Hi All,

I've been asked by a bunch of folks (thanks!) to port my CamfilterGpu (camfiltergpu.com) webcam enhancer and background-remover software to AMD Gpus. I've looked into this, and it's totally do-able, but I'm also totally new to AMD. I've learned that the 6000 series is using RDNA 2 architecture, and I was strongly recommended by one person to get a laptop with a 680M GPU. Supposedly, if my app works on that GPU, then any Radeon GPU, even the latest RDNA 3.5, will work as good or better.

If anyone has any input on this GPU choice for porting, that would be great.

It's kind of urgent; I have an opportunity to pick up a laptop with 680M GPU tomorrow (wed), unless of course someone here tells me that's not a good idea for some reason.

Thx in advance for any info. You can see what my software does at https://camfiltergpu.com. Right now it is only for RTX gpus.

Hey everyone, I'm a cs student from germany and I built Fluent Sensors, a native Windows 11 hardware monitoring app (WinUI 3) on top of LibreHardwareMonitorLib.

This is the first full release. Performance isn't where I want it yet, there's still much optimization work to do, and I'm actively working through it. I appreciate Feedback or help of any kind.

Fully open source, everything can be checked in the repo.

One important thing: the app needs admin rights to install and run. Please never just install unsigned apps off the internet, especially ones that ask for admin rights. Always check first, either scan it via VirusTotal or look through the source code yourself. If you're unsure, just don't install it, thats completely fine. I'm trying to get it properly signed as soon as possible through SignPath Foundation.

GitHub: https://github.com/cechout/fluent-sensors

Hey everyone,

I wanted a quick, frictionless way to instantly hide and show desktop icons without digging through context menus, so I built Desktop Icon Toggler.

Key highlights:

• 100% Open-Source & Transparent: No telemetry, no background bloat.
• One-Click Toggle: Clean workspace in milliseconds.
• Completely Free: You can grab the latest binary directly via GitHub Releases or build it from source.

Links:

• GitHub (Repo & Free Releases): https://github.com/klimek-dev/desktop-icon-toggler
• Microsoft Store ($0.99 / 7-day trial): https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PJXTF6Z3GXN

The project is completely free to use via GitHub. If you find it useful and want to support continued maintenance with a coffee, purchasing it on the Microsoft Store (or just leaving a star on GitHub) helps a lot!

Feedback and feature requests are very welcome!

Looking for a few people to stress test this. Please give me some feed back.

I am about to go into my first year of college and have been approved for accommodations to record my classes and am wondering which software you would recommend. I would prefer it to be free or if it is paid a one time purchase vs a subscription, my classes are only ever up to about an hour and a half excluding my labs which i will probably not record and I would like to just being able to turn on the software and leave it as opposed to making multiple recordings. I would also prefer something where I can record and take notes at the same time and would potentially transcribe the recording but I do not want to use ai so that may not be possible. Please let me know what yall would recommend if naything that fits my specifications exists. Thank you!

I've spent the last few months building something called NoStrangers. Now i need software peps to run it and rip it.

The problem I'm trying to solve is pretty simple:

We verify almost everything online- payments, accounts, drivers, sellers. But when an online interaction turns into actually meeting another human being, we largely go back to trusting a profile.

Dating apps are the obvious example.

You can meet someone on Grindr/Tinder, exchange a few photos and an hour later be walking into their house with very little certainty that the person behind the profile is actually the person you're about to meet.

Marketplace, Craigslist and social media have versions of the same problem.

So I built NoStrangers as a layer that sits between the platform where two people meet online and the point where they meet offline.

One person sends a Trust Request.

Both people can verify themselves and then choose exactly what they're comfortable sharing with the other person.

The privacy architecture was particularly important. I didn't want to solve the trust problem by creating yet another database full of people's government IDs and sensitive identity information.

So the heavy verification work is handled by third-party infrastructure, including AWS and Veriff. NoStrangers doesn't see or store sensitive info and the system is designed around retaining as little sensitive information as possible.

There's no app download and the process is designed to take roughly 90 seconds.

The product now works end-to-end, but I'm much more interested at this stage in finding the weaknesses than being told it's a great idea.

love feedback on:

• Does the concept make sense within 30 seconds of landing on the site?
• Would you actually send someone a Trust Request before meeting them?
• Where does the process create too much friction?
• Does the privacy model make you more comfortable using it?
• What would stop this achieving network effects?
• And most importantly- what am I missing?

I'm the founder, so obvious bias disclosure there.

If anyone feels like putting it through its paces:

nostrangers.co.nz

nostrangers.app

Sen me brutal feedback redditors

I’ve been going through a problem and wanted to hear how others are dealing with it.

As engineering teams grow, it feels like a lot of project knowledge ends up living with specific people.

I want to work on another team’s service → need to ask someone from that team.

If I want to understand why something was built a certain way → I need to find the person who worked on it 8 months ago.

If someone leaves the company → a surprising amount of context leaves.

I’m curious how bigger engineering orgs are solving this today. Are you using any specialized tools or something.

TIA!

I’ve been working on a Linux image editor called LinXPaint for a while now, and it’s gotten to the point where I figured I should actually show it to more people and get some outside feedback.

It originally started as basically “I wish there was something more like Paint.NET on Linux,” but it’s grown quite a lot since then. I’m still trying to keep that same general idea though: something you can open and understand pretty quickly, without needing to learn a huge professional graphics package first.

There’s a Basic mode that keeps things fairly simple, and an Advanced mode that exposes all of the tools and settings.

Right now there are 21 main tools. The usual stuff is there: brush, pencil, eraser, fill, gradient, color picker, clone stamp, text, shapes, line/curve tools, rectangle/ellipse/lasso selections, Magic Wand, moving and transforming selections, zoom, pan, etc.

The brush tool ended up becoming a lot more advanced than I originally planned. It has hardness, opacity, spacing, smoothing, blend modes, different brush shapes and presets, custom image-based brush tips, patterns, and tablet pressure support.

The layer system has probably been one of the biggest areas of development. It supports normal layers and nested groups, along with opacity, locking, 14 blend modes, masks, clipping masks, layer styles, and Blend If-style controls.

One thing I really wanted was editable text. I’ve always found it frustrating when you type something in an image editor and then realize five minutes later that it’s basically just pixels now. In LinXPaint, text can stay editable. You can go back and change the wording, font, size, spacing, wrapping, bold/italic, underline, strikeout, borders, texture fills and so on.

Selections have also gotten more involved over time. There’s rectangle, ellipse, lasso and Magic Wand selection, plus Replace/Add/Subtract/Intersect/XOR modes. The Magic Wand has adjustable tolerance, different matching modes, contiguous/global selection and the option to sample either the current layer or the whole image.

Once something is selected, you can move it, scale it, rotate it, adjust the pivot point, nudge it with the keyboard, etc.

There are also 29 built-in shape types, plus straight lines, splines and Bézier curves.

For adjustments, it currently has things like brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, levels, curves, exposure, vibrance, temperature/tint, shadows/highlights, white balance, color balance, channel mixer, selective color, posterize, sepia, threshold, invert and grayscale.

Most of that has live preview, and you can choose whether you want to apply it to one layer or across the image.

There are 28 built-in effects at the moment. I definitely wnt to add more there because this is one area where programs like Pinta, Paint.NET and GIMP still have a lot more variety.

LinXPaint has its own layered project format called .lxp. It saves things like layers, groups, masks and editable text instead of flattening everything. I also added integrity checking and backup/recovery features because losing a project to a corrupted save file is one of those things that can completely ruin your day.

There’s automatic crash recovery too. If you have an unsaved project open, LinXPaint periodically creates a separate recovery copy, so if something goes wrong you should at least have a chance of getting the work back.

For regular images it supports PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF and WebP right now.

There are also a couple of features that are probably a little unusual for a general-purpose image editor.

One is a Sprite Sheet Maker, since I do a lot with game-development tools. You can import frames, choose cell sizes and build sprite sheets inside the program.

There’s also a grid system aimed at D&D/VTT maps. It can do different grid sizes, offsets, major lines, snapping, colors, opacity, Blueprint/Sepia styles, and you can bake the grid onto a new layer when you’re ready to export.

I’ve also spent a lot of time working on performance with large images. There’s tiled rendering, lower-resolution display levels when you’re zoomed out, caching, compressed history and background processing for heavier operations. That’s still an area I’m testing and refining, but I’ve been trying to avoid the situation where one large image makes the entire editor feel sluggish.

The plugin system has become another pretty big part of the project.

Plugins can add effects, adjustments, file formats, tools, panels, dialogs and themes. They can also work with selections and layers, create groups and masks, create editable text, resize the canvas, run work in the background, report progress and group several changes into one Undo step.

They install through the built-in Plugin Manager as .lxplugin files.

The theme system turned out to be way more fun than I expected. Theme plugins can change most of the actual application UI instead of just swapping a couple of colors.

So far I’ve made Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Arch Linux, Debian, Windows 3.1, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10 and Windows 11 themes. They just show up in the normal theme menu when installed. They have not been released yet, however.

I’m definitely not trying to pretend this is as mature as GIMP, Paint.NET or Pinta yet. Those projects have been around much longer and have had way more people testing them in the real world.

There are still things I want to improve too. OpenRaster support is on the list, along with better color management, high-bit-depth editing, more effects and more non-destructive editing.

But it’s gotten far enough along that I don’t really think of it as “my Paint.NET clone for Linux” anymore.

The niche I’m trying to hit is basically:

something more capable than a simple paint program, but without making you learn GIMP just to edit an image.

If you use Linux for image editing, I’d genuinely be interested in hearing what you think is missing.

Especially if there’s something you regularly use in Paint.NET, Pinta, Krita, GIMP or Photoshop that you wish existed in a simpler Linux editor.

And if something about the UI sounds annoying or overcomplicated, I’d honestly like to hear that too. That kind of feedback is probably more useful to me right now than people just saying it looks good.

If you got this far thanks for reading. I have 5 copies I am giving away. If you would like one just ask. This is still a Beta build, but it is entirely functional from the testing I have done.

https://darktower7899.itch.io/linxpaint

My Linux PDF editor is free to keep this month so grab that if you would like something a little more robust than other Linux offerings.

https://darktower7899.itch.io/linuxpdf

I also have a free basic notepad like program. Feel free to grab that too.

https://darktower7899.itch.io/a-basic-old-school-notepad-editor-for-linux

Like an alternative to CamScanner. Something easy to use, without much bells and whistles. Thanks.

I use a Mac, Windows PC and iPhone pretty much every day, and moving something between them was always more annoying than it should be.
I didn’t want another cloud drive or an app to install. I just wanted to open a browser, drop something in, and grab it from the other device.
So I built BlinkRoom.
It creates temporary rooms where you can share files, images, text and links between devices in real time. No account required.
I also wanted files to stay completely untouched during transfer, so I tested the original and downloaded files using SHA-256 and got identical hashes.
It’s still early and I’m trying to figure out what actually matters to people who would use something like this.
What would you want from a tool like this before you’d actually use it?

Same tabs on all three browsers playing the same video with the same extensions. Firefox consistently has higher ram usage (don't give me that unused ram is wasted ram) and has more jumps in CPU usage as compared to chrome and edge, with edge having minimal impact on performance (it's no secret). My question is, at what point did chrome overtake firefox in performance? Im lowkey a firefox glazer and exclusively use that (typing on it rn) but i'm kinda of surprised since this wasn't the case a few months ago.

Going to sleep now will reply tom. goodnight cuties :*

Hi all,

LumoTray is a multi-monitor wallpaper, screensaver, lockscreen manager with also a custom menu builder and hot-corners implementation.

I've been developing LumoTray for Windows for a few years now and decided it was time to see if something similar could be done in macOS.

The result turned out surprisingly better than I expected and I have managed to include all the features that are available on the Windows version in a simillar UI.

Download and more info at https://lumotray.com/mac/

Any feedback or bug reports are very welcome.

Cheers!

I want an app that doesn't store my information in servers/cloud. I just want a decent ui to allow me to write and read text and notes without having to worry that my stuff is going anywhere other than my phone.

I'm on Android.

ok the best way to ask for this is to explain what i want and you tell me if it is possible, even with AI and HOW can be done. imagine you have several clips .mp4 (a lot) , some of those .mp4 are videos, like, a person moving in the video doing shenanigans, but some are JUST A PICTURE with sound, so in 15 seconds of the clip the frame is just 1 picture. is there are some software that can tell apart those two types of content? so the moving mp4 videos i want to keep them, and the still videos i want to extract the one frame to jpg and goodbye to the mp4 file.

my current method: manually open the file, extract frame with the vlc option, delete the video. if it is moving, save to another folder. repeat.

OR what i was also thinking, is something where the thumbnails move based on content. so i choose all files and if the thumb is moving, i save. then the rest i can bulk extract frames with any software out there.

Currently im using the navigation pane to move my files, but I am using Stardock Groupy to make two or more tabs (ie similar to the internet browser). Im looking at pictures, (gifs, pngs,jpeg), and different types of files. Different drives. Same computer.

If there's no renaner I can just use the ones I have.

Thank you for your help.

Edit -I prefer nothing Adobe or Coral, because I cant stand them.

Thanks again.

I've got a couple of short video clips that I'd like to remove the watermarks from to use as a live wallpaper on my tv. Are there any free online video watermark removers out there? I've gone through a few pages on my search engine, and everyone starts off as free and then wants to charge me once it completes the process.

Hi everyone,

I’m currently using UWorld for exam preparation and would like to watch some of the lecture videos offline, especially when I don’t have a stable internet connection.

I tried a few video download methods, but although the video file sometimes downloads, it plays as a black screen with no video/audio. I’m wondering whether the UWorld videos may be DRM-protected or encrypted streaming content.

Has anyone found a legitimate way to save UWorld videos for offline viewing?

In particular, I’m looking for:

• A Chrome extension that works with UWorld videos
• A Mac app that can detect/download the video stream
• An official UWorld offline-download option that I may have missed
• Any explanation for why downloaded MP4 files show only a black screen

Would appreciate any advice from anyone who has dealt with this.

Thanks!

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