Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Old Hardware Redux Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:58:58 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <1084bk6$2ia1m$2@paganini.bofh.team> <1084bpn$7mtq$26@dont-email.me> <1084hg0$b9ca$1@dont-email.me> <7dlbakl6pj5blemm3d5kq54ks59hltu1rc@joergwalther.my-fqdn.de> <108ngg1$2rad6$1@news1.tnib.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="df0fb0ede1b88d03536ca48ae7398f9e"; logging-data="1467775"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/qQz9b1Q6g1ixbtUjNau4vnNrs2d1yDX8=" User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1tEJ2+K8ISV0we4IXOgfHPKcQNM= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72524 Groovy hepcat Marc Haber was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Thu, 28 Aug 2025 03:49 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it. > Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote: >>Groovy hepcat Joerg Walther was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Thu, >>21 Aug 2025 12:16 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it. >> >>> The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> >>>>Laptops are more frail and get harder treatment >>> >>> Depends on which model you look at. I exclusively use secondhand >>> Thinkpads and there still is no single one that failed in any way. I >>> just bought an X280 (12') model from 2018 to use at work and expect >>> that it will at least work until I am retired in 4 years time. An >>> acquaintance of mine uses a 20+ year old Thinkpad as a kind of >>> server with iirc Damn Small Linux or something similar. Most >>> "consumer level" notebooks otoh are imho not to be trusted. :) >> >> My experience with Thinkpads is completely different. I've had >> several >>(all second hand), of several different models, mainly because they're >>quite cheap. Every single one has broken down on me fairly quickly. So >>I've sworn off them. > > A Thinkpad MUST have T or X Letters. Never, L, R or E. I didn't mention any of those letters, so I don't know where you're coming from there. However, I did accidentally tell a slight falsehood. I do have one that hasn't broken down on me. But even that is not in such great condition, and I don't use it anymore. I have cloth tape, similar to duct tape, holding parts of it together. And just in case you're wondering, I can't find any of the above letters on it. The only mark I can see identifying the model is "Yoga". -- ----- Dig the NEW and IMPROVED news sig!! ----- -------------- Shaggy was here! --------------- Ain't I'm a dawg!!