The system crashing I didn’t know, does the computer plants itself or it plants you? in Spanish to plant someone or leave someone planted is to not show up on a date, so I would find it very funny if it was the latter.
Is the break up closer to dumping? I love to learn this kind on nuances.
Yeah, the problem is that it’s had to convey the double meaning because “planter” is often used about an electronic device crashing, so it’s both windows crashed, and windows stood you up
Way way back. I was given a 486 (when pentium 90/100s were normal) at work to run the experimental internet connection on (the head of the company at the time didn’t think this internet fad would last). So I installed some magazine coverdisk linux and connected the office to the internet via a single modem.
I think it had a peak uptime of 550 days before it was replaced.
Oh sweet child, you’ll never understand the pleasure of cutting motherboard PCB traces and replacing resistors to overclock a DX2 to 90MHz to play freely distributed CD-ROM cereal box AoE.
My first ‘good’ computer was a Compaq (from Radio Shack!) 512MB RAM and a 10GB hard drive! It could run Windows 98 and Starcraft!
Previously I had a 486dx with 64MB RAM and 512MB hard drive. We played qbasic games, like Snake and Gorilla, I shared a copy of Wing Commander with a friend (and hand copied the instruction booklet because the DRM at the time was that the game wouldn’t launch unless you could tell it what was the 5th word on the 3rd page or whatever).
Later, I found a modem and was able to dial into BBSs to play MUDs. MajorMUD was the first I found, but they only let you do about 100 commands/day unless you paid ($15/month!).
On the new PC we had dial-up from a local ISP and I could play MUDs via Telnet (or zMUD 5.55, the version who’s DRM broke and didn’t count down the 30 day free trial clock).
We also used to have to fight off the dinosaurs on the way to school (which we walked to, barefoot, uphill in the snow) of course.
You’re not kidding. I have no real interest in RGB. But it was cheaper to buy a case with a glass panel and the RGB ram of the same spec was cheaper than non RGB… I just made all the LEDs Borg green and left it that way.
@Gulliver@lemmy.zip What does the French say?
I read that to the melody of “What does the Fox say?”.
windows is crashing linux is flowering, with linux there is no old pc only bad is.
Crashing? With the context of the pictures and similarities with Spanish and Catalan idioms I would say windows stands you up.
This is correct. From Larousse:
Familier. Abandonner brusquement quelqu’un, quelque chose quelque part : Il m’a planté au coin de la rue.
“planter” in french can mean three things : plant (a seed), crash (a system) or break up (with someone)
Hence the triple pun
The system crashing I didn’t know, does the computer plants itself or it plants you? in Spanish to plant someone or leave someone planted is to not show up on a date, so I would find it very funny if it was the latter.
Is the break up closer to dumping? I love to learn this kind on nuances.
“Ma petite amie m’a planté” is closer to “my girlfriend dumped me”, it’s a bit familiar. “Break up with X” could be “rompre avec X”
“L’ordinateur a planté” means the computer crashed. There’s no complement to the verb there, it just “planted.”
L’ordinateur a planté, now I get it.
After looking a couple of dictionaries what I was trying to ask is if it was “a planté” or “s’est planté”
Thanks
“se planter” is yet another meaning of the word, it’s slang for “make a mistake” or “have an accident” (usually involving a vehicle). E.g.:
Yeah, the problem is that it’s had to convey the double meaning because “planter” is often used about an electronic device crashing, so it’s both windows crashed, and windows stood you up
Oh! I didn’t know that one hahahahha I love it. Here we say that windows hung itself, “se colgó”.
would make for a darker comic lmao
Unless it is a 486 and you want to stay current :P
I yearn for my old 486. the best rig I have ever owned.
Way way back. I was given a 486 (when pentium 90/100s were normal) at work to run the experimental internet connection on (the head of the company at the time didn’t think this internet fad would last). So I installed some magazine coverdisk linux and connected the office to the internet via a single modem.
I think it had a peak uptime of 550 days before it was replaced.
It’s OK, gramps, let’s get you back to bed.
Oh sweet child, you’ll never understand the pleasure of cutting motherboard PCB traces and replacing resistors to overclock a DX2 to 90MHz to play freely distributed CD-ROM cereal box AoE.
I already had a 233 MHz PII when AoE came out, so no.
I was poor as fuck back in AoE times, my computer was already oolllllld.
My first ‘good’ computer was a Compaq (from Radio Shack!) 512MB RAM and a 10GB hard drive! It could run Windows 98 and Starcraft!
Previously I had a 486dx with 64MB RAM and 512MB hard drive. We played qbasic games, like Snake and Gorilla, I shared a copy of Wing Commander with a friend (and hand copied the instruction booklet because the DRM at the time was that the game wouldn’t launch unless you could tell it what was the 5th word on the 3rd page or whatever).
Later, I found a modem and was able to dial into BBSs to play MUDs. MajorMUD was the first I found, but they only let you do about 100 commands/day unless you paid ($15/month!).
On the new PC we had dial-up from a local ISP and I could play MUDs via Telnet (or zMUD 5.55, the version who’s DRM broke and didn’t count down the 30 day free trial clock).
We also used to have to fight off the dinosaurs on the way to school (which we walked to, barefoot, uphill in the snow) of course.
Hey, it was really better times when you could have your computer in any colo(u)r you wanted, so long as it was beige.
Now you can have any colour you want, but they have mandatory LEDs embedded in every peripheral a d they no longer sell opaque cases.
You’re not kidding. I have no real interest in RGB. But it was cheaper to buy a case with a glass panel and the RGB ram of the same spec was cheaper than non RGB… I just made all the LEDs Borg green and left it that way.
Unplugging the RGB stuff is pretty simple.