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  • XTL@sopuli.xyztoComic Strips@lemmy.worldHmm, needs linux
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    2 days ago

    Make one drive mount read only in a guaranteed working and current system instead of powering on hundreds of old components along with long dead software, batteries, authentication long forgotten… Not to mention where that supposed charger has gone and will it work or die after years of being abandoned.

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  • Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. It’s only advantage, so far as I have been able to see, is that it spans change. A young person sees the world as a still picture, immutable. An old person has had his nose rubbed in changes and more changes and still more changes so many times that that he knows it is a moving picture, forever changing. He may not like it–probably doesn’t; I don’t–but he knows it’s so, and knowing is the first step in coping with it.

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  • XTL@sopuli.xyztoComic Strips@lemmy.worldHmm, needs linux
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    3 days ago

    If you actually want to find a file on a long abandoned laptop, it may be easier to pull the drive and use an external enclosure to read it with a current system. If you have the hardware. No need for any of the other hardware, rtc, nvram, let alone the os to work.