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I was digging through some stuff and stumbled on this. To think it's been 15 years. Crazy what you used to be able to get a free CD of back in the day.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

have one from the 10.10 version and a Kubuntu 10.10..I was super excited about receiving international mail for the first time in my life! tried uploading the pictures but I get error messages by jerboa 🥲

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey fellow jerboaer, sometimes the spouted errors are nonsense and if you actually try to upload the image from the website it tells you the image is too big

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy know if u find an easy way to compress images, I'm interested in uploading some too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, try compressing the images smaller. Some Lemmy servers have upload size limits. Or you can host the picture elsewhere and then just link it using:

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

i still have a few in a desk drawer at the office.. and was just thinking about them, too, the other day as i watched an .iso download on crappy DSL.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember my dad had one of these when I was young. I think it comes with a sticker too, cuz I remember sticking it onto a kitchen cabinet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The stickers are that folded white slip behind the disc in the picture. I forgot to take a picture of them, but they don't look great since they were transparent and the adhesive has degraded into a patchy yellow/orange mess. A bit of a shame, but time marches on.

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