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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
was symphonygame.com
A top-down shooter game which uses music to generate levels.
Absolutely fantastic! HOWEVER progress is not auto-saved! Who the fuck makes a game where you can abandon everything you’ve played just by pressing a button too many times?!
Abandoned; the website is gone.
Pale Moon extensions > Greasemonkey >
was github.com/gantt/downloadyoutube
A cross-browser script that adds a button to download YouTube videos as MP4 and FLV files. This script downloads the videos directly from YouTube and it integrates with YouTube’s interface.
It creates a button under the video, to the left of “Add to”.
Indispensable!
Abandoned, check out yt-dlp
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https://github.com/learningequality/ka-lite/
An offline version of Khan Academy.
A free lightweight solution providing high-quality education where you need it most.
Though this software is unofficial, it is known of and approved by the official website.
disliked – because it has no concept of building a larger topic of things to work on, and showing an easy path to progress through them. Needing to pick through a large number of topics, sub-topics and quizzes and then manually and repeatedly going back into that list is inexcusably frustrating.
Once installed it’s seen at 127.0.0.1:8008
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(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180624104818/https://natron.fr/
A video editor. I think. What even is this?
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Booting multiple distributions from a USB stick >
was multibootusb.org
A tool for booting multiple distributions from a USB stick. Duh.
Very easy to use. Works under Windows. Does not work under Linux.
2021-02-04 — Abandoned?
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.rarlab.com/
An archival utility.
I’ve been using this for a hell of a long time.
aka WinRAR, for its Windows versions.
TODO – add my notes
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Storage > Software > smartmontools >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.smartmontools.org/
A HDD health program.
I find it essential. I think.
This is part of the smartmontools suite.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
A revision control system.
aka hg, which is Mercury (element)
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.java.com/en/
One of the major programming languages.
Unfortunately, Java sucks, therefore everything made with Java sucks.
There are free and open source implementations of Java, which I have limited experience with.
TODO – add my notes, and scripts
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Git >
Provides a reasonable environment for working with Git while trapped on Windows. A console window with Bash, various everyday linux console applications, and git.
I loved it, and used it regularly for sane scripting when trapped on Windows, via bash, as well as for git itself.
I replaced it with Cygwin/Babun.
Not related to Windows Subsystem for Linux.
