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		raverbashing on April 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboar... To be honest, in regards to ACPI it was a very painful couple of years until Linux got the hang of it and stopped breaking for any issue (It also took some Perkele by Linus to make it work correctly)

waterside81 on April 4, 2019 [–]

For those like me who don't know what "Perkele" is:

Perkele means evil spirit in Finnish and is a popular Finnish profanity.

benj111 on April 4, 2019 | [–]

Thanks, I was about to google, but had guessed correctly anyway.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkele

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