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Mangione's attorneys argued that allowing the defendant to use a laptop in jail is crucial for his ability to prepare for trial and participate in his own defense.

The judge determined Mangione may have access to a laptop prepared by the government seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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lemmy.ca

With 7TB of discovery data.

And no network connection.

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Treczoksreply
lemmy.world

Conveniently supplied in the form of 3.5" floppy disks.

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An Amiga 386sx running Windows 3.11 and Office 97, and EarthLink dial up on a Hayes 2600 baud modem.

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Oh, so marginally better performance than today's windows 11 machines! Don't make me salivate!

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lemmy.ca

Maybe if he’s good, they’ll give him a US Robotics 9600.

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nomyreply
lemmy.zip

When I was a lot younger I bought a US Robotics modem marked as 28.8k that actually connected at 33.6k, man I was so happy about a few k.

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I remember those. That few extra k would download those Pirate Bay files pronto quick for back then.

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dhorkreply
lemmy.world

Maybe they will give him an acoustically coupled modem connection and make him screetch into it to connect

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lemmy.world

No, they're specifically disabling all network connectivity.

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dhorkreply
lemmy.world

They can't keep him from beeping and booping and whirring into a handset, can they?

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Where is he gonna get a handset?

Also, it's really hard to vocalize anything past 300 baud

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I mean he is a programmer, so he can figure out how to use the 7tb disk space efficiently

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