Recent content by Thought Provoker

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    Question Can't find a way to embed images into mp3 files.

    There's this guy on youtube called macroblank that uploads these royalty free tracks that's basically just lounge music. I'm going to be away from anywhere with internet and I've downloaded the albums but all of the files are mp4 or webms. I know how to convert them to mp3s but when I do that...
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    Question MKV Editing With MKVToolNix

    I really wish the answer wasn't so easy 🤦‍♂️ Thank you for your help
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    Question MKV Editing With MKVToolNix

    Hey y'all, I have these two batches of files of the same show. One with english audio and another with spanish. I've extracted the audio from one of them and merged those along with subtitles into one video. My main problem is that the time stamp at the bottom of whatever video player is wrong...
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    Question NordVPN Disables My Network Adapter?

    So I have recently had this problem where if I have NordVPN running and I download a file larger than a few GB, my network adapter just <Mod edit> craps out the bed. I've tested this numerous times where I'll have a Youtube video playing in the background and my task manager up to show when it...
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    Question Ethernet Connectivity Tom Foolery

    Upfront: I have my desktop pc that has an ethernet connection to my ISP modem/router combo that will intermittently just disconnect from the network. I have a gigabit modem with my ISP that's connected via ethernet to my TUF Gaming motherboard into the Realtek Gaming GbE Family Controller port...
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    Question Networking Bottleneck and Ways to Fix it

    Yeah, I should've been more specific. To clarify, I did use speedtest.net to test the speeds; you can see my reply to USAFRet. But as for hardware, I have a regular i3 from like 2016 that I had lying around with 8GB of RAM so the computer is overkill, I'd just be using the router for the wifi...
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    Question Networking Bottleneck and Ways to Fix it

    I'm saying that I tested it via multiple speedtests. The download was just where I first noticed it. So I did speedtest.net once getting like 245 mbps, then I hooked my ethernet up to the modem directly and did speedtest.net again but got ~450 mbps. These two tests happened about 10 minutes...
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    Question Networking Bottleneck and Ways to Fix it

    I'll just lay out all the facts and then what I'm looking into, let me know what y'all think. I pay for 400 mbps internet. I was getting that a few months ago, no problem. I did a random check again today when I hit a download cap of about 12 MBps which was different from the regular ~30 MBps...