I have a similar one on my computer. But 2038.
Just another "we are all going to die" prediction
Submitted 4 days ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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PetteriPano@lemmy.world 4 days ago
spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I worked on an ISP helpdesk in 1999 (including New Year, to my disgust), and we had dozens of people call in during the next few days because systems they relied on to run their businesses had failed.
The fact they were calling an ISP about their accounting software is probably an indicator of the type of thinking that caused their problem.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Millions of man hours preventing catastrophe only to be met with the perpetual refrain “What do we pay you for?”
Those people deserve to be as honored as those who worked in the space program, but all the recognition they got was the movie Office Space.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 4 days ago
ViscloReader@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Quit my last job because i was tired of people saying I was just jacking off all day while I was making sure things ran well and fixing shit all day. Now it’s turning to shit as expected and I’m really jacking off all day😃.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Y2K was a real threat and maaaaany people worked around the clock to update firmware and software to ensure everything would be fine. And it was fine. And then people said “iT wAs JuSt A cOnSpIrAcY”. No, it was a crisis that was avoided by hard work from many people.
Zexks@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thid is the same bullshit as anti-vax i hope you know. When a bunch of people work their asses off to prevent a tragedy and when it is averted everyone acts like its a total waste of time or some kind of conspiracy.
ignotum@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Excellent prank by best buy, there’s no month 31, silly goobers
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m America they use imperial units.
American calendar has about thirty months with 12 days each.
it’s confusing
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was a nerd in high school with no friends and all I wanted as midnight approached was for Y2K to not interrupt my Team Fortress Classic match.
It didn’t. And I laid waste to my digital foes.
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 days ago
A local man built a bunker with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and food in preparation for Y2K apocalypse. When it didn’t materialise, he eventually died and my dad bought some old steel things at estate auction. We cannot for the life of us figure out what these things were for.
Some sort of rack? Too short for hanging meat. Made of steel. About 5 of them. It’s really been bugging us.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Why did your Dad buy them, if he didn’t know what they were? They’re big and bulky, can’t stack, can’t store them, etc. If I brought those home, especially with no plan, not even knowing what they were, my wife would murder me.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Not OP nor user Agent641, but hell, if I ever learned anything from my late father, it’s this…
That, my friend, is perfectly good stock metal material, just takes a hacksaw to cut it apart. Reuse the metal however you see fit…
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well he’s already divorced, collects all sorts of weird shit, and he has a giant scrapyard full of steel junk. Ancient bus from the interwar period. Pile of garage doors but no garage. I don’t pretend to know why.
bstix@feddit.dk 3 days ago
Is the water container part of the setup?
If you want to make some kind of water purification system of that size, it would make sense to have some steel structures to hold the weight of the large containers.
EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Planning ahead for Mad Max situation, just find a working big rig and start welding those parts on wherever, slap on some fetish gear and you’re ready for war.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They look like frames for either a shell of something or potentially as forms for concrete pouring (doubt that though).
So they probably go together to make the skeleton of some kind of shelter or vehicle.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Don’t knock it. Iron Man’s armor gained sentience because of the Y2K bug kicking in at the same time he was hit by lightning. It spirited him away to an island to ‘protect’ him, and became obsessive about it, to the point where it created an artificial heart for him to replace his damaged one. It also killed Blacklash, while Tony was trapped inside, unable to take control. Beat him like a motherfucker. To death, I say. Serious business, that Y2K.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Issue numbers?
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Kicks off vol 3 issue 26 (#371 LGY). Release Date February 9, 2000 (Cover Date March, 2000).
Goes to vol 3 Issue 30 (#375 LGY). Release Date May 17, 2000 (Cover Date July, 2000).
myotheraccount@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is fine. Booting the computers back up the next morning is shere we all went wrong!
over_clox@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Best Buy
Meat_Of_Nan@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I didn’t know much about y2k, I was just a kid and my family wasn’t tech savvy and hated the idea of me ever touching a computer, which given my hobbies now is extremely ironic, but I know enough about the IT field to know a lot of people worked very hard to fix it.
I don’t know the extent of how bad it would have been, I’m a Linux hobbyist, not a technical engineer, but I’m sure it would have been bad.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It would’ve been a lot less catastrophic than people made it out to be.
Pro tip: the Unix epoch rollover is coming, too! OOOOooooOOOOOoooo
affenlehrer@feddit.org 4 days ago
Had a LAN party with friends that evening. Good times.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Y2K is why PROLOG devs are paid so much.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I miss 1999
ace_garp@lemmy.world 4 days ago
My guy over here with a 52 speed.
Load-speed flex.
noxypaws@pawb.social 3 days ago
I can hear that jet engine of a drive in my head as clear as day
farmgineer@nord.pub 4 days ago
An insane amount of money and overtime went into changing software and data to make sure that a lot of bad things did not happen. It’s not that the Y2K bug was a nothing burger, a lot of people worked very hard to make sure critical systems were changed.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Yep, now we have the 2038 year coming for Linux. It already got me, I didnt want to renew my home NAS certificate every year, so I thought I’d do a 30 year cert. Well after 2038 it rolled the date to the 1960s…
dan@upvote.au 4 days ago
Debian is ready - as of the latest release, all software in the official repo is being compiled with 64-bit time. wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 days ago
So when some Linux apostle is preaching how I need the salvation of Linux in my life, I’ll just tell them that I’m waiting for 2038, and then I’ll jump in AFTER the apocalypse.
ragepaw@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I have been telling people this for 26 years now to no avail. I wish I hadn’t busted my ass now so all the motherfuckers since then who claimed IT is useless could eat the giant dick of downtime.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 4 days ago
As it always goes, they only acknowledge you when your actually fixing problems. The work you did that made everything work as it should was never acknowledged the way it should have been.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And it’s tough to remember just how fast computing was changing in the '90s, improving by leaps and bounds all the time with seemingly no ceiling in sight. Consumer computing power was doubling every one and a half years. And in, say, 1994 it wasn’t unreasonable at all to assume that all of that crusty old tech from the '80s and even early '90s surely would have been replaced by the year 2000 anyway without anyone having to do anything special about it. Probably more than once… right?
The crucial disconnect there was that tech people are not necessarily business people and I think a lot of folks grossly underestimated management’s recalcitrance in spending money until it was more than clear they were facing a crisis.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A lot of stupid businesses and government entities waited until the last fucking second to fix a problem they knew about for half a century.
The overtime should have been exponential for them kicking the can down the road for literal generations.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 days ago
We haven't changed. Companies will not spend more than they have to on IT if they think they can deal with it until next quarter. This was no different, plus developers of software didn't expect their stuff to become legacy and not updated with better programs. Memory was premium, so a few less bytes here and there that would work fine for a few years was what they did.
farmgineer@nord.pub 4 days ago
Half a century is a bit of a stretch, but I otherwise agree. It should not have gotten to the level of trouble it became, but I also dislike the implication in the OP that it was just a non-issue meant to scare people; it was a problem that indeed came to a head because many companies kicked the proverbial can, but a potential real problem nonetheless (especially in medical/insurance/monetary systems rather than “planes will rain from the sky” sorts of issues).