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do not eat department store food. ever.

Department stores are where you buy things like cleaning supplies, clothes, laundry detergent and so on. It should never be a place where you buy prepared food.

I first have to explain what "prepared food" actually is. It may sound obvious, but it actually isn't.

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big vs. small casio digital watch legibility comparison

I own a bunch of Casio digital watches. Something I've always found amazing is the size of a Casio digital watch does not dictate how legible it is... at least most of the time.

What works for something good and legible for a digital depends on a few factors.

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how to split a tar (linux)

This is a computer nerdy thing, but every now and again you will have to archive some files. Most people use ZIP because that is baked into Windows and most Linux distributions. In Linux specifically, TAR a.k.a. "tarball" is better because it has way more options compared to ZIP...

...except the option to split into multiple files during archive creation. Not easily, anyway. However, with a very simple one-liner Terminal command, TAR can be used with split to do on-the-fly tarball files that split as the archive is being created.

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