When I’m almost certain it’s a scammer calling, I’ll answer as professionally as I can as if I’m running a business…

“Thank you for calling Ding Dong Double Dildos and Dirty Devices! How would you like to fuck yourself today?”

They usually just hang up and remove the number from the call list LMFAO! 😂🤣

I actually did this for my mom one day, scammers had been calling her left and right. She found it quite hilarious too, and by the next day, more than half the scammers quit calling 👍

Edit: Merry Christmas! This is how you fuck the scammers…

Nah, they mailed all their customers, informing everyone that once they finished upgrading their infrastructure, that they would triple every customers’ internet speed for no extra charge.

Then, as everyone waited in hope, within like 6 months they renamed to /Sparklight, and that 100Mbps > 300Mbps upgrade they promised disappeared like a fart in the wind, plus /Sparklight ended up eventually increasing customer bills anyways, without any performance increase.

Honestly I think that’s exactly why they renamed, just because they wanted to back out of that promise, but didn’t actually have the fine print to legally back out.

Cable One renamed themselves to /Sparklight, basically to get out of the Cable One promise that they were supposed to triple everyone’s internet speed for no extra charge once they upgraded all their lines and equipment.

When companies rename themselves, they’re basically legally relieved of any prior promises, obligations, or class action lawsuits made/filed under the old company name.

Companies that change their names usually do so to avoid class action lawsuits and/or to get out of obligations they previously made with their customers.

Edit: I probably should have posted that as a top level comment, but oh well, I’m leaving it here.

I dunno, exploding golf ball maybe?

Disclaimer: Nope, I’m not gonna do that, nor am I making any serious suggestions.

If the compressed files are of the same/similar format, more compression is possible as the algorithm can detect more related patterns to compress.

But if you toss in a variety of file formats, compression will tend to suffer more.

Sometimes, the easiest way is just to try and see, different formats lend themselves to better or worse compression.

The files that tend to be worst at compression are the ones that are already compressed themselves.

As a one time only event, as a first and a last, I wish I could go back and change the last words I ever spoke with my late father.

In the hospital bed, he was fussing at me because I told him that I was cleaning trash and old food from his house. I didn’t expect him to fuss, I was only doing the right thing ya know.

He passed away the next morning in hospital. I’m still sad to this day that our final conversation wasn’t more positive ☹️😭

But have you tried that address 255.255.255.255?

I hear it’s the Master Key to the Internet…

I absolutely love jumpers too!

Random story, sorta sad, but has a good ending…

One day a jumping spider landed on the back of my neck. I didn’t see it, but of course I felt it. Out of instinct, I slapped my neck. I got the little bugger alright, but I was all too sad when I saw that it was a jumper ☹️

I put the little guy on the park bench, two legs broken off and not moving. I was so sad that I sat there for a while, occasionally blowing on it to see if there were any signs of life. After probably like 40 minutes or so, it actually got up and ran away 👍

I hope it went on to eat more flies, lay eggs and have lots of babies…

🕷️❤️

It doesn’t bother me a bit, but it also largely depends on wallet design and pants design. Over the years I’ve figured out an ideal balance for all my pockets…

For reference, I’m now 43 years old.

Around 20 years ago, around age 23, I decided to keep my wallet in my right front pocket, 24/7, save for bathing and clothes changing. Yes I do sleep with my wallet in pocket, it never leaves my vicinity.

I keep my wallet where it can’t easily be stolen, right next to the family jewels ya know…

Coming from Windows 2003, Vista Ultimate and 7 Ultimate era, Restore Previous Versions was enabled by default, and was a side service of System Restore…

Me while doing error handling?

Well shit, all my functions both take and return memory addresses. When one of those blocks of data happen to fail the data sanity check, the function returns either -1, -2, -3, -4.

See, you’ll never get such numbers as proper memory addresses, they’re assigned as blocks, larger than 4 bytes…

So, if one of my functions returns a -1 through -4, that tells me which argument to the function failed the sanity check…

Windows has some other features hiding behind the scenes and bogging the system down when files get changed, like Restore Previous Versions…

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/backup-and-restore-with-file-history-7bf065bf-f1ea-0a78-c1cf-7dcf51cc8bfc

I do believe that feature is closely tied with System Restore as well…

I didn’t say the Recycle Bin does any data compression, I said System Restore does data compression, and this is indeed a known fact.

I take it you don’t filesystem much do you?

Moving a file is literally just changing a pointer in the filesystem table to basically say ‘hey, these file contents are now stored in this other folder’. Moving a file on the same drive literally never requires rewriting the actual file contents.

I’m practically certain that what’s slowing Windows down when sending something to the Recycle Bin is the background processing and data compression being performed by System Restore.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=y2bNLCWHFNs

Have you ever actually used Process Explorer before? I mean digging behind the scenes and find out what process threads are eating the CPU and keeping storage access open…

Process Explorer does way more than the default GUI throws at you…

Antivirus, Windows Defender, Bitlocker…

Shall I continue?

Try OpenFilesViewer and Process Explorer, amongst a myriad of other SysInternals utilities…

I didn’t even heat the yogurt, I just left it on top of my microwave for like a week while I went to work. Yeah I know, you’re supposed to heat the stuff up to like 160⁰F or something like that, but I basically just left it at ‘room’ temperature of around 90⁰F for like a week.

And yes it worked haha!