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We are the elder millenials, who know how to defragment a hard drive.
I'm a bit older than the minimum age to be a millenial and have defragmented many drives. when I was like 6 but I still remember watching that stupid coloured blocks diagram for hours for some 20mb or something
Those were the days
A little older than minimum? Doesn't that make you the young side of smack dab in the exact category? xP
We who have set dip switches or jumpers for an irq address on a sound blaster.
We, the internet’s first squeakers, ruining all of your adult conversations on ICQ, Prodigy, and AOL.
A/S/L?
I'm not even gen X and I've done this! On multiple computers. ... Oh god, I'm a nerd, aren't I?
Yep.
We could whistle into a phone and get a modem to try to talk to us.
What a phreak!
I'm a younger millennial but I know how to do that. Culturally I relate way more with gen z than I do millennials, but man do I feel immense pain when I have to explain to people younger than me how to use technology. I had to explain to one of my younger coworkers how to navigate between folders and different hard drives within Windows the other day and it was more difficult than teaching my mom how to use a smart phone when they first came out. Too young to have had a MySpace but old enough to be everyone's personal IT guy.
You must be 28
I’m guessing 36
The deep magic
The proto-millennials, if you will.
By hand. 😤
Uphill, both ways
At 2400 baud and then someone picks up the phone
Defragmenting takes way too long, especially with a > 6tb drive: just buy a new one and copy the data to it then wipe the old one.
It doesn't do anything you know it just burns out the hard drive.
It did back in the windows 95 through XP days. I 'member when Windows would bog the fuck down if it was too fragmented. I'm pretty sure it was fat32 that was the problem.
Oh yeah, defrag me harder daddy