Finding out that t2linux is too broken was like finding out that Santa isn’t real

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    Corebooted Thinkpads are pretty ancient.

    But 3mdeb, Novacustom, Starlabs, System76… well and Chromebooks exist.

    Also no idea about the new ARM laptops.

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        3 months ago

        I bought an Asus Eee PC from 2007 for $7 a couple weeks ago and put NetBSD and it is honestly surprisingly usable for non web tasks. Your 2011 ThinkPad is like insane future technology by comparison

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        Yeah really. I have a T430, tried an i7 upgrade but it ate too much battery and was crazy hot (3632QM, the “normal” model!).

        The dual core CPU still works kinda well. The keyboard is awesome but loud. The screen is terrible. I have some phone speakers I plan to use for swapping the laptop ones which are crap too.

        My T495 had an even better keyboard but proprietary, outdated (kind of, got a Spectre patch).

        The clevo honestly has crappy external hardware except the excellent screen. Camera sucks, touchpad sucks, keyboard tolerable. Very strong i7 cpu and good peripherls (well, no displayport, a nogo for FOSS computers I think)

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          The screen on the t430 is indeed horrible but I had a very modern laptop before this which was pretty high spec, and it had a even worse screen than this somehow (it was some horrendous IPS display, I don’t even understand how you mess it up that bad). Compared to that pile of garbage this is much better. The only problem is that you can’t replace the display on the t430 as easily as a modern (non-touchscreen) laptop because it uses the LVDS interface instead of the modern eDP interface.

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      3 months ago

      You can run libreboot on newer devices but the Intel ME is needed to boot. Apparently the device shuts off after 15min without it.

      With that being said it is possible to disable it after boot

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        Hmm, intel was sued by the literal NSA for the ME so they now need to include a setting for it.

        You need to place a specific bit in the BIOS and then it is disabled. This should not cause any problems.

        But for some reason, which may be a faulty USB flash install, Dasharo Coreboot on a Clevo NV41 loses the TPM when disabling the ME.

        I have 2 nitrokeys so might just use that as secure element instead of my TPM.