Glad to see I wasn't the only one lol

I'm not fully sure, but it looks very much the type of image that would be AI generated. On the bottom right the people look like they have faces in the back.

No signature (might have been cropped), but generally Artists sign their art. The poster has a slop profile picture, and this is a very low-effort post.

The upper letters have also lost their use with UNC paths. in the 2000's and 2010's, we had so many drive letters at my workplaces. I hardly used any of them, but they still mapped a bunch by default for departments that still relied on them. Now they're on NAS drives or SharePoint, which you can just access without mapping. I just pinned the ones I use in File Explorer so they're there but not "mapped".

I still have an F: drive on my current company machine for some reason. It used to be a network home directory backup, but after OneDrive, I'm not sure where it points or why it still exists. Because I'm the sort of person who sees a YouTube video about what happened to Novell Netware and immediately click play, I recently learned that F: was the typical home drive letter for Novell Netware, with company/departmental share drives starting with G: or later. (https://support.novell.com/docs/Tids/Solutions/10027779.html) I remember in the early 2000's people still calling those drives and the login screen "Novell" even though it was Windows NT and NT shares by that point.

Me pressing ctrl-s all the time in a google docs window

That's awesome. I remember those printers. Perforated strips everywhere. Businesses had the green and white striped kind.

I mean I purchased an external floppy for my undergrad laptop as recently as... 2004... Oh shit that was 22 years ago... Fuck a kid born a year later can legally buy alcohol and a kid born then is graduating from undergraduate....

When did I get old?

I remember the first computer my family had, when i was around 5 hears old, was an old IBM something with a laborious switch to power it on. Like a flick switch that pulled a metal rod, i dont know the specifics but this rod must have moved something to complete and electrical circuit and the thing came to life.

It had 1 floppy drive and a blanker for a second. A: and B: were reserved for these drives. Windows 3.11 was installed from 12 floppy disks and we ran all of our games from DOS. Except lemmings which was built into the OS.

The box was horizontal, that classic beige colour and had the classic IBM 2 button mouse. No speakers. No modem. A 12 inch crt screen (in matching beige)

We had a dot matrix printer that we never replaced the ink ribbon for. So after that ran dry we just used the paper for drawing on.

I miss that machine.

Ah I see. It seems there was a version update for Lemmy so could be on both sides as well.

People talk about the legacy of the floppy disk (mid-eighties to mid-aughts) being used as a save icon, but drive letters are even more extreme - and absurd - than that.

CP/M came out in 1974 and introduced drive letters A: and B: for floppy drives, and Microsoft copied that for DOS and the early DOS-based versions of Windows. Microsoft finally killed off the DOS lineage with Windows Me in 2000, so that was 26 years of drive letters actually being part of the OS' architecture.

Windows NT came out in 1993 - 19 years after CP/M - and didn't use drive letters but for the sake of backwards compatibility and familiarity it would emulate them. All versions of Windows since 2000 are based on NT. So we had 26 years of drive letters being needed, and 33 years of faking it for consistency.

clack clack clack

Yeah, like how it's dumb for kids to not know about dialling rotary phones, manually tuning in a TV with a knob, being afraid of burning themselves of the incandescent bulb in their bedside lamp or rewinding a VHS tape before ejecting it from the VCR.

I didn't get any notifications for a few days, until half a day ago, so probably on my instance's part, no worries

I suddenly had this image of a catholic priest blessing the servers with holy water.

You would be able to figure out which ones were tainted by Hell due to them releasing smoke when in contact with the holy water.

Wait, is this image AI generated? For real? Man, AI is starting to fool me that's getting scary

It doesn't matter with tabs, which is a big reason why I'm team tabs.

“Your website has a bug”
“well DId yoU TRY IT in a nORMAl BrOwseR?”

Every. Damn. Time.

the horrors of object oriented programming

i do this whenever i think “haha this should only take a few seconds” and then i my back hurts because it took way longer than a few seconds

This but unironically. They reviewed my code, and I explained my open tickets to colleagues and handed it over to them before taking time off. I can't be needed right now when I'm off

It's always there, even before anything is mounted. You just overlay a filesystem over it during boot.

That position is the product of one's "I'll do this quickly" whishful thinking.

With experience you start figuring out when something isn't going to be quick as you look into it, at which point you get a chair.

With even more experience you start training other people to solve their own problems before they come to you with stupid shit they could have solved themselves, as well as designing your own shit that's meant to be used by others to avoid things like "magical sequences" (you have to call X, then Y, before you can do Z), properly handle common mistakes with good error messages that in some cases even tell people how to solve it and other such features to make it less likely for there to be usage errors and handle them elegantly when they happen in order to reduce the support load on you.

Ah yeah that's correct!

They had pesky anti copy stuff back then too though.

for that should be documentation and remembering we are not machine yet. still human

is that on /dev/sda ?

"D" was actually used for "Drink Holder"