it’s just pointing at the speed you’re supposed to be going while you have your phone in your hands.

and another 50 cleaning up the huuuge shit pile left behind.

and that’s an optimistic estimate, requiring voters to choose planet and (all) people over party and self from here on.

my kids will take care of me when I’m older

with what?

that is true, it was originally ‘sundisk’. the ‘new’ name (from 1995), though, is a rather clever double play on words.

sandisk -> sans disk (no disk)
sandisk -> sand disk (made from sand)

western digital bought sandisk ~ 8 years ago as a form of self-preservation. their core business of mechanical hard drives was already in decline and being replaced by something completely different.

absolutely loved Oni, still one of my favorites ever.

55mbps down will be enough when lower cost is most important. it’s about the download speed we have at the office (55mbps), and at home too (faster but network gear is slower than the pipe coming in, so 55-60mbps is what i get on the main pc).

we can have a remote desktop going with multimedia coming through that (for work; low bitrate but latency matters), 2-3 hd streams, a couple screens on web sites, something downloading a huge batch of updates, an online ‘shooter’ game being played, and still not worry about loading up something else to use some more.

for straight downloads from servers and cdn that can handle it, expect 2-4 minutes for a typical linux iso download, and for big downloads about 25 gigabytes per hour max.

effectiveness of ublockorigin, noscript, or other privacy/security related addons in your browser are unaffected by ech.

a pihole on your network is likewise unaffected, as it alters the dns requests so clients like your browser or tv can’t even resolve a ‘bad’ domain to an ip.

in the olden days, one ipv4 could host one domain securely. when a client connected to that ip, the connection was encrypted with the cert for that domain it was hosting.

the finite ipv4 space was gobbled up like crazy between this and every fucking thing on the planet wanting to be online.

an update to conserve ipv4 space allows one to host multiple domains (i.e. different sites on different domains, all using https) on one ip. to do this, the client needs tells the server which domain it’s looking for on the ip it’s connecting to–in the clear. once the server knows what cert to use, an encrypted connection can be set up.

‘encrypted client hello’ (ech) allows that initial request to be encrypted.

that’s pretty much all it does.

they’re trying harder to hide that now. as of last year, a sg-based holding company owns a uk-based company which owns the original developer, the software, and numerous regional branch offices.

kinda sucks, because it is a nice program. doesn’t have feature parity with microsoft office, but it’s got pretty much everything that most users need or would want. it’s also horribly slow on lower-spec hardware.

Y’all Qaeda’s “god” spray paints his face and wears a diaper, size XXXL.

with that many documented attempts, a judge will likely sign-off on whatever alternative means of service that jurisdiction has… like usps or legal notice in newspapers (yes, they’re still used for some things).

i have a new hp laptop here with same specs (r3,17in,8gb,250ssd). cleaned-up and updated, with firefox, the user’s av, and a couple smaller programs, but no crud from being ‘used’ yet. ~ 172gb free.

your goal of 200gb free with hp’s factory load is not going to happen. you will have to reinstall from a plain win11 installer usb made from microsoft’s utility.

then after you’re installed, put windows into compact state:
compact /compactos:always
instructions here

before you begin, i would highly recommend finding ‘hp cloud recovery tool’ from the windows ‘store’. install that, run it off the start menu (find it, right click, run-as-admin), and make a factory recovery usb for your model (the model number is on the bottom of the unit, usually, looks something like “63U47UA#ABA”). so you’ll need two empty flash drives. the hp recovery requires 32gb one. the windows installer one can be as small as 8gb i think.

all that, and you’ll probably still be a little short of your goal–and that’s without updates, junk added while used, and anything you may want to put on. and also remember ssd drives function best when they aren’t jam-packed with data. so you really should be considering an upgrade for the nvme ssd inside the laptop.

so long as it’s under warranty. yea. make sure you have a way to actually do the ‘factory reset’.

if you nix the partitions during a ‘clean install’ of windows or of linux, you won’t.

unless you’ve made a backup image of the hdd to an external (using reflect or similar), or in hp’s case–download their recovery media creator (runs on windows only but doesn’t have to be the target system) and build a recovery flash drive for your model.

tell that to amazon and every other retailer that jacks prices up the week or so before a ‘sale’

the prices probably won’t go back down in february, either.

is the increases to fra still due to reagan’s changes to the system in the early 80s?

two billion of them, iirc.

they could just show those few titles without ads on the ‘ad supported’ plan. i dunno. that might make too much sense.

the scammer thinks he’s gonna score $12000 net on a mis-clicked one-click.

meanwhile bezos is drooling over amazon’s 50% average cut on marketplace transactions.