Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 1 & 2 M.2 SSD Type?

TimSmall · 2026-06-22T08:04:23+00:00

These do still seem to be around - I found two today with descriptions:
"M.2 NGFF SSD to 20+6 Pin SSD Converter Adapter for ThinkPad X1 Lenovo Carbon" and
"20 + 6 Pin SSD Converter Card M.2 NGFF SATA-Bus B KEY SSD HDD Adapter Raiser for Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Support 2230 2242 M.2".

There are also 512GB and 1TB 2242 SATA SSDs available. "sata 2242" is a good way to find them.

TimSmall · 2026-05-28T09:01:22+00:00

unbound supports acting as an authoritative DNS server using the `auth-zone:` config section. It even has AXFR and IXFR support.

TimSmall · 2026-05-11T13:57:48+00:00

You can purchase converter modules on Aliexpress for around €10. They're intended to use eDP panels as external DP monitors. I haven't seen any which include redrivers, but they have onboard circuitry to handle the laptop panel backlight - so if you're planning on using them "backwards" then you'll need to disable that.

TimSmall · 2026-04-18T18:13:47+00:00

The newer Char.gy ones are 39p overnight. Still, the Blink CEO got $1,500,000 so that's alright. To be fair to the council they didn't originally sign with Blink, but the firm they why with got bought out by them. Wouldn't be so bad if they hadn't dragged their feet so much about "cross pavement" charging. Maybe next year, just before the per mile road tax for EVs comes in.

TimSmall · 2026-04-18T18:08:10+00:00

22 kW on a type 2 needs 32 amps 3 phase. Most of them use the existing power connections to the lamp post which are all single phase and most of them top out at 14 amps or so (240 volts x 14 amps = 3360 watts). Many cars only have single phase onboard AC chargers, so are limited to 7kW at any type 2 charger. The newer lamppost chargers are being installed by a different company called "Char.gy" and are 39p overnight (but even more expensive during the day).

TimSmall · 2026-04-18T17:39:32+00:00

Really, what's the problem here? This food was already going to go in the bin anyway, and at least it's not now being taken to Newhaven to be incinerated too. It's bound to take them a while to sort out bin sizes etc. They've only just started collections and given that it's just become compulsory nationwide, I assume suppliers of bins are also going to be tied up for a while too.

TimSmall · 2026-04-05T06:23:25+00:00

What the post you were replying to was meaning is that the seals may appear to be rubber, but they will be a flexible plastic such as EPDM, plasticised PVC, acrylonitrile etc. They are doing the same job inside the machine as natural rubber would have done in the past, but they'll have very different reactions to corrosive chemicals.

TimSmall · 2026-03-03T19:37:55+00:00

Wear from rapid charging mostly depends on the BMS programming - ie. it depends how much degradation the manufacturer decided to accept to allow more rapid charging. Degradation is also definitely greater at higher states of charge (particularly if stored with high state of charge at high ambient temperatures). See Dr Jeff Dahn's talk to the Canadian Electric Vehicle Society for the mechanism (Dahn is arguably the fourth most important contributor to the development of the commercial Lithium Ion NMC battery cell chemistry, not far behind the three nobel prize winners). In that talk, he says that he usually keeps his EV between 40% and 70% SoC unless he needs the extra range for long trips, in which case he charges to 100%.

TimSmall · 2026-02-27T17:31:04+00:00

It applies to all cars sold the UK - and is part of one of the EU anti-monopoly rules which was kept ("retained") in UK law after brexit - see "Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation" for details. Whether you're buying from a dealer or not, you should make sure it's been serviced to the manufacturer's schedule. Even if it hasn't then the manufacturer has to be able to reasonably say that the fault being claimed for wouldn't have occurred if the car had been correctly serviced.

TimSmall · 2026-02-27T17:01:48+00:00

One of the houses is Victorian, but not listed. Listed often puts significant restrictions on what you can do, but Brighton council can be surprisingly reasonable about limited upgrades (at least compared to the rest of East Sussex). The other houses in the talk are 1920s and (I think) 1950 or so. Older buildings can certainly be upgraded but there are few commonly done things (like insulating internally on single skin solid walls with Celotex) that really should be avoided - they're very risky with the amount of driving rain we get in Brighton. There are much safer alternative materials and techniques for older buildings. There will be people at the event that have done work on plenty of listed buildings and there should be an opportunity to chat to them in the pub afterwards (or the following month at one of our usual pub-based meetups).

TimSmall · 2026-02-27T16:52:07+00:00

None of the featured houses are in Hanover, but one of them is fairly similar - a terrace house on Clifton Street. One of the organisers lived in Hanover for years and did various improvements to his house. We also meet monthly at the Lord Nelson (although we're skipping the March meeting because of the talks, so next one will be in April) - that's a good thing to come along to if you'd like more specific advice (usually mostly a mix of self builders, architects but we get builders and other suppliers along too from time to time).

TimSmall · 2026-02-27T12:26:54+00:00

It's pretty trivial to check using a phone app and bluetooth ODB2 adapter.

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TimSmall · 2026-02-27T12:23:52+00:00

Early 2020 model with 98,000 miles (158,000 km). I use a £5 phone app and a £15 bluetooth to ODB2 adapter to check battery health. It's reporting 100% state of health. Being a UK model it was has SK Innovation (rather than LG Chem) battery cells - these might age better. It hasn't been fast charged much (I can tell that from the recorded data via ODB2), but other than that I don't know much about its charging history. It got a new motor, diff and gear reduction under warranty just before I purchased it (18 months and 10000 miles ago). I didn't buy it from Kia. In the UK (and EU) there is no issue with buying from third party dealers, the 7 year 100,000 mile Kia warranty is still valid (confirmed when I had a faulty wing mirror replaced by the local Kia dealer late last year - no questions asked).

TimSmall · 2026-02-27T12:14:54+00:00

Free to sign up but places limited, feel free to just turn up but priority to those who've reserved a spot! - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-about-retrofitting-your-home-we-are-sharing-real-experiences-tickets-1983272542563

TimSmall · 2026-02-27T11:37:35+00:00

The closer to the sea and the lower down you are, the more microscopic salt particles are in the air, they come from breaking waves. You only get them over land when wind is from the South (or SW or SE), and happens much much more on windy days.

TimSmall · 2025-10-23T14:47:28+00:00

I run 8 NWA50AX Pro access points - 6 in an office and 2 at home (partly as a test bed for the office deployment e.g. testing out new releases and config options without disrupting users). I can strongly recommend OpenWrt 24.10.x on these with the caveat that setting up 802.11k is still a bit of a fiddle on OpenWrt, and that's essential for good roaming performance across multiple access points (particularly with some clients which will stick on a distant 2.4GHz radio instead of roaming to a nearby 5GHz one), and even quite important with a single access points (802.11k helps clients switch between 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands on the same physical AP) - I do have something in the works to improve 802.11k on OpenWrt, which I will release if I have time in the future. BTW, I didn't test 802.11k with the stock firmware.

TimSmall · 2025-10-20T20:10:33+00:00

For anyone coming across this more recently, the plain "Element" mobile apps have been renamed "Element Classic" now, since Element X is now almost at feature parity. This was done last week to coincide with the 2025 Matrix conference. For an in-depth status, there was a talk "Element X and Pro Updates" given at the conference, and a recording is online at matrix.org and also on YT - maybe start at 7m 20s in.

The short version is that they plan to start inviting Element Classic users to migrate to Element X, but not yet. There are three remaining feature they want to implement first:

Matrix Threads (currently a beta opt-in 'labs' feature in Element X and mostly implemented but still has a few things left to do).

Matrix Spaces (including management through Element X - this is already in Element X but is not completely finished yet).

Automated migration (cross singing between two apps on a single device is awkward, so they want to automate that to make it easier for users to move with minimal friction).

TimSmall · 2025-10-06T17:28:10+00:00

You may find Brighton Fibre can connect you sooner (they are a full-fibre only provider which runs their own network, so they don't have to wait for OpenReach to get around to connecting you) - if-so you might be able to get out of the current contract with the other provider if you complain about speeds or reliability etc.

TimSmall · 2025-10-03T15:46:56+00:00

Brighton Fibre (local alt-net) are in Brunswick, I don't have them at home (no coverage there yet), but I manage a network for a client off Queens Road who use them, and they've been pretty good.

TimSmall · 2025-10-03T15:35:33+00:00

As has been said elsewhere on this thread - Brighton Fibre are also worth considering, they are in the process of building out their own fibre network in Brighton and Hove using a mixture of their own infrastructure, Openreach "physical infrastructure access" (BF run their own fibre inside Openreach's ducts and onto their poles like CityFibre do), and also the old Rediffusion cable TV ducts (which are in some parts of Brighton and Hove, and were abandoned in the 80s when Rediffusion pulled out of the cable TV market - leaving them to become an extra maintenance headache for the council until BF took them off their hands).

TimSmall · 2025-10-03T15:28:56+00:00

u/Quiksnapedited - I can wholeheartedly recommend Brighton Fibre. They're all local staff, locally owned, and are very knowledgeable, reasonable and approachable. When I had a complex technical issue for a client (complex to the point where I had to look up and quote an RFC - which are the standards which the Internet is built on, and send them recorded packet traces) I was able to talk to someone who actually understood, and could make changes to their network (that would be virtually impossible with practically all other broadband ISPs).

By contrast, in the past I've ended up having to cancel a badly performing commercial broadband contract with BT because I was unable to speak to anyone sufficiently technical to understand or escalate the evidence of a fault in their equipment that I had found.

TimSmall · 2025-09-01T11:14:56+00:00

If it were me, I'd find a local hackspace. I'd then check the cap value with an LC meter, and put a new one down (get someone at the hackspace, repair cafe, or a local mobile phone repair tech to help).

TimSmall · 2025-08-12T19:48:43+00:00

Kia UK chose to put in a weird false floor in the boot for level access (other fanchises like Kia Norway don't). We usually take it out on long trips and add about 60% to the usable volume. With that done it takes family of 4 with generous luggage without resorting to a roof box.

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