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Who the hell can afford a printer (lemmy.world)
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[-] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 months ago

We are the elder millenials, who know how to defragment a hard drive.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

I'm a bit older than the minimum age to be a millenial and have defragmented many drives. when I was like 6 but I still remember watching that stupid coloured blocks diagram for hours for some 20mb or something

[-] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Those were the days

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

A little older than minimum? Doesn't that make you the young side of smack dab in the exact category? xP

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago

We who have set dip switches or jumpers for an irq address on a sound blaster.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We, the internet’s first squeakers, ruining all of your adult conversations on ICQ, Prodigy, and AOL.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

A/S/L?

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not even gen X and I've done this! On multiple computers. ... Oh god, I'm a nerd, aren't I?

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I'm a younger millennial but I know how to do that. Culturally I relate way more with gen z than I do millennials, but man do I feel immense pain when I have to explain to people younger than me how to use technology. I had to explain to one of my younger coworkers how to navigate between folders and different hard drives within Windows the other day and it was more difficult than teaching my mom how to use a smart phone when they first came out. Too young to have had a MySpace but old enough to be everyone's personal IT guy.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

We could whistle into a phone and get a modem to try to talk to us.

[-] wunami@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

What a phreak!

[-] don@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

The proto-millennials, if you will.

[-] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

The deep magic

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago

Defragmenting takes way too long, especially with a > 6tb drive: just buy a new one and copy the data to it then wipe the old one.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah, defrag me harder daddy

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