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10/28/20
01:06:48

lazee

@MeH

I don't doubt you, as it's really no matter to me, but on videohelp is says KLCP has ads, and there's this warning/note:

"If you install all the included codecs/decoders you might get problem with other video software on your computer."

But whatever, as it's rated 9.3/10 so reckon it's doing a great job for those who voted.

Regardless, if and when need be I'll perhaps give it a try, as CCCP is dead.

Thanks.

10/28/20
03:43:12

OldGeezer916

MS did use a variety of stunts & it was seemingly random who got them & which ones. The one that got a lot of people was putting the 10 upgrade in important updates because many just kept the default to automatically install them. Not me. Even when you would study them, the language was so deceptive you wouldn't find out until later you let them slip some telemetry in on you. When I checked the update that bricked all future security updates, I missed it. It wasn't until I read it again too late I had to squint between the lines to get it. As far as firmware, if something was working I saw no reason to update it. No choice in 10.

Playlist over a week. Sorry, I have to chuckle. I have around 15,000 tracks from mid 50, 60's, & 70's. I used to listen to an MP3 player 8 hours a day at work. I would set them to play alphabetically. I don't remember how many, but it took many months to get through them all.

I have 3 very large battery backups. I can lose power & run my main machine & both monitors for well over an hour & a half.

Don't know anything about support ending on classic shell. Must not need updates because it's working fine for me. I even put it on 7 because of all the extra options.

I'm kind of a hoarder. Not one of the freaks with dead cats in the freezer. I save stuff that could likely be useful later. I keep that stuff organized. Otherwise I'm a slob.

10/28/20
09:12:02

lazee

@OldGeezer916

I used to have a MUCH larger MP3 collection, but I went through it all and deleted the ones I didn't like, and tagged them all proper, and ran them through MP3Gain with a target volume of 94 db. I also had about 300 CDs that I ripped and did the same too.

Before CDs I had vinyl records and cassette tapes. The tapes were mostly recordings of college radio(circa 1979 to 1989), and the rest were mixes from our record collections. I used those radio tapes to find what I liked and then bought records, and later CDs. A friend owned an indie record store that I worked by, so I was there most every day for my lunch break. In circa 2004, I threw all my cassette tapes away, which filled up 3+ trash cans. Soon after that I gave all my vinyl records away to a friend.

I started downloading MP3s in circa 1994 via BBS, and I'm sure you know the rest of that story.

It took me decades to consolidate down to what I have know, with only the songs I like, and I'm very picky, involving a wide range of musical styles.

For the most part, I no longer have any LPs. Just individual songs, all in one big folder, of about 12,000 mp3 songs.

Foobar2000 has a great randomize feature, where I can make a playlist of my whole collection, and thus not hear the same song twice with that, but that only works if I'm playing from a PC. To play true random on an MP3 player device, I run a copy of my collection through Advanced Renamer, which give them random number titles. Thus I can play those one after another and not hear the same song twice. Being that it's truly random, I never know what I'll get, which I like.

I don't collect music much anymore, as I'm very satisfied with my collection as is. I've only added perhaps 20 songs to it over the past 5 years.

I listen to music to enjoy, not as a lifestyle, or to send a message about how cool I think I am or whatever, ha.

"I have 3 very large battery backups. I can lose power & run my main machine & both monitors for well over an hour & a half." ----- Wow, very cool!

When the power goes out here, I use a laptop and/or tablet, which gets me through a few days, when need be. I also have a portable battery I keep charged, to mainly power small appliances and LED lights as need be.

I also have a small trailer with a refrigerator and the like, that is powered via propane tanks. I actually lived in it for a about 4 years, and rented out my room in the house, ha.

"I'm kind of a hoarder..." That sounds like me. I have a lot of old stuff, much is junk but handy for parts and the like. I could get rid of the junk in one day if need be, as it's all rather organized in sheds and mostly in trash cans. Yup, cheap plastic trash cans work great for outdoor storage, and are cheap.

Obsessives hoarding is a serious problem for some folks. I've seen the worst of it, and it's not pretty. It's not just that they like to collect trash, it's also that they can't tolerate open spaces, where they have a great need to fill space with most anything, otherwise they get all stressed out. It truly is a mental disorder: "Obsessives Hoarding Disorder".

I do understand that having a lot of junk doesn't simply make one a hoarder. As most folks go through phases of collecting junk and cleaning things up, which can get harder to do as we get older.

But with those crazy hoarders, just the mention of throwing some of their trash away puts them in panic. As if they are facing losing a finger. They treat their trash as a living extension of their bodies, ha.

As you may know, there are specialized companies who deal with such hoarders, involving lawyers, psychologists, movers, fire departments, and police.

Then there's obsessive hoarders who are VERY organized, yet they spend WAY too much time and money on such to make it worth it. These are folks who often have 5 or more of common things.. 10 scissors, a hundred spoons, 40 pairs of shoes, and such. And as such, although there stuff is organized, they have so much stuff that they can't often find what they need in any reasonable time frame, as they can't remember where things are. They will dig through their well organized boxes for an hour, and then say "I found it", and then spend another hour organizing.

That neat freak I told you about, he was an obsessive hoarder. But he kept a numbered file system to keep track of where everything was in his many boxes. Yet he spent WAY too much time with all that, and he paid for storage, packed full of his boxes, all organized and numbered, ha. He stacked his boxes on wheeled carts, and had a floor plan map. It was like he was managing a warehouse, ha. I would tell him: chances are you will never need all that stuff, so why pay to keep it in storage? Let the "stores" be your storage for all that stuff you might need. That's why they call them "stores"!

I lived with this dude for 8 years, and he would visit his storage about once per month, mostly to pay his bill and perhaps jam more stuff in his box of boxes. It was very rare he ever actually used something from his storage. And if he did use something from storage, it was some superfluous thing, like a left handed flash light.

We went camping a lot, and I noticed he wouldn't simply keep his gear in his pack. He would keep all that stuff in his boxes in storage. It would take him hours to get ready. Yet I can just grab my pack and say "let's go". Ha.

I like to be ready to go with my stuff. Most of my stuff is on wheeled shelfs and tables, that I can roll all the way outside if need be.

I also have a full wall of shelfs, with a huge curtain in front of it. It works great!

I like to able to see my stuff. Not hidden in boxes, drawers and such.

My basic rules with stuff is: Avoid owning anything you can't simply move yourself, and if you don't use something at least once a year, then get rid of it.

That all said, I'm clearly a digital hoarder, but that a good thing IMO, ha.

10/28/20
09:47:40

lazee

@OldGeezer916

Also, I'm always buying and selling stuff, with the goal of making an overall profit from my stuff.

Thanks to the boomers, that surplus market has been huge and cheap. And thanks to the young hipsters, I've made some good money selling old stuff. For example, I had a huge collection of luggage cases from the '50s, that cost me near nothing in the '80s. I used them for storage. Then around 2002, I saw that those so-called hipsters were paying $200+ each for such. So I sold them all, ha. I guess those neo-hipsters didn't understand that it's only hip to own '50s luggage IF you paid near nothing for them, ha.

10/28/20
10:14:06

lazee

@MeH

I see that CCCP was last updated 4 years ago. Thus I wouldn't consider it "ancient", but then at my age 4 years seems like nothing.

I guess for most youngsters, 4 years can seem like a lifetime.

I know I still look back at high school that way.

Funny how folks perceive time differently.

Ha.

10/29/20
01:26:20

lazee

@MeH

Was it you that recommended No-Scrip Suite Lite here some time ago?

Whomever it was, thanks! It has saved my much time with my downloads.

Also, well said with your comment to OldGeezer916.

I likewise use O&O Shutup10. I takes a little know how to understand what to disbale or not, but I think O&O Shutup10 does the best to address this telementry concern.

Telemetry is still a thing, but I don't think it's the boogey man some folks still hype about, at least when we have O&O Shutup10 and the like.

As a dev and you want to improve your software and such, then I reckon it helps to accurately know how your customers use it, thus I take it that some telemetry is very helpful with that.

For example, with the last update with Windows 10, it took months for my older rig to get that update, as I had drivers that conflicted with it, and thus MS said my system was not ready for the update. Yet on another PC that is new, it updated early on in that process.

My point being, I take it that telemetry helped prevent that older PC from getting that update too early, which may have broke it.

Now I know MS has had some issues with their updates, but that's another topic.

10/29/20
02:01:13

lazee

@MeH

I know of that series. I couldn't watch it. Too many bad memories (PTSD) involved with that for me, ha.

"Many of them had an emotional scar and their hoarding behavior was a result of their bad emotional experience"

Yes, "hoarding behavior" is a thing, as with it being a result of depression and such, yet not all of those folks have "Compulsive Hoarding Disorder". Yet some folks may have latent "Compulsive Hoarding Disorder" that later gets manifested after a traumatic event and such. As I'm sure you know, it's all rather complied, yet the "hoarding behavior" is a clear sign that something is wrong.

That said, with the hoarders I've had to deal with, if they don't seek help, then I have don't have much pity for them.

10/29/20
02:02:14

lazee

complied = complicated

10/29/20
02:30:37

lazee

@The_Owl

For big movie files, check out moviefiles

plus, wait for it...

D0T0RG

10/29/20
02:48:25

lazee

If you didn't know, S-RLS has been pumping out top movies from GalaxyRG:

720p-bluray-hq-x265-10bit-galaxyrg

They are all around 1 GB, with subtitles.

There's almost 300 up right now, with Dropapk links.

I often prefer RMZs recodes via clicknupload, but there you go.

10/30/20
05:09:38

vladimir

Hi guys, can I maybe ask a favor.

This release "https://rmz.cr/release/the-snow-queen-3-2016-720p-bluray-x264-rusted" is still up but it's on NitroFlare and I can't possibly get it from there. If someone could re-upload it somewhere else I would be very grateful. Uploaded is best for me but... RapidRAR if you must. Other easy access hosters like Uptobox, 1Fichier, MEGA, Dropapk or FileFactory all work for me. I'd really appreciate it. Thanks a lot.

10/30/20
06:21:29

xine

@vladimir

If you want that same 4.4GB copy of The Snow Queen 3 then I do not see that on my sources.
It is up on YouTube in 360p.
It looks like there is a 1 GB version of it on filepursuit via SERVIDOR_2: THE SNOW QUEEN 3 THE SNOW KING.mp4 - but that connection is very slow.
There is also other sources of it listed on filepursuit but most of the newer links I checked are dead. Perhaps you might have better luck there.

10/30/20
08:57:29

vladimir

@xine

Thank you for replying to my request. The thing is, RapidMoviez has this release and the NitroFlare link is still working, I just can´t get it from there. This is the working link:
http://nitroflare.com/view/18BFC097632F908/the.snow.queen.3.2016.720p.bluray.x264-rusted.www.RapidMovieZ.com.mkv

It would take somebody with a NitroFlare account to get it you see and re-upload it somewhere else. I realize NitroFlare has a very tight daily limit but I was hopeing somebody might have a little spare. Hope you can still help. Thanks if not.

10/30/20
14:15:43

Aussie67

@vladimir

This torrent link is up and working and is 1080p quality.

https://rarbgaccess.org/download.php?id=rw3ohqb&f=The.Snow.Queen.3.2016.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG-[rarbg.to].torrent

10/30/20
16:08:32

vladimir

@Aussie67

Thanks for your help. I was aware of the RARBG torrents but I really want the SCENE release. I have been looking for this release for a long time now and this NitroFlare link is all that is left on the net. I guess it is probably encripted on Usenet as well but I wouldn't know where. There is also a torrent but no seeds. Anyway... guess i'll hang on for a while longer. Thanks again.

10/30/20
19:15:25

OldGeezer916

@MeH
Not really sure exactly what type of programing my son is doing on his current job. I know his last job was primarily firmware. I do know he has full benefits & his starting pay was $80,000. That's more than even Boeing ever gave me. Not bad for someone almost entirely self taught & never went to college. He was in the gifted program from 1st grade when starting he was already reading 5th grade level. I started teaching him DOS when he was 4 & it wasn't long before he was teaching me.

My understanding is that 20.04 has a ways to go to be as stable as 18. I have heard 10 has made great strides since they were trying to shove it down our throats. I think that was the biggest thing that turned me off to it. Felt like desperation to me. Microsoft was paying for repairs for a lot of trashed systems. Forcing firmware updates was a big problem. If my video card is working fine, updates seem like fixing something that isn't broke.

If I ever get 10 it won't be upgrading my 8.1. I've thought about getting a laptop since mine are relics. Be hard to find one without 10. I wouldn't put any personal files on it or do much browsing. It is in their terms of service they have the right to go through your personal folders. Just don't trust them. I'm pretty happy with my Ubuntu 18 for now. There will probably eventually be programs I will want that will only run on 10. It will never be my primary system.

10/30/20
19:22:53

OldGeezer916

@lazee
I'll get around to answering you later. Being retired, I'm like my cat. I sleep when I feel like it. Needing to hit the sack right now. I took a Xanax that is starting to kick my butt. Yes, I have a prescription!

10/30/20
19:29:16

Coronavirus

@OldGeezer916 How old are you?

10/30/20
21:20:34

lazee

@OldGeezer916 - no problemo

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News flash: ololo is no more

11/01/20
05:10:07

xine

@Coronavirus

Sorry, I no longer have that list, though such info is easy to search for.