XP was the first one that had proper memory protection so that badly written programs would just crash instead of taking down the whole system.

It was a dramatic step forward compared to 98, where you’d be lucky to go a whole day without bluescreening. There’s a reason XP hung on for so long. It was the first Windows version that was really good enough for most people.

Or even just a piece of shower curtain glued along the top of the hole.

It’s DSL, so the speed depends on line length. To reliably get 250M you’re probably doing fibre to the footpath outside the building.

Hbm is really server stuff, and as is, you cannot repurpose it

I mean, you and I can’t, but memory manufacturers? They’ll find a way.

Judging from the way AMD got up and spent all their time talking about their data centre products, nobody does.

Smeg-heads do be like that.

Galaxy

The word is derived from the Greek galaxias (γαλαξίας), literally ‘milky’

So the Milky Way galaxy is named after boobs twice.

Microsoft wants people to stop calling AI content slop. People want Microsoft to stop pushing slop.

I predict nobody will get what they want.

I care about what Microsoft wants about as much as Microsoft cares about what I want.

I just wish each video decoder manufacturer didn’t feel the need to create their own API that isn’t supported by anything.

the ICQ age

There’s a blast from the past. Uh oh!

IIRC TRIM commands just tell the SSD that data isn’t needed any more and it can erase that data when it gets around to it.

The SSD might not have actually erased the trimmed data yet. Makes it even more important to turn it off ASAP and send it away to a data recovery specialist if it’s important data.

Have you cleaned the inside of your windscreen?

They can get scratched up, but if you haven’t cleaned the inside of the glass before, most of the crud is probably there and cleaning it will make a huge difference.

That’s because small businesses know there’s half a dozen competitors within a 20 minute drive and care about keeping your business.

When there’s two huge corporations that own the market between them, there’s more profit in not competing than they’d get by trying to win customers from each other.

Reddit has more bots arguing back and forth to encourage humans to engage.

+1

So just like “the deep state controlling America” the MAGA types are actually right about immigrants taking government handouts and ruining the country, they’re just targeting the wrong people: Democrats instead of billionaires, and poor Mexicans instead of Elon Musk.

IIRC that’s AVI files that aren’t indexed properly. VLC could either build its own index for the file or it could just start playing the file one frame at a time and hope for the best.

I didn’t do the legally mandated number of "Hail Corporate!"s yesterday.

Probably because they insist on replacing the browser’s right click menu with theirs, and web pages can’t just grab the clipboard contents for security reasons.