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page on sandisk.com
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/
A USB storage testing application.
If regular formatting doesn’t work, this application will do a more low-level format.
This is the official SD card tool for formatting a card.
proprietary software
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DO NOT BUY. DO NOT TRY.
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/
https://www.nomanssky.com/
Explore, survive, gather and trade while making your way to the galactic core.
Every single described goal of this game has failed. It is a bad flight-simulator, with bad crafting, bad technology, and bad survival mechanics. It is set on procedurally generated planets so vast that nothing matters, in a procedurally-generated universe so vast that nothing matters. What’s worse is that it is so godawfully crowded with hand-holding that it becomes both easy and repetitive. Being ugly and with abysmal performance, it’s not even an exploration time-waster.
Perhaps in some years they will change/fix many of its issues, but I believe it has a fundamental casualness to it that anchors its core gameplay problems. This is not a game made for gamers.
2017-05-07 update: I tried it again, and it just isn’t worth it. If its graphics were the same as before (they’re busted now) then maybe. I have another video card but I’m not going to swap things around or fiddle with installing an old version of my card’s drivers. I just don’t want to bother any more.
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/
Shoot stuff and things.
I played the open beta. I found it fun, but not worth money. When I was given it for free a while later, I didn’t find it all that great.
- Has graphics reminiscent of Sanctum 2 – (2013 game).
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Overwatch 2 – While it has PvE to some degree, the full talent trees and upgrades concept will not be implemented. (source)
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190218044149/http://usbflashspeed.com:80/
A USB storage testing application.
A tiny, portable, storage device speed tester. Created specifically for USB storage.
Very very nice. Easy to use
(Yes, USB storage is that bad with small files)
- (download FlashBench.zip)
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Note that this is not https://github.com/bradfa/flashbench
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Software > VoIP, Instant messagers, Video conferencing >
(on Wikipedia)
(on Google Play)
https://discord.com/
Yet another VoIP client.
A clumsy “pretends to be pretty” interface, but it seems reasonable enough. Definitely not better than Mumble for the basics.
It might be better-suited for large groups, or because it has a free server, or some other thing I haven’t discovered. I’ll keep it in my toolbox, but I don’t really like it.
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190810154034/http://twistedtreegames.com:80/proteus/
Open-world exploration.
It’s like an even crappier-graphics Minecraft, only with nothing to do. At first I thought it was quirky and interesting, but for some reason I got lifted in the air and after a long, long, while the game ended. I redid things, and this happened the second time too.
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was http://www.movsd.com/thegun.htm
A notepad.exe replacement in 6,144 bytes.
Particularly notable because its configuration is done through an external program which directly modifies the THEGUN.EXE binary.
I tossed this in with my portable applications. It’s tiny, and I figure it’s one of those “just in case” sort of applications.
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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.
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aka WinRAR, for its Windows versions.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.superantispyware.com/
A malware scanner.
Mostly-meh.
- Their portable scanner is still just an installer.
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It found an Wajam plugin from Magic Camera, presumably installed for either Internet Explorer or Edge.
- During scanning, it claims to have found infected files, but those files were neither reported at the end of its scan nor found in its quarantine. What gives?
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.iobit.com/en/advancedsystemcarefree.php
One of those “PC problems” programs.
Whatever this is supposed to be, it’s insultingly simplistic and opaque.
