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Picked up a Thinkpad T14s Gen 5 (Intel) today. Intel Core Ultra 5 135U, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD. It even has an NPU.
I went through the Windows 11 setup to see if there were firmware upgrades that could only be installed from Windows. Then I installed Fedora Silverblue on it to skip having to deal with Windows on a daily basis.
Everything seems to work, even the fingerprint reader. Now to figure out if the NPU is accessible from Linux and what to do with it.
#Knockoff #3rdParty #Thinkpad #batteries, I tell ya.
Who feels my pain? ;)
2025-03-28 13:48 Battery 0: Not charging, 97%; Battery 1: Discharging, 73%, 08:18:18 remaining; 3.46108 W; uptime: 21 days, 16:14
<system is in S3 suspend during this period>
2025-03-29 20:24 Battery 0: Discharging, 78%, 01:53:07 remaining; Battery 1: Not charging, 0%; 3.339 W; uptime: 22 days, 22:50
stuff-lined-up-prettily version:
2025-03-28 13:48 Battery 0: Not charging, 97%; Battery 1: Discharging, 73%, 08:18:18 remaining; 3.46108 W; uptime: 21 days, 16:14
2025-03-29 20:24 Battery 0: Discharging, 78%, 01:53:07 remaining; Battery 1: Not charging, 0%; 3.339 W; uptime: 22 days, 22:50
compact version:
2025-03-28 13:48 Battery 0: Not charging, 97%; Battery 1: Discharging, 73%
2025-03-29 20:24 Battery 0: Discharging, 78%; Battery 1: Not charging, 0%
Battery 0: internal genuine thinkpad batteryBattery 1: knockoff LexCorp-procured battery
Credo che alla fine sia successo: la batteria del mio #Thinkpad T420 sembra aver lasciato questo mondo terreno. La spia di ricarica lampeggia di arancione e dunque questo credo sia il segnale della sua dipartita.
Prima di decretarne il definitivo trapasso, qualche appassionato di Thinkpad mi puó confermare questa cosa?
If this world had any sense left, we would be bringing back the ThinkLight.
en.wikipedia.orgThinkLight - Wikipedia
Someone just donated this barely used t14!
Damn I'm a sucker for a #thinkpad especially one in great shape like this.
Going to make someone very happy!
"Self portrait of a Witch in Her Garage." Shot with #canon SD400 using the Canon Hack Development Kit for RAW images. Developed using #darktable on my beloved thicc gurl #thinkpad running #ubuntu studio.
I've been gifted a Thinkpad X220 that's been lying dormant a number of years.
Instead of my usual Debian I _was_ going to install Arch, but now I'm thinking of making it a dedicated BSD machine. Going to give OpenBSD a go. 
Here is my #bio / #introduction just for the bsd.cafe community:
Hi, I'm R.L. I've dabbled in the fediverse since 2018 (originally mastodon.host (sadly defunct), then librem.one around 2019, then fosstodon starting in April 2022, then alpha.polymaths.social in fall 2023, and finally polymaths.social last October).
Last week, I migrated my main fediverse account from the excellent fosstodon.org to polymaths.social to take advantage of the camaraderie there, and of course the generous post character count limits. XD
I've dabbled in Linux since 1997, used it at home since 2000, and used it full time uninterrupted as my daily driver since 2019.
I've dabbled in the BSDs since 2022 or so, and currently have an #OpenBSD #Thinkpad which I use as a dedicated writing machine.
I love the power (hardware compatibility, feature set) and ease-of-use of Linux, and the "purity" and "unixyness" of the BSDs.
I was an infosec analyst and sysadmin in a previous life, but have left that behind, for my own sanity's sake. ;)
This will be my backup account, so please definitely follow me at @rl_dane@polymaths.social, but I look forward to having enjoyable chats on here as well from time to time.
Many thanks to @stefano@bsd.cafe for adding me!
P.S., Thanks for all the boost/retoot love!
Hi, I'm R.L. I've dabbled in the fediverse since 2018 (originally mastodon.host (sadly defunct), then librem.one around 2019, then fosstodon starting in April 2022, then alpha.polymaths.social in fall 2023, and finally polymaths.social last October).
Last week, I migrated my main fediverse account from the excellent fosstodon.org to polymaths.social to take advantage of the camaraderie there, and of course the generous post character count limits. XD
I've dabbled in Linux since 1997, used it at home since 2000, and used it full time uninterrupted as my daily driver since 2019.
I've dabbled in the BSDs since 2022 or so, and currently have an #OpenBSD #Thinkpad which I use as a dedicated writing machine.
I love the power (hardware compatibility, feature set) and ease-of-use of Linux, and the "purity" and "unixyness" of the BSDs.
I was an infosec analyst and sysadmin in a previous life, but have left that behind, for my own sanity's sake. ;)
This will be my backup account, so please definitely follow me at @rl_dane@polymaths.social, but I look forward to having enjoyable chats on here as well from time to time.
Many thanks to @stefano@bsd.cafe for adding me!
P.S., Thanks for all the boost/retoot love!
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@fuchsiii @littlefox yeah, you're herding #ThinkPad|s!
Man, so many YT Shorts videos be like,
"Hey gamer guy, I bought a flobbyprock garbleflink GPU but my CPU is only a snazzysaurus rhinoplasty! What should I do?!?"
Me: GET A LIFE. And get off the hardware consumerism treadmill, ya hoser.
Written from my glorious piece of crap #thinkpad. (Nah, actually my 2022 LG Gram, but it's a work machine ;)
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ThinkPad Hacking: Replace Lenovo Logo with FreeBSD at Boot
https://video.fosshq.org/videos/watch/2a003cb6-47bf-4909-992b-8c6c8ad808c7
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It's still a nifty little machine. The body is a wee bit beat up: The hinge took some abuse when it fell face-first one time, so it opens way more than it should, and the screws holding it together eventually fatigued the thin aluminum frame near the hinges to the point that I had to get bigger screws, because the holes became larger than the stock screw heads.
There is one piece of blue painter's tape holding the left part of the hinge together, because I got tired of screwing it back together every few days.
But for the money, especially back in 2021, it's been a great little machine. I could only properly replace it with a machine of comparable or less weight, so I guess I'll save up a little bit for a used X1 Carbon.
Mine will be 4 years old of nearly daily use (definitely daily use until early last year when I got my #Thinkpad X260) in a little less than a couple months! :D
Not sure I can recommend it new today, as the hardware is over five years old. And of course, the webcam is useless, the trackpad is a pain, and Linux on ARM is still not a fun experience.
But the screen is crisp and lovely, and at least I feel like the keyboard is a joy to type on.
Gottfrid Svartholm one of the co-founders of the pirate bay website, at his work station.
I helped my mother to find a replacement for her *very* old (and partially broken) notebook, and now I have a nice refurbished #Thinkpad T15 (Gen1) sitting here on my couch. It's suddenly this great "shiny new toy feeling" again and I'd love to just keep that machine 
Anyways, she told me it should "work exactly as before", so I'll install #FreeBSD 14.2 on it soon. It came with #Windows 10 preinstalled and I just extracted the product key. Question: Is this all I need to be able to reinstall Windows later if ever needed?