I don't know why inanimate objects treated like this makes me feel sad. It reminds me of the Mars rover comic where he's left asking if he did a good job after the radio goes silent.
Quit making me feel bad for machines damn you!
Thanks for sharing, though it did make me sad.
Empathy and anthropomorphization. It's a good quality to have as a person, but it does cause these false positive triggers.
Never checked in alt-text. You made my day (:
Here's this again. I get to bring it out every time this sort of thing comes up. It never ceases to be a masterpiece.
Empathy ia possibly the beat quality a person can have.
maybe you watched toy story as a kid
Or the brave little toaster 😭
Reminds me of
Be good to me again today my little war machine.
Meanwhile I run Windows 10 just fine on a 2006 laptop
This both warms and breaks my heart 💚
If you actually want to find a file on a long abandoned laptop, it may be easier to pull the drive and use an external enclosure to read it with a current system. If you have the hardware. No need for any of the other hardware, rtc, nvram, let alone the os to work.
Can you still read it if the drive is encrypted, if you have the key?
Most times yes. Linux mint can read bitlocked drives natively.
Although if you got an oddball encryption you may struggle
Why would you need to charge it all the way up? Just plug in the PSU, switch it on, look for your file, turn it off.
The inimitable Daniel Rutter presents: Your Computer Is Not Alive.
This column was written in 2002. Human nature being what it is, it is still relevant.
OK, some poor individuals genuinely do consider computers to be terrifying dead-eyed monsters devoted to the destruction of humanity in general and the computer-phobe's word-processor documents in particular.
Honestly, same
100%
Now, if stupid Lemmy had stupid emoji responses, I wouldn't have had to waste everyone's time with a stupid comment agreeing with you but otherwise contributing nothing.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
💯
👆
🤡
I can go without it. Keep it simple. I already have those responses on work apps, text messages. Doesn't really feel like engagement more than saying you saw it.
Not to mention many of the emojis kinda don't mean anything.
🍌
🗾
🍑
Jeez its like he was woken from cryo then thrown right back in the freezer
Stop downloading updates, you piece of shit! Stop it! Just let me check something real quick! Oh ffs, I guess I'm never using this laptop again.
Thankfully all of my old laptops run Arch, so I can update, or not update, at my leisure.
You don't have a /mnt/hugedrive/oldhome{1..6}
Nope.
I use sortme{new, new new, new new new)
You don't even need to actively use it. Just keep it running in some corner of your house as a tor node.
My old laptop is coming up on a decade old, and I want to turn it into a shop computer that runs my various printers and lasers, maybe a cnc mill/lathe one day.
Currently it's just sitting next to everything, waiting to be turned on again, but I don't want to do too much until I get it into some kind of protective casing. Shop duty is rough on computers...
Yeah I bought a little Lenovo tablet as a shop machine, basically to be FreeCAD But In the Yard box, and it's working okay, could be better.
omigod!
*boot and nuke laptop *install Fedora xfce *add compiz *show off 3D cube desktop on old laptop running at crisp 60 fps
His battery still isn't completely dead?
