I’d much rather spend 30 minutes on public transport than in a car. This is a real tradeoff many places I’ve lived in Europe, particularly when considering you need to find parking for the car.

I’ve had commutes in the US where it was either 30 minutes by car or 90 minutes by public transport. At that point it’s not really a choice, you’re going to go by car.

You can have a 30 minute commute and still take a train through the alps if both your house and your job are in the alps.

Meanwhile, other people jump out of a plane with a broken parachute, land in a haystack and escape with a broken leg and some bruises. It’s wild how the human body can be so resilient and fragile at the same time.

You’re right, I was thinking of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

In my experience, each flavor of Christianity handles this a little differently. IIRC the reason the Mormons Jehovah’s Witnesses are extra aggressive about hounding your door is because they consider it an obligation to spread the good word, while there are other groups who just stay out of your business entirely.

WRT the quote, there’s very little talk of heaven and hell at all in Lutheran churches in my experience, just as an example. Although I have only been exposed to the Norwegian state church, which is pretty laid back about most things, so your mileage may vary with other Lutheran churches.

Complaints about the AI art aside., I really don’t understand the joke here. Do I just not know enough about stamp collecting and all the stuff this comic equates to it, or is the joke written by AI, too?

In 2013, sure. In 2023 he’s more likely to motivate people to join the Proud Boys. He really should have just shut up and never created a Twitter account.

Hey, kid, it ain’t that kind of movie.

• Harrison Ford to Mark Hamill after he expressed concern about his hair instantly drying the moment he was no longer submerged in grey water.

As you should, but is there a way to check that prior to purchase?

It probably depends on some server which is getting shut down in 5 years anyway.

A lot of the artifacts on old CRTs were actually from the connection. There’s supposedly a big difference between the looks of Composite vs S-Video vs VGA, so that’s something you could play around with.

The only thing I’ve done with a GUI archiver for the past 20+ years is right click on a file and select “extract to here”. But more commonly I just extract things on the command line, without any automatic processing.

I very rarely list the content of compressed files, so that doesn’t bother me much.

Back in the day the trick to get better compression on zip files was to first make an uncompressed zip file, and then put that in a compressed zip file. tar did that all by itself!

The tar format doesn’t, but the tar command has command line flags for a number of compression algorithms, and if your algorithm of choice doesn’t have a flag, you can just pipe it to the compression program.

It’s an ad for prostitution. Brand new user, only ever posted this.

I don’t understand how people can be using that garbage when tar exists

TIL Matrox still exists. I think I used to have one of their cards in the 90s, but I don’t remember which.

If you can afford 15 huge monitors, you can splurge on the motherboard with extra PCI-E slots.

A modern computer can easily fit 4 low-end GPUs plus the onboard one. Most things that used the slots are onboard the motherboard or USB now.

Or maybe people prefer candidates who aren’t corporate shills, and those get endorsed by Mamdani.