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Gestrid, to comicstrips in Sleeping position

Sitting in a bed with lots of pillows and blankets to prop me up. I was basically in a sitting position.

Gestrid, to memes in Presidential fitness test

The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.

Gestrid, to comicstrips in Sleeping position

I had jaw surgery a few years back, and I had to adjust to sleeping sitting up (believe me, the surgery made me tired enough to be able to do that) for several weeks because I couldn’t risk messing up my jaw while it healed.

Gestrid, (edited ) to lemmyshitpost in Does Lemmy skew old enough for this one?

Mister Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

I was a kid when I first saw that commercial, and it was already old by then.

Gestrid, to memes in I love those path

No, 2 is more “why are they buying this many”, and 3 is more “why would this person want to figure out some random thing that popped into their head about this”.

Gestrid, (edited ) to memes in I love those path

I said a thriving community. There hasn’t been a post there in three months.

Gestrid, to privacy in This is how I KNOW it works as intended

It might be that second one. I was thinking it was m.reddit.com.

Gestrid, to memes in I love those path

There are three problems I had with word problems in school. Not every problem applied to every word problem.

  1. “This is way too vague.”
  2. “Why would someone buy 35 apples and 23 oranges?”
  3. “Why would the person in the problem want to try to figure this problem out? It’s completely unrelated to what they were doing.”

I get the point was for us to be able to convert information given in a text format into something we can actually solve, but the word problems were usually situations you’d never realistically find yourself in in real life.

Gestrid, to memes in I love those path

Now, I’m wondering if we have a thriving Desire Paths (that’s what these paths are called) community somewhere on here.

Gestrid, to privacy in This is how I KNOW it works as intended

Huh. Must be leftover from the early days of the mobile Internet. Kinda like Reddit’s old mobile site (which now just redirects to Reddit’s current site).

Gestrid, to comicstrips in Making Friends 101

I understood that reference.

And now I suddenly feel old.

Gestrid, to comicstrips in Face the consequences - Work Chronicles

over most tech CEOs.

Let’s not leave the other CEOs out of this.

Gestrid, to memes in Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years

it’s why you can’t name files certain names such as CON

To expand on this: The reason you can’t name files CON, etc., is because of a program from the 1960s called Peripheral Interchange Program (PIP), a program used in Digital Equipment Corporation’s computers. The overall OS that PIP was part of was called CP/M.

DOS, which came out in the 80s and was made for IBM computers, was modeled after CP/M, and it kept and expanded the capabilities of PIP.

Then Microsoft came along and created a modified version of DOS called MS-DOS which IBM started using.

Eventually, Microsoft created Windows 95, merging two initially separate products: MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Microsoft left in the code for handling CON, etc., but they hadn’t put in any limitations for filenames, which caused some bugs. So, from the next version of Windows onward, they disallowed the ability for anything to name a folder or file “CON”, among other related things.

So the reason you can’t name a file or folder “CON” is because of a 60-year-old file-copying program nobody uses anymore.

Gestrid, to memes in Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years

Yes, actually.

Well, it’s more like they update the old stuff and still add new stuff on top of it. That way, generally speaking, Windows can remain compatible with older programs.

Gestrid, to memes in Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years

And I just really have no idea how they have made stuff like resetting networking/connection issues worse over time.

While I generally agree with your comment, they did add an option (don’t know how long it’s been there) where you can right-click on the Internet icon, click the troubleshooter, and there’s a button immediately right there in the troubleshooter to reset the adapter.

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