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grey@pod.tchncs.de

Currently my T43 seems really fucked. The new hard drive and new RAM haven't stopped memtest from showing all kinds of errors. Unless there's something else I can think of to save it I believe my T43 may be dead.
My Librebooted X60 may be on it's last legs. I can still run small programs like Pluma and do a bit of homework, but once I run something bigger, like a web browser, it start getting those weird crashes again that force a reboot.
I like my X60 too much to let it run till it dies, but I'm getting behind on my homework. I think I must actually go about buying a new, current and modern laptop. My desktop works well enough, but it's a frankenstien machine of parts from 2000-2002 and using it for homework, during the school year, is a huge pain, when I can't move it around like I can a laptop.
Everything I own is old. I don't have any machines that aren't 32bit. IDK what's out there in the Gnu-Linux space for laptop hardware right. I've heard great things about the Pine64 machines but they are sold out a lot, the Framework laptop has great reviews and the Star Labs laptops also have good things said about them. But I think I'll be looking for something low-end. As long as it is small, has a CD drive and the hardware is linux compatible then I don't really care. Whatever it is, I'll have to buy it soon, exams are coming.

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grey@pod.tchncs.de

Wtf is wrong with my T43? This is driving me insane. It had been having weird crashes for a while and I determined the HD was just old and dying so I replaced it, and then tried to install the new OS. (LXLE)

I STILL had weird crashes while I was trying to install LXLE so I ran a memtest it showed a bunch of failures. So I bought new RAM, put it in, and then installed LXLE again. I STILL kept getting weird crashes. And now apparently whatever program starts the LXDE desktop became corrupt because all I get is a wallpaper and a cursor on startup, there's nothing to click or interact with.
So I ran another memtest and it says THE NEW RAM I JUST BOUGHT IS ALSO BAD. How is that possible?

I just don't understand what is going on anymore. I need to get work done, my X60 is dying and now I can't even get the T43 to run after bying new parts for it because I don't understand what is causing these corruptions.

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