I wonder if new Edge will get battery life optimization a la Safari on Mac OS, that’s the worst part about Chrome.
Folks at work complaining about being instructed to use Chrome (for compatibility with a web app) because Google collects data like oh, honey,
password managers? i use bitwarden because it’s open-source and the free features are great
1Password because I am trying to be the CISO for my family god willing
favorite desktop browser poll
0 voters
Where is “I hate all of them for different reasons but Firefox is the least objectionable”
yeah it sucks i had to pick chrom/ium but i don’t actually like it, it’s just where i’m comfortable until i adapt to something else
Firefox makes browsing the internet feel like you’re trying to wade through a thick bog of shit with about 95lbs of lead strapped to the back of your head while somebody keeps grabbing you by the shoulders and telling you you’re going in the wrong direction.
For backups, I use freefilesync and an external drive. I’m not doing full images or anything like that, just my user directory.
…i mean it’s moderately slower? I dunno if it’s just my comp but it doesn’t seem that different to me. Not enough for me to notice 90% of the time.
I remember fiddling with some Opera Neon beta a while back and it seemed sorta neat but then I forgot about it until right now
What is the state of the adblocking art on new Edge and Safari?
I think new Edge can just use Chrome uBlock Origin, Safari you gotta pay for 1Blocker
word?
Hmm, very well then.
Yep, any chrome extension afaik
Ahh the dark souls of browsers.
Would that make Lynx the Rogue of browsers?
I use Opera GX, the browser for GAMERS LIKE ME. It makes cool swooshing and clicking sounds when you do stuff. Also I guess you can monitor how much RAM and CPU it is using and throttle that but uh, I just like the swooshing sounds.
I started using Foobar about 5 years ago because I have this fairly large MP3 collection and I wasn’t about to use Winamp. It’s so good, it does exactly what I need and nothing else. I love the auto-balancing feature, whatever it’s called. Also you can re-tag shit easily, give things proper track numbers based on their order in a playlist, and convert shit to MP3?? I use it to convert SNES music to MP3 to use while editing the podcast. It’s good.
Shamefully, I’m using iTunes on my work Mac because all the seemingly good music library managers/players simply don’t work on this thing. I hate iTunes and like, 5% of my music collection just doesn’t show up no matter how many times i import it, but I’m too lazy to fix it or figure out an alternative.
Other than that, my daily use stuff is:
I love to try out new software. Because of this thread I am going to make the switch from Chrome to Firefox, mostly just for fun. But a couple programs I like to use…
MusicBee - it’s customizable, displays album art in an appealing way, doesn’t seem especially fast and isn’t prone to losing my configuration settings unlike Foobar2000 was in my experience.
Signal - also recommended by others, I like it but I wish more of my friends used it and I didn’t have to tell people “hey, we don’t need to use Facebook just Download This One Cool App”.
Notepad++ - nicer than notepad imo, just immediately readable and fast.
SumatraPDF - a lite and fast PDF reader, good for scrolling through the pages but it has like no features to it at all
Calibre - good for managing a library of ebooks, but I really don’t know any alternatives to it
IrfanView - loads images quicker than microsoft default, but I haven’t used anything else in over a decade probably so I might just be used to it.
PureSync - I use this to schedule backups across my multiple drives, it hasn’t failed me ever and does exactly what I tell it to.
gzdoom - the best source port of doom imo
I’m interested in alternatives to Word for writing stuff. @iguferon mentioned scrivener, which I like the organizational features of but idk about making the purchase yet. I’ve tried writemonkey 3 because it’s very clean and “distraction free” but it’s not really something that useful to me. Word is just too overbearing imo.
Also, does anyone do OCR? I do a lot of it for work and we use a very powerful technology called AABBY 15.
Edit: okay I love Scrivener.
Has anyone used a dictation or “grade level” analysis software they like? Asking for me, your friend
I tried to change the file associations to open images in IrfanView instead of Windows 10’s fucking awful Photo viewer, and I just got this for everything I tried to associate with it:
cool, thanks windows 10. always gotta have an extra fucking step!