...unzips
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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it started with a sign that only said "don't unplug the cables" and had to expand as things kept happening
PS/2 port being used? How old is this image?
OMG is that PS/2? 😮
PSU in the top, old round keyboard and mouse plugs... I get it, you shouldn't touch anything in a museum.
It belongs in a museum!!
... did they stop putting PSUs at the top?
Always at the bottom these days
My desktop has it at the top, as did the PC I had before it a few years ago. I've seen PCs with it at the bottom, but I've never owned one, so hearing that they're always at the bottom is weird to me.
Here you see all cases with either the PSU in the bottom, or with some in the back when it's a wide case. No where in the top of the case.
Just turn the case around. Problem solved.
Problem solved.
Case closed.
But then your desktop will be upside down on your monitor, as obviously your harddrives will be upside down. Do you have any idea how hard it will be to watch upside down porn?
Just flip your monitors upsidedown.
Modern problems require modern solutions.
Huh, I guess it is more common than I thought. I wonder how I ended up coincidentally only buying cases with it at the top if they're so uncommon.
It may be different with brand specific cases for prebuilds like Dell and Alienware (which is Dell too by the way), but it's never recommended to buy those.
I have an old case that takes a PSU at the top.
I bought a PSU made for being at the bottom, and placing it in their meant giving it the CPU heat in its intake.
It felt like it would burn up any minute.
I took some used aluminium cans, cut them up using expensive scissors (~5x the price of normal scissors, in turn, it won't go bad, cutting plastic boxes and aluminium sheet) and made a frame to mount the PSU on the top, instead of inside the case.
The wires had to go around, making it a partially open case, but it worked. No feeling of imminent fire hazard and the PSU was exhausting air at a relieving temperature.
There's always that one guy in the office too...
90% of internet in the 90s was hosted like this.
It feels like a loss that this is no longer the case.
It absolutely is
And its mostly the fault of ISPs
What did ISPs change?
They stopped giving people static IP addresses by default, which makes at home self hosting too hard for normies.
Pretty sure normies don't even know what an IP address is.
They never gave people static IPs by default in general. Done did if you were lucky but most didn't. (In the UK at least.) Hence the existence of things like dyndns.
Needs a blinkenlights sign
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
First time I read that was in about '89/'90 in a printed book of computer jokes gifted to me by my then mother-in-law. Still made me laugh. Thanks for the nostalgia hit.
Is that dutch?
no, i am pretty sure it is a mix of german words + made up german sounding words + english.
I liked it XD
Gesundheit!
About 15 years ago I did some work with a large international pharmaceutical company with over 2,000 of offices across the world. There was a laptop in an empty cubicle with signs like this on it. Apparently if it turned off their entire email system would go down.
Props to them for repurposing old hardware instead of tossing it to a scrap yard.
I had a photo kiosk at an old job that I wanted to put something like that for their USB cables. I swear you touch them during transfer and boom your download = canceled.
So, what they're saying is that the sign needs to be removed before unplugging anything. Gotcha, can do
So we broke it?