I have 4 thinkpads
Edit: 5 thinkpads i forgot about one of them. If we add my boyfriends thats 6 in the house
…i wonder if i should’ve bought a thinkpad rather than a “gaming laptop” lmao
especially as i’m not even playing games on it, moreso just using it for work
though not putting playing games fully out the window too
If you have $200 and want a fallback, the t480 is one of the most recent ones with everything replaceable and decent specs.
64gb max ram and two bootable drives and two batteries iirc but you can’t replace the processor and you gotta watch out for the 480s that has a soldered stick.
My T430 still works in theory but the hinges are broken. I should probably see if I can find a broken one with a functional chassis and do the old swaparoo
Real Lenovo replacement hinges are only $15 shipped if it’s not the screw bosses in the chassis that are broke.
Thanks for the tip! It took a tumble onto pavement from a good height but I think somehow it is only the hinge that’s broken. If I can get a replacement hinge from Lenovo for an at this point over 10 year old laptop I’ll be very impressed. I should check if it has a socketed CPU too in case I can put a quad core in it…
Edit: The cpu is upgradable! I see people putting the 3840QM in it. This may send me down a rabbit hole…
I don’t know if you can get the part from Lenovo. You can look up the uhh fru(?) in the hardware manual.
Don’t get too crazy putting in the biggest chip it can handle, without the additional gpu cooler there isn’t really enough thermal mass in the heat sink to really keep the hot chips frosty.
Plenty of other crap to put in, Bluetooth, ssd, etc.
still using arch
mastodon tells me trans culture is being eaten alive by nix and guix
I ran Nix for a few months but I went back to Arch because it just didn’t feel right. My biggest issue/complaint being the whole filesystem hierarchy standard being thrown out the window, and yes I am aware of buildFHSUserEnv
, but it just feels so wrong.
I love Nix. Arch is great, and I’ve used it before, but I love how easily I can just commit my Nix config to a hit repo and save my work after Ive spent 5 hours configuring every app with a pastel color scheme.
i will admit here that i use garuda because i wanna use arch but not install and configure arch
tbh it isn’t too bad, it almost felt a bit uhhhh cosplay-hardcore-ish? idk how to describe. There’s a big thing made about you having to configure the network, which you definitely do, but other than that everything seems to basically work out of the box.
Of course things can go wrong, which they did in my case (dual-boot issues with windows & linux affecting the network card) which made it so I took a full week to get to a decent install. So yeah there’s that.
so me fr