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Unfortunately it doesn't work on locals.com; it used to be easy enough to get their older video content via some inspect element shenanigans. But they changed their video player last month and ever since then it doesn't work right anymore. All their content posted before the video player changed can still be grabbed though.
Minor update for anyone that cares; I was able to resume pulling content off of the Locals platform despite their new video player. Funnily enough it was an older program that I used to use years ago that did the trick. The Video DownloadHelper extension for Firefox did the trick. I ended up getting fed up with Pale Moon and its expanding list of problems and went back to Firefox and sure enough the stuff I used to use still works. Go figure.
 
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NFT’s are just art works? I can make art and somebody can buy it off me? Is that it?
See our fairly new thread about NFTs. tl;dr: They are typically used to store a contract denoting ownership of a work of art (but not the work of art itself) on a blockchain, similar to how a car title denotes ownership of a car but is not the car itself.
 
Is it worth switching to windows 11 or should I wait a 2 or 3 years for them to iron out problems and get more compatibility going?
 
Is it worth switching to windows 11 or should I wait a 2 or 3 years for them to iron out problems and get more compatibility going?
I would wait at least a year, unless its something critically important you need windows 11 for. It has some issues, like win 10 drivers not being compatible with certain devices, requiring a special driver which may or may not be available.
 
Is it worth switching to windows 11 or should I wait a 2 or 3 years for them to iron out problems and get more compatibility going?
Considering how games shit the bed under Windows 11 paired with Alder Lake (12th gen) Intels - which were designed in a tight cooperation between Microsoft and Intel - I really think you should wait until the rest of the issues are discovered and fixed.
 
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Even after extensive searching I could not find a direct answer to the question I have:
I have a motorized corrugated sheet steel Hörmann up-and-over garage door, and one of its four extension springs snapped. Do I only replace the single broken spring or do I replace all four of them?
 
Anyone know a decent mouse? Looking to replace my current one because the rechargable battery isn't worth shit.
There's too many choices nowadays. Do you just want a regular office mouse or a gaming mouse? Do you prefer larger or smaller mice? Will you accept a trackpad or trackball? Does it have to be wireless?
 
There's too many choices nowadays. Do you just want a regular office mouse or a gaming mouse? Do you prefer larger or smaller mice? Will you accept a trackpad or trackball? Does it have to be wireless?
I want a fairly large, wireless gaming mouse, one with six buttons. Don't want a trackpad or a trackball. I don't even want anything fancy. Just something I can comfortably put my hand around while I browse or play games.
 
Even after extensive searching I could not find a direct answer to the question I have:
I have a motorized corrugated sheet steel Hörmann up-and-over garage door, and one of its four extension springs snapped. Do I only replace the single broken spring or do I replace all four of them?
The type of garage door I'm familiar with is a different style than that Hormann and only uses two extension springs up top. I have replaced one of my springs when it got janky looking. I saw a couple places that would only sell pairs of extension springs because you want the springs to be balanced. Plenty of DIY sites said never mentioned an issue replacing one spring. I would expect you'd be fine replacing one as long it wouldn't create a significant power imbalance between the two sets of springs.

I am a diy idiot, not a professional.
 
what is the difference in terminology between a daemon and a server?
"Daemon" is more general and can refer to any background process, which may or may not be a server.
For that matter, a server doesn't necessarily have to be a daemon, if you wanted you could write one that runs in the foreground and ties up a terminal or keeps a desktop window.
 
There are too many choices for what I need to do. Please help. I need to make some kind of .svg file that I can send a command to and have individual line elements change colour or appear/disappear.

Is this even possible? Is there some other type of "container" I can use that will accept signals in "R" and output a change to a graphic element? I think it will accept a .jpeg and .png as well. SVG seems to be a lot less fussy.

I will tell you what I am doing currently in the hopes that you will have pity...I have 15 different permutations of almost the same .svg as a state-dependent background. But I need like 100 more. It would work a lot better if the signal state would CHANGE the .svg, not replace it. There are about 50 total line elements on the card that can have 1 of 5 states.
 
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There are too many choices for what I need to do. Please help. I need to make some kind of .svg file that I can send a command to and have individual line elements change colour or appear/disappear.

Is this even possible? Is there some other type of "container" I can use that will accept signals in "R" and output a change to a graphic element? I think it will accept a .jpeg and .png as well. SVG seems to be a lot less fussy.

I will tell you what I am doing currently in the hopes that you will have pity...I have 15 different permutations of almost the same .svg as a state-dependent background. But I need like 100 more. It would work a lot better if the signal state would CHANGE the .svg, not replace it. There are about 50 total line elements on the card that can have 1 of 5 states.
Any possibility of having a SVG containing all the lines and modifying the line attributes in whatever is rendering it? Lines should have color settings and adjustable opacity.
 
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