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Bemfica de Oliva
Pronouns: she/her & they/them | Bemfica worked over a decade as a support technician before becoming a journalist specialized in Tech and Science. In 2009, she won a MacBook White Unibody in an online sweepstakes, and has owned over a dozen Cupertino devices since then. Bemfica has a passion for fixing stuff, giving new life to old electronics and tinkering with gadgets. Currently, she owns a 2012 MacBook Pro, but her main Mac is a Hackintoshed Acer Nitro 5. Bemfica loves how Apple's white brick chargers don't look old even though they were introduced over 20 years ago, and hates how its cables break so damn easily.
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