Men in their 20s, 30s, and 40s—runners, CrossFitters, lifelong nonsmokers—were streaming through her door at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. They all appeared lively and strong—yet there they were, battling colorectal cancers

Well there’s your problem. Don’t run, drink beer with friends, smoke socially and you’d happily get to retirement! 🤭

Eat your free soup.

about her cup holder one time and yes she was talking about the cd drive.

This shit used to happen often enough that we joked calling optical drives “cupholders!”

Pls do.

Here’s one that came with “memory issues:”

The chips were visibly desoldered from the DIMM even before taking it out.

Was a long time ago but I think the push pins weren’t broken so they did reattach well enough for it to get the customer some more mileage out of it. After clean and repaste of course.

The little fan on the videocard is also disconnected.

That’s how you turn on the quiet mode of the GPU.

Pretty sure it’s a P4 on a 478. 423 is significantly larger and the cooler retenrion clip goes directly on the socket. This has a plastic bracket that the cooler is attached to, but the plastic bracket itself has fallen off the board. You can see it on the cooler itself in the other photo. 😄

It’s a 478, some Pentium 4.

Yup. It’s a potato. Taken with a Nokia E51.

Lol, unlikely. Either XP or 7. Don’t recall exactly.

I think they were a clueless computer user so I just told them what the problem was and how we fixed it went over their head. But we laughed good with my colleague. Falling coolers were common on Intel boards at the time when the retention brackets ware hooked with push-pins. Note this is the factory installed bracket on the board that’s fallen. 😄 It’s not a poorly installed cooler.

Reminds of this one from around the same period:

Oh Beryl jogs a memory too! There was also Compiz Fusion.

No, I’ve been GNOME peasant since Ubuntu switched to it from Unity. Now also using it on Debian.

I’m using Tailscale plus the built-in RDP in GNOME with the Remmina client.

Compiz intensifies

I feel bad for you so I gave you an upvote. Here’s a hug too: 🤗

Yeah, I don’t understand why they spent such effort to reply to the toaster. This was more shocking to me than the toaster’s behaviour.

When one realizes that anything useful a firm does is just a coincidence of it making profit. 💢

Does not pass the smell test. I’m with Chris Hedges on this one.