winterschon, to FreeBSD
@winterschon@hachyderm.io avatar

common linux-user FUD on FreeBSD forums:

> "modern wifi doesn't work!"
> "it won't run a desktop"

reality: user doesn't want to read docs/man/apropos

here's a Thinkpad X1 Nano:

  • KDE Plasma6 on FreeBSD 14.0R-p6
  • Intel AX201 wifi (basic wpa-supplicant params)
  • external travel monitor: plug-n-play, it just works

time required: 20 minutes of relaxed leisurely morning coffee sipping

haskman,
@haskman@functional.cafe avatar

@winterschon I installed Neon on a P14s and everything worked out of the box including WiFi, power management, the printer, and the fingerprint reader. Fantastic experience

fedora, to fedora
@fedora@fosstodon.org avatar

Folks are enjoying the Fedora and @centos booth at Red Hat Summit this week. Come check out the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and Slimbook Fedora 1 if you're here!

Thanks to Lenovo and Slimbook for these awesome devices that come with Fedora preinstalled!

stdevel, to IBM
@stdevel@chaos.social avatar

Won some nice swag for the @thinkpadmuseum 🤩

eht16, to thinkpad
@eht16@floss.social avatar

Hey X1C fans,
had anyone such strange battery charge behavior? As you can see in the screenshot, charge rate is very low.
My X1 Carbon Gen8 (20U9) loads the battery only very very slowly, happens on both USB-C ports.
The charger works fine on another 20U9 device. The BIOS was updated to the latest version recently, no change.
The net knows a lot about charging problems with Gen7 and Gen9 but nothing about Gen8.

Is that battery just dying?

Maybe @zhenech or @thinkpadmuseum?

governa, to ubuntu
@governa@fosstodon.org avatar
faizalr, to thinkpad
@faizalr@mstdn.social avatar

I updated my old with the latest Linux. Boot this machine after the last system hiccup that I thought the motherboard had been faulty. I can't wait for Wayland.

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Version: 5.27.11
Qt Version: 5.15.12
Kernel-Version: 6.8.8-2-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 2 × Intel® Core™2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz
Memory: 2.9 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: i915
Product Name: 1951BJ2
System Version: ThinkPad T60

nixCraft, to thinkpad
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

If your employer gives this laptop you don’t have to worry about layoffs …

birv2, to thinkpad
@birv2@pkm.social avatar

Looking forward to setting up my used with next week. Looking for recos for easy syncing, mainly for my and stuff. What have you used that you could recommend? I do have GDrive working well on my Windows machines, so could go that route,, though not familiar with how to do that on linux. Thanks!

NanoRaptor, to random
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar

Levono ThinkPad.

faizalr,
@faizalr@mstdn.social avatar
Arataka, to thinkpad
@Arataka@esper.lol avatar

Had to get the ThinkPad out so I could use this bad boy with some network reconfigurations, the MacBook could not handle it’s immense power!

faizalr, to Blog
@faizalr@mstdn.social avatar
denzilferreira, to diy
@denzilferreira@techhub.social avatar

I had bought a T495 second hand from Taitonetti.fi and I thought it didn't have backlight. The trackpoint and the buttons from the trackpad were not working when I got it, so I thought it was not compatible with Linux perhaps. Today I saw a video on how to replace the keyboard and I thought, let me see if there is something wrong with the keyboard. Guess what? The keyboard is working properly, a ribbon cable was not properly inserted. Now fully operational.

LateNightLinux, to linux
@LateNightLinux@mastodon.cloud avatar

Dalton asks us when consumer computers peaked which stirs up a debate about various generations of XPS and ThinkPad laptops, trackpads vs trackpoints, P-cores and E-cores, and more. Plus follow-up on the devices and software we trust.

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-68/

governa, to fedora
@governa@fosstodon.org avatar

Here we go! 39>40 upgrade time. :fedora:

:thinkpad:

fedora, to fedora
@fedora@fosstodon.org avatar

Fedora Linux 40 is HERE! Check out all our latest variants for desktop, server, and more.

New features include:

  • @kde Plasma 6
  • @gnome 46
  • Fedora Atomic Desktops (rebrand for Silverblue et al)
  • PyTorch / ROCm
  • And more!

Learn more and try Fedora 40 today! https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

inaction_figure,
@inaction_figure@fosstodon.org avatar

@fedora @kde @gnome Great job, @fedora and @kde !

I'm excited to update my to Fedora 40 Kinoite and Plasma6!

mirabilos, to thinkpad DE
@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org avatar

Liebes Fediversum,

ich habe hier ein , das „Fan Error“ schmeißt.

Das hatte ich schonmal repariert gehabt (ganze Kühlkörper-Lüfter-Kombo ausgetauscht), aber anscheinend bin ich nicht gut genug für um mit Hardware was zu machen. Daher würde ich das jetzt gerne professionell reparieren lassen, von jemandem, der da Ahnung von hat. (Daß das über dem Neuwert liegt ist mir klar, aber ich mag keine neueren Laptops, die machen alles kaputt (Display doof, Tastatur doof, Touchpad).)

Haken: es handelt sich um mein Dienstlaptop, daher braucht’s eine Rechnung auf den Firmennamen hinterher, und bitte in .de.

Kennt da wer wen…?

PendragonUK, to thinkpad
@PendragonUK@fosstodon.org avatar

Just upgraded the screen on my old ThinkPad X220. Now rocking a new/old-stock IPS panel. It's looks lovely. AliExpress for the win for less than £40 shipped!

xan, to thinkpad
@xan@xantronix.social avatar

I have obtained a beautiful IBM ThinkPad 560. Unfortunately, there are no signs of life when power is applied. However, it's in such lovely shape that I have no choice but to repair this.

ckae, to thinkpad German
@ckae@swiss.social avatar

Letzte Woche habe ich mir ein "neues" gekauft. Bin sehr zufrieden (Zustand und Preis top) und hat sogar ein WWAN Modul.
Jetzt noch eine grössere 2TB SSD reinmachen und evtl. Etwas mehr RAM (wobei, für Linux auch 16GB ganz okay sind).

fitheach, to thinkpad
@fitheach@mstdn.io avatar

Calling all ThinkPad users.

A while back, I sprayed sparkling mineral water all over my ThinkPad keyboard. Despite drying it immediately, the keyboard always malfunctioned after that incident.

I purchased a replacement keyboard from TellusRem, as they are considerably cheaper than the Lenovo originals.

I can report that the TellusRem keyboard is every bit as good as the original.

schwoens, to linux
@schwoens@mstdn.social avatar

My laptop is kinda falling apart and I am considering buying a refurbished :thinkpad: 🤔 It's way cheaper than buying a new one and if I slap on that bad boy (I'd do that anyways) it might just be awesome...

faizalr,
@faizalr@mstdn.social avatar

@schwoens Go for it, T480 is known as a great machine.

ben, to thinkpad
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk avatar

Gotta love the web...

Littlun's wont power on or acknowledge a charger. Searching to make sure there's nothing I missed when I found a page that gives the following troubleshooting steps:

  1. Check cable for damage
  2. Do a power reset
  3. Update the battery driver
  4. Update your BIOS
  5. Switch to a Chromebook

It's like they wrote 4 steps and then went "ah, you're fucked mate"

Ricardus, to thinkpad
@Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

I might have posted about this already, but it looks like a cat must have landed on my laptop pretty hard when it was closed one day, because now some parts of the screen are brighter than others.

It's an old lappie, but I've come to love it (it was also a gift) so I am going to try to replace the screen. The videos make it look easy.

Anyone out there done this before?

.

cybette, to random
@cybette@mastodon.org.uk avatar

Hyvää ystävänpäivää! Happy friends day!

I'm still under the weather (enough to get another 3 days of sick leave from the doc 🤧), but thinking of dear friends old and new (and hoping none of you are suffering in misery like me 🤪).

While I have a new friend to keep me company, I haven't mustered enough energy to play with them yet... which is so out of character for me coz usually I'd be jumping on such a new friend 😍

cybette,
@cybette@mastodon.org.uk avatar

Went with Damascus Obsidian skin from to cover my gen 11.

The laptop is running hotter than the previous gens... (even before applying the skin). Is that a known issue?

Showing the reflective skin that's mostly black but reflects light in all colours of the spectrum. Music is Obsidian Rain by Kayla Waters.

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