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Also, doing a take two on my Thinkpad T440P secure build. Buying the nicer one with the i7 and discrete GPU, and going to send it to a pro to put CoreBoot on. Then, tragically, I am going to dual boot windows and OpenBSD. I need a windows computer to run test proctoring software otherwise I have to drive out to an Oakland testing center 6 more times this year, while also figuring out how to schedule the tests. That’s 3-4 hours of driving in addition to messing up my nightshift schedule and whatever else.
Good extra news: I should be able to cannibalize some parts from the broken ThinkPad for the new ThinkPad, so the memory will be fully upgraded and possibly the wireless card.
So it looks like the final config will be 16gb ram, Windows 10 on an old 128gb SSD inherited from a previous system, coreboot, a 512gb m.2 ssd with OpenBSD on it, and at some point in the next year or so probably a cheap 2.5 inch multi TB HDD in the optical bay that can be used by both OSs. It looks like my options for that are either NTFS with Ntfs3g drivers or making a billion FAT32 partitions though 
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Set Sexo is a Gundam name
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I have been wanting a computer that I can hook up to my old LCD via a VGA cable to watch streams whenever I work from home and/or take to the coffee shop to write some horrible fanfic. I tried a raspberry Pi 2 I got forever ago that has…RCA video out! It could boot into Raspberry PI’s desktop but it doesn’t have enough ram to run firefox.
I then realized I had an old Lenovo Laptop I got for free about 5 years ago. It’s a Lenovo X120e, I forgot it had windows on it, but it’s Windows 10 S, which won’t run any apps except verified through the microsoft app store. I can’t even install like graphics drivers so that it can display anything other than 1040x840 or whatever.
As aggravating as all this is, this is my favorite way to fuck around with computers, giving incredibly old and forgotten about hardware new software to see if it works or not. Low stakes stuff.
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I finally was able to set the root and prefix variables in grub rescue without it crashing, then load into the Lubuntu boot menu and watch the startup sequence… but then
this is so fucking stupid!!! I reformatted the hard disk when I installed the OS!! I guess I can try…reinstalling again using a freshly burned OS image on the SD card. I don’t know what else to try at this point
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Too much context ^ _^
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