Software Endorsements

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

LocalBitcoins (for buying and selling)

Since localbitcoin has suspended trading, any suggestions? I see Bisq but I have no experience with it.

 

[Hotel in Minsk]

Previously, when I wanted to quickly clip a video on platforms like YouTube, Odysee, or Rumble, I would simply paste the URL into Streamable and create the clip using relavent timestamps. Streamable no longer allows users to do this as of a few months ago. Since then, I've been downloading the full videos (sometimes 4+ hour streams - very annoying), opening them in video editing software, clipping them down, and exporting those files. This process takes 20x longer than what I'd gotten used to on Streamable whern this was allowed.

What is a good solution for what I'm looking for? Whether it's a website, program, whatever, just so long as it works. Appreciate any input from you guys. Good looks.

 

[Jotch]

Previously, when I wanted to quickly clip a video on platforms like YouTube, Odysee, or Rumble, I would simply paste the URL into Streamable and create the clip using relavent timestamps. Streamable no longer allows users to do this as of a few months ago. Since then, I've been downloading the full videos (sometimes 4+ hour streams - very annoying), opening them in video editing software, clipping them down, and exporting those files. This process takes 20x longer than what I'd gotten used to on Streamable whern this was allowed.

What is a good solution for what I'm looking for? Whether it's a website, program, whatever, just so long as it works. Appreciate any input from you guys. Good looks.

ffmpeg can do this for you in a set and forget way.
do ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -ss 59:00.23 -to 1:01:02 clip.mp4 to clip 59:00.23 to 1:01:02 for example.
The decimal is the frame within the second.

if it takes too long you can throw -c copy anywhere between the input and output filenames for almost instant clipping. But you might get unwanted side effects for some codecs. It is however lossless this way.

 

[Colon capital V]

I was recently made aware of these two sites, although I cannot personally vouch for either much since I haven't bothered with it yet, but figured this looked interesting to any audioheads here.

First is Sonarworks: https://www.sonarworks.com/
Used for calibrating your headphones and studio speakers when producing, mainly keeping them "flat" across the frequency spectrum since not all headphones are designed to be flat when you first get them.

The second is Realphones 2 by dSoniq: https://www.dsoniq.com/
The draw of this program is to help emulate what the audio output sounds like in different environments, be it certain studios, bluetooth speakers, in a car, a cafe, etc, to help give you an idea of how your mix sounds on different speakers; all on your given headphones.

They are both paid software, but I'm sure both have been cracked before so if you're curious and want to check it out for yourselves you could search on rutracker for magnet links of them.

 

[clipartfan92]

What is a good solution for what I'm looking for?

ffmpeg can do this for you in a set and forget way.

Yep, you don't even need to download the whole file. From the FFMPEG tips and tricks thread:

Use youtube-dl to get the actual URL of the video first:
youtube-dl --get-url -f best --no-cache "<Video URL>"
Parameters:

• The -g tells youtube-dl to get the actual URL for the video​
• The -f specifies the format you can change this to whatever you want but I chose best here​
• The --no-cache parameter means youtube-dl will request a new URL instead of relying on a cached one​

Paste the URL you got from the above command into this ffmpeg command:
ffmpeg -ss <Start Time> -to <End Time> -i <URL From youtube-dl> out.mp4
Parameters:

• The -ss parameter is the time you want to start downloading the video at for example 00:00:30 starts at 30 seconds
• The -to parameter is the time you want to stop downloading the video at for example 00:01:40 stops downloading at 1 minute and 40 seconds
• The -i parameter it the URL you got from youtube-dl from the first command

note: I have edited the quoted post to fix the command to include -to instead of -t

 

[Jotch]

Yep, you don't even need to download the whole file. From the FFMPEG tips and tricks thread:

note: I have edited the quoted post to fix the command to include -to instead of -t

I didn't even know ffmpeg working with link you've gotta be kidding me

 

[Fruit Merchant]

What is a good solution for what I'm looking for?

I use yt-dlp and ffmpeg to clip directly from Rumble. This should theoretically work for any site supported by yt-dlp. This is the command I use (sub in your own timestamps, output path, and URL obviously):
yt-dlp --ppa "ffmpeg:-c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 26 -preset slow -c:a copy" --force-keyframes-at-cuts --download-sections "*00:00:00-00:01:59" -S "res:720" -o path/to/folder/ClipTitle.%(ext)s URL

 

[Hotel in Minsk]

ffmpeg can do this for you in a set and forget way.

Yep, you don't even need to download the whole file. From the FFMPEG tips and tricks thread:

I use yt-dlp and ffmpeg to clip directly from Rumble.

Good looking out. This is precisely the kind of solution I was hoping for when I made my post. Thanks, guys .

 

[Preacher ✝]

Asus Fan Control.

I recently had to rollback a driver update that made this handy little program stop working and it made me realize how nice it is and how I took it for granted so I'm sharing it here.

High Performance laptops tend to shoot themselves in the foot by prioritizing a quiet fan over an effective fan. To do this the native software limits fan speed even at the cost of higher temperatures. When doing something particularly demanding, like playing an online video game with modern graphics while also watching a livestream video, the system can let itself get so hot it shuts down rather than just be a little louder. All because they think its better to market it as quiet.

This is retarded. People who actually use these devices care more about temperature control than noise level and most of them are using headphones anyway.

Frustrated by this state of affairs I discovered the Asus Fan Control app and now I can manually adjust the speed of my fans to keep my laptop below 80F no matter how demanding the task is. Yes, its a bit louder, but even at full speed its not what I would call a problem level of noise, and with headphones on I can't even hear it anyway. Performance improved and overheating crashes stopped.

 

[Slav Power]

Asus Fan Control.

Personally I use Fan Control. If it can detect and control your fans there's no good reason not to use it. A lot of versatile ways to adjust the fan curves, how fast they ramp up/down, and based on what conditions. Fine tuning your PC's fans for the right noise/thermal ratio under load is a must, right after finding a stable undervolt on your GPU.

 

[August Levasseur]

I have a bunch of files that are named something like this:
File1.DESCRIPTION File1.JPG File1.JSON File1.WebM File2.DESCRIPTION File2.JSON File2.WebM File2.WEBP File3.DESCRIPTION File3.JSON File3.MKV File3.WebM
Is there any program that I can use to sort them into folders like this:
File 1 File 2 File 3
There are hundreds of these files and I can't do it all manually.

If you're on Linux,

mkdir File\ 1 && mv file1.* File\ 1/

etc. for the others (this only works if they're all actually named the same thing, small variations won't be caught).
If you're on Windows, my first instinct would be to use the normal file browser, sort by name, and then just click and drag over all of them then move into the folder you want. You could probably make a simple batch/PowerShell script to do this, as well.
Both of these assume they're all in the same source directory. If they're not, you can still use scripts, they'll just have to be more complicated.

 

[Preacher ✝]

Personally I use Fan Control. If it can detect and control your fans there's no good reason not to use it. A lot of versatile ways to adjust the fan curves, how fast they ramp up/down, and based on what conditions. Fine tuning your PC's fans for the right noise/thermal ratio under load is a must, right after finding a stable undervolt on your GPU.

I don't understand all of those options though so I'm just gonna keep it simple.

 

[Quioui]

Personally I use Fan Control. If it can detect and control your fans there's no good reason not to use it.

Thanks a lot! For some reason my CPU's fan was running at 60% speed minimum, Fan Control has let me set it to 20% minimum and now its noise is barely perceptible from the other case fans, I feel like I've reduced my computer's noise by 3/4 for a 2°C difference. It's a lot more relaxing.

I don't understand all of those options though so I'm just gonna keep it simple.

It's pretty straight forward. I've let it do its automatic calibration then I added auto fan curves (green + on the bottom right) and linked that curve to a temperature sensor before applying said curve to the related fan control.

 

[Niggergante]

This might be a bit niche, but I realized I could probably get some value out of it. Is there a software that would let me make custom window snapping like when you bring it to the edge of the screen? Right now I'm overlapping the windows in a way that I can just click to another one at a given moment, but if there was an automatic way to do that it'd be great. I hope I'm explaining it in a way that makes sense.

 

[Slav Power]

Is there a software that would let me make custom window snapping like when you bring it to the edge of the screen?

Microsoft PowerToys, aside from a dozen of other useful little knick-knacks, also has something called FancyZones, which is probably what you're looking for. You can set up custom layouts, bind them to monitors, swap between them, set different window gaps or get rid of them altogether, and a whole bunch of other options.

As a pro tip, enable both "Hold Shift key to activate zones while dragging a window" and "Use a non-primary mouse button to toggle zone activation" so that the zones won't activate on window drag, but you'll be able to quickly activate them by tapping the right mouse button, so that FancyZones are secondary to the primary Windows window management, but also easily accessible.

Fun fact: FancyZones came out before Windows 11, and Windows 11's Snap Layouts are essentially diet FancyZones, but unlike Snap Layouts, FancyZones are also available on Windows 10.

 

[Niggergante]

Microsoft PowerToys, aside from a dozen of other useful little knick-knacks, also has something called FancyZones

I swear I always get it installed and always resent not using any of the features so I skipped on it on this install. I remember being annoyed by the cursor finder because I'd always accidentally trigger it. Thanks for giving me a reason to get it installed again.

 

[Slav Power]

I remember being annoyed by the cursor finder because I'd always accidentally trigger it.

You can disable everything you don't need. Nowadays you have a handy dashboard to toggle every module on and off.

In my case it's be bare minimum, File Locksmith and FancyZones just so I can pop a window on the second monitor without covering my system monitoring sidebar.

Speaking of the system monitoring sidebar, it works through Rainmeter and I've composed it of SilverAzide's Gadgets skin with the Modernizer add-on. It relies on HWiNFO to get hardware data, and it's really painful to configure at first, but once you do, you don't have to do it again until you change your hardware. Once it's configured you can have everything that's going on in your system at a glance. Usage of CPU, GPU, RAM, VRAM, Pagefile, drives, network, UPS, fan speeds, CPU and GPU temperature, clock, calendar, weather, very good to have. Helped me to quickly diagnose issues or notice something going on in my system numerous times.

And speaking of diagnosing issues and noticing something going on, System Informer is what I end up opening up whenever I want to see what exactly does what. It's not just an alternative task manager, it's practically a full Windows debugger. Every piece of process info you'd want to know, handy graphs that also track the most resource intensive processes, tray icons to have small lists of those on hover, full service management, network activity monitoring, disk activity monitoring, firewall activity monitoring, device manager and a metric fuckton of other tools, options and features. If you're the type of tech savvy person that likes to know what goes on in their system and knows how to check it, this tool is indispensable. This, and stuff like Process Monitor from the Sysinternals suite, but that's if you really want to take a close look at how some program works.

 

[Gatdam Animal Person]

I swear I always get it installed and always resent not using any of the features so I skipped on it on this install. I remember being annoyed by the cursor finder because I'd always accidentally trigger it. Thanks for giving me a reason to get it installed again.

You can disable everything you don't need. Nowadays you have a handy dashboard to toggle every module on and off

Seconding this, I do like the quick search feature when pressing Windows + Space. It makes switching between KDE Plasma (krunner) and Windooz 11 (work VM) seamless.

However in my experience, the window snapping thing doesnt work as well as KDE's. Windows's milquetoast snap aid works fine for me.

 

[Slav Power]

I do like the quick search feature when pressing Windows + Space.

Personally, I rely on Keypirinha. It's closed source freeware that hasn't been updated in years and is missing some features that other keyboard launchers have, but every other alternative is lackluster, bloated and sluggish in comparison. Trust me, I've tried to switch numerous times and I always came back to Keypirinha. PowerToys Run misses a wide plugin ecosystem, and the only other alternative, Flow Launcher, is just awfully realized. Even slower than PT Run, installing plugins requires restarting the program where in Keypirinha it can reload everything on the fly, and some plugins I rely on in Keypirinha have no alternative on Flow Launcher.

The plugin ecosystem is what either makes or breaks a keyboard launcher. For example, what if you want to quickly translate a word, or a phrase? KRunner doesn't come with that by default, and once you start using it it'll become indispensable. With Keypirinha, I can run programs, do quick maths, translate words and phrases, convert currencies, time zones, units, do case conversion, MD5 encoding/decoding and so on. All in a quickly openable search box, I don't even touch the Start menu anymore since keyboard launchers are that much more convenient and powerful. But a keyboard launcher is useless if it doesn't have a good plugin ecosystem. PowerToys' Run has basically none, Microsoft has failed to make a good plugin framework for it, so Flow Launcher is the second best, with Keypirinha, with all it's flaws, still being the GOAT of keyboard launchers IMO. It's an issue if you can't find a decent alternative for it on Windows, but there's no equivalent for it on Linux, period.

 

[Hellwalker]

Not entirely software but the FirefoxCSS Store has a ton of user made CSS that gives greater customization compared to the "themes" that are already in Firefox (Which is only just changing colors). The one I currently use is one that makes current Firefox use the old Photon style, which was phased out in favor of Proton. https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix