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Moo the cow posted:I loved that for a while, but I started to notice that it was sometimes skipping some files and was apparently a known issue at the time so I switched to SyncbackFree Oh cool, I'll give it a look! Cheers!
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Theophany posted:Oh cool, I'll give it a look! Cheers! Synctoy is friendlier to use and Syncback suffers from the 'let's make it do everything' syndrome, but if your sync software isn't 100% reliable....
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i just run 12,000 separate robocopy scripts and never audit the log files so im good
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I've been using Duplicati for years, with the Backblaze B2 backend. The set-up is a little janky but it lets me store several hundred gigabytes for a couple bucks a month. Duplicati also lets me do local backups, which I'd recommend. I've never had any issues with the software or with a restore, and I've been using it for a few years now.
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sex excellence posted:i just run 12,000 separate robocopy scripts and never audit the log files so im good
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The Real Amethyst posted:SoulseekQT is still alive and has endless amounts of p2p music. All the rarest poo poo your could ever want for free. This is a really good mention, it's unbelievable how good Soulseek still is for hard to find music. I tried it on a lark two years ago after not having used it for like 15 years and was blown away by the sheer amount of music.
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the best way to find new music was definitely turntable.fm. there's gotta be a way to recreate that service profitably.
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Breakaway Audio Enhancer - https://store.claessonedwards.com/product_p/bap-003.htm Tired of movies where the dialog is inaudible unless you turn up the volume so high the action scenes wake your neighbors? Are footsteps too quiet in games, leading you to get snuck up on and murdered? One guy in the voice chat is way too loud? This software is an adjustable compressor that can turn up quiet sounds and normalize very loud sounds so you are no longer at the mercy of modern audio mixing. My only regret is that it's not available in receivers and streaming boxes and the like - Windows 10 only. It's really easy to setup and has presets or you can fiddle to your hearts content. Highly recommended, and very few people seem to even know it's possible or available. Enderzero fucked around with this message at 04:36 on May 29, 2020 |
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Windows Terminal: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal A great command line app for windows that's highly customizable and you can access the command line, powershell and linux. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/  I use it along with Powershell Core: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell and Ubuntu for Windows https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/ubuntu/9nblggh4msv6?activetab=pivot:overviewtab Though there are lots of other distros for WSL. Sophy Wackles fucked around with this message at 00:17 on May 31, 2020 |
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Was going to bemoan that a good low impact software KVM I used to use called synergy went for pay, but the torch has been taken up by an OSS project called barrier and I put it on and it works great. I'm switching between four monitors hooked up to three different machines and it works without a problem all on the same keyboard + mouse
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Scaramouche posted:Was going to bemoan that a good low impact software KVM I used to use called synergy went for pay, but the torch has been taken up by an OSS project called barrier and I put it on and it works great. I'm switching between four monitors hooked up to three different machines and it works without a problem all on the same keyboard + mouse Input Director is another freebie, but it is windows only https://www.inputdirector.com/
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Enderzero posted:Breakaway Audio Enhancer - https://store.claessonedwards.com/product_p/bap-003.htm AVRs tend to have "midnight mode" or similar, but this is good (probably better.)
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A couple of tools for Linux command-line users: - abduco / dtach: if you want to have screen/tmux-like sessions on remote servers without having to think about the additional window management they provide - Fish shell: a very nice, user-friendly shell. Comes with great autocompletions and syntax out of the box. Was mind-blowing when i first tried this out after using bash for a few years.
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Trabant posted:I'll pitch in with JMP, the tool I've installed on every one of my work computers on day one of the job. Fantastic data manipulation and stats program with a learning curve, but it's so worth it. Late to this, but I've successfully pushed to get this purchased for my use at my last two jobs. Tons of statistical tools, but it's worth its weight in gold just to easily clean and push data around.
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Suppose I download 100 .mp4 files from my SD card from my gopro. I put them all in 1 playlist in VLC so I can quickly go through them and delete the ones I don't need. The problem is I need to then look at the filename, find it in the directory in explorer and then delete it manually. I'd like to just click a button in VLC to delete the .mp4 directly from the directory, so I don't need to switch apps and find the file in question's exact filename manually. Suggestions?
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in winamp's local library pane you can delete the files themselves
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Big Beef City posted:Does Beyond Compare count? Cannot recommend Beyond Compare enough. My first job out of college used it as part of the set of tools devs were given, and I've been in love with it ever since. Fantastic tool. The other stuff I can't live without: TreeSize Pro: This is my tool of choice for figuring out why I'm running out of disk space. It's fast, and... well, it just works really well. I have a torrent server, backup server and other NAS device, probably 20+TB total, and I routinely use TreeSize to keep an eye on how the storage is being used across all of them. TeraCopy: TeraCopy is a file move/copy/checksum tool that I started using when I noticed that large (> 1 GB) files copied over my network were getting corrupted. I looked for a tool that could verify copied / moved files, and TeraCopy came up, and sure enough, any time I'd copy a large file, the CRC wouldn't match after the copy. Ended up being my wifi router, strangely enough. Replaced that, and now everything copies fine. I still use TeraCopy because I'm paranoid, even for moving large stuff between disks on the same machine. It's a great tool. 4K Video Downloader: This is my tool of choice for ripping stuff down from Youtube. It works pretty well, can batch-download playlists / entire channels, and lets you also extract just the audio from URLs. Also seconding Calibre for ebook management, along with the plugin that strips the DRM from Adobe-secured files so I can read my Google Play Books purchases on my Kindle. e. Also, CrystalDiskMark for testing disk read/write speeds. I was getting dogshit speeds with an external SSD hooked up via USB 3.1, and used that tool to help me figure out why (bad cable). Pretty handy. Code Jockey fucked around with this message at 18:51 on May 29, 2020 |
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Steakandchips posted:Suppose I download 100 .mp4 files from my SD card from my gopro.
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Wizchine posted:Late to this, but I've successfully pushed to get this purchased for my use at my last two jobs. Tons of statistical tools, but it's worth its weight in gold just to easily clean and push data around. 
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Pablo Bluth posted:mpv + this delete script. mpv is now my go-to media player. There are times when VLC has a specific functionality I need but overall I find mpv a much superior experience. Are you using it on macOS? I'm trying to find a media player that tone maps HDR files to SDR but this seems totally impossible to find on a Mac.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Are you using it on macOS? I'm trying to find a media player that tone maps HDR files to SDR but this seems totally impossible to find on a Mac.
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Code Jockey posted:4K Video Downloader: This is my tool of choice for ripping stuff down from Youtube. It works pretty well, can batch-download playlists / entire channels, and lets you also extract just the audio from URLs. If you just want poo poo off YouTube this owns. Idk about ripping off porn or whatever because I'm not a loving deviant.
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This was niche enough I had to have it made for myself by a fine fellow over at DonationCoder.com. https://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/download/anuran/ Anuran is a personal log that prompts you for an entry every customizable time period. I have it pop up every four hours and I jot down ideas and feelings and whatnot, or ignore it. I've been using it for ten years. The popup, critically, does not steal focus. Your entries are saved in a series of text files organized by timestamp, and are viewable in either the application's log viewer or any text editor. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 03:48 on May 30, 2020 |
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doctorfrog posted:This was niche enough I had to have it made for myself by a fine fellow over at DonationCoder.com. Woah I might actually try this. Can you encrypt the logs?
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The application has no encryption support, but you can always encrypt your archives, or the directory itself using 3rd party software. Alternatively, hit up the developer with your request.
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doctorfrog posted:The application has no encryption support, but you can always encrypt your archives, or the directory itself using 3rd party software. Alternatively, hit up the developer with your request. Sounds like a job Veracrypt can handle.
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A lot of my faves have already been posted so I'll just second mp3tag/musicbee/calibre/teracopy. As someone who likes to do things wrong and be an edge case about everything I am very difficult to rec software to. For years I kept giving money to adobe and when nerds would be like "you should use GIMP and Inkscape" I'd be like "cool where's the glyph browser" and they'd be like "you can use the windows character map!  " and then I'd set myself on fire, and also my money, by giving it to adobe.That is my roundabout explanation for why I paid $25 for Affinity Designer (it's normally $50 but it's been on sale for a while now). Here is a meme I made about it that is so niche it only applies to me, probably:  I am the only person who cannot function without a glyph browser and I've come to terms with that. I bitch a lot about adobe for someone who uses Brackets for website touching but in my defense it's free and doesn't offend me to look at. I use Typora for writing in markdown on windows, and ghostwriter when I'm on linux. I also used to use FocusWriter sometimes. My favorite feature in FocusWriter is the daily wordcount goals/tracker. If it had built-in markdown support I'd use it more (as it is you can open markdown and edit it like a txt file but that's it). If you look up 'KeePass' in the browser addon repository of your choosing you will find the HTTP-Connector addon, which lets you autofill in the browser using KeePass and generally makes it way more convenient to actually use day-to-day. BeeLine Reader is another browser extension and technically it costs a subscription amount but if you have a student email you can probably get it free right now. If anyone knows of an RSS desktop app that will sync with Inoreader and let me save articles to my hard drive forever like a weirdo, hmu.
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I'd like to piggyback off the previous post and recommend people post browser extensions (chrome) that they use that make their daily web browsing more enjoyable. I'll start it off with ublock origin (duh) and html5 autoplay blocker
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humpthewind posted:I'd like to piggyback off the previous post and recommend people post browser extensions (chrome) that they use that make their daily web browsing more enjoyable.
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When setting up a new machine, ublock and noscript are the first things I load into Firefox before I do any browsing. I like Iridium for Youtube enhancement, it offers some nice enhancements. Also, Simple Translate for highlight -> right click -> translate is nice.
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Library Extension will tell you if that book you're looking at on amazon (or goodreads) is available at your local library. Clickbait remover for YouTube gets rid of the all-caps titles and replaces the thumbnail with a random screen from the actual video.
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Browsers which aren't Firefox or Chrome are kinda niche I guess...has anyone mentioned Vivaldi yet itt? No? Check out Vivaldi, it's made by the original Opera team and is full of wonderful nerd features like mouse gestures, a bitchin' sidebar, and tabs wherever the gently caress you want them, so you'll end up needing fewer extensions. And like every other browser that isn't Firefix it's based on Chromium so all those extensions you do still need should work fine.
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SO DEMANDING posted:Browsers which aren't Firefox or Chrome are kinda niche I guess...has anyone mentioned Vivaldi yet itt? No? Check out Vivaldi, it's made by the original Opera team and is full of wonderful nerd features like mouse gestures, a bitchin' sidebar, and tabs wherever the gently caress you want them, so you'll end up needing fewer extensions. Good point. I've only ever used Vivaldi since they killed off the real Opera and it rules at least as much as it can being the same chrome poo poo underneath
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mobby_6kl posted:Good point. I've only ever used Vivaldi since they killed off the real Opera and it rules at least as much as it can being the same chrome poo poo underneath After Opera started falling apart back around v12 (iirc anyway...it's been a while) I switched to Firefox and built a cocoon out of various extensions to get something roughly on par with what Opera had. It was pretty good for a while but then Firefox nuked their extensions system and lots of poo poo was never going to come back. Using Vivaldi for the first time was like slipping into a comfortable pair of old shoes.
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sex excellence posted:everything finder by voidtools - great replacement for the lovely win10 search indexing if you just need to find a specific file or folder. it can find any file, and fast. sebmojo posted:This is basically compulsory, it's so drat good.
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LiceCap for easy screengrabs https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ 4K Video Downloader has been mentioned already and is excellent. A Grand Egg fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Jun 4, 2020 |
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KentuckyFriedBonBon posted:Clickbait remover for YouTube gets rid of the all-caps titles and replaces the thumbnail with a random screen from the actual video.
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KentuckyFriedBonBon posted:Clickbait remover for YouTube gets rid of the all-caps titles and replaces the thumbnail with a random screen from the actual video. At night I fall asleep to youtube videos, typically from a long playlist, and I don't want it to keep playing after I'm asleep. So I have to open each video in a new tab and then manually delete the playlist part of the URL.
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KentuckyFriedBonBon posted:I am the only person who cannot function without a glyph browser and I've come to terms with that.  🤘
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