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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)I miss having to defrag drives. There was something therapeutic about watching it.
Viss@grumpygamer cc @dosnostalgic for great justice :D
rainwarrior@grumpygamer Listening to it, as well.
petros@rainwarrior @grumpygamer Less peaceful was a cling-cling-cling of a huge external 2GB-SCSI drive which did not want to start after a power outage.
A knock and it might overcome its starting problems. But then it was time to think about a replacement.
Ca. 1999.
A knock and it might overcome its starting problems. But then it was time to think about a replacement.
Ca. 1999.
Space Hobo@grumpygamer I remember feeling like Geordi LaForge, pulling the engines offline to do a level-3 somethingorother.
Kago@grumpygamer I miss the weird static thing I had to do now and then on my very first monitor. No idea what it was for, but it was incredibly satisfying.
Kevin Granade has moved@kagodev @grumpygamer did it go booooiiinggg wobble wobble wobble?
Probably degausing. It's a mechanism to reset the magnetism of the monitor, which could shift over time and interfere with electron beam steering.
Probably degausing. It's a mechanism to reset the magnetism of the monitor, which could shift over time and interfere with electron beam steering.
MadMike77@kevingranade @kagodev @grumpygamer CRT degaussing. Yes.
https://hackaday.com/2016/05/25/wtf-is-degaussing/
https://hackaday.com/2016/05/25/wtf-is-degaussing/
Mike Torr@kevingranade Oh wow, I'd actually forgotten that was a thing!
dorkus malorkus 🧙♂️🪄@kagodev @grumpygamer haven't thought about degaussing in decades
Derekodon@kagodev @grumpygamer Degauss - it was the thing to do
Luke Miller@grumpygamer how much of our lives have been spent watching progress bars
Kofani
Maritza Campos ☑@grumpygamer unless there were a LOT of bad sectors
Vini@grumpygamer peace comes in mysterious ways
Linh Pham@grumpygamer ...that is until someone used the MS-DOS defrag tool on a Windows 9x FAT volume with long filenames ☠️
J M Berntson@grumpygamer I remember using a defragger that showed me exactly what files were being moved around and finding that utterly fascinating.
Bruce ElrickYou either need to be reminded of this or you are in for the treat of seeing Justine Tunney's work for the first time, in particular this page:
https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/
Daniil Baturin@virtuous_sloth @grumpygamer This debugger gets my instant wholehearted approval for using the AT&T assembly syntax by default.
katy ✨@grumpygamer as a kid this was pretty much a game for me. i loved watching it go :)
Monsieur Valentine 🇺🇦@grumpygamer agree. Recently learnt that you can defrag files or volumes in Linux, but aesthetics are just not the same
satmd@grumpygamer If you want to, you could make a simple simulation of it as a screen saver. A screen saver isn’t much more than a .exe ending with .scr and supporting a special set of options like /s, iirc. Not much saving the screen tho. :D
Pontus@grumpygamer nowadays you can watch your RAID array sync instead. Feels about the same to me.
Ambient Sponge@grumpygamer Do I have the Twitch channel for you.
Ivan Ruiz 
Doreen32128 ready to rumble!@grumpygamer Yes! Therapeutic for sure!
Flaming Cheeto@grumpygamer then convincing yourself it was indeed faster afterwards
Fahri Reza 🍉Is this SSD?
Canageek@grumpygamer Is that Windows 3.1?
Chris (W1YTQ)@grumpygamer Yes, and degaussing monitors!
Do NOT Fear|🇺🇸🇺🇦🐊🦉🌊💙@grumpygamer No. There wasn't. It was a chore & knowing your HDD could crash at any time wasn't exactly calming
Bill0004@grumpygamer @lisamelton Fun fact, i clicked the GIF to watch and reminisce, then my screen of my MacBook Pro started purple outlining things in my Slack app and i had to force quit it. So, huh.
Robert Anderberg 🕹️@grumpygamer New game for 2024: defrag simulator
Kyle Brown 
@grumpygamer it all went down hill when it became a progress bar
Jane Adams@grumpygamer Aww what a nostalgia wave 🥹 You might enjoy this sorting algorithm compilation too:
15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes
ghosttie
Sen the Professional 
@grumpygamer I feel the same way about degaussing monitors
Pat Madigan@grumpygamer The best part of watching the Defrag screen was getting paid to do it… ideally, while sipping a cold Dr. Pepper.
The Turtle@grumpygamer remember COMPSURF for Novell???
stevenray@grumpygamer @stevenray takes me back, takes me wayyyy back. Right, @jqheywood ?
I don’t think I’ve seen this in thirty years. It’s glorious, if only cuz it’s no longer real.
John Quentin Heywood@stevenray @grumpygamer oh my. that's a bad memory right there ...
brettski@grumpygamer Defraging drives and parking heads, the good ol' days...
ChancerubbagePart of you wishes you could hire them to clean the house or organize the garage.
Beachhart@grumpygamer I had totally forgotten about this. Weird nostalgia that I'm feeling.
Mark Shane Hayden@grumpygamer defragging is your computer's way of playing a game of freecell
Terrence Jarrad@grumpygamer Loved to see those B for bad sectors
I use VIM@grumpygamer I miss degaussing my monitor 
Ertain@grumpygamer If it's any consolation, you can defrag some filesystems. I don't think they'll look like that, though.
Helgi Crookehorne@grumpygamer I think it's what evil Sysmain is doing all the time in Win 10 so it's better turned before some CPU demanding game, like the one they have about Spider-Man
Jason Nickel@grumpygamer I heard you like defrag. How about 8 hours of it? https://youtu.be/KR3TbL3Tl6M
Defrag HDD Sound | Hard Drive Sounds ASMR | Old Computer Sounds | Hard Disk Defragmentation Ambience
Christopher Sacchi@grumpygamer a few years ago I made a "zen" game where you can manually (or not) defrag a virtual HDD sector by sector
deep Entertainment@LostTrainDude @grumpygamer Chris, this is BRILLIANT! 🥰
@deepentertains Thank you! 🙏
stdevel@grumpygamer Same here. I often listen to defragmentation sounds when I need to focus on code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR3TbL3Tl6M
Defrag HDD Sound | Hard Drive Sounds ASMR | Old Computer Sounds | Hard Disk Defragmentation Ambience
Artemis13Athena@grumpygamer I know, right? You're not alone here.
Raul Portales@grumpygamer I replaced it with torrent parts download. They both have that hypnotic effect
@grumpygamer until it told you you had a bad sector that couldn’t be read.
Boris Kretzinger@grumpygamer And the sound of the harddrive that goes with that picture ... that was indeed something, almost as comforting as staring into a fireplace.
Dr Johnny Blanchard@grumpygamer note to self: Phone app that simulates various defragging tools. It’d be like tension sheets in red dwarf
Robee? Na! 🌈