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That's hollywood. Do it anyway so the scene isn't plausible, who cares, who will know anyway? Well UhhhAlthough of course Home Improvement was light-hearted comedy, that scenario scares the life out of me on a personal level, for the fear that my own doctoral thesis could somehow suffer that fate!
Absolutely but even then, mishaps can still occur. During my undergrad, one of my classmates was working on her thesis in a computer room and frantically beavering away to complete it before the impending deadline when someone happened to brush past the main power switch for the entire room (which was situated in the most illogical location and prone to malicious usage) and *boom* - everything went dead, including the desktop PC she was using!
The unwitting catalyst for this crisis apologised profusely and offered to help her re-type any portions of the thesis that hadn't been recovered via auto-save but she, remarkably calmly urged them to exit the computer room with haste - for both their sakes. 😂
She still managed to submit her thesis on time but that incident validated my decision from the get-go to take no chances and among many precautions, always use my laptops on campus: which ironically, the others had scoffed at as unnecessary - on the grounds that the university has ample IT resources.
The scene would've still been plausible - and perhaps even funnier with one spouse castigating the other for not having backups in the first place.
silicon valley, apple, google, intel, microsoft...but hell what do these tech people know we're Hollywood and it has to fit the script the hell with accuracy or what makes sense. But I digress.I remember one scene in some movie where someone was supposedly driving a car (you could see things going by in the window) but the speedometer's needle said ZERO. WTF?
Coming late to this and I haven't read every response so perhaps I've missed a few things. With that now out of the way I have to ask: What changed? If the system was working fine and is no longer working fine what happened? From what I've read the OP is performing the same tasks as they always have. Aside from web browsing everything should work just as it did before. As for web browsing I did read where the OP said if their old computer cannot access a web page they just avoid it. So if it was working and it is no longer working something has changed. I did see some suggestions to replace the HD for a faster one. Perhaps the HD is on its way out? That would explain the change in performance. Otherwise I see no need to replace or upgrade the system.
The amount of WFT? moments I've spotted in films and TV programmes with scenes of people using computers that clearly aren't even connected to their monitor or an electrical outlet! The scene in John Wick 2 where a character is using a Commodore VIC-20 that magically works without a PSU or any other cables made me cringe at the sheer lack of attention to detail. 😂
I beg to differ - with 104fox, Arctic Fox, iceweaselPPC and the fixed WebKit for Leopard, I am able to goto govt sites and bank with no issues - just checked my stimulus under irs.gov and it worked fine. It was not a heavy website, so scrolling was quick. My system is a PB G4 titanium 1Ghz with a 256GB M2 sata. The L3 does seem to help greatly here.