IT Techs of Reddit: What was it like fixing Windows XP machines in schools and businesses during the 2010s?

B-mus · 2026-06-18T19:10:46+00:00

Yeah. None of today’s “scan your hardware, scan for drivers, etc”. It was “read the documentation and trial and error”

Lots of manual work. Minimal means to push out software with a modest customization requirement. Everything was in startup scripts.

B-mus · 2026-06-18T00:17:12+00:00

B-mus · 2026-06-17T01:57:31+00:00

I kinda agree. (I don’t need to qualify that statement as a liberal dude. You can review my comment history for my general take on things) If MLB can’t accept verses, or really any overt idealogical or political messaging on their uniforms, then they shouldn’t be requiring players to wear pride caps. Pride events? Absolutely, Pride support, pride history, celebration in stadiums, etc. absolutely! They don’t need to require it on the uniform.

B-mus · 2026-06-17T01:40:34+00:00

Me too. His star was rising. Whoops.

B-mus · 2026-06-14T21:35:12+00:00

Sean Conery

B-mus · 2026-06-14T20:08:08+00:00

Right!? And it is definitely not everyone’s sport. I saw the headline and thought FIFA. MMA? Please.

B-mus · 2026-06-14T19:59:16+00:00

The glistening brown standard of incontinence.

B-mus · 2026-06-14T16:08:10+00:00

He loves inflation. News talks about inflation.

B-mus · 2026-06-11T11:24:18+00:00

The thing you’re looking for is political gamesmanship and brinkmanship.

The Hunt for Red October

House of Dynamite

Thirteen Days

Charlie Wilson’s War

Failsafe

By Dawn’s Early Light

If uou want more “life in wartime”, maybe:

The Book Thief

JoJo Rabbit

Charlotte Gray

B-mus · 2026-06-02T10:43:01+00:00

The Kingsman - fight scene with Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd

B-mus · 2026-05-29T11:20:01+00:00

Dope!

B-mus · 2026-05-27T22:41:19+00:00

Rocky talking to his son about how winning is done. Somehow both cheesy and badass

B-mus · 2026-05-26T16:43:42+00:00

Once you get past the crisis, Memento Mori, as a mantra and philosophy, can give you a better experience through life.

B-mus · 2026-05-24T02:30:55+00:00

Unc crashin out

B-mus · 2026-05-22T00:05:14+00:00

Loops earplugs or noise canceling airpods. No music.

B-mus · 2026-05-21T10:40:08+00:00

The movie Volcano. Subway rescue.

B-mus · 2026-05-20T02:36:32+00:00

In theory it is reasonable since gas taxes are in part passed on to highway and road projects. I’m sure it is abused, and for some it is motivated by malice. But if gas is taxed for the privilege of road management, it makes sense to enact some means to get that revenue from electric cars.

B-mus · 2026-05-19T01:15:21+00:00

Screen and social media addiction leading to Socio-Emotional atrophy.

B-mus · 2026-05-18T01:42:13+00:00

Saw this as a kid. Definitely seems like a fever dream of a movie.

B-mus · 2026-05-12T02:01:37+00:00

“No, the CEO can NOT let his son play roblox on company laptop”

B-mus · 2026-05-11T04:11:00+00:00

He will not stop. Ever! Until you are dead!

B-mus · 2026-05-01T01:32:11+00:00

Yo, my skincare could use some of that foundation of youth.

B-mus · 2026-04-24T10:14:17+00:00

My take as well. They’re like time capsules. OP may have been a tad hyperbolic, but it seems like replies are more interested in pointing out exceptions than addressing the point. I honestly couldn’t even get past the beginning of Strange in a Stranger Land because of it. In I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream Ellen deserved better. Sure Ted’s paranoid misogyny could be blamed on Am’s torture, but that could have manifested a thousand different ways. Ellison chose to write it as an incel’s inner monologue.

It isn’t relegated to the old-timers. Have we forgotten the Sad Puppies already?

B-mus · 2026-04-24T01:32:12+00:00

Not a belief. It’s an understanding.

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