• Venator@lemmy.nz
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      1 day ago

      Nah in the 90s you were always running as administrator unless on a school computer or using Linux or something…

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        17 hours ago

        I installed Linux back then too. First thing I did was delete my user, home folder, and just rawdog the whole thing as root.

        I may have slightly misunderstood the operating system. Later that week I saw that a new Linux kernel had come out, and did a uname -r and decided that the best thing I could do was manually compile the damn thing for my computer so I could “get the update”.

        I am pretty sure I managed to even boot all the way to the terminal, but being unable to run startx. Good times.

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        24 hours ago

        Then they discovered it was much easier to do that in people’s phones and that they got way more information from it they could sell.