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Nalo
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couleur
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Jun 2023 15:47 Post subject: |
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Thank you for the kind words guys. 
But an update, hear me out (trying DXWarlock wall text style, enjoy!) 
I wanted to see Star Trek: Discovery. You should know, I stopped pirating many years ago. A little while back you could watch this on Netflix, but It has been pulled from there and almost everywhere else. You can still watch it on Paramount+. U need a US VPN and an US debit or credit card to open an account there, and I can't guarantee you that it will work. Shite!
So let's pirate this! Since my PC is dead, I thought let's install a torrent client on my smartphone (Moto G6+, oldie one). utorrent is shite on smartphone! So after downloading season 1, I replaced utorrent with LibreTorrent. Dunno if it is a good choice, but it downloaded season 2-4 just fine. I am getting ahead of the story now.
My Moto G6+ has some something like 40 GB free storage, so storing 2 seasons is max. I thought I download a season, and then I am going to watch it while casting it from my phone to Chromecast 4k on my TV/monitor. My WIFI should have enough bandwidth. No worky, picture freezes. Phone is too old.  Shite!
Now I have a newer model smartphone lying around, a Moto G32. I am not using it yet because I want to replicate credentials (FF), bookmarks toolbar and links between apparati. That is not going to fly with a dead PC. Hmm maybe I could have replicated that between the 2 phones? Or I just could have used the G32 for casting?
So I am running out of options here, it seems?  What was wrong with my PC? I booted it up again, and I managed to start the boot manager, and I have 2 kernels installed: 6.1.x and 5.15.x The OS wants to run 6.1 and that crashes , so I tried 5.15. Hey what? My PC flies again. Some words of wisdom: "Don't operate computers when you are drunk! " But I remember that these 2 kernels couldn't functionally co-exist.
While running 5.15 I got some many GBs of updates, and after reboot PC runs 6.1.31-2
I am a happy camper!  Still that HDD needs replacement. Also wondering how a HDD can produce many read errors but no writing errors, otherwise this installation should have died way earlier.
Edit: I completely forgot:
So I have these 1080p mp4 x264 AC3 files. I sent one of them to VLC, and then VLC crashes (pamac remove vlc). I look at the repository for another media player: I found "baka-mplayer". I installed it, but in this player videos can't be paused and after clicking on the play button again, it restarts the vid. baka
https://www.google.com/search?q=baka+japanese+meaning
Edit2: After that I installed SMPlayer, works nicely!
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LeoNatan
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Location: Ramat Gan, Israel 🇮🇱
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Jun 2023 17:35 Post subject: |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Jun 2023 23:34 Post subject: |
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| LeoNatan wrote: | | too long; dont care |
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Jun 2023 23:36 Post subject: |
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What's eating you these days, Leo? (besides my boring posts apparently)
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Jun 2023 00:20 Post subject: |
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Bad stuff at home. You are alright, I am just using you to vent bad emotions. I apologize. I really couldn’t assist with Linux partitions/volumes. I barely keep on top of macOS these days.
Regarding reads vs writes, not every filesystem has data validations on write. Most likely, consumer Linux ones doesn’t. ZFS, I think, does, but that’s a bitch to support and run on a home system (also huge memory usage).
For a Linux video player, I’d suggest mpv. Not the prettiest, but much much much better than that shitola VLC. There is a reason I react with “ ” on each VLC post. It is absolute garbage.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Jun 2023 01:09 Post subject: |
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I walk 25km+ daily for the last two and a half years Trust me, it loses its effectiveness at some point.
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Jun 2023 01:52 Post subject: |
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That is quite some distance, but a stroll in the park versus some physical workout is quite a difference. I mean if you train using arms, chest and legs at the same time.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Jun 2023 22:13 Post subject: |
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I work from home. It started in the pandemic, it was a way to get out of the house. I lost 35+ kg. Now it’s just a thing I do every day.
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