Software >
https://www.ipevo.com/software/visualizer#download
I’m using this for the IPEVO VZ-R.
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Google > Chrome >
Software > Web browsers, SVG viewers >
(on Wikipedia)
offline installers
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge?ep=0&form=MA13T3&es=176&ch=1
Yet another Chrome derivative, but Microsoft took it seriously and made improvements.
You gain access to an artificial intelligence if you use it.
Software >
Making a USB stick bootable >
(on Wikipedia)
https://rufus.ie/en/
A Windows program used for Making a USB stick bootable and to put an ISO on it.
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https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/
https://wp-cli.org/
A program for various WordPress functions, so you can script/automate or just do things at the commandline.
An essential time-saver.
Software >
dvdfab.cn
An amazing (and amazingly-expensive) DVD ripper. Can work with other disks.
I’ve used this to back up my old DVD discs into .iso files.
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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.
startup > Software > Windows >
View/control startup applications.
Small, concise, full-featured and overall incredible. This is an essential part of my toolkit.
Services are not supported.
Abandoned
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Websites >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.minds.com/ (Android > Developer (recommended) – on Google Play))
A social media platform.
Positioned as a “free as in beer and free as in freedom” alternative to platforms like Twitter, minds has significant potential.
2017-05-29 – Does not have proper web compliance and does not work 100% with Pale Moon.
TODO – tested and working, though my most recent Lubuntu experimentation has problems I’m still troubleshooting.
At best, my computer hangs when prompting for a password. I think this is related to the 4.4.14 kernel but have not confirmed this.
Projects >
dm-crypt
https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup
https://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/cryptfs/cryptfs.html
These instructions are a lot easier than they seem, and a smart and patient beginner will be able to follow them!
These notes were made on an everyday system with one hard drive which I completely formatted for this purpose.
This concept and these notes build a full-disk Slackware installation which also uses LVM. You can safely ignore the entire LVM post and just follow this one.