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[-] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 103 points 2 years ago

The D: is a CD-ROM. Geez!

Dang whippersnappers.

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 93 points 2 years ago
[-] kautau@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago

Nothing like the beauty of windows having a modern UI with a hard drive icon drawn by some intern in 1998

[-] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

If it makes you feel any better the intern got hired full-time.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 5 points 2 years ago

And laid off 6 months later

[-] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The best part about this is that the keyboard company likely followed tutorials for building their device drivers and never substituted the default image (which is a fictitious company called Fabrikam):

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/identity-lifecycle-manager/ms694611(v=vs.85)

And someone is now selling attire under the Fabrikam name with just the page title as “Microsoft”

https://prod.fabrikam.com/

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 2 years ago
[-] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Bah! This is clearly a windows meme! Take it back to c/linux!

(I'm over there too)

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

Only correct answer, I don't know what this whole letter business is... Dang kids

[-] bfg9k@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago
[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 years ago

You probably meant /dev/cdrom which as far as I know is just a link to CD-ROM drive. In case of SATA and SCSI drives it links to /dev/sr(number) and in case of IDE drive to /dev/hd(letter).

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

When I started using Linux in 2004, /cdrom was the mount point for CD/DVD drives on Debian.

[-] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago
[-] danielton@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but I have nothing against Debian. At the time, my family was on dialup, so being able to order the entire apt repo on 7 CDs was very handy. Back then, the default kernel didn't include sound drivers... fun times!

I recently returned to Debian (unstable) on my Linux laptop and it's been nice.

[-] wallmenis@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Thats the dvd rom

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 26 points 2 years ago

I give you an A. A for floppy.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago
[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

5 1/4 big booty drive

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lol the best part about that is, it spawned from floppy disks. It hasn’t changed. And there’s no official docs on why. Instead search results are literally StackOverflow and forum questions on why it’s not a thing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+b+drive

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Even better, the cable twist to differentiate on the hardware level.

[-] Pinklink@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Omg… it depends on your input port grandpa! Please take your pills your saying that stuff again!

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