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My grandad, who was a farmer, used to say that the sellers of Roundup (the weed killer from roundup.com) would drink it during sales pitches to prove it wasn’t toxic to humans. So it wasn’t just farmers making questionable decisions—some of the misinformation came from the sellers themselves.

These days, it’s labeled as unsafe to use without gloves, and the high-concentration version sold to farmers isn’t even available to the general public anymore, at least where I live.

It just gives some context on why certain practices exist—bad or misleading information played a big role in shaping them and it is or was not always just the farmers alone.

I know that’s not how it technically works, but nowadays a lot of companies introduce smaller bottles at the same price as before, claiming they’re reducing plastic use by X%. What they don’t mention is that you’re still paying the same price for less product. So while a bigger container might be more efficient in terms of packaging-to-volume ratio, that logic often gets tossed out when marketing wants to spin “less for the same” as an eco-friendly move.

Were you using Windows XP Home, by any chance?

That tool was only included with Windows XP Professional, and even then, it was a command-line utility—so unless you were specifically looking for it or browsing through the %windir%\system32 directory, you probably wouldn’t have noticed it.

The article I referenced didn’t specify exactly which 32-bit versions it came with or when it was removed—it just mentioned that it was still included in 32-bit Windows after the DOS era. I didn’t write the article myself, so I can’t really speak to its accuracy.

Personally, I used that edline a lot back in the DOS days starting around 1985, until I switched to Notepad in Windows 95 and later to VIM when I moved to Linux after Windows 98. I never really checked for it in newer versions of Windows after that. A quick Google search confirmed it wasn’t included in XP Home, which would explain why you never saw it.

Link to the forum I found this information about XP in: http://murc.ws/forum/hardware/general-hardware-software/49698-omg-edlin-still-lives-in-xp#post755768

(edit: fixed a typo, added reference link)

I do not know about shrinkflation, but they have reduced the amount of plastic by x% in the smaller product which is one thing that is very popular these days, and it’s weird that there is not a big sticker advertising it.

that is absolutely true and also 640Kb RAM should be enough for everyone 😂

all the hours and countless reboots spent optimizing config.sys and autoexec.bat to achieve 50kb more of available memory… good memories 🙂

edlin was my favorite for a long time 🙂

Edlin is a line editor, and the only text editor provided with early versions of IBM PC DOS,[1] MS-DOS and OS/2.[2] Although superseded in MS-DOS 5.0 and later by the full-screen MS-DOS Editor, and by Notepad in Microsoft Windows, it continues to be included in the 32-bit versions of current Microsoft operating systems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin

edit: link and explanation of syntax used if anyone is interested. the w (write) and q (quit) commands made it somewhat similar to VI(M). https://www.computerhope.com/edlin.htm

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sorry, since you asked a question I just felt the need to clarify 🙂

The ISP products you mentioned really don’t seem consumer-friendly. I understand that ISPs might benefit from setting byte limits, since they incur costs for both inbound and outbound traffic to transit providers. However, from a consumer perspective, it’s a poor deal—especially since most people don’t have the tools to manage their usage effectively and can burn through their quota far too quickly, just like you pointed out.

It all comes down to costs and earnings in the end for all products unfortunately.

I do not work there, just referenced the terms of conditions from their website, so you need to ask them the questions, but I think having a 1Gb connection with 30TB of seeding will eat up that pretty fast either way and also cause a mayhem of incoming connections, so it can hardly be considered private use (based on their definition)

Again, I have no reference to the company, so all questions should be forwarded to them not me. I simply gave a possible reasoning of the ban from their terms.

edit: added info about their definition of private use

you probably broke this part of the terms of service…

https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/why-did-my-account-get-disabled/

I think there was a reason why they changed the imprint at one point 😁

I never said what anything looked like, I just said that Sweden and Finland does not look so good on a map without Norway 😂

edit: rephrasing

so true 😂

since Norway is not part of the EU, the map on the EURO coin is a bit awkward as well…for Sweden and Finland alone is quite special, map wise.

edit: fixed typo

just adding a note to this, not trying to steal the previous answer 🙂

try googling your laptop model and CMOS battery for images so you know what and where to look if you want to try replacing it. Some require dismantling of almost the entire laptop to find, so researching is recommended if you are not experienced with this type of work. There are also guides and manuals online on how to change it on some models.

Good luck! 🙂

Would it be possible to add a filter to not show read posts? I know you can hide some by using the FAB button but there is no option to just hide them all. Sorry if this has been asked before.

just what you said, only pointed out there is a quote/theory that could apply here.

often we overcomplicate instead of seeing the simple explanation. the theorem applies to many cases, not just to solve problems.

I am not saying that the theorem is or isn’t correct here, I was just mentioning it as it sort of fits the last couple of sentences in the comment.

I did not mean to say anything about this case in particular, just a comment to the simplest explanation/solution is often the correct one.

I am sorry if this came out confusing or out of context as this was not my intention.

it’s called Occam’s Razor, put simply, states: “the simplest solution is almost always the best.” It’s a problem-solving principle arguing that simplicity is better than complexity.

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/occam-s-razor-the-simplest-solution-is-always-the-best

edit: added link to reference.

it depends on the people you ask, there is no rule or right way to do anything, at least not as I have discovered so far, so correct me if I am wrong.

a lot of the frustration and overwhelming you feel now, could be because your body reacts to being off the medicine and it needs some time to adjust before it’s back to normal. it’s a tough period, but it will get better, at least that’s my experience when going off certain medicine.

I have no medical training so this is just my experience, and if you feel unsure or unsafe, please contact the nearest medical service to get help.

but I feel for you and as I’ve repeatably have said now, in my experience it gets better, just keep in there!

good luck and hope you’ll be okay!

probably have/had an office at that location so it would still see German based, but yes, does not look good, or it “does” until you know …