Shipping back the ThinkPad T470 laptop I did some upgrades and service on. The customer used to live in my area, but moved away. Still wants to do business with me, so shipping the laptop. Service is done, so shipping back to him. #thinkpad #business

"The return of cassettes, LP's and CD's might just be a passing fad, but it might be an early sign of societal rejection of our present digital culture. A desire for a less invasive, "every keystroke logged" impersonal life." -- @waynegnarlie1 - in a youtube comment #retro #privacy

Successfully upgraded a Dell Optiplex 3010 to a Xeon e3-1225 v2 processor, replacing the i5-3450 that was originally in the computer. Also was able to replace the memory with ECC memory (PC3L-12800E) - Registered memory won't work, though.

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Xeon processor in Dell Opliplex 3010 SFF

Successfully upgraded a Dell Optiplex 3010 to a Xeon e3-1225 v2 processor, replacing the i5-3450 that was originally in the computer. Also was able...

#peertube #retroedge #dell #xeon

If you do not like what a company is doing... don't continue buying products and services from them. Use your money (life force) to support what you want more of and slow the flow of resources to what you see as being harmful. #cashfriday

I am upgrading a ThinkPad T560 laptop to 16GB memory - two modules of 8GB PC3L-12800s Also had to turn off "Fast Boot" in Windows 11 to make sure the keyboard works properly from a cold boot. This laptop is reserved for a customer who plans to get it next week. #thinkpad #t560

Blog post on the topic: Broken Fediverse

The Broken Fediverse

When Elon Musk originally bought Twitter, a number of people moved over to Mastodon. There were a lot of misunderstandings around how Mastodon work...

written by djsumdog Good summary of the situation. Also glad that he mentioned alternatives like Nostr #fediverse #nostr

I am attempting to tighten the screen hinges on a Dell Latitude 7490 laptop. I need to find a tiny pliers... or further disassemble to get better access to the hinge nut. I'd rather not have to further disassemble. #dell #latitude

Going to be a busy day. Lots of appointments on the calendar for this afternoon.

I am okay with disk encryption if the owner of the device enables it themselves and understands at least a little bit about it. Microsoft enabling it on people's computers without their knowledge is really scummy. I have full disk encryption on my ThinkPad laptop with Linux and I'm okay with that... because I set it up and I know about it. #microsoft #encryption #linux #thinkpad

Today I will be attempting a data recovery from a Dell XPS laptop that was dropped and no longer has proper display output to the laptop screen. To anyone thinking about getting an Dell XPS, I recommend that you don't. The extra cost premium is not worth what you actually get as I think Dell makes a lot of poor design decisions with the XPS line that look "premium" but are really problematic. That's my opinion on the XPS series. The Latitude line is much more reliable, if you want to go with a laptop from Dell. #dell #xps #datarecovery

The power adapter did not work with either USB-C jack. My power adapter, for testing, did not work on the primary power port, but did work on the secondary USB-C port. I think this is because of the firmware issue that made charging ports burn out on Intel ThinkPad laptops. I will be updating the firmware, but won't bring the charging back to the primary port. That port is not physically busted as it still works to connect USB devices, such as a USB ethernet adapter. #thinkpad View quoted note →

Today I will be cleaning and testing a ThinkPad T490s laptop. The owner thinks the DC jack may be broken, but I am not sure yet that is the problem. I will try with another power adapter to check to see if the charger is the problem. This T490s is not the normal flat black color, but a steel grey color. #thinkpad

I had a need to upload a video. A requirement was that the file size be 20MB or less. The video I took was 50MB. I used this ffmpeg command to keep the same video content and duration, but reduce the file size to about 18MB. Perfect! ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset medium -movflags +faststart -c:a aac -b:a 128k output.mp4 #ffmpeg #linux #video

Fix weird keyboard issue that is common on ThinkPad laptops with Windows 11 Turn off "Fast Boot"

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Fix keyboard issue on ThinkPad laptops - Turn off "Fast Boot"

If the keyboard does not work on a ThinkPad laptop from a cold boot running Windows, turning off the "Fast Boot" feature will likely fix it.

#thinkpad #windows #windows11

Due to the recent development with the #x11Libre fork, X11 has a chance of working well for a long time to come. View quoted note →

I replaced the motherboard on a HP EliteBook 840 G6 laptop. Success. Upgraded from an Intel i5 to i7, since I found a good price for a motherboard with i7 on ebay. #upgrade #repair #hp #tech

I am listening to this now: #x11 #linux #x11Libre #redhat

Why would they lie about mayonnaise?

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Why would they lie about mayonnaise?

Humorous clip pulled from a Jonathan Machtemes video. Originally published at: https://youtu.be/GMn7OGl2kRE It is both really funny ...

Yesterday I acquired another ThinkPad T420 laptop. Classic. #ThinkPad

Just migrated a customer's system drive from a Dell Optiplex 780 to a Dell Optiplex 3010. Yes, people are really using systems these old to get work done, as unbelieve as that may seem to Youtube gaming bros chasing the latest release. The 3010 will be a significant upgrade for him He would have kept using the 780 had it not been for the motherboard not recognizing the new CMOS battery. A loud fan was also bothersome. So a number of issues that added up. Updating the BIOS on the 3010 now. This customer is on Windows 10. He has no care about it being out of service, as his main machine up to this point has been another Optiplex 780 with Windows 7. Now that some applications he needs are starting to not work on Windows 7, he'd like to move up to Windows 10. Of course, I think the 3010 is better suited to run Linux or BSD. #tech #dell #optiplex