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  66. <h1>Dropping off the laptop</h1>
  67. <p>Day 00082: Thursday, 2015 May 28</p>
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  74. I left my laptop with my coworker he said he might be able to fix it.
  75. He says that if he can&apos;t figure it out, perhaps his roommate can.
  76. Between the two of them, hopefully they can pick out what is wrong with the laptop, but I&apos;m not holding my breath.
  77. He said he will let me know if there&apos;s anything he can do with the laptop at noon on Saturday.
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  80. I also finally managed to get ahold of my other coworker, the one selling the Windows 8 laptop.
  81. It seems he borrowed money from a friend, using a laptop as collateral.
  82. He said he can pay back the money to come serious about buying the laptop, but I have no way to see if the laptop&apos;s wireless card will function without proprietary firmware until after he pays back his friend.
  83. I can&apos;t put him in that situation without making a commitment, and there is a high probability that the laptops wireless card will not work.
  84. As a result, buying that laptop is out of the question.
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  87. If my laptop cannot be repaired, I am strongly considering purchasing a brand new laptop that comes with Debian preinstalled.
  88. I&apos;ll install vrms to be sure that the system is using only free packages, but everything should work out of the box in that case.
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  92. I couldn&apos;t update my <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> today, as I was cut off from my Web/ssh server.
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