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Panel 1: “Installing Windows 20 years ago” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
Panel 2: “Installing Linux 20 years ago” screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 3: “Installing Windows today” screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 4: “Installing Linux today” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
windows xp WAS NOT 20 years ago
24 years ago! Don’t forget to schedule your colonoscopy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP
Don’t schedule a colonoscopy unless you have symptoms of a GI disorder, or unexplained weight loss. The evidence does not support non-targeted screening programs.
This is bullshit lmao
How so?
What should be my default “Remember that you’re getting old!” helpful tip now, then?
Check your linkin park cds for disc rot.
Ugh yeah. I’ve been slowly backing up my wife’s, my parents’, and my own music CDs, and while it thankfully hasn’t gotten to many of them, it’s ate enough to be annoying.
Especially because my wife’s collection is mostly very specific performances of classical music and operas, which can make finding rips difficult when it’s not a particularly popular recording.
And the CD-Rs are almost all toast. I’m lucky the old family PC HDDs still have most of the old family photos, so I’ve been able to back them up. Can’t believe we used to think that backing up the pictures to disc would last longer.
:O CDs aren’t for life?!
There goes my distro-surfing phase’s efforts before I switched to pendrives. Wasted a few spools on distros, archived, for a nostalgic visit I may never be able to take. :3
Get your hearing/eyesight tested. Both can gradually get worse without people realising.
The only problem with those is that saying either of those could easily be misinterpreted as me suggesting that they had misheard/misread what I just said. Colonoscopy works because it is a bizarre enough suggestion that the joke will almost certainly land. But I definitely don’t want to encourage unneccessary medical procedures as a casual joke.
Or if you have a family history.
Or if you enjoy the idea…
Or that, and the colonoscopy is indicated by genetic testing.
Damn, I’ll have to look into that.
Your healthcare providers are perversely incentivised to recommend scoping because it’s an easy money maker, but for most people the discovery and removal of benign polyps is not worth the risks that come with an invasive procedure (IV stab to give sedation and pain relief, over sedation affecting tasks requiring concentration, complications due to the procedure itself).