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I selfhost searx, no problems with it. Matrix is ass and in development hell and will never reach any kind of meaningful feature parity with Discord.
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Belisarius Cawl
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It seems kinda moot because the off-topic conversations are said to be full of child-raping leftards
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Do you use a VPN? I had to switch from Private Internet Access to NordVPN about two years ago because I'd get pestered with captchas every single day.
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Revolt is alright.
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Is it self-hosted and I'm just not seeing it?
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I *think* there is some way to self host it, but dont quote me on that.
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I was about to post this lol, thanks.
BubbaRobot887
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I am giving Brave VPN a try and I have to say at least for streaming video it works better than Nord, for one I don't get the error message on Prime video telling me that I am using a VPN and I have to turn it off in order to watch content, two things seem to load faster, and three they let me pay $10 a month monthly, and not $150 year with no email sent to remind me that they are about to bill me that $150.
I am no expert on VPNs but for general computing Brave seems to work just as well or better so far.
I am no expert on VPNs but for general computing Brave seems to work just as well or better so far.
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Mullvad is nice I've never had any issues. Plus you can pay with crypto without giving any information over. So that is a big plus. Rare these days it seems to find a good service that doesn't need an email
HairyBadger
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Mullvad (Sweden), Proton ( Swizerland, moving to Germany) and iVPN (Gibraltar) are regularly rated as best of the best for privacy.
If you want streaming services, stick to Nord etc.
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https://github.com/Soundnode/soundnode-app looks promising. You can also dig into the github topic https://github.com/topics/soundcloud like I did.
Soundnode was great when it came out, currently making an alternative since soundcloud changed their APIs. and also its kinda dated now sadly
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These are my go-to autostarting/background programs. I consider them very useful and I don't think I could use my PC without them. My experience with all of these is through Windows 10.
SuperF4. This one is pretty self-explanatory. You're able to Alt + F4 out of anything with it's own CTRL + Alt + F4 shortcut. Programs, games, ETC...
SmartSystemMenu. This one adds a ton of new options for window customizability than the stock options could've ever gave you. You have, but are not limited to,:
- Seeing all the avaliable information about a window
- Making a window always on top
- Making a window transparent
- Opening the file location of the current window
- Reducing the windows' transparency
- Minizming any program to the system tray
(all information about msconfig/System Configuration)
(the new context menu itself)
It's impossible to go back to the default windows context menu options for windows after being spoiled by this.
PowerToys. Any of you Windows users should know what this one is. PowerToys adds a fuck ton of useful features that can greatly increase productivity. Personally, I only really user the text selector for grabbing any text on the screen and the color picker.
(Color Picker)
(Text Selector)
There are many more to choose from, however.
UnigetUI. If any of you are WinGet users (or use package managers at all on Windows), you might want to look at this. UnigetUI supplies easy control over installing and updating packages of whatever package manager you user, be it WinGet, Scoop, Chocolatey, and others. All of this can be done inside a terminal itself but the convenience it gives is well worth the 100+ MB RAM hogging.
(updating packages. Just click the refresh button for any new updates and if it finds them, they get instantly installed)
(installing packages. You can search for anything and it will try to find it through various different package sources)
(list of applications and their information, including package source and version number. Black box is covering my programs and shit for privacy reasons, of course)
ShareX. I think most of you already have this and understand the details of it. If you don't, what are you doing? ShareX is the most feature filled screenshot manager I've seen. You can use it as your basic screenshotting to like the built-in Snipping Tool or use the additional useful features that it's supplied with.
Open-Shell. This is one of the best options to unfuck the shitty start menu. You can make the start menu a classic 9x/XP type or a Windows 7 styled one, choose different skins and the look of the start menu, it's behavior and how you want it to behave, and even an option to customize the taskbar.
(black boxes covering stuff for privacy reasons, again)
Everything. I'm sure even a normie norm knows about this. Everything is x1000000 better than the default Windows search could ever dream of being. It simply gives you everything on your entire drive. I don't really touch the actual application and instead use it as the indexing for Flow Launcher.
Flow Launcher. I took @Slav Power's recommendation for it and I'll say that's it's really good. Does exactly what I need it to which is finding the programs that I use and launching them through it, but it does with a lot of extra functionality killing processes or only searching through settings and Control Panel options.
SuperF4. This one is pretty self-explanatory. You're able to Alt + F4 out of anything with it's own CTRL + Alt + F4 shortcut. Programs, games, ETC...
SmartSystemMenu. This one adds a ton of new options for window customizability than the stock options could've ever gave you. You have, but are not limited to,:
- Seeing all the avaliable information about a window
- Making a window always on top
- Making a window transparent
- Opening the file location of the current window
- Reducing the windows' transparency
- Minizming any program to the system tray
(all information about msconfig/System Configuration)
(the new context menu itself)
It's impossible to go back to the default windows context menu options for windows after being spoiled by this.
PowerToys. Any of you Windows users should know what this one is. PowerToys adds a fuck ton of useful features that can greatly increase productivity. Personally, I only really user the text selector for grabbing any text on the screen and the color picker.
(Color Picker)
(Text Selector)
There are many more to choose from, however.
UnigetUI. If any of you are WinGet users (or use package managers at all on Windows), you might want to look at this. UnigetUI supplies easy control over installing and updating packages of whatever package manager you user, be it WinGet, Scoop, Chocolatey, and others. All of this can be done inside a terminal itself but the convenience it gives is well worth the 100+ MB RAM hogging.
(updating packages. Just click the refresh button for any new updates and if it finds them, they get instantly installed)
(installing packages. You can search for anything and it will try to find it through various different package sources)
(list of applications and their information, including package source and version number. Black box is covering my programs and shit for privacy reasons, of course)
ShareX. I think most of you already have this and understand the details of it. If you don't, what are you doing? ShareX is the most feature filled screenshot manager I've seen. You can use it as your basic screenshotting to like the built-in Snipping Tool or use the additional useful features that it's supplied with.
Open-Shell. This is one of the best options to unfuck the shitty start menu. You can make the start menu a classic 9x/XP type or a Windows 7 styled one, choose different skins and the look of the start menu, it's behavior and how you want it to behave, and even an option to customize the taskbar.
(black boxes covering stuff for privacy reasons, again)
Everything. I'm sure even a normie norm knows about this. Everything is x1000000 better than the default Windows search could ever dream of being. It simply gives you everything on your entire drive. I don't really touch the actual application and instead use it as the indexing for Flow Launcher.
Flow Launcher. I took @Slav Power's recommendation for it and I'll say that's it's really good. Does exactly what I need it to which is finding the programs that I use and launching them through it, but it does with a lot of extra functionality killing processes or only searching through settings and Control Panel options.
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Does this allow just completely hiding a window (or all windows) (no system tray icon)? I've been using a program that does basically all this stuff, apart from the new fancy stuff like transparency, called WatchCat (last release in mid 199
for more than twenty years now. I suppose I could upgrade to something made in this millenium if it has new features.
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Don't really see an option for what you're asking. The only options that tangibly change/hide the window are System Tray and Other Windows, with Other Windows having options to minimize or close all other open/active windows.Does this allow just completely hiding a window (or all windows) (no system tray icon)? I've been using a program that does basically all this stuff, apart from the new fancy stuff like transparency, called WatchCat (last release in mid 199
There is this option called Hide at the top, which hides whatever window you hidden completely and the only way to restore it is through the programs' context menu in the taskbar.
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Ah, gotcha. Does it support keyboard shortcuts tied to all this? This was always the convienient thing about Watchcat. Once Windows programs stopped having nice sensible MDI interfaces and you had a hundred windows in your taskbar, you could just hide the ones you weren't using with a quick keyboard shortcut and then open the context menu from the taskbar with another quick keyboard shortcut and unhide as neccessary.