hello from my fancy new pc that i built myself!
it was a long and annoying process, and it's not quiiiite done yet, but i have windows 10 pro running and a couple games installed that i haven't actually tested yet oops
the last few bits and bobs are on the way and should arrive between this saturday and next saturday; im gonna dual boot with some flavor of linux and im gonna have a big storage drive and im gonna have a bunch of usb ports and stuff mounted in the drive bays and its gonna be great
hey by the way: does youtube have a memory leak on firefox or something? youtube tabs will often hang if i leave them open too long, and when i check task manager when this happens i find out i'm getting like 97% memory usage (of 32GB). this is from having eight tabs open, only one of which is a youtube video
if anyone knows anything about this, or better yet has a remedy, please let me know
it might be a misconfigured firefox extension but i'm not sure how to figure that out
i think it was a bad interaction between ublock origin and betterttv. i turned off betterttv's access to youtube and it seems to be fine now
okay its not fine, youtube tabs are still freezing sometimes. i THINK it's still ublock origin. does anyone have advice about this
new pc runs everspace 2 at max settings with only small hiccups. my old one could only really play it at low settings and even then the frames weren't consistent! oh man
tomorrow's task will be to put new drives in my now-previous pc and install linux on it, set it up for fileserver usage, and look into how best to access it from my current pc so i don't have to have a monitor and kb+m plugged in at all times. plain ole ssh/sftp is always an option of course but i'm thinking of trying out X forwarding, since i've never used it before and it seems cool and useful
(if anyone has advice for any part of that, please do hit me up; i'm decently familiar with linux in general but i've never used X or set up network file sharing on linux)
@typhlosion y'want boosts so this question gets in front of more computer-touchers?
@typhlosion I know @mathias has done that a few times recently I think, at least once for himself! I probably missed at least 1 thing on my new laptop oop >.>
@typhlosion our suggestions:
- OOSU10 (a control panel for some of windows's less desirable features)
- Openshell (gives you back the windows 7 style start menu and other stuff)
- Everything (search program that works way better than windows search)
- Core Temp (monitor your CPU temperature, can put the temperature in the system tray)
- Irfanview (basic no-frills image viewer that supports even some weird formats)
- notepad++ (it's notepad, but good)
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- VLC media player (it's VLC. you probably know it)
- Resilio Sync (peer-to-peer file syncing between computers)
- CPU-Z (get information on your hardware, good for if you need to troubleshoot something)
- ShareX (powerful, but simple and easy to use screenshot and screen recording tool, can bind to a hotkey)
- Wincompose (lets you set up compose sequences for arbitrary characters that you can actually remember, unlike alt codes)
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@typhlosion can offer more general utilities on request, these are just the ones we would think of as essentials
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@Hearth thanks, these are great recs
thank you for reminding me to grab vlc and wincompose, lmao. i prefer imageglass over irfanview, i dont remember why, ill probably end up grabbing both and comparing
resilio sync might be redundant because im already planning on turning my old pc into a SMB network fileserver but thats good to have in my back pocket
@typhlosion resilio is really useful because we have no idea how to set up network file servers
also, because it creates a copy of the files on each machine, it can be used for automatic backups as a bonus. we make sure anything we need backed up in multiple places (like our keepass database) is on there
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@typhlosion speaking of, keepass is another thing you probably want to install!
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@typhlosion (or your password manager of choice. we use keepass because it Just Works and is free and has no cloud nonsense)
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@Hearth @typhlosion 1000000000% seconding keepass as a password manager, been using it myself for so long that v2 dropped and I didn't even notice
@Hearth i have no idea how to set up network file servers either but by god im gonna learn
worse comes to worst, i can just sftp into my old computer and get stuff that way
@typhlosion oh yeah i also forgot to remind you you should grab 7zip. everyone ought to have 7zip
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more utilities we find useful, but not essential
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- qbittorrent (it's a torrent client, enough said. has all the features of μtorrent without being μtorrent)
- yt-dlp gui (click a button and download the video at the youtube url currently in your clipboard. works on some non-youtube things too)
- freac (convert audio between formats and bitrates, and rip CDs)
- mp3tag (manage ID3 tags on your mp3 files. Make that one track show up on your phone as its name and not "track 27.mp3")
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more utilities we find useful, but not essential
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- FormatFactory (looks really suspicious, actually harmless and pretty useful. Converts media between formats--video, audio, and images)
- Process Explorer (what? task manager is evolving!)
- DisplayFusion (lets you have window snapping! and some other neat features. Paid version has more features but you get wndow snapping for free)
- HxD (sometimes you just need a hex editor. HxD is the one we use for those times.)
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re: more utilities we find useful, but not essential
@Hearth a lot of these are things i knew about and was already using on my old pc but its good to have the reminder lmao
im a little surprised you havent brought up windirstat yet, one of my favorite utility programs ever
@typhlosion honestly we just forgot about it! thought we recommend wiztree over windirstat unless you're running it on a disk you suspect is damaged or has malformed data on it--wiztree runs way faster because it just looks at what the filesystem says is there, not what's actually there
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@typhlosion oh yeah another essential is LibreOffice, if you haven't gotten that already
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@typhlosion amusing side effect of installing Everything: you will now have a button in your start menu that says "uninstall everything"
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@Hearth i think the book of genesis has a story about god doing that
@typhlosion about:processes might tell you. It's hit or miss what gets dinged for memory allocation in some situations: it might attribute alloc to an add-on or a tab or whatever, but you might be able to tell if it's an add-on there.
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Is it happening while the tab is focused? If not, does it still freeze if the tab is it's own window but not the focused window? Could be a workaround.
@typhlosion love that feeling
so hey, does anyone have any suggestions for scripts and addons and stuff to make win10 more good and less bad? i already used MAS to activate it, so what other stuff is out there that i can do