Was wondering all day why my internet was so slow. Turns out I've had my laptop VPN proxying all my requests through Vienna, Austria, for the better part of two weeks.
That's why the stuff they ask you to read during an eye exam is random letters. If it spelled actual words it would be useless for determining how good your vision actually is because the brain is scarily good at inferring missing information when it fits known patterns
@lritter@rygorous it's too bad I can't take a screenshot of what I see without my glasses on, because the effect isn't so much blurring in the graphics sense as a confusing disintegrating mess. consider, the brain is quite good at making stuff up when presented with incomplete information. if you see text briefly like a sign or something, you'll see and recognize a message immediately, but it might not be the actual message. I can't do that with my glasses off, text doesn't resolve at all.
" Solo sviluppando le facoltà interiori l'uomo può allontanare i pericoli che derivano dall'aver perso il controllo delle grandiose forze naturali a sua disposizione ed essere divenuto vittima delle sue stesse conquiste."
@pomodoro in una partizione logica in fondo al disco, tanto ormai lo swap serve solo per fare hybernate, se cerca di usare lo swap come ram vuol dire che già si hanno dei problemi e il pc è inusabile(*ai tempi* mi è capitato di metterlo come prima partizione in modo che fosse nella parte più veloce del disco)