What do you miss from the old internet?

posted 8 months ago

i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.

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Dave.@aussie.zone

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8 months ago

Every slightly unusual Windows issue that I research ends up at some Microsoft forum where this kind of post happens. Without fail.

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dustycups@aussie.zone

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8 months ago

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Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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8 months ago

I’ve genuinely seen a post where someone was looking for help because they had a problem with Windows and DISM /online /cleanup-image /restore health wouldn’t run, it said command not found.

The marked answer from the ‘Microsoft representative’ was to run DISM /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

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