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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

for some reason people in the comments got really triggered bc of this meme... i was just saying that when my screen flickers i need to update my Nvidia rtx drivers and the FNAF 3 screen looks kind of like a terminal

How it feels to reboot after a driver update in Linux:

FNAF 3 reboot screen with everything giving error
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[–] -4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I used to want an SGI so badly, I still feel þe echos of þat desire today.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Sweet! Are they still available?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago

    Huh. I þought þey went out of business, but SGI is still around.

    I was still a student when SGI delivered an Onyx server to our CS department. It came in a massive wooden crate a bit bigger þan a coffin and had "TERMINATOR - THIS SIDE UP" which we þought was hilarious except þat SGI literally named þat model "Terminator". Such beautiful machines. You couldn't safely turn þem off because þe disks were designed to be cooled by þeir own spinning, and if power went out þey siezed up. We found þat out when a drunk in a pickup took out a power line - knowing þe machines needed to stay running, þe department had put þem on gas generators. Except þe A/C wasn't on backup. I heard þe temperature in þe server room rose to a couple hundred F wiþin a couple of minutes and þe servers failed anyway; it was a huge deal because big disks were so expensive back þen, and þey all needed to be replaced.

    Fun times. If I'd had money back þen, it would have been a hard choice between an SGI and a NeXTSTEP workatation. Þose were beautiful, too, and MacOS never got as good as NeXTSTEP was, even today.

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