Those were fun times. Raise your hand if you made a $100 mistake and got your sat box killed by an ECM, haha.

Thanks for sharing that post. That’s genuinely new info to me. Very interesting.

Thanks to the two of you I tried 11 IoT LTSC and it’s been great. I had no problems adding the store as you suggested. The Titus tool I already knew, it delivers.

Thanks again for encouraging me to give it a try.

I’m posting this from my new system, running 11 IoT LTSC as you and some others vouched for. It’s great, whatever IoT LTSC is missing, I haven’t needed any of it yet!

Getting the store and winget installed was easy enough, too. I’m very pleased.

uniget ui

Juat grabbed it, looks great!

New stuff to me, thank you!

Good stuff, thanks.

Honestly the biggest problem with those is they tend to go hog wild and remove too many things so you have to be careful with them and not just blindly click “remove everything possible”.

Facts. They are useful tools, but even though I thought I was being careful I wiped out some useful features like URL autocomplete when I experimented with the Titus tool.

That’s a bingo.

Correct. I know plenty about Linux and other OSes, but for this system, I’m choosing to use Windows anyway.

I should have known I’d get my ass beat for asking a question on the internet, right? Haha.

Thank you kindly for the confirmation. I’ll check out StartAllBack too.

I had not considered that LTSC would eliminate the store, which is definitely useful at times. Thanks for that link!

Ahhhh I get ya now, sorry.

Yeah with a free account I think you can still get low quality MP3s, not worth it.

Deemix still works for me.

What do all you die hard pirates do to discover new bands?

1. Find DJs I like on Twitch. (Many of them copy shows to Mixcloud too, so you can listen later, but track IDs may only be on the live show.)
2. When I hear a song I like, grab the discography from one of the usual sources.

I have discovered so much great new music via Twitch, but I am sure not every genre is well supplied with good DJs.

Once you have a verdict I am sure a lot of people would enjoy a review post.

Once you have an account, either because you got an invitation or reg is open, most usenet indexers have a free tier that lets you grab a few files per day. The invitation alone is not going to give you a premium account for free.

I do recommend getting on to a couple of good indexers and using the free grabs to see how you like usenet. Personally, I love it, even though it isn’t free. YMMV.

If each frame in the media contains the exact 1920 × 1080 pixels …

This image has the same number of pixels on the top and bottom half, but you can probably see the bottom half looks worse. That’s what lower bitrate does. It’s like turning up the compression on a jpg – you are not getting the exact same pixels, just the exact same image size.

https://i.imgur.com/CFriCXf.png

I’m a resident of the retirement home, but this is still funny.