Okay, so a few months ago, I accidentally killed my ThinkPad T480 by means I'm not willing to explain. Since then, I've been without a laptop... until someone helped me get one. We went onto eBay and bought a listing that was supposedly for a ThinkPad T420 (I decided to go with something older because that's what I originally intended to get; I only got the T480 because it was basically the oldest one I could get without my dad throwing a fit (he really wanted me to get a laptop that could run Windows 11 even though I have no such intent on putting Win11 on any of my devices)). However, when the laptop arrived a few days ago (which happened while I was trying to fill a job application for Publix), I opened the box, and as it turns out, the seller sent me the wrong laptop. What's worse, there's some cracked plastic near the vent on the left side and a broken off bit near the back vent. I decided to keep the laptop anyways, and asked the seller for a partial refund (about half of the listing's price to be exact). After we got the refund, we put the refunded money towards a bottom case to replace the current one with (luckily, that's the only thing about the laptop that's actually broken), as well as upgrade / add a few things.
I have two drives for this thing: the 512GB KingFast SSD that came out of my T480, and the HGST (Hitachi) HDD that the seller tossed into this thing. The KingFast drive has Gentoo Linux installed (shown here), while the HGST drive has Windows Vista installed. I don't have much more to say here, really.
