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All my doubters become routers when I admin the network of success

"Call the sysadmin, the server's down again" *girl wearing Xenia t-shirt appears from the shadows* "I'm not cis, and don't call him admin"

yodaprod

dietspam16

foone

Hi, Foone here, I'm a retrocomputer educator! I'm here to explain the real reason this laptop is like this.

So this is the Panasonic PRONOTE PD CF-62, it's a Pentium 133mhz running Windows 95, released in August 1996. Panasonic did this sort of trick more than once, they did a similar thing with an under-keyboard CD-ROM drive in the PD CF-41, from 1995.

This one is so fancy because that's not just a self-loading under-keyboard laptop CD-ROM drive, it's a HYBRID PD/CD-ROM self-loading under-keyboard laptop drive! It has to be this complex because it takes PD discs (which are the size of caddies) and caddyless CD-ROMs!

So what's PD discs?

They're an optical format by Panasonic, the Phase-change Dual (or Phase-change Disc). They're from 1996, store as much as CD, but are rewritable... much like the later CD-RWs which used basically the same technology, just in a slightly different format. Unlike CD-RWs (which you had to burn (usually), they acted like a hard drive, fully rewritable at any point. That's why the disc is hard-sectored, which you can see through the shutter gap. Those vertical lines indicate where sectors start and end.

So yeah, this laptop has a complex drive that can take both types of discs, and the whole thing folds under the keyboard. Fucking wild.

But the root reason, of course, is that they did this because it's a cool design, and they wanted to do that. Why did they think this was cool, why did they want to do this?

Pervert reasons.

Next question!

debian-official

Here's the full set

original seems to be from reddit sadly

debian-official

girl help my shitpost is getting construed as a nuanced political take

charl0ttan

charlotte my tummy hurts how do i fix this :<

SWITCH TO LINUX

moss-byte

python3-official

Original on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/1tdw5sx/gnome_vs_kde/

thenikorelm

Gay ass computer

pipewire-official

>watching documentary in english class

>teacher is a linux user

>documentary starts

>no sound

arch-linux-official

isnt it your job to ensure theres sound

hexandersblog

Idk about you but seeing most of the Linux communities I visit have rainbows or pride flags in their icons had to have been the happiest feeling ever.

It's such a small thing but it immediately told me I'd fit in with the people there and that I could be myself if I join.

akerensumi-is-canon

nine-hyacinth

i hate astronomers so much.

nine-hyacinth

this is getting ridiculous. the file extension for this cannot be .sex it just cannot be. what the fuck SExtractor. astronomers aren't real.

nine-hyacinth

to extract the parameters you run SEX -DP ????????? this cannot be real.

pipewire-official

this was literally me when people told me about lisp programming like wtf do you mean what the hell is a sexpr

vi-official

it's a sex pull request

iliketrains1273

I'm sure it's a good idea for me, someone who has never used linux before, to think of using an Arch-based distro as my first

Being Arch based doesn't inherently make a distro less beginner friendly! Configuring vanilla Arch might be difficult, but CachyOS, Manjaro, EndeavourOS, Garuda, just to mention a few, are all very user friendly. And not to mention how many people are getting their very first taste of Linux through the Arch based SteamOS on the Steamdeck.

#asks #anon #linuxblr