jbz
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馃樋 My late Oscar growing up on my Thinkpad
馃樋 My late Oscar growing up on my Thinkpad
Michael Dexter
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"If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up with Hill, who today runs his own firm, ThinkNext Design, to talk about the history of ThinkPad, what drove him to make key design decisions, and the products he wanted to come out with but just couldn't."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/
"If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up with Hill, who today runs his own firm, ThinkNext Design, to talk about the history of ThinkPad, what drove him to make key design decisions, and the products he wanted to come out with but just couldn't."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/
Anke
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idle question: does anyone (ideally in Canada) sell refurbished ThinkPad X230s with all the upgrades done? bigger SSD, more RAM, etc. (OS not required.)
at this point in my life i would absolutely pay extra for someone to do all the hunting for parts, hardware installing, etc.
idle question: does anyone (ideally in Canada) sell refurbished ThinkPad X230s with all the upgrades done? bigger SSD, more RAM, etc. (OS not required.)
at this point in my life i would absolutely pay extra for someone to do all the hunting for parts, hardware installing, etc.
I'm on a #Thinkpad T14 running #Debian 12, and it doesn't recognize the wifi card. This happens when Thinkpads have a #Realtek WAN, and sadly, technicians have told me it is soldered on. However, two things
a) The Bluetooth works fine (on the same board, right?)
b) "lsusb" shows me this:
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 8087:0026 Intel Corp. AX201 Bluetooth
I'm confused by all this. Help would be appreciated.
bioinformatician_next_door
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New blog post, on the joys of hackable tech and the new Framework 12: 'The Framework 12 is the Thinkpad X220 we deserve in 2025'
New blog post, on the joys of hackable tech and the new Framework 12: 'The Framework 12 is the Thinkpad X220 we deserve in 2025'
Michael Dexter
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Extremely satisfied with my ThinkPad T480 running on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE!
I got the machine used and upgraded it:
- 32 GB of memory
- 1 TB SATA SSD
- Innolux N140HCG-GQ2 FHD LCD panel
- New Lenovo backlight keyboard (US-ANSI)
- Glass Trackpad from X1 Carbon
- Intel AX210 WiFi module (802.11ax)
- Dual batteries
Literally everything in that laptop, that I need does work on FreeBSD 14.3:
- WiFi with 5Ghz and proper speeds
- Sleep/Resume
- Integrated Webcam
- Power management
- Trackpad
- Thunderbolt Docking (including Audio and HDMI)
It's the perfect development and productvity machine 
Extremely satisfied with my ThinkPad T480 running on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE!
I got the machine used and upgraded it:
- 32 GB of memory
- 1 TB SATA SSD
- Innolux N140HCG-GQ2 FHD LCD panel
- New Lenovo backlight keyboard (US-ANSI)
- Glass Trackpad from X1 Carbon
- Intel AX210 WiFi module (802.11ax)
- Dual batteries
Literally everything in that laptop, that I need does work on FreeBSD 14.3:
- WiFi with 5Ghz and proper speeds
- Sleep/Resume
- Integrated Webcam
- Power management
- Trackpad
- Thunderbolt Docking (including Audio and HDMI)
It's the perfect development and productvity machine
Dreaming of getting my hands on a Lenovo ThinkPad X201 tablet someday! Imagine the possibilities with a clean install of Slackware. That legendary keyboard and robust build would be perfect for a lightweight and customizable Linux experience. Anyone in Brazil 馃嚙馃嚪 know where to find these gems? Let's make it happen! 馃ぉ
#ThinkPad #Lenovo #Slackware #LinuxDreams #RetroTech
馃捑 4am AMD Xorg/Kernel Debugging 馃捑
Ongoing fun ongoes, so much so. This iteration receives triple output: tty video (Display Port), COM1 redirect via DB9 to laptop running minicom, COM2 to the usual BMC SoL terminal watched from ipmitool on adjacent laptop.
Coming up, rebooting into GENERIC-DEBUG kernel rebuilt with remote GDM (kgdb) access via the COM1 link to laptop.
monitor connected to desktop, with separate laptop connected to desktop via COM1 and COM2 serial links, as described in the post. color and contrast boosted for low light readability.
monitor connected to desktop, showing Xorg session log during tty crash handler exit