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   experimenting so you (hopefully) don't have to

Machines' Specifications

Huh?

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.

Why would you need this?

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.

#001 Gateway M6750 (Red)

Background

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.

Specifications

At the time, it was packed along with:

Terrible for 2018 - 2019. I lived along.

How did you break it?

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.

Thoughts and lessons?

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.

#002 Lenovo IBM ThinkPad T60

Background

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.

Specifications

You would be laughing:

I did not live with it. I wanted to abuse it.

How did you break it?

By killing everything.

I was testing headless OSes on it. First it was Windows 7 with that Registry 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.

Thoughts and lessons?

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.

You might have interested me. Where can I find you?

Discord, please, for casual talks and chit-chats. Send me a DM @ shimeji.rin, don't send a friend request yet.

For more private and confidential information, please shoot me an email at sh1m3ji@disroot.org, and don't forget your public PGP. Use shimeji.rin@gmail.com if you prefer to talk to me through email formally.