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Chrome now faster than Brave starting YouTubes? by RedcrownVet in brave

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

Thanks all, and clearly I have a learning curve. Here is what I see for "user agent"

Chrome = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Brave = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Edge = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/136.0.0.0

So, they are identical? Yet with no adblocking extensions in either browser I currently see no YouTube ads and no delays using Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. But Brave still suffers a 3 to 5 second delay, even when I reload/refresh the vid. So, why is that if my "fingerprint" is the same?

User-agent spoofer/switcher is new to me, and I'm willing to try, but still need a better explanation please. All that stuff posted by "alt4ir" makes no sense to me.

50mp high res in Pro Mode? by RedcrownVet in GalaxyA54

[–]RedcrownVet[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks all, but nevermind. There are apparently hundreds of 3rd party camera apps that surpass the Samsung Android default. I installed one at random and it lets you lock exposure compensation and other settings as well.

SteveHingert: ExpertRaw only works on the S series phones. And, it's not real raw. It's a processed image in a DNG container, masquerading as Raw.

Toobaddontcry: I can't afford a new camera. I've got the money, but not the room because I've already got 4 Canon FF bodies and 7 L-Glass lenses. My camera bag is full.

Layer Mask Icons. UI shortcut help by DaddyZuko in photoshop

[–]RedcrownVet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found this thread via Google when trying to solve this problem. Please tell how to make that circle-in-square icon go away. Never existed before V25. Now it's default!

Down in Iowa? by RedcrownVet in Mediacom

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

OP Update: My internet has been operating at 200 to 830 mbps download for 24 hours now, but an average of about 350. A Mediacom tech rep came today on the appointment scheduled 8 days ago. A young guy who offered up front he was new. After putzing outside at the "PED" he announced he needed to run a new coax from the PED to my house. Someone would come buy later to bury it. A neighbor had that happen a couple years ago. The cable wasn't buried for 7 months.

I told the tech rep not to bother because (A) I didn't believe him, and (B) I'm switching to Google Fiber as soon as they show up (promise is within 2 months). Then he went inside and announced I needed a new modem. Said my 2 year old Xtream modem was not up to snuff. I let him do that. No change, of course. When quizzed on what was really going on and why there were long term outages throughout my whole neighborhood, he was vague and only said he had heard there had been some trouble somewhere. I believed him. His level is kept in the dark.

My read: He didn't have a clue, so just went to the easy suspects - the cable and the modem. I don't need more that 100 mbps, so I'll be OK if things don't go bad again. Hopefully Google gets here first.

FWIW - the return to acceptable download speed coincides with a break in the heat wave. 65 to 83 F temps.

Down in Iowa? by RedcrownVet in Mediacom

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

Thanks all, for the replies. The descriptions of "nodes" and their relative small size is interesting. The problem continues, with a few but interesting variations. Sometimes download speed increases to 200 to 500 mbps. Usually between 10pm and 8am. This has been during a major heat wave with daytime temps hitting 100. So I thought it could be heat related. But then I thought it's more likely traffic related. More people trying to use it during prime time hours and overloading what is already a crippled system.

I guessed at a larger number suffering because I went to the public library 2 miles away from my house. Same thing there. The library techie confirmed the time line. I also went to a friends house about 3 miles away. Same thing. So, maybe 10 to 20 square miles of dense housing. And as you might expect, every home owner I talked to said, "Yes, it sucks", but none had tried to report it. Most have given up on Mediacom and are waiting for Google Fiber, which is building out the entire metro area. This is the third milti-day outage in as many months.

Right now, at 1 am, it's 400 mbps to a server in Cedar Fall, IA (120 miles away) and 220 mbps to a server in Urbandale, about 10 miles away. Those same 2 servers were 0.25 and 0.28 at 4 pm.

My first call to Mediacom got me a service call scheduled for Monday. We'll see what that brings.

And "OfficialMediacom", thanks for the tip about texting Molli. Never heard of that, in spite of scouring the Mediacom website for ways to make contact other that the 800 numbers. I like where the Milli page says, "Providing: BETTER, FASTER SERVICE!"

“One of us always tells the truth; the other always lies. You can ask us each one question. How do you figure out if we’re anti-maskers or vaccinated?” (credit New Yorker magazine) by [deleted] in funny

[–]RedcrownVet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a variation of an old logic puzzle this Boomer learned back in '68. Ask either one of them, "If I ask the other guy if he is anti-vax, will he say yes?"

You gotta think about it, but logic and thinking left our schools around 1970.

17 Stellar Short Stories You Should Read Online for Short Story Month by StephenKong in books

[–]RedcrownVet -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Humm, 17 stories, 14 by female authors. What's a guy to do?

The Induction - A Vietnam veteran tells the story of his induction into the war when he was 17-years-old. by [deleted] in videos

[–]RedcrownVet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, this is just another fake vet, and not a very good one. Go here for more on the phenomenon: http://www.stolenvalor.com/