It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor.

[dazo@infosec.exchange]

@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.

[dazo@infosec.exchange]

@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!

[platymew@layer8.space]

@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"! 😅 🖖

[colingourlay@bne.social]

@grumpygamer the real joy for me was sitting watching the defrag visuals

[hamonwry@mastodon.world]

@grumpygamer

I suddenly feel all warm and sentimental

[anctreat5358@mindly.social]

@colingourlay Same! Very zen-like, even with the varied experience between Win 9x and WinNT.

[templailloahi@mastodon.social]

@grumpygamer Or running memmaker.

[vamp898@gts.ikaros.space]

@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^^

[isaackuo@spacey.space]

@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...

[tehappkiller@mastodon.social]

@grumpygamer Half-a-joke, nowadays, many game "devz" consider SSD as RAM 🤦 We are doomed.

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

@grumpygamer They can still enjoy sitting down until shaders compile, I guess?

[gertkeno@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@vamp898 @grumpygamer we need a funny TUI to show us it's really defragging though (I did btrfs defrag literally yesterday)

[catbrainz@retro.pizza]

@grumpygamer kids these days never had to clean the ball in a mouse and it shows 😔

[et_andersson@idlethumbs.social]

@dazo @grumpygamer Funnily enough, I remember reading a letter to a Your Computer (the British one) in Februray 1985, lamenting that these new 64 KB monster machines made for sloppy programming and had taken all the fun out of computers. 😁

[shadsterling@mastodon.social]

@ZoidbergForPresident @grumpygamer somebody made a doom mod where the monsters are processes and killing the monster kills the process; I bet something similar could be done for defragmenting