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  • Jan 30, 2025, 11:47 PM

    As much as I despised the low ADSL speeds I was stuck with over ten years ago, there's something very nostalgic and cathartic about setting up a classic :FRITZ_WOOZY:!Box on a local 6Mbps-capped PPPoE connection and using it with a Windows XP box!

    An XP box which is thrown together with random parts, inside a cheap generic case, bodged internal wiring, missing drive bays, hardware from different generations - Jank throughout, just like I would've done it in my early computer touching days :3

    A 1024 by 768 screenshot of a german Windows XP install with the default blue Luna theme, Internet Explorer open in the background, showing the very aged looking status page of a Fritz!Box 7170 router and the glorious 6 megabit per second connection speed over a local PPPoE uplink. The bandwidth is fully utilized by a file download in the foreground for the Windows XP Service Pack 3 installer from a local web server lovingly named "filez.download"
    A photo of a tower PC, in a fairly generic chassis with a black plastic trim and silver plastic front face, which is partially occupied by two white disc drives, one LG CD burner and one LG DVD reader, a missing 5.25 inch bay panel blank and a white-ish 3.5 inch floppy drive. A Debian logo is stuck at the bottom end of the front face, as this was once a Debian machine in one of its many earlier iterations, however I do plan on installing modern Debian onto a second hard disk which is already inside the machine. On top of the tower sits the aforementioned Fritz!Box 7170 router with its little power indicator LED lit up and WiFi antenna sticking up proudly.
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