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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 wonder of his lordship, keeper of the full diaper and guardian of the covfefe, will turn his over to gsa and the national archives, since it belongs to the government and not him.

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.

france will lend a player to the americans, who then goes on to score the winner in extra time.

i bet the dipshit can’t even name a rule of soccer other than the generalization “you can’t touch the ball with your hands”… and even that would be stressing the brain cell a bit.

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

in other words. they can’t find any legitimate issues with the mayor of new york and how he’s governing and presenting himself to his constituents and the public, so they came up with this line of bullshit about thermostat settings.

updates, sure. let discover or gnome software do 'em.

my debian won’t break the system.

to install, though? i’d rather see exactly what’s going on. i don’t always want to bring in every tom, dick and recommend. i use aptitude.

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…