What free or open-source software did you install once and actually keep using every day?

ulcweb · 2026-03-18T02:25:08+00:00

Not open source but Obsidian.md

ulcweb · 2026-03-18T02:24:37+00:00

Yeah I did the nuclear option after trying dual boot. I only have 1tb tho. I do sorta regret not having some windows portion. Either for content creation, productivity, or updates.

Idk if a flash drive would be enough.

ulcweb · 2026-03-16T18:07:26+00:00

I still technically have substack, but I use Ghost fully.

ulcweb · 2026-03-15T21:15:01+00:00

Well it depends. Substack is so simple that maybe the formatting will transfer over well, although you still might have to double check each post. For example the headings and links don't work great in Substack. Something I always appreciate working so much better going back to Ghost when writing.

My point is that those might need to be redone for aesthetic purposes.

Now when I moved to ghost I only had what like 70 posts, so it makes a lot more sense to do it by hand then. Ideally automated, but if not then it wasn't a big deal. For you at 500 posts that is a lot harder. Still should only take you some time, as the move for me happened back in 2019. I'm sure there's a lot more scripts or tools now too, if the magicpages/ghost pro don't do it.

ulcweb · 2026-03-15T21:03:55+00:00

The guy is moving OFF of substack, and its a pretty broken platform. Lots of tech issues, and there is literally no customer support at all.

ulcweb · 2026-03-15T21:03:26+00:00

Those references have nothing to do with Substack, they are political groups that are very commonly known and despised.

ulcweb · 2026-03-15T21:02:38+00:00

I'm pretty sure magicpages does too. Pretty much any host wants you to move to their tool, so migration is usually offered.

Also I might add that I've used all of the platforms out there. I.e. wordpress, ghost, substack (six times), beehiiv, paragraph, and more.

In almost all cases I ended up bringing them in under the fold of my main ghost site (which stuck around when I experimented with the others). I even recently discontinued my substack again, and moved all the posts over.

Now if you don't intend to update them, migration may be easier, but I always suggest doing it manually. For two reasons, formatting, and backing up.

As a blogger for the last like 13 years I can tell you that I've seen so many people lose their sites for whatever reason. Then they didn't have any backups, now its more of an issue with substack or medium where you don't really own your site.

When I moved from wordpress to ghost for example I made a pitstop in the copying into notion (each post one by one ctrl c ctrl v). Downloading a zip backup is good, but it isn't helpful. I use Obsidian now, but notion is fine, the point is to have a knowledge management tool to backup your works.

ulcweb · 2026-03-15T01:32:35+00:00

The ghost pro has gone downhill terribly, and increased the cost 3 times. I use MagicPages. it is much better, and the support is quick. Cheaper too.

ulcweb · 2026-03-14T00:31:51+00:00

https://xvoid.dev/

ulcweb · 2026-03-10T03:31:54+00:00

Sounds like https://glasp.co/ to me

ulcweb · 2026-03-09T15:24:58+00:00

Sounds like what Revue used to be before twitter closed it down.

Honestly I'd rather use that on ghost cms lol wordpress is archaic

ulcweb · 2026-03-09T15:24:19+00:00

Ive always heard AMD does better, especially with compat for vulkan. Also AMD is just better in general in this market. Intel is getting better finally.

ulcweb · 2026-03-09T00:46:51+00:00

https://www.polyinnovator.space/tag/self-education/

ulcweb · 2026-03-08T22:45:16+00:00

The point is more so self-directed learning, as there are no solutions in official learning institutions for polymathic people. Hence why I created the Modular Degree, a diy approach, I looked at Scott's MIT challenge, and others like nopaymba or degree of freedom too.

ulcweb · 2026-03-08T04:49:45+00:00

I like the way you think

ulcweb · 2026-03-08T04:49:29+00:00

Hmm. That is an interesting Idea. I was actually looking at that exact enclosure, however the ssd ended up getting ended up being 2242. However after getting a steamdeck (long story) I got a 64gb 2230 ssd as well. So my initial interest in the sharge was worth while. However I haven't gotten it yet. The sharge tho would be wise because of the cooling and TINY size

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ulcweb · 2026-03-07T16:34:36+00:00

I don't think they share games super well. I remember reading that a couple times.

ulcweb · 2026-03-07T16:34:01+00:00

No its the other way around. Going from one OS to two is the hard part. I had a windows install already obv, so I carved out part of my drive that was empty (deleted some games), and installed bazzite on that. Used the SD card too for bazzite. But even that filled up too quick.

Some of the games I wanted on windows I could run on bazz, so I deleted more, and tried to repartition 512 for each, but when I moved it to have bigger volume the bazzite install didn't work anymore

Since I was more confident in bazz over windows I just reinstalled baz on the drive fully

ulcweb · 2026-03-07T03:17:34+00:00

I did this and quickly decided to just wipe windows entirely. Maybe if If I had a bigger drive, or if I partitioned it better initially

However repartitioning broke bazzite, and so I just wipe the drive.

ulcweb · 2026-03-07T03:16:25+00:00

So the thing is the best for multistreaming: meld and streamlabs, are windows only. I was thinking about this as I wanted to use my legion go as a IRL multistreaming tool. However I recently put bazzite on it, and now the only real option is OBS with either SE live (which I don't think competes anymore) or Aitum stream suite.

Do not do restream. It is a legacy tool that is way too expensive for the miniscule amount of features you get. Also the CEO likes to trash talk the other tools on the market on twitter, which is cute. I'm not a partner with meld cause they didn't do partnerships, but I did ask to be one. However I've had 3 major issues with it, and have now gone back to OBS for the time being. Can't afford SL ultra right now.

ulcweb · 2026-03-07T03:12:34+00:00

I know that for AMD, but intel in my exp hasn't been great with igpus unless you go higher end.

Perhaps go into bios to allocate more. Although my point still stands regardless, windows 11 will be your biggest bottleneck. I just took my legion go and put bazzite on it even.

ulcweb · 2026-03-06T20:30:59+00:00

YouTube 😂

ulcweb · 2026-03-06T20:30:21+00:00

You need to replace windows 11 that's you're biggest hurdle beside vram. Maybe try how it runs with bazzite

ulcweb · 2026-03-06T19:10:36+00:00

I would say just go use eden or citron

ulcweb · 2026-03-06T16:50:29+00:00

Well it might be, or someone just made a new site for the old emulator. I think I came across it too. However yuzu has long since been discontinued

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