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Who the hell can afford a printer (lemmy.world)
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[-] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Those were the days

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

A/S/L?

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] wunami@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

What a phreak!

[-] don@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

The proto-millennials, if you will.

[-] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

The deep magic

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Oh yeah, defrag me harder daddy

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