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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 164 points 11 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] nikaaa@lemmy.world 140 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Quit making me feel bad for machines damn you!

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks for sharing, though it did make me sad.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 68 points 11 months ago

Empathy and anthropomorphization. It's a good quality to have as a person, but it does cause these false positive triggers.

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is my go-to antidote for that one

https://xkcd.com/1504/

Especially the alt-text.

[–] mryessir 17 points 11 months ago

Never checked in alt-text. You made my day (:

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Empathy ia possibly the beat quality a person can have.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

maybe you watched toy story as a kid

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[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] porl@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Old macbooks make great Linux machines!

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[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 110 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 34 points 11 months ago

Be good to me again today my little war machine.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Meanwhile I run Windows 10 just fine on a 2006 laptop

[–] ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

This both warms and breaks my heart 💚

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 63 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 56 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Really? Pull a drive instead of plugging in the charger?

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 68 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The techies on lemmy forget that regular people exist.

[–] mryessir 9 points 11 months ago

techie here. He's something other.

Something which may have outlasted previous technologies.. I.. I wouldn't ask for elaboration and nod.

nodsandleaves

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 12 points 11 months ago

If you are just checking one or two devices, charger is the way to go. Now if you need to check like a dozen for some reason, pulling the drives might be easier.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 8 points 11 months ago

Depends how bad a state the rest of the machine is in, I've tried booting some really knackered machines and the time I spent waiting would probably have been enough to remove the drive!

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can you still read it if the drive is encrypted, if you have the key?

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Most times yes. Linux mint can read bitlocked drives natively.

Although if you got an oddball encryption you may struggle

[–] rainynight65@feddit.de 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Could be plugged in on the back side. That was popular for a while.

[–] Persen@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Well, that was good while it lasted.

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[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

It's sapient it's clearly evil as all sapient life forms are.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

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

[–] MacedWindow@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Jeez its like he was woken from cryo then thrown right back in the freezer

[–] sxan@midwest.social 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

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.

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.

[–] Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 11 months ago
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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You don't have a /mnt/hugedrive/oldhome{1..6}

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

I just have my old drives with stickers of dates on them and have them in a cupboard

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Nope.

I use sortme{new, new new, new new new)

[–] prunerye@slrpnk.net 10 points 11 months ago

You don't even need to actively use it. Just keep it running in some corner of your house as a tor node.

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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...

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

Today I revitalised an old gaming pc to be an image backup server. Looking forward to having more fun with it

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[–] freezy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago
[–] mlg@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

*boot and nuke laptop *install Fedora xfce *add compiz *show off 3D cube desktop on old laptop running at crisp 60 fps

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