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Laptops have soul (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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tlirsgender:

Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal.
A laptop is a living creature. It has weight to it. A laptop breathes and produces body heat. And it wants to die badly. Mobile phones are not sentient like that & that's why they don't experience mental illness. A phone problem is like "out of storage :(" or "charging port broke". Laptops will cough weakly as they fade in and out of consciousness.
You will hold a laptop in your arms and it's like "I can't feel my legs". And you tell it girl you never had any.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I only recently sent my old as fuck Windows Xp laptop that didn't hold a charge anymore and had to be plugged in just to be turned on off to a recycler. I still worked. Probably coulda slapped a new battery in it if I could have found one. I used to use it for WarDriving back in the very early days of wifi when everything was either just open or using an easily broken encryption method. Shit made me feel like one of those heist movie hackers even though all I was doing was mapping where I could get free internet. 😎

[–] zout@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

I still have a working XP laptop from 2004. I use it to play music at parties in my man cave, though since I added a bluetooth reciever to the installation it hardly gets used anymore. It works great though, as long as you don't go on the internet.