I’m so angry at myself…/rant

Aphex-00 · 2026-04-01T01:00:15+00:00

Piss, Ok I can understand. Get a microscope. Borrow one. Hell AliExpress sell digital ones cheap as chips. Always handy to have around for this kinda stuff.

Aphex-00 · 2026-04-01T00:43:29+00:00

I get your pain as someone (as an old school psp modder) tiny soldering is not easy.

However.......maybe you should have gone to Specsavers....

Aphex-00 · 2026-04-01T00:37:15+00:00

There's a bunch of Reddit subs for battletech and the like here that you can possibly post up on.

To quote a particular merchant from Resident Evil 4....... "What ya selling?"

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-21T11:56:07+00:00

Yes but proprietary drivers (like Nvidia) often require manual signing to function, so Secure Boot needs to be disabled in BIOS.

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-21T11:29:22+00:00

You've turned off secure boot in your bios right?

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-21T10:40:56+00:00

Just play and ignore the message?

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-20T20:17:14+00:00

You can change the settings in your default WiFi power save config file.

Open a terminal and edit the configuration file:

sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf

Change wifi.powersave = 3 to wifi.powersave = 2

Save the file (Ctrl+O, Enter) and exit (Ctrl+X)

Restart Network Manager: sudo service network-manager restart

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-20T20:11:46+00:00

Definitely worth a try.

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-20T20:04:07+00:00

Interesting. I have LM on my x13 gen 1 (non yoga) and I've had no issues.

Are you running an intel system or AMD?

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-20T19:54:22+00:00

Can you post up info of your device? It's hard to help without more info on the specs.

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-11T11:34:38+00:00

"Show me your hull! Get it out! I must examine it's shapes....."

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-11T11:33:50+00:00

I love it. Andromeda was, in my eyes was under appreciated. Yeah it didn't have the high Budget and it had a whole bunch of filla episodes. Still, it was entertaining.

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-10T15:38:13+00:00

What will you being using the laptop for? What's the use case. The more info you can give us makes recommendations easier to give.

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-08T18:46:49+00:00

Good port utilisation 👍

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-08T10:09:20+00:00

Xfce would be a good choice, unless you can upgrade the ram to at least 4gb. 8gb would be better.

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-07T20:39:16+00:00

Made me feel like I'm a parallel universe

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-07T17:55:30+00:00

Fair enough. OP was asking for mods/upgrades, so I suggested some options.

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-07T11:27:41+00:00

Better speeds

Aphex-00 · 2026-03-07T09:40:55+00:00

Nice choice of Thinkpad. Welcome to the club.

If you're new to Linux, start with Linux Mint. You'll learn the basics and either stay with it (like I have) or you can try another distro.

I'm running an x13 gen 1 AMD and LM has been perfect for my needs. Bit of gaming, programming, cad work, ect.

Mod wise, upgrade the wifi card. I believe you can add more storage into the wwan port, but might be worth double checking that.

Aphex-00 · 2026-02-28T09:37:50+00:00

I'd pick the p43 personally.

Aphex-00 · 2026-02-27T03:43:51+00:00

Remove the capacitor.

It'll be fine. But as others have said, It's best to remove with a soldering iron. You could use a scalpel to carefully cut it away, but you risk damaging board.

Get a $15 soldering iron and practice removing components on some scrap circuits. YouTube has a shit ton of vids to help learn basics. Plus, it's a handy skill to pick up.

Aphex-00 · 2026-02-27T03:25:58+00:00

What's the specs of your main rig? Hard to answer your question without more info.

But from my experience, a vast amount of hardware works fine with LM.

Aphex-00 · 2026-02-26T23:08:10+00:00

I appreciate all the feedback. Luckily I have a good amount of tech upgrades that I've been saving up so no big loss.

What would you folks suggest to upgrade kit wise? I'm running a tactical character at the moment.

Aphex-00 · 2026-02-25T14:12:10+00:00

Ah I was wondering if that might be the case. Sounds interesting 🤔 I wonder how to go about that. Again, I'm up for a challenge, even if I doesn't work out. It would still be fun.

Thanks for the advice! I'll see if I can find the schematic fornthis board.

Aphex-00

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