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   meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 09:18:41 JST meso

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   >Autistic transgender anarchist. Front of the front-end web developer. Linux user. Garbage computer hardware tinkerer. My ThinkPad and Casio F-91W are cooler than your Macbook and Apple Watch. Hail Eris.
   @VIPPER @yomiel bro became the /g/ meme
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     mischievoustomato@0.5dollah.click's status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 09:41:40 JST mischievoustomato

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     @Tadano @VIPPER @jimmy @meso @yomiel the old thinkpads work well as office machines i suppose but once you require any performance they are left in the dus, no?

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     Tadano (tadano@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 09:41:41 JST Tadano

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     @yomiel @VIPPER @jimmy @meso Everyone loves old Thinkpads until the battery life hits and you have to carry the bloody thing daily
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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 09:41:42 JST Yomiel

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     @meso @VIPPER @jimmy
     falling for the thinkpad meme is a right of passa/g/e
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     meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 09:41:43 JST meso

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     @VIPPER @jimmy @yomiel >My ThinkPad and Casio F-91W
     this one hit too close to home
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     meso (meso@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 09:41:44 JST meso

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     @VIPPER @yomiel cc @jimmy
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     sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 10:08:16 JST sapphire

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     @skylar @Tadano @VIPPER @jimmy @meso @yomiel friend this is just the windows laptop experience after 2015
     >buy new dell in 2018
     >get it home
     >windows update
     >no longer sleeps
     >apparently Microsoft changed the way it interacts with sleep states, requires a small bios change
     >check Dell for bios update
     >nope
     >check Dell forums
     >Dell jeet told a guy to go fuck himself since the laptop is “out of production”
     >return to Best Buy
     >buy a MacBook
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 10:08:17 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     @Tadano @VIPPER @jimmy @meso @yomiel thinkpads are some of the worst laptops on the market
     i had one as a work laptop years ago and will never buy anything from lenovo as long as i live
     
     the screen was dim as shit, not to mention some dogshit resolution like 1280x800. the keyboard layout was insane and they moved the control key to put a function key in the corner. the whole thing felt flimsy and sometimes you had to use an absurd amount of force to get the power button to work. it had a latching lid and if you were the slightest bit off center when closing it, the lid wouldn't latch. it would constantly fail to recognize one or more external monitors and require a reboot before it did.
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     mischievoustomato@0.5dollah.click's status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 19:15:43 JST mischievoustomato

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     @Tadano @VIPPER @jimmy @meso @yomiel I don't know when did they became good but i saw a dude with a coffeelake thinkpad drawing 3W at idle.

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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 19:15:44 JST Yomiel

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     @Tadano @VIPPER @jimmy @meso
     I bought a factory new X200 battery once and it still only held 3-4 hours of charge
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     Tadano (tadano@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 19:15:44 JST Tadano

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     @yomiel @VIPPER @jimmy @meso honestly astounded by how anyone tolerated the sheer power inefficiency of early Intel laptop chips. And the throttling! I'm glad Apple's lighting a fire under the laptop industry's arse with ARM chips.