• @[email protected]
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    733 hours ago

    Yes. We are.

    We are young with to have learned tech at an early age, but old enough that the tech wasn’t user friendly when we were kids, so we needed to understand it better than people do in the smartphone generation.

    Installing a new game on my PC in high school was a multi-hour, sometimes multi-day ordeal.

    Plugging in a secondary hard drive involved putting jumpers on pins to keep the system from trying to boot off it.

    Assigning ports on peripherals involved understanding how to count in binary so you could assign addresses on dip switches.

    Installing a printer involved unholy alliances with formless beings.

    Every 2-3 years, I still wake up wearing black robes in a strange room in Romania, blood on my hands and a lingering scent of cordite in the air. I’m fairly certain that’s related to the Canon BJC driver issues I had upgrading my AST to Windows 95.

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      41 hour ago

      Random BSOD from changing… absolutely fucking nothing, then spending 2 days trying to recover, before saying fuck it and reinstalling windows, so you can play WC1 or D1…good old days.

      Also printers can suck it. 20 years ago maintaining a fucking print server was bullshit… I’d rather deal with BES for another 100 years.

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      42 hours ago

      More likely from soundcard settings than printer settings. If you’re channelling, its due to wrong number of channels selected.