OMG the naming schemes for powershell is enough for me to stay away. A +20char name for a command that shares the first 10 chars with 15 other commands, so you can’t just tab through it? No thanks!

Will look into nushell though, thanks for the advice.

There’s a limit for file size on the Usenet

No, there is no limit on the file size on usenet. There’s a limit on the individual article size, but larger files just require more articles.

The reason why files were split on usenet was completion and corruption, and probably also media size originally. Say you need to post a 700MB file to alt.binaries.erotica.grannies.diapers, then you could just split those 700MB into 477867 articles of 1.5kB each, but if a single article is then corrupted or dropped, then nobody can get the file. If you split the 700MB into 35 files of 20MB each, and each 20MB file into 13654 articles, then a dropped article only corrupts a single file. Add to that, that completion issues often occured (or is it occurs? it’s been a long while since I got my Linux iso files from usenet) close to each other. So there might be a bunch of corruption in a single file, but everything else is fine. This is useful if your main provider was your ISPs complimentary usenet server, and you only got the rest from a pay by download service.

About the media comment earlier, I can’t be sure. I wasn’t around in the early days, but I know that the 700MB file size for movies came from the limitations of CDs. Splitting files can quite possibly stem from some similar restrictions on a removable media.

You can thank WinRar for powering the entire sharing scene for decades

And the saints behind winrar for only bugging you to pay. TBH first time installing 7z on a new windows install, instead of winrar, felt a bit sad.

And that’s when you learned about parity files…

When par2 came out that was huge for me. Didn’t use floppies anymore, but the ability to only download the required amount of parity blocks was great.

Imagine being the person being told: yeah, so we only hired you to challenge beauty standards. Not because you’re the best at what you do, oh no no, but because you’re ugly af

404 no hero found

It was either political violence or a false flag operation. Either way, no heroes were involved.

7? to goddamn 5? I’m not in at 7, and out way before 5, and if the boss don’t like it, then that’s not a me problem. 10 hours each day as in a 50 hour work week? That would be illegal in the EU, where you can’t work more than 48hours on average per week over a period of 4 months https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/working-hours-holiday-leave/working-hours/indexamp_en.htm

Agreed, why not return low level joblistings for the area where the return address is. Add a few sassy stickers you got from temu as a gift and some information on starting a union.

Don’t be an ass to wage slaves, they’re not your enemy, they’re your peers, show them the way instead.

Arise ye pris’ners of starvation
Arise ye wretched of the earth

Why? It seems like the most effective way of unsubscribing to junk mail.

Besides, “if you believe in something, you sign your name to it” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GujKyNduy0c&t=69

You don’t have to be an ass to the wage slave opening the return mail, but you can still send them a message. Print out joblistings for the return address area and return them. Maybe add a few Bible quotes. But make sure you are remembered by getting a stack of sassy stickers from temu and putting a few in there as a little gift.

Goes to show that he doesn’t sing about personal experiences in Luang Prabang, because that takes balls

The messages weren’t pushed to you? You got a notification and then had to request the actual message? That would be even more stupid, as it’s using twice the bandwidth.

You had to pay to receive? wtf.gif

So some rando could ruin you by sending a bazillion SMS messages?

Yeah, I drop the equivalent of 16€ and I get 60GB data and unlimited calls and SMS with my Danish provider. Having to pay for SMS is purely corporate greed.

Speaking as a teacher here: do not buy any teacher anything, as in NOTHING.

I would be super weirded out if a student gave me something.

We had a student of more years than most, present the teacher’s lounge with a chocolate basket once, and everyone thought it was strange. So presenting a teacher with a personal gift would be even stranger.

But if you insist on getting her a gift, perfume would be up there with lingerie and jewelry … WTF dude?

what should you do? how about you decide what it is that you want to say. Like “you did so and so, that meant a lot for me because of so and so”.

• Figure out what to say
• make sure you don’t spend more than 30 or 45 seconds to say it.

Fellow teacher here, I concur. I’ve never gotten a physical gift from a student, and I don’t think I’d be comfortable with it.

A card would be weird too, but better by several powers of magnitude than an actual gift. And perfume? WTF my dude?

Hmm I guess you’re right… I hadn’t thought of it that way before.

I think I describe the behavior more than the age group, but I still see what you’re saying. Thanks for call me out on it.

Get a copy of Practical Electronics for Inventors by Scherz and Monk.

Best book I bought in university, and one of maybe 4 I still refer to +10years later.

I liked rainbow too. But it would seem that some of the other commenters have a strong issue with “rainbow people” as it have been used dismissive towards them.

A one size fits all label seems impossible to find for this diverse group of fellow humans.

Last time I did was today, but that was in a teasing funny setting, and to a person I hold a great deal of respect for.

I wouldn’t in a discussion, I hate name calling, it’s counter productive. But in my mind…

Copy that, is it the rainbow or the people part? Because “people” was just a placeholder to avoid having this thread pop up if someone googles my future message.

I like your portmanteau, but I think that my target audience is either without the English literacy level to decode it, or with just enough to recognize it as “LGBT sheeple”.

While realizing that I will never find the perfect term that will convey my message, while not rubbing someone the wrong way, I will continue my search.

First off, thank you for chiming in. I feel that most of my IRL input has been from gen z, and I appreciate your input for both the diversity it brings, as well as the insights. That said, I will never ever be able to use the d-word, it feels almost as wrong as using racial slur.

“Queer” has been suggested a couple of times. But I feel like it’s aggressive towards the wrong group.

How would you feel about the term “rainbow friends”?

So to you, thank you for coming out as an ally,

That made me feel weird. I’m not looking for thanks, I’m just trying to be true to myself and be a decent person towards my fellow people.

and I hope you do so loudly and daily.

Whenever I get the chance :-)

It can take courage.

It may have originally, but not 1% as much courage as the kids who have come out to me as trans when they saw an ally, or the courage you showed when you came out as lesbian. I’m a CISHET white man, I’m as safe as I can be. The kids OTH need a safe space to question themselves, and will do my best to provide that space for them.