It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor.
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer Degaussing the CRT monitor was really fun indeed! #goodoldtimes
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer Games at that time did not steal out time with dark patterns, did not steal our money with loot boxes and pay to win. They told stories and made us team up. I learned Englisch to play those adventure games (or at least improved my vocabulary beyond the school necessary). Still love Monkey Island and other Lucas Arts adventures, still remember waiting for the release of LeChuck's Revenge...
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer "degaussing a monitor", a term I hadn't even thought of in decades!
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer Watching the defragger do its job on Win98 back when was like a game in itself to me.
Absolutely mesmerised for no good reason.
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer or the panic in the eyes when floppy disk no. 15 out of 20 was missing to install the latest game
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@wansti @grumpygamer @klyx *whhooomP!*
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@Asymmetricblue @wansti @grumpygamer yes, just yes! Maybe I need to get out there and get an old CRT just for this? Nah, shouldnt do that... Need to explain this to wifey then and I am not sure, if she approves :D
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer Better games ... probably also related to the real hackers of 80s and 90s able to squeeze the limit of x86 CPUs in "demo competitions" where the main program was not allowed to exceed 64KiB. And they squeezed that lemon to amazing heights!
Today's generation just wines about how expensive it has become to buy more RAM.
Even though I've been doing programming professionally for for quite some time, I'm not even worthy looking at these older hacker's boots.
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@grumpygamer oh I miss degaussing… someone™ should write a Desktop Compositor for Linux that simulates drifting colors/alignment over time and has a degaussing button 🤔
@HorayNarea @grumpygamer There is a potential hardware market here ... A USB connected button to attach to your monitor, which triggers the degauss emulator software ....
I smell a kickstarter project here!
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer @Viss We MUST NOT fail at teaching them how a file system works!
Documents can be free - they don't NEED to "be in the app"! 😅 🖖
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer the real joy for me was sitting watching the defrag visuals
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
I suddenly feel all warm and sentimental
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@grumpygamer the real joy for me was sitting watching the defrag visuals
@colingourlay Same! Very zen-like, even with the varied experience between Win 9x and WinNT.
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer Or running memmaker.
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer People with btrfs still balance their filesystem every now and then and ZFS got an zfs-rewrite command in 2.4 which can be used to defrag the filesystem^^
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer I can confirm. There is a positive correlation between the time I spent degaussing a monitor and the amount of time I spent playing games.
Not sure whether or not correlation is the same as causation, but hey it's worth a shot...
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer Half-a-joke, nowadays, many game "devz" consider SSD as RAM 🤦 We are doomed.
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer They can still enjoy sitting down until shaders compile, I guess? -
@grumpygamer People with btrfs still balance their filesystem every now and then and ZFS got an zfs-rewrite command in 2.4 which can be used to defrag the filesystem^^
@vamp898 @grumpygamer we need a funny TUI to show us it's really defragging though (I did btrfs defrag literally yesterday)
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