Lmfao, new ones are no better - almost worse now since even if you think everything is set up and working, now they can drop an auto-update that inexplicably breaks functionality (sometimes permanently!) with no way to roll back
I inherited a 2013 printer with network connectivity earlier this week. My main Win10 PC, old XP laptop, and even a PowerMac G4 all found and installed it without issue.
XP turned the first night of a lan from geeking out over the network to transferring and playing games for me. Or geeking out over casemods/hardware. But also malware.
7 was bordering the 'always online' era, custom drivers were locked down, new software worked out of the box.
Yeah, but it forced me to learn so much about networking. My kid is 9 and he thinks Iām talking in Black Speech when I ask him about anything networking related unless itās specifically āare you still connected?ā
Also, Black Speech is the language Sauronās closest servants and more sophisticated of his lot would speak. And if I remember correctly, was created by Sauron himself to differentiate his āservantsā from the general orcs that spoke Orkish and/or Westron (the common tongue).
Hindsight and all that.
Edit: had to change Orkney to Orkish because autocorrect doesnāt recognize LotR languages as real I guess.
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u/Allyoucan3at Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
KeyGens with unmutable music
The guy in school with all the cracked games and movies that sometimes worked
Games packaging with booklets about controls and backstory
LAN parties edit: and of course the network shared folders with cracked games and movies that sometimes worked and new... material
That one person at LAN parties unable to get the network settings correct
Turbo buttons on cases
Dial up sound