You should have been here when they sperged out when Dell offered Ubuntu on their laptops and a college chick bought one and complained about it on her local news. Weaponised autism indeed.
An American woman has told a TV station in Madison, Wisconsin that something called Ubuntu prevented her from joining online classes at her local technical college.
According to WKOW TV, Abbie Schubert recently ordered a Dell laptop, expecting "your classic bread-and-butter computer." But when she unboxed the $1,100 machine that arrived on her doorstep, she didn't find bread and butter. She found Ubuntu.
WKOW TV called Ubuntu "an operating system for your computer similar to Windows that runs off the Linux system."
"It's been a mess," Schubert said. "I regret ordering the computer."
She had never heard of Ubuntu. So she called Dell. Dell said there was still time to replace her Ubuntu. Then Dell told her not to. "The person I was talking to said Ubuntu was great, college students loved it, it was compatible with everything I needed," she explained.
So she kept her Ubuntu, then decided that Ubuntu doesn't always work like Windows. Her Verizon internet wouldn't load. She couldn't install Microsoft Word. And she said without Word and the internet, she couldn't take online classes at Madison Area Technical College.
So she dropped out of the college's fall and spring semesters.
Then Dell said it was too late for bread and butter.
"I'm extremely frustrated," Schubert said. "I wanted to get back to school, but I needed a computer to be able to do that."
Yes, that's fall and spring semesters. At Madison Area Technical College.
2 years ago
Anonymous
That's the one. I remember IQfy collectively losing their shit. It was a good day to be on the board when that broke.
2 years ago
Anonymous
that was in 2009 iirc
she picked ubuntu when she ordered the laptop, despite not knowing what it was
also the college assured her ubuntu would be usable for her coursework, there was absolutely no reason to drop out (not to mention she could worst case bring the laptop to any computer shop to put windows on it)
it's overly dramatised and i don't know why
2 years ago
Anonymous
because that's what journalists do, they overdramatize everything. it's all fun and games when it's a story about ubuntu laptops but they do the same shit with important stories that shape the world as well. journalists are out of fricking control and its a very serious problem.
Reminder that the case Apple sells for the iPad Pro in an attempt to make it kinda sorta like a proper computer with a keyboard and trackpad costs more than an entire iPad vanilla. Considering the cost of an ipad pro + keyboard for $100 more you can buy a top spec Macbook air or a 13" MBP, or save $150 and get a base MBA, so I honestly think they've given up on that whole "what's a computer" thing
I have a bluray drive in the first slot and a 4-in-1 SSD hot swap bay in the second slot. I like the hot swap caddy because it means you don't have to open your machine to swap out drive.
you're thinking of LGA CPU sockets, the limited number of specified insert/removal cycles was a big scandal in like 2006. I think the first 775 mobos and P4s were only rated for 35 insert/remove cycles.
I bought my PC in 2016 and put DVD in it out of habit. I literally never once used it since. I'm at the point that even if I know I have something (game, movie, whatever) on a CD I'd just re-download it or buy it on Steam because it's faster and more convenient than looking for a disc and putting it in the drive.
Probably the only person I knew here in the UK that used Mini Discs was my one friend whose parents and him holiday'd in the US once a year. He brought a Mini Disc player back one year and had a Mini Disc mini hifi system. Nobody else I knew bothered with them and stuck with CDs.
with a data layer that lasts 10,000 years, in theory anyways future historians could recover your data
2 years ago
Anonymous
yeah no, frick future historians, everything I write is encrypted
2 years ago
Anonymous
yo yo to whats happen fr fr fr no cap its ya boiii poohShiesty6969 on da youtube, here in the year 4571 we bought the absolute vintage MDisc from st salvos goodwill and try to recover the contents.. its encrypted yoooooooooooo there must be some good old world government stuff on here, imma upload a clone of this to ARCHIVE DOT ORG so y'all innernet hackers can bust this wide open for me like yo momma fr fr
2 years ago
Anonymous
>everything I write is encrypted
100 years ago, (what we now call) XOR encryption was considered unbreakable. Now, kids with crayons in their noses can break it in an afternoon. >this person was clearly a male, and a member of a movement at the time called "for tan" >this is demonstrated by his child pornography collection, which he encrypted with one of the common and laughably weak ciphers of the day
2 years ago
Anonymous
t.knows nothing about math behind modern encryption
That floppy drive is from cooler times with my old Athlon XP computer I sprayed.
Don't mind the state of my case, it's actually decomposing. Soft touch coating, like what they use on the older Thinkpads :/
I don't think I have any optical drives in my house.
Other than like old PlayStation in storage under the floor.
I did have an external one a few years ago when I was doing repairs, just in case something couldn't boot from USB, but I haven't seen anything that can't boot from USB two thousand and twenty two years after joe got cucked by mary
What are in general the better quality drives that are available now? Was thinking of getting 1 or 2 and a stack of blank discs and stashing them in case I need them in the future.
I think the only optical drives that have any kind of community around them are BD drives that can unofficially read UHD disks. So maybe look there. In my experience used DVD drives from the late 00s are more reliable than drives I bought new in the early-mid 2010s :/ I could be unlucky though
I got a TON of ide drives of various specifications since for a long while I basically hoarded e waste. Not a lot of sata drives though. Most of them are Sony since that's what Dell used and took on so many Dell p2 and p3 machines back when they were being scrapped. I guess they are probably better than anything I can buy now. Just wish I had more sata stuff
exactly just look at all the makemkv threads there are a few models that work incredibly well. somewhat hard to find today, especially since some require older firmware to work but very easy to dump all of your media.
bought a LG BU40N and an external USB-SATA case a few months ago, flashed the 1.0 Firmware and makemkv does not have a single issue when ripping just released UHDs for Plex
I just borrow a USB DVD reader from a friend if I need one.
I have done that exactly once in the last 10 years though. Haven't needed to use one. Hell, my PC doesn't even have a drive bay.
My home desktop does have one, but I haven't used it in a long time.
I probably won't add a SATA CD/DVD drive in the next PC I build. In the rare case I have to read them, I can just plug in an external USB drive when needed.
>he doesn't have a floppy drive
ngmi
this actually looks sick ngl
That case looks like a cheap piece of crap compared to pic related
>no cassette drive
do you gays even computer?
I had one back in the 80s. It was my older brothers C64 system. In the early 90s I got an Amiga 1200 to replace the C64 system.
>not an Amiga 500
I feel sad for you bro, you missed the sovl
More soul than 500 ever had, homosexual.
I hyperjumped from a C64 straight to a 386DX, bypassing the 16-bit era completely.
neat, but what did you run on that 386DX? i mean, windows wasn't 32bit "fully" until windows 95, which is way newer than the 386DX
Windows 95 supports the 386DX
Why have these inside my computer when I can just have them outside?
i do. though all i really use it for is burning a sega saturn game on occasion
What's a pc?
I totally forgot about how hard this ad made IQfy sperg out lol
You should have been here when they sperged out when Dell offered Ubuntu on their laptops and a college chick bought one and complained about it on her local news. Weaponised autism indeed.
I'd be pissed as well if I bought a laptop and it had ubuntu installed...
An American woman has told a TV station in Madison, Wisconsin that something called Ubuntu prevented her from joining online classes at her local technical college.
According to WKOW TV, Abbie Schubert recently ordered a Dell laptop, expecting "your classic bread-and-butter computer." But when she unboxed the $1,100 machine that arrived on her doorstep, she didn't find bread and butter. She found Ubuntu.
WKOW TV called Ubuntu "an operating system for your computer similar to Windows that runs off the Linux system."
"It's been a mess," Schubert said. "I regret ordering the computer."
She had never heard of Ubuntu. So she called Dell. Dell said there was still time to replace her Ubuntu. Then Dell told her not to. "The person I was talking to said Ubuntu was great, college students loved it, it was compatible with everything I needed," she explained.
So she kept her Ubuntu, then decided that Ubuntu doesn't always work like Windows. Her Verizon internet wouldn't load. She couldn't install Microsoft Word. And she said without Word and the internet, she couldn't take online classes at Madison Area Technical College.
So she dropped out of the college's fall and spring semesters.
Then Dell said it was too late for bread and butter.
"I'm extremely frustrated," Schubert said. "I wanted to get back to school, but I needed a computer to be able to do that."
Yes, that's fall and spring semesters. At Madison Area Technical College.
That's the one. I remember IQfy collectively losing their shit. It was a good day to be on the board when that broke.
that was in 2009 iirc
she picked ubuntu when she ordered the laptop, despite not knowing what it was
also the college assured her ubuntu would be usable for her coursework, there was absolutely no reason to drop out (not to mention she could worst case bring the laptop to any computer shop to put windows on it)
it's overly dramatised and i don't know why
because that's what journalists do, they overdramatize everything. it's all fun and games when it's a story about ubuntu laptops but they do the same shit with important stories that shape the world as well. journalists are out of fricking control and its a very serious problem.
Exterminate all zoomers
Reminder that the case Apple sells for the iPad Pro in an attempt to make it kinda sorta like a proper computer with a keyboard and trackpad costs more than an entire iPad vanilla. Considering the cost of an ipad pro + keyboard for $100 more you can buy a top spec Macbook air or a 13" MBP, or save $150 and get a base MBA, so I honestly think they've given up on that whole "what's a computer" thing
The dock on my libreboot X200 actually does have a DVD drive.
>he doesn't have a hard drive hot swap in his pc
i can pop in a 4tb hard drive like it was a fricking vhs tape with this bad boy
I have a bluray drive in the first slot and a 4-in-1 SSD hot swap bay in the second slot. I like the hot swap caddy because it means you don't have to open your machine to swap out drive.
yeah man, external drives can suck our dicks. usb 3? nah man, it's all about that SATA
Yes. I dislike external cables.
What's the expected endurance of a SATA connector?
I heard it was some absurdly low number like 100 cycles.
you're thinking of LGA CPU sockets, the limited number of specified insert/removal cycles was a big scandal in like 2006. I think the first 775 mobos and P4s were only rated for 35 insert/remove cycles.
Uh? Why? It's literally pins.
>LGA775
>pins
he's not talking about older PGA478 P4's
My bays have probably had more like 300 and still work just fine.
I ditched these a long time ago
Now this is cash
I have a old PC that has 1 bluray drive, 3 dvd drives and a floppy drive. You do have a dedicated vintage media ingest pc, don't you?
I have a bluray drive. I only really use it to rip PS3 games sometimes.
Mine doesn't seem to read them
>he doesn't irradiate his own EPROMs
I bought my PC in 2016 and put DVD in it out of habit. I literally never once used it since. I'm at the point that even if I know I have something (game, movie, whatever) on a CD I'd just re-download it or buy it on Steam because it's faster and more convenient than looking for a disc and putting it in the drive.
>Only has 2
Anyone use MDiscs? Which drive is good for them, or can I just use any blue-ray recorder?
Probably the only person I knew here in the UK that used Mini Discs was my one friend whose parents and him holiday'd in the US once a year. He brought a Mini Disc player back one year and had a Mini Disc mini hifi system. Nobody else I knew bothered with them and stuck with CDs.
MDisc, not mini disc. MDiscs are as pointless as mini disc though.
MDisc is 25-100GB disc that supposedly is so robust that it can last for 100's of years. Not Mini Discs.
with a data layer that lasts 10,000 years, in theory anyways future historians could recover your data
yeah no, frick future historians, everything I write is encrypted
yo yo to whats happen fr fr fr no cap its ya boiii poohShiesty6969 on da youtube, here in the year 4571 we bought the absolute vintage MDisc from st salvos goodwill and try to recover the contents.. its encrypted yoooooooooooo there must be some good old world government stuff on here, imma upload a clone of this to ARCHIVE DOT ORG so y'all innernet hackers can bust this wide open for me like yo momma fr fr
>everything I write is encrypted
100 years ago, (what we now call) XOR encryption was considered unbreakable. Now, kids with crayons in their noses can break it in an afternoon.
>this person was clearly a male, and a member of a movement at the time called "for tan"
>this is demonstrated by his child pornography collection, which he encrypted with one of the common and laughably weak ciphers of the day
t.knows nothing about math behind modern encryption
I have 2
what's a dvd?
Ask your dad about it.
He doesn't know computer stuff.
That floppy drive is from cooler times with my old Athlon XP computer I sprayed.
Don't mind the state of my case, it's actually decomposing. Soft touch coating, like what they use on the older Thinkpads :/
That's a lot of semen on you're computer.
Yeah it's mega sticky and it sucks. I had to scrape it off around the USB ports because every time I plugged something in i'd get some on my hand
I keep one in my closet, and I can connect it with a USB adapter if I ever actually need it. (I never have)
I don't think I have any optical drives in my house.
Other than like old PlayStation in storage under the floor.
I did have an external one a few years ago when I was doing repairs, just in case something couldn't boot from USB, but I haven't seen anything that can't boot from USB two thousand and twenty two years after joe got cucked by mary
What are in general the better quality drives that are available now? Was thinking of getting 1 or 2 and a stack of blank discs and stashing them in case I need them in the future.
I think the only optical drives that have any kind of community around them are BD drives that can unofficially read UHD disks. So maybe look there. In my experience used DVD drives from the late 00s are more reliable than drives I bought new in the early-mid 2010s :/ I could be unlucky though
I got a TON of ide drives of various specifications since for a long while I basically hoarded e waste. Not a lot of sata drives though. Most of them are Sony since that's what Dell used and took on so many Dell p2 and p3 machines back when they were being scrapped. I guess they are probably better than anything I can buy now. Just wish I had more sata stuff
exactly just look at all the makemkv threads there are a few models that work incredibly well. somewhat hard to find today, especially since some require older firmware to work but very easy to dump all of your media.
bought a LG BU40N and an external USB-SATA case a few months ago, flashed the 1.0 Firmware and makemkv does not have a single issue when ripping just released UHDs for Plex
You are correct. I only have a BD-RE.
I just borrow a USB DVD reader from a friend if I need one.
I have done that exactly once in the last 10 years though. Haven't needed to use one. Hell, my PC doesn't even have a drive bay.
>he doesnt have a dvd drive in his pc
I burn MDISC as a secondary medium when doing cold storage archives.
Where do you get the discs? Can't find them where I live, but I do have a drive.
Computer stores, office supply stores, most consumer electronics stores and some supermarkets
>he doesnt have an external dvd drive
ngmi
My home desktop does have one, but I haven't used it in a long time.
I probably won't add a SATA CD/DVD drive in the next PC I build. In the rare case I have to read them, I can just plug in an external USB drive when needed.
i'm assembling a home server as we speak using my old gaming pc case from 2011 and i'm gonna stick my old optical drive in it together with 6 HDDs.
RIP one of my dvd ports
also RIP the side of my case
jesus christ
Un-RIP it then dummy
too much work