[this is something of a continuation to a previous rant, but you don't really need to read it for context, unless you really want to see a photo of a printout of someone flipping off a printer]

the Hewlett-Packard MFP M234sdwe has a MSRP of 229 USD, and the Hewlett-Packard MFP M234sdw has a MSRP of 289 USD, but that's somewhat misleading, the M234sdwe is on sale for 149 at the time of writing, and it looks like it's on sale pretty regularly. anyways, let's put a pin in this and get back to it in a minute.

in a purely technical sense, the Hewlett-Packard MFP M234sdwe is something of a technical marvel – a gem that's been polished and faceted to near-perfection, it's well built and thoughtfully engineered, in some parts you can see that it's definitely been made to a price point but it's also clearly designed to take a bit of abuse. there's material where it's needed and none where it isn't, it's a beautiful piece of precision engineering and technology. when they use a white LED it's a pleasing warm white. the engineers and designers clearly gave a shit when they made this. they clearly cared and put a not-insignificant amount of thought behind all of the fun little flappy bits and doo-dads and gew-gaws.

ended up in a situation where i needed to dig out my ancient netbook and now here i am, updating it for whatever reason instead of just paving over the entire install. the occultists in the room can probably find some sort of meaningful and significant symbolism in this act, or maybe you could chalk it up to some form of acute madness. who knows!

then while that was (still is, at the time of me writing this) going i looked into upgrading the ssd that came with it, because it's not exactly what i would call an ideal configuration - it's an eeepc 901, which means it has a 4gb fast...ish SSD and a 16gb dog-slow SSD. this makes actually using and updating your system kind of annoying, as you might imagine.

• the SSD has to be mini-PCIe and not mSATA, which uses the same form factor, because persocom manufacturers are twisted sickos.
• it also can't be m.2 because m.2 un(?)fortunately did not exist when this thing was thrown out into the cold and unforgiving world.
• this thing isnt terribly big, so the card needs to be a bit shorter than what you'd generally expect these days, and optimally it should have two mounting holes at the corners, rather than just the one at the center. this unfortunately rules out the drives for old macbook airs.

there's various adapters that might make a mSATA drive work in this thing, but it's already been annoying enough to try and figure things out that it's probably not actually worth it, particularly since at this point the machine would likely be relegated to VNC duty anyways.

_{maybe i should just rip the guts out of this thing and try to wire up some sort of SBC to the peripherals/battery...}