Nyarlathotep

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[–] Nyarlathotep 1 points 2 months ago

Watch the original Star Wars, then The Empire Strikes Back, then Return of the Jedi. The versions you found are good.

Here's the important bit, turn off Jedi as soon as you see a fat fuzzy walking teddy bear creature. The introduction of the Ewoks is when Star Wars dies.

[–] Nyarlathotep 2 points 3 months ago

I reassessed OpenKJ, which I did not like before, and I am warming up to it. Give it a try.

https://openkj.org/software

[–] Nyarlathotep 2 points 3 months ago

This looked promising but I was quickly disappointed... You cannot pick a library path on another volume. Drat. Still worth a bookmark, thanks for mentioning it.

[–] Nyarlathotep 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've tried a bunch of karaoke software including trials of the commercial products. So far my favorite for house parties is Karafun for Windows. You need to dig up the v2 edition. They REMOVED the ability to play your own files in the new v3.

https://www.karafun.com/karaokeplayer/

Karafun isn't perfect, it can act up if you have a large library... Even freezing or crashing. But that generally happens at startup or shutdown, not during use. Imperfect as it is, it's still the best I have found.

We do serious parties, if I could pay someone for awesome karaoke software I would totally do it, but all the commercial versions are really hateful to use. (I guess I should take another look, it's been a couple of years.)

Edit to add:

I just re-tried Kanto Karaoke, it looks so promising... But as with every app I have tried it has some usability issues that are fairly devastating, for me anyway. I think it is worth a look if you are exploring the free and affordable options, though.

[–] Nyarlathotep 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks a bunch, I did not think about looking at YouTube. I have only ever used the MEGA archive and didn't know where else the dude hung out. I'll keep an eye on it and hope for the best.

 

For years an absolute champion named CC created great karaoke tracks and kept a Mega archive updated monthly. The Mega link is dead now. If anyone knows a new location I'd appreciate a tip.

CC if you are reading this, and it's all over, thanks for the good times. Your work was epic, and you really helped my karaoke parties.

[–] Nyarlathotep 3 points 5 months ago

Those were fun times. Raise your hand if you made a $100 mistake and got your sat box killed by an ECM, haha.

[–] Nyarlathotep 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks for sharing that post. That's genuinely new info to me. Very interesting.

[–] Nyarlathotep 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks to the two of you I tried 11 IoT LTSC and it's been great. I had no problems adding the store as you suggested. The Titus tool I already knew, it delivers.

Thanks again for encouraging me to give it a try.

[–] Nyarlathotep 2 points 5 months ago

I'm posting this from my new system, running 11 IoT LTSC as you and some others vouched for. It's great, whatever IoT LTSC is missing, I haven't needed any of it yet!

Getting the store and winget installed was easy enough, too. I'm very pleased.

[–] Nyarlathotep 2 points 5 months ago

uniget ui

Juat grabbed it, looks great!

[–] Nyarlathotep 2 points 5 months ago

New stuff to me, thank you!

[–] Nyarlathotep 2 points 5 months ago

Good stuff, thanks.

 

I'll soon be assembling a new PC and I need to figure out which version of Win 11 to use. I've not been able to find a good discussion of using IoT or LTSC for a "daily driver" gaming and productivity PC.

I'll want to make use of a lot of Windows features like virtualization, the ability to run Android apps, and the Linux subsystem. I don't need all the new feature updates immediately, but I also don't want to be running an antique OS... Just a debloated one.

If you've navigated these waters I would love to hear about your experience.

 

I've seen a number of posts lately like "How to get yadda yadda yadda" but when you click, the content is actually a question about the subject line, which sucks.

If you're posting a question, please make it look like a question. It's EASY... Just put a QUESTION MARK at the end of your subject line. It looks like this:

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We're pirates here, not fucking savages.

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