That’s a good one.

We used to screenshot desktops, set it as the wallpaper, and move all the desktop icons to a temporary folder.

I’ve heard swapping the N and M keys is a good one because it doesn’t register as unusual on a visual scan but messes up touch typists.

It’s actually easier to just use it every time. Deciding whether you need to is cognitive load that’s better spent on other things.

It’s strange of China to even propose this. Why would Australia risk drawing fire when we’ve escaped the worst of the tariff lunacy so far?

Turning it down is also an easy win for Albanese to look strong against two superpowers, weeks away from an election.

Does he think people will just start buying things they don’t need to make the tariff go away?

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Around here we still have them, and they provide free wifi. My home is almost close enough to pick up the signal from one in the main street.

Pebbles are small enough to fit in your mouth. This is clearly a stone.

I kind of miss when No Man’s Sky was an endless, empty expanse. That sense of loneliness and futility was an emotional experience that it doesn’t have now. It’s become a much better game, no doubt, but putting time and careful planning into that long crawl towards the galactic centre felt right.

As most have said, doubling up compression won’t usually get you much.

However, video compression is usually designed to facilitate performance of sequential reads because videos are typically played beginning to end, so theoretically there may be ways to compress them more if you’re willing to make sacrifices there.

I doubt RAR is the way to do it, though. It just hasn’t been designed for this kind of data.

Maybe there’s a video compression format out there designed specifically for archival storage, but I’m not aware of it.

ISO won’t get you any further compression, that’s for sure.

You could certainly test this out yourself and let us know if you get any space savings.

Living in rural Tasmania, trying to work on (often) 5 mbps down, with frequent drops, looking at the garden that produces fruit and vegetables faster than we can eat them… that agrarian lifestyle is looking mighty tempting right now.

She’s there to take the blame when it all goes to shit.

If you’re on a steep hill, yes sometimes you need to use the handbrake to get moving. This had to be demonstrated when I got my licence, but to be fair some manual vehicles now have automatic hill start. Still a good technique to learn because it doesn’t always activate.

Trump was so backed into a corner he reflexively rambled about Hunter Biden’s laptop and Hillary Clinton. What a joke. Then doubling down on Vance’s inane rambling about not showing gratitude, channelling peak abusive parent energy.

All because Zelensky made very reasonable points about requiring guarantees.

Absolute amateurs.

I’m sure it’s intended. The man was a comedian, and he’s been criticised for not wearing a suit before. He’s had this line in the chamber for a while, now he’s showing the world how a professional deals with hecklers.

Sounds like the porn parody series, The Hard Boys.

There really should be a pitchfork emoji.

If they want forks, they’ll get forks. Just not in the road.

Edit: I should have said, “fork in the chode”. It was right there.

Someone please frame several copies, and distribute them like Easter eggs around Mar-a-lago.

I think they want real users because they want to sell their data for LLM training, but that might mean purging accounts that are “too political” to be of use.

China will absolutely jump on this.

It’s happened before.

They will be generating it themselves soon enough. I contributed some stock photos in the past. They recently sent me info about their new contribution pipeline, for content that may not pass the usual quality threshold, but will help train the models. If they do it right, who knows, maybe they can get better results worth paying for.