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In 2019, Microsoft officially released the exFAT specifications. Before then, everything known about it was only known from reverse engineering, mainly by the heroes at the SANS institute. Did Microsoft do it from the goodness of their hearts or was there some motive behind it? Why it matters: exFAT is the pre-loaded file system on exFAT memory...

Preface Originally, this post was only intended to be about screenshot blocking, but while writing it, more things came to my mind that I wanted to cover. This post is not aimed at finding a way around screenshot blocking (this can be found elsewhere), but just to hear others' opinions on this. If you wanted to convince someone a restriction you...

(Apologies for necro, but this point didn't come to my mind back then.) Realize that the law is not on the end user's (your) side. How do the bureaucrats who determine the law benefit from you owning repairable stuff? Remember how a technofascist signed DMCA into law in 1998? The DMCA section 1201 limits what you can do to your property that you...

Never thought of it that way. Another possibility would be one official megathread per channel. Agreed. It is also possible to discuss directly on YouTube, but YouTube comments are very limited in functionality (no built-in quoting, it is not clear which comment was replied to), are subject to tracking by Google, and sometimes randomly disappear: ...

USB hubs that can be powered externally usually work without external power too, except you can not connect high-power devices like portable hard drives or optical drives.

Yes. It is linked a few posts earlier. For your convenience: https://vk.com/video-204003801_456294418 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bighjC-MiDA (likely will not survive for long)

Usually, non-powered hubs have enough current for very low-power devices like flash drives, but once you add a mechanical hard drive that has no external power supply itself, and it tries to draw too much current, the USB port will lose voltage and all devices on the USB hub will shut down for a short moment. The problem with externally powering...

But why not give the possibility to discuss them? But it is not that important, just a suggestion. Another possibility would be one pinned thread for all TechQuickie videos. There is already one for suggesting new TechQuickie videos though.

There is a "LTT releases" subforum. Please consider creating one for TechQuickie releases too. Thanks.

As you may have noticed, laptops don't have as many USB ports as they used to have. Typically, a laptop has one to two USB-A ports and one USB-C port, where as laptops until the early 2010s often had four USB ports, and some gaming laptops even had up to six. I wish we lived in a world where newer would always be better. Sadly, that simply isn't the...

Do you mean Tizen or One UI?

Well, they banned TheWheatisHeat96 and Mumkey Jones by giving them three strikes on randomly picked old videos. They both had many videos criticizing YouTube. While YouTube indeed seems to tolerate criticism to a certain degree, there is a limit. There is a difference between criticism from a little 100-subscriber channel and criticism from a...

Honestly, YouTube prohibiting videos that show how to download from YouTube is a greater problem than prohibiting videos on blocking ads. Ads are tolerable to some extent, but not downloading videos causes a loss of history given the massive amount of content taken down from YouTube.

To prevent people from finding the original video (ID: GsjHMzGl-VY) elsewhere due to streisand effect, and because the criticism is too much, and because they showed the Bing embed thing again. I think they will also put ads on Bing embeds soon now that it was exposed as an ad-free way to watch YouTube.

Actually, video downloading saves YouTube bandwidth. YouTube does not have to serve those videos again since the user can simply rewatch the downloaded file. But downloading videos is a necessity to preserve history, given how much is taken down. Less than half of what was on YouTube in 2010 is still around.