🧐Updates: • PDFCPU now supports the "decrypt" command (and some others) for PDF 2.0 files as of version v0.8.0, allowing you to remove edit protection for them 📝 Some tips based on questions I've seen a couple times: • For basically all of these, you need to run them from within the command line, NOT by double clicking, otherwise it will just pop up the cmd window and immediately close. On recent versions of Windows, you can do this by right clicking in the folder with the exe and clicking "Open in Terminal". If you don't see the option this tutorial page might help: www.elevenforum.com/t/add-or-remove-open-in-terminal-context-menu-in-windows-11.2479/ • To make it so you can run the 'cheat' program (and any others you want) without having to navigate to the folder containing the exe file first, you can add the location of such exe's to the so-called "PATH environment variable". Basically Windows has a built-in list of locations in Windows, where if an exe is in one of those locations, you can still run the program by doing like "cheat.exe" even if the cmd window isn't opened in the same folder as the exe. This video is a good tutorial on how to edit this setting: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pq2CqpSTzMiVl4k.html
@sketchtherapy12185 ай бұрын
yt-dlp doesn't work it just closes when you paste.
@danbromberg4 ай бұрын
You left out a lot on how to implement CHEAT for Windows; you should've said upfront that this is for Linux users. Even the GitHub doc states the following: TODO: community support is requested here. Please open a PR if you'd like to contribute installation instructions for Windows. Kudos to those of you who got it to work on Windows; please share how you did it.
@icantcomeupwithnames4694 ай бұрын
@@danbromberg It's for Windows, he shows it running under Windows, and he even has a batch script serving as a wrapper for it.
@danbromberg4 ай бұрын
@@icantcomeupwithnames469 Thanks! I found ThioJ's 'c.bat' file but can't find where to download 'cheat.exe'
@danbromberg4 ай бұрын
@@icantcomeupwithnames469 I saw the script but where does the executable: 'cheat.exe' come from?
@astropgn5 ай бұрын
"FFMPEG: The most widely used multimedia transcoder on at least two planets" - The team behind ffmpeg added this into a presentation because Nasa uses it in some of their rovers on Mars to transcode their videos before sending back to Earth.
@ottergauze5 ай бұрын
That's wild. Not many software devs can make that kind of claim.
@xanderplayz34465 ай бұрын
Wait what
@msmit19995 ай бұрын
Huge flex
@_tr115 ай бұрын
That actually pretty wild bro. Imagine being so popular your software is used on 2 whole different planets
If you want GUI based tools or are scared of the command line here are some: Open Video Downloader is a front-end for yt-dlp and FFmpeg Handbrake is a front-end for FFmpeg IrfanView can edit images and shows all EXIF information and JPEG quality (press I) Mp3Tag can edit metadata of audio files but it can also edit video containers like MP4 and MKV including inserting images There are many more out there, tell us other good tools. 😀 Bit of history... outdated now but I remember using RazorLame which was a front-end for LAME for encoding MP3s back in 2003 in the Windows XP days. Now LAME lives on within FFmpeg.
@charliesretrocomputing5 ай бұрын
never knew that about HandBrake!
@F_Around_and_find_out5 ай бұрын
VLC is also a ffmpeg GUI frontend. It is a mile better than the basic video player that Microsoft use.
@Didz5 ай бұрын
@@F_Around_and_find_out VLC installs its own set of codecs. If you want more use out of playback software that uses system codecs install a codec pack such as K-Lite Codec Pack Mega
@danhorus5 ай бұрын
IrfanView is the best. Been using it for more than a decade
@markae05 ай бұрын
Open Video Downloader stops working after ? a month
@NoramiYuuki5 ай бұрын
honestly, my favorite is yt dlp. it's probably one of the most used tools out of this list by your average day to day person, and it's also the most useful one to me, somebody who constantly does editing, clipping, archiving etc.. thanks again for yet another fantastic video!
@vinching9265 ай бұрын
Same here, using yt-dlp and ffmpeg in cli make me feel less braindead in the process on getting sources, it's just KISS principle all the way
@iPandora085 ай бұрын
a cli tool I've found to be useful is tldr. it takes the man/info commands from Mac/Linux, and and lists the most common uses for the command :)
@flanger0015 ай бұрын
Cheat reminded me very much of tldr!
@Purely_Andy3 ай бұрын
tldr *is* cheat
@justice32legends5 ай бұрын
This video is a gem. I wanna jump into every single program you've compiled here right now.
@ThioJoe5 ай бұрын
Extremely epic and awesome and good
@nuggynet5 ай бұрын
Best youtuber
@_tr115 ай бұрын
Truly indeed
@Alex-bs4sy5 ай бұрын
No, I hate him and his content Jk
@ego-lay_atman-bay5 ай бұрын
Why are you in your own members section?
@brunocamposquenaoeoyoutuber5 ай бұрын
Hi
@content_ai_5 ай бұрын
@ThioJoe you forgot unsilence, it removes the silent parts of videos and audio, its super nice
@NiyaKouya5 ай бұрын
May not quite fit the criteria you set for those tools you picked, but to add another one for people who prefer the console: winget It's included in Win 10 and 11 and lets you install and update a quite big variety of programs without having to hunt for their individual installation packages. Might not (yet) be as mighty as the linux equivalents (apt, dnf & co), but it's still a neat helper.
@kevbu45 ай бұрын
It's always good to make sure new people know about winget. It's a really awesome tool. And for anyone who hasn't seen Joe's video about winget, check out "Windows FINALLY Got a Package Manager - Here's Why It's Awesome".
@no_name47964 ай бұрын
Yeah, honestly that's just so nice for whenever i am forced to use windows Although it differs from linux package managers, as in linux you really install packages, while in windows you actually install the app. So it's easier on windows to install stuff like zoom for example, but at the same time linux pm give you such a level of customization, windows can't even dream about
@ego-lay_atman-bay5 ай бұрын
I love ffmpeg, I use it all the time to split, merge, and compress videos. It's just makes me feel I have more control over the output than the gui video editors for mobile.
@anamoyeee5 ай бұрын
Tokei is definitely my favourite, seeing how many files and lines of code i have written for a certain project is just so nice to have
@TheWilro5 ай бұрын
I love your Videos. Unbelievably useful! Definitely saw some tools and features here that I was not aware of yet. Much appreciated mate.
@abdulbasit01235 ай бұрын
Love it, We need part two please
@gavincstewart5 ай бұрын
One of your best videos yet, thank you!!
@pyp22055 ай бұрын
Well this is definitely going to be handy, since I spend most of the time on the terminal. I would usually write scripts to automate stuff, just to save time and not worry about forgetting a command.
@moregainfor5 ай бұрын
This video has just made me love cmd. Thanks a lot, this has been very helpful
@surject5 ай бұрын
Happened to me in 1986 already.
@jovetj5 ай бұрын
@@surject Happened to me in 1982. Though, technically speaking, cmd.exe didn't exist yet. hahah
@ckingpro5 ай бұрын
Extracting PDF images using either of the two tools you mentioned is a lot better than Windows + Shift + S or Cmd + Shift + S and selecting the region. Thanks for that!
@dani333005 ай бұрын
10:10 Paper tiger" is a calque of the Chinese phrase zhǐlǎohǔ The term refers to something or someone that claims or appears to be powerful or threatening but is not ...
@CedroCron5 ай бұрын
I knew about none of these, I like them all. Thanks! ... Ugreen looks like a great competitor for Snology, but I'm worried about their security both because of their size compared to Synology and because of them being a Chinese company. For home users I guess it's ok if you want to take the risk with your data not knowing the company. I will say though they make high quality products like cables etc. as I've purchased these on Amazon when needed and no "mysterious" chips in the connectors of these cables when X-Rayed
@Rakusan25 ай бұрын
I question the use case of hyperfine since I tend to use the Powershell commandlet 'Measure-Command'
@LeonderGrunder5 ай бұрын
Winget is also crazy cool, because it is not restricted by schools.
@rochellerochelle14884 ай бұрын
This, good sir, earned both a like and a subscription.
@SperkSan5 ай бұрын
Some people's voice, like Joe or Jason (from DDOI), is so soothing that people would buy ASMR of them.
@stephenluttrell89585 ай бұрын
Cheat is going to be a time saver. I have a bunch of txt files with command line examples.
@pabloqp79295 ай бұрын
Windows CLI barely mimics a fraction of Bash's power
@jovetj5 ай бұрын
Quit Bashing Windows.
@ashleyjaytanna19533 ай бұрын
@@jovetjAgree....Bin bashing windows
@6708392455 ай бұрын
Cheat doesn't have an install instruction for Windows in its documentation. There is a Powershell script in the pull requests for automatic downloading and extracting the program, but you can also just download the windows version from releases, put the exe in PATH, and rename it to cheat.exe
@WannesVantorre5 ай бұрын
As a programmer i LOVE hyperfine. it truely is hyper fine.
@jsnotlout33125 ай бұрын
Imagine magic is amazing, I used it to convert scanned documents into a pdf and then email them with a time stamp name using a power shell script
@samuelshubert5 ай бұрын
Omg this speeds up a lot of. I needed this!
@rwfrench66GenX4 ай бұрын
Great video! I’ve been stressing for months trying to get Microsoft Store to work since I updated to Windows Pro 11 last year. I’ve tried every fix on at least 200 websites, I’ve updated Windows, the Bios, all firmware, all drivers, I’ve made sure all the services related to the Store are on, and the registry, I checked my Microsoft account, but I can’t update the Store or get any of my apps or games I downloaded from the Store to update. The error code has been reported, I called Microsoft and they literally hung up when I said I was calling about the Store. It works fine on my iPad!
@pangoomis5 ай бұрын
No mention of SFK - Swiss File Knife? Its instant FTP server makes it super trivial for me to move data to/from retro PCs, and it has, so, so much more tools!
@annettesurfer5 ай бұрын
YT has a free “watch later” function so I don’t see any reason to waste space downloading. As for command lines, here’s my weekly basic go-to after I’ve exhausted every possible update: CMD>Admin>Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /Checkhealth CMD>Admin>Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth CMD>Admin>Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth Sfc /ScanNow Winget Upgrade --All Merely gleaned from the ‘net, no personal technical knowledge so redundancy is unknown. Perhaps SFC would suffice but the entire process is very quick anyway. Comments are welcome.
@UncleJemima5 ай бұрын
there are plenty of reasons why someone might want to download a YT video though: - to extract the audio (think music) - to clip segments - to watch without an internet connection - to preserve the file in case YT or the uploader removes it
@annettesurfer5 ай бұрын
@@UncleJemima I suppose people do have reasons. Thanks.
@knoxduder5 ай бұрын
PDF-toolkit has been around for over a decade and is awesome!
@NewStreamLine4 ай бұрын
Thx a million for this video. Now we definitely need a video about corresponding GUIs. 🙂
@chyldstudios5 ай бұрын
On Linux, I have these programs as well as thousands more. I use Arch, btw.
@unclecomrade_yt5 ай бұрын
Finally, I found the easy way to quickly get some jpegs lighter. Thank you! And it's nice of you to write scripts to make it easier to use, good job!
@xavvvvxd5 ай бұрын
Interesting! Definitely gonna get Cheat, an absolute life saver by the looks of it
@rohinhans78195 ай бұрын
have you gotten it yet? I just started to use it, but cant seem to use the search feature as he does in the video lol
@xa35585 ай бұрын
Thank you, Thio !
@Chris-op7yt5 ай бұрын
command line is king/queen, as that's how you can connect several tools to do a job that has not been authored into a bespoke gui application. this all works great when commands are written to work this way easily with standard input and output
@XyQrTw3 ай бұрын
You can also use hardlink to rename commands like Cheat , this keep your old file and does not take up space .
@Lampe20205 ай бұрын
I think on Linux there is an actual ImageMagick GUI, e.g. preinstalled on RasPiOS.
@mucookul5 ай бұрын
I believe there is a tool built into windows that does something similar to the err command It comes up sometimes in “enterprise” windows versions like education edition
@ThioJoe5 ай бұрын
Hmm 🤔
@UmitSeyhan755 ай бұрын
Winget and aria2 are awesome.
@r66fplaysgames5 ай бұрын
There is also a GUI for FFMpeg called WinFF.
@Zak_Hooi5 ай бұрын
I normally use PDFTK for some actions on PDF files, but PDFcpu (at least under WSL) is much faster and can remove the password protection that interferes with splitting / rearranging pages.
@ax--media5 ай бұрын
Finally, I no longer have to use those sketchy online converters. :D
@benbou5 ай бұрын
Let archive this video with YT-DLP, it's a good one!
@US_Joe5 ай бұрын
Cool stuff -Thanx Joe 👍👍👍
@danbromberg4 ай бұрын
For those Windows users who had as much difficulty installing CHEAT as I did, installing with Chocolatey couldn't have been any easier! Possibly winget would've worked as well.
@Joooooooooooosh5 ай бұрын
Cheat reminded me of something I recently made for Powershell. It's a keyboard shortcut that lets you input a brief description of what you want to do, then it calls GPT4 API to find out the command or short code block to get it done, and replaces the input buffer with that command. I doubt it will let me link to it in comments though. 😐
@RonakDhakan5 ай бұрын
If you need another command line tool to help you remember all the commands for other command line tools, that means somebody should just make a GUI program instead. I use command line only if I have to.
@icantcomeupwithnames4695 ай бұрын
GUIs are far less flexible, less compatible, and slower than even searching man pages for what you want, let alone compared to a program that spits out your commonly used arguments for you (although at that point, why not just make a wrapper?).
@stephenluttrell89585 ай бұрын
You can’t use GUIs with scripts, and for some of us, the command line is indispensable. I am blind and it’s a crapshoot if a GUI will be accessible to me-especially if it’s open source and made by normies who don’t care about a11y.
@jovetj5 ай бұрын
I always have a Command Prompt open because I use it so much. Fastest way to filter files and often just to get things done. I even made my own DIR replacement.
@lifebleeds865 ай бұрын
So Cheat is the windows version of man for Linux but it isn't anywhere near as good?
@ottergauze5 ай бұрын
Eeeh, man pages aren't great if you just want fast example uses. It can still be pretty overwhelming since they're designed to be comprehensive. This is supposed to be a custom way of getting notes that is easy to understand at a glance.
@GiorgioAresu5 ай бұрын
More akin to tldr than man
@DccToon5 ай бұрын
m a n
@JaySee55 ай бұрын
Cheat is actually mainly for Linux.
@shanent57935 ай бұрын
Get-Help is more like man
@icantcomeupwithnames4695 ай бұрын
It's not totally CLI, but I couldn't live without mpv and its command-line options anymore for playing media.
@isheamongus8114 ай бұрын
EDIT: Not the case. My miatake. I heard that the *encryption* is weak, so it can be cracked somethat easily. (Every non-OTP encryption can be cracked, but it the required resources make it not feasible).
@masterloquendo19955 ай бұрын
What a great video. Helps a lot, thank you.
@MrComputer20165 ай бұрын
This is a nice video bro ❤
@soulstenance4 ай бұрын
'cheat' sounds a lot like running a command with --help or running 'man some-command' on Linux. Very useful! Even the nerdiest of us can't possibly remember every single command/argument. 😁
@pcc4045 ай бұрын
imagemagick also has a GUI (on linux at least)
@Conqueror-of-Demons5 ай бұрын
I definitely expected Aria2c and Chocolatey to be mentioned in this video but I was surprised to not find it.
@knottytoob5 ай бұрын
@ThioJoe Bruv thanks for putting out meaningfully applicable content. It is appreciated in kind regards.
@fizixx5 ай бұрын
I've used one or two of these, but not heard of the others.
@minefreak20005 ай бұрын
How the f have I not heard of Err! That's awesome, thank you!
@sootguy5 ай бұрын
hyperfine not needed there is powershell command does the same without installing anything . its Measure-Command
@thefatrat52405 ай бұрын
You forget the Microsoft sysinternals suite well done are gui thought
@grogroge5 ай бұрын
next suggestion: add some of these cmd to context menu , pyWinContext, Easy Context Menu, to name a few , are great tools...
@ExploringNew15 ай бұрын
I mean I'm surprised about how good the python interactive help is
@niezzayt38095 ай бұрын
Question: Can image magick create WebP picture but by using VP9 codec algorithm? The default is still VP8 last time I checked
@xanderplayz34465 ай бұрын
Why do you need it? I mean if you are uploading to youtube it accepts pretty much every codec.
@niezzayt38095 ай бұрын
@@xanderplayz3446 I never said I gonna upload it to KZfaq. Does KZfaq even accept WebP pictures? It's for a responsive website that could utilize blazing fast images loading compared to inferior JPEG. The only problem is that most WebP tutorials are using VP8 which is kind of Blurry. But VP9 is like HEVC quality but for static image.
@flo46505 ай бұрын
The chichi's trick is pretty useful.
@Chalisque4 ай бұрын
In the case of pandoc, on Linux*, this two-liner allows you to view a markdown file in the browser: #!/bin/bash A="$(mktemp --suffix=.html)" pandoc --quiet -f markdown_phpextra -t html -s "$@" >| "$A" && google-chrome "$A" and with the addition of two simple lines, so that the first parameter is the file type, we can write a viewer for any filetype that pandoc can read: #!/bin/bash L="$1" shift A="$(mktemp --suffix=.html)" pandoc --quiet -f "$L" -t html -s "$@" >| "$A" && google-chrome "$A" * I say on Linux. This is easy adapted to macos as the script will run essentially identically under zsh. Under Windows, this could be rewritten as an equally simple Powershell script.
@rager19695 ай бұрын
Eh, Synology is just a little more, a mature/well supported product and isn't through Kickstarter.
@Yohan55 ай бұрын
need this video like a decade ago
@tzvischamovic3725 ай бұрын
awesome video ty! what about spreadsheet to pdf or document or text?
@GogoTheSomeone5 ай бұрын
I like croc a lot. Just plain useful
@arekusoo5 ай бұрын
I dont usually write comments but thanks for your videos
@MikeyTV103 ай бұрын
Sponsorship ends at 3:32
@mad-gamer384 ай бұрын
Can you maybe look into doing a video on Aria2C? It's a command line-based download utility.
@pavelprchal86253 ай бұрын
Cheat is what i missed soo long!
@PhanorColl4 ай бұрын
great list of tool.
@breadone_5 ай бұрын
had to come back to windows after using linux and i am absolutely hating it
@markae05 ай бұрын
Why you had to come back?
@breadone_5 ай бұрын
@@markae0 a program i need for my university refuses to run on macos or linux, and believe me i tried
@icantcomeupwithnames4695 ай бұрын
WSL carries me through my work day.
@breadone_5 ай бұрын
@@markae0 uni software that doesn’t run on mac or linux, despite being made in java. horrible software for a horrible OS.
@Atharva-superb4 ай бұрын
Hyperfine is my favorite
@PetabyteBits5 ай бұрын
A few years back I watched a thiojoe video and was trying it in real time. I deleted a system file 😔 and my computer crashed after restarting 😭. Now I watch, analyze its usefulness then maybe try it or not.
@AslamNazeerShaikh5 ай бұрын
Please cover networking tools.. like... ftp file transfer from cmd..
@LeonderGrunder5 ай бұрын
ffmpeg is crazy. 6:20
@Seven_Red_Suns.5 ай бұрын
Most of these are compatible with WSL, which helped me alot.
@JohnSmith-xq1pz5 ай бұрын
But can it enable the halt and catch fire routine?
@ottergauze5 ай бұрын
Pretty sure thats just what happens when you encode large videos with ffmpeg, honestly.
@icantcomeupwithnames4695 ай бұрын
xz almost did that for me, popped a capacitor on my motherboard once lmao
@xanderplayz34465 ай бұрын
@@icantcomeupwithnames469Seriously?
@icantcomeupwithnames4695 ай бұрын
@@xanderplayz3446Obviously there's no reason to think it was xz in particular, but I decided to give it some nutty numbers to have it use pretty much every bit of power the computer had. Partway through the system totally hanged and became unresponsive to even holding the power button, so I flipped the switch on the PSU on and off, and when it wouldn't respond to anything after that I opened it up and saw a burst capacitor. Fortunately my GPUs and drives weren't damaged, carried them over to an old computer that was slated for recycling from work (and after a quick reconfiguring of GRUB from a live USB, it all just worked- yay, Linux!) and then to my current PC.
@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG5 ай бұрын
For the record, I never stare, nod knowingly and smile while sitting in front of a computer.
@RockyAllenLane5 ай бұрын
err.exe justs opens and closes a DOS window. Not able to enter an error code.
@ThioJoe5 ай бұрын
You have to run it from within the command prompt window, not double clicking it
@Eintracht5135 ай бұрын
PDFCPU looks really interesting. I was using PDF24 on Windows before, but now that I finally switched to Linux, I didn't have a good alternative yet. Probably going to use PDFCPU in combination with some self-written Shell-Scripts to make it easier to use for my dad too. 🤔 He has a Windows/KDE neon dualboot system atm with Windows only for PDF24 offline tools. Summed up: Thanks for your video and those amazing recommendations! At least one defo is going to make a change for me/us. 😌👍🏼
@vikferreira21374 ай бұрын
How to bypass device security issues when trying to run older software executables, on Win 11 os. Logitech gaming software drivers.
@MJ-ge6jz3 ай бұрын
Kuwahara issues are the bain of my existence.
@pcc4045 ай бұрын
most linux distros have imagemagick and ffmpeg by default
@rager19695 ай бұрын
Very handy tools.
@rishabhkrm10 күн бұрын
you are really the goat thio thank you ❤🎉
@Rice09874 ай бұрын
Joe, can you use autotranslation tracks in your videos on many different languages? I think, you can, cause you have over 1mln subscribers. :)
@sardanus5 ай бұрын
i suggest croc to share files in p2p (the same you do with private torrents)
@gamereditor59ner225 ай бұрын
Cool! Thanks!
@salkabalani14825 ай бұрын
Sorry for the off-topic comment. I was just force-upgraded to Chrome 123.0.6312.86 and I hate everything about it, from colors, to fonts, to tabs, to menus. Please make a video showing how to revert to before update. I am afraid disabling Chrome Refresh 2023 flag no longer works. Thanks ThioJoe.
@cryptocarnivore2054 ай бұрын
You mentioned a community around the application Cheat that would have other scripts. Could you provide a link to this resource? Please.
@JaySee55 ай бұрын
1:22 this needs a more detailed description or its own video. The Windows documentation for cheat is terrible. You also have to rename the file to cheat.exe. The cheat "folder" is in %appdata%\cheat which is very difficult to find to must novice users. The "personal" folder is not created on initial run either. You have to manually create it. Cheat also doesn't add itself to PATH so you have to do that manually to. It's a general pain in the butt to get setup and working for a novice.
@jovetj5 ай бұрын
That's why I made my own folder which is first in my PATH and it gets all the command line programs I'd ever want to use.