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1. Lina Inver:z:e :mur_close: :nuts: (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 03:58:34 JST Lina Inver:z:e :mur_close: :nuts:
   nigger young people have used windows xp at least once in their lives why are you- oh of course you're fucking imitating those dudes who made a reaction channel going something like "ELDERLY REACT TO DAISY'S DESTRUCTION" and "KIDS REACT TO CHILD PORN"
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   • Lina Inver:z:e :mur_close: :nuts: (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:00:27 JST Lina Inver:z:e :mur_close: :nuts:

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     • cajax
     @cajax yeah like what the fuck, its not like as soon as something new appears, everyone just destroys the old thing and forgets about it entirely
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   • cajax (cajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:00:28 JST cajax

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     @lina These videos always kind of impressed me how much these kids could NOT know. Did they really never have a grandmother or neighbor with a VHS player when they were kids? Or public schools! A lot of public schools were still using VHS in the late 2010s! (I was working in the school system at that time)
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:01:11 JST xianc78

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     • RedTechEngineer

     @lina @RedTechEngineer I continued to see people using Windows XP well into the mid-2010s. The last time I saw someone use it was at an emissions test center, a few years ago.

   • RedTechEngineer (redtechengineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:01:13 JST RedTechEngineer

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     @lina brother, people born *after* the release of Windows Vista are entering adulthood now.
     
     Real boomer posting hours.
   • Lina Inver:z:e :mur_close: :nuts: (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:01:13 JST Lina Inver:z:e :mur_close: :nuts:

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     • RedTechEngineer
     @RedTechEngineer you're acting as if everyone went straight to windows 7 and never ever had anyone using windows xp even after it stopped being relevant
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:06:07 JST xianc78

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     • cajax

     @cajax @lina The public school system I went to was still using Windows 2000 computers up until 2012. Granted, it was just one per classroom and it was always paired with a Windows XP computer, but they were there because they still worked with most websites at the time which is what most people used them for.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:17:39 JST xianc78

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     • cajax

     @cajax @lina They seriously couldn't just emulate?

     My Dad used to work as a math teacher for a public school. He somehow kept all of the old Macs they used, but he noticed that some of the kids were surprisingly retro computer enthusiasts so he gave them away. Someone was able to install MacOSX Tiger on one of them and I didn't even know that was possible.

   • cajax (cajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:17:40 JST cajax

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     • xianc78
     @xianc78 @lina Yeah a lot of classes still had Apple IIs when I worked there in 2017. They didn't want to get rid of them, the games they had didn't really exist for other systems.
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:30:43 JST xianc78

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     • cajax

     @cajax @lina I don't think there's that much to be recycled and retro-computers need more proper care than, say, retro-consoles. Though if you look at Craigslist, you do see a lot of schools selling off their old, 2009 computers. I have no idea who's buying them. You can easily run most PC games from that era just fine on a modern computer, unlike games made for old Macs.

   • cajax (cajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:30:44 JST cajax

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     @xianc78 @lina (said imacs went directly into a dumpster, not even to a recycler place, six months after I quit lol)
   • cajax (cajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:30:45 JST cajax

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     • xianc78
     @xianc78 @lina at the school I worked at it was drilled into us that misappropriation of equipment, even outdated shit nobody in any way in hell is gonna want, is a horrible offense and will be punished to the utmost.
     
     Didn't prevent me walking out of there with a bunch early 2000s mac stuff though. Still have a broken red imac dv in my basement I need to get around to fixing
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:34:27 JST xianc78

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     • RedTechEngineer
     • Tinosoft :verified: :cgss_anzu:

     @tinosoft @lina @RedTechEngineer If you count Gen-Z as someone being born in the mid to late 90s, then at least the early part of it experienced Windows XP. My youngest sibling was born in 2003 and even he used Windows XP as our family was using it up until 2010 when we finally got a Windows 7 computer.

   • Tinosoft :verified: :cgss_anzu: (tinosoft@miniwa.moe)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:34:29 JST Tinosoft :verified: :cgss_anzu:

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     • RedTechEngineer
     @RedTechEngineer @lina when I was in elementary school I used windows 3.11, 95, 98, then in junior high school I used me and XP and finally in high school I used windows 7; then that windows was used for years without updating to win 8.
     
     So it's possible for zoomers/gen alpha kids never experienced the windows XP.
   • RedTechEngineer (redtechengineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 04:34:30 JST RedTechEngineer

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     @lina by the time these people were going to elementary school, windows 10 was firmly rolled out. XP was joever for the mainstream.