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1. fat ugly creepy angry retarded louser (professionalbigot69@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 03:53:24 JST fat ugly creepy angry retarded louser

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   @deprecated_ii people are doing more with their computers
   (having more Chrome/Firefox tabs open on their second monitor and playing some FOTM on their main monitor)
   • d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 03:53:23 JST d

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     @professionalbigot69 realistically users are doing perhaps 3x more now but it takes 64x the resources to do it
   • fat ugly creepy angry retarded louser (professionalbigot69@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 03:53:23 JST fat ugly creepy angry retarded louser

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     @deprecated_ii power users, maybe
     most people are still getting by with 8GB machines from 2014
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 03:53:23 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @professionalbigot69 @deprecated_ii I've now met two different executive-levels rocking an ancient macbook with a 2-core: One was even some sysadmin using it for virtual machines every day.....on 4 gigs of ram.

     Someone told me he saw one like it once and it got me on the lookout, now I'm fascinated by these people who should know better than to sit there forever with a sluggish machine...but don't. And I think they're everyone in our parents' generation. They stopped upgrading from whatever they bought in 2012+, waiting for it to totally break down.

     The VM guy said "yeah but I like how all my programs are set up now, I don't wanna mess with all that, I don't need it to be fast". Kind of makes sense, he's paid by the hour when he's consulting, I guess?

     Fascinating

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:04:27 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @professionalbigot69 @deprecated_ii The time wasted is what burns me. I hate having the seconds of my life stolen waiting for a machine to do its job

   • fat ugly creepy angry retarded louser (professionalbigot69@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:04:28 JST fat ugly creepy angry retarded louser

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @deprecated_ii cheap asses, yeah
     wish i could be cheap
   • fat ugly creepy angry retarded louser (professionalbigot69@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:05:11 JST fat ugly creepy angry retarded louser

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @deprecated_ii billable hours
     charge the eight all the same
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:07:10 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @professionalbigot69 @deprecated_ii Oh yeah, I'm not an IT guy though. All this nerd crap is only nifty when you can monetize it.

     I've gotten some good loggable time because a survey bird needed the engines running to transfer the data, freeeeee money. Aw shucks it looks like we only got this USB2 cable to copy over 35 gb of data oh well let's watch some k-on while we leave it running

   • veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:12:40 JST veff :trash:

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @professionalbigot69 @deprecated_ii My brother is that way. He has an old Mac osx which has discontinued support that he uses for creative stuff, and a Windows 7 machine with barely enough specs to run rpgmaker games. Refuses to buy another computer until they break. Oddly, he also refuses to just download a linux ltsv to regain software support.

     Enough of a pain to complain, not enough pain to change.

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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:15:15 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @veff @professionalbigot69 @deprecated_ii I get it, at least. I'm just about done with linux shit, I don't have the patience for it anymore. Nothing just simply works, it's all a sequence of hunting for boutique apps to get normal things working.

     I tried to record audio on it and it didn't sync up with the system clock, so everything was recorded at a variable drift I couldn't even compensate for. At least the big dogs don't screw up THAT badly. Not a fan of systems that require an hour of dry runs before I can count on them to run a task well.

     But those old macs absolutely crawl. I don't know how a thinking man can put up with it. If it's normie stuff I'd give something lightweight a shot on it

   • veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:28:58 JST veff :trash:

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @professionalbigot69 @deprecated_ii linux is like the 90% proof alcohol of the computing world. If you're brain is compiled in bits and bytes, it goes down easy like a Russian sipping vodka. If you're anywhere approaching normal, it physically hurts to consume.

     The problem is that everyone thinks "trying" linux means installing it on your existing hard drive and going total immersion. It's really more like that thing you throw on an old computer for a very specific purpose like video editing.

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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:30:51 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @veff @professionalbigot69 @deprecated_ii It's like any enthusiast's thing. The guys immersed in the subculture cannot understand why normies don't have the inclination to fiddle with it in order to get a perfect experience.

     Like gearheads who can't imagine wanting to commute in a prius.

   • Codeki :njp: (codeki@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:38:22 JST Codeki :njp:

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @professionalbigot69 @deprecated_ii I know in the case of Sven, he was absolutely pissed when he had to upgrade because some $500+ audio software he had been using that he bought a lifetime license for couldn't be reinstalled because the company just decided to shut down the auth servers. If his computer continued to work, he'd have continued to use it.

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