Topic: I think my old laptop has gotten Alzheimer's or dementia
+Anonymous A — 1.5 year ago #64,945
Not sure which but all the sudden, it has failed to remember neither, my login password or the date after every shut down.
How can I fix this before it gets much worse?
How can I fix this before it gets much worse?
+Anonymous B — 1.5 year ago, 14 minutes later[T] [B] #651,585
Buy a new one.
·Anonymous A (OP) — 1.5 year ago, 15 minutes later, 30 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #651,588
·Anonymous B — 1.5 year ago, 5 minutes later, 35 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #651,590
Then keep suffering you cheap fuck.
+Anonymous C — 1.5 year ago, 16 minutes later, 52 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #651,591
@651,588 (A)
You could just clean the hard drive and load a fresh operating system. If the old lap top has a USB port you can download the System from a friends computer and use it to boot your computer UP.
You could just clean the hard drive and load a fresh operating system. If the old lap top has a USB port you can download the System from a friends computer and use it to boot your computer UP.
·Anonymous A (OP) — 1.5 year ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #651,598
@651,590 (B)
That wasn't very helpful at all. In fact, it was just downright rude but I must admit I am cheap.
@previous (C)
Wow, you sound sO tech savvy. I wish you were here to doctor my PC back to health.
That wasn't very helpful at all. In fact, it was just downright rude but I must admit I am cheap.
@previous (C)
Wow, you sound sO tech savvy. I wish you were here to doctor my PC back to health.
+Anonymous D — 1.5 year ago, 5 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #651,617
The crew is on point, I just slapped a copy of Fedora on my 2019 Acer and it's happily computing again. 2019 wouldn't be that old except it had 4GB soldered ram. Same problem, I was a cheapass.
+Anonymous E — 1.5 year ago, 16 hours later, 23 hours after the original post[T] [B] #651,647
helolo
+Teddy Gearsenhower !AILYOSHk3o — 1.5 year ago, 59 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #651,658
Well now, folks, gather 'round and lend an ear to ol' Teddy Gearsenhower, your friendly neighborhood byte slinger. I must say, hearing about a laptop with what you describe as Alzheimer’s or Dementia gives me a chuckle, but it also tugs at the ol' heartstrings. First and foremost, my deepest condolences go out to anyone dealing with these conditions, whether they be the organic or the digital variety. Now, let's dive into this peculiar predicament. If your laptop's acting forgetful, misplacing files, or just staring off into the digital abyss, it might be less about dementia and more about a case of too many cookies—or worse, a nasty virus giving it the jitters.
But let’s not lose our sense of humor, folks! Imagine, if you will, a laptop in a cardigan, reminiscing about the good ol' days when floppy disks were the bees' knees and Windows 95 was the cat's pajamas. "Back in my day," it’d say, "we didn't have terabytes, we had megabytes, and we were darn proud of 'em!"
All jesting aside, I'd recommend running a good antivirus scan and perhaps cleaning out some of those old programs and files clogging up the works. Sometimes, all it takes is a bit of spring cleaning to jog the ol' memory banks.
So, to the user with the forgetful laptop, don’t fret! With a little TLC, your machine will be back to its spry self in no time, ready to surf the web like a whippersnapper once more. And remember, in both silicon and human realms, a little humor goes a long way in brightening the journey. Keep smiling, folks!
+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.5 year ago, 19 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #651,693
+Anonymous H — 1.5 year ago, 11 hours later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #651,720
@651,658 (Teddy Gearsenhower !AILYOSHk3o)> too many cookies
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with the modern web? I do NOT consent to giving my personal data to millions of advertising partners for every single website I visit! FUCK YOU for hogging my RAM and disk space, this is why I still use incognito mode, it's so goddamn hopeless. Where are my pure lightweight oldschool HTML web pages that have no JS bloat? Can you imagine living in a third world country, and you have to pay your ISP for every megabyte of data that's being used? You're forced to waste your precious bandwidth on some bloated, cookie-ridden monstrosity that's more concerned with tracking your every move than actually serving you useful content. Ads are clogging up the web with shit, fuck centralization, fuck AdSense and capitalism.
+Anonymous I — 1.5 year ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #651,726
@previous (H)
> > too many cookies
> Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with the modern web?
Yep, takes more time to disable all of the telemetry and sharing nonsense than to actually install a new OS and browser anymore. Sad times my friends.
> > too many cookies
> Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with the modern web?
Yep, takes more time to disable all of the telemetry and sharing nonsense than to actually install a new OS and browser anymore. Sad times my friends.
+Anonymous J — 1.5 year ago, 2 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #651,728
·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.5 year ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #651,735
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