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is a line editor, and the only text editor provided with early versions of IBM PC DOS,[1] MS-DOS and OS/2.[2] Although superseded in MS-DOS 5.0 and later by the full-screen MS-DOS Editor, and by Notepad in Microsoft Windows, it continues to be included in the 32-bit versions of current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

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

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.

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 ..

that one was made in Russia according to the printed text..and in October 2022 if I read the date stamp correctly? and LEDVANCE is a company name, not product name, it was splitted out of OSRAMS LED division in 2016.

Ledvance GmbH, headquartered in Garching bei München, Germany, is a general lighting and smart home technology company. It was established in 2016 as a spin-off from Osram Licht AG. Since April 2018, Ledvance has been wholly owned by Chinese lighting company MLS.[3] ....

In April 2015, it was announced that Osram would divest its general lighting lamp business, which accounted for just over one-third of its workforce. In June 2015, the supervisory board of Osram Licht AG agreed to the divestment of their lamp division with products such as LED lamps, halogen lamps, and compact fluorescent lamps.[4][5] This divested division has been operating as a legally independent company under the name Ledvance since April 2016.

At the end of July 2016, Osram announced that Ledvance would be sold for more than €500 million[8] to a Chinese consortium consisting of investor IDG Capital, LED packaging manufacturer MLS, and Yiwu. The sale was completed on 3 March 2017, with economic effect as of 1 March 2017.[9][10][11] Due to the takeover, MLS gained distribution networks in Europe and the United States.[12][13] Since April 2018, MLS has been the sole owner of Ledvance

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

not sure you can make OSRAM responsible for what a Chinese company does in Russia?

edit: should have updated the text on thought, but perhaps not the first priority or something considered important in Russia.

might be possible to use seabios as a UEFI boot and have it act as a bios (as it is a bios "emulator"), never been down that rabbit hole, but perhaps there is someone who has if you search / ask around

Git repo of seabios: https://github.com/coreboot/seabios/tree/master

not sure if it will work, just hit me when I read this. anyways, good luck, hope you get it sorted/working 🙂

it probably runs as root.. all things considered..

my bad, not that familiar with asian languages and my first guess was Chinese, sorry about that.

But my guess is stil bad translation, and that the sign might be from a time before instant translation service or even mobile phones. there is a history of these signs from back then.

Anyways, I have shared my opinion and will leave it at that 🙂

Have a great day and weekend 🙂

sure, but a Chinese to English translation service does 🙂

in the "old days", the translations where not as good as now, they still are pretty bad if you translate between different languages a couple of times. Babelfish in its time was horrible.

I believe that the translation services in Asia are not as updated as in other places of the world, they many places does not have access to Google translate for instance. So I guess this is just a bad example of the translation being literate word for word instead of taking the whole sentance into consideration.

but that's just my theory and I could be wrong 🙂

funny either way 🙂

as an example of bad translations / understandings:

"In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter."

"Please don't handle the fruit. Ask for Debbie' (Sign in a greengrocer's) '"

"ANY PERSONS (EXCEPT PLAYERS) CAUGHT COLLECTING GOLF BALLS ON THIS COURSE WILL BE PROSECUTED AND HAVE THEIR BALLS REMOVED"

from the book https://www.amazon.com/Broken-English-Spoken-Perfectly-Collection/dp/1904945074

it's quite humorous, and based on bad translations

(edit: added an example)