●● IRC: #techrights @ FreeNode: Friday, December 18, 2020 ●● ● Dec 18 [00:00] DaemonFC[m] Mom's friend Jose, from Mexico, who likes to say "Well I came here the legal way! Why can't they?" ended up in the hospital with it. [00:00] DaemonFC[m] The doctors at the hospital didn't give him any FDA approved treatment even though he ended up in the ICU on a ventilator. [00:01] DaemonFC[m] No antibodies (while Secretary Azar says we have so many we don't even know what to do with it all), no remdesivir (even though it's relatively cheap by American standards compared with the hospital bill itself and was FDA approved in like June). Nothing,. [00:02] DaemonFC[m] And this is the sort of Mickey Mouse operation that Trump is running which is causing twice as many people to die. [00:04] *psymin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [00:19] *birkoff has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [00:20] schestowitz https://twitter.com/JoyceMarkoll/status/1339370278208630786 [00:20] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-@JoyceMarkoll: @InterBang @Smackenziekerr how about that? https://t.co/0h1Lms79yB [00:22] *psymin (~psymin@fsf/member/psymin) has joined #techrights [00:31] schestowitz DaemonFC[m]: https://www.themorningsun.com/news/mid-michigan-sees-deadliest-10-days-of-covid-pandemic/article_e2385860-3e29-11eb-82bb-7bd49276df9f.html [00:31] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Mid-Michigan sees deadliest 10 days of COVID pandemic | News | themorningsun.com [00:34] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [00:34] DaemonFC[m] schestowitz: It seems like just getting the first COVID vaccine shot gives decent protection. [00:35] DaemonFC[m] They say the worst side effects tend to happen after the second shot. [00:35] DaemonFC[m] Wonder if I should just take the first dose. [00:35] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights [00:35] schestowitz why only the second? [00:35] schestowitz if they don't say why, it makes little sense [00:35] schestowitz unless the second is different [00:35] schestowitz not just in dosage [00:35] schestowitz that's like saying alcohol is healthy [00:36] schestowitz just don't take another glass [00:36] schestowitz then it's not healthy [00:36] *birkoff (birkoff@gateway/shell/ircnow/x-locoillzmepqphkh) has joined #techrights [00:37] DaemonFC[m] Well, the study participants say that the first shot gave them a sore arm or something like a normal vaccine. [00:37] DaemonFC[m] Then after the second part, they got bad chills, headache, fever, all kinds of stuff. [00:38] DaemonFC[m] I think that given what we know, the state of Illinois did the right thing by not holding any of the initial doses back for the second shot. [00:40] DaemonFC[m] We don't even know what we'll get, really, because the federal government keeps updating it and going you know what....SURPRISE...It's half of what we told you last time. [00:40] DaemonFC[m] So the number keeps jumping around because Pfizer can't even deliver on what they already contracted for the first time. [00:41] DaemonFC[m] Yeah, so it sounded like we were going to get a lot and then the election happened and now they're telling us it's going to be a slow drip of shipments. [00:42] DaemonFC[m] It's not going to be anything close to the number of shipments where we'll see the virus numbers start to subside for a very long time. [00:42] DaemonFC[m] They're saying most people won't be able to get a vaccine shot until next summer. [00:43] DaemonFC[m] And 6 months under a siege like this is an eternity and at this rate there won't be many people who haven't already gotten sick and recovered. [00:43] DaemonFC[m] Or died. [00:43] DaemonFC[m] Trump isn't really coordinating with the Biden administration and so they're still having access getting the facts as they come in about what day 1 is going to look like. [00:45] DaemonFC[m] The only reason the GSA backed down and started the transition is that it was becoming clear that the lady running it was going to be in contempt of Congress pretty soon (which either chamber, by itself, can find you in), and those charges would get delivered to Biden's Attorney General in January and she could go to jail over this. [00:45] DaemonFC[m] The Democrats were getting ready to hold House hearings about why the transition hadn't started, and if she stonewalled them, the next step would be Contempt. [00:46] DaemonFC[m] The only reason why the House didn't pull out Contempt charges against Trump's administration sooner is because they go to the Attorney General who decides whether to pursue or drop them. [00:47] DaemonFC[m] The Republicans found Eric Holder in contempt, and Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed the charge. [00:47] DaemonFC[m] But now that the clock is running out, they could have definitely found Miss Piggy in Contempt of Congress and eventually landed her in a jail cell. [00:48] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [00:48] DaemonFC[m] She had her moment playing along with Trump's corrupt election fantasy. [00:50] DaemonFC[m] Veteran's Affairs hasn't updated in a few days, schestowitz [00:50] DaemonFC[m] So that's interesting. [00:50] DaemonFC[m] I suppose that when they do, there will be hundreds of deaths that backed up and weren't reported on at the time. [00:51] DaemonFC[m] So the reality is it's worse than what it looks like because they usually report about 50-60 a day. [00:53] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights [00:55] DaemonFC[m] schestowitz: Electoral-vote dot com is engaging in some sort of fantasy where the economy comes roaring back next year. [00:55] DaemonFC[m] Biden doesn't need to do anything, they say, because the vaccine will save us all and this will blow over and then everyone will buy cars and those trips to Disney World they postponed. [00:56] DaemonFC[m] They've gone too far with that. [00:56] DaemonFC[m] Trump has fucked everything up so bad that the earliest the economy is going to look halfway decent again is 2022. [00:58] DaemonFC[m] It's also become a favorite line that we'll recover faster because this recession is differnt. [00:58] DaemonFC[m] They're all different than the last one. [00:59] DaemonFC[m] Each time you have a recession you go well shit that was bad, and you start taking steps to make sure that something exactly like that doesn't happen again, but it'll be something else. [00:59] DaemonFC[m] It's always something else. The economy changes. People figure out new loopholes to work the system and get ahead of themselves. ● Dec 18 [01:00] DaemonFC[m] We have better laws about corporate accounting scandals because of a series of things like Enron, right? [01:00] DaemonFC[m] Companies figure out ways to talk that comply with the law but still leave you wondering what the hell is going on in there. [01:02] DaemonFC[m] Microsoft has turned everything into clouds and services and that way they only have to speak very broadly on what's going on. [01:02] DaemonFC[m] Office is not a service from them to you, it's a service from you to them. [01:02] DaemonFC[m] You keep the money coming and they don't cut you off from the web app that lets you modify document files. [01:03] DaemonFC[m] The most pointless web app ever. [01:03] DaemonFC[m] LibreOffice, the entire suite, is 500 MB or so on Windows. Half that if you use NTFS compression on its installation folder. [01:03] DaemonFC[m] That's...hardly any space at all and you get a real office program. [01:03] DaemonFC[m] For $0. [01:04] DaemonFC[m] No product activators and works without an internet connection, and it saves files to storage that you control. [01:04] XRevan86 DaemonFC[m]: It's just not a serious programme. Now Oracle DB is bigger than many databases themselves, now that's serious stuff. [01:05] DaemonFC[m] Among other things, it's much harder for people to break into the USB stick or external hard drive where you have your document files. [01:05] DaemonFC[m] Bill Gates ironically once said that measuring productivity by amount of code is like saying you made a better airplane because it weighs more. [01:06] DaemonFC[m] Now Windows 10, with three web browsers, five terminals, and two control panels is progress apparently. [01:06] XRevan86 Reminds me of flash sticks inside HDD cases with a steel bold inside to make it weigh more :). [01:07] MinceR "if you couldn't make it good, make it big" [01:11] DaemonFC[m] "The Classic Control panel has been removed from Windows 10 20H2." [01:11] DaemonFC[m] Except you can still bring it up by using explorer.exe shell:::{BB06C0E4-D293-4f75-8A90-CB05B6477EEE} [01:11] DaemonFC[m] Everything is still right there. [01:11] MinceR classic microsoft [01:13] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [01:13] DaemonFC[m] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mike-pence-could-go-rogue-when-congress-counts-electoral-votes-election-experts-warn/ar-BB1c1qUw?li=BBorjTa [01:13] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.msn.com | Mike Pence could go rogue when Congress counts electoral votes, election experts warn [01:13] XRevan86 They cleaned it up, by hiding it better. [01:13] DaemonFC[m] He said that while its unlikely Pence will go rouge by asserting his authority to declare results invalid, [Pence] doesnt have to go rogue for there to be a complicated situation. [01:13] XRevan86 People noticed it under the rug, so it's in the cellar now. [01:13] DaemonFC[m] I also think it's unlikely he'll wear makeup to the event. [01:15] XRevan86 Except people were pulling it from under the rug and using it. [01:15] XRevan86 so what's even the point of that [01:15] MinceR :) [01:15] DaemonFC[m] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/an-inmate-whose-scheduled-to-be-executed-just-5-days-before-biden-takes-office-tested-positive-for-covid-19/ar-BB1c1wws [01:15] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.msn.com | An inmate whose scheduled to be executed just 5 days before Biden takes office tested positive for COVID-19 [01:17] XRevan86 I trust this headline that couldn't spell "who's" right. [01:17] MinceR classic microsoft [01:19] DaemonFC[m] Now MSN is trying to install a dropper on your computer which changes your browser to Edge, sets the search to Bing, installs their "recommended extensions", and sets MSN news as your homepage. [01:20] MinceR understandable. all of those are more important than learning english. [01:21] XRevan86 Didn't they fire everyone and leave everything to the machine learning programme? :) [01:21] MinceR could be [01:21] XRevan86 Except why would a programme mix up homophones. [01:22] XRevan86 It's kind of dirty to call "whose" and "who's" homophones as "who's" is technically not a word but two words. [01:23] DaemonFC[m] VLC is in the Windows Store, but warns that it can't play DVDs or Blu Ray discs and to use the desktop app instead. [01:24] XRevan86 DaemonFC[m]: How to you know all these cursed things? [01:24] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights [01:28] DaemonFC[m] MSN republished a lot of full news articles that are hidden behind paywalls. [01:29] XRevan86 DaemonFC[m]: Oh, that's pretty good. [01:30] XRevan86 So, that's the great grammerr that one can expect to find behind a paywall? :) [01:31] DaemonFC[m] LOL [01:32] DaemonFC[m] Maybe after he goes rouge he'll try some of Mother's lipstick as well. [01:33] XRevan86 He whose gone rouge [01:39] MinceR Rouge Angles of Satin [01:42] DaemonFC[m] I sent this as an email to my dad. [01:42] DaemonFC[m] Trump's "Let the bodies hit the floor." COVID strategy exposed. [01:42] *DaemonFC[m] sent a long message: < https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/ibgvcpmISAcqNYldNmEMKEng/message.txt > [01:44] MinceR autoplaying video, behind a GDPR fake popup [01:44] MinceR stay classy, cnn [01:45] DaemonFC[m] Yeah, what's odd is that Chromium browsers don't let you disable autoplay on the desktop, but on the phone they usually do. [01:45] XRevan86 MinceR: Totally not recording you before you give your concent. [01:45] DaemonFC[m] It's become the buzzing mosquito times a thousand, isn't it? [01:46] DaemonFC[m] Remember that? Flash ad. The buzzing mosquito. Everyone complained about it. [01:46] MinceR i don't remember that [01:46] MinceR i do remember setting something up so that none of the Trash applets would autoplay though [01:46] DaemonFC[m] Now every goddamned time you open a web page something starts talking and half the time it isn't even about the article you want to read. [01:47] DaemonFC[m] Blocking autoplay videos might be the only feature Firefox still has. [01:47] XRevan86 For some reason every Russian news outlet I visit doesn't do that at all. [01:47] MinceR advertisers are so surprised that ad blocking is popular [01:48] MinceR hungarian news sites i visit don't tend to do it either [01:48] DaemonFC[m] I had one of the first ad blockers of sorts. [01:48] DaemonFC[m] It used the hosts file. [01:48] MinceR fandom.com, OTOH, loves to put massive unrelated videos on top of pages written by others [01:48] DaemonFC[m] It was just a list I maintained. [01:49] DaemonFC[m] I later found it being used at the basis for Junkbuster lists and stuff. [01:50] DaemonFC[m] MinceR: The autoplay videos are such an intrusion. [01:50] DaemonFC[m] Chrome used to let you turn it off. ● Dec 18 [02:33] *GNUmoon has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [02:34] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techrights [02:37] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 268 seconds) [02:37] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 268 seconds) [02:42] DaemonFC[m] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/mac-loses-ability-to-play-video/ [02:42] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.jwz.org | jwz: Mac loses ability to play video [02:42] DaemonFC[m] "About once a week, macOS 10.15.7 loses the ability to play video. Press play and it goes super-fast-forward all the way to the end. Scrubbing while paused works, but any attempt to play fails in any app using AVPlayer -- not just QuickTime Player, but also jwztv and even "Notes". VLC works, but obviously that doesn't help me." [02:43] DaemonFC[m] One person notes that "coreaudiod" used to do this to him a lot and killing it and letting it respawn fixed the problem. [02:43] DaemonFC[m] Very reliable Apple product. [02:43] DaemonFC[m] It just works. [02:43] DaemonFC[m] Professional grade. [02:45] MinceR lol [02:45] MinceR what's his problem with VLC? is it not crap enough? [02:46] DaemonFC[m] It bypasses crapaudiod and in so doing manages to work. [02:46] DaemonFC[m] Very unhelpful. [02:46] MinceR he could use it to watch video [02:46] DaemonFC[m] It's open source and seems to keep working even as macOS falls apart around it. [02:46] DaemonFC[m] So it must be bad for some reason. [02:46] MinceR :> [02:47] XRevan86 DaemonFC[m]: Everything that needs to work works. Playing video is just not one of things. [02:47] DaemonFC[m] I do. I'm not even sure what Windows uses to play videos and audio. [02:47] DaemonFC[m] Don't really give a shit. I'm sure it's horrible. [02:48] DaemonFC[m] Always has been. [02:48] XRevan86 * one of those things :) [02:48] MinceR It Just Needs More Work. [02:49] XRevan86 Since CUPS was abandoned by Apple, I wonder what they're planning to do with printing in macOS. [02:50] MinceR maybe they'll just ship the last version of CUPS [02:50] MinceR or maybe they'll try to create a new "standard" that is only compatible with crApple products [02:50] DaemonFC[m] They sort of dumbed down and semi-hid Windows Media Player. [02:50] DaemonFC[m] They also changed the default rip format to mp3. [02:51] DaemonFC[m] They added a FLAC and an ALAC encoder. [02:51] MinceR strange, i thought MPEG LA couldn't shake people down for using mp3 anymore [02:59] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techrights ● Dec 18 [03:00] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techrights [03:03] DaemonFC[m] Added WavPack support but it doesn't recognize APEv2 tags. [03:03] DaemonFC[m] I suppose you might be able to use id3v1 since WavPack still supports those, but lol [03:12] DaemonFC[m] Windows Media Player is clearly abandoned. [03:16] DaemonFC[m] "Spam this about 20 times until it says no matching process found and wait a few more seconds, then it will be fixed. It is a known bug in Catalina. sudo killall coreaudiod" [03:17] DaemonFC[m] Actually, VLC on Linux has been getting that bad lately. [03:17] DaemonFC[m] About 1/20 times it closes and then zombies itself. [03:59] *mmu_man has quit (Ping timeout: 272 seconds) ● Dec 18 [04:20] *tdemin_ (~tdemin@lan.tdem.in) has joined #techrights [04:22] *tdemin_ has quit (Client Quit) [04:39] DaemonFC[m] I honestly think that even Windows 10 is less frustrating than a Mac and wonder why anyone would tolerate a Mac, let alone pay more for it. [04:58] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [04:58] *rianne (~rianne@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techrights [04:58] *rianne_ has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [04:59] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techrights ● Dec 18 [05:44] *oarion7 (~anonymous@unaffiliated/oarion7) has joined #techrights [05:45] *oarion7 has quit (Client Quit) [05:53] scientes where did oihim go? [05:53] scientes MinceR, they cant ● Dec 18 [06:08] scientes https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/guatemalans-set-congress-on-fire-bring-guillotine/ [06:08] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.jwz.org | jwz: Guatemalans set Congress on fire, bring guillotine [06:08] scientes a fucking guillotine [06:21] schestowitz [00:55] schestowitz: Electoral-vote dot com is engaging in some sort of fantasy where the economy comes roaring back next year. [06:21] schestowitz It never came back since 2008 [06:23] *GNUmoon has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [06:37] DaemonFC[m] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/11/snow-crash-slidescreen-edition/ [06:37] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.jwz.org | jwz: Snow Crash, Decayscreen edition [06:38] *aindilis has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [06:38] *aindilis` (~aindilis@172-12-3-117.lightspeed.sgnwmi.sbcglobal.net) has joined #techrights [06:50] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [06:53] *inky has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) [06:53] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techrights [06:54] *rianne has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [06:55] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights ● Dec 18 [07:25] *libertybox has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) [07:27] schestowitz DaemonFC[m]: got a query for you [07:27] schestowitz I am looking for recording with webcam software [07:28] schestowitz have not done so for nearly a decade [07:28] schestowitz cheese is for gnome [07:28] schestowitz it's a tad too simple [07:28] schestowitz Webcamoid is recommended for Qt here https://alternativeto.net/software/cheese/?platform=linux [07:28] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Cheese Alternatives for Linux - AlternativeTo.net [07:28] schestowitz do you know of anything else worth trying? I think you were into those sorts of programs [07:33] schestowitz "for GNU/Linux" [07:33] schestowitz https://webcamoid.github.io/ [07:33] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-webcamoid.github.io | Webcamoid, The ultimate webcam suite! [07:33] schestowitz they even say GNU [07:45] DaemonFC[m] There was kamoso. [07:45] DaemonFC[m] Does that still exist? [07:46] schestowitz I saw the name mentioned [07:46] schestowitz does it deal with multiple cameras OK? [07:46] schestowitz cheese just gives a simple toggle button [07:47] schestowitz webcamoid lets you choose screen 0 and 1, then move between webcam sources, but it seems to be missing keyboard shortcuts for shifting [07:48] schestowitz https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/3s96mj/are_there_any_webcam_app_other_than_kamoso/ [07:48] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.reddit.com | Are there any webcam app other than kamoso? : kde [07:48] schestowitz not sure about QtCAM [07:50] DaemonFC[m] Never tried to use it like that. ● Dec 18 [08:00] schestowitz OK, I found an alternative [08:01] schestowitz I will place the button outside the capture frames [08:01] schestowitz and then use the mouse [08:01] vZS1 OBS is good [08:01] vZS1 Works pretty much everywhere [08:21] *notanamber (~luca@2001:b07:a16:5bc0:bd01:a12:47e2:5907) has joined #techrights [08:24] schestowitz ah, yes, I forgot about it [08:24] *CrystalMath has quit (Quit: May we live long and die out | http://vhemt.org/) ● Dec 18 [09:16] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [09:24] *vZS1 (~vZS1@92.20.231.81) has joined #techrights [09:38] *mmu_man (~revol@vaf26-2-82-244-111-82.fbx.proxad.net) has joined #techrights [09:53] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [09:53] *tr_guest|78806 (2ebdd206@gateway/web/cgi-irc/kiwiirc.com/ip.46.189.210.6) has joined #techrights [09:54] *tr_guest|78806 has quit (Client Quit) [09:55] scientes https://fitgirl-repacks.site/self-isolation/ [09:55] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ https://fitgirl-repacks.site/self-isolation/ ) [09:56] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights [09:56] scientes XRevan86, ^ [09:57] scientes people says it reminds them of this: https://papers-please.en.softonic.com/ [09:57] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-papers-please.en.softonic.com | Papers, Please - Download ● Dec 18 [10:10] scientes appears to be quite buggy with wine [10:12] scientes lame I wanted to play it ● Dec 18 [11:06] scientes "musical chairs" is the best explanation of the yuppies I have ever read [11:22] schestowitz zoobab: constitutional complaints coming? 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[19:38] DaemonFC[m] It's kind of surprising that Firefox keeps a search deal going with Bing, which is telling people it's unsafe to use Firefox. [19:49] DaemonFC[m] That's how USCIS is. [19:49] DaemonFC[m] The rules change every day about who they let in. [19:49] DaemonFC[m] Some guy sitting there has to keep up with it as they stamp papers. [19:50] DaemonFC[m] Trump issued a flurry of unconstitutional and illegally implemented immigration rules and the courts have gone back and forth knocking them over and putting them back in or knocking them down as it pertains to some people, but not in Illinois, and then nevermind it's in Illinois too now, and now it's struck down again. [19:51] DaemonFC[m] No time to appeal it this time and they'd just go away again under Biden even if he managed. [19:52] DaemonFC[m] Luckily, it seems he's so tied up ranting and raving about the election while his cabinet is resigning and hitting jobs posting websites, that it's all over except the pardons and January 20th. [19:52] DaemonFC[m] The Russians even managed to invade pretty much every high level US government agency and make off with god knows what, and all Trump can do is continue to tweet about his election loss from the shitter. [19:57] schestowitz Ariadne: can disk space for new techrights be high? [19:57] schestowitz we've been uploading many videos lately [19:57] DaemonFC[m] https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-12-18/supreme-court-trumps-plan-to-exclude-undocumented-immigrants-from-census [19:57] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.latimes.com | With punt, Supreme Court largely ends Trump census plan - Los Angeles Times [19:57] DaemonFC[m] The Supreme Court pretty much threw out Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the Census. [19:58] DaemonFC[m] Google News no longer works properly if I'm on the VPN. ● Dec 18 [20:14] schestowitz use something else [20:14] schestowitz what do you search for roughly? [20:14] schestowitz unless you debug some rare computer problem, there are other places you can find info [20:23] schestowitz Rianne asks if you're vegetarian [20:23] schestowitz sorry, wrong channel [20:58] DaemonFC[m] Yeah, Google has been getting really weird lately. ● Dec 18 [21:07] psydroid it looks like some kind of identity crisis [21:07] DaemonFC[m] It seems that if you leave the touchpad on while you have a bluetooth mouse connected, there's a lot of lag and jitter with the bluetooth mouse. [21:08] DaemonFC[m] So having it turn the touchpad off while the bluetooth mouse is connected seems to solve some of that. [21:16] *kupi has quit (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity) [21:40] DaemonFC[m] It seems Windows 10 has problems dealing with a touchpad that's on and a mouse, which causes some sort of strange polling errors. [21:41] DaemonFC[m] If you tell it disable the touchpad while the mouse is on, it will be much less aggravating. [21:44] DaemonFC[m] It seems the highest speed anything can actually connect to my router at is 144 Mbps, even in N-only mode. [21:44] DaemonFC[m] But in mixed-mode Windows was reporting that it was falling back to 130 Mbps. [21:44] DaemonFC[m] So by setting it to N-only you can get a little more out of it, but nothing approaching what the router says it's capable of. [21:45] DaemonFC[m] I suppose it's still doing everything I need and more though. [21:49] DaemonFC[m] https://www.ghacks.net/2020/06/23/how-to-block-autoplaying-videos-in-the-new-microsoft-edge-web-browser/ [21:49] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.ghacks.net | How to block autoplaying videos in the new Microsoft Edge web browser - gHacks Tech News [21:50] DaemonFC[m] Looks like Microsoft added Block Autoplay back to Edge Chromium but it's behind an experiment flag. [21:51] DaemonFC[m] And it doesn't actually work. [21:55] MinceR a failed experiment [21:56] psydroid like the entire company [21:56] DaemonFC[m] Okay, it works but you have to reboot. 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[23:05] *tr_guest|38422 has quit (Client Quit) [23:06] vZS1 I only try Google when all the other engines fail me [23:07] vZS1 Unless the question is super refined, I end up restoring to Google [23:10] *kupi (uid212005@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-mzkzpjlvwmkwoztw) has joined #techrights [23:32] *GNUmoon has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [23:32] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techrights [23:43] *mjg59 has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [23:45] *mjg59 (~mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk) has joined #techrights [23:46] vZS1 Idk if Google is so good just because of sheer scale [23:46] MinceR it used to be good [23:47] vZS1 Google still gives be the best results [23:47] vZS1 me*