Monthly Archives: November 2025

I have been downloading torrents from sources like piratebay.live for many years and it has been very reliable until recently, where it seems like more and more files are corrupt and unplayable. In the last 6 months it seems that almost 50% of the downloaded files are corrupt somehow. Sometimes […]

I have been having a lot of trouble trying to make blender simply open GIMP so i could use it but no matter what i do and what online solutions that i find and try, it always gives me back the error: “Image editor could not be launched, ensure that […]

the pp filter is very useful, especially for setting video autolevels. It can be found in many postings in this forum. It appears to have been removed from ffmpeg V8.0 . Any attempt to use it returns an error: [AVFilterGraph @ 00000185371eac00] No option name near ‘al|f’ [AVFilterGraph @ 00000185371eac00] […]

I have a Samsung Galaxy A55 5G running OneUI 8.0 (Android 16) and it keeps disconnecting from mobile data. Randomly, the phone shows up as connected to 5G, but has no actual connection. Apps and websites do not load, and the only way to fix it is to turn on […]

When I download a key from keyserver.ubuntu.com from the keyserver web ui, that key includes 3rd party signatures. key=0xa9a14f22f57da182 curl -o key.txt "https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=$key" key.txt does include 3rd party signatures. If I instead do this: gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys $key no 3rd party signatures are imported.

I need a media streaming URL for the radio at https://www.gly.co.il/ Who can retrieve this for me?

How do I clone a SSD with Fedora 43 on a Brtfs partition to a SSD in an external case. I have tried using dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/dev/sda bs=1M however, despite dd completing successfully, the Brtfs partition is shown as ‘unknown’ on the external device. The other partitions (Efi, boot) are […]

For a long time, we have used Active Directory binding to connect our family’s Mac computers to an Active Directory server (Windows Server 2022) for authentication. The Active Directory server historically has provided a single source of truth for passwords for computer logins, file shares from a Synology NAS, and […]