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I am not sure how useful this will be for others, but for me, I run a radio player on my search engine here: https://searchthat.net/tools-radio-player.html and I have links to large stream databases, but at times they might not have what I am looking for, and this is where your tool might come in to fetch the stream.

I see you have "Works best on Chrome or Opera". I am assuming that is because of .m3u8 streams not running correctly. I recommend adding the HLS framework to run these streams. Here is a link to the framework. https://nochev.github.io/hls.js/docs/html/

Anyway, good stuff for me.




Indeed, the IGPU is helping a lot lol. I did have it native at 4K, but I had a crap load of hitching lag spikes, which annoyed me. That's when I decided to use Intel XeSS, which did a lot using its upscaling options. I guess this game is known for its hitching issues, mostly related to the CPU end of things, from what most say. This is the first game so far on my new rig I had to use upscaling with. Although I haven't played many games on it yet.

Yeah, the 5080 will be a massive bump in performance, and I'll have more flexible room to do what I want.

I don't care for ray tracing. I just want raw performance. So long as the lighting in games doesn't pull a Hogwarts legacy lighting bug lol. For the fuzzy and unnatural, I wonder if that has something to do with Unreal Engine 4. Who knows.


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Just for the heck of it, you can see I sacrificed a lot to play at decent framerates on whatever it is lol. Can't tell you. It doesn't even know lol. Just need to retire this old GTX 1080 soon. It's the last thing I need to replace now.


I would rather drop quality before resolution. When that needs to be next, I will do just that, which is being upscaled from 1920x1080 to 4K. So both are being done.

For the framerate. I can't give you a proper number because it's completely lying. There would be no chance in heck I would be playing at 1FPS lol. It feels like it's playing above 60FPS for sure. Although I spent like 40 minutes picking and choosing what I want, just to get a decent play. It's pretty good. No hitches, lag spikes. Still looks crisp. Sure, I am looking for some quality, but you can only push so much from a GPU. I am sure it would be running even better if I dropped the other monitors too, but that's not going to happen. It's time to upgrade, though. Most games are starting to be low by default now.

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GTX 1080 at 4k with 3 monitors at 1080p and one at 4K while playing and watching YouTube at the same time. Yeah, it's a bit, but it seems to be fine. Although I am playing the game at the lowest settings possible. Still decent quality. Eventually, I'll be upgrading to an RTX 5080. Meanwhile, this GPU is good for now :)



Yeah, I am seeing it a lot right now in the treasure vaults. I've tried to restart the game, and it still does it. There is a house in FeldCroft that does it too. The house behind Bernard Ndiaye. My only solution is to play it at night. Also found a save bug in one of the homes in Hogsmeade where after you save inside on the top floor and reload the save, the home becomes empty. Found that farming chests lol.



It's in the list above. I want to be clear on ST a bit. In my GDPR, there is my own tracking, but it's turned off by default, "optional". For external API's not all are proxied. Some may be tracked from their source. The main result is Google PSE, which is one of those that is not proxied. ST is a start page hub, where you can change the homepage search bar to any other engine if you like to stay away from the results page.



Here's a list of some search engines that are on my query search list that focus on a variety of things, from privacy, basics, features & more. Check them all out and pick the top 5 you like the most and why. Here's a list of some search engines that are on my query search list that focus on a variety of things, from privacy, basics, features & more. Check them all out and pick the top 5 you like the most and why.

Not all are general search engines, but "Search" is one of the functions.
My apologies if the about might be off on some of them.

AOL

  • URL: https://search.aol.com/

  • About: A web portal and search engine that combines results from other major engines with AOL’s own content and services.

Ask

  • URL: https://www.ask.com/

  • About: A search engine that focuses on answering questions directly, combining web search with a Q&A-style interface.

Baidu

  • URL: https://www.baidu.com/

  • About: The dominant Chinese-language search engine, offering web, image, video, and other vertical searches primarily for users in China.

Bing

  • URL: https://www.bing.com/

  • About: Microsoft’s search engine provides web, image, video, and news results, plus integrations with Microsoft services and rewards.

Brave Search

  • URL: https://search.brave.com/

  • About: A privacy-focused search engine from the Brave browser team that aims to minimize tracking and rely on its own index.

CC Search (Creative Commons Search)

Dogpile

  • URL: https://www.dogpile.com/

  • About: A metasearch engine that aggregates results from multiple major search engines into a single results page.

DuckDuckGo

  • URL: https://duckduckgo.com/

  • About: A privacy-oriented search engine that doesn’t track users and shows a simple, ad-light interface.

Ecosia

  • URL: https://www.ecosia.org/

  • About: An eco-focused search engine that uses its ad revenue to fund tree planting projects around the world.

ekoru

  • URL: https://www.ekoru.org/

  • About: An environmentally themed privacy search engine that donates a portion of revenue to ocean and climate causes.

entireweb

Excite

  • URL: https://search.excite.com/

  • About: One of the early web portals, now a metasearch engine combining results from several other providers.

Fireball

  • URL: https://fireball.com/

  • About: A German-based search engine that emphasizes privacy and localized results.

Freespoke

Gibiru

  • URL: https://gibiru.com/

  • About: A privacy search engine that markets itself as uncensored and anonymous.

GoGoPrivate

Google

  • URL: https://www.google.com/

  • About: The most widely used search engine globally, offering comprehensive search of the web and numerous specialized services.

Goo

Internet Archive

  • URL: https://web.archive.org/

  • About: A digital library that lets users search and view archived versions of web pages over time.

infospace

  • URL: https://www.infospace.com/

  • About: A metasearch platform that aggregates results from several major search engines and specialized sources.

iseek

  • URL: https://www.iseek.com/

  • About: A search engine aimed at professionals and students, focusing on authoritative and educational sources.

iZito

  • URL: https://www.izito.com/

  • About: A metasearch engine that combines results from various providers into a single interface.

metacrawler

mojeek

  • URL: https://www.mojeek.com/

  • About: An independent search engine with its own index, focused on privacy and non-tracking.

Naver

  • URL: https://search.naver.com/

  • About: South Korea’s leading search portal with integrated news, knowledge services, and community content.

Norton Safe Search

OpenMD

  • URL: https://openmd.com/

  • About: A medical search engine that indexes health, clinical, and biomedical documents from reputable sources.

Openverse

  • URL: https://openverse.org/

  • About: A search tool for openly licensed images and audio, providing Creative Commons and public domain media.

Presearch

  • URL: https://presearch.com/

  • About: A decentralized, community-driven search engine that rewards users when they search.

QuackQuackGo

  • URL: https://quackquackgo.net/

  • About: A small, privacy-minded search front-end intended as an alternative interface to mainstream engines.

Qwant

  • URL: https://www.qwant.com/

  • About: A European privacy-focused search engine that avoids tracking and profiling users.

Rambler

Refseek

  • URL: https://www.refseek.com/

  • About: An academic search engine that emphasizes scholarly and educational resources over general web content.

ResultHunter

  • URL: https://resulthunter.com/

  • About: A metasearch engine that combines multiple search sources with customizable filtering.

Right Dao

  • URL: https://rightdao.com/

  • About: A search engine emphasizing censorship resistance and on-chain indexing concepts.

SearchThat (ST)

  • URL: https://searchthat.net/

  • About: Customizable multi-source search hub that redirects queries to major engines with plenty of other tools and features.

Seznam

Shodan

  • URL: https://shodan.io/

  • About: A specialized search engine for discovering internet-connected devices, servers, and services.

SlideShare

Sogou

  • URL: https://www.sogou.com/

  • About: A Chinese search engine known for web search and its popular Chinese input method.

Startpage

  • URL: https://www.startpage.com/

  • About: A privacy search engine that serves Google results but strips identifying information from user requests.

StartSiden

  • URL: https://www.startsiden.no/

  • About: A Norwegian portal and search page that aggregates local news, links, and search results.

Swisscows

  • URL: https://swisscows.com/

  • About: A Swiss privacy search engine using its own index and semantic technology, also promoting family-friendly results.

Torry

  • URL: https://www.torry.io/

  • About: A search engine aimed at discovering tools, companies, and products in the Web3 and crypto ecosystem.

WebCrawler

  • URL: https://www.webcrawler.com/

  • About: One of the earliest search engines, now operating as a metasearch service aggregating results.

Wiby

  • URL: https://wiby.me/

  • About: A niche search engine focusing on small, old-style, and independent websites over large commercial sites.

WolframAlpha

  • URL: https://www.wolframalpha.com/

  • About: A computational knowledge engine that answers queries by calculating results from curated data and algorithms.

Yahoo Search

  • URL: https://search.yahoo.com/

  • About: A longstanding web portal and search service using a mix of its own technology and partnered search results.

Yandex

  • URL: https://yandex.com/

  • About: Russia’s largest search engine, offering web search plus maps, mail, and many integrated services.

Yep

  • URL: https://yep.com/

  • About: A search engine from Ahrefs that shares a portion of ad revenue with content creators.

You

  • URL: https://you.com/

  • About: An AI-powered search engine that blends traditional search with AI summaries, apps, and chat.

YouCare

  • URL: https://youcare.world/

  • About: A search engine that donates ad revenue to charitable causes such as animal welfare and humanitarian projects.

ZapMeta

  • URL: https://www.zapmeta.com/

  • About: A metasearch engine that compiles results and information from numerous web sources and search providers.



How I've done it in the past is make a backup with Softaculous in cPanel and download that copy, open up local.wp from local.com and build the local version in that. I personally rather cPanel-level backup and restore tools to a plugin. If you do use Softaculous, you can make a clone of your site with that without the need for a local copy.


The best one was killed off thanks to Edge. The Kiwi Browser was the best as it had full support for the Chrome extension store. Sadly it was shut down in favour of Edge which made its own and was way more limited in that category with their choosing of what could be added. I am not fully sure what happened and why the devs stopped but full support for extensions was amazing. I know it had something to do with Edge for sure.

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As a front-end dev, I'll give my feedback. Honest feedback is always important, even if it's good or bad. It helps in the long run.

- Firstly, they're are a ton of functions that do not work from what I am noticing at first glance.
- Not sure what the GitHub and Google login is for, but it's not for me.
- Search results are very slow. Not sure if that is just Wiki-like responses, ok.

User Interface

- UI is pretty bad. I was going to make a sample design of how it could be fixed with CSS, but from looking at the code in the dev tools, I can see you're following 0 standards on classes and IDs. Reminds me of early-day HTML, but inside of id="" or class="".
Also, don't need to have pretty much all divs using the same classes.
- Buttons are too large, icons are pixelated. You could even just use HTML symbols for a lot of it, and you can use the hex code as a replacement.
- Stop using div for pretty much everything. There is other things like <button> <select> <section> <form> <header> <main> <aside> <nav> <footer> and much more.
- Responsive layout is very bad. Large padding, no text size changes, not even clamp.
- General layout might look simple, but not done right.
- Response output is background, does not belong, no proper colour differences or boldness from engine titles vers metadata.

On a positive note, if this is your first site, congrats. We all started somewhere. I have had my ugly UI styles too at points, and we all learn from it. You'll get there one day.


I've been using Google's Custom Search engine on my site as a source for years now as my primary. Well over a decade at this point. The CSE/PCE does not show sponsored things between the results. Very clean. Maybe I am spoiled or just used to a lack of search information, but if I do go to look at Google's main search page or Bing I find them both a mess. I hate things between the results. Not my thing. I'd rather stick with what I have.

But to answer your question, I would choose Google. The reason is that Microsoft forces Bing in your face if you use a custom-added search engine on Edge in: edge://settings/privacy/services/search/searchEngines. I get this message all the time when the browser updates:
"Use Microsoft recommended browser settings"
Microsoft Edge helps keep you protected while you browse by blocking phishing and malware attacks.
- Set Microsoft Bing as your default search engine. The only options are Confirm or later.

I have also had toolbar notifications changing it to Bing all the time, and another pop-up I normally don't see that often, but they keep forcing Bing. Edge also puts banners on the Chrome Store page to use theirs instead. They are very pushy, so for that reason, I'll NEVER use them. Also, their Bing crawler ignores the robots.txt file and even their own console controls. I had to block it completely with Cloudflare. It acted like a greedy website scraper.

That's my two cents. Maybe 5 lol.










Looking for printable checklists for Stardew Valley? The Unofficial Stardew Valley Wiki Checklist got you covered.
All sections of the site for Achievements, Bundles, Bundles Remix, Cooking Recipe, Crafting, Field, Fishing, Golden Walnuts, Heart Events, Monster Eradication, Museum, Notes / Journal Scraps. Special Items & Powers, Shipping, Stardrop, Willy's Boat and even Giant Stump are all printable by design in mind. Just go to the page, and press Print.

https://destructiveburn.com/StardewValley/





IDE for data and Molex for power. You can buy IDE to USB 2.0 adapters for it if you want to pull data from it, or get an IDE to SATA converter. That was the connector before SATA with the ribbon cables.



That's the 2009 Alienware Area 51 case. It's the big brother to the 2009 Alienware Aurora case which that one continued till 2012 with R4 being the last. If it has fins on the top, it's the ALX version.
Old post: https://www.cnet.com/pictures/alienware-area-51-alx-exclusive-hands-on-with-the-fastest-pc-ever/

Since you have the Aurora R4, you should use the correct command center for that one. Go to the Dell site and put in your service tag number which is on the top middle of the sliding door and get the right version.


Not sure about if it's fake or not but I can tell you if it can handle 2A at 5V you're fine. Junk chargers usually skip on safety and quality components and fake their specs.




That's what makes a site like this worth it. Brings light to new things that may have been missed or not even known about by others. I am sure there are some things I have yet to find and add. Still on the lookout.





To help you slightly, I have guides on CrossMix-OS Installation
https://destructiveburn.com/TrimUIHub/guide-tsp-crossmix-os-install.html
and CrossMix-Settings here: https://destructiveburn.com/TrimUIHub/guide-tsp-crossmix-os-settings.html

The CrossMix-OS Reinstall page gives you an idea of what goes where.
https://destructiveburn.com/TrimUIHub/guide-tsp-crossmix-os-reinstall.html

Might not be fully helpful, but a great start.



That's one of the reasons why I made it. It's a source for new users or people thinking of getting one of these devices. But it's only useful if they find it first!



I don't do referral/affiliate links. I'd rather keep everything clean. Instead, it's either donations or if someone toggles on Google ads, which is optional in the GDPR menu. I removed OS from both of the names. The only reason why I did that is that these are alternatives and differ from the stock OS. Even on your official Github of NextUI states: "NextUI (formerly MinUI Next), a custom OS based of MinUI". So that's why I did that. Most people look at "OS" as Oh, that's different from the original.

Thanks for correcting me. Since you're a Dev of NextUI and think something should be added or removed, do let me know. I am looking to make sure things are 100% correct.









Well, that's even better. I've been working on an OS page for the TSP and Brick and have been adding OS systems with a quick description, screenshot of the OS, if any, Key features, and links to what matters. Since you're the Team lead, you would be perfect to choose exactly what should be posted here. That's your little section about spruceOS.

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I am aware AI lies. I don't like to use it for fact checking, but when it comes to limited information with poorly done or almost non-existent information, without going through that myself, it makes it difficult to fully know.

My guide must be detailed. I have no way of finding out what the progress bar colour is, so yeah, "progress bar" is neutral for that. I like perfection. Small details matter to me lol.

It's one of the reasons why I reached out on this topic to begin with. To ask someone who has done this before so they can fact-check my guide.

Misinformation or poorly done guides help no one.



Ok, so the instructions are correct. Was your progress bar blue or green? I asked AI about that one and it says blue but from the Firmware updates, I know it's green.

Also, thanks for letting me know the process is the same on the brick too. That makes this usable for both devices.







It's all good. I don't need any of the code. Just external source URLS, Apps, OS Systems, I see you have spreadsheet URLS. Just data sources.

I looked at the code layout for your Vercel repo, and it's a strange directory layout, LOL. I am starting to see people use that more. Personally, I have no need for it, but sometime I'll look at Vercel.








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Here's an updated UI for the Specs page. Might change the design slightly yet, but will see. A bit annoyed I can't find the specs from the manufacturer, and have to base this data on the sellers. If anyone does have the manufacturer's specs list, please do share a link so I can look this over and make sure it's all correct.


That's a good idea, unfortunately, unsure how that would work. I am building a static HTML site, and it doesn't have a backend for someone to log in and edit or add to it if needed. I am just doing this for fun. I like coding, and I love the TrimUi Smart Pro.

In the long run, linuxdroidmaster will have more data as he also has the Brick, Retroid Pocket 5, which I don't have.
https://retroid-pocket5-hub.vercel.app/

Good, valuable sources which I'll add direct links to when I get to that point.
I don't even know if this page for the TrimUI Smart Pro I am making will be even worth anyone's time, but we will see.


Thanks. 😊 I am just building this in Notepad++ as a static HTML, CSS, JS site like I do with a lot of the other sections of my sites. It's pretty straightforward. If I were doing some back-end work, which this won't have, then yeah, always good to get advice and help on it.

What I pretty much need is source data like:
- Custom OS Systems, Guide data, if there is any for them, and get that fact checked step by step.
- If there are third-party apps that can be placed directly inside the app folder, like EmuDrop, for example.
- Common Questions, but that's really easy to find.
- Good locations for accessories that are not your typical Amazon, Aliexpress and so on. Things like perhaps device mods, different cases and perhaps sometimes custom shell cases.
- Pretty much anything that will be a valuable source for the community, newcomers and so on.



Actually, I am glad you brought that up. That's kinda what inspired me to do my own. I noticed you had some links that would be useful. Hope you don't mind sharing sources. Your vercel.app will be added to my list for sure so others can check it out. It's a valuable source. I've never used vercel but I know others do.

For me, I love building static sites lol. I am working on trying to build something more modern than I have before from other things I've done. You have a good design and so far it's the only one I've seen besides what I am building now.






Just a design. Nothing is located in that location. Some say it could have been an idea for an HDMI port, but I think that would be the most stupid location to have it. What would have been more logical was to convert the Host USB-C into a video out to at least 720p 30fps, but that was a lost option. So, just enjoy it as a neat little branding logo. 😉


Portmaster is under "Apps". Under the Emulators tab.

For the "Emulators" tab, say you added PS1 ROM games to the "PS" folder of the MicroSD card Roms/PS directory, and you don't see PS in Emulators, do the following:

  1. Press the "MENU" button, then "Edit", find PS and make sure to check it.

  2. Press "B" and OK to save.

  3. Press the "MENU" button again, then "Refresh Roms".

Now you should see your games in that emulator folder.

For the Apps, do the same if things are hidden. For Emulators, only show the ones you have games for.



Ok fair enough. I've been playing for quite some time and that's the first one I saw. The only other issue I saw was some guy in the Slaughterstar 3000 would not die. I had to start the round again. Besides that, the game has been quite solid.



I’m still working on my review, but I do touch on this topic to some extent.

QC (Quick Charge) fast chargers communicate with QC 3.0+ compatible devices. The device requests a specific voltage, and if the charger supports it, it supplies that voltage. If the device is not QC-compatible, the charger typically defaults to 5V, which is the standard for all USB devices. However, I have noticed some quirks with my Samsung charger, which repeatedly cycles between charging and stopping, preventing proper charging while in standby mode. I am assuming the TrimUi Smart Pro doesn’t properly maintain a steady draw, so it's cutting power intermittently. I also have another fast charger that won’t charge at all unless I use an adapter. Fast chargers are smart. They can cut off power or switch voltages. "Not all behave the same way. Some may have a fallback mode that works fine with 5V-only devices, while others may be more finicky". 5v chargers typically output continuous voltage and don't cut off. " Some 5V chargers also have safety cutoffs if they detect abnormalities". So the quirks you get with QC 3.0+ are not found on 5v-only chargers.

The Trim isn’t a fast-charging device, so fast chargers will only provide 5V. However, performance may vary, as I mentioned above. The Trim’s power requirement is 5V at 1.7A (which I have measured already), so using a 5V 2A charger is my recommendation to ensure proper charging without issues.

I am not saying all fast chargers are bad for default 5v, but you might run into some issues or not. This depends on the charger’s design. There are standards, but sometimes you might be unlucky. Just stick to the 5V 2A only.

Now that you got that info, your Brick is more than likely 5v as well, and your Samsung charger all along was just outputting 5v. I am curious, though. Turn off the TrimUI Smart Pro and plug your charger into it and see if the light turns on, off, on, off. If it does, it's the same issue. This will let me know if that is just a quirk of mine or if it's on all, as long as you have the official, non-scam Samsung charger. Looks like you have an official charger. I compared the writing and fonts to mine and the imprint on the front. Mine's black, though. I know it will change just fine when the screen is on. It's just standby or off that the quirk happens.







I wonder and I am speculating here, but looks like the last time he posted was 4 years ago. That's when we had the pandemic mess. I wonder if he was a victim of that. If so, that's sad but would make sense that all of a sudden there is no response, everything was dropped. Maybe the guy passed away. If that's the case RIP.

On another Note, I have asked if Luke from RetroSix could make a backlight replacement. Unfortunately, he won't because he thinks there is no demand for it as people just replace the screens. Which is probably true. So if I were to remove the backlight ill need to sacrifice an LCD screen and take its backlight. It's a bummer because RetroKAI had the perfect one for it.

I hope my speculation is wrong but it makes sense.









No Bitrate is the amount of data processed or transmitted in a given amount of time.
FPS is frames per second.

In my tests, I kept the Bitrate the same because dropping the frame rate aka FPS from 60 to 30 was good enough without issues. Drop the bitrate a bit or try to reduce the resolution or framerate even more.