It depends on what the definition of ‘A’ is. Or some fries.

That’s what I thought too.

I wonder what would happen to a person if they were to install software onto LG’s computers without their consent.

I presumed it to be a feature. Yeah. A feature.

There exists a fantastic German metalcore band called “We Butter The Bread With Butter”, a name I always found to be funny. You don’t have to know anything about them except that they are awesome.

They are so good that have several tribute bands. One of them is from their home town and they are called “I Can’t Believe It’s Not We Butter The Bread With Butter”. I always found that to be absurdly hilarious.

My point is, it’s 2026 and the Germans are finally developing a sense of humor. I for one think that’s better.

Entshuldigung, woher ist den ausfahrt?

Al Lowe had originally planned to make part 4 as a massive multiplayer online game, but there were too many technical complications. Additionally, Al had writers block. So he skipped to part 5 saying it additionally afforded him a new start to get out from his writers block. He was supposed to get back to it one day, but never did.

I own all of the others. Part 3 (Passionate Patti In Pursuit Of The Pulsating Pectorals) is the best and the original Part 1 is runner up. All I ever wanted was a Part 4 though.

It’s Al’s 80th birthday in 13 days (July 24, 1946). Maybe he’ll get us something

Very cool.

Ben is fantastic. I’ll be trying his waterproof cardboard later this fall.

I also have had very little success with SearXNG when I tried it. The results were limited and success was dependent on which instance you were on. I had better results using my usual web based. There were a few instances that were far better than other instances and supplied successful results. A lot of odd and weird results on certain instances that had the vibe of being a front for something else. I eventually stopped using it altogether after determining that to me it was worse.

It’s said a lot that if your need is dire, Kagi is worth the money. My need has not ever been that dire.

That is actually quite effective, though I would likely spell out the 35 and allow sylization to create numerics.

You can likely now remember that phrase “My-brain-isnt-made-for-35c” forever if you just reinforce the memory from time to time. Creating an absurd image in your head or even using a real image to associate is another good way of remembering something. For this, I would leave myself a clue of ‘I thought 36 was OK’.

Maybe not for everything though.

Look, the amount of negativity I’m generating for myself just trying to encourage a simple alternative and self reliance is really irking me. I’ve used this method for twenty years or so, and found it to be extremely effective. Consider it a door. Use it if you want. It is possible. You are better and smarter than a machine or software. Last post about it.

You offering to pay?

Write clues to your passphrase, not the actual passphrase. I spend a fair amount of time making my username and password. I choose something that I’m going to remember.

As an example, I was asked to attend a meeting to check out a point maker, a box that bombards objects with photons to collect the reflections, generating a 3d point cloud model that can be measured in cad. This particular one was fairly awful. Bottom of the barrel effort. The salesman was a complete slob, he was late, he took forever to set it up and had much difficulty getting it to actually work. When it did, it measured a 12.75" brick at 14.5". I knew right away it was shit.

They forced us to create an new account on the laptop with the software as it was too advanced and proprietary (pukes) for me to run it on my cad workstation. So, my password begrudgingly became a stylized derivation of “This Guys Balls Smell Like Cheese”. I still remember that password to this day 12 years later.

Not only that, but when we would have the guy out to troubleshoot, I would sometimes have to log in for him to repeat our steps. The salesman was always impressed with my typing speed and ability to remember my password. He probably never even knew my password was a total insult at him. My clue for the pass phrase was “Lynard Skynard”.

Don’t use random characters. Use absurd phrases that mean something to you.

Flashcards are your brains friend. They are no joke.

You can do it. That’s my point. Yes it takes time. Yes it takes patience. Yes it takes practice. Your brain is an incredible machine capable of so many things, much more by far than a computer. Computers are chunks of silicon. They do basic addition. They just do it so much quicker is all. Yours is superior. Keep it exercised.

I do keep a cheat sheet of clues. Things that I write to remind me of the actual phrase, but I rarely need it. Make a point to memorize 10 a week. Custom photo screensavers (I use jpeg Saver 5.3 by Goat 1000) are great for flash cards. I find writing it out to be the best way to learn, but reading is my second, and listening is third (but rather poor considering I lose focus and miss bits). Try to learn how you learn best and exploit that. I used to have an old braintest that was incredibly accurate. It would tell you whether you were more inclined for audio or visual learning. It also defined your brains inclination to be left hemispheric or right hemispheric in its dominance. It was called brainworks. I think it ran on windows 95. For sure Windows 98SE.

Honestly, a lot of the ones I ended up needing to lookup or reset were the ones that are restricted with a maximum length and I cant use an entire phrase. That just jambs up my plumbing, if you know what I mean.

Well, good luck when it’s your turn in the barrel.

It is possible. I have 78 unique passphrases. You only need to train your brain and not turn it over to a machine.

Oh really? What is it? Please tell.

Use your brain. Literally. It’s the only safe way to store passwords.

Where did you find the append option? I could not find it anywhere, and drag and drop just closed the currently open file and opened the dropped one. Opening multiple files only resulted in one file getting loaded (usually the first one selected in explorer).

I remember not being able to split a track either.