have settled on using some combo of edge, left, imageglass and sumatrapdf for my flight aid needs
i really like left actually, it’s like the notepad+ between notepad and notepad++ (lol)
thanks all for the help
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yeah, imageglass is great! I’ll second that as a good general purpose image viewer
I switched to Vivaldi ~6 years ago because I was tired of the bloat of Firefox and thought Chrome was a joke. I think it’s better than both. Its features and stuff don’t feel as much like bloat as they might in other browsers and I like the customization (though I rarely fuck around with customizing my browser themes anymore). They usually respond to me on Twitter when I have an issue or I have a very specific question about the browser that I know won’t get a response on their forum, so that’s cool.
I use xnview and irfanview, I think I was using xnview and found it was giving me some shit so I switched to irfanview, which is what I used to use. I also use Paint to view things. Windows’ internal photo viewer is a pile of shit.
I’ve tried a bunch of Notepad alternatives, but I’ve only really liked VisualCode, and I always just go back to using vanilla Notepad.
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Sublime Merge is a good git GUI, too! It doesn’t block input or stop updating the screen while performing tasks! Amazing!
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despite being an electron apologist I still use sublime for the record though I actually keep trying and failing to switch to VS Code since it’s basically at feature parity and then some these days and it’s easier to use as a teaching aid
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I still mostly use vim even though it’s increasingly dated and I’m sure one of the modern editors with a vim-mapping plugin ought to provide a better experience by now.
Most of that is habit, but the guarantee of low latency is a part of it as well. It’s not only that Electron editors have latency but also that vim has the option of running in a terminal and ssh has lower latency than GUI remote desktop solutions.
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vim rules (and like bash, i mean sure zsh is better but it’s part of like every base system ever)
re: ssh, mosh is also cool if you’re on a shitty connection and can open the ports for it
i use this js rompatcher to do ips/byuu format stuff
in the early days of osx i would have spammed this thread but now i just use half a dozen bad electron things
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I fucking love mosh but at the moment I can’t use it because my remote machine is behind some horrible firewall that makes opening a UDP port impossible.
another random software Q - i’m trying to reduce my browser extensions to the bare minimum. on edge, do i really need ublock origin or privacy badger? how is the inbuilt blockers
i noticed i immediately started getting foxit ads on youtube after searching ‘how to uninstall foxit’ so
the former absolutely, the latter not really
in general if you’re looking at ram footprint you’re wasting your time btw, it doesn’t really matter in terms of desktop optimization
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I haven’t crunched any numbers concerning resource usage, but I like the way min looks. Beats dillo or whatever we were using a hundred years ago.
My favorite software discovery as of late is LAN Search Pro, which solved my super specific issue of searching for file names in several folders scattered across several network drives. It’s a little concrete–an errant space at the end of the search string will trip it up–and sometimes dragging and dropping multiple files from the results will make it bug out and try to copy the entire source folder, but overall it’s saved me so much time at work. And despite the name its freeware.
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I thought this was just my computer being shitty, I’m kinda glad it’s not just me
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I have found that for my very specific use case, Glimpse (an offshoot of GIMP) has worked quite well as a Photoshop alternative. I do very, very light editing of my photos though so I might not be a good example.
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Is joy2key the best thing for mapping controller inputs to keyboard presses? I am playing Anodyne, and it WILL NOT let me configure my xbox one controller at all.
Antimicro i think is the new favorite
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I recently started using Photopea web-browser-based image editor for light image editing. Seems good enough for my purposes and it’s not a bloated app that keeps asking me for updates like Gimp
it also has PSD compatibility which makes it a lot better than gimp out of the gate
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That or Steam Big Picture Mode.
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when are chromium browsers gonna get facebook containers…
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I don’t know who needs this, and this is the only place I could think of to post this, but the cardboard box template maker was super useful just now when I needed a template for a foldable box that had some uncommon dimensions. There’s also generators for templates for a bunch of other shit, too.
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