Onion is also decentralized, and everyone knows it's monitored by the alphabet agencies. So yeah, I'd consider a hidden encryption vulnerability a solid possibility.
Back in the day, one of those computer magazines that included a CD full of demos, videos and other random stuff... It included some program that had a list of maybe hundred of games, for which i think it had... The cheat codes? I don't remember. I remember it had a banger of a tracker/mod song. And more amazingly, it even played using the internal speaker, playing somehow real audio. I never again found that CD, nor that song :(
How about this - in order to get a sim card to receive that SMS in most EU countries, you need first to provide your ID to the goverment. Also applies for many other countries with less rights. Some of which might become suspicious if it's a second separate SIM to your normal use one. So yeah, so much for anonymity.
What phones are adviceable these days for a daily driver? Is there any of them where ALL of the hardware does actually work? As in, most of the ones I've seen in the past had major bugs blocking from using either the mobile network, the camera, the sensors or just about everything that wasn't just the screen and touch input. I have a spare Pixel 7 and a Pinephone Pro (that I never got to work too reliably) I keep around for possible testing of stuff.
Lol...I just bought a more generic logitech cam. And I recently tested an insta360 Ace Pro2, and when hooked via USB it can act as a webcam. I use this one when traveling, so I could just put it on a tripod-selfie-stick combo next to the laptop. But good to know that one works too. I'm stuck with a Dell 2 in 1 that I thought wouldn't have this issues...but it still does. As I bought second hand, might be harder to sell.
It seems to be a refresh rate <-> FPS incompatibility. Video files at 24 or 24.97 etc don't play great in 60Hz refresh rate. But still, VLC does something that makes it much smoother.
As i said, it is enabled. I tested it and it runs fine. But it jitters. Even with acceleration off, this computer is more than capable of playing video off of the cpu and not dropping a single frame.
EDIT: Seems Nobara might include these by default. Basically Nobara is a Fedora with a lot of gaming/multimedia/GPU tweaks to make it pretty gaming ready.
This might be a very good point. But then, how can I play it properly on vlc? Is there a way for smplayer to handle this?
EDIT: So you nailed, and it IS refresh rate. So, I changed the screen refresh rate to 50Hz, but for the Alien episodes, the video is 24FPS, so not a perfect match, but better than 60Hz. And indeed, the video jittered less frequently, more like little spasms. And so I went again and found out I didn't have 48hz, but i could set the screen to 24Hz. And there you go, perfect playback.
Now my question still stands...how come VLC manages this rather well without having to tinker with the refresh rate for every damn video file? Is there any setting I could use on SMplayer to account for FPS->Hz conversion?
Onion is also decentralized, and everyone knows it's monitored by the alphabet agencies. So yeah, I'd consider a hidden encryption vulnerability a solid possibility.