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Oh My Holy God Really

yes, whoever had this before me was just. using haiku. as a daily driver. there's just Files on here. i know it's bad of me to poke through their stuff instead of wiping the disk right away but i genuinely expected it to be absolutely bone stock and did not expect there to be files. i have never heard of anyone actually using haiku. kind of shaken by this news
oh my god they didn't even wipe the disk before installing the recovery partition is still here what Type of Guy owned this he clearly wasn't a nerd did someone tell their dad to install haiku we need to start a manhunt

gravis again @cathoderaydude5/10/2023, 6:31 PM

hahahahhahahaha

gravis again @cathoderaydude5/10/2023, 6:59 PM

#computers

Yaodema @yaodema5/10/2023, 7:26 PM

the missing capslock key really brings this shot together

Irenes (many)@ireneista5/10/2023, 7:28 PM

awww, that's so sweet! the ancient, cursed computer escaped the trash bin and is roaming free in the wild with its family, where it belongs

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Petra @petra5/10/2023, 12:14 AM

Trash computer; working battery??

Plum @plumpan5/10/2023, 12:15 AM

NOoooooooooooooooooooooooo

FavoritoHJS @FavoritoHJS5/10/2023, 1:50 AM

netbook so bad it can't even go in the bin correctly

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Jessica @ticky5/10/2023, 3:56 AM

oh my GOD

Weasel Hills Golf & C.C. (hole 19)@wildweasel5/10/2023, 4:03 AM

i should install haiku on something, now that i think of it

@Janet5/10/2023, 7:44 AM

i should also install haiku on something... and i have the same eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy in my drawer with working battery (because i got a new one [bc i wanted to put emulators on it and let LO1 play with it, but it's more usefull as a large heavy wedge in my drawer])

on second look: my eeepy has a different keyboard, proper laptop keykaps... on seconed thought: i guess i would rather install 9front on it than haiku...

FavoritoHJS @FavoritoHJS5/10/2023, 4:23 AM

not another eeEEEeeEEEEEe PeeÈe CcceeeeeEEEE

@lexi5/10/2023, 7:32 PM

hey i have one of those lying around too! i think it still has ubuntu 12.04ish installed lol

invertigo hayfever @the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi5/10/2023, 11:36 PM

Hey my old laptop hasn't had a working battery in the last probably 8 years at least but I've been using it since like this past year

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FavoritoHJS @FavoritoHJS5/10/2023, 4:26 AM

I mean, it could have been a lazy nerd... or a nerd's lost computer

Pendell @pendell5/10/2023, 4:41 AM

I feel like I've done that at least Once, like I installed a clean copy of Windows 7 but left the recovery partition intact in case there was something Special™ about that particular version of Windows 7 that I simply wouldn't be able to get working right on a clean install

Μάρκος @postgarf5/10/2023, 5:00 AM

HAIKU DAILY DRIVERS RISE UP

walking mirage @atomicthumbs5/10/2023, 5:54 AM

i didn't know haiku users were real

@darryl @darryl5/10/2023, 11:29 AM

Ok but what’s the latest Modified date on the files? How recently was this thing in use???

gravis again @cathoderaydude5/10/2023, 6:24 PM

2019!!!!!!!!

@darryl @darryl5/10/2023, 6:41 PM

Absolutely amazing. Unironic respect to whoever squeezed way more useful life out of that machine than anyone could have reasonably expected.

qim @queerinmech5/10/2023, 6:05 PM

while i do not have haiku on bare metal for a good while i did daily drive it in a vm for everything that was not gaming

maybe i will see if it will run on my own old eepc!

Thomas Winwood @ketsuban5/10/2023, 6:19 PM

I am in the unenviable position of being a Haiku fan with not enough general-purpose computers surrounding me that I can justify installing Haiku on one of them.

The Mac mini is currently in reserve until I buy an SSD and summon the nerve to gut the thing to install it, at which point I will have to decide between using sources and methods to install Ventura or installing some strain of Linux, but Haiku fails as a daily driver for me due to the lack of Discord.
The PC is for games, and therefore runs Windows.

amaris meta (the person) @meta5/21/2023, 6:04 PM

assuming gender is bad but assuming no usb boot drive is awful. maybe they were running an "it works" on it, and keeping dumps in an automounted directory and backups in a partial mirror? the internal os would be for low battery usage writing and emails.

of course, i did that, until i couldn't keep it up as i burned out one usb trying to optimise minecraft and secondlife memory usage, and corrupted another usb trying to mount it on some ntfs-centric os (never touched the stuff since).

my actual guess though, is your eeepc was rejected once an update overwrote the broadcom configuration. again.

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@darryl @darryl5/10/2023, 6:40 PM

...is this how the recovery partition works???

gravis again @cathoderaydude5/10/2023, 6:41 PM

Yes It Is

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easily manipulated simpleton @bigsincommitter5/10/2023, 7:08 PM

the description on this photo truly brings me joy. so peaceful

@aune5/10/2023, 7:20 PM

symantec ghost

now that's a name i've not heard in a very long time

Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy @pervocracy5/10/2023, 7:49 PM

humanely released to a natural habitat 🥰

@rotopenguin5/10/2023, 8:07 PM

F̶r̶e̶e̶ a̶s̶ i̶n̶ f̶r̶e̶e̶d̶o̶m̶.
F̶r̶e̶e̶ a̶s̶ i̶n̶ b̶e̶e̶r̶.
Free as in released into the wild.

Vesta @vestavix5/22/2023, 7:58 AM

oh my god the second picture unlocked a memory in my brain like a post-hypnotic trigger. i have one of those floating around among my possessions somewhere, last used circa 2013 at the absolute latest

also the last picture is very sweet