I took a bunch of stuff from work that was gonna get recycled including a decent laptop and a flash drive. I work in network admin and IT if that narrows it down. Never used Linux before though.

Edit: Thanks everyone! I'm down for some problem solving so I think I'm gonna go the Arch/Manjaro direction so I can learn my way around Linux generally.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    At the time I was fucking around with this, you could order print (and delivered to your door) x86 architecture manuals from Intel at no charge. I was 16 and was able to order them without even having a credit card number. The manuals spanned 5 volumes, and two of them were dedicated to just the instruction set alone.

    this has the same vibe of having cern send you the particle data group's "Review of Particle Physics." it's 2000 pages long. this thing has over 200 authors and i hate some of them personally.