4718

It comes with Windows for free so give it a shot and let us know. I can’t really think of any features I’d want MS to add to it, it does what I want.

4719

I used to use Ditto years ago. Windows doesn’t have all the features of Ditto, it’s pretty simple. I used to use the Ditto hotkeys for pre-defined common stuff that I’d paste, there’s nothing like that. No groups or searching, no options beyond enabling cross-device sync and clearing the history. But then you don’t need to set up a local database to use it either. :)

These days I find just being able to have a clipboard history is all I need, and the built-in one just feels nicer, being native. Ditto was pretty ugly.

4720

The clipboard history appears as a tiny window to the bottom-right of the screen, above the clock. I wish I could drag the top bar and pull it up to have a bigger window.

4721

Dunno why, but it pops up right near the text input caret for me. Maybe something I changed at some point.

4722

With all our connected gadgets in the year of our lord 2021, is it finally possible to link a Win10 PC to an android mobile phone and thus make calls FROM THE COMPUTER and not use the phone itself? (Crazy idea, right???)

I looked into the MS “your phone” app and that requires bluetooth, which my traditional desktop PC doesn’t actually have. Does this mean this crazy scifi future tech of linked phonecalls is restricted to elitist laptop users?

4723

In the year of our lord 2021, many desktop PCs have bluetooth. :)

Mine does, I don’t use it for calls but for wireless xbox controller and headphones it’s great!

4724

In the year of the lord 2021, I have a Bluetooth dongle thingy that stick out of my mobo and it works great for wireless headphones, keyboards and such.

4725

Crazy stuff!

Anyway, I was just curious if there was a way to avoid bluetooth and/or why that was even a requirement. But yeah, I guess I can go buy an adapter.

4726

Damn elitist crap!

4727

Well, you said you wanted to link to an Android phone, I guess that’s just the protocol that lets you do it. Connecting over Wifi would just see the phone as a network storage device I guess.

If you just want to make call from a PC you could do it without the phone, using Wifi calling or VoIP if your carrier supports it.

4728

A google voice account can do it as well.

4729

Having the darnedest time trying to figure out an error in my event viewer for my new PC build. Running Windows 10 Pro, and I’m wondering if this has to do with me turning off wifi to the desktop.

Unable to bind to the underlying transport for (some IP address):9009. The IP Listen-Only list may contain a reference to an interface which may not exist on this machine. The data field contains the error number.
Event ID 15005

Pops every time I turn it on. I was able to trace the 9009 port to ID 4, which seems to belong to the all-powerful and mysterious “system” and is maybe related to shutting down the PerfDiag logger (error code 3221225864).

Looking online about the original error message seems to tell me about configuring “my server,” but I’m not currently running one (I’ll eventually have a home NAS, but that’s for down the road). Seemingly unrelated but perhaps it is; Windows Hello for Business is continually telling me with each load “provisioning will not be launched” because apparently I have it set as not configured… as I don’t need it, that I’m aware of.

Any thoughts from the geniuses of QT3? I’d love to (safely) quiet down my event viewer; I’ve learned to live with DCOM warnings, but this is kinda annoying.

4730

“system” is probably just the Windows equivalent of *ux/systemd process that listens on open ports.

The only quick references I see to port 9009 are either a “pichat” peer to peer chat app? or “a module of Gigabyte’s AppCenter called gcloud”. Neither really ring a bell with me, how about you?

https://whatportis.com/ports/9009_pichat-server-peer-to-peer-chat-software

4731

Oh, FFS - you’re probably right. I installed that to get my RGB aligned (it’s a Gigabyte board). I’ll go for one of the third party apps, instead.

4732

Might be of interest to some people.

4733

The MS Store already has too much off-label crappy shovelware. Then again, so do the PSN store and Nintendo ones.

4734

Steam is the granddaddy of shovelware marketplace. The world doesn’t have enough hentai visual novel, if you look at Steam new release page.

4735

At least you can change download order with steam and block while keywords and genres like what I’ve done with the hentai crap.

4736

Quick question: Lately, everytime my PC is idle and I haven’t used it for a few minutes the harddrive(s?) starts up and thrashes about noisily which is quite irritating. When I touch my mouse / KB, it immediately stops.

I gather this is W10 indexing, scanning or whatever. Any chance I can stop it doing that? Would hate to have to send my PC to sleep every time I don’t use it for a few minutes, JUST to prevent it from making noises when left to its own devices…

4737

You can turn off automatic disk defrag/trimming, storage sense, search indexing, Defender scheduled scans, (all searchable in Settings) to try and keep Windows from using idle time for housekeeping. I imagine there’s other things that get scheduled during idle that escape me at the moment.