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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

There's a joke here somewhere about how you should master your boot record

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I heard he tried to boot from the white album but there were some bugs in it.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

The version that finally worked must have been Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This should be a fun little detail in a movie or something like that, but booting is just loading data, and doing that from analog media is nothing new.

edit: tbf, the author points that out, too. It's just a little joke.

[–] bryndos@fedia.io 20 points 1 month ago

Nah, the data just sounds better on vinyl. Especially if you use valves instead of silicon transistors.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I heard if you play the record backwards it boots you into Windows ME.

[–] tserts@lemmy.tserts.com 7 points 1 month ago

If you don't use 1000 eur gold plated RCAs, it just doesn't sound right...

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish I had the kind of time and money required for effing around like this.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Knowledge saves time, this dude is probably a good hardware engineer already

[–] black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Edit: don't see the problem anymore.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe your system clock is out of sync? And it's from 2020/2022.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

I can open it without problems

[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I had the same problem

[–] jif@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Seems ripe for a Grandmaster Flash remix.