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* About
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I am not sponsored by any of the products here because 1: that bullshit
isnt allowed on my site, 2: a little stupid http site no one looks at
aint going to find any sponsors. *All products I bring up is just shit I
use all the fucking time and I find useful and approve of.* Sponsored
products is capitalist shit!

* Getting rid of google drive, onedrive...
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This is where most people tell you to use a good cloud storage service
like [[https://disroot.org][disroot]] but I have a even better
alterative. One that is onetime payment, gives you a fuck ton of
storage, fast upload and download speeds, works on all your devices,
never looks at your files, and it doesnt even need internet! Its called
the external harddrive. USB drives work to but they are little cheaply
made pieces of shit that are easy to lose, have a laughable amount of
storage for many uses, corrupt easily... You lite weight freaks may be
pissing out over the fact external harddrives are bigger than your
finger tip but thats a good thing because that means you will not as
easily fucking lose that mother fucker! Dont know about you but I lose
USB drives all the fucking time!\\
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Some cool tricks with a external harddrive is: making a encrypted
partition so +if+ when you lose it somewhere some edgy teen isnt going
to make the next few months of your life fucking hell, making seprate
partitions for files that will stay in linux and files you might have to
access on some random ass machine running windows so file permissions
dont get fucked over, and making scripts to make backing up and
restoring files easier.\\
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Wanta sync bookmarks, browser settings, addons... across browsers on
different devices? Dont use the stupid google account or
[[https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml][mozilla]] bullshit that
sells your information and gives it to the NSA. All you gotta do is copy
your .mozilla, .librewolf, or where ever the fuck your browser is
storing everything onto your harddrive than you can paste it onto
whatever device you want. Making a script to speed things up a bit isnt
too hard either.\\
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For those who dont know how to find things I personally use
[[https://americas.lexar.com/product/lexar-professional-sl600-portable-ssd/][one of these bad boys]].

* Password manager
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Do you use the same password for everything? Thats fucking stupid. Do
you click yes when your asked if you want the password saved? Those
builtin password managers tend to get hacked and people arent good about
backing them up so they fucking lose everything easily. *The best
password manager is a spreadsheet!* But wouldnt that be a easy way for
your information to get leaked you say? *Thats why spreadsheet programs
have encryption options.* Now you only have to remember one password but
can still have strong passwords for everything, your welcome. Dont use
stupid ass closed source shit like microsoft office. Instead get
yourself libreoffice. Openoffice is old af so I wouldnt trust it for
password locked spreadsheets. Do you dual boot and wanta share it on
multiple OS's? Use a shared file partition. Wanta back it up to the
cloud? Use a external harddrive like I already said but if you do throw
it on a cloud service they arent going to get into that mother fucker
*if you used a different password than the one for the cloud service*.

* Watching youtube
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Hate google but still wanta watch youtube? There are some tricks you can
do.

** mpv
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One of the features mpv has is it can stream youtube videos. I try to
use alterative youtube web clients and they tend to work great for
searching for videos but poop out when you try to play the video. When
this happens just throw the youtube url into mpv. Also under the hood
youtube channels are just rss feeds so you can use a feed reader to keep
up with your favorite channels than watch them with mpv. I also talk a
bit about that [[file:linux-room.org::#liferea][here]].

** yt-dlp
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[[https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp][yt-dlp]] is for downloading your
fucking videos! Check out
[[https://reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/15xqg3t/ytdlp_for_dummies][this reddit post]] for a little dummy guide/cheatsheat.

** Invidious
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I always have a invidious redirect setup in my browser. You can find
instances [[https://docs.invidious.io/instances/][here]]. Its pretty good for when someone throws a youtube link at you
without warning or when you need to search for videos though as far as
watching goes mpv is way better. More often than not invidious poops out on me
when I go to watch the video so I just through it into mpv.

** Newpipe
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Great little mobile youtube client. Has the best interface out of all
the youtube clients. And it can import your subs from your youtube
account using that same file my rss feed list script uses. Once you get
your subs from your youtube account you can ditch that mother fucker! It
poops out sometimes but the devs are fast to fix it.

** Revanced
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    :CUSTOM_ID: revanced
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Revanced is a project that patches the official mobile youtube client to
block ads and do other cool things. The official site is
[[https://revanced.app][here]]. On search engines the unofficial
websites show up first so be careful. Some people have used the
unofficial websites without getting hacked while others have gotten
their google accounts hacked using it. I dont really care for revanced
too much because it still requires you sign into a google account and
for the most part use the official youtube client even if it has a few
patches.

* Headphones
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Need a pair of no bullshit bluetooth headphones that work just fine on
any device and dont use any stupid app? Get
[[https://www.skullcandy.com/products/hesh-evo-wireless-headphones][one of these bad boys]]. They have bad ass 40mm drivers and quite good
frequency response. They are about the most balanced headphones
skullcandy sells and atleast for consumer headphone standards they are
balanced. *Most consumer headphones are unnaturally bassy to try to
cover up the fact they are pieces of shit* because most of you fuckers
think more bass means better sound. Hesh headphones have enough bass to
itch that scratch while still being actually good headphones. Most
bluetooth headphones have a weak single and barely ever manages to
connect. Hesh headphones on the other hand have a nice strong signal and
are the only bluetooth devices that have not gave me shit. And guess
what? They still have plenty of battery life! They actually have a
usable headphone jack, the interface is good old buttons instead of
swipe bullshit, and they dont even have an app let alone lock features
behind one!\\
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They are built to last and can survive whatever shit life throws at
them. You can also get the anc which are a active noise canneling
version but they tend to make a slight clicking sound sometimes when anc
mode is enabled. For us sensative people the clicking renders the anc
useless and the hesh models already have good passive noise canneling as
is. The evos cost less than the anc and they have slightly better sound
and battery life. Though I guess if an anc mode that makes an annoying
clicking sound is your thing have at it with the hesh anc. As much as I
hate outside noise the clicking is nearly just as bad.\\
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Skullcandy's tend to be the main pick for musicians. Thats because alot
of us know better than to waste money on buying shit from apple, bose,
jbl, sony... when skullcandy sells way better headphones for a fraction
of the price.

* Guitar, bass and related things
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** Fender style guitars
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Wanta buy a electric guitar? Do yourself a favor and get a g&l. They are
the best electric guitars money can buy. Mainly for basses but also
guitars Music Man also has some fine stuff. As far as fender goes the
*american fenders are overpriced pieces of shit!* Instead get yourself a
mexican fender, japenese fender, or even a squier! My first electric was
a mexican fender and its a really great guitar though as great as
mexican fenders are g&l and Music Man are just better though I didnt
know about them at the time. I been fucking around with some g&l
hardware on a squier tele but tbh I have never owned a g&l as much as I
like them.

** Gibson style guitars
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*Never buy a gibson!* Might as well buy a fucking tesla to match your
gibson! Instead get yoursefl a fine epiphone and if you do get a
epiphone there is no finer epiphone than their version of the firebird.
Its a through body so it doesnt have the same neck issues as most gibson
style guitars though beware of finish cracking around the nut though its
not a problem (most of the time).

** Straps
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I always get strap lock. The fucking strap buttons hurts my autism. I
dont fucking want to see a guitar or bass fucking hit the ground. Strap
lock will save your stupid ass. I have seen people preforming live have
their guitar hit the ground.

* I need a new pc or laptop
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Does it have linux installed? If not install linux and that mother
fucker will last many more years.

[[file:images/stonks.jpg]] [[file:images/tiny_lain.gif]]

Already have linux? Get something that isnt linux! Some of the more
funky options include:

+ [[https://www.haiku-os.org][Hauku]]
+ [[https://kolibrios.org][Kolibrios]]
+ [[https://templeos.org][Good old templeOS]]
+ [[https://serenityos.org][SerenityOS]]
+ [[https://toaruos.org][Toaruos]]
+ [[https://www.redox-os.org][Redox]]

* Mice?
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As much as I dont like big brands the best mouse money can buy is the
logitech G203 lightsync. I dont like overpriced gaming mice. They often
feel wrong in my hands, are overpriced pieces of shit, fucking shit out
in linux... I use to game with shitty office mice because of that. The
G203 is shaped like a office mouse and is the right weight. Fuck the
super heavy and super lite shit. And the cool shaped gaming mice fuck up
peoples hands. The magic of the G203 is you can still get gaming mouse
features like smooth tracking that isnt shit, a good ass scroll wheel,
dpi button, side clicks, and rgb while still having a reasonable shape
and weight. In linux there is even a piece of software called piper so
you can configure your G203 without closed source windows bullshit! To
top things off the G203 costs far less than all the fancy mice and out
preforms them. Even if you just want a office mouse the G203 is going to
not only be a big upgrade to your 2010s office mouse I know you use but
also completely outclass all those overpriced modern office mice your
boss spends too much of their 6 figures on.

* Keyboards because why not
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I use a modded dierya DK61SE. Just a little funky keyboard but I dig it.
I replaced the keycaps, tubed up the switches, put foam or some shit
inside to make it sound better, and some friend did a little bandade
hack to make the guides for the larger buttons shake less.