No one's commenting about how golden your post title is, so I wanted to.
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Thank you, I was wondering if it would land.
Don't worry, some of us connected the dots
Wheels down confirmed, Chore Daddy, you are on deck
Copy that.
Title was GOLD
I was once hired to fix a computer. I told them that the fix would just be a simple reformat, and asked if they wanted me to back up any files.
they said no, they had backed everything up already. I asked if they wanted to take one last look through the system to make sure. They got huffy and told me to just take care of it already.
So I did.
then they asked me to restore their files.
it was a CD-R of hundreds of desktop links to programs, and even photos. no actual data. just links.
They were not happy when I explained it to them.
i can totally believe the story in Op's picture to be one that actually happened.
Reminds me of my grandfather who thought the relative location of icons on the desktop would be reflected in the file manager. It was quite a struggle to explain to them that wasn't one of the sorting options.
Sounds sensible to be honest. If you can rearrange icons on the desktop, and then you open the desktop folder, surely they should be arranged the same way unless chosen otherwise.
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Cybercrime isn't what it used to be.
100 games and only 37KB? Jackpot!
Thank you… I was having trouble tracking here and this gave me everything I needed. Finally laughed at the original meme.
Your work here is done.
Game shortcuts? Like what windows calls symlinks, you copy them to your USB drive and then they don’t work when you get home?
Yup, that's the joke
Didn't catch that.
That's me. I know what shortcuts are too well and didn't get that the joke was the OP didn't.
Yeah, desktop shortcuts is what they're saying. So yes. The joke is the fact that the kid copies all the games desktop shortcuts onto their USB stick thinking they just stole all these games.
Shortcuts and symlinks are 2 technically different things. Windows does have symlinks too.
Yeah, they're more like .desktop files.
Kids be stupid
The perfect crime.
Holy shit, I can still laugh!
The birth of a super villain, I'm quite sure Elon musk started like this
What's a "cyber cafe," grandpa? Is it a sex thing?
Can we browse the intewwebz at the cybercafe?
Mom: no, we have internet at home
internet at home:
Mom was wise beyond words. She knew the internet would turn to trash and was trying to save humanity.
woooow, that nostalgia rush
See the PC cases in the background? That's still the case I use to this day. It's my fifth PC in it. I don't know why I should change a case.
Dont. Its a hunk of metal to pretect the internal, standardized parts. As long as ATX doesnt change, im keeping my case
This reminds me of how a buddy of mine used to rename his desktop files from like "Carmaggedon demo" to remove the "demo" because it made him feel rich.
I used to do this with floppy disks!
I used to do it with reams of dot matrix printed BASIC.
i used to have this case on my computer!
it is still laying around somewhere
we used to burn installers to CDs and pass them around computer class when the teacher wasn't looking
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Surely if copy paste didn't work, the "send to" button will lol
omfg I remember laughing at classmates that did this way back in the era of knights and magic
God tier title OP
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