If you are using a network level block, make sure it’s a black hole and not just a DNS filter. I tried a DNS filter with a Roku and found that they bypass it with hardcoded values, even when the DNS server was statically assigned and DHCP assigned.

please tell me there is no penalty to those women taking this option. It would be so easy for Uber to pull a “only $5 more” to get a ride or “5% less” to avoid a rider.

uploading one at a time, uploading in smaller batches

Yup, that’s where I’d start. Creating a tar and splitting it into parts. Just as an example. Not sure if that guide is good or not. It was just the first thing that popped up in the search engine.

I can’t believe people still look at Hz and think it’s a sole metric that can be used for performance.

Do you think they look at the 2005 Pentium 4’s 3.8GHz and assume it’s only slightly worse than what Nvidia will put on the market?

I wouldn’t use archive.is anymore. They tampered with the captures.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

You aren’t speaking the same language, apparently:

I’ve always wondered about that, since in theory you can flip the removable bit on some of the USB flash media out there. Is that enough to trick the Windows installer? I don’t know.

Funny, I had a Kodak printer for years since they had the cheapest ink by a large margin. HP was always the most expensive.

What year did that flip?

I dug out mine out of the closet recently and was so confused when it didn’t power on properly. Turns out, the .3v difference between a Duracell and an Eneloop really matter when you scale it to 6 cells!

Switched Jan of 2025. Already used 99% open source stuff on Windows, so the conversion was nearly painless.

I tried Debian at first, which didn’t support my bleeding edge new hardware. So I tried LMDE… which also (unsurprisingly) didn’t support new stuff either. It wasn’t until I landed on regular Linux Mint that things hit a good stride.

I still mourn the loss of Winamp though… :(

The “we know better than you” attitude Microsoft has. They’ve very slowly removed more and more power user functionality. Almost every customization has to be hacked in with a group policy or registry edit now, or by outright replacing explorer.exe