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Ok, I've switched to VLC for some time now. But...if VLC is so great, how come it does the following:

I run a video full screen.

The video ends.

I end up with a green window covering 90% of the desktop. It can't be Alt-F4'd. It is forced on top of everything else so I can't even see what is running in Task Manager.

The only way it goes away is I load -- from memory, mind you because the green monster is covering 90% of the screen -- another video in vlc. Then hit escape to get out of full screen. Then hit the stop button.

I wish I was making all of that up.

I'm not.

It is really annoying. And I can't find an answer online.

Latest VLC btw.

I was taught this in second year Organic Chemistry...in 1978.

We were told you needed two things: beer and meat pizza.
The nitrites were in the meat in the pizza.
The beer provided the amines.
Combine the two and you get the nitrosamines.

Pretty unforgettable lesson.

BTW, it is not really surprising this is only coming out now. Chicken feed contained an arsenic compound...for forty years.

Come to think of it, 1978+40=2018.

Bias ply tires were replaced radial tires.

Thing is that bias ply tires failed (slipped, when going around a corner too fast) in a progressive way.

Radial tires provided more grip than bias ply tires, right up until they failed completely at providing traction.

You realize a YouTube channel is equal to a TV show, right?

So the comparison would be, say, 5 YouTube videos per hour, times 24 hours per day versus individual TV channels.

So that works out to 120 YouTube channel videos on one TV channel.

That would become the most watched TV channel overnight.

Some winters back I was shoveling snow around our house (corner lot) and a car comes along. Our intersection's snow had turned to ice. Somehow the guy gets stuck in the intersection. His solution (like his cause) was to gun it.

He polished the ice for several minutes.

People came over to help push.

Finally I went over, got in, put the manual in 2nd, let out the clutch slowly and the car was free in 5 seconds. Only words exchanged were "Let me give it a try".

What is the next thing we forget how to do?

I'll bet you didn't read my full comment.

DIFFERENT computer, unrelated to me.

Nobody logged in on it (on YouTube).

And further to Bill's "just use another computer" comment...

Yesterday I got slow rolled on YouTube, probably for posting too many comments. As it was the first time it happened to me, I wanted to study it a bit.

I was curious if my most recent comments had been shadow banned so I went on other computers in the house.

We are talking about computers I never log in to, and where the other users are not logged in either.

So I brought up 3 or 4 of the channels I had been commenting on most recently. On two different computers. Not logged in on either, I got the exact same shadow banning on recent videos. Only my recent videos. When I randomly clicked other videos, everything was normal.

FWIW, the form of shadow banning was I could only see my own comments, but no one else's. It would say X,xxx comments, then only show mine.

The behavior went away a short while later.

Still, sure sounds like Google is following me, and in an even worse way than this DuckDuckGo study found.

The reason, in a word? Agadmator. A channel just 18 months old and today it is just a few weeks away from being the largest chess channel on YouTube.

I grew up with an older brother who was rated at the master level while still in high school. He once spotted me a queen and rook, and still won. Easily. That sucked.

My father would spot me a rook, and win. That sucked.

In short, I never liked chess. And most YouTube chess channels did nothing to change that. Most analysts feel like Noam Chomsky.

Then along comes Agadmator. His rise in popularity is as deserved as anyone's. He is loved throughout the world and has helped me to love chess. Finally. After the age of 60.

I would have thought it was impossible.

Today, in our living room, sits a large 4-tall-stool table & chairs thingy...with a chess board built into it.

That is the answer to the submitter's question.

Almost a penny a person affected seems entirely reasonable.

Why use an app for weather? I type the first 3 letters of my city into Google and the "my city weather" suggestion pops up. Click on that and I get an in-Google summary of weather for the next 10 days. Why go anywhere else?

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