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Windows is more of a “your socks must be damp at all times while on the clock” policy.

Not exactly going to prevent you from getting your work done, but unpleasant, and you’ll be miserable the whole time.

Often it’s attached to a motor, but the pointy end hasn’t changed much.

Certainly juicing the likes of apples or carrots warrants a different kind of appliance, but squashing citrus is a fairly solved problem.

You wrote this all a lot better than I could have, but to expand on 2) I have no desire whatsoever to have a “conversation” (nay, argument) with a machine to try and convince/coerce/deceive/brow-beat (delete as appropriate) it into maybe doing what I wanted.

I don’t want to deal with this grotesque “tee hee, oopsie” personality that every company seems to have bestowed on these awful things when things go awry, I don’t want its “suggestions”. I code, computer does. End of transaction.

People can call me a luddite at this point and I’ll wear that badge with pride. I’ll still be here, understanding my data and processes and writing code to work with them, long after (as you say) you’ve been priced out of these tools.

Not that I know of, which means I can only assume it’ll be a timing-based attack.

With strategic use of sleep statements in the script you should stand a pretty good chance of detecting the HTTP download blocking while the script execution is paused.

If you were already shipping the kind of script that unpacks a binary payload from the tail end of the file and executes it, it’s well within the realm of possibility to swap it for a different one.

DVDs didn’t have that issue, fortunately.

In CDs, the recorded layer is directly under the label, in DVDs it’s mid-way through the thickness of the disc so there’s a layer of plastic between it and the label. A function of different wavelengths of light used to read them.

Bit rot due to degradation of the organic chemicals in the recording layer is still very much a concern though.

“Method and apparatus for insufflation of oxygen into a body by means of flexible permeable membrane”

Frankly an average tortoise has a good chance of outliving your grandchildren.

150 years is not an unreasonable upper bound for their lifespan, for the larger species.

Much as I don’t want to disturb your shitposting, the original news article I saw about this “phenomenon” linked to an amazing video.

https://vimeo.com/1134717703

The meaty thud it makes as it faceplants the pavement makes it all worthwhile.

Seriously.

Open-plan office dwellers everywhere: “Tell me more about this ‘cubicle’. Walls, you say?”

Coprolites might not be my favourite fossil, but they’re a solid number two.

But also at regular checkouts.

You’ve just stood there motionless for the last 4 minutes, while someone else (potentially two people) scanned and bagged your purchases for you.

How is it that JUST NOW is the time you’ve decided is right to rummage through your bag for your wallet/purse, or check your banking app on your phone to see if the account actually has money in it? What were you doing for the rest of the time that was so vitally important?

I swear you can just about hear the birds flying around in their head sometimes.

I was assuming that was supposed to be a cassowary.

So strongly, in fact, that I missed the platypus tail entirely 😄

“Anyone who says they hate farts is choosing to have less joy in their life, but the same amount of farts”

Money. Money is where it comes from.

“I am rich, therefore my opinion is valid and you should listen to me”

EXTREMELY LOUD ‘INCORRECT’ BUZZER

I keep trying, but the clock only displays 4:29.

What do?

At work we use the NexDock for that purpose (for anything that doesn’t have proper Ethernet remote management, at least). It’s relatively convenient that it’s self-powered and self-contained, basically a laptop minus the computer part.

(Conveniently, I see this is also a new model that replaces the awkward mini-HDMI port with a proper full-size one)

If you need VGA, you will have to buy an active VGA-to-HDMI dongle. They’re cheap (down to about $10-15 these days) and seem to work just fine.

Should the preference be to use a laptop you already own, you’ve got a few options. Either an IP KVM like the JetKVM, GL.iNet Comet, NanoKVM, etc, or a USB one such as the Openterface.

(Note that a couple of those links are pre-orders or otherwise not immediately available, make sure you do your research)

All of these things are fairly comprehensively reviewed by tech-focused Youtube channels, just gotta pick your favourite form factor.

A great thought on the thumbnails, but the behavior exhibits even when using command-line tools.

Indexing is off for the entire drive, I can’t even begin to imagine what kind of mess that would make if it was on.

“Fun” fact: if you think it’s slow normally (and to be fair, it is), NTFS seems to have a pathological performance regression when a directory contains more than 10,000 children, any operations on files in that directory slow down by around 95%.

I discovered this on our CCTV system at work (that runs on Windows Server 2022), which creates an inordinate number of small files (each containing at most a few seconds of video). It was causing some of its periodic maintenance tasks to fail, as they’d take longer to run than than the configured interval between them.

Windows also really doesn’t like dealing with half-petabyte filesystems, just like… at all.

It was the 3TB ST3000DM001 that was the really terrible one.

(so bad it has its own Wikipedia page)

And don’t even get me started on getting back from the Mun, when if you do survive the landing.

Sorry Jebediah, that was a one-way trip.