this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2025
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I guess now we finally know why Babbage never finished building the Analytical Engine.

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I've started defaulting to just saying "yes" with my family and pretending to fix it. I'm actually thankful for the laptop revolution, cause I can just say "it's fucked, buy a new one."

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Once you've got the new one, I'll take your old one and dispose of it appropriately...

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 points 18 hours ago

I have like a dozen old laptops with various flavors of Linux on them because of this. Can't give them away cause apparently Linux is a scary word in this part of the country.