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 😭
Adult. Have to go back to Herbie the Love Bug for my childhood versions. Or plenty of children books that animated things, my first being a vivid one about a lighthouse tugboat lost in a storm. With a companion 45 rpm record that read and sung the book.
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!
Old macbooks make great Linux machines!
Not that old, unfortunately.
Linux runs fine, but even when underclocked, it turns into a space heater by just using a browser.
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.
Really? Pull a drive instead of plugging in the charger?
The techies on lemmy forget that regular people exist.
techie here. He’s something other.
Something which may have outlasted previous technologies… I… I wouldn’t ask for elaboration and nod.
nodsandleaves
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.
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!
Make one drive mount read only in a guaranteed working and current system instead of powering on hundreds of old components along with long dead software, batteries, authentication long forgotten… Not to mention where that supposed charger has gone and will it work or die after years of being abandoned.
Absolutely.
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 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.
Well, that was good while it lasted.
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.
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
Jeez its like he was woken from cryo then thrown right back in the freezer
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.
💯
👆
¯\_(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.
🍌
🗾
🎴
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}
I just have my old drives with stickers of dates on them and have them in a cupboard
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…
Today I revitalised an old gaming pc to be an image backup server. Looking forward to having more fun with it
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?
