I am not a robot. I promise.
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…
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.
BREAKING: Man breaks Linux, installs another distro, and lives happily ever after.
As a one time only event, as a first and a last, I wish I could go back and change the last words I ever spoke with my late father.
In the hospital bed, he was fussing at me because I told him that I was cleaning trash and old food from his house. I didn’t expect him to fuss, I was only doing the right thing ya know.
He passed away the next morning in hospital. I’m still sad to this day that our final conversation wasn’t more positive ☹️😭
But have you tried that address 255.255.255.255?
I hear it’s the Master Key to the Internet…
Damn, that’s hella corrosion!
That wouldn’t stop me though, I already have half an arsenal of techniques stemming from salvaging flood damaged and house fire damaged boards. I’d probably try to tackle such boards something like this…
Then it’s obviously a matter of good luck, inspection, testing and tackling any particular issues that the above process didn’t quite clean up. I like dude’s use of phosphoric acid, but I’d rather keep away from the extra strong chemicals until the end stages as spot cleaning only.
It would be cool to see if he ever manages to actually get all the boards running again. Obviously they’ll need new capacitors and some soldering touchups and whatnot, but still these are rare relics of the past…
I absolutely love jumpers too!
Random story, sorta sad, but has a good ending…
One day a jumping spider landed on the back of my neck. I didn’t see it, but of course I felt it. Out of instinct, I slapped my neck. I got the little bugger alright, but I was all too sad when I saw that it was a jumper ☹️
I put the little guy on the park bench, two legs broken off and not moving. I was so sad that I sat there for a while, occasionally blowing on it to see if there were any signs of life. After probably like 40 minutes or so, it actually got up and ran away 👍
I hope it went on to eat more flies, lay eggs and have lots of babies…
🕷️❤️
That bug report seems about right from my experience, version 0.0.84
It’s apparently not the particular image itself though, as more comments accumulate, the glitch starts happening on a different image comment.
Umm, Lilly makes a good point.
Is it fair to ask where this ‘Lilly’ person lives/shops?
I like cooked chicken cheaper than raw chicken too…
It doesn’t bother me a bit, but it also largely depends on wallet design and pants design. Over the years I’ve figured out an ideal balance for all my pockets…
For reference, I’m now 43 years old.
Around 20 years ago, around age 23, I decided to keep my wallet in my right front pocket, 24/7, save for bathing and clothes changing. Yes I do sleep with my wallet in pocket, it never leaves my vicinity.
I keep my wallet where it can’t easily be stolen, right next to the family jewels ya know…
I hear ya, you’re basically right.
My thought process is more like people with a food stamp card will still have the card, but it’ll be useless without being reloaded with benefits funds.
Note that for once the orange shitstain actually did something to help in the meantime, not long after I made that meme, Turnip announced he’s approving the use of emergency funds around $5 billion for SNAP recipients, which is around half of what typically goes out to people, but hey it’s something at least, for now…
He probably only did that because even in his demented cranium, he’s gotta understand that his ratings will plummet through the floor if he doesn’t do something quick so even the poor and low income families can have a decent meal for Thanksgiving.
I dunno, I haven’t had food stamps in over 5 years. It’s hardly worth the waste of my time to only qualify for a lousy $27 a month, it costs more than that in gas to get back and forth to their office to comply with their work program requirements.
Edit: Update, I guess the orange turnip changed his mind… 🤷
It’s pure sarcasm, I might as well have titled it…
“Happy ThanksTaking!”
True, and I’ve seen food banks giving out entire frozen turkeys before, and yeah that’s a good thing.
The point of the meme is, here in the USA, they shut down the government, so the government isn’t here to feed the people on the country’s food day…
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.