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haven’t used xvid in like 20 years. do still have some old ‘archives’ though.

because the average user is kinda dumb, kinda impatient, and some of those ads and banners on google properties peddling chrome were very scary to them… that they’d lose, or miss-out on something in, youtube or google or their gmail.

i just start with the basic rule of: whatever they want or suggest or default to, the opposite is probably what should be configured or answered instead.

youtube, google, gmail. all better platform to market from than your desktop os. plus google spent a ton of money on mainstream ads, and had the perfect place on those aforementioned platforms to peddle their own and at no cost to them. and google is far from innocent here… they’ve bullshitted their way to the top of the browser game and pull similar stunts as microsoft does.

and a lot of ie’s bits were loaded into memory with windows itself.

i remember that. it was my first year in school and i still remember going to school “at night”. i was not a fan. yes, school was only across the street, but i did not like the dark–at all. mom had to walk me to school instead of just watching from the back steps like she usually did back then.

i am firmly on team standard time; and i’d rather keep changing (and preferably with the old time change dates and shorter dst) than be an hour ahead all year long.

change the school hours for the shifting daylight hours, you’d also have to change parents’ work schedules… or provide some child care benefits, maybe. and we know how that would go over with this congress and administration.

there is 100s of miles of fiber spools just sitting for years at a utility maintenance yard here. the provider that was doing the work to expand services just took the rest of the free money and split.

https://www.pcsforpeople.org/ is another organization with low-cost internet for low income households. they some have hardware, too. they’ve expanded a lot since their first location opened in minnesota in 1998. (note: i am not affiliated with them, i just occasionally refer people to them)

they were, for months, literally giving the hardware away. no hardware cost. no recurring fees. just 20 bucks for shipping, then the whatever for the actual internet plan itself. a flat $80/mo i think the lowest cost one was. i have a few users on it that bought into that deal. i think it was just before the ipo where they started tacking-on an extra monthly fee.

amazon’s web site as a whole has always been shitty, going all the way back to when they just sold books.

iot is stripped-down ‘windows lite’ but they don’t sell that to the masses they’re trying to hoover-up data on, sling bullshit at, or trick into subscribing to stuff.

iot is excellent on the desktop or as a gamer. its existence is proof that none of the bullshit microsoft’s been peddling is actually needed in the os, and that crap actually hurts performance and stability.

i’ve salvaged enough older ddr3/ddr4 stuff and sata ssd to hopefully last until i see some newer stuff go through here destined for the recycle heap. but what i am short on is spinny hdd for more ‘‘archive’’ storage, i’m down to my last couple smaller hdd

it’s the most convenient, but i still use my winrar for some things, mainly some of the self-extractors i build and when i want recovery bits.

the pdf says a sub domain. which is something that could be provided by a single domain on an existing tld.

it’s so much easier to just send the command over the always-on cellular link.

back in the early days of walkmans, you could call 'em up toll-free, say you lost the battery cover or the headphone cable is broke, and they’d send you a replacement. no worries about ‘warranty’, no cost to you…

we used to (retired from that work now) deal with those ai generated notes. they are horrible, error filled, and could literally kill someone if they aren’t corrected in time by a human (the bit we used to do).

one of the reasons i have captions on all the time. so i can keep the volume low enough during the program that the loud(er) advertisements don’t knock me out of my chair… or interrupt my nap.

the neo is still a relatively new product. the increase on it was probably planned from the beginning.