i was using it in retroarch’s video options to do 60hz CRT filters with better motion. iirc it’s just called black frame insertion
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kinda sorta impulse bought a thinkpad x13 while they’re half price, to replace my decrepit old macbook
might go full meme and install arch
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The second ThinkPad T440p I bought immediately started giving the five POST beeps of death. Very upset and beginning to think I need to find another OpenBSD compatible laptop that is newer. However, I am eligible for a refund, so there is that.
I’m going to fire one more bullet. With the refund money for the last one, I am going to buy a lot of 3 allegedly working T440p’s for $70-110 dollars. One of them will probably hold up…
reading about Thinkpads just gives me further Thinkpad lust
one day I want I want to grab a T480 purely on the basis of having an internal battery and swappable battery
I have an X220 kicking around, I should do a refurb on it (there’s an insane Chinese Thinkpad fan who has made a drop-in motherboard replacement that bumps up the CPU)
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I’ve got a couple of T460s running Arch Linux (EndeavourOS specifically, because it’s less of a chore to set up) and the effective battery life is on par with a m2 macbook air (right now mine is showing 40% / 4 hrs 24 minutes remaining), which is excellent for a $250 refurbished commodity laptop. The battery life holds up under app development work with VSCode; I have not had a reason to hot-swap the swappable battery yet.
The biggest flaw is the 1366x768 display with a fairly narrow viewing angle and washed-out colors, but I had a 4k monitor hooked up to it and it did fine. Not really a problem if you’re primarily dealing with text.
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Does the Linux give it the lasting power? I have both an M2 MBA and a T460p, and my T460p never had the battery life of my M2 MBA. Not with new batteries, not with 3rd party batteries, never.
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Linux is going to give an older system as much lasting power as you let it
it’s now just a matter of time before someone comes in and talks about how they use XFCE or LX
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I am reading about Linux killing battery life. What am I missing?
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i cannot tell a lie, i use xfce.
ubuntu’s gestures toward a windows or osx-like experience was consistently horrible for my battery life and the thing still ended up filling up my hard drive completely with log entries from my wifi adapter, but a stripped-down distribution like endevourOS where you just have the bare minimum to run a web browser can really make the most out of hardware
but i’m not even going to try to get steam running under it
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so, yes, for a long time, Linux wasn’t putting a lot of work towards the kind of power stuff laptops like if they don’t want to die, but the kernel and distros have made a lot of headway to being a lot better about battery and power saving, perhaps in no small part from efforts made by outfits like System76 (who sell Linux-oriented systems and maintain a distro) and OEMs offering support from the get-go (Framework, Lenovo, Dell)
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I will say I continue to appreciate how Android tries to coordinate icons and system colors with your wallpaper
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I have an old tv, and a raspberry pi that’s old enough to have analog video out, I wonder what flavor of linux i can slap on it that’ll let me watch Twitch streams
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the sane way of doing this is seeing if your distro got a release of Streamlink, which will let you take the output of a channel and send it to a video player (like VLC or mpv), which conveniently sidesteps 1. Linux and hardware video acceleration in browsers 2. Twitch’s awful, heavy webplayer 3. most ads (like, you either don’t get ads or if the streamer runs ads, you get just a generic Twitch BRB screen)
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ohhh good tip. it also appears like RPie maintains a legacy install of Buster Linux so I have to assume they have a version of it for that…
I won three Thinkpads for $91, which is $40 less than I paid for one Thinkpad. It pays to buy in bulk I guess.
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Good luck!
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Does anyone have strong feeling about printer models? They stopped making cartridges for the one I bought in like 2006 in the last year or so, so I guess I finally have to upgrade. I don’t think I’ve ever had anything that does duplex printing, but that would be handy.
I have an HP because it actually had first party linux drivers back then and I’m impressed that it’s death was artificial and not accidental.
I’m tired of the ink drying on my inkjet every 6 months (I only print a page like once every 2 months for a return receipt or DMV form or something), so I was considering replacing it with this $120 laser printer
If you want specifically duplex printing, it looks like there’s a variation of it with “D” in the product code for $30 extra
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Get a cheap color led/laser, Dell or Brother is probably fine, inkjets are only for sickos now
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I bit the bullet and got a big Epson Workforce, a couple years ago, that I tolerate solely because it can handle 13” wide sheets, but I curse the thing every time I turn it on
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