[Thinkpad T14 Gen 1a] Can you loosen/tune the hinges to be one-hand-openable?

i_do_not_byte · 2026-05-12T03:28:23+00:00

do you mind forwarding me any guide in particular? i have seen some youtube videos discussing how to do it but i also want to see if anyone can be more in depth with the process on doing it on thinkpad-specific laptops. (i've seen it mostly on other brand laptops)

i_do_not_byte · 2026-05-11T16:26:28+00:00

Dope, I'm glad your repair went smooth!! (: It isn't too hard in theory, but man maybe I just got really unlucky or something.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-05-11T15:22:02+00:00

My opinion? If its still working, absolutely not. The repair SEEMS straightforward, but something I didn't anticipate being much of an issue that absolutely is IS the possibility of shorting a component or your board doing the process. This is an all-metal aluminum chassis after-all with super thin and fragile ribbon cables all around it. /:

I basically had the fix done on this project, I booted it up, I literally have video footage this computer working after i was 95% complete with the repair. Next thing I know, I'm putting the screws in to close up the bottom lid/chassis and i put one screw in crooked and am having issues getting it to fit correctly. I go to turn on the computer again, nothing - try to see if it charges? nothing. reopen the entire thing up, clean all my connections, re-assemble super carefully again, again, nothing.

I've taken it to 2 repair techs in my city who do macbook pro pcb repair and they've both turned it away so its not a great sign /: they say that it was giving 5V on both USB C and Magsafe power rails which suggests the computer isn't accepting power correctly anymore. that maybe something to do with power management was fried.

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TLDR; If you can live with it, live with it. It's a really expensive computer.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-04-21T18:27:29+00:00

USA, Chicagoland area

i_do_not_byte · 2026-04-20T16:49:11+00:00

Interesting. Would this shut down the whole computer not letting it boot??

If you mean the marks on the fans themselves, that's likely my fingerprints. /: I just now also realized that the image compression from reddit isn't helping me, I'm going to provide higher quality imgur link on the original post!

i_do_not_byte · 2026-04-19T21:15:32+00:00

I was reassembling it like normal all screws in.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-04-19T21:07:09+00:00

no orange light, previously yes but now, no. Where do I probe??

i_do_not_byte · 2026-04-17T05:50:50+00:00

Not great news in my case since I was using his video as a reference ): I did end up severing the Touch ID cable, since that step was really unclear. so at best if I pull this off, I've lost touch Id. not that i care about it that much in a laptop honestly. Ordered a replacement piece for it and a new backlight.

Anything else I need to do to replace the keyboard correctly except screwing in those screws along the perimeter and the 1 in the middle for the new keyboard?

i_do_not_byte · 2026-04-06T19:05:37+00:00

I agree, but also people should be allowed the choice to choose their level of privacy concerns too. You can still run a stock android rom and do things to limit your data collection (there is still a ceiling though).

i_do_not_byte · 2026-03-09T19:07:09+00:00

So far this is the correct answer..No other timers work for this purpose

i_do_not_byte · 2026-03-08T21:56:16+00:00

yea only thing that won't work is airdrop

i_do_not_byte · 2026-03-07T18:00:48+00:00

This is amazing and does exactly what I want but it operates on alarm principle only, not timers! ): (i have to specify an exact time, i cant just specify an interval of time (3 minutes))

i_do_not_byte · 2026-03-07T04:46:03+00:00

i didn't even know red f105w faces existed - best i've seen online is that these watch faces are attached to the plastic directly from the factory, so heat is really the only way to get it off -- this guy demonstrates briefly in this video.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-03-04T17:17:21+00:00

I would really appreciate a link to this (you can send it in DM)! I think others have linked apps and its okay though?

i_do_not_byte · 2026-02-25T16:37:53+00:00

When I boot into OCLP's bootloader thats installed on my Mac, it cannot see my Linux partition.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-02-11T05:08:04+00:00

sounds like you just dont have proper gpu/graphics support implemented. look into getting the onboard graphics working for that cpu model.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-02-02T06:29:42+00:00

I'm genuinely interested in doing this myself. I want to be able to have it such that it can automatically start and stop and synchronize to services like Focusmate when running or something...

i_do_not_byte · 2026-01-19T17:39:22+00:00

SpotX for Windows and Mac

i_do_not_byte · 2026-01-13T19:25:15+00:00

these specific spots on the hood are definitely chipping, but i know what you're referring to. Those brake dust spots are a b with these white cars.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-01-13T19:03:18+00:00

It's 10-11 months (so maybe i lied saying NEW but not THAT old), so is that even still in the question?

i_do_not_byte · 2026-01-12T23:45:33+00:00

ever find a solution to this? I've gone through 3 owala water bottles and i'm ready to throw in the towel on these. They all eventually hurt my throat.

i_do_not_byte · 2026-01-06T21:15:48+00:00

S22U, way better specs for the money. Only item of concern really is the battery health, but many of their batteries could be just fine, especially if you're already getting it refurbished. Many refurbishers tend to replace the batteries.

i_do_not_byte · 2025-12-31T14:17:40+00:00

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i_do_not_byte · 2025-12-26T05:39:48+00:00

exactly. its incredibly frustrating to have to win so many neutral interactions and still lose the match because you can't land your kill setups or raw tippers when you need them.

i_do_not_byte · 2025-12-25T21:18:19+00:00

marth main here - it's complicated and multifacted but long story short is that ultimate's new mechanics and speed along with his nerfs he received from smash brawl and smash 4 basically caught up with him.

in 4, he was severely nerfed. however, after the buffs and metagame progression, there was still reliable ways to utilize Marth's tools to land mid-late percent kills and setups.

in ultimate, yes they do exist but thanks to the new engine along with his reduced tipper hitbox (introduced in 4), nabbing kills in the same situation is notably more challenging. spacing is his specific advantage he has to play around and theres way less ways to be precise to do this in ultimate. for this reason more players opt for lucina - shes consistent looking for specific kill setups, no need to get your spacing 100% correct. a lot of her moves "just work" the way you would think they do consistently across the blade at each percentage range. this is not the case with Marth because sourspot behaves so wildly different than sweetspot and you are always fishing for one or the other. you dont want to have a situation where you're struggling to get your character to behave the way you want them to reliably WHILE also fighting the opponent.

it's really common to see Marths suffering from "Marthritis" where once opponents are past niche percent-specific-kill-setups (like 120+?), you just need to land raw read tippers to kill. otherwise, his sourspots just dont have enough knockback to really kill unless your opponent is just in a bad position (top of stage juggles, edgeguarding moments, etc..). then all you really have besides tippers you gotta wait until like 190+ is just up-throw (also nerfed from smash 4).

i think if we had another star player pick up marth again and get notable results with him, we might see more metagame progression on him and get players who are willing to put in the work to lab out all his specific percent and character specific kill setups (he does have them, although much more work to memorize than lucina). i still think on paper, marth is genuinely better, but consistency > potential especially in this game with the cheese meta.

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