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.
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.
I feel really bad about my old MacBook. It was my trusty companion for 10 years, but now it’s kind of forgotten and useless.
I tried to revive it a while ago, but it’s too slow/hot to be useful for anything worthwhile and it’s a real shame. It’s still working fine, otherwise!
Reminds me of
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?
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 cord wasnt even connected in the first panel so i assume we are dealing with an evil cursed laptop, which can be difficult, in my experience
Could be plugged in on the back side. That was popular for a while.
true, but it seems unlikely as the cord would need to come up from behind the table, which seems awkward whether the table is against the wall or not
It’s sapient it’s clearly evil as all sapient life forms are.
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.
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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.
Edit all y’all replying with emojis, ha fucking ha. You know that’s not what I mean. Lemmy would be better if you could respond to comments and posts with emojis, like github. Even Reddit allows this, although it’s monetized.
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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.
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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 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.
Today I revitalised an old gaming pc to be an image backup server. Looking forward to having more fun with it
omigod!
His battery still isn’t completely dead?
