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If you ever want to know what drivers you need/are missing or which of your drivers need updating, SDIO (Snappy Driver Installer Origin) is a perfect tool for finding them easily. It works on Windows 11 all the way back to Windows XP. You can either have the program search the internet for the correct drivers or install its entire set of drivers (40 GB's IIRC. There's also a 3rd option but I forgot what it was called) for offline use.

You're also able to download the application and driver packs via torrents along with an option to download more themes for the application:
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It's also entirely open-source aswell, with it's own SourceForge page.
 
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If anyone needs something for mounting ISO files or other CD images on Windows, I recommend WinCDEmu.

Surprisingly, it even works on Windows XP. I was messing around with some ancient games and an ancient laptop and had to mount a disc image on it. I am using it on Windows 10 and thought "haha sure would be nice if it worked on XP too". Much to my surprise, it did work!
 
Anyone got some app or whatever than can sync tabs from mobile to desktop? Brave sync stopped working years ago apparently.
 
Incase it hasn't been mentioned in a while.

The software called Everything. This is a program that searches your entire computer for files, because of course Microsoft long broke their search functionality so someone had to step in and do the job they couldn't. This program doesn't fuck around, helps find whatever you're looking for while Microsoft's dumb idea of search thinks you'll find your files online.

AIMP, this to me is the only media player you'll ever need for playing music with on your desktop. The things that wowed me about it, was that, a Windows Update could interrupt everything because of course it would and you're playing a song on this program. You restart and everything loads back up, but this program is courteous by pausing the song when you open it back up so you can resume. How kind of it. Much better than Winamp when you open it, just stopped the song entirely so you got to play it from the beginning. Plus, Winamp is an unstable piece of shit that should stay in the past.
 
pyrinyx said:
Incase it hasn't been mentioned in a while.

The software called Everything. This is a program that searches your entire computer for files, because of course Microsoft long broke their search functionality so someone had to step in and do the job they couldn't. This program doesn't fuck around, helps find whatever you're looking for while Microsoft's dumb idea of search thinks you'll find your files online.
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I have been using it for about 3 years or more and I really can not imagine using windows without it anymore. It is absurd how bad the default windows search is.
 
long waters said:
It is absurd how bad the default windows search is.
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The best part? Everything uses NTFS file indexing to be so fast. An inherent feature of Microsoft's file system. Something that Windows Search could use, but instead it prefers to be a sluggish piece of shit that can't find anything and it's been the case ever since XP. Remember how after you've asked that stupid yellow dog to find anything you'd have that flashlight bob left and right before it told you it couldn't find anything? Yeah.
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Plus, Winamp is an unstable piece of shit that should stay in the past.
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If you feel nostalgic you can give WACUP a try, which is essentially a progressing rewrite of the old Winamp 5.666 done by one of the old Nullsoft devs. It had a new public update two days ago so it's in active development.

I say "if you feel nostalgic" and not "if you're looking for a good media player" because foobar2000 is simply better. Yes, the old themed skeuomorphic skins were fun and comfy, but foobar took Winamp's Bento concept and cranked it up to 11 by abandoning the rigid bitmap design for a modular one where you can add, remove and modify whichever modules you need to create a layout that you personally find the best. In my case it's a lyric panel with controls on the left, playlist preview with tabs for misc menus like the queue, library or online radio, playlist view with album art preview on the right, and a waveseek seekbar on the top.
 
long waters said:
I have been using it for about 3 years or more and I really can not imagine using windows without it anymore. It is absurd how bad the default windows search is.
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Tried it and it's insanely fast. Faster than Bing
 
Magicat said:
Anyone use bookmark managers?
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I used to like local bookmark managers, but they seem to be a thing of the past. Some of the old ones like Linkman are still available, but don't work well on modern systems.

These days, I run Shaarli on a local web server, with an addon in my browser to create bookmarks. Search is very fast with thousands of bookmarks saved.

The one you linked to looks interesting, but can't import and export yet. I might try it if they ever develop that feature.
 
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I'm looking for a non shit search engine.

  • Duckduckgogo or ecosia search: Results aren't too relevant and often I need to redefine the search terms to get what I want.
  • Searx: Slow as hell and I can't find a stable instance of it that I can use as my go to.
  • Google: Used to be fast until Gemini got enforced and now I get captchas been searches and it's even slower than searx on librewolf now
  • bing/yahoo: nah
 
BiggestKai said:
I'm looking for a non shit search engine.

  • Duckduckgogo or ecosia search: Results aren't too relevant and often I need to redefine the search terms to get what I want.
  • Searx: Slow as hell and I can't find a stable instance of it that I can use as my go to.
  • Google: Used to be fast until Gemini got enforced and now I get captchas been searches and it's even slower than searx on librewolf now
  • bing/yahoo: nah
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eeto said:
I like Startpage, which is just a private/proxied interface for Google search. It's very fast for me and I don't have any issues with it.
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Startpage is very good. I also like search.brave.com if you want to avoid the google index/algorithm entirely.
 
I use an instance of searx, you can customize it to use several proxied engines of your liking and I find it faster than startpage, specially for image searching. One problem (that might not be so for others) I have with startpage is that it always geolocalizes my search even if I tell it not to, which leads to decreased anonymity.
 
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I use an instance of searx, you can customize it to use several proxied engines of your liking and I find it faster than startpage, specially for image searching. One problem (that might not be so for others) I have with startpage is that it always geolocalizes my search even if I tell it not to, which leads to decreased anonymity.
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Searx is also nice when searching for torrents, assuming the instance is configured for it.
 
Can anyone vouch for Matrix? I don't need complete feature parity with Discord. I just haven't tried it yet and wonder whether it might be less woke and pozzed compared to Discord. A few days ago I joined a Discord server that seemed a bit suspect and quickly decided I was going to quit while I was ahead based on the disgusting stuff I saw. Not anything to do with minors like one might have guessed but just very AIDS-infested woke politics. I would love to hear Matrix users weigh in on this matter and also find out what are some good ways of finding Matrix communities.
 
Belisarius Cawl said:
wonder whether it might be less woke and pozzed compared to Discord.
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I dipped my toe in a while ago and it was honestly so much worse I could not believe it. Like in one corner you'd have out and proud pedophiles shitting up room lists with astonishingly large rooms dedicated to "cute" pictures (CP). Then in the other you'd have detestable trannies who are actually too insufferable for the average Discord server and have now found themselves exiled to an obscure shithole.

On the other side you'd find users who glow so hard that being in their presence for a few minutes will cause radiation sickness and basically everyone on there is too retarded for anywhere else. The only decent rooms tend to be dedicated to FOSS projects as they're there for reasons other than trying to evade CP filters or somehow being too annoying for anywhere else.

The Matrix client ecosystem is also pretty awful too since Element is basically the only client that really implements the full set of functionality but it's a bloated piece of shit. Homeserver implementations are similarly affected, Synapse is the most feature-complete but its performance is not good and joining very large rooms will cause huge CPU spikes that can last upwards of a minute while it's chewing through vast amounts of federation data.

Do you know people on Matrix or are you looking to find likeminded people? If it's the latter then don't have high expectations but there's a chance. XMPP in my experience was a little better in terms of quality of people but it's deader and group conversations aren't as easy to find.

IRC is also still around and while there's definitely annoying trannies on there, at least you can't see their faggot avatars and sticker packs. Personally I'd recommend IRC above all else given it's an incredibly mature protocol with lots of usable clients, you'll find people of all persuations and there's fewer distractions nor really any bloat as the protocol was designed in the dialup era.
 
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