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.

I find people often rely too much on guides which just tell you the steps, and you never learn how it actually works. So I would emphasize the manual bit to understand what that thing the guide told you to do actually does.

The other big hurdle is not being able to assess information for accuracy. If you have no prior knowledge, you have no clue whether that blog post with a guide you found is written by someone clueless or a genius. I’ve had that problem before on a topic I was unfamiliar with, and literally had to just ask an experienced person whether this looked okay or not. They were happy to correct all the misinformation I almost followed.

On a related note, it’s always easier to make people give corrections than tell you everything from scratch. Just human nature.

I’m talking about when you don’t use Google to login.

That is also a concern and why I always default to a separate account even for those things, but I wouldn’t assume that data doesn’t get sold to Google regardless.

What even is a pod sprint? I know all those words, but I’m not used to them going together like that.

This is fine for stuff I don’t care that much about, like an account with your hairdresser or a pizza place, but if you tie all your actually important stuff to the same account and you get locked out for whatever reason, now you’re locked out of your whole life.

I prefer unique passwords and a password manager. But you do have to back up the password manager data as well as any data you have with cloud providers.

It’s not. It’s a technique encouraged by reviled scumbag Steve Bannon, where you do so much heinous shit in rapid succession that people are too overwhelmed to fight it all.

Literally every chore I give my kids would have been faster and easier to do myself. Saving time or effort is not the point of the exercise.

I think he’s just deeply insecure. He’s not sure what to do, so he asks an LLM. Then he’s not sure that’s what she wants, so he asks for her input too. They don’t seem like a good fit for each other, so probably for the best to break it off early.

You can visit North Korea. They assign a guy to you to make sure you only see the approved stuff.

I’ve never been to Mongolia and have no connection to it whatsoever, but Yuve Yuve Yu somehow fills me with national pride on their behalf anyway.