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nixCraft 🐧kids who would run dos defrag utility and sit and look at the little squares change colors are either {developers, sysadmin, devops} now or retired farmers
Tim W RESISTS@nixCraft omg I loved watching defrag!
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)@dougmerritt @nixCraft just don't defrag your SSD / NVMe, unless you want to ruin it.
DrYak@tim indeed, nowadays you scrub and rebalance trees instead
Huckster Noise@dougmerritt in the form of TRIM
@ethicalhuckster
Yes! We're happy you volunteered!
Yes! We're happy you volunteered!
@dougmerritt Volunteered for what? 👀
@ethicalhuckster Implementing visually fancy defrag for SSD TRIM!
Owen Tyme@nixCraft It fulfilled my inner OCD side.
Looking for explanations…
datenimperator@nixCraft ah, good ol' days 😍
Alan K. Martinez@nixCraft I feel I fit into one of the categories listed but won't say which one...
I also wonder if this is supposed to be an attack of character or life choices or not...
Konrad Konieczny@nixCraft watch how it's getting recreated in Rust
RyanParsley@nixCraft visualizing defragging has stuck with me as a metaphor for so many things.
Paying down tech debt to speed up development.
Organizing my workbench for more efficient building.
petur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
Viss
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Marcus Jenkins@nixCraft Developer in my case. Close to retirement.
Captain of the SS El Faro@nixCraft that's slander I make art now 😄
Thomas 🇪🇺@nixCraft Loved this in a strange way. Felt so tidy.
Michael Coorlim@nixCraft you gotta defrag your head drive, maaaaan.
ploum@nixCraft : SF writer… but I definitely spent too much time watching this.
Ryek Darkener@nixCraft
This is so much better than many other programs.
This is so much better than many other programs.
Osunderdog@nixCraft I made my first $$ helping a business defrag their cad computer. They were very happy.
If I knew then what I know now, I would have made backups first.
Fredrik@nixCraft ehh, all of the above :)
AT-AT Assault 🏳️⚧️I mean, I'm not IT or a farmer, and I would look at the defrag animation. Had to because I had nothing else I wanted to do beside whatever I need my computer for at that time.
🇨🇦 CowMan 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇲🇽@nixCraft daww I can hear the clack click click clacks like it was yesterday..
Coach Kolektiva Diesel@nixCraft Crap. I missed my calling.
Now I need to go see if there's an app that simulates this because you flung a craving on me.
Mondriter@nixCraft yes, i do. Even as a screensaver!
MrC@nixCraft I remember trying to guess which blocks would be shuffled next
R0851@nixCraft can confirm -- retired farmer here
Old Man in the ShoeOne theory of life on planet Earth is that it arose to order proteins from the right to the left. That's it, stacking proteins to one side. And here we are inventing computers that kind of did the same thing.
Fier@nixCraft Did that when I was young. Worked as a dev for 2+ years and now I'm studying to become a Therapist, lmao.
Elliott@nixCraft I did helpdesk work a long time ago and when I got called to someone's desk for something trivial/silly I would run defrag to make it look like I was doing fancy and technical work. It always seemed to make people feel better.
Token Sane Person@nixCraft I gotta write a simulator for this.
potpie@nixCraft I became a Latin teacher... But my homebrew programs and shell scripts are integral to my workflow so... I should look into farming.
Askier
Adrien Plazas@nixCraft And some of these devs will be retired farmers anyway.
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle@KekunPlazas @nixCraft I guess that's precisely why "retired farmers"!
@nurkiewicz https://fosstodon.org/@nurkiewicz/112767079274665313
Tomasz Nurkiewicz 🇺🇦 (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image There's burnout and there's this...
Patrick Schmitz@nixCraft recently watched Spinrite running on my PC, which is just as relaxing.
GoatsLive@nixCraft Guilty! 😁
UntouchedWagons@nixCraft I did that once in windows 98, it took something like 16 hours.
DrPs𝕐 
Aurani Casts Fireball@nixCraft was there something else I was supposed to do?
It would feel rude to not watch the show they put on for us.
HoracioDos@nixCraft Thousands of lost hours watching defrag. I want them back!! Life is short.
Stupeflo@nixCraft I was doing that sometimes.
Oliver Stueker@nixCraft Hey, of course I used to watch defrag and I'm neither of those, instead I'm….
… ahh who am I kidding … close enough. 😄
… ahh who am I kidding … close enough. 😄
Serge Keller 🍕
Dennis Faucher 
@nixCraft The original raw dogging
cuan_knaggs@nixCraft ah yes, zen and the art of defrag
Justin Derrick@nixCraft I feel personally attacked by this…. Trying to get my ducks in a row for retirement.
I know nothing, still.@nixCraft it was even better when defrag ran after having run spinrite on the drive to check the drive's health. Oh the heady days of DOS
Pandanus@nixCraft Currently living in and regenerating a rainforest…
That’s one square per season defragging right there.
Jaime Suárez@nixCraft https://defrag.shiplift.dev/ in case you don’t have DOS at hand.
Laura Orchid@nixCraft wow, I never used it before
Jernej Simončič �@nixCraft What about Windows defrag utilities?