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werid

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    Comment #45365973

    use the new preset feature to get h264: -t mp4 you can also skip the match filters by running the /videos URL instead of the main channel url. if you want 720p, use -S res:720

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    Comment #42486076

    my inbox at fastmail is near empty from spam. the main spam i see in my inbox is forwarded from my gmail.

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    Comment #41808445

    it works well, but some of the user experience is as bad as every streaming service for me. i browse categories, have to click 'load more' a ton of times to see everything, and if …

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    Comment #41498038

    > You could set her back 8 iOS versions and she probably wouldn't notice. Because she uses none of the hundreds of features released since. Not because she dislikes them, she doesn…

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    Comment #41480987

    curious how that works out. you start dating, stop doing the hobby you're not really interested in, but she continues, and finds out you were only in it to find a date?

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    Comment #39927886

    i've filled up an zfs array to the point where i could not delete files. the trick is to truncate a large enough files, or enough small files, to zero. not sure if this is a univer…

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    Comment #38826342

    [flagged]

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    Comment #38429843

    i have close to 2000 tabs and have stellar performance and no crashes. chrome on the other hand, tabs will randomly crash if left open for more than a day or two.

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    Comment #37686245

    sometimes you just want to quickly look at ffprobe's natural output but the file have a lot of metadata or subtitles or whatever, and the stuff you want to look at is printed up on…

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    Comment #36783172

    not available in EU.

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    Comment #36691967

    but it did remind me that it was now available to download, because it wasn't when the previous article was posted.

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    Comment #36627096

    threads is going to split communities if it takes off, given that EU is locked out of it.

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    Comment #36555237

    while rate limited i could still view tweets that was sent to my phone via the notification feature. i have it turned on for a few users, so these weren't tweets sent at me. now i'…

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    Comment #35710797

    Yes, americans gets screwed over with the CBSSN matches, as it requires a cable account. To top it off, the replays of CBSSN matches take up to 48 hours to appear, while CBS matche…

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    Comment #35679429

    the critical mass might have to do without power-users (sucks for all the subreddits people go to for technical help!) and moderators, as the api changes affect tools and apps mods…

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    Comment #35677380

    this is good timing, as we're witnessing in real time how reddit is ending right now :)

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    Comment #35598018

    unlike you, getting upset about people caring about something they use a lot? sounds very healthy.

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    Comment #35546454

    they increased prices a bit some months ago.

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    Comment #34711686

    fyi, yt-dlp has some workarounds for this that youtube-dl doesn't. youtube-dl is more or less unmaintained these days (last proper release: december 2021), yt-dlp is the main fork.…

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    Comment #34577265

    gimp is not a latex costume google: define gimp > / (ɡɪmp) / noun. US and Canadian offensive, slang a physically disabled person, esp one who is lame. slang a sexual fetishist who …

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    Comment #34108372

    no, you should make it impossible for apps to track users like this. if not, a new app will pop up and do the same.

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    Comment #33956755

    .us.to subdomains are sourced from (dynamic) dns provider, FreeDNS: https://freedns.afraid.org/