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Stylish

2014-05-21

Firefox extensions, freeware, internet, live, open-source software, Pale Moon extensions, reviews, software, stylish, Usability

(on Wikipedia)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/
userstyles.org

See Greasemonkey and Stylish

For Chrome, see Stylus

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Herrie

2014-05-08

abandoned, audio playing software, audio software, BSD software, commandline software, disliked, freeware, Linux, Linux software, macOS software, media software, ncurses software, oldschool music players, open-source software, reviews, software

Oldschool music players >

https://github.com/EdSchouten/herrie (still mostly-gone as of 2016-03-31 – archive.org)

I don’t know where I heard of this music player, but I had recently bookmarked it. I took a moment to check it out.

It failed my review.

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Neverwinter

2013-09-29

dead, entertainment, games, liked, multiplayer games, online software, payware, projects, proprietary software, reviews, software, sword and sorcery entertainment, sword and sorcery games, Windows 8 software, Windows games, Windows software, wine

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter

While a really great game, it somehow didn’t do it for me.

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poweroff

2013-08-04

commandline software, freeware, HOWTO, Linux, Linux software, live, loved, open-source software, reviews, software, Usability

poweroff replaces halt for how I was using it.

I finally took some time to look into why halt wasn’t powering off my computer. This was a very long-standing bug, and it was odd that something so obvious would go unfixed.

Provided by the package “pm-utils”

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Worker

2013-07-23

disliked, file managers, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, todo

TODO – make a proper page

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/

A file manager.

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rdesktop

2013-07-23

dead, freeware, glances, GUI software, internet software, Linux software, loved, open-source software, rdesktop, remote controlling software, reviews, software

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.rdesktop.org/

A remote desktop thing.

I didn’t really take notes on rdesktop itself, though I had significant exposure through some of my projects with it. See /tag/rdesktop. Apparently I didn’t note an rdesktop version.

check out SeamlessRDP mode. It does what I was using xpra for.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190505223025/http://www.cendio.com:80/seamlessrdp
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=824710
xrdp

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I still have more offline notes I have to clean up and upload..

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/

A MMO whose defining qualities are its maturity, user base and low system-requirements.

Recently focusing entirely on endgame, to the detriment of all earlier content. Instead of improving the game in measurable ways, its developers use desperate psychology to string along its user base. DO NOT PLAY unless you’re already playing. Then DO NOT STOP.

Once anything comes along that’s decent, haul ass and bring everyone with you. Consider, for example, Guild Wars 2 – (2012 game).

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Entertainment > Games >

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

A free-to-play 2.5D action semi-rpg game. Get gear, assign your abilities, explore and kill. Procedurally-generated areas and special “maps” give end-game replayability.

While straightforward to get into, it becomes atonishingly complex and unashamedly hard. They are also committed to keeping the game “hardcore” and not stooping to the level of appeasing the filthy casuals who ruin other games. This includes not avoiding pay to win.

Its developers care about their game more than any other developer for any other game I’ve played or have even heard of. Other than the little things, the game gets major updates every three months. Major as in expansion-quality new stuff.

Their community participation is strong.