- oatmilkmaid ( @oatmilkmaid@possumpat.io ) English42•11 months ago
This was me when my dad would use limewire, break the family PC, and blame me because I was playing “those video games”.
- Bonehead ( @Bonehead@kbin.social ) 34•11 months ago
This is just it. I used limewire for years and never got a virus. I was also not stupid enough to download “Brittany.Spears.Nude.Totally.Legit.Movie.avi.exe”. It amazes me how completely blind some people are.
- darvocet ( @darvocet@infosec.pub ) 29•11 months ago
Why is the download not starting when I click on your link? Can you DM me the video?
- buwho ( @buwho@lemmy.ml ) English8•11 months ago
I was like 11 and had no idea wth i was doing. but i sure downloaded a lot of stuff from Limewire…“why the hell is the computer so slow all of a sudden?!”
- 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English37•11 months ago
Me: using safe browsing practices and only downloading from trusted sources
My Mom: downloading every toolbar in existence
My Mom: “You broke the computer!”
- Jim ( @JimmyDean@lemm.ee ) English30•11 months ago
Early pirating was like playing the lottery.
Will I get the good version of a song or a weird remix?
Will the media play or be some unrecognized format?
What’s making my pc run so slow?
- BlueSquid0741 ( @BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ) English22•11 months ago
Or in the 90s, finding the Windows directory, “there’s a lot of stuff in here, I bet I can free up a lot of space”
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English8•11 months ago
system32.exe? WTF I dont need 32 of them. I just need one.
- Nyla Smokeyface ( @Nyla_Smokeyface@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months ago
This made me feel pain
- happyhippo ( @happyhippo@feddit.it ) English17•11 months ago
This hurts. I still remember when I rendered our first family PC unbootable. It was a Pentium II 266 with a tiny 3GB HDD running Windows 98, and apparently some sub folder of system32 seemed a good place to start doing some clean up to win back some extra space.
Turns out, it wasn’t.
Now turns have tabled and I’m the stereotypical IT professional who helps out fixing PCs/smartphones
- platysalty ( @platysalty@kbin.social ) 11•11 months ago
And now I fix all the home PCs.
- Kratos ( @Kratos@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English9•11 months ago
Oh god, this was me back when I was a kid (thankfully it was never permanently ruined). I also hid all my secret downloads in system32 so nobody would find them.
- DogMuffins ( @DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•11 months ago
Oh man. Fucking around with config.bat having NFI what it did.
- danafest ( @danafest@lemm.ee ) English7•11 months ago
This hits young me learning linux and dual booting straight in the feels. I can’t even begin to count the amount of times I totally wrecked the family computer and had to reinstall windows from scratch.
- p000l ( @p000l@lemmy.sdf.org ) English5•11 months ago
Limewire, Kazaa, Audiogalaxy and eDonkey! The first two were so risky!
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English4•11 months ago
Thats my super power, there was no family PC. It was my PC.
- Nyla Smokeyface ( @Nyla_Smokeyface@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months ago
rip
- sarcasticsunrise ( @sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.ml ) English3•11 months ago
The amount of money I wasted using printer ink for “educational jpgs” when I had the house to myself… I’m so sorry, my parents (90’s dinosaur)