• Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Warning: IANAL

      It’s only destruction of evidence if it’s evidence of a crime. You can destroy data for countless reasons that are not crimes, but it might be up to you to show that it’s unrelated to a crime. Most large companies have a data destruction policy for that reason. If it gets called out in court (usually in civil cases), they can point to that policy. The docs weren’t shredded/erased to hide wrongdoing; they just haven’t been used in 24 months and that’s when our policy says to delete.

    • meco03211@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      (Such as “Destruction of Evidence” charges)

      Just checked my state’s law. It specifies “intentionally” destroying the evidence. If you have it set up to do it after a certain amount of inactivity, your intent is not to destroy evidence. By all means a corrupt judicial system or police force could still abuse it. But it shouldn’t be illegal (at least in my state).

  • spidermonkey23@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    A bit more niche, is Weasis - Dicom Browser for medical images. Alternative is also ImageJ which is used a lot in for scans too.

    • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I haven’t used windows in about 15 years on my personal machines but see 7zip referenced everywhere…why is it so popular? Can windows 10/11 or whatever we’re on now not compress/extract most things itself or do people prefer it for some reason (nice interface etc)?

      I’m always amazed when I’m following a tutorial written for windows and it says “download and install 7zip, then extract the file using 7zip”. I just right click the file and extract it…

      • vividspecter@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Windows only recently got support for 7z and RAR. For the several decades before that, it supported neither.

      • viking@infosec.pub
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        3 months ago

        Windows can do that, but opens archives as folders and will run executables by extracting them to a temp folder without dependencies. And the unpack dialogue is cumbersome, with 7zip you get a simple right click -> extract here / to folder dialogue, that somehow still is too much to ask of the main OS.

        • Someone64@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          It’s likely for 'user friendliness’. Most people don’t even know what an archive is and that it should be extracted so a folder is much more intuitive and familiar to them.

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      +1 VLC will dutifully try to play even corrupted to hell files that any other media player would just fail with some form of “can’t play, file is corrupt”

    • M137@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I agree that it’s cool and all, but I just really don’t like VLC. It’s ugly, bad UX and misses some major features. I love other similar and also free ones thoigh, like PotPlayer, MPC and MPV.

    • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      VLC is pretty great. I would say IINA is at least a close second on Mac. Haven’t had a problem playing anything in it yet.

      • million@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Yeah I personally prefer IINA on the Mac because of how native the interface is. Neither VLC or IINA has had trouble paying any video files I have.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          It even runs on iOS. It’s one of the only ways to play videos that aren’t in Apple’s bullshit proprietary format.

    • frunch@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      VLC just managed to get some newer video files to play for me on a 10 year old tablet that wouldn’t play them with it’s included video player. It was also one of the only apps on the play store that would still work on that old tablet as well. It’s been my go-to video player for years now, terrific software 🥂

    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it’s not yet associated with vlc

      “Hey… it looks like your going to have to buy a codec…”

      manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly

    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Wasn’t there some big thing where they tried to buy it and the person that made it was just like “nah”

  • TehBamski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I recently learned about an app called Snappy Driver Installer Origin. It’s a minimal FOSS program that checks our PC for the drivers it has, needs installed, or updated and goes about it quickly. It’s also portable so it’s great if you want it on a install thumb drive.

    There are so many apps out there that try to get you to buy or pay a subscription for this feature and others, so it’s been a breath of fresh air for me to have learned about and use it.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      windows drivers. i’ve been doing this work for decades: i quit chasing down every driver update from all the various manufacturers years ago. windows is actually really good at fleshing-out necessary drivers and putting them on, and has been for awhile. gamers and others that ‘need’ gpu driver updates, sure. get 'em from the source. same with things that windows didn’t have for some odd reason.

      my own ‘gaming rig’ in use now (zen3, 3060, w11) is just using the gpu drivers from windows update. they work just fine. i’ve never even loaded nvidia’s control panel on that pc and accepted its eula so i could make what few adjustments it has (very limited compared to the ‘full’ driver pack). they’re actually more stable, even: when the system updated to w11, i did try the ‘latest and greatest’ but the system crashed daily. rolled back (ty, reflect) and kept the wu-supplied drivers, and been smooth sailing ever since.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Microsoft excels at driver compatibility, and has for a long time. It’s their strongest suit.