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Moving onto the new SSD. Life sucked so much more before drive toasters were a thing...

Shit, I've probably got a set of Windows for Workgroups disks. I think it included the clock app.

The days of loading drivers into extended memory to save that precious 640K of base...I am so happy they're over.

I did express my irritation that they were not on fire when I spoke with them...after all that drama, not even a little bit on fire. The nerve.

One of the reasons I went with this Nvidia card instead of something more ATI-ish: Meshroom likes Nvidia GPUs. Last night, Meshroom generated a 3D mesh from a data set of about 600 MB (483 JPGs) of drone snapshots (not mine - it was a sample photogrammetry dataset some other guy posted online). It t...

OPERATOR.

Damn, I remember trying to uudecode massive multipart binaries...those were not the good old days. I was thinking last night of the 3-node FidoNET BBS I used to run out my room as a kid. I used to dial into Las Vegas from midnight to 4AM to pull down my chunk of the West Coast mail feed. We could ge...

Heh. A disc drive...you mean, like, for loading games?

Do the words "steam" and "client" mean anything to you if you juxtapose them?

Security through obscurity eventually fails - when you hide how your system works from everyone, ultimately nobody will remain who understands how your system works.

As an aside - I've never had a gaming rig that was all SSD before. It's so quiet...and the boot time. Holy shit.

I'm going back to flying pretend airplanes until the election is over...