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    24 days ago

    Two that I can see, both look like early/mid-2000 era:

    Top left looks like an integrated itx board, possibly a Intel Atom or VIA C3 CPU?

    Above his head looks like an Intel P4 gen motherboard, maybe socket 478? Edit: on second glance, the kb is plugged into the mouse’s ps/2 and that’s triggering!







  • “High performers don’t waste their time arguing with the void on social media. Congrats, you just burned the only free hour you had after work.”

    Bro, you’re literally just like those you despise. Talking of badges, don’t prick yourself with that “Sheriff of Linux” badge you made it out that bottle lid.

    Edit: Sorry, where the hell did that link come from!? I swear it wasn’t there when I last looked!



  • My dumb arse used to do this to win 98/me when I was a student. “Optimising” everything and deleting anything I would never use, trying to squeeze every mb out of my limited 2gb disk space but the damn thing was so unreliable I was constantly reinstalling windows.

    After one reload, I finished late at night and just left it alone, forgetting to perform all my “power user customisation” until I remembered a week later when it suddenly dawned on me that it was running fast AND stable - I hadn’t had a single crash that week. As a final test, I applied all my “optimisations” again and “oh, look! It’s crashing constantly again”. I was a slow learner and turns out I don’t know better than the people that built the system!

    I always think of this when I see threads about win7 - 11 being unstable, because it just isn’t. As you dig through the thread, the op reveals more - they’ve chopped out all sorts of system components with registry hacks and third party tools or blocked updates and then bitch about windows being garbage - don’t get me wrong, they simultaneously make it better and worse with every release so I sympathize why people try chopping out edge, copilot etc - but just don’t.

    Disabling services and uninstalling functions the non-hacky way ‘should’ be fine (and likely reversable) but if someone wants to bare-bone their OS or be data gathering-free, they’d be better off learning Linux.