I also really like standard size clear boxes. I buy cases of smaller ones for my lab at work. They all get used up quick.

My first router used the Freesco project (https://www.freesco.org/) it had 2 pci network cards in an old pentium 80 that booted linux off a floppy, probably around 1999.

No substrate in the sampler means there would be nothing to test. Can't tell if you are joking.

People also don't develop good habits and constantly touch their face with gloves. I worked with surgeons in the hospital and they would point this out. Equally important in a cleanroom.

The stearates aren't microplastics, they aren't polymers, but they have chemical/spectroscopic similarity that results in them confusing the microplastics assays.

That does seem like an oversight. We routinely run process blanks for elemental analysis at my job. I guess if the metal substrates had specifications on no particles you might skip this, obviously a big mistake if another step (ie. handling with gloves) introduced contamination.

In surface science the baggy clear polyethylene are widely known to be cleaner than other options.

I guess with Raman I can see this being misidentified but I do testing with FTIR at my job, although not often for microplastics and we often detect olefins and stearates and they don't seem to get confused. I didn't realize there were stearates on nitrile gloves, we'll need to be more careful of that. We are always weary of protein contamination from people, or cellulose/nylon from clothing.

I have a semi-decent Lenovo Thinkpad T14 and its still meh. Prefer my M4 air.

My M4 Air was $750 on black friday 2025. I bought it after I cracked the screen on my M1 and the cost to repair was half the cost of the much newer computer.

Its slightly worse in my opinion but I don't have huge issues with it. Still way better than Windows 11 on my work computer.