Nah, no VPN here. I had tried loading the video earlier like 5 times and it simply wouldn’t play. Oddly enough, now it plays fine on Grayjay… 🤷

Video refuses to play on Grayjay right now, at least on my end… ☹️

Nah, they mailed all their customers, informing everyone that once they finished upgrading their infrastructure, that they would triple every customers’ internet speed for no extra charge.

Then, as everyone waited in hope, within like 6 months they renamed to /Sparklight, and that 100Mbps > 300Mbps upgrade they promised disappeared like a fart in the wind, plus /Sparklight ended up eventually increasing customer bills anyways, without any performance increase.

Honestly I think that’s exactly why they renamed, just because they wanted to back out of that promise, but didn’t actually have the fine print to legally back out.

Cable One renamed themselves to /Sparklight, basically to get out of the Cable One promise that they were supposed to triple everyone’s internet speed for no extra charge once they upgraded all their lines and equipment.

When companies rename themselves, they’re basically legally relieved of any prior promises, obligations, or class action lawsuits made/filed under the old company name.

Companies that change their names usually do so to avoid class action lawsuits and/or to get out of obligations they previously made with their customers.

Edit: I probably should have posted that as a top level comment, but oh well, I’m leaving it here.

This is why the Egyptians had stone walls and ceilings, and ran the water pipes far away… 🤷

I dunno, exploding golf ball maybe?

Disclaimer: Nope, I’m not gonna do that, nor am I making any serious suggestions.

But is that Wast or Eest of the Missipissi River?

Fine choice my friend, I’d leave it too haha! 😂

Ah yes, our great 51st state, Folorado!

If the compressed files are of the same/similar format, more compression is possible as the algorithm can detect more related patterns to compress.

But if you toss in a variety of file formats, compression will tend to suffer more.

Sometimes, the easiest way is just to try and see, different formats lend themselves to better or worse compression.

The files that tend to be worst at compression are the ones that are already compressed themselves.

I have learned more than I expected today, thank you for sharing!

I removed the fish from my bladder, obviously, he’s typing these comments.

The activation key is…

WINDOWS-SUX

You can thank me later.

Sooo… Hurricane Katrina was both a warm weather blizzard and avalanche. Gotcha 👍

Only if the water comes from the sky.

If the water mostly comes in from the shores, it’s more like a warm weather avalanche.

I’ve wondered about this myself since like age 7, when our otherwise perfectly healthy horse Sissy got struck by lightning while standing under a pine tree out in the field in a storm. 😢

Living out in deer hunting country, they could have given the neighbors a shout and basically be like hey the meat’s fresh, y’all come help cut it up and stock like 10-20 freezers for free…

🤷

This guy maths the math…

LOL, I’ve actually tried Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Puppy Linux, DSL, Tiny Core, and even the true outlier (not quite Linux or Unix though) Microsoft Xenix before. I’ve probably even tried a couple other distros before but only very briefly.

It takes effort to break them in any way that I can’t manage to figure out how to fix.

I settled on Linux Mint as my daily runner, but one of these days I might have to give TempleOS a spin in a virtual machine…

You act like the everyday user knows how to boot from alternate sources.

BIOS/UEFI/Secure Boot anyone?

Edit: I’ve been running Linux since 2011, but I’m not an average everyday user.