// 2023-08-16, cynic spends his first few days on campus wondering how he's going to run the first year engineering software.
cynic oh good eduroam works
cynic teim 2 figure out how to run solidworks on a 2012 debian shitpad
cynic https://www.solidworks.com/support/system-requirements <-- brb jumping off slusher tower
+h4des cynic: im gonna let you in on a secret technique
+h4des we had a vtluug guy who basically kept buying and returning the same laptop through best buy to run freshman software
+h4des he would basically take an image of the laptop, return it, then deploy the image on the new laptop, and do that for a whole ass semester
+h4des an alternative option would be to request a loaner from SWAT
+h4des but you'll need to have a broken laptop or invoice for that
+h4des but you see they don't actually check whether or not your laptop is broken, they just need a ticket # from a repair center or an order #
+h4des there's nothing really stopping you from writing ur own fake dell/lenovo/samsung/microsoft/fujitsu support tickets and using that as evidence
+h4des then you get a 3 week loan
+h4des you can also request another 3 week extension once, no questions asked, so technically 6 weeks
cynic would the public boxes in newman/torg work?
+h4des after that they get suspicious and ask for an update on your laptop ticket
+h4des but you could easily do the method i described above, and have "backordered parts" (this is especially a popular excuse with microsoft hardware)
+h4des or you could say "my laptop came back and it's DOA, i need to ship it again" and request another loaner
cynic heh
cynic okay