I do still have a lot of these games, ROMs, programs, music and videos from back then actually, as I was heavily involved in my area salvaging flooded hardware and data right after Katrina.

Within like 2 weeks, using WD-40 and a pressure washer for the circuit boards, I estimate that I was able to get about 80% of the electronics that came my way working again.

Mechanical parts like hard drives might as well be considered a loss in the long run, but if addressed quickly, cleaning the controller board separately often allowed data recovery and backup.

I don’t have it all anymore, but I do still have a lot…

I’d go back to my old Hurricane Katrina flood salvage computer setup, specifically the evolved upgraded version by about 2008. I literally had 18 different cables plugged into it, with multiple devices connected throughout the entire trailer we lived in.

• 2 monitors
• A printer and a scanner
• Stereo speakers
• TV tuner with 2 televisions, a VCR, and an FM radio antenna
• Game controller
• Ethernet
• Keyboard and mouse, of course
• External card reader

And probably a couple other things I forgot.

Internally…

• 5 hard drives

• 3 disc burners

• Floppy drive

• 2.53GHz Pentium 4 CPU

• 1 whopping gigabyte of RAM, 333MHz I think

And you better bet your ass I had lots of music, movies, games and emulators too, even had multiplayer sessions across different rooms.

Man, lots of weed was smoked back then…

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.

So you’re okay with eating toddlers, gotcha 👍

I’m not sure exactly, but I’d guess about 2x magnification, and text is totally legible and easier to read.

The focal point distance for sunburning/fire is about 7cm.

The lens part itself is 6cm x 5cm.

Yes I did some measuring…

Leave me alone, I’m clipping my toenails right now…

😂

Nah, I usually watch random YouTube videos, my roommate watches the scheduled TV shows.

But I have 3 different multimeters, not just one, thank you very much!

🕘

I almost skipped past this post, but something cheap I carry in my wallet every day is a credit card sized Fresnel magnifying lens, same size and thickness of a credit card. Suprisingly durable, and can even start fires in good sunlight.

This is why the Egyptians had stone walls and ceilings, and ran the water pipes far away… 🤷

Except Brawndo…

Nah, I had been home all day, and it’s mounted just up and to the left of our TV, so I tend to look at it every half hour or so to see how long is left on the scheduled shows we watch. It really had only been dead for 16 minutes by the time I also looked at my watch and noticed, and tested and confirmed the battery had just reached bad status on my tester.

Analog television. Sure it may have been a bit grainy and staticy when the signal was weak, but the video wouldn’t get all blocky and outright freeze up, you could keep watching your show and not miss anything.

Good thing for sure!

If it were me and the lady behind me turned it down like that, I’d probably just say something like…

“Well I was blessed today, so I figured I’d pass a bit along. If you’re sure you don’t need it yourself, then perhaps go buy a meal for a homeless person or buy a kid a toy for Christmas. Pass it forward.”

No evil here, you did a good thing 👍

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.

NO HABLA JIBBERISH!

Haha, have a good day mah dude 👍

I don’t know any other way to say that, perhaps read over my quote a few times and think about it a bit… 🤷

💩🍍

Wait wait…

You folks don’t have a kicker? Well how do you start the baby then?