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Dirk , to linux in What is the Windows Equivalent of Popular Linux apps?
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

I have to use Windows on my work computer and I am finding it hard to get FOSS applications on Windows that can do stuff like

The Gold standard in the screen recording world is OBS. It’s not only available for Linux, but also for Windows and, well, is the gold standard. If you ask the question if OBS can do this-or-that regarding screen recording, the answer generally is yes (or “yes, via plugin”). Just use OBS on all platforms, it’s clearly the most mature screen recording tool out there.

Outsider9042 ,

You can even use it as a virtual camera. I’ve had lots of fun with that one in meetings.

DieserTypMatthias ,
@DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml avatar

I used Game Bar to record my videos back in the day. But it’s just too basic.

Mihies , to linux in What is the Windows Equivalent of Popular Linux apps?
  1. Windows has built in simple zip manager. If you need more, go with 7-zip as others suggested.
Subject6051 OP ,

7-zip is amazing! thank you!

Faydaikin , to asklemmy in What is a less popular type/genre of movies that you watch ? What makes it interesting for you ?
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

I don’t know if they are that less popular, but I like a good “Mindfuck” film.

Like: Cube (1997), Cthulhu (2007), In The Mouth Of Madness (1994), Naked Lunch (1991).

I don’t know if the movies listed are the best representations, but they were some of the first that popped into mind.

The_Che_Banana ,

Add Mama, Beau is Afraid this list.

Rai ,

And the rare Not4Sale: TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies!

XTL ,

I watch a lot of things labelled horror in the (mostly vain) hope that there would be a good speculative angle about alternate reality.

narc0tic_bird , to linux in What is the Windows Equivalent of Popular Linux apps?
  1. OBS Studio, or even Xbox Game Bar (built-in, but might be disabled at your work PC)
  2. ShareX
  3. 7-Zip
Donebrach , to nostupidquestions in What are some things you can do to maintain your teeth when you don't have health insurance and can't afford dental care?
@Donebrach@lemmy.world avatar

Get a Sonicare toothbrush

delicious_justice ,

This was a game changer for my gums and not brushing too hard. Wish I had known about Sonic Cares sooner!

TheBigBrother , to asklemmy in What is a less popular type/genre of movies that you watch ? What makes it interesting for you ?

Romantic drama, I usually just see these for research purposes.

jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, and Anthony Quinn. You’re welcome!

youtu.be/CCJLFg1nOao

The previous film from the same director is solid too, if you’re OK with subtitled Spanish:

youtu.be/EkvgSTJkKGI

TheBigBrother ,

Thx for the info 👍👍

wargreymon , to linux in What is the Windows Equivalent of Popular Linux apps?

I have to use Windows

  1. Run a virtual machine
  2. Install your goto Linux distro
  3. Drink a cup of ☕ and pet a 😺 while it’s installing
  4. Happy hacking!
maniii ,

WSL2 exists for the very reason, if you hate using Windblows, you can install Linux OS on top and do everything from the Linux VM. Why even bother struggling with Windozes interface and software ?

Subject6051 OP ,

The only problem is the resource management, if you are using something like MX Linux and you have good amount of RAM, you can do this, I have 8GBs of RAM and even Windows 10 runs into resource issues when I am using it casually (forget working on it).

unknowing8343 , to asklemmy in How to deal with being bald?

If you were getting bald (which you might not) you’d have 2 options:

  • hair transplant (if needed) and medication for the rest of your life.
  • shave/trim and move on

I’m generally for team 2. I’d hate medicating (which from internet opinion has various long-lasting unwanted side effects) for the rest of my life for such stupid thing.

I must confess, I have the benefit that I don’t look that bad. Also, being fit becomes much more required when bald, 😅, you have to compensate your older look; and side effects from exercise are virtually all positive. So I’ll take it.

huf ,

accepting your baldness will always look better than being all wojak-nooo about it.

though that doesnt seem to be the issue here.

Shinji_Ikari ,
@Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net avatar

I really didn’t want to go the medicine route years back. Like OP Im a guy who always kept it long. I decided to give the basic regimen a try and went with a keeps like service because dermatologists are by far the worst doctors I’ve had to work with.

And although it thinned, the thinning totally stalled, to a point where it’s a little noticable but on a good day isn’t at all.

I haven’t cut my hair in years and despite it being annoying to take care of sometimes, I get to look in the mirror and see the version of myself that I like to see which makes the little bit of medication worth it imo.

I always hated the “just shave it and own it, bro” attitude because damn my hair is part of my identity, I love having it. I’ll put some effort into keeping it.

skullgiver , to linux in Tell me about glue please: How do you connect a microcontroller that conditionally executes code in different languages over USB serial on a typical desktop distro?
@skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

My approach would be to have the Python script read the serial console of the microcontroller in a loop and parse the text data exchanged through it. Binary can work too but then you’d need to implement the necessary logic to figure out if you’re done reading or not.

Through things like udev rules you can automatically start such a script when the device is detected (i.e. the cable is plugged in).

Something like this should work, depending on the settings of your serial connection:


<span style="color:#323232;">#!/usr/bin/env python3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">import serial
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ser = serial.Serial(
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    port='/dev/ttyUSB0,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    baudrate=57600,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    parity=serial.PARITY_ODD,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    stopbits=serial.STOPBITS_TWO,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    bytesize=serial.SEVENBITS
</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">while(True):
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    line = ser.readline()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    # Do something with the line of text that was just read
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    print(line)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ser.close()
</span>

Coupled with a udev rule like:


<span style="color:#323232;">ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="0123", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="4567", RUN+="/path/to/your/script.py"
</span>

The udev rule depends on how you connect to the device, of course. Also make sure to mark the script as executable if you call it directly. First improvement I’d make is to figure out how to detect the device (instead of hard coding ttyUSB0) and the correct parity settings.

borrina , to asklemmy in The specific thing you spend the most time doing instead of the actual job you're being paid to do is your new profession. What's your new job title?

I’m a nanny! 😄

FauxPseudo , to world in Media Bias Fact Check - Automation
@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world avatar

A whole lot of people here don’t read MBFC each day and it shows. They tend to take a single and testable claim and make a decision. It’s really easy to see if the claim is true or false if the claim is specific. They don’t have a habit of taking a big claim and ruling it false because of one small detail like Snopes does.

sandbox ,

lol, look at the failed fact checks of the Guardian UK and tell me that

FauxPseudo ,
@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world avatar

See, this is what I’m talking about. They don’t fact check articles by specific publishers. They fact check a claim. “Is this statement true”, “did X Y”, etc. they don’t do “is this this article by the guardian true.” That’s a whole separate thing not done by them.

They offer a separate service where they rate the general trustworthiness and bias of a publication but that’s not the same as doing a specific article, is it?

Your comment makes me wonder if you might be confusing them with someone else or are intentionally saying something about them that isn’t accurate. Because your comment is incompatible with what they actually do.

sandbox ,

The bot shares the trustworthiness and bias rating for a publication. This entire topic is about that bot. So that’s very obviously what we’re all referring to. I’m not sure if you’re confused or being obtuse.

FauxPseudo ,
@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world avatar

I must be confused.

Here is my view of the conversation. Let me know where I went wrong.

People saying MBFC is biased. Me saying that that’s BS if talking about specific facts checks. Me saying they also offer a bias check for news sources. But that’s not a fact check. You reply saying that they have repeatedly gotten claims by the Guardian UK wrong. Me saying that they don’t fact check whole articles so your statement is inconsistent with the very nature of the type of fact checking they do. You come back saying you are talking about the bias check for the Guardian. Except that’s not what you said in your first comment, is it? You specifically said “failed fact checks of the Guardian UK” which isn’t about their overall rating but about specific facts checks. Their fact checking and their media bias checks are two separate functions.

So when you tell me I’m being obtuse it looks to me like either you didn’t realize that you complained about one thing while confusing it with another or are trying to gaslight me.

Where did I go wrong?

sandbox ,
  1. Visit mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/
  2. Notice Factual Reporting is “Mixed”
  3. Scroll down to “Failed Fact Checks”
  4. Review.

The website very clearly has a massive centrist, pro-capitalism bias. By picking and choosing what “fact checks” to include, they can tilt the “fact-based reporting” metric in whatever way they choose.

This metric is what is being included by the bot. That is the topic of conversation. If that metric is biased. It very, very, very clearly is.

FauxPseudo ,
@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world avatar

Did you just criticize a fact checking organization by calling it centrist? Are you looking for a more left or right biased fact checker?

sandbox ,

So, I’m guessing you’re American. Basically, your country is so fucked up that you call the right wing left wing and you call the far-right right wing. And centrism is like between right wing and far-right. Does that make sense? So when I say it’s centrist, I mean it’s right wing, but not explicitly fascist. Just contributing towards fascism in a “slow and steady” kind of way. You know, classical liberalism, neo-liberal, that kinda stuff.

It’s also very clearly zionist, so calling it centrist was me being a little bit nice.

Left wing is anti-capitalist, right wing is pro-capitalist. Hope that helps.

FauxPseudo ,
@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world avatar

That clears it up a little. Thanks for explaining what you meant by centrist being right wing.

Maerman , to asklemmy in What is a less popular type/genre of movies that you watch ? What makes it interesting for you ?

It used to be very popular, so I don’t know if this qualifies, but I watch a lot of noir and neo-noir. Specifically, I like the ones told from the criminal’s perspective. Films like Double Indemnity, Body Heat and The Postman Always Rings Twice are great places to start.

Diddlydee ,

The Maltese Falcon is great, and if you like black and white, I can’t recommend Brief Encounter enough. Excellent English love story.

sin_free_for_00_days , to linux in What is the Windows Equivalent of Popular Linux apps?

There’s this: github.com/lextrack/Simple-Screen-Recorder

Disclaimer: I haven’t touched Windows in at least a decade.

Subject6051 OP ,

Thank you! This would have been great if I didn’t get to know about ShareX, FOSS app and it manages screenshots and screenrecordings with many many more features! God bless the devs!

SirSoySauce , to coffee in brewing @ work?

I sometimes take my Aeropress with me. My Timemore Slim fits inside, so it’s really compact to transport. At my workplace, they already have a kettle.

xmunk , to asklemmy in What is a less popular type/genre of movies that you watch ? What makes it interesting for you ?

Are you strictly talking movies or any 1-2 hour long content because… have I told you about our lord and savior SummoningSalt?

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