I’m just lucky the guy in front of me didn’t have his truck configured to roll coal, giving me a smokescreen in addition to blinding high beam.

You’d have said goodbye to your head as well, because that lifted truck isn’t going into the rear of the small car… it’s going up and over.

it’s all fun and games until they pull out the real gun.

I called the incident into the police station but it was before I had the dashcam so they just shrugged (and were probably blood related anyway).

Yup… drove a small car back from college and two truck bros decided it’d be fun to sandwich my car between them. One rode my rear bumper with high beams, the other slowed down and rode the middle line so I couldn’t pass. Then he’d start slamming his brakes.

that’s good for testing if a device will work or not, but it’s terrible for judging how the OS performs. Mostly because your DVD/USB is going to be a serious bottleneck for I/O. Combine that with the 4GB of RAM and you’ve got some potentially crunchy performance ahead of you, which would not be indicative of the install performance.

If I were handed that hardware, the first thing I’d try is…

If what is currently being used is usable, and I don’t want to risk making it unusuable, shrink/resize the active partition with a partitioning tool. Then, assume I’m multibooting and I’d install on the secondary partition:

Raspberry Pi Desktop. I’d choose Pi OS because it is designed for an ultra low power 700MHz ARM11 that comes with the 2012 Pi 1. The drawback is it’s an older Debian install (Bullseye), but still getting long-term support until August. I assume they will release a new Desktop version when that date comes.

RetroPie. I’d grab the RetroPie script for ease of use on installing SNES emulation. It should prompt every emulator choice available for your system, and set up controller support (or keyboard+mouse) and emulationstation so you can browse your legally dumped roms after putting them in the correct directory.

Vizio is likely offering unusually large paperweights without Walmart accounts.

now require a Walmart account for setup and accessing smart TV features

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.

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.

wait wait… reading comprehension fail on my part. Both that NBC article and Wikipedia are saying that Kodak went against the grain by selling more expensive printers with cheaper ink.

Eastman Kodak Co. is introducing a line of desktop printers and low cost replacement inks on Tuesday, as the photography company takes on a market dominated by Hewlett-Packard.

That’s wild!

I had my inkjet from around 2011 to 2015. I think it was a C310 but I can’t find any proof of that. I only know it took the 30B/C cartridges.

They were $25-30 for a bundle on a retailer’s shelf while everything else was closer to $50-70 for a bundle on a retailer’s shelf. There was a 20% yield difference between the two, but that’s no 20% markup! I vaguely recall a 30B double pack that was only $15 total, and that’s what I used to buy once or twice a year. None of that hidden “Cyan mixed in the black to make it blacker” crap that HP did either.

How ironic that Kodak rigged the game to make ink expensive, and then others beat them at it.

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’m a happy middleground. I’ve had two upgrades blow up on me, out of the tens I’ve done.

One was a usrmerge catch-22. It wouldn’t let me install the package during upgrade, but also wouldn’t let me complete the upgrade without the merger finishing. Ended up reverting the install and running the merge prior to upgrade.

The second failure was just… I have no idea what I did wrong. Some commands stopped working. Then I lost SSH. Then it wouldn’t even boot. I had to do a full reinstall and rebuild. Not happy times.

Overall, it was just enough failure that I routinely run two backups prior to upgrades now. hahaha

I would have guessed a keycard inserted in a reader.

Hate to break it to you, but Facebook (ahem, sorry Meta) loves collecting your info even if you never use their services. So your info might be in this breach, even if you don’t have a username/password.