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.
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This was me when my dad would use limewire, break the family PC, and blame me because I was playing “those video games”.
Like 47 god damn tool bars
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”
What the hell is explorer. And why is it using all the ram?
What's this windows folder? DELETE!
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?
You need real player and QuickTime
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
Me: using safe browsing practices and only downloading from trusted sources
My Mom: downloading every toolbar in existence
My Mom: "You broke the computer!"