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That's a good day
Microdosing hell by sitting in the sun (50C+ in direct sunlight) and listening to traffic
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That's a good day
Microdosing hell by sitting in the sun (50C+ in direct sunlight) and listening to traffic
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c'mon niche community
Imagine if everyone who made this kind of post, made a post on their fav niche sub instead.
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You're tearing me apart!
This post actually made me look for a solution and I found one!
Solution to opening tiktoks without using tiktok app or site, not how to stop ur friends sending u garbage.
It made me think... mpv player can play basically any link you throw at it (thanks to yt-dlp), and we also have mpv on Android, so why can't we do it there as well. And sure enough, I found this https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android/pull/58, someone baked yt-dlp in mpv for Android, making it possible to open link in mpv (share >> play in mpv)
It works for instagram and all other shit.
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How important is port forwarding, actually?
Quote from some old guide:
The Importance of Being Connectable:
When it comes to torrents, being connectable can go a long way in helping your ratio. Connectivity is directly related to port forwarding, your router, and incoming torrent connections. Here's how it works:
You upload a new torrent. After going through the upload page and adding the torrent to your client, the client connects to the tracker to do the following:
- Tell the tracker it is going to begin seeding a torrent.
- Ask the tracker if there are any peers it doesn't know about.
Normally, no one has downloaded the torrent from the site between the time that you upload the torrent and when you add it to your client. So your client will now wait, for 45 minutes (or however long it's been told to wait by the tracker), until it will connect back and ask for more peers.
Now suppose someone downloads your torrent from the site after you added the torrent to your client. Normally, the person's client will ask the tracker for peers, to which the tracker will return your IP address to connect to. That client will then connect to your client, using the IP address and port number it got from the tracker pertaining to your client and the port it accepts incoming connections on. This is where being connectable comes into play. We'll assume your IP address is 139.129.43.5 and your port number used for torrenting is 3058.
When the peer attempts to connect to you on that designated port, your router has to know what to do with the incoming connection. It receives an incoming connection from the peer, on port 3058. If you have your port forwarded to your client correctly, that is, you've told the router what to do with incoming data on a specific port, the router knows to send anything coming in on port 3058 to the computer your client is running on. Now, if you are not connectable, the router doesn't know what to do with items coming in on port 3058, so they are discarded, and the other peer isn't able to connect to you.
If your port isn't forwarded correctly, the peer who just added your torrent to their client will have to wait for 45 minutes, until your client updates with the tracker, and gets the new peer's IP address and port to connect to. If the peer is connectable, you will then make an outbound connection to them, and it will connect successfully. Outbound connections aren't normally blocked by a router, unlike incoming ones, this is why a client doesn't need a port forward for outgoing connections. This scenario is also why you can still seed even if you aren't connectable. This can have very negative consequences for your ratio though as I will now explain.
Here's how not being connectable will hurt you. When you are seeding a torrent in a large swarm and a new peer comes online, his client will attempt to make connections to the other peers. If you aren't connectable, you will have to wait (at max) 45 minutes until your client learns of their existence, before you can start uploading data to them. During this time the peer is getting data from other peers, but not you. By the time your client finally learns of the new peer's existence, the client will already be done downloading! You won't get nearly as much upload than if you were connectable. Depending on the size of the torrent, your client may not get any upload for that peer, because he will have completed the torrent before your client even knew he was present.
The absolute worst case scenario is when both peers aren't connectable. Neither peer will be able to connect to the other, and both will sit without connection indefinitely.
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What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user?
TempleOS
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Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.
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Keepass XC on PC, Keepass DX on Android, Syncthing to sync database
Works flawlessly!
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What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis?
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YSK: The vote counts on reddit are completely made up.
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Yeah, OP's post is misleading. Back then, they announced that they will make that change in how votes are displayed.
So they literally did the opposite of what OP is claiming, they started showing real numbers. Those numbers don't seem unrealistic at all to me. Reddit is one of the most popular websites, and the nature of the frontpage will just mean that posts that reach the top will have huge amount of votes.
I don't know why are we still talking about reddit here. I'm pretty sure everyone who is here, already hates it.
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What's A Piece Of Software You Could Never Do Without?
On Android, it's probably a little utility software called Quick Cursor (it's not FOSS). It's incredibly convenient being able to spawn a cursor on your phone from thin air that you can use to reach the "unreachable" portions of your screen, especially if you are holding your phone with one hand. Besides being a "phone touchpad" it has a bunch of ways of triggering actions/shortcuts, for example: volume or brightness control, launching an app (I use it for launching a floating calculator, notes...), opening notification shade, copying text (it can copy any text that is under the cursor, even if it's not selectable)...
It's not that I couldn't go without it, but it changed the way I use my phone and it would feel really weird without it. It feels like it should be a part of the OS.
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This fuckin thing just appeared unexpectedly. Does anyone know where the setting to get rid of it is?
Settings shortcut: Comment options > Display navigation bar
Click on that 👆, it will take you to the setting that you need to turn off.
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Wholesome marriage
Lets be real, no matter how old you are, that kid in you will always be there. Some people just choose not to ever let it come out and play.
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Where do you get books after Libgen died?
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High ranked gamers get girls
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It's not. The oldest one I found on TinEye is before AI (2014) . It just got so jpeg'd over time that the line in the rock looks like a finger.
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Signal Piracy group
What is even the point of "piracy groups"? What exactly can you find there that you cannot in other places designed for that, e.g., trackers, usenet, forums...?
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What side do you open a banana from?
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Yes, butt:
I also saw a video of a monkey peeling it from the stem side and then proceeding to clean it of all those stringy bits before finally eating it.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIc5kTth1lE
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Torrent vs DDL
Just a smoother and faster experience. No dead links, no slow downloads, no files that are separated into multiple parts...
You get a VPN and you don't have to worry about "getting caught". Private trackers just further elevate that experience and get you access to better content.
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How fast can you theoretically run on the moon?
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Moon is running on Quake engine.
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At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.
Wow that seems painfully slow/tedious. Why isn't it automatized? I think I saw a robot do like 20 pages a second on a yt some years ago.
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Switching from iOS to GrapheneOS, thoughts after 2 weeks
One trick for a better fingerprint recognition is to set 2+ fingers but scan only one finger for all of them.
This may or may not also increase the likelihood of someone else succesfully unlocking your phone with their own fingerprint.
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Reading
A few nights ago I was trying to read a book, and there was a dog across the road who wouldn't stop barking. I was reading a single page for 15 minutes until I was finally able to tune him out.