@nixCraft It fulfilled my inner OCD side.

@nixCraft true :)

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🥥 Retired but not a farmer, Mr Craft! 🥥

@nixCraft ah, good ol' days 😍

@nixCraft it was addictive af

@nixCraft I feel I fit into one of the categories listed but won't say which one...

I also wonder if this is supposed to be an attack of character or life choices or not...

@nixCraft watch how it's getting recreated in Rust

@nixCraft visualizing defragging has stuck with me as a metaphor for so many things.

Paying down tech debt to speed up development.

Organizing my workbench for more efficient building.

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@nixCraft Me when the defrag:

@nixCraft I could watch it all day

@nixCraft Developer in my case. Close to retirement.

@nixCraft that's slander I make art now 😄

@nixCraft Loved this in a strange way. Felt so tidy.

@nixCraft just get an USB stck with FAT filesystem and do it!

@nixCraft you gotta defrag your head drive, maaaaan.

@nixCraft : SF writer… but I definitely spent too much time watching this.

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This is so much better than many other programs.

@nixCraft guilty af.

@nixCraft I made my first $$ helping a business defrag their cad computer. They were very happy.

If I knew then what I know now, I would have made backups first.

@nixCraft ehh, all of the above :)

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I mean, I'm not IT or a farmer, and I would look at the defrag animation. Had to because I had nothing else I wanted to do beside whatever I need my computer for at that time.

@nixCraft daww I can hear the clack click click clacks like it was yesterday..

@nixCraft Crap. I missed my calling.

Now I need to go see if there's an app that simulates this because you flung a craving on me.

@nixCraft yes, i do. Even as a screensaver!

@nixCraft I remember trying to guess which blocks would be shuffled next

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Defrag98.com 😜

@nixCraft can confirm -- retired farmer here

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One theory of life on planet Earth is that it arose to order proteins from the right to the left. That's it, stacking proteins to one side. And here we are inventing computers that kind of did the same thing.

@nixCraft Did that when I was young. Worked as a dev for 2+ years and now I'm studying to become a Therapist, lmao.

@nixCraft I did helpdesk work a long time ago and when I got called to someone's desk for something trivial/silly I would run defrag to make it look like I was doing fancy and technical work. It always seemed to make people feel better.

@nixCraft I gotta write a simulator for this.

@nixCraft I became a Latin teacher... But my homebrew programs and shell scripts are integral to my workflow so... I should look into farming.

@nixCraft And some of these devs will be retired farmers anyway.

@nixCraft recently watched Spinrite running on my PC, which is just as relaxing.

@nixCraft Guilty! 😁

@nixCraft I did that once in windows 98, it took something like 16 hours.