Sometimes one wants to access a file without making changes though. Escalating privileges is the answer in this scenario and windows doesn’t make that as easy,as it doesn’t really want to you act as SYSTEM

Yup. As someone who lived through the internet explorer dark ages, I’m not eager for google and or Microsoft to have complete dominance

Basically that. I don’t do it much anymore, but it used to be helpful.

Wow, getright! That’s a throwback. I used that in the 90s.

On linux I use aria2c for similar tasks. It can resume http downloads, as well as split them up into multiple threads for faster downloading.

It’s cli-based and powerful (therefore perhaps a bit confusing at first), but there are UIs for it as well for a more get-rightty experience.

I think jdownloader also has some application here, though it’s mostly for getting things from those ad-filled file hosting sites frequently used by those on the high seas

We didn’t start the fire.
It was always burning, since the world’s been turning

fwiw Sped was used as an insult when I was in school a couple decades ago

What modern os can be used without any accounts? TempleOS?

Hell the X11 GUI predates Linux itself by a decade

Condescending and a pity party. Really a wonder why people aren’t flocking to upvote.

Yeah I got one for free because a family member saw rust and wanted to throw it out.

Scrub, oil, and we’re good to go.

Didn’t you hear? Joe Biden wants to take your meat!

https://youtu.be/eA-l6R4bKO4

Wouldn’t easy dragon dick also be a good time?

I’m thinking with dragon dick all times are good.

Perhaps I’m oversimplifying

Agree. And as someone who planted that tree 25 years ago, the shade sure is nice year after year.

yt-dlp is my go to. It’s the open source project most other things use behind the scenes

AI might improve their messaging soon

Do you send all outgoing email from individualized addresses too?

I do the same as you (raccoon.uber@ball.com), but all my outgoing emails come from (raccoon@ball.com), it worked great for about 5 years until people with me in their address book started getting hacked.

Honestly that’s worse for me if you don’t mention the subject.

‘im having issues with x are you free to discuss possible solutions’ is fine, but I hate the open ended ‘are you busy’ messages

Whether or not I’m busy depends on what you’re asking me to talk about.

I feel like most people don’t even check their ISP email anymore. Why use that instead of the Gmail you’ve had for 18 years.

My grandma never learned any computerized technology more complicated than a lamp timer

But hot dog she could program her VCR to record her soaps like a champ, even without the VCR+ codes

Yeah, Mobile Fidelity

https://www.audioholics.com/audio-technologies/mobile-fidelity-scandal