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on October 2, 2025
<br>Snag the Drive key from the alphanumeric string that lurks between "/d/" and "/view" in the URL field. Paste it at the end of "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=";. That one-liner becomes a hotlink URL that leapfrogs the player page and dives straight into the raw MP4, ready for Slack or any embed field that accepts HTTPS video.<br><br>Morph the Default Restriction to "Anyone with the Link" Viewer Rights <br> LinkedIn: add a one-sentence teaser just ahead of the link—the algo reads it as native video and reach 2×’s. <br> Reddit: legacy Reddit still shows the initial still; append t=0s so it grabs the title slide. <br><br> <br> Fire up the file, freeze at the desired frame, read the exact timestamp from the player. <br> Right-click → "Copy video URL at current time" → grab the link → paste it into the address bar → append &t= plus the stamp. <br> Check via an incognito tab; if the player leaps to the correct moment, the thumbnail is frozen and good to ship. <br><br>Telegram and Discord skip custom timestamps; they always pull the 1.5 s mark. Upload a 640×360 jpeg named poster.jpg into the same folder and refresh the cache—both apps will use the custom image instead.<br><br>Track ROI in a bare-bones spreadsheet: cost $0, time a dozen minutes per note, average revenue thirty-two and change after fees. Reinprint proceeds every Friday; the stack funds itself in 11 days on median performance.<br><br>Chart the Skill Gap Between You and Your Partner in 15 Minutes <br>Open a shared Google Sheet, name column A "Task", B "Me", C "Ally", D "Delta". Jot 20 core activities your joint venture needs (Sketch, cold email, SQL, TikTok ads, contract redlines, Kanban, etc.). In the next five minutes each of you rates 0–4 for every row: 0 = never tried, 4 = can teach. Conditional-formatting turns any gap ≥2 cells red—those are your hot zones.<br><br>Enable HTTPS Multiplexing with Chrome Flags <br>chrome://flags/#enable-quic → Enabled + Relaunch. QUIC bundles every TLS 1.3 tunnel over UDP 443, slashing stall time on 100-MB blobs from 18 s to 6 s on 200 ms RTT links. Pair it with chrome://flags/#max-connections-per-server=32 (default 6) so the browser opens octuple parallel QUIC streams per origin instead of waiting in a six-slot queue.<br><br>=ARRAYFORMULA(<br>IFERROR(<br>QUERY(<br>IMPORTRANGE("https://drive.google.com/file/d/1abc..","2024-05-chase.csv!A1:F999";),<br>"select Col1,Col2,Col3,Col4,Col5*-1,Col6<br>where Col1 is not null<br>Freeze row 3 and the first column, then protect ranges B3:E3 (housing, food, commute, fun) so no one alters the tags by accident. Highlight F3:F32, navigate to Format >Conditional formatting, pick "Custom formula" and enter =F3>E3; set color to #d32f2f and #ffffff text. Repeat for G3:G32 with =G3>E3 to flag warning when spent exceeds target. Append a second rule on the same ranges: =AND(F3>0.9*E3,F3Protected ranges >Set permissions >Only you so the budget line stays constant during the month.<br><br>Ground rules: no speech except to ask "what problem?"; handwriting only; red marker kills any duplicate angle. At minute 27 pin cards on a wall, cluster by verb (not noun), kill clusters with fewer than three entries. Remaining 18–22 cards are your session output; 70 % survive first feasibility filter next day.<br><br>Divide Large Files into 2 GB Chunks Before Sharing <br>Cut every upload >2 GB into 2 GB parts with PeaZip "Split to volumes" before you generate the link; the cloud back-end restarts interrupted chunks instead of the whole item, slashing redelivery time by 60–80 %.<br><br>Zero-in on the Exact Video File in <a href="https://Git.martin.md/utahorne19700">convert Google Drive link to direct link</a>’s Grid <br>Hit the search box, type mime:video owner:me, and punch Enter–every clip you uploaded appears instantly. Add before:2024-04-01 to prune uploads earlier than Q2 2024, or larger:50M to surface files above 50 MB. If the grid is crowded, press Cmd+F and drop the exact keyword; Chrome teleports to the thumbnail within blink. Sort by "Recently edited" to float fresh clips to the top, then switch to list view to scan durations without lingering. For mobile, open the app, swipe refresh, tap the filter icon, choose "Movies" under file type, and key a unique keyword from the title–use quotes to freeze the phrase and banish near-matches.<br>Validate the Code Airplane-mode with Two Phones to Ensure Direct Download Kicks <br>Activate flight mode on each device. Generate the QR code on the primary device, disable wireless and cellular, then fire up the camera on the second handset. Target: the page must pop within 1.5 s and the package must land in Downloads without any preview screen. If the OS spits a network error, the link still carries tracking parameters—shrink it again with tinyurl.com and append &export=download.<br><br>Next, smack the "Restricted" button inside the cloud pane: click Share → Anyone with link → Can view. This flips the permission bit in under four clicks and opens the file to the public internet without forcing viewers to request access. The switch spreads globally within blink-and-you-miss-it, so you can test the link in an private tab right away.<br>