Software Endorsements

[Officer Barbrady]

Any recommendations for alternatives to Goodreads? Looking for an app to keep track of books I've read but also recommend books based on taste (or just non-woke books in general). Something similar to what Letterboxd does for films.

Mainly because Goodreads is pure shit nowadays. I don't need to be recommended books on Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month or book recommendations for 'messy women' like Goodreads is trying to pander to. The weekly recommended books are chalked full of new slop. Just a simple book logging app with good discovery features would be nice.

 

[Flatline]

Any recommendations for alternatives to Goodreads?

You could try LibraryThing.

 

[Hamsteroid]

There is also Bookwyrm.
It's the Mastodon of Goodreads alternatives as it is self-hosted, decentralized and uses ActivityPub. And just like Mastodon, it's pozzed to the gills: The CoC of the "flagship instance" is longer than my forearm and the main dev is a Person of Gender.
But maybe there's a based instance somewhere out there

 

[ScooterL]

I don't know how or why MP3s are still popular either

Maybe because it has a catchy name that's easy for non-technical people to recognize and remember, not some nerdy-sounding shit like "ogg vorbis".

 

[Combustion Engine]

I don't know how or why MP3s are still popular either. Extremely outdated format that gets mogged by OGG Vorbis

Vorbis is ancient, and somewhat equivalent to MP3 at what it does, but with none of the licensing crap, which is one of the reasons it exists in the first place. Opus is its successor, is pretty good at basically any task short of lossless (for obvious reasons), and is thankfully slowly getting more adoption, particularly because all the big corpos moved to it for VOIP where it shines in a constrained environment. There's some confusion with ogg (not a codec on its own) sometimes, and I blame the retards at Google that would not allow their shitty android mediascanner to recognize opus audio files unless they were wrapped in an ogg container for years contributing to that. It's great for converting your lossless music archive, and is virtually transparent at 128kbps (maybe even 96 if you're on the older side), extremely easy to do with dbpoweramp or any good player.

 

[AnOminous]

FLAC is the shit.

 

[OrangeManeXTinyHatGVNG]

I ENDORSE

GrapheneOS

for now

Gonna pooooost my Tips&Tricks here soon. Zased kiwiniggers are gonna get my Tips&Tricks for free. I take mucho dinero from some people for the service of what amounts to a simple flash and a few settings. They also have to listen to me rant about glowies and feds and other gay alphabet mafia cunts among other things that really grind my gears.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

I ENDORSE

GrapheneOS

for now

It's been treating me right for a year or so now. But I'm a grug-brained simpleton so if GrapheneOS is bad at tessellating tesseracts I'll never know.

Having a bitch of time with YT-dlp though. Uploading Youtube to PreserveTube and then ripping from that with ytdlp to get an audio file for the drive to work is one step too many.

 

[Niggergante]

It's been treating me right for a year or so now. But I'm a grug-brained simpleton so if GrapheneOS is bad at tessellating tesseracts I'll never know.

Having a bitch of time with YT-dlp though. Uploading Youtube to PreserveTube and then ripping from that with ytdlp to get an audio file for the drive to work is one step too many.

Why are you going through preservetube to download what should work straight from YouTube? Is your version of yt-dlp up to date?

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

Why are you going through preservetube to download what should work straight from YouTube? Is your version of yt-dlp up to date?

I'll say again: grug-brained simpleton.

It's version 9.3.5.4 , is that the most recent? I don't know. I learn just enough to get what I want without some letter-agency breaking my dick for it, then conserve my neurons for other things. Right now if I copy-paste a youtube URL from LibreWolf into a different browser tabbed to cobalt.tools, I get what I want with minimal fuss. So that is my method until that doesn't work, then I'll learn how to update yt-dlp or how to run it without a GUI.

A while ago my phone stopped accepting file transfer via 3.0 usb to the computer. I 'solved' this by just uploading audio files to a private Telegram channel and then downloading them onto the phone.

 

[OrangeManeXTinyHatGVNG]

It's been treating me right for a year or so now. But I'm a grug-brained simpleton so if GrapheneOS is bad at tessellating tesseracts I'll never know.

Having a bitch of time with YT-dlp though. Uploading Youtube to PreserveTube and then ripping from that with ytdlp to get an audio file for the drive to work is one step too many.

The latest variation of the DMZ dance required to free video and audio material from the clutches of the kafkaesque totalitarian hellscape that is jewtube. Its all so fucking gay and retarded, and it feels like a fight they are inevitably going to lose- regardless of trustzone or whatever other disgusting things these soulless husks come up with, if you are serving me the shit im going to always be able to keep it somehow, maybe you fucking niggers should try actually producing something of value instead of endlessly reboxing shit that was honestly more mid than we all remember

Maybe im being optimistic, there are definitely also hoops I wont jump through and that seems like the only real tactic they have, more hoops. Even if I dont jump through the hoop however I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHAT U PUT ME THROUGH FUCK YOU HERO WARS IM GOING TO FIND YOU AND DO UNSPEAKABLE THINGS TO

 

[Niggergante]

It's version 9.3.5.4

Go run yt-dlp -U and report back.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

Go runyt-dlp -U and report back.

That updated it by a month, which has restored my ability to download from youtube through vanilla firefox. But only if I click the extension within the three second window before some countermeasure on YT's side runs its script. That's about what I had two months ago, so thanks! The Cobalt method remains faster (much better DL speed), but it's nice to have alternatives.

 

[Civillian 18]

Cobalt tools for a web-based version, or Stacher for a local downloader/GUI for yt-dlp with other profiles and such.

That updated it by a month, which has restored my ability to download from youtube through vanilla firefox. But only if I click the extension within the three second window before some countermeasure on YT's side runs its script. That's about what I had two months ago, so thanks! The Cobalt method remains faster (much better DL speed), but it's nice to have alternatives.

I think I understand, you have an extension that just takes the YouTube link and passes it to your local yt-dlp install? Otherwise, you do not need an extension for this, you can just open up CMD somewhere you want to save the video and

yt-dlp <url>

for the most basic of downloading/saving. Pretty sure defaults are just best audio/video as a single file (so probably .webm?)

 

[Slav Power]

I have decided to switch from Keypirinha to Flow Launcher. I found replacement extensions for everything that I use and I adjusted my workflow a bit. Now, it's definitely a massive heap of junk code wise. The configuration UI likes to shit itself, it eats ~300MB of RAM, and it feels like shit. However, once everything is set up, it is a better experience overall. The Everything extension can look up files without having to initiate a search, so I just open up the launcher, type the name of what I'm looking and there it is. It also has a preview window and it supports drag-and-drop which is a major upgrade over Keypirinha. Once it's running, the launcher itself doesn't feel as sluggish as I thought it would be, so for now I'm satisfied with the switch. It's definitely a better launcher functionality wise, but code wise it's a fucking mess and I wish it was better.

 

[Avenue]

I was looking for software to control brightness and contrast using DDC. If you have multiple mismatched monitors then this is ideal because most monitors support DDC/CI, even ancient ones.
On my windows install I landed on Monitorian, so far I've yet to find issues with it. Its pretty solid, it does offer a paid version with more features like hotkey support but the free version has been satisfactory so far.

https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian

There is also "twinkle tray", while it does look prettier and has some more features I chose against it based on vibes (the twinkletray installer is 80mb vs 1mb monitorian installer)

https://github.com/xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray

 

[Hellwalker]

File Convertor is a fucking godsend. I just converted a shit ton of Webm's and Webp's to MP4's and PNG's with it. Now I'll never have to look at any un-thumbnailed video and image in my File Explorer ever again.

 

[Combustion Engine]

Now I'll never have to look at any un-thumbnailed video and image in my File Explorer ever again.

I see it hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet, so I will for the poor users that may still be shackled to winshit in current year. Tired of its useless explorer being unable to thumbnail formats and containers older than WinXP? Icaros just werks. Just be mindful of what it means to have an external program and shell extension accessing media files, you don't want those to get outdated.

 

[Ferryman]

I ENDORSE

GrapheneOS

for now

Gonna pooooost my Tips&Tricks here soon. Zased kiwiniggers are gonna get my Tips&Tricks for free. I take mucho dinero from some people for the service of what amounts to a simple flash and a few settings. They also have to listen to me rant about glowies and feds and other gay alphabet mafia cunts among other things that really grind my gears.

Graphene is excellent. Any effort to circumvent Moloch, Baal, Asmodeus & YHWH (Intel, AMD, Apple and Jewgle, respectively) is worthwhile in my book, up to and including machines with a gimped or removed PSP/IME. Cna strongly vouch for both Libre and Canoe/GNUboot if you're wanting FOSS firmware. Speaking of, what model ThinkPad is that? Looks sick.

 

[Slav Power]

Just discovered this nifty CLI tool when looking for Flow Launcher extensions. It's called fend.

https://printfn.github.io/fend/

https://printfn.github.io/fend/documentation/#installation

Does all kinds of math, unit conversion, even dice rolls. Super tiny, lightweight, fast. Flow has a plugin that leverages it within it. Pretty, pretty, cool.