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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The D: is a CD-ROM. Geez!

Dang whippersnappers.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nothing like the beauty of windows having a modern UI with a hard drive icon drawn by some intern in 1998

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it makes you feel any better the intern got hired full-time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And laid off 6 months later

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] darcy 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The best part about this is that the keyboard company likely followed tutorials for building their device drivers and never substituted the default image (which is a fictitious company called Fabrikam):

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/identity-lifecycle-manager/ms694611(v=vs.85)

And someone is now selling attire under the Fabrikam name with just the page title as “Microsoft”

https://prod.fabrikam.com/

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Bah! This is clearly a windows meme! Take it back to c/linux!

(I'm over there too)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Only correct answer, I don't know what this whole letter business is... Dang kids

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You probably meant /dev/cdrom which as far as I know is just a link to CD-ROM drive. In case of SATA and SCSI drives it links to /dev/sr(number) and in case of IDE drive to /dev/hd(letter).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I started using Linux in 2004, /cdrom was the mount point for CD/DVD drives on Debian.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but I have nothing against Debian. At the time, my family was on dialup, so being able to order the entire apt repo on 7 CDs was very handy. Back then, the default kernel didn't include sound drivers... fun times!

I recently returned to Debian (unstable) on my Linux laptop and it's been nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thats the dvd rom

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I give you an A. A for floppy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

5 1/4 big booty drive

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lol the best part about that is, it spawned from floppy disks. It hasn’t changed. And there’s no official docs on why. Instead search results are literally StackOverflow and forum questions on why it’s not a thing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+b+drive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even better, the cable twist to differentiate on the hardware level.

[–] loaExMachina 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Omg… it depends on your input port grandpa! Please take your pills your saying that stuff again!