China invented gunpowder.

'nuff said.

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If you take a core sample of a human, you can determine exactly when the person died.

The more you know…

Interesting, thank you for sharing, I learned something today.

Still makes little sense to me, as I’ve repaired a semi-automatic Swiss made handgun before (sorry I forget the model though, I no longer have it after my father passed).

That gun had a really unusual design in my opinion, where to remove the barrel, you’d simply cock and rack the whole thing, then twist the barrel like 90⁰ to the left and just pull it out. Then the rest of the gun would easily disassemble from there.

Just to look at it, it seemed rather dangerous and prone to jamming, but it really wasn’t, it was extremely well made. But the barrel, when properly installed, had no such tilt, it just lined up, perfectly.

I do kinda wish I still had that gun, but I don’t need any guns, not for me…

It still looked to me like a Swiss watchmaker shifted gears to start making guns, it really was a work of true WTF but perfectly functional art.

I think that gun might jam, the barrel looks crooked…

Oh damn, you’re right, my bad!..

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When I’m almost certain it’s a scammer calling, I’ll answer as professionally as I can as if I’m running a business…

“Thank you for calling Ding Dong Double Dildos and Dirty Devices! How would you like to fuck yourself today?”

They usually just hang up and remove the number from the call list LMFAO! 😂🤣

I actually did this for my mom one day, scammers had been calling her left and right. She found it quite hilarious too, and by the next day, more than half the scammers quit calling 👍

Edit: Merry Christmas! This is how you fuck the scammers…

You’re not wrong there, the capacitor can indeed be dangerous!

I happen to be quite well experienced in repairing and rebuilding microwave ovens though, and it’s not like I leave the thing disassembled for random people to come along and stick their fingers in the wiring.

The modification I mentioned is fairly simple though, just take out the light bulb so that doesn’t stay on when the door is open, and bypass whatever timer circutry they have, whether it be analog, digital, or even subscription based digital bullshit these days.

Underneath the hood of every microwave oven is a sequence of 3 safety switches all activated by the mechanics of the door latch, required by law, to make damn sure it can’t emit radiation when the door is open. Take proper advantage of that knowledge and knowing the internals of a microwave oven, and it’s pretty easy to bypass the timer.

The only true danger with such modification is if you fuck up and forget your popcorn or frozen pizza or whatever, as the microwave will end up running indefinitely until you open the door. Used responsibly though, it’s just fine, but you gotta keep an eye on your own food and an eye on your own watch/clock.

Kids in the house though? Nah, I wouldn’t trust that sort of mod near kids for even 5 seconds.

We gotta go test these things in the back yard…

Honestly not as dangerous as you might think. Just keep the kids and pets away, and watch your own timer for your frozen pizza…

Remove the light, obviously. Bypass the control circuit…

Geez, didn’t Electroboom teach you anything?

Don’t do these things at home, obviously…

I don’t even need a timer for the microwave oven. I just rig that shit up where when you close the door, it cooks, and when you open it, well it stops cooking.

Don’t ask why, had to temporarily fix things for my mom. At least we didn’t have kids around the place…

Edit: AI can suck my nugz…

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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.

I dunno, exploding golf ball maybe?

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

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.

Wait, you heat your pizza rolls? I thought they were supposed to be eaten frozen fresh, like ice cubes…

/s

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…