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    That is hard to tell for certain. I think if there was damage it would show upon an error scan, and any debris might spread across the surface causing more damage. Small laptop HDDs usually have aggressive head parking when idle for a short time. You may be able to hear this as a chirp. When you do safely remove hardware again, listen to the drive (with the case open if needed) if it parks the head immediately. It might do that on a command from the computer.
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    Normal is up to 2 m³. Without an ability to go outdoors, there is nothing to wash. We had water practically free up to about year 2000 when meters became mandatory. We would use it to water the garden. It was, of course, a tragedy of the commons and someone else had to foot the bill from taxes. Today, I don't think the city would entertain the idea of no water meter in a house. If I watch some online video with a demonstration at a sink where cleaning is involved, they seem to know only two positions, fully open and fully closed. and keep talking while water is getting wasted. On the BBC they often talk about some country's plight and how horribly disadvantaged they are because of the carbon emissions (usually) or conflict. One time they talked about how those people don't have water, and they pulled out some big number, like a hudred liters per day, I forgot the exact value, showing how far the news reporters are removed from practicality.
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    The fonts are webfonts that are downloaded from the server. Everything works without them too. I don't see that much difference in Chrome Refresh 2023. Some buttons are moved around, most noticeably the menu in the top-left corner. Well, if you enable the dark mode, then the hospital becomes a sooty chimney. Some of those Experiments are what would be normal options in past software. If people don't use then, it's because they can't find them in that list. Programmers have an excuse not to lay out a GUI and revise it to fit in new options. GUI-less software has existed before, all the CLI encoders.
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    Where do I put this in New Moon or Serpent? The official page says it is a Developer Extension for new browsers where YT is fast anyway. Can you comment under videos with this? I'm afraid it will be a constant cat and mouse with updating it.
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    Supermium is already modern. All pages are white as a hospital wall and completely flat. Preferences are an unorganized long list. Menus compacted under a master hamburger button. What's even more modern than this?
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    I didn't like the my prefix "My" prefix. Imagine you are instructing another person to do something, and tell him to "open my computer" or my documents (not yours but his). There are still some sybolic links to "My" folders on Windows 2008 R2. I always rename the my computer to something descriptive according to a brand of the computer itself or its owner or its curent role. I don't get why they introduced the term "This PC". Maybe Computer seemed to general. These days computers increasingly ofter are called "devices". I don't think it is called MS Computer anywhere.
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    A normative water consumption here is about 10 m³ per month per declared resident. That would be enough for taking two showers every day and then some. That is for an apartment without any garden. It is very expensive, especially for municipal hot water. A median or running average is only possible if there have been recent data points, and you've forgotten to hand in a reading once or twice. There are new water meters that have either reporting over radio and/or a limit to how much water they will allow. Since those need to be swapped regularly for accuracy, it can also get expensive, and apartment owners are asked to vote whether to install them or pay extra for lost or stolen water. Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken gives a numeric signature device for logging in and signing orders. Their website works in New Moon, although with a warning that the browser should be updated.
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    There is probably a professional Enterprise or Server version of Windows without that Copilot stuff. But we got a long time before Windows 11 is needed.
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    Why do you torture yourself with watching YouTube in Palemoon when youtube-dl exists, and search for screen tearing.
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    I discovered an unexpected behavior of the Windows NT 6.1 Notepad. I make a text file with long lines and enable word wrap to constrain it to the window width. The window can be dragged to different widths and text reflows normally. Next I save this file. At this point the Notepad window has newline symbols inserted at the word wrap points. If I were to select and copy the text, and paste it into another window, there would be hard line breaks in the text. The saved file does not have those newlines. If I drag the Notepad window wider, the text in it doesn't expand. When I save it again, it does expand to the current window width and a new set of ghost newlines are inserted. The line breaks in the pasted text are usually unwanted. I guess it could be used to create a text of some width by temporarily utilizing Notepad. Some programs paste the ghost line breaks as double.
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    You likely deal with compressed data without realizing it every day. Most programs sent to you from the internet are compressed and can be extracted to their exact original form, otherwise they wouldn't work. When you download a game packed with RAR, all sound in it is compressed in a broadly similar way to FLAC. Audio data contains redundancy. Neighboring samples are usually similar. This allows a program to analyze them and make a prediction. Imagine you want to record the air temperature every day. It can go between very hot in July to very cold in January. But there is not much difference between consecutive days. So instead of saving every reading in full, you save the difference from the previous day, which is a smaller number. You can still recover the full number exactly with simple arithmetic. This is how all "multimedia" compression with "delta" encoding works. It is in PNG and in 7-Zip. The differences will be even smaller if you choose to record the temperature once per hour. Then you can build an algorithm to detect a cycle in every 24 units, which now becomes similar to sound with periodic vibrations. Instead of looking only one sample backwards, you can keep a sliding memory window that is a bit longer. Another aspect that can be exploited in compression is that the entire range of values is not utilized. When the music is fading out, the top bits stay zero the entire time. Back to the temperature analogy, you might choose a scale that encompases the Sahara desert and Antarctica, but those extremes are never reached in practice. The "FLAC is not lossless" argument has been debated many times, and you can find the discussions on a web search. "Shaves off" is a figure of speech, and can't be analyzed on technical grounds.
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    You can use the bit-compare tool in Foobar to check if the files are identical and the magnitude of the difference. I don't trust ffmpeg. It attempts to do so many things and not any of them really well. It also goes through rapid updating and growth in size. One version might work right and another might not. If you feed it 24 bits make sure you get that out. FFMPEG compressor is really special because it can compress samples with high redundancy like classical music or dull drone to levels similar to TAK, so it has a reason for existing.
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    A lossless format can be opened and saved any number of times without degradation. The file is smaller because of compression, which exploits similarities between successive samples to extract a trend in them. The remaining error can then be saved with fewer bits. A lossy codec differs here that it would only use X number of bits and no more, while a lossless codec will use as many as needed. Note that some editors will apply dithering when saving an open file, including wav files. This is under assumption that that you actually made some edits. Some other software might reduce the bit depth. This is why you need to be familiar with the chosen software and its advanced options. Appending is complicated by the fact that the last block is shorter. In the simplest FLAC stream all blocks are the same length. This is why the splice might not be seamless. Medieval Cue Splitter attempted this and has polluted the internet with albums that are not gapless. For appending I would use Foobar2000 converter, selecting in the advanced options, bit depth: auto (default) and destination: Merge all tracks into one output file.
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    There is not much reason not to re-encode a FLAC. One of the main benefits from lossless is to give you freedom to edit. Just use any visual editor you are comfortable with, or use Foobar2000 to produce a single file output. If you have an old PC, there is a CUDA (FLACCL) encoder for 16-bit that is very fast. MkvToolNix throws a big warnings on appending multiple files that are in the same format. You can then extract it, but it is a hassle. Some strict or simple players might not like the transition point or not play it gapless. With lossy formats you would avoid transcoding to maintain the quality, and editing this way was very limited. This is not needed with lossless.
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    Jesus you got some ultra strict banks. We have one bank like that here, but only one that I know of. Is there an equivalent to the Open With menu in New Moon, where you can launch a media player or youtube-dl on a hyperlink? Without that, New Moon must still be the main browser.
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    There is some kind of glitchy memory effect with this site. Sometimes it allows me to get to the image in New Moon. Like right now after some time has passed and the browser had been closed. But before it didn't and persistently put me on the /media link. On the browser's Media tab it showed that the image was 0 px, and on saving it downloaded another file from the server instead of saving what he should have had in memory. I solved this problem by copying the link and pasting into Opera (which wasn't used to read the linked thread). To clarify, the blame is mostly on the website who instructs the browser and it blindly obeys. They don't want to waste 12 MB of traffic because some entusiast decided to upload an oversized photo. I think there should be tools in the browser to pick out content that is restricted.
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    There appears to be no way of viewing this image in New Moon or any other modern browser. https://i.redd.it/v1bl283zwn6e1.png When I want to get it, to break it out of the frame by choosing View Image or pasting the URL into the address bar, I am redirected to reddit.com/media and view it inside a frame again. The problem is that the picture is really big and I need to zoom in to see anything, which the /media page doesn't allow. In New Moon it only gets as big as the screen. It seems to have a similar "scripting redirect hook" as Rate Your Music covers artwork to prevent the image freom being gotten. It also cannot be saved from the Media dialog.
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    The lamp has all the colors in one unit on the phosphors. It can't lose one of them. I've had a pin on the VGA connector getting bent and two colors combining. If it is the display panel that is faulty, I've never seen it repaired, only swapped out. It is probably too hard to deal with the microscopic components. At best you could probably try to clean and reseat all connections inside. If it was the power supply, the display would probably not turn on. Maybe the fault is on the video board where the input is.
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    Downloads still working for me with a build from 2024-05-22. I'm addicted to watching web videos every day while eating. But I'll be damned if I watch them in the browser with advertisements every 5 minutes and fans spinning and dropped frames.
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    I get about 20 seconds in New Moon and 4 seconds in Supermium. That's just how modern sites are. At least it finished loading. Even if they made their website look like MSDOS with eyesore colors, I bet they'd have stretching and squeezing in the background. People are afraid to be left behind on the web and judged for poor security and standards. Look at all the pixelated retro games that have come out recently and require a 64-bit computer with Direct3D. Out of all that GOG has, I have www.googletagmanager.com blocked.
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    For me the GOG page loads fine. Maybe it was an issue with the network, not specific to any browser. I see now that the default browser is set using a separate program: uninstall\helper.exe /SetAsDefaultAppUser At some point I deleted this when I cleaned up the Palemoon directory because I didn't actually "install" the browser (it comes in a zip file). HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT is a merged view of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes { usually empty } and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes ; so adding something to HKCR just works and puts it under machine or sometimes user if it can't put it under machine. This is where everything would go on old OS and still does for me. There is some new-OS specific override, but on my system I couldn't find it. Maybe it is never created if user doesn't chooses a browser. You can witness a "ghost key" if you create two keys with the same name under both machine and user. Then go under HKCR and delete it and think it is gone. It gets deleted from user. Then it "respawns" and is read from machine. One of the surprised that came with XP where user began to be used more. Windows, without setting another browser, seems do something strange. It looks if any browser is already open and then uses that to open a HTTP link. Normally I have Opera 8 open to receive e-mails. It doesn't seem to actually be in the registry. I wonder how it knows that it is a browser.
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    I see now where those buttons can be disabled. I went over the Flags, but got lost in that long list. Some Cookies don't seem to get transferred when I copy the browser into new Windows. When I open Google there, I always need to accept cookies. He forgets that I did that.
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    How is the "Make New Moon the Default Browser" button supposed to work? It didn't do anything to me on Windows 2008 R2 and kept asking on startup to make default. I am Administrator with all rights, UAC off. I used to have Opera 8 as default. But it couldn't open anything anymore, so I tried to make New Moon the default. Since then either Internet Explorer would open, or sometimes Opera 12 would open if it was open already. It seems to be guessed and helped by Windows (of course). There is some complexity with this feature, which has gotten worse since in Windows 7. If I did it by the book, in Control Panel -> Programs -> Default Programs -> Set Associations, only Internet Explorer would presented as the choice, and I can't browse. So I opened HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell and created an open command with Palemoon replacing the old command with Internet Explorer, which seems to work. I scoured the registry and couldn't find any references to Opera.
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    Would the result of fixing Chrome be much different than Supermium, which has already been fixed? There is not much difference between vairous Chrome-variants.
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    Look inside user32.dll. You will need a second installed operating system or a boot CD to replace operating system files. Keep backups of previously working files. Be careful if you use the original version of Resource Hacker as it can sometimes produce corrupted files if you repeatedly save to the same file. You probably need to defeat the System File Protection in the dllcache directory.
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