Today I learnt you can estimate the age of a machine by looking at SMART data!
$ smartctl -a /dev/sda
9 Power_On_Hours Old_age 9335 (92 144 0)
12 Power_Cycle_Count Old_age 3900
I bought my ThinkPad second hand and it's had an amazing number of boots.
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It feels like a solution at the wrong level of abstraction, but it has a certain elegance.
I am really excited to see more Pharo projects move to GitHub. Smalltalkers have a great culture of dogfooding, and pull requests will help the positive cycle of improvement!
For example, even the installer is a Pharo project: