every time I think about Dilbert I think about this comic and how the question being asked is Not Stupid and its answer is genuinely interesting and arguably very important information anyone using a computer should know

This tag is incredibly really good because it is 100% why you might need to defrag your drives sometimes.

If you've ever bought a flash drive or something and wonder why its advertised as 512GB but you can only use 480GB or whatever of it, it's because that other 32GB is being used as a directory for where the actual files are located on the drive. (I'm pulling those numbers out of my ass but you get the idea.) If you had full access to the entire drive it would just be a stream of data with no idea where to start or end.

When you delete a file, you're not actually deleting the 1's and 0's. You're telling the directory "this specific range of data is no longer allocated to something and can be used for something else." It's the reason forensics can obtain data from a drive even if it's been "deleted" because for all intents and purposes, it's still there. It's also the reason you have Fast and Slow options for formatting a drive; the former just clears that directory and the latter actually goes in and tries to overwrite every bit of memory to wipe it clean.

When you fill up a drive and delete lots of files, those empty ranges of data can be spread out haphazardly. Defragging the drive is just moving things around so they're more organized and related data is all grouped together and that "free" space is consolidated.

Also yes Scott Adams is now dead ❤️

first: this is how i found out scott adams is dead, fantastic.

second: you dont need to defrag solid state drives since they read instantly. defragging is helpful for hdd's (hard disc drives) that have spinning magnetic platters that are read with a head that has to travel to the bits to find the data. defragging moves the bits around so the head doesnt have to travel as far or to random places, therefore speeding up reads

if you have a computer made in the past decade or so you very likely do not have a drive like this. you have solid state.

hdd's are mostly relegated to servers and large data storage pools (like a NAS)

Yeah the type of drive I chose as an example probably wasn't the best lmao you're completely right

starting a collection

I am whatever the opposite of a speed runner is. I am a game meanderer. I have to look at literally everything. I am overly cautious in every way. I forget to pause and wander away from the game. I take a minimum 7 hours to get through any given level. If you give me a timer I will cry.

people saying “don’t use your full government name for your ao3”, “create different emails for work and personal use” but personally I think it’s both sad and dystopian how capitalism/companies/even schools think they have the rights to cross your personal boundaries and insert themselves into your personal life. like, I get it, safety wise, why checking digital footprints can be important sometimes. but a gay fanfiction is not a fucking threat that could ever cause anybody harm. it’s funny (not really, it’s still sad and dystopian) how they now think they can control your personal life and prevent you from having hobbies

Dude holy shit. That's actually insane. I had to read it twice to understand: She didn't actually send it to the Uni, they cyberstalked her and found it themselves. Any school you apply to should not have the right to reject your application because of some fanfic you wrote. If it were hate speech, I'd understand maybe a little bit more because it's still cyberstalking and still would have been made when she was a minor, but still, she was young when she wrote that fic. Yeah, I get "Digital Footprint," but harmless pieces of media should not affect it. This reminds me of that "Girl gets suspended from school for buying rainbow cake because the school was homophobic" story.

fuck this time loop im leaving (walks into a different, worse time loop)

i love this tweet

The way that this is just my post put on a picture of Christian Bale for some reason. Okay

trying to clean your room when you have adhd should be considered an extreme sport

YOU. YOU UNDERSTAND ME

someone is putting up pictures of me around town and they all say I’m ‘wanted’. which is nice

Geyanna Youness

the thing that’s really cool about dungeon meshi’s representation of autism is that Laios isn’t some savant. He’s just a guy with a strong interest. And he gets things wrong because that interest leads him to uncritically consuming biased sources

we need this kind of energy tbh because the autistic savant myth is getting too strong here. Being autistic doesn’t mean you’re correct in your information or able to recall it on command. It means that acquiring this information brings you joy

the opposite if mwah is hawm. fucking bite you.

sometimes you just gotta go "man i actually don't give a shit" and keep scrolling. online survival skill 101

lovecore this. cottagecore that. what about the reactor core its going to explode

do it scared. do it stupid. but most importantly, do it bitching and moaning the entire time

when I was like 14 I used to reblog these posts on here that were like "YOUR 20S ARE NOT AN IMAGINARY RACE YOURE DOING JUST FINE!!" just to be positive towards my older mutuals even though i didn't really get what they were abour and I'd be in the tags like "#so true!! #everyone does things at their own pace!!" and now im 24 I'm thinking back to it and it's like Oh of course the imaginary race. Which I'm losing