Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator.
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Catnip to an old like me :)
Holy memories.
It just occurred to me that ASMR was everywhere before it was a thing. Dial up modems, disk drives, hard drives, keyboards…
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My spouse made one of these for the pico 8!
For some reason I always hated defragging because (a) the before visualized the mess my drive had become, (b) the during was full of weird hard drive noises and oh god what if it fails please don't fail I probably don't have good enough backups and (c) the after was a reminder that it was now in peak order state and shit was still slow.
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