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First Method

Deleting the .git folder may cause problems in our git repository. If we want to delete all of our commits history, but keep the code in its current state, try this:

# Check out to a temporary branch:
git checkout --orphan TEMP_BRANCH

# Add all the files:
git add -A

I'm getting adverts in my TV's UI, help!

Samsung's otherwise excellent 2016 range of UHD TVs received an update that added advertisements to the UI. This has been complained about at great length on Samsung's forums and repeatedly, Samsung have refused to add an option to remove them.

The ads interrupt the clean UI of the TV and are invasive. Here's an example of how they look:

This guide was originally posted on Samsung's TV forums but unfortunately, that site is a super-slow and barely accessible unusable mess.

We did it! We broke gist.github.com ;) So head over to the new home! Thank you all!
2021.10.20: https://github.com/AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat now open for interaction

Not just an Universal MediaCreationTool wrapper script with ingenious support for business editions,

A powerful yet simple windows 10 / 11 deployment automation tool as well!

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Chocolatey

Homepage: Chocolatey.org

Chocolatey is a machine-level package manager and installer for software packages, built for the Windows NT platform.

It is an execution engine using the NuGet packaging infrastructure and Windows PowerShell to provide an automation tool for installing software on Windows machines, designed to simplify the process from the user perspective.

The name is an extension on a pun of NuGet (from "nougat") "because everyone loves Chocolatey nougat".

	# This script automates the installation and updating of MadVR (http://madvr.com).
	# All checks and downloads are done with the official website.
	# Version: 1.0e
	# Date Last Updated: 13th of June, 2016
	# Author: Deanoman
	# Requirements: Windows 7 or later, NET Framework 4.5 or later, available internet connection

	# Variables
	# A) Set this to the folder MADVR is installed in (the only thing you need to set)
	# This folder must exist, have enough space on the drive

	# Download latest dotnet/codeformatter release from github

	$repo = "dotnet/codeformatter"
	$file = "CodeFormatter.zip"

	$releases = "https://api.github.com/repos/$repo/releases"

	Write-Host Determining latest release
	$tag = (Invoke-WebRequest $releases \| ConvertFrom-Json)[0].tag_name

	{
	This script will prepend supplied value to the Full Name field
	of every selected record.
	}
	unit UserScript;

	var
	s: string;

	function Initialize: integer;

	### Basic ###
	# The directory to store the downloaded file.
	dir=${HOME}/Downloads
	# Downloads the URIs listed in FILE.
	input-file=${HOME}/.aria2/aria2.session
	# Save error/unfinished downloads to FILE on exit.
	save-session=${HOME}/.aria2/aria2.session
	# Save error/unfinished downloads to a file specified by --save-session option every SEC seconds. If 0 is given, file will be saved only when aria2 exits. Default: 0
	save-session-interval=60
	# Set the maximum number of parallel downloads for every queue item. See also the --split option. Default: 5

	# Downloads and upgrades ffmpeg Nightly for Windows
	# Saves time by changing a manual process to auto

	# Start Edits
	$destinationFolderTemp = "C:\Temp"
	$finalDestinationFolder = "D:\Portable Software\Command Line Apps"
	# End Edits

	$uri = "https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win64/static/ffmpeg-latest-win64-static.zip"
	$destinationFileTemp = "$destinationFolderTemp\ffmpeg-latest-win64-static.zip"