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[–] [email protected] 161 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 137 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Quit making me feel bad for machines damn you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks for sharing, though it did make me sad.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is my go-to antidote for that one

https://xkcd.com/1504/

Especially the alt-text.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Empathy ia possibly the beat quality a person can have.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

maybe you watched toy story as a kid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Or the brave little toaster 😭

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Old macbooks make great Linux machines!

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

Be good to me again today my little war machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Meanwhile I run Windows 10 just fine on a 2006 laptop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This both warms and breaks my heart 💚

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The techies on lemmy forget that regular people exist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

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

Although if you got an oddball encryption you may struggle

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Nope.

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 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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