• Digital Mark@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    This story is a lie.

    There’s no “computer icon”. Dragging the System disk to trash ejects it on a classic Mac. If you burrow down into System, you can try deleting system files… which are locked and can’t be deleted.

    You can test this yourself on Infinite Mac

    • ToxicDivinity [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      The story seems to be referencing the first time apple had regular people try it which may have been in a focus group or at some kind of publicity event. If this did happen I’m sure they made safeguards against it before selling it

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      i mean, this story sounds like it’s from pre-release testing, or maybe a trade show demo showing a pre-release build. it not working this way in the release version just makes sense, and doesn’t mean this is a fake story.