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Someone brought in a new thinkpad x62 for us to repair at work. It's an old thinkpad x61 with a custom motherboard that has a 5th gen intel CPU, support for NVME storage, a high resolution screen hacked in, etc. The form factor, keyboard, and build quality of the x61 are great, but it came with a core 2 duo.
The seller sent him one with a beat up case, so he bought a new x61 case and he's having us install it.
The cable for the modded display looks very fragile, they used individual wires for the connection. They also soldered the speaker wires to the connector.

Centralization is to convenience what prison is to free housing

There should be a list somewhere of all fediverse instances that no longer exist. A social media grave yard.

the most important feature i can possibly contribute for linux 5.4:

"linux now supports up to 3 floppy drive controllers. wtf?? who needs this"

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old tech and how it is still important 

computer tech from the 1980s is still everywhere, hiding behind the scenes in everything we do, and isn't going away anytime soon

the faa uses 386 and 486 at clones running from floppies to control airplane runway lighting

that i know of, both 3.5" and 5.25" floppies are also used in textile manufacturing, as well as metal machining for aircraft parts. the most accurate cnc machines still use these and use custom interfaces, so floppy emulators aren't an option

oh my god my cs professor is presenting his slides in emacs org mode

horrible US history fact:

The US used to forcibly sterilize the mentally disabled and ill as part of a eugenics program

and yes, the Nazis were inspired by it

and I don't think the US has ever truly reconciled it's past

instead, we just buried it, just like American businessmen links with Nazis

uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/

Receipt paper is carcinogenic.
Avoiding receipts by stealing everything.

hey siri where can i download the hottest doom wads

windows: can't mount more than 26 drives without using UNC paths or mounting to directories
linux: "yes uwu" is a valid command and constantly prints "uwu" to the terminal until the process is killed

the winner is clear

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