Rather Impressive Image Compression

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Can you tell the difference between the two images above? At first glance, probably not. If you look at them side by side long enough, at least in fullscreen on an HD display, you might notice a little bit of a difference. In one the sky looks an ever so slightly darker shade, and if you look close enough, color shades seem to change in a more blocky structure instead of a more smooth transition. Zoom in, and you might notice the word “Excel” on the side of the windmill is mostly legible on one, and mostly illegible on the other.

Microsoft's All-Cloud Windows is what I dislike about Modern Computing

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I never have had a good track record with massive changes to Windows, starting with Windows 8 which was entirely unusable in my case. It wasn’t just the mobile-style graphics and the bloat, but also the fact I couldn’t get more than a couple of days before the installation would break. This went on for a while as I tried to figure out why it was breaking, and I probably went through dozens of installs that themselves took nearly as long as the time I could actually use the device before it broke again. After determining it was an update to blame, I deferred updates and set my connection to a metered connection, either of which on their own should have solved the issue. Yet soon after I was greeted by another update screen, followed by yet another bricked install.

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Rather Impressive Image Compression

Microsoft's All-Cloud Windows is what I dislike about Modern Computing