i have an old tower computer with petabytes of data all written in assembly
(of which i can access very little without opening my terminal, a task that i'm used to on the linux
machines in the lab but am too scared to do on my own home computer),
indecipherable to me but interpreted directly by my pc as its second native language past binary.
it encodes the memory i cannot access without looking.
i am scared to go looking.
i am scared that i don't know enough about computers to do it without breaking something.

is it not normal for video fiiles to save as a series of lossy .jpegs or .gifs?
aren't fiiles supposed to only have "created on" dates listed when you input them manually?
don't all images have color errors, grey boxes, unaligned data, header damage, scanlines?
doesn't everyone deal with popups?
does anyone else have the issue where new user accounts get created out of nowhere?
is it supposed to be making that whirring, grinding sound?

how am i supposed to fiix this?
sometimes it feels impossible to get any work done on this laggy old thing.
i know it's because it's bogged down with too much data, but so much of it is corrupted
that i don't know where to start with sifting through it all.

most people would have bought a new computer by now.