I don't know why inanimate objects treated like this makes me feel sad. It reminds me of the Mars rover comic where he's left asking if he did a good job after the radio goes silent.

Reminds me of

If you actually want to find a file on a long abandoned laptop, it may be easier to pull the drive and use an external enclosure to read it with a current system. If you have the hardware. No need for any of the other hardware, rtc, nvram, let alone the os to work.

Why would you need to charge it all the way up? Just plug in the PSU, switch it on, look for your file, turn it off.

The inimitable Daniel Rutter presents: Your Computer Is Not Alive.

This column was written in 2002. Human nature being what it is, it is still relevant.

Jeez its like he was woken from cryo then thrown right back in the freezer

100%

Now, if stupid Lemmy had stupid emoji responses, I wouldn't have had to waste everyone's time with a stupid comment agreeing with you but otherwise contributing nothing.

Edit all y'all replying with emojis, ha fucking ha. You know that's not what I mean. Lemmy would be better if you could respond to comments and posts with emojis, like github. Even Reddit allows this, although it's monetized.

Stop downloading updates, you piece of shit! Stop it! Just let me check something real quick! Oh ffs, I guess I'm never using this laptop again.

Thankfully all of my old laptops run Arch, so I can update, or not update, at my leisure.

You don't have a /mnt/hugedrive/oldhome{1..6}

You don't even need to actively use it. Just keep it running in some corner of your house as a tor node.

My old laptop is coming up on a decade old, and I want to turn it into a shop computer that runs my various printers and lasers, maybe a cnc mill/lathe one day.

Currently it's just sitting next to everything, waiting to be turned on again, but I don't want to do too much until I get it into some kind of protective casing. Shop duty is rough on computers...

omigod!

*boot and nuke laptop *install Fedora xfce *add compiz *show off 3D cube desktop on old laptop running at crisp 60 fps