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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 104 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact, sometimes computers can grow crystals from their solder.

tin whiskers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_(metallurgy)

[–] pmjv 47 points 1 year ago

Beautiful, thank you for sharing.

[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pmjv 22 points 1 year ago

clean up after yourself when you're done please

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

CRUSH UP THOSE CRYSTALS AND SMOKE THEM

only then can you become one with the machine.

[–] pmjv 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are banned for saying the T-word.

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Oh noes 😭

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pmjv 10 points 1 year ago
[–] refurbishedrefurbisher 13 points 1 year ago

At least there wasn't a third party, kernel level security software suite installed.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who's that character on the right?

[–] pmjv 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pmjv 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hope to one day be brave enough to switch to 9front

[–] pmjv 2 points 11 months ago

Sign up for the winter sdf bootcamp! https://sdf.org/plan9/

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 10 points 1 year ago

The good news is the magic smoke is still inside the chips, so we can fix it! Get me some flux stat!

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty, let's make those big suckers into jewelry!

[–] wgs 2 points 1 year ago

We call them crowdstals down there. They used to only target ancients NT kernels but apparently they evolved to infect other environments. Eh, nature.