r/thinkpad • u/hippy_old • 14h ago
Thinkstagram Picture First ThinkРad for a 50-year-old developer
Also switching to Linux and new stack. It's never too late to try something new )
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u/Beautiful_Ad_4813 E14, 10th Gen i5, Linux 12h ago
I I I'm sorry I got distracted at the tea pot.
what a absolute piece of art
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u/netnegativecarbon 8h ago
Welcome to the club. What's in the kettle? :)
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u/hippy_old 7h ago
Usually pu-erh or oolong )
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u/netnegativecarbon 7h ago
I have oolong to my left in a tin, and just finished my pu-erh stock. Stellar choices :D be well!
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u/1tjustm3 14h ago
Nice! what specs?
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u/hippy_old 14h ago edited 14h ago
T16 Gen4 AMD. But... it's a bit of a complicated story: I bought it from some dubious guys who stripped it of its original memory and SSD and tried to sell it to me with a dead drive, judging by the hours of use, pulled from some server, and two 8 GB memory sticks. Otherwise, the computer is like brand new. I had to haggle and test it like it was my last. Now it has 16 GB of inferior memory (will be upgraded someday) and a non-original 1 TB drive (already replaced). But everything seems to have worked out.
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u/DirectionFragrant207 9h ago
Just bought one Dell latitude 5520 in the same condition without ram and SSD. Actually I didn't know if it work or not and the seller doesn't know it too. But he give me a good price of 25€ and today I turned it on and for my surprise it was used for near two years so it's basically like brand new and work great even the battery is in perfect condition. I hope you made a good deal. I have 5 ThinkPads and love them. The old ones were build to last.
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u/AneTheDust X32 X230T T530 X1 Yoga Gen 2 A485 E14 Gen 6 HP Elitebook 745 G6 8h ago
Shame on them still 16gigs is 16gigs the amds are not intels for some odd reason they love slow inferior ram I have 2 sticks of team group 16gb ddr4 before the prices got triple the L14 of my little sister comes with one stick of 16gb ddr5
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u/AneTheDust X32 X230T T530 X1 Yoga Gen 2 A485 E14 Gen 6 HP Elitebook 745 G6 8h ago
Welcome to the family
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u/Economy_Post_8574 12h ago
Welcome to the club... As a developer, you'd give the AROS community massive reach on modern hardware!
... Our alpha is just starting to run on the Raspberry Pi 3
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u/Material-Ratio7342 P14s Gen5 AMD | 96GB Ram | 1tb SSD 6h ago
Noice !
Does it has ethernet port? Looking for a second thinkpad 🤭.
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u/armostallion2 13h ago
What repo management tool are you using? I have a sub to gitkraken but I’m not convinced I want to resub for another year, it’s pricey.
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u/hippy_old 10h ago
GitHub... but it's a corporate solution, and it's responsible for a ton of processes, including builds and releases...
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u/armostallion2 8h ago
oh lol, I'm very familiar with github. Our corporate repos are on Azure Devops, and we ues gitkraken for git GUI. Thanks for the response.
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u/LocalAltruistic7470 14h ago
hyprland? looks sick on the 15"