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--force and -hwmon-disable are both complex, and or dangerous, and should only be used very rarely. Please drop them from general guidance. Thanks!

Hey, thank you for this amazing work and providing the mask files.
However, I noticed that some of the masks take way longer than what the foldername suggests.
This is especially true for the mask files with character length 11 to 16. Looking into the files you can see that the keyspace is (in most cases) just all-digits and the mask is the same in every folder (e.g. ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d on the 16 character files).
So instead of taking a minute, using the 1-minute_16.hcmask will actually run for about 4 days (ony my hardware).

This is likely a pack issue and needs to be solved there, but since it seems that the project was abandoned, one probably has to do some kind of (manual) verification on the mask files and such "invalid" entries must be deleted from the file.
I know that this could also be achieved "on the run" with something like timeout 1min hashcat [...] or hashcat [...] --runtime 60 but this would end the whole cracking process and I think it would be better if the masks in the files actually fit the file name.