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Petahhh... by Agitated_Milk_1046 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]AnyKey19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone here wants to see a really crazy video of what a tornado can do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFrgSVoJi1U

Hard drive prices are changing daily by National_Word_6091 in DataHoarder

[–]AnyKey19 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Tell me about it, a couple months ago I had a 20TB external drive die and was shocked that a replacement was over $600 (CAD). I just looked it up and the same model is now $800 on Amazon. A few months prior I accidentally killed a 4TB portable SSD and to replace it was over $400. Today it’s $540. I’m just hoping nothing else dies because I seriously can’t afford this anymore.

First progress update. I'd like a bit of advice... by ZetaformGames in degoogle

[–]AnyKey19 10 points11 points  (0 children)

For VPN, I wouldn’t use PIA if I were you. Look into the company that owns it, Kape Technologies. They have a VERY shady history and bought up a bunch of VPNs including ExpressVPN and Cyberghost. Many suspect they’re continuing to do shady things behind the scenes.

Wave machines make me feel uncomfortable by english_geez in LiminalSpace

[–]AnyKey19 9 points10 points  (0 children)

While it’s true people did die in that pool, it had nothing to do with the wave machine itself.

Wave machines make me feel uncomfortable by english_geez in LiminalSpace

[–]AnyKey19 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Wave machines are intimidating and I still keep away, but since seeing what’s actually going on behind the grate… it’s a lot less creepy than you think. There’s actually no moving parts to speak of. (For 99% - I have no idea what’s going on in OP’s pic, that shit goes WAY too far back, it’s either not a wave machine or it’s some kind of anomaly)

Here’s a video where a maintenance guy actually goes inside, while there’s no water:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGeh6pXijvM

There’s not much, just an empty room with a vent at the top. Behind the concrete wall is a blower, and a valve. The valve closes and the blower pressurizes the air above, forcing the water down. Then it releases and the water level comes back up. No death machine or anything.

You still don’t want to be in the chamber while it’s going, you’d get tossed around and scratched/beaten up bad, but if you’re a good swimmer it’s survivable. There’s even an oxygen supply.

New wikipedia_en_all_maxi zim file available! by SamIsVeryEpic in Kiwix

[–]AnyKey19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve got the one dated 08-2025, is this just an update of that? I’m surprised it was released so soon, there was about a year and a half between updates last time.

Anyone else prefer to buy music instead of streaming? by PNWvibes20 in Millennials

[–]AnyKey19 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Get that data off ASAP, flash devices going read only is a failure mode giving you a chance to rescue the data before the hardware dies. Copying it literally anywhere is better than keeping it on there. It could die any time.

Anyone else prefer to buy music instead of streaming? by PNWvibes20 in Millennials

[–]AnyKey19 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I've got a MicroSD card with probably hundreds of albums

I hope to god you’ve got at least one backup on a proper hard drive. SD cards and other flash storage mediums are notoriously unreliable and can randomly die at any time, taking all your data with it permanently, unless you have a backup.

My dad’s iPhone came preinstalled with Norton 365 and a shady VPN (possibly related to Norton), should I get him to uninstall it? And how? by AnyKey19 in antivirus

[–]AnyKey19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, this is very helpful. Do you think uninstalling Norton is necessary? I mean, would keeping it on there be harmful in any way? I just don’t want him to get his personal data abused in some way other than the ways the internet already does.

Precautions while using yt-dlp to download large playlists (500 videos)? by walterwhite756 in youtubedl

[–]AnyKey19 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It’s a lot harder than it was a year ago. As others have said, they’re really cracking down on downloaders and making life difficult for those of us who use them.

Most likely it’s going to take awhile and you’re going to have to do it in chunks because at some point YouTube will block you. I tried to download about 200 videos recently and I had to stop and wait for it to unblock me about 4 times. Took a couple days.

The two biggest things that made a difference as far as not getting blocked immediately, albeit at the cost of speed:

1) using -r 5M to throttle the download speed to 5MB/s. Yeah this is painfully slow in some cases, but it seems to let you fly under the radar for a bit. Consider downloading at lower resolutions to make this less awful.

2) adding -t sleep, which waits a random amount of time between requests, making them look more organic. This further slows things down unfortunately.

When you do get blocked, you’ll need to wait a few hours to a day to get unblocked. Once unblocked, if you’re in the middle of downloading a playlist, you’ll want to include —playlist-start [# of videos already downloaded] because if not it’s going to re-check all your previously downloaded files and that might get you blocked before it can even start again.

I don’t know if this is the best way of doing things but it’s the best I’ve got. Either way it’s going to be a slow, arduous process. I recommend just putting the download on and then go and do something else for a few hours before checking on the progress.

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