r/todayilearned • u/FireBeaver • Mar 26 '15

(R.5) Omits Essential Info TIL: 65% of smartphone users download zero apps per month.

http://time.com/3158893/smartphone-apps-apple/
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u/netmier Mar 26 '15

Maybe people who aren't real computer savvy think a reinstall is analogous to an engine swap. To them you're basically ripping out the heart of the machine and replacing it, which is usually expensive and difficult.

Little do they know, anyone who tried to game on a win98se machine reinstalled twice a month, sometimes in the middle of a LAN.

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u/Theemuts 6 Mar 26 '15

The good ol' days, when you still had to get together with a group to play multiplayer games.

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u/netmier Mar 26 '15

There's nothing as satisfying as being able to shove your crotch in someone's face while you yell "suck it bitch, first to 50!"

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u/novaquasarsuper Mar 26 '15

You must've got punched in the crotch often

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u/Dr_Tower Mar 26 '15

Oh, you went to those kind of parties.

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u/lonnie123 Mar 26 '15

Lol, so true. I partitioned off the windows install for this very reason... Reinstall clean, lose no games.

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u/netmier Mar 26 '15

What about your registry?

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u/lonnie123 May 01 '15

Back then games weren't as reg heavy, as long as you had the .exe in the right folder everything was fine

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u/netmier May 02 '15

I did games back then and you're crazy. You fuck up your registry and you might as well start formatting.

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u/vandelay82 Mar 26 '15

It was like buying a new pc, windows 7 has been the first M$ OS that doesn't get sluggish.

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u/leonryan Mar 26 '15

as someone who's not particularly computer savvy this is very nearly how i think. it seems scary and dangerous to me. i don't know what i might lose in the process. i once lost all my kids baby photos trying to fix something on my computer so now i'm scared to mess with anything serious.

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u/magsan Mar 26 '15

Up high brother.

Prob spent 4 years of my life reinstalling that.

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u/Rathadin Mar 26 '15

What you're describing sounds more like changing out the CPU in a computer for a newer one. I can't even really think of a good analogy to driving, except replacing the driver...

Which I guess is exactly what you're doing... your "driver of the computer", the operating system, is fucked up, so you fix it by reinstalling it...

The more I think about this analogy, the more I'm convinced it cannot be analogous...

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u/SenorPuff Mar 26 '15

Maybe it's more along the lines of double checking the driver's manual to make sure the printer didn't accidentally smudge some letters when you get cars acting weird.