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by dasil003 5594 days ago
These stories of people running across streets frantically computing with their open laptop during the dead of winter invite so many more questions than just the survival of the device.
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"when I was young, we'd walk 25miles to school, in the middle of winter, uphill both ways, with our laptops open and running..."
"At least you had a hill to walk up. In my day we had to use our laptops in an icy hole covered in tarpaulin just to keep the things from overheating"
Trying to triangulate the position of a wifi AP ;)