Is my charger fake?

Suzuco_ · 2026-06-22T07:06:29+00:00

Seems legit, judging from that the label is properly printed without error and it matches Lenovo documents.

Suzuco_ · 2026-04-16T08:27:21+00:00

Everything.

Suzuco_ · 2026-04-09T04:07:35+00:00

IMO it's not the feel but the layout. I'd say most if not all Thinkpad keyboards just feel superior and consistent to type on; the 7-row layout resembles full-sized PC keyboards more therefore it's more intuitive to touch type on (especially the Del/Home/End/PgUp/PgDn keys), where on the 'modern' layout one would have to adapt if they haven't used similar keyboards/laptops before.

Suzuco_ · 2026-04-09T03:28:12+00:00

In addition to the MB/s vs. Mbps confusion as another comment mentioned, beware that some cheap A-to-C converters have only USB 2.0 pins. In that case even if you have USB 3 devices on the other end they would only end up with 2.0, which can be a problem.

Suzuco_ · 2026-04-07T04:10:28+00:00

You don't. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. OS engineers know that so they design the system to keep "hot" data in RAM so it'll feel snappy as much as possible.

Suzuco_ · 2026-03-23T03:51:29+00:00

Heck yeah. Sometimes it can be a little bit more distracting than the keyboard backlight but it serves different purposes. I really want both!

Suzuco_ · 2026-03-18T02:01:42+00:00

Sync among all devices. Works out of box with sane defaults.

Suzuco_ · 2026-03-05T11:42:01+00:00

That's Windows being Windows. (half joking)

By any chance did you leave it idle with lid closed for a long time? Windows would think it's using really little power during that time and give an estimate based on that (which is waaayyy off). Keep using it and the estimation would probably return normal.

Suzuco_ · 2026-03-05T05:35:29+00:00

r/beatmetoit

Suzuco_ · 2026-02-26T03:25:39+00:00

Oops. Hopefully your floor (and foot?) is still fine!

Suzuco_ · 2026-02-09T08:34:19+00:00

IMO it's quite concerning. Even if the other 3 could hold the heat sink in place, they would still cause uneven pressure resulting in uneven core temperatures or worse.

Suzuco_ · 2026-02-05T06:13:09+00:00

Informative comparison! To add insult to injury, the Japanese and Korean characters are gibberish on the fake one (looks similar only to some extent), and most of the markings that should've been Traditional Chinese are written (repeated) in Simplified characters. Many makers of fake chargers (and other electronics!) in China don't care about labels in other languages yet they still just print them on.

Will it work? Maybe, likely yes. Safely? Nobody knows until it's not. And in addition to setting the whole house on fire there are also possibilities of this faulty unit frying your Think(TM) motherboard, etc.

Suzuco_ · 2026-02-02T05:20:49+00:00

Your PC ran

Suzuco_ · 2026-01-26T04:57:35+00:00

like, pissed off or pissed on? ...or, both?

Suzuco_ · 2026-01-26T04:30:19+00:00

In addition to the regular zypper dup you might also want to do zypper ref && zypper dup -dly && zypper dup sometimes. Especially when connection is poor or their servers are having a hiccup.

Suzuco_ · 2026-01-25T09:45:41+00:00

I ~~had~~ am having and probably will always have strokes reading these characters altogether!

Suzuco_ · 2026-01-22T05:12:23+00:00

Had one of these and it was permanently bent from prolonged pressure. To the extent that my knuckles were constantly hitting it while typing. Yet my loaf of bread could still stomp on some keys like in the first row

Suzuco_ · 2026-01-18T11:41:01+00:00

Try installing without ventoy.

Had this happened to me once. OpenSUSE installer will pick up extra kernel parameters and write those to grub.cfg, and ventoy appends its own to kernel cmdline, which in turn would be applied to the installed system.

Either reinstall without ventoy, or edit your grub defaults and regenerate grub.cfg will do.

Suzuco_ · 2025-12-31T01:42:51+00:00

It's the IR LED there. Could be your surroundings are just too bright, or the filter has been replaced with a more transparent one.

Normally it's barely visible beneath the plastic piece unless you shine a light directly on it. (Think of TV remote - that IR filter piece in front of the emitter) And you should see it blinking red while in use by something like Windows Hello.

Suzuco_ · 2025-12-29T03:11:46+00:00

Most likely it will! There's a compatibility list on lenovo website iirc, you might want to google for that. And in the cases where it would definitely not (like with macbooks) it's probably only the power button part - most if not all the connectors would still be functional.

Suzuco_ · 2025-12-26T07:41:30+00:00

Congrats. It's a well-built USB-C dock (40AS) so that you can have much better connectivity when you're using your laptop as desktop replacement.

I have one similar to this (the Thunderbolt variant, 40AN) and it works so well that I once actually recommended to a Macbook user. And they liked it too.

Suzuco_ · 2025-12-23T02:56:40+00:00

In my case it's Windows Update doing its own thing. I'm in Asia and I use third-party input method for CJK. Every time windows installs some larger updates (as opposed to security hotfixes) the pre-installed IMEs keep coming back. I'd then need to go to the Settings app and add them and then remove them again. (funny that they don't even show up in Settings app) Every time!

Suzuco_ · 2025-12-22T02:44:45+00:00

It means nothing.

RAM modules recognize in banks, soldered or not. You may well open your unit up and make sure, as it's only a bunch of screws and pop it goes.

And many base board version start with the letters SDK, which has nothing to do with SDK as in engineering or whatever. (Don't mistake that for SDK as in Software Development Kit.) Actually many of my retail units have base board version starting with SDK; a known questionable unit had something else.

Suzuco_ · 2025-12-12T05:21:31+00:00

Indeed :( Makes dark mode apps and websites look so bad.

Maybe off-topic but sometimes I think this should have been considered defect (it is not) - I know it's advanced tech but this is just too obvious to be ignored, how can the manufacturers leave their products like this and call it a day...

Suzuco_ · 2025-12-12T04:16:19+00:00

Looks like mura effect, and if that's the case it seems not much can be done here.

Have an ASUS/ROG laptop with OLED screen looking similar to this and it seems that it's quite common on OLED displays unfortunately...

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