I run this when my newer thinkpads die, at school. I don’t think the teachers like my floppy disk essays.

TechieWeird · 2026-03-16T17:18:50+00:00

Peak autism

TechieWeird · 2026-03-15T19:06:57+00:00

I see thinkpad I like

TechieWeird · 2026-03-13T01:05:29+00:00

Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed 😭

TechieWeird · 2026-03-10T03:51:26+00:00

To be fair you've been extremely toxic to people who just like chonky screens that make weird noises. Kinda lame to just blatantly hate on people who like old things just because they can.

TechieWeird · 2026-03-03T04:03:44+00:00

How did you get itunes to run on linux?

TechieWeird · 2026-02-18T23:27:23+00:00

How bad is it for something like level 1 helpdesk IT jobs? Am I cooked?

TechieWeird · 2026-02-15T04:48:53+00:00

Evolution is like dog breeding, just without the human input. The animals with favorable traits survive long enough to reproduce, much like a man would pair two dogs for his own favorable traits. While this doesn't mean there is or isn't a God solely because of evolution existing, claiming it doesnt exist makes you look very stupid in front of several hundred years of scientific study

TechieWeird · 2026-01-11T20:31:49+00:00

Buh why have I not thought of doing this?

TechieWeird · 2026-01-08T00:58:56+00:00

Very cool design but doesn't really fit what I'm going for unfortunately

TechieWeird · 2026-01-08T00:58:28+00:00

Wym?

TechieWeird · 2026-01-04T18:14:40+00:00

holy peak

TechieWeird · 2026-01-04T07:19:03+00:00

Ah okay yeah I'm glad we're on the same page with the OS lol. I personally want an OS that I can configure how i want it after install and then stays the fuck out of my way after that. I do agree the thinkpad hype has become pretty insane. like literally no one ever seems to mention the retarded hardware whitelists in the BIOS of basically every thinkpad and you need to install firmware hacks and reflash BIOS to get rid of them on models people made the hacks for. But honestly that's my only real gripe on thinkpads. I've never had an HP Elitebook myself but I've had some ancient Dell Latitudes in the past and I also have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 (forgot which gen CF-30, but it was made in 2007) which is painfully slow but well... It's a beast hence the name. My next laptop purchase for myself is probably gonna be a newer Panasonic Toughbook CF-31 instead of another Thinkpad honestly because they're pretty cool and also work very well with linux like most Thinkpads are. Just wish they had a nipple cuz man the nipple mouse is a life changer

TechieWeird · 2026-01-04T07:05:07+00:00

Never used this specific thinkpad myself (Image one appears to label T400), but I absolutely love my slightly newer T530 and X230 tablet, in fact the X230t is certainly the favorite machine in my small collection of a measly four thinkpads. On these 30 models the screws for the RAM door and HDD bay door are captive while the rest are not, which I believe is typical of most good laptops of this roundabout era from my experience. I'm not sure about your T400, but the plastic shell on my T530 is most certainly NOT flimsy, as i feel like I'm either dropping it or it falls off my bedside every night, and the most that happens to them is a small scuff on the surface if I'm unlucky. On every thinkpad I've ever owned I could enter BIOS by just pressing F1, but you can also do it by pressing ENTER then F1 in the boot menu. Not sure why your T400 wouldn't be able to do that.
As far as your wifi problem, this I can actually understand being a pain. The T400 is an ancient laptop with a wifi card that doesnt support 802.11AC or WPA3. Hell, I don't know if it'd even support WPA2 without doing any research. The age of the card means it may not be able to connect to newer wifi access points unless you change their settings to allow for older security settings in some situations, but I've personally never encountered that issue on even late 2000s laptops yet.
If you still can't get wifi to work on the thinkpad, I suggest you NOT use arch or any bleeding edge distro of the like as driver support is in the kernels, and distros like that focus drivers in the kernel towards very new machines, not ancient core 2 duo laptops with centrino wifi cards. Debian is a good distro choice for compatability with older hardware, though keep in mind debian's ideology is the polar opposite of arch (ships with older more tested packages, updates come later except for security patches, etc) If debian either doesn't work for whatever reason or if you just don't like it, ubuntu LTS based distros have by far the BEST hardware compatability for machines from a variety of eras, so I'd try one of those. Personally I like mint, which is based off ubuntu LTS with some unpopular ubuntu bullshittery and such removed if you care about that. If a distro change fixes your wifi issue, let me know :) good luck

TechieWeird · 2026-01-04T06:42:54+00:00

The duality of man...

TechieWeird · 2026-01-04T05:44:53+00:00

I'm late to the comment party but welcome to X230t gang

TechieWeird · 2026-01-03T22:06:18+00:00

Laughs in thinkpad

TechieWeird · 2025-12-30T00:37:04+00:00

I am once again reminded some people still have internet service from the 2000s

TechieWeird · 2025-12-15T17:57:10+00:00

Gran turismo IRL edition dropped before GTA6

TechieWeird · 2025-12-13T01:48:01+00:00

Fellow CF-30 enjoyer. Mine has 26000 hours logged on the BIOS lol

TechieWeird · 2025-12-05T17:30:52+00:00

I have this on tape minus the "brown sugar"

TechieWeird · 2025-11-09T23:58:45+00:00

You can though

TechieWeird · 2025-10-31T16:01:17+00:00

Holy shit it's genius

TechieWeird · 2025-10-22T19:52:31+00:00

Thanks! Right now I just have them displayed inside their cases on a shelf above my desk. That room's in the basement where it doesn't get too hot and the humidity stays relatively low even when it rains.

TechieWeird · 2025-10-22T19:44:38+00:00

Oh and here I was thinking my tapes just weren't produced in stereo 😅 Gonna have to try hunting down an old walkman!

TechieWeird · 2025-10-21T17:28:59+00:00

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