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Re: [LUG] OT: New Laptop recommendation.

 

>> Anyone ever managed to break a computer component using software (since
>> the early 80s, one could then with assembler)?
>
> A few thinkpads (can't remeber what model it was) got broken by
> lmsensors a while back. Can't remember what it was that got broken, but
> it was something fairly vital, and irreparable.

Also the recent bug in a wifi driver (I think) that was breaking wifi
cards on Ubuntu test systems...

Jon

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