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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (8 children)

If you actually want to find a file on a long abandoned laptop, it may be easier to pull the drive and use an external enclosure to read it with a current system. If you have the hardware. No need for any of the other hardware, rtc, nvram, let alone the os to work.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Really? Pull a drive instead of plugging in the charger?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The techies on lemmy forget that regular people exist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

techie here. He's something other.

Something which may have outlasted previous technologies.. I.. I wouldn't ask for elaboration and nod.

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