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

A MOBA which also has good bots.

Like all the other “safe” games Blizzard has created, Heroes of the Storm is an accessible MOBA (Multiplayer online battle arena) game. It’s pretty, plays well, and os reasonably fun. It has excellent bots to beat up for a chill game. Voice support makes it great.

I play a bunch of it, and like it. I don’t PvP. The versus AI started out being really boring but improved a lot over time.

aka HOTS
abandoned – It’s officially on life support
Full ultrawide support, even in windowed fullscreen. It’s a big difference.

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Snap Links Plus

2015-05-21

Firefox extensions, freeware, glances, GUI software, internet software, Linux software, live, open-source software, software, todo, Windows software

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snaplinksplus/
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/116390
was http://snaplinks.mozdev.org/

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smartmontools

2015-05-18

commandline software, freeware, liked, Linux software, live, open-source software, S.M.A.R.T., smartmontools, software, storage, todo, utilities, Windows 10 software, Windows software

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Storage > Software > smartmontools >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.smartmontools.org/

A suite of HDD tools.

I find it essential. I think.

smartctl is the most important component for me.

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jpegoptim

2015-05-18

commandline software, freeware, glances, image editors, image software, liked, Linux software, live, media software, open-source software, software, todo, Windows software

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was http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/jpegoptim/
https://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html
https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim

Optimizes JPEG images, performing magic to reduce size, or optionally stripping metadata for even further savings, or performing lossy re-compression for potentially extraordinary size reduction.

I like this idea, and it’s actually freed up a significant amount of space. Being able to take a 5MB file and knock it down to 1MB while maintaining excellent visual quality.. is astonishing

jpegoptim for Windows

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(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: 7zip
https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable
https://www.7-zip.org/

An archival program.

p7zip is a port of 7za.exe for POSIX systems like Unix (Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Cygwin, AIX, …), MacOS X and also for BeOS and Amiga.

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FFmpeg

2015-05-18

archivism, commandline software, freeware, liked, Linux cartooning, Linux software, live, open-source software, software, video editing software, Windows 8 software, Windows software

Software > Video editing >

(on Wikipedia)
https://ffmpeg.org/

A suite of tools to diddle with multimedia stuff and things.

It’s mandatory to have in my toolkit.

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Software > Video editing >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.avidemux.org/
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

I don’t really care about this, but I do use it occasionally to cut apart videos.

Quite straightforward to use for simple video editing and appending. It took me almost no time to learn.

Good for transcoding and merging audio into video.

I use avidemux_gtk
- there is also avidemux2_cli

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TODO – add my notes, and scripts

Software > Text editors >

(on Wikipedia)
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/
https://nano-editor.org/

The license-unencumbered version of Pico.

Small, easy. Needs some basic functionality but is still quite useful.

acronym: Nano’s ANOther editor
formerly: TIP (TIP Isn’t Pico)

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Pale Moon

2015-05-03

freeware, glances, GUI software, image viewers, internet software, Linux software, live, loved, open-source software, Pale Moon, software, web browsers, Windows 10 software, Windows 8 software, Windows software

Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
Linux > http://www.palemoon.org/
http://www.palemoon.org/

A web browser which is essentially a fork of Firefox. Pale Moon keeps the simpler UI before the astonishingly terrible changes Firefox made.

A very good browser. Newer addons targeting the latest Firefox which are addicted to its new interface will not work with Pale Moon, since Pale Moon lacks that interface. Older addons or proper UI-agnostic addons will work fine.

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SSH

2014-10-22

encryption, freeware, glances, internet software, internet topics, liked, Linux software, live, open-source software, remote controlling software, security, software, ssh, todo, Windows 10 software, Windows 8 software, Windows software

Internet > Remote controlling software >

SSH being enabled is also known as having “shell access” enabled. It’s generally considered a risk for various reasons, most notably because runaway processes can be an issue.

Secure Shell

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