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Jason LefkowitzImagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
Nelson@jalefkowit I know this ruins the joke, but the problem is everyone else leaving their computer on. Doesn't matter if I'm cheerfully tending my garden if all of my neighbors have had their brains rotted by Facebook into supporting concentration camps and the total destruction of the ecosphere: they'll kill me and my garden.
Ben 🏳️⚧️🍉@jalefkowit I briefly did phone support for Packard Bell here in the UK in the early 2000s. We took one to bits in training and I couldn't believe how shoddy they were. The power supplies were well below what I'd expect even at the time. It's a wonder they worked at all.
Michael Weiss@benofbrown @jalefkowit I used to tell people that Packard Bell was inevitably going to go out of business once everyone bought their first computer, because nobody would buy a second one from them.
@mweiss @jalefkowit The craziest thing I remember from that job was the "RPD", residual power drain. If a customer's PC was seemingly dead, no POST, nothing on the screen, we were told to instruct them to disconnect all the cables from the PC and hold the power button down for at least 30 seconds, before plugging the cables back in and turning it on again. When we were told this in training I thought it was complete bullshit, but the number of times I did it on calls and it actually worked blew my mind. I still to this day don't understand how it worked, maybe it was just the process of reseating the cables that fixed it and the 30 seconds was a bit of a white lie to make it seem scientific but yeah, it worked almost every time.
Jack 👾@jalefkowit packard hell
Steve Foerster 🌐@jalefkowit I guess in that case I wouldn't be sitting here worrying about the Year 2038 problem?
katzenbergerOr if you at least made it a daily habit to turn it off before midnight.
FräuleinInformation (Klarname)@jalefkowit Imagine how much different the world would be today if no computer could be turned back on
PhilLovesCats@jalefkowit Wish my parents would've turned it on due... reasons.
ophiocephalic 🐍@jalefkowit
Imagining how much happier I'd be if Zuckerberg, Andreessen and Altman had never turned theirs back on
Imagining how much happier I'd be if Zuckerberg, Andreessen and Altman had never turned theirs back on
Crispy Gnome Chomsky@ophiocephalic @jalefkowit Fun fact: Altman was but 14 on 20000101. Zuckerberg was 15.
@rose
Already old enough to leer at their first victims
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈@jalefkowit I'm guessing that is some kind of ancient Spotify module on the top and, idk, a mail box for computers on the bottom.
Chris Taylor@jalefkowit that Plextor PX-W5224TA was the shizzle though
StarcadeI worked for a major manufacturer that had been in business for 100 years.
We spent years trying to fix old programs at work for the year 2000 as the bulk of our programs used two digits to denote the year. We also made sure all our operating systems were year 2000 compliant. There was even a group of us that stayed the night in the office as the date rolled over, because they were afraid what could happen if we missed anything. I remember we had cots, sleeping bags, and emergency food. 🙂
So after all our efforts, the only problem we encounted is some retired employees had incorrect age calculations AFTER the date became January 1, 2000. Apparently we missed a small group that were classified differently.
So, not a lot happened.
@Starcade @jalefkowit Yeah, not a lot happened then - because you made it not happen! Thanks, I was at university then, so I did nothing to fix this, but I was glad there were no stray nukes and the world continued to spin as normal.
Ian Nicholls@Starcade
I did much the same. Angry at having to stay in all night and watch the celebrations from afar. After all my hard work!
@jalefkowit
I did much the same. Angry at having to stay in all night and watch the celebrations from afar. After all my hard work!
@jalefkowit
! ʁ ą ʄ α ω ɻ • ® 神 •@jalefkowit I've no fⒶckin' idea, 
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ReverendD@jalefkowit
I'm tellin' you, the Y2K computer's got us. We'll face burnin' roads, rivers exploding, calculators transformed into Scud missiles. There's nothing we can do.
I'm tellin' you, the Y2K computer's got us. We'll face burnin' roads, rivers exploding, calculators transformed into Scud missiles. There's nothing we can do.
John Q McDonald@jalefkowit dear god, yes
theHastyOne
Benjamin D. Hutchins@jalefkowit I dunno, I mean... there's a lot wrong with this era we find ourselves in, but I feel like retreating to an imagined golden age is just imitating the enemy.
rex❗ (he/him) ♿🏴@jalefkowit while there's a part of me that wishes this happened, there's a bigger part of me that knows i'd be dead without computers. especially the internet.
@jalefkowit It would have been worse, as I see this on a phone: imagine if this was the only media today.
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The amusing story from that time was that some company did turn off their servers, for the only time in years, only to discover that their old disks didn't spin back up the next day!
The amusing story from that time was that some company did turn off their servers, for the only time in years, only to discover that their old disks didn't spin back up the next day!
gürkan �’ :catlong_head_left::catlong_h::catlong_end_right:@jalefkowit I have the updated version if anyone needs
Kim@jalefkowit Ridiculous middle-endian date format aside, I love the way that sticker is using a two-digit year.
Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™@jalefkowit they were trying to warn you