But you’re not allowed to proceed in life until you’ve pressed any key!
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3·2 days agoMaybe so. But it did process duplicity backups every week for hundreds of Gb, so it did a fair amount of work even though not constantly active.
FWIW, I ran a Pi 2 with external (self-powered) USB drive for about 8 years as my main backup without issue (except that it was slow). I’ve just replaced it with a Pi 5 and TerraPi frame holding an SSD.
I remember an obscure one named “grommit” that was a dancing animated character and you’d click it to change arm and leg movements.
Bonzi buddy was over of the bad ones, maybe?
Drain.exe would say “water in drive a:, commencing spin cycle” then power up the drive and make a gurgling sound.
Sheep.exe … would create a sheep that would wander the desktop.
When I read it, it stirred a distant memory of hearing such a story before, so I knew that there was something behind it and looked it up.
You could just about play speech using one bit output using pulse-width-modulation. But it was almost unrecognizable. And would take a lot of memory for the time.
It was usual to have different numbers of beeps for POST errors.
But this was an age when a PC would say “Keyboard error. Press any key to continue”, so things were not thought out that well.
That probably wasn’t a virus.
Mod: We need you to press the caps lock key again.
User1: OKAY I DID! JUST TO BE SURE, I PRESSED IT TWICE.
7·9 days agoOr like when Meet went away, but Talk in Gmail was renamed Meet and Duo also became corporate Meet.
Or something like that. Maybe Allo was involved.
4·12 days agoThe proof is right there in the picture!!!
Well. Okay. I admit it looks like a very bumpy earth.
Nothing an iron can’t fix.
Absolutely. You’d be able to see Colorado from most of the country if the elevation was to the same scale as the horizonal distance.
Run Google Earth (the app or in the browser) and you can see how relatively flat it all is.
7·12 days agoSuperbowl reminds me of the SDF Fox News
~~https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/foxnews~~
(Edited to make the bot happy!)
Given how the “shop and walk out” process worked, they’ll probably outsource it to people paid to throw packages on parachutes over your fence while they make a buzzing noise.
What’s needed is an online 2fa service that just takes a username and copies the code to the clipboard.
/s before I get any replies.
2·15 days agoWhen the metric system was introduced in the UK, the schools taught decimeters, decameters and hectometers, not knowing that no one would ever bother with those.
8·16 days agoOperating systems don’t die, their time since the epoch just reaches INT_MAX.
They stuck him in a glass case in a museum.
It explains that it means “fan failure”.
And there was a link to a video of it happening.
The only other link to an MS support page did not work.