The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Eternal Spirit of Light said:
What's the latest IBM one and how well does it run?
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Problably the T43p from 2005

Standard Features
Intel Pentium M (Dothan) 1.86, 2.0, 2.13 or 2.26GHz CPU
ATI Mobility FireGL V3200 with 128MB
One of the following TFT displays:
14.1" TFT display with 1400x1050 resolution
15.0" TFT display with 1600x1200 resolution (FlexView LCD with an IPS panel)
512MB or 1GB PC2-4200 memory standard (2 GB max)
60, 80 or 100GB HDD1
Intel AC'97 Audio with a AD1981B codec
Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000)
UltraBay Slim with one of the following:
DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo
DVD±RW
CDC slot with one of the following:
IBM Integrated 56K Modem (MDC-2)
IBM Integrated Bluetooth IV with 56K Modem (BMDC-3)
MiniPCI slot with one of the following:
IBM 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter II
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Mini-PCI Adapter
Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Mini-PCI Adapter
CardBus slot (Type 2)
ExpressCard/54 slot
IBM Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0
IBM Active Protection System
Integrated Fingerprint Reader on select systems
UltraNav (TrackPoint / Touchpad combo)
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Eternal Spirit of Light said:
What's the latest IBM one and how well does it run?
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Not well. The IBMs and even many of the early Lenovos are just too old to be useful for anything but a retro programmer-socks novelty build.
Unless you have particular Stallmanite free-as-in-toejam requirements, I wouldn't go any older than the Lenovo T430 for a computer you actually plan to use. At that point you at least have a 64-bit CPU with a few cores, a reasonable RAM capacity, and SATA III.
 
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Eternal Spirit of Light said:
What's the latest IBM one and how well does it run?
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Unfortunately, like that other dude pointed out, about 2005. They were very good for their time. They are unfortunately obsolete at this point. None of the Lenovos are worth shit.
 
AnOminous said:
Unfortunately, like that other dude pointed out, about 2005. They were very good for their time. They are unfortunately obsolete at this point. None of the Lenovos are worth shit.
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I mean, I have a T60p, just post-IBM, and with maxed out RAM it is _technically_ usable for browsing the web (though not viewing any video in the web browser even at my preferred 480p). If I swapped in the absolute best CPU you can get for them it would get those fancy new 64-bit instructions AMD just came up with and might be about half as useful as a modern Chromebook.

Very nicely put together though, the squarer design holds up a lot better against knocks than the newer ones that have fancy 45' angles and nonsense like that.
 
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AnOminous said:
Unfortunately, like that other dude pointed out, about 2005. They were very good for their time. They are unfortunately obsolete at this point. None of the Lenovos are worth shit.
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My Yoga gen 5 has been pretty decent, and have been really good quality compared to other laptops I've had. If ThinkPads are shit, what does that make Acer or HP and so on? Is there a single brand you wouldn't say is shit?
 
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Car Won't Crank said:
Isn't that also called a hairpin NAT?
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That sounds right. As per Google's shit AI:
"Hairpin NAT" is also referred to as NAT loopback, NAT reflection, or U-Turn NAT; all of these terms describe the same network function where a device on a private network accesses another device on the same network using the public IP address of the router, essentially causing traffic to "loop back" within the local network instead of going out to the internet and then returning.
Key points about these names:
Hairpin NAT: The most common and descriptive term, visualizing the traffic flow as a "hairpin turn" within the network.
NAT loopback: Emphasizes the traffic looping back to the local network.
NAT reflection: Highlights the aspect of the traffic being "reflected" back to the local network.
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The last thing I think of is a hairpin turn when I hear "hairpin NAT."
 
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Does SteamOS let you choose the desktop environment on login? So you can use it normally has a game console usually, but when plugged into a dock with monitors and keyboard/mouse you can get a standard KDE desktop?
 
Betonhaus said:
Does SteamOS let you choose the desktop environment on login? So you can use it normally has a game console usually, but when plugged into a dock with monitors and keyboard/mouse you can get a standard KDE desktop
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Without any tinkering you have to select desktop mode, it only boots to game mode
 
I have a 2019 Thinkpad e series. With amd, I have a couple older thinkpads too. Around 2014ish. W series and txxxp. I actually like the new one enough that, I've pretty much fully moved to it. The w series one in particular actually has a powerful enough CPU, that even with the same thread count as the and (8 thread). It seems to be a tiny bit snappier. But the newer one just is nicer to use as a laptop, being 14 inch, lighter, and slimmer.

The newer ones keyboard isn't quite as nice, and it's not backlit (I didn't realize the amd line didn't allow for a backlit keyboard mod when I bought it. But even so, it just feels more ergonomic to use, so I end up using it more. And the older ones are either just used for testing distros, or window managers or anything I don't want to put on the newer one I actually use.
 
Betonhaus said:
If ThinkPads are shit, what does that make Acer or HP and so on? Is there a single brand you wouldn't say is shit?
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I hate to say it but Apple at the high end, although I probably wouldn't buy one in current year.

At the low end, I just go for the cheapest thing that works so I don't really have to care if I beat it around, drop it, or whatever. That means they're shit but I don't generally care. I generally only use them for shit like web browsing anyway, and if I want to do "real" work, VNC in to control my home computer instead.
 
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AnOminous said:
I hate to say it but Apple at the high end, although I probably wouldn't buy one in current year.
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Apple spent five years gaslighting it's users about their butterfly keyboards only to finally give up on them and go with something that doesn't break all the time. They had a laptop where if you opened it all the way the display cable broke.
 
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There are some decent high end laptops out there not made by apple. I would probably get a framework or something along those lines of I wanted to buy something new, that was high end.

Personally I think it's better to just get something used, a couple years old. You can look on eBay and see if anything decent stands out. I personally if I was going to get another, would probably get one similar to the 2019 Thinkpad. There is a series that has a bit higher specs and actually lets you have a backlit keyboard. I can't remember the name. But if I was in the market for another, and I saw a decent deal on eBay that would be what I would get. It's spending the same price as a crappy Chromebook, to get a laptop that would probably be 3x the price if you were buying something similar brand new.
 
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