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@hazelnot@sunbeam.cityThe university I graduated from basically stole my Raspberry Pi. I submitted a Pi inside a PS1 case and a USB controller as part of my BA thesis, with the expectation that I'm going to receive it back at some point, but I've been emailing them every once in a while about it for the past like two years and they keep telling me they're gonna look for it and then nothing happens, rinse and repeat.
I'm starting to believe that I'm going to have to go there in person to recover it, but the trip there and back would be like 500 euros cause it's in the UK and I'm in Romania 
Does anyone have any ideas what I could do about this?
It also seems to be impossible to get a Pi that isn't the most expensive model in Romania, for some reason, so getting a new one would cost me like 200 euros too
@hazelnot You could try to put pressure on them via the Student Representative Council, most UK unis have one and they have a lot of power.
@hazelnot Do they regularly get hardware as part of thesis?
If not it could simply be that they actually lost it?
@lakoja I don't think they do *that* often, and mine is pretty distinctive cause it's in a PS1 case
@hazelnot (and if that is any help at some point for you it would probably be not problem to swag another type of Pi (not the most expensive one) over to you, ie. from Germany)
@hazelnot do you have any friends who are still at the university and could try to make some noise in person?
@guenther Nope, I had a quite weird university "career", most people I knew graduated 1-2 years before me and I never really interacted with people I didn't share classes with cause I'm a social anxiety mess
@hazelnot Which University? A bit of noise on Social Media (including the birdsite) may stir up some remorse. And get your Pi back
@prabirkc UAL, and the only social media I still use is this lmao
@hazelnot Full form of UAL is University of Arts London https://www.arts.ac.uk/ Have amplified already
@prabirkc I know what UAL stands for, I literally have a degree from them lmao