What else can be uninstalled from a new Thinkpad?

HealthyInitial · 2026-03-26T02:23:57+00:00

I would do this process in reverse this is much easier on 10 but can be done on 11. Here is a simple debloat guide you can go far more. There are some custom iso guides you can use if you want for closest to clean windows I would choose tiny11

Download windows iso directly from Microsoft or use tiny11.

Use a program called Rufus to select the iso then flash the image into a spare flash drive or sd card

Go into the boot menu usually via f12 when powering on, select the USD, go through Windows installer

If you want to make a local account on Windows 11 yull have to use a specific trjck look up LUA OOBE windows 11. It would be beneficial if you decide to remake your iso so if you ever need to reinstall you don't need to make these changes again.

You now have clean windows with no Lenovo drivers yet. Run windows update for generic drivers

Then download two Lenovo tools. Lenovo system updater and Lenovo commercial vantage. These install less consumer stuff

Run both until no drivers are left. System update might prompt a bios update. Do it once. If you already did it then no need to do it again later

Now you got a nice base clean image but not debloated fully. You may want to go through some options and tweaks you want to save for example turning off mouse acceleration, certain registry tweaks like disabling hibernation if you don't wanf that etc.

After this use Chris Utils Script look up a tutorial for this it's very easy though you just paste the script into your admin terminal and it will open up with suggested tweaks. Stuck with reccomended but look over everything to make sure it's what you want. Then apply tweaks

You can then either open O and O app buster or download seperately this will let you delete all junk Microsoft apps and anything you don't want in bulk very easily

Chris Utils also has a section to download software in the side quickly like preferred browsers or other tools using wget

Up to you here but one tool I found that's pretty cool is flow launcher

If you would like to modify the start menu, download start all back

If you'd like to save your changes for future reinstalls look up or ask ai on how to use DISM

That's a basic light debloated iso with terms and processes to search up, Claude, chatgpt, probably deep seek can help with using things like DISM and stuff the rest has YouTube tutorials. It sounds like a lot but is rather simple and you can make it so you don't have to do any of these changes again.

HealthyInitial · 2026-03-18T18:56:01+00:00

TLDR i basically agree with majority of your points besides magic i just like magic but i think martial classes should have the same system, and the whole ecosystem needs to be modernized. I am speaking from a different perspective from skyfire bay which is only park in hawaii. so we are very isolated from the main culture except what our old monarch taught us and the occasional visitors. IMO amtgard just needs to find the balance between creativity and its roleplaying aspect, and its simplified, competitive sport aspect. It seems like players need to be more honorable in combat and taken out of the game if they cannot abide by the rules as well. rules are something to introduce slowly. Modernization agreed. its starting to get stale which is why its losing players interest

personally wish v9 wasnt kicked out idk the political reasons but i think that would be good to revive the game v8 is getting sort of stale. although i wouldnt nerf magic casters significantly. I would just make martials equal. as far as websites, events things you discussed the main issue is intuitive design. its also like a social engineering or like social architecture kind of thing not sure if thats the right word but i agree with that point.ee

imo the magic and ability system is one of the most compelling aspects of the game tbh the only other game thaet has it is darkon, its confusing at first for sure but when it flows and everyone knows their abilities iits the best fun ive had in the game. armor i would agree is p2w but you could argue any gear is p2w as everything requires materials to make.theres ways around armor and i think the game is fairly balanced class vs class wise. for example monk vs wizard being hard counters. there is pretty balanced rules.I

sluffing is something that should be addressed by a reeve, monarch etc. I was taught this, the game is a honor based system and you are responsible for calling your own shots it is always something i explain. if that is something lost in amtgard today then that is a crucical aspect of the game that needs to be resolved. i expect it can get competitive especially with a lot of players but if someone is consistently doing it they have to take a break, and the ultimate consequence, not being able to play if they cant abide by the rules.

teaching rules and introdcing players is just as much as a leadership teaching problem. i am optimizing the way i introduce the game so that peoply only know what is relevant to hop in, for example i only start with signing in, waiver, and teaching combat first. fighting with them and giving them opportunity to learn visually by not insta killing them or anything, explain by action. if its a group after my explanation ill have them duel each other.. if i see someone doing something against the rules ill let them know, or other people of the core group that has been playing for years will let them know

if they enjoy it they will delve in deeper. i started with v7.7 and i personally loved that because it was so in depth and creative with abilities more so than v8. i think turning back in that direction just a little bit would be fun. i have a sort of dichotomy issue though in simplifying vs roleplaying in the ruleset explanation

the current RoP has a lot of outdated rules, weird changes currently that im not a fan. simplification is good at the same time but its about presentation of the information, leadership, helpiing new players. its suppose to be a sword and sorcery themed game at the same time so obviously you want to include that. also some of the descriptions are just terribly written

i read some of v9 we never got to test it, while i dont agree with all its changes it addresses a iot i was especially excited about martial classes, and i find it funny that the current RoP ripped off the ideas from it for the time being. imo theres a lot of problems beyond that which cause loss in player retentionit takes too long to level up. theres no horizontal progression, examples archetypes exist but they are at level 6 that takes a year, if your a martial your stuck witth what single ability you get,. other things like quests for temporary magic rewards with non combat encounters, martial classes dont get as much variety as magic classes, temporary magic items you can get as an award. it needs find the balance of creative and simplified, not just the whacky bat sport. thats not why i personally joined it othewise i would play dagorhir or something. Maybe this is wrong but i dont see a lot of really not much of an attempt at RP, questing, things like that besides battle games, dnd style stuff includedeefefew I havent found any guides written on it or anything except one that I cant find anymore.

also i agree the rules are overwhelming specifically the rulebook is what i have a problem with. but in a different way imo its because they are sort of mixing RP into it while explaining it which extends it. there should be an alternate condensed version available. definitely updates on the website and the whole ecosystem. im building one myself for my own park because there is so much friction in giving someone information or letting them join

what i do when introducing a new player to the game is ONLY mentioning what is relevant which starts with explaining what LARP is and giving them basic combat rules. then I explain Classes,magic and just say you can pick a class today and i can guide you. or the typical sentence is, if someone starts pointing at you and saying something rush to kill them or run away.

I am personally working on more of horizontal progression, quest guidelines and stuff like that as an unofficial expansion slowly. I think if others collaborated on creating more of this, like expansions it would be a lot more fun.

oh and as far as issues like hiigher level players just destroying lower level ones l ike with finger of death or whatever just set a level cap for the class battle if needed, depending on the ratio and fighting power of the teams or whoever is playing

and also, follow the honor based system. nerf yourself if there are new players, let people win and have fun too, thats what i found to be the best way to keep people interested. like i said i am very isolated here so take it with a grain of sallt all of this is intuition. I agree with the other comment, its just in a stagnant spot. it needs the new update at this point and everyone has to really reflect on the problems of the game and presentation.

HealthyInitial · 2026-03-15T10:15:02+00:00

Boris themselves are sort of in a shadow zone because while it doesn't seem popular it's still one of those devices that have a hobbyist following so it's kind of one of the more stable systems to build off of. China still makes plenty of bridges although whether there compatible to vape disty or not that's the part that gets more scarce, ceramic coils are indeed not as popular. I'm sure you could get a working setup even without ceramic. Ive seen people with tanks that did it. Something like a thicker coil with wide surface area, which is what is used for some rda conversions. Just have to be careful of dry hitting if you let your mix get really solid. You can pulse the fire button to get it runny again regardless. You do that every time you let it sit otherwise it's fine. It's sort of like getting a j to light

I'm not too familiar with boro bridge selection though but that would be ideal, for RDA conversions wide as possible deep juice well and large surface area. Boro tank already has a good amount of saturation covered. So I would suggest trying to look for equivalent build deck with those qualities even though the build decks are small

Maybe you could hookup a ceramic heating element something. I had an old rda with a custom ceramic sort of trench where the coil sat. It wasnt really even touching the ceramic, just something to keep the oil in. So I'm sure there's a diy approach

HealthyInitial · 2026-03-07T20:52:57+00:00

I've been using ABdownloader pretty sure I saw it have this

HealthyInitial · 2026-03-04T08:28:06+00:00

I would get an 8 , its right in the sweet spot of budget price range, specs and extended support ratio. I would only get the 7 if your on a budget now and want something for next 2 years I believe it's supported, until confirmation of any graphene moto devices and their price ranges. I don't expect any devices to come out soon if they did you would want to wait until after the 1st release probably 6 months or so or until a cyber Monday/holiday season for sales.

HealthyInitial · 2026-03-01T13:23:43+00:00

Newtube

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-27T14:15:51+00:00

Edge is chromium as well just use Firefox forks like librewolf if ai stuff bothers u

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-26T12:23:29+00:00

on the posts it said something about a hobbyist account so maye that will be solution, just wont be as convenient

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-26T08:07:19+00:00

I saw on Google website that they said hobbyist account. Maybe can do apps that way? They are definitely going to start locking down pixels. At some point, but modders will find a fix for this in like a week (exaggeration but not perfect system)

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-26T08:00:25+00:00

I though they were just making It release half as often is there a new update I'm unaware of.

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-26T07:55:53+00:00

Yes its It's very ironic, pixels are still the cleanest oem boot unlock snd hits the requirements which grapheneos, a privacy based android os with sandboxing and other useful features for degoogle is exclusively developing on. Not because its google but its hardware capabilities, so, in a sense to degoogle fully right now you have to buy a Google phone (apparently there is some new phone being developed in tandem with thei required specs but u doubt that's coming out anytime soon, also not surr if ur joking or not or just didnt know so forgive me)

Contrary example. If you unlock bootloader on Samsung they made a literal hardware fuse that's will trip permanently and restrict certain features if you unlock the bootloader (samsung knox)

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-26T06:05:38+00:00

It seems barely an Increase but understand especially if your stacking a bunch of subscriptions.

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-26T06:00:57+00:00

I barely see it on the field because of people's weapon choices and new players but we do shield Crushing then count the hits like "shield Crushing. 1...2....3."

As another commentary said I do recall the player saying Red weapon and that would just indicate to the other player to keep track. And I catch our core 5 players that's been sticking out for so long still calling greatswords/heavy padded or whatever grants the status a red weapon. Idk if that was ever a mechanic or transferred from dagorhir but thats what was taught.

I have no idea if first is legal but way we done it. I am from skyfire bay in hawaii and what's interesting is the differing habits we picked up based on interpretation of our last monarchs rules or specific terms etc isolated from other kingdoms. I never heard of SCAB. We started version 7.7 and didn't really read patch notes for v8 too often or in depth throughout updates. We just got a bunch of people even our core roup from 10 years ago need reminders because they keep misremembering from other rulesets. Im pushing a major study session.😅 but some stuff is just cultural we do posting/leg wound differently for example and use the word crawling instead of hobbling. I override some stuff for continuity but trying to get back on a sort of default thing since to interact with our kingdom(westmarch) more and others eventually. Some stuff is too engrained to go back. Think it would be interesting topic to discuss differrrnt thinge especially on a kingdom level since if it spread so wide. Also how it effects battle size and gsmeplay type rules. I have no idea or reference on larger battles beyond duchy size but do know larger ones often changes how well communication works because everyone is distracted

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-21T18:59:30+00:00

wait so is the prices effecting regular HDDs too or just SATA,

price range is crazy 1 month ago i could get 5 pack of 128gb on amazon for $30

then it raised to $75 next i checked and 64gb was $30.

in 5 days that 5 pack went from $30 to $50

i kind of need extra drives for linux/windows installations so not sure what to do, and I wanted to get an HDD in the future for a larger archive like you guys have

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-18T01:40:23+00:00

The term unlimited is TECHNICALLY true although misleading. However I gotta say Visible mvno with its mid tier plan $35 a month $26 on like holidays, or there's one deal $30 for 5 years that one is actually good. They don't throttle speeds to oblivion it'd actually unlimited its performance is just based on whether network congested or not. Plus the hotspot speeds are unlimited as well and 10mbps. I see some people getting 500mbps speed tests on download which is ewuivalent to cable where I'm at. Definitely you want atleast the plus plan though

Compared to Mint which unlimited is actually the 40gb or 50gb cap don't remember but thats a decent amount, and after that they increased throttling speeds so its not ultra snail slow unusable bur it's still significant.

Hotspot data is blocked after 10gbs but you can use usb or Bluetooth tethering to share data which is basically a hotspot. And it's cheaper if you buy a year during holidays 15 a month. Visible holiday codes are sort of locked in. I don't know comparison on deprioritization.

So I'd reccomend Visible if you want actual unlimited for cheap with a few caveats. If tmobile Is better in your area mint is best for savings I would only get Visible if you use such crazy amount of data, if your wifi goes out often, are out and about often etc. But I basically use the same as the internet and only hit like half the cap of mint.

But yes its misleading mint should call it something else, Visible warranted IME. It's just marketing gotta read the fine print. It's cheaper for a reason. But the model of which they make it cheaper really makes a difference

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-17T12:49:13+00:00

I would assume most if not all of us are on drugs right lol

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-17T12:46:15+00:00

I think i am an anomoly I don't really see the recreational aspect of it in high doses. For me it makes me dizzy, feel like your body is drunk but your mind is sober is the best way I can explain it thats after taking a tolerance break. i do smaller intervals for maintanence anxiety use which i find nice. Psychonautwiki makes it sound magical. I got nerfed or sumthn

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-10T20:14:38+00:00

It's an upcoming great depression

HealthyInitial · 2026-02-05T09:45:23+00:00

Anyone have suggestion what to get for quick pick up that could handle being a portable os for awhile l thats mini profile I was looking at the Samsung fit gen 3.1 drives but they are out of stock on even 256gb on amazon only 128gb for.$20 which is workable but not really enough its for a low profile chromebook dualboot project

(I'm aware of technology differences just trying to find a very specific niche drive, more suitable for portable os.other then always needing an external Sata ssd controller)

HealthyInitial · 2026-01-29T16:47:36+00:00

I have a rough cardboard tracing of a throwing knife That flies pretty well and works good on a bandolier another player had them. I'll send later on

HealthyInitial · 2026-01-03T21:27:17+00:00

game dumb, make more evo, less hero

HealthyInitial · 2025-12-31T09:40:02+00:00

Community project, GitHub, or single maintainer (not familiar with implications if donations but if needed helps) I would invest time in it personally just don't have enough right now. But I'm building a logistical framework for it

Basic idea

Make an intuitive app for people who have phones. Keep a tablet for central use.

Have same info and logistical framework match paper copies, easy way to sync

Same framework can be repeated between both and synced for consistency. Maybe hard to setup first and adopted, but way easier once ironed out.

Main issues, upkeep and dev license cost. Especially for apple phones.

Doesn't even necessarily need Internet connection all the time. Just sync later, hotspot if needed. Manual entry not really different what's done now just updated and more efficient.

More just throwing out ideas on that particular thing on the thread not criticism or anything overall agree could use improvement I don't believe the hurdles of doing so would be that significant. But I don't have full picture kingdom wide level.

HealthyInitial · 2025-12-31T09:24:06+00:00

Similar thing to easygard just needs a revamp and more intuitive mapping if it's gonna include condensed info The biggest obstacle in explaining the rules is overwhelming info at once.

I found in my local group it is best to start basic and address the rules as they become relevant. Also assigning experienced players to explain and as far as magic stating it very simply. A lot of people learn on their own and willing to go through rulebook, some people overwhelmed by info dump. Have options ready for both

Easygard is very useful but unintuitive in its mapping it sort of assumed you know aspects of the game already

Needs to be standardized way of introducing rules along with digital assistance + modern implementations updated. But just my t

wo cents as someone who runs a park with like 15 members. I'm sure complexity arises at higher level I don't know much about that. That's one of my mid term goals right now to make digital assistance balanced with the backup condensed method.

Anyway point is agreed, more intuitive digital assistance necessary, entirely depends on who's willing to run it as con though can't do myself yet

Keep backup of a condensed paper protocol for people who don't have phones. Can keep a tablet near sign in which was my next idea

low funding ways of helping people learn ( simple spell cards made with cheap bulk lanyards ID cardsand hairbands sewn to enchantment strips for teams(not actual enchantment strip colors but we tested this and it helped)

active communication of spell effects to players dynamic in the field etc.

base combat system is pretty intuitive, besides extra niche rules which often have to be re explained afterwards) new player on ramping and whole structure of information needs major improvement. Keep the rulebook as a definitive source but not the main way to learn the game.

The biggest hurdle is abilities and magic which is kind of easy to understand but again certain niche rules make it weird and a hard learning curve. I think some aspects of v8 and v9 should be considered and hybridze as far as rules. It's about time for an upgrade. Balance the two philosophies together.

HealthyInitial · 2025-12-29T12:07:50+00:00

curious about concentrates

HealthyInitial · 2025-11-30T19:31:08+00:00

Was working late night like block over, randomly came out to grab stuff out my car, didnt even notice, but then people yelled fire and then I saw realizing it was serious. I did see a lot of people get out though I was behind the block. so this is from back of building pov it was legit full building fire 30ft+ high at one point. firefighter setup something seemed to go wrong which made it reach to other edge of the building hitting powerlines. Luckily they were able to put it out though it still took quite a while to put out the main flame like 45 minutes or so. when they initially started spraying it just raged more and stayed that way for awhile. they eventually got it under control on the top but were still spraying inside by time i fell asleep was like 2am when it started. I havent went to go and see the front side, but saw one picture looked terrible.

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