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		JohnFen on May 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Choosing a Name for Your Computer (1990) > If you get a second one, you wipe both and rename them to thing-1 and thing-2. Am I the only one who finds it a pain in the butt to rename an existing machine? So many things have to be updated when I do that...

lexicality on May 25, 2023 [–]

It's slightly easier if you treat it as if you have thrown that machine away and bought two new ones that you're setting up to replace the old one

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