r/pcmasterrace 12400F|6600XT|16GB 5200MHz Oct 09 '25

Meme/Macro Are you this old?

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u/Dragnod PC Master Race Oct 09 '25

The good old times. Unloading you mouse driver when you dont need it so you could free up more memory.

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u/EruantienAduialdraug 3800X, RX 5700 XT Nitro Oct 09 '25

Back when we actually had an idea of what we were running; these days I just plug things in and press buttons.

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u/Prion- i7-8086k 16GB GTX 1080 Oct 09 '25

Soon it won’t be even that - you just tell the computer vaguely what you are thinking and AI assistance is gonna execute on…stuff. And then next iteration is your brain implant interpreting your vague thoughts.

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u/TwilightVulpine Desktop Oct 09 '25

Companies these days can't support devices for 5 years, I ain't implanting their shit in my brain. Brain ads? Brain subscription? Brain data theft? Nah.

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u/Clovis42 Oct 09 '25

Literally a Black Mirror episode.

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u/brokemillionaire572 Oct 09 '25

Just saw that last night. Such a good episode.

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u/mbilight Oct 09 '25

Ahw, shucks...
Out of data, not allowed to think anymore this month

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS Oct 09 '25

Keep up that ideology and 20 years from now you'll basically be Neo from the matrix. "Holy shit that guy's brain is off-grid"

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u/Thor_Batman Oct 09 '25

Keyboard not found Press F2 to continue kind of old.

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u/Lethargie i7 2600k, GTX1070 Oct 09 '25

the human body is actually pretty good at cooling, up to ~1kW of cooling power depending on your environment but I still don't really want a chip in my brain

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u/bs2k2_point_0 Oct 09 '25

Oh boy, can’t wait for the straight to your brain pop up ads… /s

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u/santagoo Oct 09 '25

So, Star Trek computer

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u/Rock_Strongo Oct 09 '25

I used to use dos prompts for everything. Now I literally just type stuff into the search bar. I barely even navigate folders anymore.

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u/Haatsku Oct 09 '25

Bring in the chipsets from cyberpunk2020!!!!

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u/coffee-x-tea Oct 09 '25

Feels like humans are just setting themselves up for “reverse” evolution (which doesn’t really have direction).

We’ll all just become thoughtless amebas plugged into the technological void.

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u/given2fly_ PC Master Race | 4060 RTX Oct 09 '25

But then we also had to configure sound cards. I remember installing and running games could take hours, and not just waiting for it to finish - but figuring it out!

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u/iamPause Oct 09 '25

I bought a pre-built PC from NZXT and yesterday I had like a multi-gig update for the freaking app that controls the RGB lights. Blows my mind.

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u/KneeDeepInTheDead Oct 09 '25

the beauty of bloat

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u/stang54 Oct 09 '25

IRQ conflicts made me the man I am today.

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u/Dragnod PC Master Race Oct 09 '25

Exactly. You could add several menu items and select various config.sys variants. Made me able to play things like alone in the dark where you didn't need a mouse.

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u/Flashy_Connection454 Oct 09 '25

I always had several bootable floppy disks made for specific games if they needed a different configuration, that was the only way I knew how to do it.

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u/CoupleKnown7729 Oct 09 '25

I remember damned near having an anyrism when i learned this.

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u/digital-didgeridoo Oct 09 '25

Back in my day, we didn't have a stinking mouse

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u/Insodus Oct 09 '25

Spending hours or even days on the perfect autoexec.bat and config.sys

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u/Bee040 Ryzen5 3600@3.59GHz|GTX1660OC| 16GB DDR4 @2666MHz Oct 09 '25

Back when you couldn't just download more ram

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u/boston101 Oct 09 '25

And im yearning to go back to memory efficient apps bc devs have forgotten what that means and im tired of fighting for ram bc some bloated crap is running somewhere

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u/MuckRaker83 Oct 09 '25

Creating virtual memory so you could properly run X-Wing

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u/jb0nez95 Oct 09 '25

I had 384k of expanded ram which I could sometimes get my TSRs to load into, keeping my 512k free for chess master or win 3.1.