My son’s Windows laptop did the same. Turns out there is a setting to make Windows truly shut down when selecting “shut down” from the menu, because normally it secretly sleeps or hibernates or something to have faster start-up times. There’s also the power another device via USB option that you may have to disable in BIOS / EFI settings.

Because having more ticked boxes than the competition sells. Doesn’t matter if it’s of any relevance.

cut the cheese into cubes with individual toothpicks

Jeez, next time just use a knife my dude.

Your typical bike dynamo puts out 6V AC. I bet yours does as well, so that diode sounds like a good idea.

They made it free so they could sell courses and consultancy hours. Can’t do that if it’s all straightforward. It’s the death star of complexity.

So I downloaded slackware on dozens of disks.

This is no joke. When I downloaded Slackware in '95 or '96, it was over 100 3.5" floppies of 1.44 MB each. And there were still more available, those were just the ones I thought I’d need. And before you could even begin installing, each of those had to be downloaded, written and verified because floppies were not terribly reliable.

A reboot will make whatever processes that are still using those deleted files let go of them. Maybe that solves your problem. If not, ncdu will help you find large files and directories.

Not GP, but: Realplayer compressed everything to hell, the quality was absolutely atrocious. I believe it was buggy as well.

Quicktime was a behemoth that took ages to launch. To speed things up, it liked to auto-load and be active in the system tray, slowing system start down even further and taking up precious ram on the off chance that you might want to watch a quicktime video. It also liked to register itself as the video player of choice for other formats, because why would you use a decent player if you can use a shitty one that was made by Apple? Fuck quicktime.

They’re five months early for April fools.

Most don’t even know what an IR is.

I’m glad I’m not a terminal emulator or I’d feel personally attacked.

That link is borked. Use this: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/ruben-schilt-lekte-geheime-raadsdocumenten-over-chemours-ik-weet-dat-ik-een-jaar-cel-kan-krijgen-maar-mijn-geweten-is-belangrijker~b2c5a373/

That doesn’t mean anyone actually knows the CIA said that.

OP provided the source, straight from the cia website.

For context, the total Dutch government budget for 2023 is 395 billion. So this represents 9.5 per cent of government spending.

Great allies ❤️

The cabinet has fallen (for the fourth time in a row lol) and are now basically sitting out the period until the next elections in november.

Add to that the many months it will undoubtedly take before a new cabinet gets sworn in.

Thanks for the clarification.

The last sentence of the article however, shows why that’s not much of a consolation:

In other words, it is activist hedge funds and modern executive compensation practices — not corporate law — that drive so many of today’s public companies to myopically focus on short-term earnings; cut back on investment and innovation; mistreat their employees, customers and communities; and indulge in reckless, irresponsible and environmentally destructive behaviors.

And the arms race.