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I darken its background colour
I darken its background colour

Software >

Chocolatey: babun
https://babun.github.io/

A customized Cygwin for Linux on Windows: Zsh, Bash, Git and other Linux software, all pre-configured.

Can install other software provided by Cygwin.

  • 712, 774 – apparently abandoned, last updated 2016-05-02.

    • The main contributors are still alive, I see them posting on their Twitters.
    • I’ll likely move to pure Cygwin, and get my common applications installed. That should be easy, but who the hell knows with Linux.

My configuration specific to Babun is currently scattered throughout my git repository, just findinall Babun (using my findinall() )



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Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions icon

Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

https://wordpress.org/plugins/rvg-optimize-database/
http://cagewebdev.com/optimize-database-after-deleting-revisions-wordpress-plugin/

Delete old revisions and optimize your WordPress database.

This halved the size of my database.



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that url is dead
that url is dead

Software > Window managers >

(on Wikipedia)
abandoned [ 1 ] was https://web.archive.org/web/20190313003108/http://wmii.suckless.org/ [ 2 ] the author died: https://web.archive.org/web/20140208043925/http://www.lmt.uni-saarland.de/de/aktuelles/grelich.html
https://code.google.com/archive/p/wmii/

A window manager

Forked into i3m, which has since become its own independent project.



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Projects > Software > Operating Systems >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.android.com/

An operating system most notably on mobile phones, but also found on media boxes.

Fundamentally flawed – It is tethered to Google in as many ways as they’ve made possible. From a time server, to internet traffic compression. From google play requiring an account requiring your verified phone number. From hoops to download and install software from their store. It’s fucking awful.



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BlockChinese--illidan_chat

World of Warcraft > AddOns, Chinese, Japanese >

https://www.wowace.com/projects/blockchinese

Lines with Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters are not displayed in your chat.

Does the job.



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World of Warcraft > AddOns >

https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info23964

Displays the world quests and their rewards.

Awkward and poorly laid-out. Usable enough, it says on the box.

  • Abandoned?; not updated since 2019-01-15

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