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[Frumple]

Eyup. Most folks I've interacted with enough for the subject to come up at some point has those occasionally.

[methylatedspirit]

Has any home user ever copied over their entire disk after getting a new computer? Not "copy the important bits and reinstall programs", but a literal "move/clone the entire disk over to the new one". I'm sure this happens in office environments occasionally, but I'm talking about home users.

[Arx]

Yes, hi.

[methylatedspirit]

I swear people didn't do that. Looks like I'm wrong. I suppose it's not inherently difficult; even on Windows 7 and later with its activation scheme, you could always buy a new key for fuck-all and have it delivered straight to your email in minutes nowadays.

I suppose if there is Windows software that compiles itself only for the CPU architecture it's on, it would be mildly harder, but I think you'd be mistaking Windows for Gentoo. Paint.NET does that via ngen, but I'm fairly certain it still works even if you moved from a Pentium 4 to a Ryzen.

[Kagus]

Does anyone else get those days where there's nothing even remotely wrong, but for some reason their brain's just not working properly?

I mean... For large portions of my life, days like that were the norm. So, yeah

[Iduno]

Has any home user ever copied over their entire disk after getting a new computer? Not "copy the important bits and reinstall programs", but a literal "move/clone the entire disk over to the new one". I'm sure this happens in office environments occasionally, but I'm talking about home users.

I usually physically move mine from one computer to another, but I've had to copy over entire drives before when one was failing.

Does anyone else get those days where there's nothing even remotely wrong, but for some reason their brain's just not working properly?

What is this "nothing even remotely wrong"? I don't think I've experienced that half of what you're asking.

[hector13]

There is nothing happening in your life that would otherwise explain why your brain is not working. Illness or some sort of unpleasant experience, for example.

[Secretdorf]

Yes that happens to me sometimes. I feel NPC-y.

[Rolan7]

Has any home user ever copied over their entire disk after getting a new computer? Not "copy the important bits and reinstall programs", but a literal "move/clone the entire disk over to the new one". I'm sure this happens in office environments occasionally, but I'm talking about home users.

Oh hey, I was forced to do that recently because my corporate Windows 7 key from a previous job stopped validating.  I *wanted* to go through the hassle of a fresh start, but instead I had to clone the image onto my new hard drive.  It worked better than I expected.

[MrRoboto75]

Has any home user ever copied over their entire disk after getting a new computer? Not "copy the important bits and reinstall programs", but a literal "move/clone the entire disk over to the new one". I'm sure this happens in office environments occasionally, but I'm talking about home users.

Nah, I'll save a handful of files to carry over in a thumbdrive but that's it.

Leaving stuff behind is part of the "spring cleaning" of a new comp.

[Arx]

even on Windows 7 and later with its activation scheme, you could always buy a new key for fuck-all and have it delivered straight to your email in minutes nowadays.

Windows doesn't even know it's moved. At least, in my case it didn't.

[Great Order]

There is nothing happening in your life that would otherwise explain why your brain is not working. Illness or some sort of unpleasant experience, for example.

Basically. No depression, no tiredness, no exhaustion, no drugs, just a brain that's decided that thinking is a thing it doesn't want to do.

[scriver]

Sometimes the brain just need a snack and a break

[Caz]

There is nothing happening in your life that would otherwise explain why your brain is not working. Illness or some sort of unpleasant experience, for example.

Basically. No depression, no tiredness, no exhaustion, no drugs, just a brain that's decided that thinking is a thing it doesn't want to do.

Do ya walk in the woods at least an hour a day?

[King Zultan]

Sometimes the brain just need a snack and a break

You're not you when your hungry, Snickers satisfies.