starting up an old computer is like bringing one of your old dogs back to life for a few minutes - ThreadSky

blainecapatch.bsky.social • 124 days ago

starting up an old computer is like bringing one of your old dogs back to life for a few minutes

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nickgrimes.bsky.social•124 days ago

How do you know what bringing an old dog back to life feels like?

mpjohnson.bsky.social•124 days ago

blainecapatch.bsky.social•124 days ago

i was working in the lab late one night

angryalgonquin.bsky.social•124 days ago

Ok Boris lighten up

0wninat0r.bsky.social•124 days ago

this hit way harder in the feels than i was prepared for 😅

atom777.bsky.social•124 days ago

Haha. I have an old Windows XP laptop sitting on the shelf. Now I'm going to look at that like some sort of k9 cryopod..

oreogamer299.bsky.social•124 days ago

Yeah

angelnecrosis.bsky.social•124 days ago

I have my 10 yr old high school laptop (not crazy old) and I recently bought a charger for it so I could boot it up… when I tell you, it did not like that ☠️ several repair reboots and it actually loaded Win8, slow but worked fine. I shut it down and later come back to it, back to repair reboot 😭

angelnecrosis.bsky.social•124 days ago

My goal is to get it to work for long enough to find all the specs for it, turn it into a Linux distro & hope that’s light enough for it to function again 🤞🏻

tmc249.bsky.social•124 days ago

Definitely recommend to get a cheap sata SSD for it, I upgraded my 12 yr old netbook with one and its much more snappier!

shanachipfox.bsky.social•123 days ago

If I could do that I'd give her such a cuddle and tell her she's a good girl ❤️

thebogwitchsupreme.bsky.social•124 days ago

Both are filled with bugs.

benbeepy.bsky.social•124 days ago

Sadly I don’t know what that feels like

meheuck.bsky.social•123 days ago

You can't teach either of them new tricks?

tinghram.bsky.social•124 days ago

Reminds you why you had to put em down in the first place.

disastermarch.bsky.social•124 days ago

😭 you're not wrong, had to wake an ole girl up for a minute to find a lost file the other day... it was rough.

juliep.bsky.social•124 days ago

My Lenovo Think Pad X 300 is waiting for me at the Rainbow Bridge.

robitussinmd.com•124 days ago

I Frankenstein'd a couple of old friends into a NAS

ferriematthew.bsky.social•124 days ago

"By the Omnissiah, I beseech thee, ancient spirit, awaken! Blessed be thy circuits and whirring fans. May the sacred current flow through thee once more."

With reverent hands, the Tech-Priest presses the power button, whispering, "Awaken, o relic, and reveal thy wisdom."

ferriematthew.bsky.social•124 days ago

By the way, full disclosure, the above quote was generated by Microsoft CoPilot with the prompt "How would a Warhammer 40K Tech Priest conduct the ritual to start a computer?"

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