everything DOGE is breaking reminds me of the time I was 12 and had a genius idea to save hard drive space on my windows 3.1 computer by deleting all the help files
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lol. When windows 95 came out, I installed it on my mom’s computer w/o permission/knowledge. She was so upset and made me go into the win files and delete every file that said anything related to windows/win95. When that didn’t work I had to spend 5 hrs on the phone to do a backup install/uninstall
Well, yes.
But it's more like if you went to your friend's house, and did it on his computer.
And when it breaks, it's fine. You'll just duct-tape it together by returning one of the files later. In the long run your friend should thank you. The computer was stealing money.
Same. Twenty years ago, I got the idea to clean up the C drive on my work computer by moving all files I didn’t recognize into a folder called “Stuff.” The next time I rebooted (much later), nada. I didn’t know the two events were related tho and was all 🤷🏻♀️ to IT.
And if you had a love of only a few powerful programmes and huge disrespect for most of the bytes in your system, so your computer only served a very few greedy programmes & boogered all the rest, that would be a very good analogy. And of course, it would booger everyone in the end.
Except in this case it's your 16 year old friend from high school who seems really smart and cool so you trust them, but, secretly hates your guts and INTENDS to wreck your machine so they can laugh when you panic later.
My first pc had, I believe DOS 5.x, way before windows. While teaching myself DOS commands, I thought I’d free up space in my 5MB HD by deleting a folder named, “..” I instantly had 5MB of free space but didn’t know at the time because “..” was the parent directory, which happened to be the root 🤯😆
Only had it 1 day before erasing everything off it. On the call to the store I bought it from, I said, “OH! I see. I deleted everything. That’s funny! So, what’s the command to get it back?” There was laughing on the other end of the call & I had to take it in for them to reinstall DOS🫣🤣
The bigger issue is that a certain party has been promising to do this for awhile and a certain group of voters only jokingly wants them to do it because like you as a kid they are geniuses
😂 Someone noted, "I'm not an auto engineer, so when people said Musk was a genius, I accepted it. Not into rockets, same thing. I AM an IT programmer, and seeing what he did to Twitter, I keep away from his cars and rockets." I imagine you do the same, especially w your own lived experience!
When I was a teenager, my stepfather was going through his system files on the family computer (that only he was allowed to touch).
He yells “what the HELL? Why does your sister have these hundreds of files on MY computer?”
So, he deleted all the files that had her initials in them.
In college my brother and I had the exact same laptop, which was good because he would occasionally start deleting files that he didn't know what they were and his computer would stop booting. So I'd copy the missing file from my laptop to a floppy drive (yes, I'm old) and put them back on his PC.
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oh, wait...
That’s even worse
Don’t tell me you don’t want to throw that skirt over her head and roast that cat?! 🐈
I’m going to grab two hand fulls of this MEOW MEOW 😻
But it's more like if you went to your friend's house, and did it on his computer.
And when it breaks, it's fine. You'll just duct-tape it together by returning one of the files later. In the long run your friend should thank you. The computer was stealing money.
(this is real, scroll down and expand the gpt version)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/topic/-we-couldn-t-update-system-reserved-partition-error-installing-windows-10-46865f3f-37bb-4c51-c69f-07271b6672ac
You live dangerously
What’s this file that’s 99 MB? I should delete that.
Shortly reinstalling DOS and Windows later after getting yelled at by my parents (thankfully they were computer illiterate then and barely used it).
“LiDAR? we use our eyes to drive, why does a system need another sensor” - Musk in every drugged out comment on FSD and LiDAR
“NDA and pay them off” - Musk after every FSD crash that LiDAR could have prevented
He’s technically inept
"Whazzat? I don't need that file, I'm sure, and I need more hard drive space..."
Two minutes later...
"Why won't my computer boot?!"
He yells “what the HELL? Why does your sister have these hundreds of files on MY computer?”
So, he deleted all the files that had her initials in them.
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