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OpenCore Legacy Patcher

2022-11-18

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Software >

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

Apple stops providing support and a download for old hardware. However, it is possible to force an install. The project that is responsible for this magic has achieved something truly spectacular, making it trivially easy using this GUI software.

WARNING: This is an extremely stupid and dangerous process to attempt without reading, understanding, and preparing the whole process up front. See #.spiralofhope.com/83891/opencore-legacy-patcher.html#plan. It really is very easy and works 100% for “only fairly ancient” hardware, but “very ancient” hardware might not be fully supported (yet?).

macOS

2022-11-02

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Software > Apple > Operating Systems / Operating environment >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.apple.com/macos

The operating system and environment for Apple desktop computers.

Formerly called Mac OS X or OS X

Notepad3

2022-09-08

freeware, glances, GUI software, liked, Linux software, live, open-source software, software with Git repositories, text editors, the kit, windows 11 software, Windows software

Software > Text editors >

https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3
https://rizonesoft.com/downloads/notepad3/

A straightforward and capable Windows text editor which also has a portable version.

This seems like a nice daily driver for little things. I shouldn’t replace Geany with it though since I want something cross-platform.

It’s really stupid that it doesn’t have configurable shortcuts unless I want to compile it from source.

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yt-dlp

2022-07-14

archivism, commandline software, freeware, Linux software, live, loved, open-source software, Python software, software, Windows 10 software, windows 11 software, Windows software, YouTube

Software >

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

A downloader for YouTube and many other places.

A fork and improvement of youtube-dl
Has it’s own YouTube comment scraper, obsoleting youtube-comment-scraper

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ShellCheck

2022-07-09

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Software > sh >

https://www.shellcheck.net/
https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

A linter for shell scripts.

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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

2022-07-06

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Software >
Windows, Linux >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about

A way to run Linux commandline software from a specialized console, similar to how a command prompt runs DOS or PowerShell.

It works well, but it’s imperfect.

aka wsl
Sometimes mis-named Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows
- Not related to Git on Windows.

Windows 11

2022-07-06

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Windows >

(on Wikipedia)
(download)
microsoft.com/en-us/windows/features

Released 2021-10-05

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Software > Text editors >

(on Wikipedia)
Homebrew: geany
Chocolatey: geany
https://www.geany.org/

Geany is a GTK2 (GUI) text editor which is light and featureful. Here is a sampling of features from their about page:

Syntax highlighting
Code folding
Symbol name auto-completion
Construct completion/snippets
Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
Call tips

This is a editor that does such magical things as use control up/down to skip paragraphs. I love it for in-page bookmarking, code folding, search-replace, escaped-replaces and regular expressions for selections, documents and groups of documents.