probonopd

Wayland transition notes for X11 users

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X11 concept	Wayland concept	Notes
"Window"	"Top-level Shell Surface"	An entire window, including window decorations
X11 (the specfication)	Wayland (the protocols)	Neither X11 nor Wayland are binaries that can be installed
Xorg, one universally shared default implementation	Multiple competing Wayland compositors	Unfortunately there is no universally used single Wayland compositor; apparently every desktop environment does its own, and as a result what works in one may not work in another
export DISPLAY=...	export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=...	How to know which WAYLAND_DISPLAY one needs to export? The sockets (and their names) should be located in /run/user/*. If WAYLAND_SOCKET is detected, the client will prefer to use the socket provided using that environment variable.

ave9858

Easy Telemetry Disable for 10/11

Prerequisites

1. Upgrade to Enterprise edition of Windows 10/11 if you are running Home or Pro.
   • You can do this through the Change Edition option in the Extras menu in MAS.

Disabling Telemetry via Group Policy

1. Open the Group Policy Editor. Search for "Edit Group Policy" in search or run gpedit.msc.

probonopd

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

Feature comparison

natowi

Audio Plugin for Audio to MIDI transcription using deep learning (exe, app, vst3, component)

https://github.com/DamRsn/NeuralNote

Recurrent Neural Network for generating piano MIDI-files from audio (MP3, WAV, etc.)

https://github.com/BShakhovsky/PolyphonicPianoTranscription

A python program which performs an FFT on an audio file and produces a MIDI file from the results

https://github.com/NFJones/audio-to-midi

Extract the melody from an audio file and export to MIDI

rikka0w0

1. Download tools: ResourceHacker and mssstyleEditor, then unpack them
2. Download resources: Win8 theme for Win10, and then uppack it, we will need 'Windows 8 RP Themes for Windows 10\Theme\Themes For 10 Build 14393 Anniversary Update\Windows 8 RP\aero 8 RP.msstyle'.
3. Open it with ResourceHacker, export IMAGE 1055:0 and IMERSIVE 1:0.
4. Make a backup of the original aerolite.msstyles and make a copy of it to your working folder (arbitary)
5. Open it with ResourceHacker, Go to 'Action -> Add an Image or Other Binary Resource' or hit Ctrl+M to open the "Add Binary Resource" Dialog. Choose the menu image resource file that is going to be used, then change the "Resource Type" to IMAGE and resource name to be what ever available, in my case, 993.
6. Change the value of IMERSIVE 1:0, by importing the data from "aero 8 RP.msstyle"

Fuwn

Although Microsoft does not support Windows XP updates any more, I'm sure there are still many users using it due to their personal habits or job demands. Therefore, XP's product keys may still be necessary. Here lies the most comprehensive list of Windows XP product keys.

The following CD keys are official and original from Microsoft, primarily used for Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2/3 VOL/VLK system images, which are among the easiest to find on the Internet.

Windows XP Professional 32-bit Edition

AveYo

how to install:
hit download ZIP button top right corner
then unzip somewhere

in a windows explorer enter in the location bar:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes

then copy those unzipped .theme files there

blole

##Make win10 taskbar buttons Never combine, hide labels Normally, this option isn't available, and the valid options for how the taskbar button should behave are:

option	registry value	hide bit	combine bit
Never combine	2	0	0
Combine when taskbar is full	1	0	1
Always combine, hide labels	0	1	1

These options are set in Taskbar and Start Menu Properties, accessible by right clicking the taskbar and selecting Properties.