ofc I imediatly upgraded it from winxp to gnu/linux
I love it!!!
makes me think of the good ol’t times when the air was cleaner, roads were safer and our bosses used to pay us in Thinkpads, not this “fiat money” nonsense.
I’m new to Linux; what’s with the ThinkPad hype?
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You can find them for really good prices usually.
I mean, work in a tech field and have good relations with people who manage hardware, you’ll get to keep some that goes to garbage then, you’ll be surprised how much fairly recent hardware is thrown out by companies
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Very cool. I love those IBM Thinkpads.
Fuck lenovothe older lenovo models aren’t bad, but the shit they pump out recently is well, shit
They had a Chinese back door in the firmware. Don’t know if that’s still the case. https://www.techworm.net/2015/08/lenovo-pcs-and-laptops-seem-to-have-a-bios-level-backdoor.html They’ve had several major (intentional) security flaws over the years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo They had a modified UEFI that allows insecure execution of EXEs. The Lenovo laptops given to US military in Iraq had keyloggers that sent all inputs back to China.
Haven’t really used the older models but the x1c line is decent imo. Also t14. Z line is also good but focuses on different crowd.
I thought Lenovo was two different brands, one consumer (terrible) and one corporate (decent). Is that no longer true?
Thigh socks not included
don’t worry, I do have some
Based
I’m a gnu/linux noob. I recently installed Pop OS on two older laptops. Am loving it so far. Going to work on getting games functioning on one of them next.
Was blown away when the built-in Disks program was able to easily fix a couple of thumb drives I have that were suffering from logical corruption. They were completely unusable in Windows 11. I tried 4 different methods in Windows 11 to fix them, with zero luck. Disks fixed them in 2 clicks. They are nicer thumb drives and were somewhat expensive. I am very happy to have them back.
These are good at holding all sorts of things like doors.
Nice. I use older lappies to remote control my i7 machine. They can be fairly good dumb terminals.
Libreboot it.
This is from 2004: https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/ibm-thinkpad-x31 It will chew amps (electricity). Recycle it as best you can. Grab a modern box instead.
Unless sparks are free where you live, this beast will become a liability very quickly.
I totally get what you’re saying, but I suspect the OP is not going to be using this device full-time. Or even part-time.
I’d run XFCE themed with Chicago95 in this everyday.
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