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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 cards and pretty much all SD XC cameras...
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    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 placed on them was for their benefit, how...
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    (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 paid for. Were you or me asked...
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    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: YouTube is Auto-Deleting 100% of my...
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    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.
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    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)
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    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 a USB hub is that you have to carry one...
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    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.
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    There is a "LTT releases" subforum. Please consider creating one for TechQuickie releases too. Thanks.
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    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 case. We hear laptop vendors...
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    Do you mean Tizen or One UI?
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    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 near-16-million subscriber channel. YouTube...
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    It is brave of you to make this video. Go, Linus! I suspect they will unfortunately take down this one as well.
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    Perhaps so. Thankfully Xiaomi / Poco use real-time encoding so far, so I can use their devices when I need video-editing-friendly high framerates. Apple and Samsung had found a good solution with the pre-installed slow motion video editor that was integrated in the gallery app. But the best solution would be to just add 120fps and 240fps options to the framerate selector in the normal video...
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    I am not so proud of modern Android and Android-based smartphones actually. They have become quite locked down (like iOS) compared to early "OG" Android. Original Android and Android-based smartphones were easily modifiable, not so locked down (file access, possibilities for third-party applications), and didn't have iPhone-like anti-features like non-replaceable and serialized...
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    There is nothing wrong about so-called "plagiarism". In the early 2010s, Apple sued Samsung and wanted to get Samsung barred from selling in the USA. Samsung was accused of having plagiarized Apple back in 2010 and 2011. So what? Even though Samsung might have plagiarized Apple, Samsung created a superior product in the end. Samsung's smartphone had a MicroSD card slot...
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    TLDR: From 2015 to roughly 2019, Samsung smartphones encoded slow motion videos as real-time videos with the original frame rate and audio. Sadly, Samsung changed back to slowed-down video files. There are two ways smartphones record videos with 120fps or above. The superior way is to encode the file with the same frame rate that was captured from the image sensor. The...
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    And almost none of the other keys too. This is why they are simulated on screen. And ES File Explorer did shift-like selection in 2012. It would be easy for billion-dollar Google to implement this.
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    This is a feature that Windows 95 and probably even earlier versions of Windows like 3.1 had. It is shift+click range selection. This is a standard feature we take for granted on desktop and laptop computers since before the beginning of this century. But how about the computers we stuff into our pockets? It is 2024 and the best way to select large amounts of text or items in a long list such as...
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    User be like: Google be like: In 2019, Google made pull-to-refresh mandatory in their mobile Chrome browser. This means it can not be turned off. While other browsers (Samsung Internet, Firefox) have the mercy to let users turn it off, many users stick to the default browser out of laziness and quietly tolerate the pain. An avalanche of complaints did not make Google change their hearts...
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    Linus is a legend for making this video. Just one correction: early Blu-rays might have had manufacturing defects, but modern Blu-rays are based on more established manufacturing technology will easily last much much longer. By the way, what percentage of U.S. population actually wanted DMCA law? I am betting less than 3 %. But the greedy movie bureaucrats wanted it, and Mr...
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    Maybe, but how much consumer pressure is needed to get replaceable batteries and MicroSD cards back?
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