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foone, 15 days ago to random

So I've got a VCR that I can control over serial. If I got a second one, I could stick tapes into them and cross-wire them so that each plays into the other.
I could then set up a program to record from tape 1 onto tape 2, then back from tape 2 to tape 1.
Attach a capture device and I can get video files of each generation.

Then we just watch the generational loss compound.

gsuberland, 7 months ago to random

if you're using Hyper-V & WSL2 your distro state virtual disk image might be wasting 100GB+ of storage space. by default the VHDX grows dynamically but does not shrink if stuff is deleted.

to fix, launch powershell as admin, then:

wsl --shutdown

cd %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuOnWindows_....\LocalState

optimize-vhd -Path .\ext4.vhdx -Mode full

afterward, you can also update wsl to the pre-release version and enable sparse disks:

wsl --manage Ubuntu --set-sparse true

mattgrayyes, 8 months ago to random

What the actual fuck?

https://amzn.to/3EA2AX3