Comments by "encycl07pedia" (@encycl07pedia-) on "Veronica Explains" channel.

  1. I never played tape games. It's still wild to me that you could use cassette tapes to store a game. I only ever used them for audio.
    6
  2.  @joshuapettus6973  The thing that drives me bonkers about manpages and help is that they are far too often devoid of any practical information. I've been using Imagemagick to "compress" images (convert PNGs to smaller JPGs or GIFs) and do some cropping, but the manpage for Imagemagick is useless and convert's manpage is only slightly better. You are REQUIRED to go online to get working, usable help. 'man convert' yields: -crop geometry cut out a rectangular region of the image Searching online gives me an actual useful command: convert -crop 640x480+200+100 image.png image.jpg will convert the image to a jpg and crop a 640x480 region of the png 100 pixels down and 200 pixels right from the top left corner of the png.
    3
  3. 16:00 Windows USED to have a cohesive UI before Nadella and the UI/UX team went nuts and decided to reinvent the Control Panel with Settings. The sad part is evidently in Windows 11 they still have both Control Panel and Settings. It should not be that hard to move options from one to the other (I mean half of them are just switches...) but I imagine there are some "legacy support" issues at work. In that case, they should just delete the Settings application and stick with Control Panel. They changed things simply to change things, and it's an awful practice. Mint (I use XFCE when I'm not using DWM) has its own issues with multiple settings things. There are "tweaks" and "settings." Why not put the tweaks with settings? I don't know, but finding settings in the Mint UI is more frustrating to me than on Windows 10 and it's probably partly why I use DWM almost exclusively now.
    2
  4. You came from Windows and thought Mint and Ubuntu had "so much" bloat? Really?
    1
  5.  @shallex5744  Bloat doesn't explain why he thinks there's "so much" bloat in Ubuntu and Mint.
    1
  6. 6:27 I'm 80% sure MS disabled the registry hack to get it to show on the top in Win11. It's absolutely ridiculous how MS is insistent on pushing their users away or into making so-called difficult choices: put up with MS's nonsense or use a different OS. As a sysadmin for an educational institution, it's mind-boggling to me how even the simplest admin tasks in Win11 require either regedit (change the name of a camera) or Powershell (too many things).
    1
  7. I didn't know about cd -. I don't do a whole lot of navigation on the bash prompt, though. I prefer using vifm for directory and file navigation. Once you're there, it's easy to open a shell if you want.
    1
  8. I've actually been able to set up my computers so that, outside of JS applications (like Youtube), I don't need to leave the TTY at all. Vifm, mplayer (took a while to get working on TTY), fim, lynx, links, mutt, newsboat/newsbeuter, and tmux to manage them all. I've written quite a few shell scripts.
    1
  9. Your transition slide backgrounds are great!
    1
  10. I use Dvorak, so the only vim movement key on home row is H (QWERTY J).
    1
  11. I'm not a fan of Apple anything. The 5th Gen Video Ipod was the last Apple product I owned. It got stolen, my Itunes library, with around 100 songs and thankfully very few videos, was rendered virtually useless, only playable on a family computer via Itunes. I was able to liberate the m4p songs by burning and ripping CD tracks back to the PC as MP3s. It's a horrific company that tried to take away my library for not having Apple products, one of many shady anti-consumer practices they've used. Now I use Amazon MP3/Music if I want to buy digital music. It's totally free of DRM nonsense. I can't help but notice the expense (still cheaper than a new Ipod) you incurred fixing this, not to mention the time used. All you need to do with an Android phone is just not have a carrier/SIM and you'll get a better device with more capabilities... or simply put your phone on airplane mode and/or DND and you won't be disturbed, either. Or you could get a different digital music player altogether. And library management is as simple as moving files, no special software required.
    1
  12. I know I'm late to the party, but don't NVMEs require the whole "insert and lower" mechanic? That seems to be a hurdle for making them hot-swappable. I've never seen an NVME slot work a different way.
    1
  13. The most surprising part is a Minnesotan talking about taking the C64 online with BBS and telnet didn't mention Gopher.
    1
  14. Which web browser do you use? I tend to stick with Lynx for the most part, but I'm sighted.
    1
  15. 9:59 I actually got yelled at when I used terminal apps like vim and vifm in my last job. The brilliant folks that for some reason made much more money than I did thought I was "hacking." I mean I couldn't open the keycard door yet, but they thought I could access untold mundane secrets (pretty much everything I could "hack" if I could "hack" could be found with a Freedom of Information Act request, even work emails) because I was looking at white text on a black background and used the Tab key for more than just indenting paragraphs in Microsoft Word... Snitches that don't know what they're looking at and Big Brother in that job... horrible work environment. It took me a few weeks to figure out why everyone was so defeated and quiet at daily meetings. Sometimes I really, really hate people. /endcoolstorybro
    1
  16. The true sin is championing Apple products when you know they're a horrible anti-consumer company, with and without Jobs. Having grown up incarcerated in the Mac world of the 1990s and having to save every paper as RTF because Apple can't be bothered to comply with standards, I truly don't understand how FOSS or Linux enthusiasts can stomach Appleware without being willfully ignorant or incredibly misanthropic. Apple is a prison that charges you rent and can brick your digital life whenever they feel like it.
    1
  17. I don't understand the use of "quote-unquote" in speech. To me, it should be "quote <whatever you're quoting> unquote." I know the former is how a lot of people, including myself sometimes, say it, but it doesn't make sense to me.
    1