Trouble<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lauren</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@PeterLudemann" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>PeterLudemann</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@not2b" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>not2b</span></a></span> I used to joke about how without fail every other generation (Challenge-Origin server and Indigo-O2 desktop era) of Silicon Graphics machines - the power supplies would either just die (no blinking lights) or catch on fire (literal flames shooting out). <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sgi</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/silicongraphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>silicongraphics</span></a> A smart software engineer whose deskside machine caught on fire in his office calmly rolled it outside, removed the disks to save their work, THEN used an extinguisher on it.</p>