Alexander Mitchell4 said:buying a whole new rig just for browsing the web??? how old are you guys even??
Lol, okay, then why are you getting so worked up about it? Honestly, man, I wish I could run a fresh Fedora with GNOME 3.14 or even Windows 8.1 in a VM on my old Pentium 166—yeah, I still have that relic sitting around somewhere—with its massive 16 MB of RAM and that legendary 1 MB GPU. If I had, I would've saved a mountain of cash by not upgrading everything over the last 18 years or so. And oh yeah, I’d love it if the entire Adobe CS6 suite ran perfectly on it too, or if I could just blast through FHD 60 videos shot on an iPhone or binge some 10-bit FHD anime without a hitch.
Newsflash: tech actually moves forward. With your attitude, people would still be riding around in horse-drawn carriages (if they even did that, though I bet they'd still complain that the carriage doesn't hit agera R speeds) because, seriously, how many years do you have to live before you decide to get a car just to drive? (Actually, that needs like three question marks, but whatever)
Man, time really caught up with you, along with all this new tech. It's your call: adapt or don't. If you want to keep up, just install an OS that fits what you need and what your gear can actually handle. Like, starting with a Debian netinst is a pretty solid move. Instead of picking a heavy DE, try a WM (look it up if you don't know what that is, I'm using acronyms on purpose here) and suddenly you'll realize you can actually get a ton done even with 1 GB of RAM (hell, even 512 MB on x86).
Ugh, everything takes effort, some things more than others. Or you can just pay someone else to do all the heavy lifting for you...
Mozilla definitely isn't crashing on me. Firefox might be, though (IIRC, it crashed on me exactly once in the last few years, and mind you, I usually have at least 50 tabs running at any given time—I don't just shut my PC down constantly, ya know? Everything stays synced with my phone too).
Btw, just buy a new computer and everything will work fine. Honestly, there's probably no point even starting threads like this because there just isn't an OS simple enough for someone who refuses to actually learn how to use one.
Edit: That "pacia" search engine (check out Quack in my signature) is absolute gold. And honestly, if you can't figure out how to swap the default search engine in, uh, oops, Firefox... well, that says a lot about your basic "tech-savvy" skills, man.
Look, man; why do you think an original Blu-ray hits like 25 GB while a rip is sitting at a measly 1.5 GB? It’s because they’re basically gutting the audio and visual quality just so people can grab smaller files without sweating their bandwidth.
Check out this example with the photo here: If you were rocking some tiny little monitor with a resolution of like 632x475 pixels this image would look crystal clear on it, mostly because 632x475 is actually the native size of the shot. Since you’ve got a 1366x768 screen on that laptop of yours, try opening this image in your browser first. You'll see it defaults to 100% size (that 632x475 thing again, right?). Now, save it to your desktop and set it as your wallpaper. Suddenly, it’s being stretched out to a way bigger resolution, so obviously it looks all blurry and crappy. It’s being upscaled and honestly, that's exactly what happens when you try to watch a DVD in full screen on your monitor.
Now, take a look at this image which is 2225x2212 pixels. See how sharp that is? Try setting that as your wallpaper. It’ll still look crisp because it’s just shrinking down from its massive original size to fit your laptop's 768p vertical height. This one is downscaled—which is what happens when you watch a 1080p (Full HD) movie on an HD screen (like 720p or 768p) on a laptop. But hey, if you had a screen even bigger than 2225x2212—say, a vertical resolution of 3000 pixels instead of 2212—that exact same photo would start looking blurry all over again.
Do yourself a favor and Google the difference between raster and vector graphics. Since movies aren't (and never will be) in a vector format, you can't upscale them and expect to keep 100% of that sweet quality.
If you really want the absolute best experience, your only move is a pure Blu-ray (none of those rips where they strip out the good audio stuff)—specifically 1080p that gets downscaled to your monitor's 768p. If you go with a 720p film, it’s still technically being slightly upscaled to make up for those missing 48 pixels, which might leave a tiny, tiny bit of blurriness... it's super hard to notice, but it's there.
Look, everything else is fine, but you’re totally tripping when it comes to the video quality. Honestly, I don't even have the energy to get into it with you... just go Google "video downscaling and upscaling" to get started. Seriously. Look, your laptop is beefy enough to handle 4K video playback without breaking a sweat, so playing back stuff in FHD? Yeah, that's absolutely no problem at all. Seriously, you're totally fine. I mean, I’m guessing you’re watching Blu-ray rips, right? So if the picture looks kind of crappy—you know, all grainy, pixelated, or just washed out—that’s totally normal. It’s just how it goes. Basically, the smaller the file size, the lower the quality. Simple math, really! Anyway, let's be real—DVDs aren't even natively 720p or 728p by default. Everything just gets stretched out, which makes the whole thing look super grainy and obvious. It’s pretty clear why the picture quality ends up looking so much worse.
Alright, let's try this... First thing you gotta do is go into your settings and flip that power mode from Balanced over to high performance. Seriously, do that first. If it’s still stuttering after that—and honestly, knowing how these things go, it probably will—then you can go ahead and install it. Wait, what? CCCP? You're really gonna drop that out of nowhere? Man, you're wild! I feel like I just walked into a weird corner of an old internet forum from twenty years ago. Seriously, where did that even come from? One second we're talking about normal stuff and the next, boom—Soviet vibes. It’s like when my uncle starts talking about the Cold War at Thanksgiving dinner; everyone just kind of stares at their mashed potatoes and hopes it blows over. Anyway, whatever you're getting at, you definitely caught me off guard! So, I was just thinking about this earlier while staring at my setup... which one actually has all the important codecs built-in? You know, the ones you actually need so you aren't constantly hunting down random plugins or losing your mind trying to get a movie to play.
Linda Price5 said:I’m with you on this one. You either need to set that threshold significantly higher than 300, or drastically expand the window of time before and after a post for the search parameters. Otherwise, trying to conduct a thorough investigation on someone is like trying to run a marathon in a blizzard—you'll burn out before you even get halfway through.
I haven't really spent this much time laughing my head off over a single thread in a minute 🤣 I’m just sitting here picturing those birds—since you mentioned they show up like clockwork in the post—just descending on the place at the exact same time every day. They’d basically blanket three-quarters of the house, and you've got the whole family just standing there in tears, watching these little pests absolutely wreck the siding 🤣
The ads probably get way more eyeballs anyway, since it’s a lot harder to stretch them out over like 100 different posts when you're dealing with people who don't have AdBlock or NoScript installed.
And man, I really hope you're right about that (like, seriously, wouldn't it be great if it actually worked out that way). Plus, if they’d just bump up the avatar limit to at least 50 KB, we could finally upload some decent GIFs that don't look like pixelated trash...
It really just depends on which part of the file is actually osteći. If we're talking about a busted header, then honestly, any decent HEX editor can probably save your skin. But man, if the actual data inside is trashed? Not gonna lie, there's not much you can do at that point. It's a total nightmare. On the flip side, if you still have some hope, you could try running a recovery using something like PhotoRec or maybe Recuva if you've got a backup or some way to pull those bits back.
Honestly, I think Reddit might be the only forum out there that doesn't let you crank it up to 100 posts per page (which is totally fine by me, personally). If we're gonna act like it's 1999, then let's actually stay in 1999 through and through! 😁
Man, I gotta back that up because I’m sitting on over 100 GB of stuff right now (I think the limit is stuck at 40 or something like that lately). Google Drive is the same deal too.
You could go with Adblock Plus or Adblock Edge. If you’re feeling a bit more tech-savvy and want something beefier—depending on which browser you're running, of course—you might want to look into NoScript or ScriptSafe to really level up your setup.
What’s even missing from this thread you started? I mean, Google Drive actually comes with Microsoft Office integration too, so you can just whip up and edit docs right there. Dropbox doesn't really do that. Plus, Drive gives you 15 GB to play with, while Dropbox feels way stingier if you're just looking at the standard storage without hunting for some random promo or whatever.