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My boss gifted me an old thinkpad x31
(lemmy.world)
ofc I imediatly upgraded it from winxp to gnu/linux
Open media vault and monero? But why?
Also Ollama in a 10 year old laptop will be fun.
Is he doing lines and smoking or just smoking very crooked joints?
Yes
He doesn't know, that's how fucked up he is.
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I'm new to Linux; what's with the ThinkPad hype?
They generally have really great linux support for all of their hardware (touchpads, fingerprint readers, etc.), and provide bios updates via fwdup. They are also just nice laptops.
Yeah back when it was IBM before they sold off to Lenovo. Back when their biggest selling point was their priority was keeping you up & running and getting work done. Nowadays nearly all the products are made with the priority “So, how do we design this so the user will have to pay for it multiple times?”
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They're reliable, good quality, have amazing keyboards, and work well with Linux (some even support Libreboot).
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I've owned/used HPs, Dells, and several Thnkpads and the thinkpads by far are always the best machines. They are built to last, support is top notch.
It's a hype for very old, repairable laptops. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, if you want a repairable laptop go for a Framework
you can't get a framework for 20€ on ebay tho + old thinkpads (older laptops in general) are just way robuster and have better build quality in general
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ThinkPads are business machines and those are extremely repairable compared to consumer machines. Even my shitty Dell precision has instructions on how to disassemble it etched onto the mainboard. And since business laptops get dumped after a few years of relatively light use (many are de facto stationary), you can get pretty good machines for very cheap.
ThinkPads are just very popular, because they are consistently pretty good and don't stand in your way softwarewise, which isn't always true for Dell or HP machines.
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I don't have over 1k to drop on a laptop, I spent $150 on a T440p, it does web browsing and other basic tasks very well.
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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.
Very cool. I love those IBM Thinkpads. ~~Fuck lenovo~~
the 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.
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Good boss. What are you using it as? I'm guessing some homelab setup but will be interesting to know
so far using it as cd player and file writer, would've used it as a dvd player, but the video playback is not that great
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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.
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What distro did you put on it?
debian, due to the good 32bit support
Nice. Seems kind of appropriate, given the age of the machine (besides the 32bit support).
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Libreboot it.
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