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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Everything search app is easily my most used on my Windows PC. Instant, as-you-type file search by name with detail sorting and wildcard support. I set a keyboard shortcut as well. It puts Explorer search to shame. As good as Spotlight, which I was missing from when I had a Mac in 2008.

    LaunchyQT - modern fork of Launchy that actually gets development. App launcher, dead simple.

    FanControl - Fan curve software with all the features I want including hybrid temp sources, sensible automatic settings, visual graphs with an intuitive interface.

    AutoHotKey - Hotkey scripting language that I can use even as someone who barely codes.

    Transcribe! - Not open-source but it’s a reasonably priced audio and video slow down app for transcribing.



  • Some of them have freeleech on some torrents. TorrentLeech has freeleech on every torrent over a certain size (I think 15 GB) + Box Sets of any size and then you just have to seed for 10 days total, then you can stop without penalty to your ratio. I have never paid money to TorrentLeech for access. I suppose this would change quickly if I was downloading individual episodes of a new show or 10 to 14.99 GB torrents, but that’s not my usual usage pattern.

    I will say that some of your criticism is correct. I will often avoid using the private tracker to avoid having to seed for 10 days. I can’t get to a 1.0 ratio on private trackers, but I can on public ones, but freeleech seeding adds to my ratio with no penalty for downloading. The zero-sum vibe is both real and off-putting.

    I currently have a ratio surplus of 34 GB, and it started me with 25 GB. The benefit is if I really want something, it’s easy to access



  • It seems kind of strange that “prey animals” would be what they are called in an official document. An analogous situation is how we call it “enslaved persons” now instead of “slaves” because that describes what is/was being done to them rather than essentializing them as a “natural” class which is taken for granted.

    Also, one year minimum seems rather short for what is essentially a murder-like charge unless their lives are very short like cats in real life.