this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2024
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[–] [email protected] 102 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

tin whiskers

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago

Beautiful, thank you for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

clean up after yourself when you're done please

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

CRUSH UP THOSE CRYSTALS AND SMOKE THEM

only then can you become one with the machine.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You are banned for saying the T-word.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Oh noes 😭

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who's that character on the right?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You know it’s not for the faint of heart when it closes off with “Good luck, you may need it.”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months 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.