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   Annalee Newitz 🍜 (annaleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 12:58:52 JST Annalee Newitz 🍜

   I am going through my own personal computer history museum, wiping and disposing of 25 years of my old laptops, phones, and tablets. It's an emotional journey that involves ancient Linux distros, forgotten passwords, and stickers from the organizations that time forgot. I will post pictures when I'm done!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 12:58:35 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @annaleen unamerican activities stickers! Nice!

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     Annalee Newitz 🍜 (annaleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 12:58:40 JST Annalee Newitz 🍜

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     Here is the one I'm erasing now -- my Sony Vaio from 2001-2004, complete with Srini stickers, EFF propaganda, and various stickers I got at Defcon. It is running an ancient version of Red Hat Linux and Windows under VMware

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 13:08:36 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @annaleen it's great! I got it so my kids would have angry stickers for their laptops and backpacks.

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     Annalee Newitz 🍜 (annaleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 13:08:37 JST Annalee Newitz 🍜

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan I still have a giant art book full of those stickers (minus the ones on this laptop)

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 13:24:26 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @annaleen He lives in Goa now. He posts on Instagram occasionally -- especially photos of the big thick books he's reading.

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     Annalee Newitz 🍜 (annaleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 13:24:27 JST Annalee Newitz 🍜

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan do you know what happened to Srini? Is he here on Mastodon?

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     Annalee Newitz 🍜 (annaleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 13:24:28 JST Annalee Newitz 🍜

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan yes!! That's it. I let my nephew raid it for stickers. 🤩