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Cake day: May 7th, 2024

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  • Kind of seems like it’d work better if your PC contained a numeric code. That code would contain everything the update service needs for your specific computer.

    For example. If your computer has a display out, it might add 855. And if your display has a touch screen it might add a 99. So now you have 85599. And when your PC sends 85599 to the update service it knows to include all updates with 85599.

    But if my pc has a display out, but NOT a touch screen I would only have 855. I would not have 99. So I wouldn’t get the touchscreen updates.

    Now do this for every single piece of tech a computer might have an update for. If you have usb 2.0, you might get 122. But if you have usb 3.0 you might get 133. And if you have usb type c, you might have 177. Or maybe you have usb 2.0, 3.0 and type c. So you’d have 122133177.

    Yes, the number would be quite long, but you’d never need to see or interact with it. It’s just a small txt file that windows would send to its server to prepare the relevant updates.

    I imagine that cutting down useless bloat would be beneficial for everyone. For example, if I’ve never used Turkish language, then I could skip 1.2GB of download for downloading the Turkish dictionary.

    Why don’t they do it like that?









  • What about me? On the rare occasion I see an advertisement, I have no idea what I’m even seeing. I saw a commercial a few days ago when my adblock failed.

    A woman running through a public park. A man hidden in bushes, in all black watching her with binoculars. More shots of her running. He slips down into the bushes. Screen goes black, and then plain white text. “He’s watching”.

    WHAT THE HELL AM I EVEN SUPPOSED TO BUY???


  • I mean, on day 1 they killed like 4 of the ATF guys. Shot them THROUGH the walls.

    Only reason there weren’t more casualties on the ATF side, is because they immediately backed off after that and stayed several dozen yards back. Hard to aim at a target you can’t see, through walls, 70 yards away.

    Not that I’m defending them. I’m just saying that yes, their guns WERE lethal, and they DID hold the government agents at bay. That siege went on 24/7 for like 3-4 months. It only ended when David Koresh just started killing everybody inside the compound, and burning everything.




  • Can it at least be the magic bullet infomercial? The one where all the junkies wake up feeling like shit, and just want snacks, so they don’t even question why a random guy is in their kitchen demoing the magic bullet. They just want nachos, and smoothies. Until Carol comes down and wants to make more drinks.

    Like…it’s 8am, and she’s bouncing down the stairs like “MARGARITAS PLEASE!!!”

    Carol. You have a problem.