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Anon time travels (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I bought a computer in 2007 that was 8GB of RAM and a TB Hard-drive, but a recent windows update bricked the machine because it didn't have enough space. Is that what's going to happen to these machines? Just, right off-the-line and into the garbage?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago

    Not sure, on Linux I don't really think about these things. Never had a computer become "bricked".

    Tbh it's great for the Linux community because we can pick them up secondhand cheap and continue using them.

    Brick more laptops Windows. 🐸

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  • [+] 8 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

    Well what happened is it tried to update, got stuck, and now won't start. tried starting it over and over and over again while hitting F1 and F2 and it just spins it's fans. Though it randomly will start-up into a weird BIOS safe mode and give me a couple options, but I've yet to find the magic option that let's me boot it up using the previous version of windows just so I can turn it into a Linux machine. It's gotten to the point that I'm willing to pay someone to take it and convert it into Linux Fedora or Debian for me (and then pay for a quick tutorial in how tf Linux works 😭 )

    EDIT is this actually a service? If this exists I'll fucking do it, I swear

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