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OGC on July 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The web you know is dying

Another gem from his twitter:

"@_jpope How likely is it that I will brick my Macbook Pro while trying to install Arch Linux?"

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lmm on July 5, 2013 [–]

I bricked a mac the last time I tried to install linux on it. (one of the last pre-imac ones. one too few zeroes when changing the firmware adress thingy. Kind of a shame as it had a very nice A/V PERCH card). So it's not an entirely unreasonable question.

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