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experimenting so you (hopefully) don't have to
As mentioned in the About Me page, I had 5 bare metals. I broke 3 of them. Now I'm left with 2.
This subpage serves as a documentation of what were their specs, how they were destroyed, and what I learned from those breakdowns.
I think I'll need those info later to actually remember what I have done to break those and what did I break.
Us humans forget. We need to preserve what we need to remember.
My first bare metal machine ever. I acquired this one from an old local store selling various stuff. It was inside a bucket with other devices, and was in very bad shape.
It was running... Windows 12. I'm not joking. The developer of this custom Windows build named this Windows 12. Very normal custom build thing you would normally expect.
At the time, it was packed along with:
By surfing social media pages.
You never knew, but that's what happened. Background? I reinstalled Windows for more than 10 times in 2-3 days "for experiment" and abused the heck out of it. It was overheating like crazy with the builds I picked.
It died a gruesome death. Its screen started flashing when I was surfing stuff. The last 3 seconds were horrifying - I was losing my only machine.
I knew it was going to meet its end anyway.
Use a virtual machine for experiments. At least, if you have a host that's powerful enough for that. Doing so on this machine wasn't even feasible.
I got this one in the same store as #001. Despite cool as the name says...
~ It's a ThinkPad laptop!..., it's a T series. Which means the system is not usable from Windows 7, why? Simply because they were shipped with two 256MB RAM sticks.
It was running XP, which I was aware of anyway.
You would be laughing:
By killing everything.
I was testing headless OSes on it. First it was Windows 7 with that hex editor trick to install on systems with that little RAM, it was struggling. I tested Ubuntu server on it for no reason at all. I even tried to use Discord and Chrome at the same time!
It died due to hardware failure. It was intentional - I broke one of the RAM slots after the death of #001.
I did not want to live with it.
Actually I learned some Registry from that one, and first knew about the existence of Linux.
And please treasure every system you have with you. You can use that for practically anything - an adblock server, a small little self-hosted network boot server, or whatever. You never know when you will need such a system.
There's no way, you would think. However, lol, despite the fancy custom-built phrase there, it was nothing short of a normal stock PC you would get in the mid-2010s.
Stock Windows 10. Nothing special, really.
Here's the funny:
I wasn't the one who broke it.
I did do some funnies, I spent a year to learn about more Linux distros out there - I covered like 70% of it; but eventually I settled with Windows 10.
It died due to BIOS failure. That day was quite dusty, my room was 10% open in the wild. I left it overnight, it died the next morning.
I was kinda blaming myself for that.
Please treasure every system you have with you.
2007 laptop, mid-range of the time, unusable at the moment of writing. It did quite well actually, still withstanding the effects of time.
It ran Windows XP, skinned to Windows 8.1. I was not aware of that until I opened the system properties.
It was quite decent for its time:
Well, it is not as much useful now, but as I have a stripped down Windows 11 build, it became something quite neat to use.
So-so, I think.
The outer case is 50% broken, I had to tape them with electrical tape. The keyboard also suffers from several keys being held when the machine is heating up, and the battery is dead. The display is still good, though.
It works well with an external keyboard and mouse. Heck, I want to upgrade it. It's neat to have a backup machine.
I've learned my lesson to treasure any system I have as a spare. Knowing well I won't have a 4th chance, I'll try to squeeze value from this.
This is currently my main machine.
When I acquired it, it was supposedly running Windows 7, but several BIOS errors came the moment I first booted it up after 2 years of no usage. I had to install Windows 10 as a result.
I recently changed some stuff:
Some people might call me a fake because of this and the list of what I have done in the About page, I don't really care as long as I get my things done.
I have a passion for several stuff, and struggling just because of some delays or lags while doing what I'm passionate about isn't in my books.
Soon there'll be a list of actual things I've done and the history of it (briefly).
Nah, I ain't a billionaire. I also don't want to spend a whole lot of money for something I'll just abuse the hell out of it anyway.
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