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Straight outta 2006! Remember multiple expired antiviruses, obsessive defragging, and "experts" recommending Win9x on new hardware? I wrote about it back then. Here's the translated post for some tech (mastodon.bsd.cafe)
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Straight outta 2006! Remember multiple expired antiviruses, obsessive defragging, and "experts" recommending Win9x on new hardware? I wrote about it back then. Here's the translated post for some tech nostalgia (or PTSD?).

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2023/09/07/computer-scientists-the-computer-experts-and-those-who-know-a-thing-or-two-part-1-the-average-joe/

#Tech #2006 #Windows #RetroComputing #IT #Blog #Humor

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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Once again,a very good blog post.

A former friend of me make the same history twice. At the third time I answer "You better call X, good bye".
I didn't have your patience ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Once day at a diner, someone learned that I am "in computer". And he ask me "could you come at home, my dishwasher doe not work anymore?"

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@[email protected] nowadays I've learnt the lession. I say I work on servers and don't really know how to deal with computer..and it's not totally false as I don't know anything about modern windows that people usually use