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New comment by snakeman in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

snakeman — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:49:15 +0000

You are not. It's infuriating to the point I've used Gemini to make a readable summary of a video, which works pretty well since they have better access to all the video data/metadata than OpenAI/Anthropic.

New comment by snakeman in "SanDisk launches dongle-like Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive with up to 1 TB"

snakeman — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:56:52 +0000

This one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008555989592.html

Not small, but not huge either. More importantly, it gets about 3/4GB/s with a Kingston NV3 4TB drive and very acceptable temps.

New comment by snakeman in "Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?"

snakeman — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 04:41:50 +0000

Amusingly, Microsoft provides their own tool (1) for excellent insight and enabling/disabling of all the various places applications can put their startup executables.

1 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/auto...

New comment by snakeman in "Switching to Windows"

snakeman — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:37:46 +0000

Check out SteerMouse, my friend. It figuratively saved my life as I too can't stand the standard settings. It lets you configure both acceleration and sensitivity, and while it takes a while to find the sweet spot for your mouse, when you do - it's great!

https://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

New comment by snakeman in "Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment"

snakeman — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 17:21:31 +0000

Why is it obvious that 4000 calories of olive oil is not metabolized without waste? Please provide sources.