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Someone created something. Its value greatly exceeds the perceived "degradation of the environment" of a spelling mistake. Not acknowledging that says more about the pedant than the creator.

If we can all hear the tiny violin, who cares?

Available on Amazon. Usually zero reviews. But there is that screenshot circling around of a 1-star review based on someone attempting to and failing to put out a campfire.

If you rely on these and you end up dying, you can make a personal application for a full refund.

I was not including SDXC or even SHDC cards, only SD. I am trying to find a maximum capacity SD card to use in a Palm T|X, either 1 or 2 GB. Back when SDHC first came out, I often ran into issues with 2 GB SDHC cards not working on older devices. I think being difficult to find is another criteria to qualify as obsolete.

The odd thing about high capacity SD cards in general is that they are generally used as fixed storage. I have a 256 GB card that I put into a 11" laptop when I bought it and I haven't seen it since. I haven't used a CF or SD card like a floppy since storage hit 4 GB.

I agree that I spoke too hastily about optical media. Even modern gaming consoles have optical drives.

Next up is optical discs and early flash memory variants such as Sony Memory Sticks, MMCs, xDs, and SD cards.

When is the last time you used one of these formats?

The media is the message. Criminals don't launder bitcoin at non-profitable nail salons either.

I was staying at a hobby farm and I was on the second floor in the loo when I noticed a shadow from above. It was a peacock looking at me through the skylight. They are evil evil birds.

"The system always works the way a rational human would expect."

We all wish, we all wish.

The RIAA will have to create a takedown notice to takedown their takedown notice, invalidating the former takedown notice?

As soon as you start to vary, accidentally or not, the heights of cells, you're in for a bad time.

Sorting large datasets with varying cell heights will bog down your system. Force uniform cell height and sorting can easily be twenty times quicker.

Windows 10 now being a rolling release is making things even harder. Even if you do learn how to do something, you have no idea how long that method will remain viable or if features will be removed.

I find myself relying more and more on Powershell in Windows and using the Terminal in Mac OS X/OS X/macOS when I have to use these operating systems so I don't feel like a bumbling fool when someone asks for help fixing something. More than once I've had someone wonder out aloud that they thought I knew how to use computers when using the GUI.

I remember feeling angry when I learned about the undocumented MBR switch for FDISK. There I was, beginning to learn to spell words with 6 or more letters, thinking I had to use a hex editor to clean up the MBR.

All that effort with no guidance whatsoever that could have been minimized with one extra line of documentation.

This was awhile back and was particularly nasty. No token, no check-ins, it was an unapologetic man-in-the-middle login prompt.

Terms of service had wording that made mining all data in your Facebook account sound like the intent.

I used to do this all the time over port 53.

My closest coffee shop would allow people to access Wi-Fi only if you gave them full access to your Facebook account. DNS was the only port open to the outside world.

The worn wood in grain elevators can be truly amazing from decades of grain eroding the wood and creating beautiful smooth surfaces. It would be a shame to tear it down without reclaiming it.

Run Spectrum Holobyte's Tetris Classic in DOSBox.

I picked up a 5 1/4" floppy without the sleeve that was on the side of the road 20 years ago, sliced open another disc sleeve that had bad sectors and replaced it with the found disc. I still had a working XT at the time.

It had The Black Cauldron, PC Jr bootable version on it.

I had to request refunds on half of the apps that I purchased because they disappeared or completely ceased functioning?

I only bought items on the Windows Store because I had a few $25 Windows Store vouchers as well.

They stopped selling Music around January 2018?

All email from Microsoft ends up in my spam folders, regardless of whitelisting. I assume it is bad faith on Google's part.

As a child, I was extremely uncomfortable with Dr. Huxtable when he was in his office. I would regularly walk away from the show when he was in his at-home office alone with someone. When I later saw Philip Banks in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, I consciously compared the two. One felt safe and nurturing, the other did not.

When a criminal's art replicates the conditions in which he committed crimes, I would hope that the commercial and artistic value of that work would diminish considerably. I hope that the Cosby show would not be able to survive continued syndication. However it should still be thrown into the bargain bin of available entertainment for posterity.

In my opinion, deleting the Cosby show erases the chance for others to obtain that same impression.

So you can run Corel software in it?

A decade ago, one client at an old job required ZIPs be 256-bit AES WinZIP encrypted, which at the time meant WinZIP was the only option.

The employer was so cheap that they they didn't want to pay for WinZIP, so we'd wait n number of seconds before the file would zip. Then we'd wait n+1 seconds until it was an hour and a half wait.

Sorry, my bad for not specifying that. Deaths of journalists are one of those things to always note.

Romania =/= Bulgaria

Well this was certainly an interesting link form the same page:

https://www.occrp.org/en/28-ccwatch/cc-watch-indepth/8813-a-...

"But the victim of the brutal rape and murder was Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova — and her last broadcast was about the theft of hundreds of millions of euros from European Union-funded programs in her country.

Even those who had never heard of the so-called “GP scandal” certainly know about it now.

In the program, which aired just six days before she was killed, Marinova interviewed reporters from OCCRP’s Bulgarian partner, Bivol and its Romanian partner, the RISE Project."

Which happened to coincide with my last decent Skype call.

A Dell Precision won't have an SSD permanently soldered into place.

"And the price difference between different consumer SSD types is minimal."

Samsung 860 EVO 2.5" SATA III 2.5in SSD, 250GB $109.99

Samsung 860 EVO M.2 SATA III SSD, 250GB $109.99

Samsung 860 EVO Series mSATA SSD Solid State Drive, 250GB $109.99

Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 PCI-E x4 SSD, 250GB $129.99

With greater capacities, the price difference gets larger. But at 1 TB it is still less than a factor of 2.

That is some serious price gouging on SSD upgrades, +$720 for 1 TB.

Best Buy price matched several 1 TB SSDs (WD Blue, SATA, 2.5") for $150 (Canadian) apiece recently. And the price difference between different consumer SSD types is minimal.

Yes, outside wandering has been replaced with, "here's an iPad".

But if you're talking about any sort of instruction I'd say the prices have tripled. If you're talking about something like organized hockey? Prices are astronomical.

But then you'd need to include things that they have that we don't.

The cost of activities for children has skyrocketed beyond belief compared to 40 years ago.