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  • I have a 2003 thinkpad… I don’t use it any more.

    I’m super tempted to try to get antix running on it before 32 bit is dropped in the Linux kernel, so I can have a time capsule of sorts. But I really want to put either dapper drake or fedora core 4 on it, since those were the first linux distros that was actually usable for me and started my journey, or jaunty jackalope because that was when all the hardware worked without issues and I could finally ditch windows.











  • cenzorrll@lemmy.catoFunny@sh.itjust.worksIt WORKS
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    7 months ago

    FedEx lost a $500k case of equipment for the service techs who maintain the instruments we use at work. They work nationwide and have two of these cases for the entire country, they keep thousands of labs running. FedEx just… lost it. Eventually it was found a few weeks later or something. The cost is not really a big deal, it is basically just instrument components they use to verify the running components, but they’re the components that all instruments are compared to, so they can’t just put together another case as it suits them. There’s extra testing that goes in to make sure these components are exactly to spec.