I hate stuff like this, that thinks it’s being “cute”, or “cool”, or “clever”, or whatever as if the company and I have some sort of personal relationship and could just interact on this level. No, Ridiculous Company, you and I do not have any kind of relationship - and now we never will even try again for one, any time in the future. In fact, from now on every time I see your logo, I will remember your “cleverness” and imagine a room full of imposter marketers and imposter developers sitting in a plastic building full of foosball tables and needlessly-big vertical monitors being “clever” for each other while their stock goes further and further down the toilet.

Or is that just me?

At least they didn’t eat them…? 🤔

I see continued guaranteed employment for someone who needs a job. Can’t clean up after meatheads with AI - yet.

I installed a deb package this morning and started it up - only to face an ad for other software. It’s seeping in…

Buy less. Use less. Reward good pricing with your money. Spouse stopped buying favorite frozen sausages months ago because they went from $5 to $12. The other day noticed they are “on sale” for $5.25. Bought 2 and will continue buying them until they go back up. I’ve also started buying a lot of things on sale in bulk that will store awhile, so I can just walk by the ridiculous pricing until the next sale drops it again.

Great idea. Thanks!

We always called it Yack in the Box, or eColi+.

Very nice. I lived once where there was a next on the wifi tower next to the apartment parking lot. I could never figure out why no one ever parked near it - until I did one afternoon. It’s amazing how much sh*t these birds produce over the side of their nest lol. Took me a few trips through the car wash to get it all off.

Personally I don’t care what format my pics are in (I don’t use that many). But I get great satisfaction converting them out of Google’s fav.

Lots of same for me. First I take them to the local used book store. Whatever they don’t buy I either leave there (sometimes they will take those for free) or take to the library or thrift store. Once in awhile I have one that actually sells for good money. Always a surprise.

Here’s my solution to WebP:

#/bin/bash
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# FILE PURPOSE AND NOTES:
# Convert webp files to png in current directory
#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

echo "Convert Webp to Png"
echo
echo "Note this only works on webp files in the current directory:"
echo "Right now, that is $(pwd)"
echo
read -p "Press any key to continue"
echo

for i in *.webp; do
  echo ".. Converting $i"
  ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$i" "${i%%.*}.png"
done

echo
echo "Here are the original webp and new png files now:"
echo
ls *.webp *.png
echo
echo "Ok to delete the webp files now? (Y/n)"
read -p ": " ANSWER
echo
case $ANSWER in
  n|N)
    echo "Leaving webp files."
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Removing webp files.."
    rm -v *.webp
    ;;
esac
echo