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At one point he had a laptop that we kinda just accepted he was going to turn into a smoking wreckage. I'd wipe and reinstall the operating system periodically. One day he managed to get ransomware in
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At one point he had a laptop that we kinda just accepted he was going to turn into a smoking wreckage. I'd wipe and reinstall the operating system periodically. One day he managed to get ransomware installed on it with a number to call, and when he called the number they demanded money
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- Bluesky ↗ · first seen 2026-06-16 21:39 UTC
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