Disable “DO THE FIVE: Help stop coronavirus” tip, called promo on the bottom in Chrome or Chromium in the new page tab

go to chrome://flags/#ntp-dismiss-promos optional: find Dismiss promos on the New Tab Page manually set it to Enabled Restart chrome or chromium Update 09.Feb.2021: This setting has been removed, so it’s no longer possible to disable promotional messages in Chrome and Chromium. Thanks Google Shitlords! Die in a fire!

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Fix choppy audio or video in VLC

For years I had issues with VLC under Linux. Whenever I would skip forward playing a video the audio playback would get choppy. I recognized that from buffer underruns when doing music production, but I’ve never really given it much thought, I simple stopped using VLC and switched to MPC (media player classic, which is…

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