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I am using netem to simulate a low-bandwidth connection, to check that an application handles this properly. For example: sudo tc qdisc replace dev eth0 root netem rate 2kbps But there seems to be very little effect, even at rates as low as 2 kilobits per second, where I would […]

All the answers for this question deal with base drive, but most of my VMs are snapshots, nothing else, so it seems none of the solutions actually work. I tried filling it with zeros with SDelete, but that just took the file from being 35GB to 80GB, nothing I do […]

Command to detect key_frames [ffprobe:Windows]: ffprobe -f dshow -video_pin_name 1 -i video="H264 USB Camera" -show_entries frame=key_frame Output from command on my camera is a keyframe once-per-second. Using the avformat/av_read_frame(AVInputContext *, AVPacket *), and checking the output packet flags, i.e. in_packet->flags & AV_PKT_FLAG_KEY, I’m not getting any packets with the AV_PKT_FLAG_KEY […]

My searches only show results for managing passkeys or disabling autofill, but that’s not what I need—I want to completely and permanently disable Chrome’s ability to show the “Use a passkey” prompt in any situation.

I executed ls *tags* -ls when my current directory is /usr/bin and the result is: 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Apr 8 2024 ctags -> /etc/alternatives/ctags 304 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 309024 Apr 8 2024 ctags-exuberant 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Apr 8 2024 etags -> /etc/alternatives/etags 4 […]