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    Not that long ago I paid 50 for a GTX 750. I think people value their property slightly more here, and they have to pay €1-3 to post an advertisement. Since there are no XP-drivers for next-gen video adapters, they can't be used regardless how fast they might be.
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    They had some quirky design elements in a mostly tabular layou such as text rotated 45°. They pointed out that Firefox was no good becasue it didn't do the rotation neatly. I wouldn't have complained about it or asked support. They had a high opinion of their development and design work.
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    If they use the user agent, then it is better than other methods because you can change it. There are ways of detecting Firefox in JavaScript. Some sites don't work with Firefox regardless of the agent, and I can't do anything about that. I was banned from a private site for using Firefox within a couple of days. I can't load Elektroda at all currently. It says "Waiting for".
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    The banner looks this big on some pages. It has a blank alpha channel, and the PNG format can't deal with it. Without the alpha, the image compressed to 525 kB. https://i.imgur.com/T6wJlOg.png It's not that there is a banner that shocks me. Many sites are now adding internally hosted image, which can't be blocked, but also load faster. But the cheap design of it, which puts the legitimacy of the target site in question. After all its easy to sell thin air with software licenses. I don't know if they even come in a physical box these days. Look how they squeezed down the banner to 728x90 with everything squished.
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    It seemed odd to me that Telegram requires an active phone number to sign up on the site, while boasting about anonymity. With most websites you don't need a phone number, and can just select a user name and password. I tried to use Telegram, but it required a modern smartphone to connect with it before it can be accessed from a PC.
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    Has MSFN been hacked by Vipmeu LLC from the Arab Emirates? It's the first time I've seen a banner on this site. The first design with the white letters over christmas decorations looked amateurish. Their shop website is plain white and generic looking, and the deals seem too good to be true. I tried to create a separate topic about this but it failed with an error.
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    Intel.de: https://i.imgur.com/iMxSauZ.png
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    There is more to Intel than the user agent. I can't get in either with "Chrome" or a complete string from Opium 93. But I can load the site in New Moon with "GoogleBot/6.6.6"
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    I get an Access Denied error on Intel sites too. It probably has to do with something en/disabled in the settings. Not a big deal. After you download the required, you don't need to go to Intel again.
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    The copy from Deezer is DR13 and sounds great. They seem to have uploaded it unmastered.
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    F.R. David became famous with songs "Words Don't Come Easy" and "Pick Up the Phone". The second album "Long Distance Flight" is less known, but has a few bangers. It can be found ingested on digital platforms in CD quality with mixed up track sequencing. Few things are worth hearing on WEB platforms.
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    Before choosing a big video card, consider the power consumption, if your PSU is big enough, if the card will fit in the case next to hard drives, and if the fans will make too much noise. Maxwell 2 added decoding of h.265 video, which has become common, and very CPU hungry. If these cards really cost 50 euros in your part of the world now, it's amazing how much value they've lost within a few years, and how bad an investment they've proven to be. We live in a disposable world.
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    Do you think the virus could equally run in any program capable of dispaying WebP, or does it have to be crafted to attack a specific web browser? I'll admit, I don't understand the technical details. But once the program overflows in attempt to run the virus, the image viewer is likely to become corrupted. They only need to runt he virus once to do it job. I've not yet encountered new viruses. I only recently updated New Moon, and still use Opera 12 and Opium 93.0.
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    Can you demonstrate that on a screenshot with two players of the same size side by side? On my PC I can take a screenshot of the video if it is not output via overlay mixer. Maybe you have selected a fancy renderer with its own color settings, enabled a "shader" or chosen TV Levels 16-240 in the output.
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    Can't do it for all file type at once? Then it is easier in the registry in GUI by renaming open to something else. To make Ctrl-F search jump to the found result on Discourse, I still need to use _escaped_fragment_ For example, here I need to search for "TLS".
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    When I download a file in New Moon, I get the prompt with a Open With and Save File choice. As long as an "open" verb is registered for the file type, the dialog defaults to Open With. I just click through it and nearly had a heart attack when an MSU update started installing. Can this be set to default to Save? I never want to open files from the temporary directory.
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    Yes, you are right. I had disabled it in the Firefox browsers during the initial tweaking to remove all possible animations, and had forgotten about it. The setting is: general.autoScroll
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    I can't do the middle-click in New Moon. It might be specific to the application or mouse drivers. It works in Opera 12 and some other programs like Microsoft Word, but not in simple text fields. But I find it hard to control and unnecessarily smooth (higher cpu load). I can press Page Up and Page Down. The banner is small and it doesn't follow if you scroll down. It is smaller than cookie-law banners.
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    Yes, scrolling with arrow keys works. I didn't notice it.
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    No, it didn't do that for me. I only checked that CPU usage was low and there were no glitches. It's not my player, but I kept hearing it was other people's choice. There is the TV Levels setting in the driver, but it applies to all video output at YV12, not just hardware decoded.
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    A DNS list in my router. It can filter out completely bad servers, but doesn't have the granularity to do individual URLs. Over time, the list of bad ad servers grows to immense length. I forgot which adblock I tried in Firefox, and adding an URL was a bit of hassle through the javascript/xul interface (it required special regex-like syntax for the simplest url), and I had to rely on downloading a pre-made list.
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    I added the user-agent. But the forums still don't work with only this change. I restarted the brower and found a fresh Discourse forum. At the moment I don't use a complex adblock to avoid slowing down the browser.
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    Since these players have self-contained codecs, it's easy to have more than one installed, and try them with different formats and situations. BE still has accurate and instant seeking in DTS Coherent Acoustics elementary streams (music disks, external sountracks), whereas LAVFilters inherited the current ffmpeg behavior of estimating the duration inacurately from the transmission bitrate. Today I tried PotPlayer for the first time. I didn't know it was made in Asia. Finding CUVID in the preferences was not easy. The GUI looks clean, and better than HC's modern. There is something good to say about every program.
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    Many websites seem to be switching to Discourse for the forum. Unusually, both commercial and free sites are converging on this flat (modern, clean, secure, streamlined) platform, where the page can't be scrolled in either New Moon or Serpent. A user-agent hack doesn't seem like a good solution if I need to add it for each website I have entered from search. The solution is to append ?_escaped_fragment_ (or &_escaped_fragment_) to the URL, and again after following a link, which feels like a Touch Typing Simulator.
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    The same players that worked in previous versions of Windows probably still work on Win11. Media Player Classic is a good one. Ultimately all video players have the same ffmpeg guts these days and only differ in the graphical interface. VLC has a Linux/Qt feel to it, and is unresponsive on Windows. MPC-BE simply is an earlier fork of the project, and is similar to Homecinema pre-v1.6. BE still makes separate DirectShow filters, where portions of the player can be added to the system without installing the whole ffmpeg/libav monstrosity. I wouldn't use a universal video player for playing music. They tend to not be gapless, and lack precise tweakable DSP. Use Foobar2000.
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