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A study on tech literacy (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, I managed to fuck up my Windows 95 just by installing a couple of games. God knows how that happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

I remember!

My family just got a new computer; running the brand new Win95. It was so fancy, I can't remember what game it was, but I couldn't get the sound to work, so I tried reinstalling the sound drivers....

I managed to completely nuke our 2 day old PC. Had to get a friend of my stepdad to come and fix it...basically reinstall Windows. I have no idea what I did, but I did learn from that point, you can basically fix anything not hardware related given a bit of time and knowledge.

And that was my origin story, been using Linux full time since 2007, and dabbled for a few years before that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"Reinstall windows" was such a common solution, I still have my windows 95 and my windows XP key memorized (and no, not the FCKGW one)

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

And it always took so fucking long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Same, but I did not mess with the drivers. Learnt quickly how to format and reinstall after the first visit from the "computer guy".