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https://www.cubic.org/player/

Cubic Player, now Open Cubic Player, was my audio player of choice back in my DOS days. Officially abandoned under DOS, but renamed to “open cubic player” and further-developed to become multi-platform (Linux).

Rather old, but still awesome.

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I'm using this logo .. because reasons
I'm using this logo .. because reasons

(on Wikipedia)
was btrfs.docs.kernel.org ))

A filesystem I use because of checksumming and de-duplication.

Very good, although I’ve had a sketchy history with it. I’ve used multiple versions of it, sometimes mounting the same partition with different versions of it.

I stopped using it because I lost trust in its reliability.



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SpaceFM-logo cropped

Software > File managers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm
http://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/

The current god of file managers.

It’s bloody amazing, and does so much “just right”. I can tell that the author has his head on straight. It ought to be the default in every Linux distribution which uses GTK+.



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NZHT. 103-h2 case - black - front angle

Computers > Quiet cases >

https://web.archive.org/web/20150206201839/http://www.nzxt.com/product/detail/103-h2-case.html

NZXT H2 Silent Mid-Sized Tower

aka NZXT CS-NT-H2-B or H2-001-BK

Conclusion: Seems great!

NZXT H2 Silent Mid-Sized Tower

I snapped off the front door, tried to glue it on and then snapped it off again. While it’s not fragile as fuck, I’m clumsy and it’s not very well made.



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EverQuest Landmark logo

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
www.landmarkthegame.com

The Minecraft for EverQuest Next.

I was invited to the closed beta in 2014-06-15. I tried it for maybe 45 minutes before throwing my hands up in complete disgust.

I have no interest in this now that EverQuest Next has been aborted.

  • Abandoned
  • Formerly EverQuest Landmark



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