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[malt ipecac]

I use a lot of sites that randomly scramble/hash video names. You'll download it and it'll just be "5cdb881697976796d149ff41690944755a3bfb82f37260b7e26a09fff62c2424.mp4"

Is there any existing tool to either generate or automatically rename downloads to randomly generated words like gifycat does? eg: BigCatPartyWompus.mp4. That would help a lot with just identifying the files immediately after download so you can throw them somewhere else.

I don't know of a dedicated tool, but I think you could achieve this trivially with a shell script/alias (at least in Linux). You just need to get/make a plain-text file that includes a bunch of dictionary words, one on each line. To rename the file, you could do something like:

mv <video_name>.mp4 "$(shuf -n 1 <dictionary_file>)".mp4

If you use curl to download files, you could make an alias that looks something like this:

curl -o "$(shuf -n 1 <dictionary_file>)".mp4 <file_URL>

Edit: if you want to use multiple words, you could do something like:

curl -o "$(shuf -n 1 <dictionary_file>)\
    $(shuf -n 1 <dictionary_file>)\
    $(shuf -n 1 <dictionary_file>)".mp4 <file_URL>

And that'll give you three random words (with repetition allowed). I guess there's a small chance you'll end up accidentally re-writing a filename if you repeatedly use that code to download videos to the same directory, but you get the idea.

I'm referring to case fans, edited the initial post to provide more information. I'll stick to BIOS then, the NVIDIA control panel remains a necessity; barring monitor fps, overclocking isn't my thing.
Those NVIDIA hard limits are new to me, good to know. 47,5 c GPU temp at idle it is.

NV Control panel is useful, I agree. I was more talking about the "GeForce Experience" and whatever else they try to get you to install.

 

[Kikkoman]

Been tinkering with fan setup recently, but the ASUS software meant to regulate the curves isn't working as it should. Put simply, it is not detecting certain fans, while the BIOS has no problem doing so. However, BIOS does not allow custom milestones to be set on these curves. Is there any go-to software for regulating fan curves, or should I just stick to the BIOS?

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Incidentally, is 47,5 celsius an okay idle temp for nvidia GPUs? Got lucky with the 3080 (practically no extra fee, bought around August 2020) and benchmarking shows it does not exceed 73 c under heavy load. GPU fan speed percentages fall within the 44-70 range. Setup is a desktop, uses an ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-F Gaming mobo.

If the bundle software cant see fan headers it might be a case of nothing you can do with software because the board might not be sending them to the OS, then again the MSI stuff was trash for me so who knows. This is what i use for fan curves and controlling case fans off gpu temp if you do want a go. https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases

 

[need shoeonhead nudes]

I don't know of a dedicated tool, but I think you could achieve this trivially with a shell script/alias (at least in Linux). You just need to get/make a plain-text file that includes a bunch of dictionary words, one on each line. To rename the file, you could do something like:

Great post, just wrote something similar before I saw yours Want to mention;

• Don't need a dictionary.txt, you can use the spellcheck dictionary.
• sed to capitalize the first letter of each word,
• cut to get the string before the first apostrophe (no plurals)
• tr to remove line breaks

03:30 PM ~ $ name=$(shuf -n4 /usr/share/dict/american-english | sed "s/.*/\u&/" | cut -d "'" -f 1 | tr -d "\n")
03:30 PM ~ $ echo "$name"
ConsummationsEyeletsVeraExtenuation

 

[malt ipecac]

Great post, just wrote something similar before I saw yours Want to mention;

• Don't need a dictionary.txt, you can use the spellcheck dictionary.
• sed to capitalize the first letter of each word,
• cut to get the string before the first apostrophe (no plurals)
• tr to remove line breaks

03:30 PM ~ $ name=$(shuf -n4 /usr/share/dict/american-english | sed "s/.*/\u&/" | cut -d "'" -f 1 | tr -d "\n")
03:30 PM ~ $ echo "$name"
ConsummationsEyeletsVeraExtenuation

Well okay then, let's download some fuckin videos.

 

[moocow]

I recently got fed up with the hot garbage known as "File Explorer" that Windows ships with (note: I'm just referring to the file manager tool, not the Windows shell, which is its own rat's nest of pain). It finally irritated me enough to motivate me to go searching for a replacement. There are a few reasonably decent ones, but each one I came across had some kind of showstopper; a given replacement was either just a barebones clone of Explorer, a ripoff of the linux tool "mc" (which is a great console tool) without much of anything extra, was paid software, or a clone of some paid software.

Then I came across Q-Dir. Holy mother of shit. It's free (not open-source, but screw it -- I'll forgive them for this one), not begware or shareware or donationware (it doesn't beg for money when you run or use it), has a metric fuckton of features, functionality and customizability, and has definitely scratched my itch for an Explorer replacement:



Holy mother of shit, look at this thing! It defaults to a split layout with four separate folder views (hence the name "Q-Dir" or "Quad-Dir") but it supports myriad different layouts (two side-by-side, two top-to-bottom, one top panel and two split bottom panels, basically every combination you can think of). It supports rule-based filename styling (color, bold/italic/underline, etc.), supports themes, has tabs (each independent view has its own set of tabs), a tree view (one for all open panels or one per panel), all the usual "view modes" (details, small/medium/large icons, list, etc.), native zip support, etc. Every bit of it is optional -- you can strip it down to a barebones multi-panel file manager if you want. It can also be configured to step in as an Explorer replacement.

Even with a lot of those features turned on, it's very lightweight and uses minimal resources. One File Explorer window, just showing the "This PC" view listing all the system's disks and network storage, is using 65MB of memory on my machine. My open Q-Dir instance, showing four panels and seven total tabs, including several directories with thousands of entries, is using 89MB. It's very fast too (with one notable exception; see below). It handles all the usual things you'd expect from a file manager, like drag-and-drop between panels (and other applications), sane keyboard shortcuts, proper clipboard support, etc.

I've only noted a couple issues with it, but I think they're minor enough to forgive it. The biggest pain point is that it uses the native Explorer delete/recycle function to delete files and directories, and it blocks when it does so. Not a huge deal until you decide to delete a big folder with tons of stuff in it or delete a bunch of stuff all at once from a slow network drive. Then you're stuck waiting for the delete operation to finish before you can interact with Q-Dir again. You can spin up another instance of Q-Dir if you've previously configured it to allow that (I think that's actually the default behavior), but it's still annoying.

Second, it is notably slow when selecting tons of items (i.e. tens or hundreds of thousands) at once in a single panel view by some action like pressing [Ctrl]-[A] ("select all"). I made the mistake of hitting [Ctrl]-[A] on a folder with a couple hundred thousand items and ended up waiting nearly 10 minutes for Q-Dir to become responsive again. To its credit, it handles thousands of items just fine. It only seems to have problems when you get into the 5-digit counts.

Finally, the web site is a bit Engrish, but it's still pretty easy to understand and there's an absolute boatload of documentation and FAQs.

That's it for downsides I've seen so far though. Overall I'm very happy with this thing. It's still in active development, too, so it's got that going for it.

 

[Born in Summer]

https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/browsers.html#brave
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controversies
I know the forum likes to promote Brave quite a lot but I've been hearing some not so savory things about how it operates that are at least worth checking out.

 

[moocow]

https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/browsers.html#brave
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controversies
I know the forum likes to promote Brave quite a lot but I've been hearing some not so savory things about how it operates that are at least worth checking out.

Yeah, it's got some scummy behaviors by default. From what I can tell it can at least all be mitigated, and I still find it to be a better browser than Chrome. Maybe it's just a matter of choosing between the lesser of two evils, but I think Brave is the lesser evil.

I honestly wish there was something chrome-flavored that isn't pozzed, owned by corporate overlords and/or contaminated with spyware and bloat, but here we are

I further wish the chromium maintainers could figure out how to drop the god damn ridiculous memory footprint these chrome-based browsers all exhibit now. It's just getting silly at this point. Just because I have 32GB of RAM on this workstation doesn't mean I intended for it to all be hogged by the damned browser.

 

[Rusty Crab]

https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/browsers.html#brave
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controversies
I know the forum likes to promote Brave quite a lot but I've been hearing some not so savory things about how it operates that are at least worth checking out.

People do not get that Brave is for normies. Brave is so simple and fluid that my giga-boomer mom can use it (and has been for a year without complaints). With the "tracker" stuff, you HAVE to allow some of that for facebook and other sites to work. If your browser doesn't work on facebook, guess what, normies will never use it, and brave foundation dies. Same thing with telemetry. Telemetry is not great but unfortunately necessary for product improvement. I work as a software engineer in native languages and I can tell you that my job would be impossible without telemetry. "Telemetry" normally means "bug reports and crash dumps". Google are the ones perverting that into meaning 'here's a detailed list of all your activity ever'.

perfect privacy? no
better than google? hell yes

I know we hate it, but "marketing" is very much a thing. As a fellow forum autist, we both know that you have to look beyond advertising to figure out what's going on. That's true for literally any product. Moving normies from "heat-seeking missile" style tracking like google has to "kinda vague maybe if you squint at it" kinda tracking is a vast improvement. I don't consider brave to be safe for opsec, but it's safe enough that I'm comfortable using it for every day matters and I don't feel like someone is breathing down my neck. To this day I haven't had ads successfully associated with me after multiple years of use.

On the modern web, a working browser just comes at the cost of some privacy. That's not ideal but it's the world we live in. Also, if you want true privacy, go use Icecat and tell me how user friendly that is.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I've only noted a couple issues with it, but I think they're minor enough to forgive it. The biggest pain point is that it uses the native Explorer delete/recycle function to delete files and directories, and it blocks when it does so. Not a huge deal until you decide to delete a big folder with tons of stuff in it or delete a bunch of stuff all at once from a slow network drive. Then you're stuck waiting for the delete operation to finish before you can interact with Q-Dir again. You can spin up another instance of Q-Dir if you've previously configured it to allow that (I think that's actually the default behavior), but it's still annoying.

Second, it is notably slow when selecting tons of items (i.e. tens or hundreds of thousands) at once in a single panel view by some action like pressing [Ctrl]-[A] ("select all"). I made the mistake of hitting [Ctrl]-[A] on a folder with a couple hundred thousand items and ended up waiting nearly 10 minutes for Q-Dir to become responsive again. To its credit, it handles thousands of items just fine. It only seems to have problems when you get into the 5-digit counts.

Can I select multiple files spread across different drives and directories at once, Ctrl-X, then Ctrl-V all of them into one folder? It's technically a search replacement but the capabilities of Everything still amazes me and it's replaced maybe 95% of the things I would otherwise use explorer for. Using it like that is certainly not for everyone but I'm not going back to how it used to be.

 

[moocow]

Can I select multiple files spread across different drives and directories at once, Ctrl-X, then Ctrl-V all of them into one folder? It's technically a search replacement but the capabilities of Everything still amazes me and it's replaced maybe 95% of the things I would otherwise use explorer for. Using it like that is certainly not for everyone but I'm not going back to how it used to be.

I just tested that, and no, it didn't work. I love Everything too and use it constantly. I think they complement each other pretty well.

 

[Shoggoth]

I recently got fed up with the hot garbage known as "File Explorer" that Windows ships with (note: I'm just referring to the file manager tool, not the Windows shell, which is its own rat's nest of pain). It finally irritated me enough to motivate me to go searching for a replacement. There are a few reasonably decent ones, but each one I came across had some kind of showstopper; a given replacement was either just a barebones clone of Explorer, a ripoff of the linux tool "mc" (which is a great console tool) without much of anything extra, was paid software, or a clone of some paid software.

Then I came across Q-Dir. Holy mother of shit. It's free (not open-source, but screw it -- I'll forgive them for this one), not begware or shareware or donationware (it doesn't beg for money when you run or use it), has a metric fuckton of features, functionality and customizability, and has definitely scratched my itch for an Explorer replacement:

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Holy mother of shit, look at this thing! It defaults to a split layout with four separate folder views (hence the name "Q-Dir" or "Quad-Dir") but it supports myriad different layouts (two side-by-side, two top-to-bottom, one top panel and two split bottom panels, basically every combination you can think of). It supports rule-based filename styling (color, bold/italic/underline, etc.), supports themes, has tabs (each independent view has its own set of tabs), a tree view (one for all open panels or one per panel), all the usual "view modes" (details, small/medium/large icons, list, etc.), native zip support, etc. Every bit of it is optional -- you can strip it down to a barebones multi-panel file manager if you want. It can also be configured to step in as an Explorer replacement.

Even with a lot of those features turned on, it's very lightweight and uses minimal resources. One File Explorer window, just showing the "This PC" view listing all the system's disks and network storage, is using 65MB of memory on my machine. My open Q-Dir instance, showing four panels and seven total tabs, including several directories with thousands of entries, is using 89MB. It's very fast too (with one notable exception; see below). It handles all the usual things you'd expect from a file manager, like drag-and-drop between panels (and other applications), sane keyboard shortcuts, proper clipboard support, etc.

I've only noted a couple issues with it, but I think they're minor enough to forgive it. The biggest pain point is that it uses the native Explorer delete/recycle function to delete files and directories, and it blocks when it does so. Not a huge deal until you decide to delete a big folder with tons of stuff in it or delete a bunch of stuff all at once from a slow network drive. Then you're stuck waiting for the delete operation to finish before you can interact with Q-Dir again. You can spin up another instance of Q-Dir if you've previously configured it to allow that (I think that's actually the default behavior), but it's still annoying.

Second, it is notably slow when selecting tons of items (i.e. tens or hundreds of thousands) at once in a single panel view by some action like pressing [Ctrl]-[A] ("select all"). I made the mistake of hitting [Ctrl]-[A] on a folder with a couple hundred thousand items and ended up waiting nearly 10 minutes for Q-Dir to become responsive again. To its credit, it handles thousands of items just fine. It only seems to have problems when you get into the 5-digit counts.

Finally, the web site is a bit Engrish, but it's still pretty easy to understand and there's an absolute boatload of documentation and FAQs.

That's it for downsides I've seen so far though. Overall I'm very happy with this thing. It's still in active development, too, so it's got that going for it.

I'll be a bit of an ass but do you have to use Windows? Yes this is a Linux shill. You could get all this and more with Dolphin on KDE. You could even try running it through X on WSL2, but that's cooking with gas.

 

[moocow]

I'll be a bit of an ass but do you have to use Windows? Yes this is a Linux shill. You could get all this and more with Dolphin on KDE. You could even try running it through X on WSL2, but that's cooking with gas.

Nah, that's not being an ass. It's a legit question.

Honestly, no, I don't have to use Windows. In fact, for my current employment, Linux on bare metal on my workstation would actually be pretty handy. They sent me dedicated hardware though (a laptop + big displays for it) so it hasn't been a priority.

Having said that, there is also some value to them in having someone on-staff using Windows as his daily driver, since that's a different flavor of expertise than most of them have. The tech stack (at least when I joined) required Linux or MacOS, but the process of making it work on Windows as well has presented some opportunities to clean up and simplify build tools, code and CI/CD stuff as well.

The only two things really keeping me from dual-booting are games and laziness/inertia. I know there's a stellar compatibility layer these days for Linux that runs a very large chunk of modern games, so that's not really a show-stopper (and that's what dual-booting is for anyway). The second problem (laziness) is much harder to overcome.

I do love me some Kubuntu though. KDE has always been a true delight to use.

Maybe your post will be the swift kick in the arse I need to finally get around to setting it up again. I can set aside some time this weekend for that.

 

[Shoggoth]

Nah, that's not being an ass. It's a legit question.

Honestly, no, I don't have to use Windows. In fact, for my current employment, Linux on bare metal on my workstation would actually be pretty handy. They sent me dedicated hardware though (a laptop + big displays for it) so it hasn't been a priority.

Having said that, there is also some value to them in having someone on-staff using Windows as his daily driver, since that's a different flavor of expertise than most of them have. The tech stack (at least when I joined) required Linux or MacOS, but the process of making it work on Windows as well has presented some opportunities to clean up and simplify build tools, code and CI/CD stuff as well.

The only two things really keeping me from dual-booting are games and laziness/inertia. I know there's a stellar compatibility layer these days for Linux that runs a very large chunk of modern games, so that's not really a show-stopper (and that's what dual-booting is for anyway). The second problem (laziness) is much harder to overcome.

I do love me some Kubuntu though. KDE has always been a true delight to use.

Maybe your post will be the swift kick in the arse I need to finally get around to setting it up again. I can set aside some time this weekend for that.

I have dragged my feet with dual-booting for about two years. The conclusion I can give share is I shouldn't have. Everything works. I had zero compatibility issues. I never even had to boot into windows, because Ubuntu discovers the old partition and just lets you mount it, and all my games work. It took 10 minutes to set up on a fresh hard disk - disconnect the old one, install on a new one, reconnect the old one. You'll automatically boot to linux that way, and windows might fuck up the boot partition if it updates, but I don't care because I haven't had to use it for 6 months.
With regards to supporting a windows environment at work - just use docker or a VM, I wouldn't want to use windows or mac ever again.

 

[moocow]

I have dragged my feet with dual-booting for about two years. The conclusion I can give share is I shouldn't have. Everything works. I had zero compatibility issues. I never even had to boot into windows, because Ubuntu discovers the old partition and just lets you mount it, and all my games work. It took 10 minutes to set up on a fresh hard disk - disconnect the old one, install on a new one, reconnect the old one. You'll automatically boot to linux that way, and windows might fuck up the boot partition if it updates, but I don't care because I haven't had to use it for 6 months.
With regards to supporting a windows environment at work - just use docker or a VM, I wouldn't want to use windows or mac ever again.

Agreed, Macs are utter garbage. I hate the hardware (and its prices), MacOS is an absurd bastardized hacked-up mutant offspring of BSD, the UI is awful, everything's locked down to an astonishing degree. The "ecosystem" is flooded with closed-source paid software that's somehow usually worse than similar stuff on Windows, the official development toolchain is as convoluted as MacOS's filesystem layout ("why use /lib when we can call it /Libraries instead? What do you mean, 'standards'?"), and the cult that surrounds everything Apple-related is somehow even more smug and insufferable than the average silicon valley liberal faggot.

As for dual booting, from my (admittedly mildly outdated) knowledge, the switch to UEFI for booting PCs was initially frustrating to everybody but has ultimately resulted in a pretty stable boot mechanism even when multiple OSes live on the same disk. I've even heard Windows 10 is remarkably well-behaved these days with dual booting; apparently it only touches its own stuff now and even tolerates being "not the default" in the boot order. The only exception I'm aware of is when you're doing a fresh install of Windows, where it will typically make itself the default and/or clobber the boot partition entirely if you're not careful.

This particular machine doesn't have any remaining free SATA ports (or PCIe slots) to add a new disk, so I'll need to make room on the existing system disk (a 512GB NVMe) to dual boot. WinDirStat shows me I've got my work cut out for me if I want to carve out, say, 256GB of that for a Linux partition.

Still, it's something to do, so I might as well dive in, right?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

>985+ things blocked on YouTube

holy crap uBlock is definitely a good thing