• DUMBASS@leminal.space
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    7 days ago

    Ahhh, the good old copy of windows xp that was stolen from Microsoft a month before release and spread it’s beautiful self all around the world, I had that code memorised for a long while, I called it the fuck code.

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    7 days ago

    I’m trying to get my 89 year old dad to set aside the tapes of the first games I programmed on our Commodore 64 in like 1983 when he moves this year. I really want them.

    Early mud stuff. I’ll post it if he finds it.

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    7 days ago

    Unethical life pro trip. If you are installing windows xp through 7 and need a license key, just search on eBay for “Laptop Parts Only” and find an auction where someone was nice enough to post one.

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    6 days ago

    The fact I recognise that key.

    (Also my husband agrees with me that looks eerily like my handwriting and is the kind of disk i used OP are you in Australia…)

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    I recently cleaned out some boxes of random stuff I had in one of my wardrobes and found several discs like this, some with Ubuntu 5-8.04, random drivers and other fun stuff. Huge nostalgia trip going through them. I also found this CD my dad gave me when I was 20 and had just started smoking weed:


    (the title is in Swedish and means “a chill disc”)

    Sadly lost him in December last year, RIP dad. I normally don’t smoke anymore but I’m gonna get a small piece of hash and smoke it while playing this in memory of him.

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    7 days ago

    Please. You’re talking to a man here who ripped his entire CD collection into iTunes … and then backed his library up on 1.44 MB floppies.

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      I have certain programs that were ripped from my father’s 7.5" floppies. They have gone through 3.5" floppies, to CDs, to thumb drives.

      The Data shall Remain.

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        7 days ago

        If it is on a thumb drive then probably not lol, these things are more fragile than a Redditor

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    6 days ago

    I can remember installing Windows 95 with floppy disks, that was slow. XP was great because you could finally do minor things and it not require a reboot.