https://subshifter.bitsnbites.eu
These tools shift all the time stamps of a movie subtitle file. They can be used for synchronizing the subtitles to a movie when there is a slight offset between the two (this can be the case when the subtitles and the movie come from two different sources), or when there is a time scale difference (for instance if the movie and the subtitle file have different frame rates).
Very useful.
Started using this last week and finding it to be a real good fit for my brain. Have tried lots of note taking and note organizing methods in the past, and besides physical notes nothing’s really felt good to me. Obsidian is very cool though, I like that it’s markdown. I recommend it.
i think it would be cool to put all my music into some kind of database so i could track ideas and iterations and lyrics and stuff. i know stuff like this exists but honestly i’m not sure what it is even called or how it would work… personal database software?
The ability to store and distinguish between iterations is so important but is a rare feature of the programs I’ve encountered. Scrivener, which wouldn’t work for music files, has a feature like this I use all the time through Snapshots of whole documents. It’s been mad helpful to my organization and reflection.
yeah i think my preferred workflow would be that i have core “concepts” (eventually, pieces of music) to which i can attach links to e.g. scores, midi files, lyrics, recording iterations, demos, bits of (inspirational or mood-setting?) errata, etc.
all of those things could exist independently, but are hyperlinked from the “concept”, thus could be used in other “concepts” concurrently. idk. i’m very disorganized but i think maybe i could find software that helps me stay more organized - i wonder if that could help me finish things i’m working on
I taught a class on Julia yesterday. It was also my first significant introduction to the language and I have to say that apart from a few things which clash with my typical usage pattern (its kind of hard to Dockerize Julia the way I want to) I am pretty impressed.
Everything I do is in a git repo anyway.
Obsidian looks great, wow
croc is my current go-to for sending a file or folder over to a friend quickly, I like the human friendly passwords
qView, the only image viewer I’ve tried for windows that isn’t too horrible to use or look at
Keypirinha, which I’ve been using as a launcher for the past week but I’m still not too sure about, if anyone has any launcher recommendations I’d love to hear them
Croc looks like exactly the thing I need for work. Thanks!!
I have a 2015 laptop (4710HQ / GTX 850M)
what’s the best lightweight web browser to run alongside a AAA game? I’m trying out Vivaldi which seems to be using less memory than Firefox, it’s about 500mb typically and 1.5gb right now with 15 tabs open. My fans aren’t screaming like with Firefox. The use case for this is that I have an external monitor and want to fly IL-2 computer airplanes on one screen while looking at flight plans or notes on another.
Should I just use Notepad/Paint as my flight aids instead?
right side taskbar on 1080p is the way to go. there are some apps there specific to musicmaking and to playing IL-2.
snipping tool / snip & sketch is invaluable, I use it literally daily.
Lastpass gets installed on every browser I use, you should seriously all be using a password manager and Lastpass is simple and free with all the features you want.
I also cannot browse the web without privacy and adblock stuff - uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Containers, HTTPS Everywhere, etc
someday they will ruin notepad but until then I will gladly use it for all kinds of nonsense. the art of making lightweight apps is really lost on ppl nowadays. the only features i miss are autosave and tabs. i have no use case for notepad++ i think? idk i should mess with it more.
reaper is a DAW made by the Winamp guy and it owns, it has a simplicity-meets-deep-functionality thing that’s really impressive. i even prefer it for simple audio editing – audacity works but the lack of a tempo grid is a bummer. reaper is free*, massively less resource intensive and has the same features as any other top of the line DAW. fully second @spacetown and @Brooks’s posts above, it’s a little miracle.
MS powertoys specifically for the PowerRename utility, bulk renaming is so clutch for organizing my Music and other things. It runs in the tray and I never think about it unless I have to right click > rename stuff.
Powershell - straight upgrade of Command Prompt.
controller companion ‘just works’, and steam big picture is quite dope actually for gaming in bed.
I don’t use linux anymore, but Debian based distros 4 lyfe, and avoid both Gnome/KDE. Xfce, Openbox, or similar window manager/desktop environment.
Airtable is NOT a project management tool worth a damn (imo, there is no good free project management tool), but it IS a very good relational database if you learn how to use it. It’s got limitations that you may run into as a power user, but it’s also basically the only relational database app that fits the niche of affordable(free) + intuitive + flexible + collaborative. I use it EXTENSIVELY for organizing for work and for socialism. the main problem most people have isn’t with airtable, it’s with “thinking like a data person” – I’m actually interviewing for a data job right now based on the xp i got doing Airtable stuff. happy to chat about it if folks have questions.
Vivaldi i’m trying out right now, I originally just wanted a little app for looking at forums while I game (see above post) but I’m liking it in general. I like apps you can customize like crazy, especially if that means you can strip out bloat. (trying to figure out how to best do that here)
I tried Opera GX but lmao at the stream monster features and like FB messenger integration and shit. The ‘streamlining’ features are also not really impressive to me. Opera as a company seems pretty sketch nowadays tbh.
Brave, Waterfox, idk anything about.
discord - mostly good but bloated honestly, it could use a good forest fire (burn and rebuild) to strip out the bloat and stupid stream monster features.
foobar2k - for music it’s, fine, I wish it had a better library view or something. I have MusicBee but it didn’t click for me either. Meh, just end up using Spotify always.
qbittorrent - no-nonsense torrent client. “just the torrents ma’am”
private internet access - I don’t really have a ton of use cases for VPN to justify the frustrations, but just in case, i guess.
GIMP is the worst “best” software I use regularly. the interface is truly nuts but I’ve gotten used to it, sort of. at least i can be confident it has ‘most of’ the functionality i might want. they literally just added the functionality to lock a layer from moving, which happens all the time if you’re like adding+moving text on top of an image, which is literally one of the main things people do with image editors? make memes? so i’m not sure of their priorities over at GIMP HQ.
Foxit - PDFs, it seems fine idk, not super bloated.
Google docs is a better word processor for me than any desktop software tbh, I don’t code and all my work stuff is GDocs (life of an organizer). I do have scrivener but I just don’t have a use case for it.
OBS - nice to not have to think about anything else streaming related. NohBoard for showing inputs, but it’s fiddly.
ShotCut - fairly simple for video trimming which I have to do once in a blue moon for work. If I had to edit more i’m sure I would want something better.
Dropbox - situations where i have to transfer something from one device to another via cloud, e.g. epubs to my phone for reading. It’s Fine™
GeForce Experience and Razer Synapse are both such trash they won’t even start for me, so I don’t know what i’m missing if anything.
slack is the devil.
outlook is the devil.
ms teams is not the devil, it’s fine, but ms teams android app is the devil.
plugins! after setting up my new computer, I switched to this theme and it’s very good once you get the settings just how you want them. Best library view of any music program I use, imo.
oh huh this might be what i was looking for
what do yall think, somebody want to give it a go?
also i lied i’m an edge convert now, this is with 1 tab in firefox and 8 in edge. I have my hibernate settings set to 5 minutes
fuck i might just use edge fulltime huh
FoxIt started shoveling spyware into themselves about 5 years ago and now most browsers handle PDFs fine. I’d uninstall and do a deep scan/clean.
yeah, the question is is there a PDF reader that’s lightweight and not a browser? thanks for the heads up tho i will scan
highly recommend it! I can’t imagine going to any other pdf reader at this point
Here to highly recommend Chez Scheme.
Heads up about MS Powertoys.
It’s in a super janky beta state. I had a big headache with the auto updater being broken and I wasnt even able to uninstall it without jumping through weird hoops.
There’s some great features in there though.
I’m sad to say it’s electron-based so it’s not going to be any “lighter” than Chrome/Edge, and probably much buggier
ok for anyone else who has trouble uninstalling foxit, you may have to use regsvr32 to remove some of the remaining context menu plugins and DLLs
Removing Foxit Windows context menu item - PDF Forum | Foxit Software
