I just wish each video decoder manufacturer didn’t feel the need to create their own API that isn’t supported by anything.

Apparently he thought it would be funny to interfere with our immigration enforcement operations.

I mean, he was right.

High resolution graphical assets are big. That’s why we’re now getting 32GB video cards in desktop PCs.

Sure, nobody’s doing super high end graphics on a phone, but it doesn’t take much high resolution art to take a big bite out of that 6GB. Phones don’t have separate system and video RAM, remember.

That’s because empty RAM is wasted RAM.

You want to keep RAM full of stuff you aren’t using right now. That stuff can be erased almost instantly if you need the RAM for something else. That’s why OSs list “Available RAM” and “Free RAM” as two separate things.

Removing all the idle apps from RAM just means you need to wait longer every time you open one of them.

According to the Sailor Moon dub, they’re ‘cousins’.

the ICQ age

There’s a blast from the past. Uh oh!

IIRC TRIM commands just tell the SSD that data isn’t needed any more and it can erase that data when it gets around to it.

The SSD might not have actually erased the trimmed data yet. Makes it even more important to turn it off ASAP and send it away to a data recovery specialist if it’s important data.

Have you cleaned the inside of your windscreen?

They can get scratched up, but if you haven’t cleaned the inside of the glass before, most of the crud is probably there and cleaning it will make a huge difference.

That’s because small businesses know there’s half a dozen competitors within a 20 minute drive and care about keeping your business.

When there’s two huge corporations that own the market between them, there’s more profit in not competing than they’d get by trying to win customers from each other.

Reddit has more bots arguing back and forth to encourage humans to engage.

+1

Probably it’s cheaper to get 60 used low-end devices than one device that can run 60 copies of the Facebook app.

she should be in charge of her own sexual decisions

Not if she decides to use contraceptives, get an abortion, or have sex because she wants to. Obviously. But if she’s forced into something then that’s on her.

So just like “the deep state controlling America” the MAGA types are actually right about immigrants taking government handouts and ruining the country, they’re just targeting the wrong people: Democrats instead of billionaires, and poor Mexicans instead of Elon Musk.

IIRC that’s AVI files that aren’t indexed properly. VLC could either build its own index for the file or it could just start playing the file one frame at a time and hope for the best.

I didn’t do the legally mandated number of "Hail Corporate!"s yesterday.

See also: Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

commonly understood as shorthand for any rhetorical device allowing leaders to covertly order or exhort violence among their followers, while still being able to claim plausible deniability for political, legal, or other reasons.

Probably because they insist on replacing the browser’s right click menu with theirs, and web pages can’t just grab the clipboard contents for security reasons.

12 years? You’re thinking of murder. He’s taking rich people’s money, he’d never see daylight again.