:/Portables and put lots of "portable" (i.e. no-install) apps there, moving them over using the USB stick. Mouser's stuff seems to all be portable which is a life saver. Also I found NirSoft's "AdvancedRun" which has helped me install a couple of things that wouldn't install otherwise. I google searched how to make an app into a portable app. There doesn't seem to be any good solutions out there. Everything listed was corporate-level stuff.
Do you guys (and gals) have any tips for me to survive in this new non-elevated world?-kunkel321 (August 31, 2020, 09:30 AM)
Octo - a markdown based notes app with hashtag organization:
https://octo.app-panzer (August 30, 2020, 03:54 PM)
Why did you strike that out?h2testw-chashnniel (August 23, 2020, 01:47 AM)
Okay. I don't want to be the one bad apple who spoils it for the rest of the bunch.-Deozaan (August 22, 2020, 01:58 AM)
But still I made some rules, the software must be:
- Less-known of course!!(that means it is seldom mentioned in the blog site like Ghacks&lifehacker)
- It should be old age(non-essential) but still works on the windows 7,8,or10
- You'd better give the download location
- Screenshot always welcome
- A short description is needed
