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Brings back good memories... I used to go directly to the electronics section at Walmart while my parents shopped, start defrag on all the computers and then wa
by carrja99 5y ago
Brings back good memories... I used to go directly to the electronics section at Walmart while my parents shopped, start defrag on all the computers and then watch from the CD aisle with a smirk as an associate would come across them, exclaim "my god!" and restart the computers with a power off and on.
- James-Livesey 5y agoReminds me of that time when I went into the Apple Store and came up to a Mac, opened a window (idk I think it was something harmless like Finder), took a screenshot and then set that screenshot as the wallpaper. I'm sure there were many people that day who tried to close the 'uncloseable' window that was purely part of the background...
- joconde 5y agoI did that on a high school Windows lab PC, put the task bar on top of the screen, set it to auto-hide, and killed explorer.exe so the Desktop icons were only part of the background. A prof had to ask me to set it back because they couldn’t figure it out.
- noisy_boy 5y agoI imagined this entire sequence as a scene from The Simpsons, sound effect and all - thank you.
- kblev 5y agoThat's an obvious sign of OCD.
- beervirus 5y agoPower cycling during a defrag seems like a good way to lose data.
- bovermyer 5y agoThat's the joke.
- fortyseven 5y agoFriggin weird how this sort of thing just goes over some people's heads.
- simondotau 5y agoBut not an effective one. Generally defrag routines copy data and then update the file system. Power loss would have to occur during the file system write in order for it to be destructive. (And in the case of journaling file systems, likely still recoverable.)
- gpvos 5y agoYes, but the system is writing roughly half the time, and defragging was mostly a thing before the advent of journalling file systems.
- usefulcat 5y agoIt think most versions of windows that included a defragmenter as part of the OS were XP and later, all of which would have used NTFS, which is a journaling filesystem.
- beervirus 5y agoDOS defrag goes back a lot farther than that. It even predates FAT32, let alone NTFS.
- simondotau 5y ago
- codpiece 5y agoOh, you made me laugh out loud, that is brilliant!
- speed_spread 5y agoThe modern version is to pair with bluetooth speakers on display. Then ambush play weird shit from the next alley for reactions.
- dawnerd 5y agoSame with their demo tvs that have chrome cast. Found that a lot end up connected to the public wifi.
- redtexture 5y agoPotential consequences are what?
- mnd999 5y agoWiFi printers are also fun