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Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot

https://blog.aheymans.xyz/post/thinkpad_x61/

#HackerNews #ThinkPad #X61 #Coreboot #Porting #TechBlog #OpenSource #Hardware

Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot

https://blog.aheymans.xyz/post/thinkpad_x61/

#HackerNews #ThinkPad #X61 #Coreboot #Porting #TechBlog #OpenSource #Hardware

@joahim
Same here recently
#handbrake (has a nice batch feature) and #K3b for the simple cases and #sh with #ddrescue and #ffmpeg et al. for the harder cases all on a #X61 on a #Debian distro

@joahim
Same here recently
#handbrake (has a nice batch feature) and #K3b for the simple cases and #sh with #ddrescue and #ffmpeg et al. for the harder cases all on a #X61 on a #Debian distro

@tetsuo if you enable bluesky youll be tetsuo.at.app.wafrn.net

on fedi youre [email protected] welcome!

@tetsuo if you enable bluesky youll be tetsuo.at.app.wafrn.net

on fedi youre [email protected] welcome!

@kollumos incognito tab, register with another email (if you use gmail you can use [email protected] ) and thats it.

we still dont have an account switcher :/

On a related note; I took a tiny gamble and ordered this #USBC power dongle thingy and it's been working real nicely with the #X61. Since most of the devices I have use USBC it's really convenient to be able to charge the X61 with a USBC charger too.
I didn't want to actually modify the laptop to add USBC charging, but carrying a small dongle like this is easy enough. Neat!
(Not affiliated) link to where I got mine: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08331PF5R
#Thinkpad #Lenovo #IBM #RetroComputing #DongleLife

New (OEM) 8-cell battery came in for the #Thinkpad #X61. I'm using the Lenovo software's built-in functionality to let it do a full charge-discharge-then-charge-again cycle to see what the battery thinks its capacity/health is like. It's a brand new battery so should be good, but it needs to figure that out by itself, so to speak.
It's pretty nice to have it do all this automatically. I can just leave the charger connected while it does its thing. Neat :).
#RetroComputing #Lenovo #IBM

New (OEM) 8-cell battery came in for the #Thinkpad #X61. I'm using the Lenovo software's built-in functionality to let it do a full charge-discharge-then-charge-again cycle to see what the battery thinks its capacity/health is like. It's a brand new battery so should be good, but it needs to figure that out by itself, so to speak.
It's pretty nice to have it do all this automatically. I can just leave the charger connected while it does its thing. Neat :).
#RetroComputing #Lenovo #IBM

Flashback to last Friday where I had to burn *seven* discs to install a factory fresh XP installation on my "new" #Thinkpad #X61.
I had some trouble getting a generic #WindowsXP SP3 installation disc to work (it kept blue-screening), but as luck would have it some friendly archiver had put the official X61 XP SP2 restore discs on #InternetArchive. Score!
Not entirely sure why #Lenovo thought 6 discs was reasonable though. I guess all the bloatware had to be stored somewhere 😅️
#RetroComputing

Flashback to last Friday where I had to burn *seven* discs to install a factory fresh XP installation on my "new" #Thinkpad #X61.
I had some trouble getting a generic #WindowsXP SP3 installation disc to work (it kept blue-screening), but as luck would have it some friendly archiver had put the official X61 XP SP2 restore discs on #InternetArchive. Score!
Not entirely sure why #Lenovo thought 6 discs was reasonable though. I guess all the bloatware had to be stored somewhere 😅️
#RetroComputing

Eureka! #SWGEmu works on #WindowsXP! \^o^/

#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #StarWarsGalaxies #Thinkpad #X61

It seems the issue I'm seeing is when you have the default "emerald" theme on widescreen (or maybe external) display. It shows up correctly on a tiny 4:3 display
#debian #plymouth #boot #luks #x61 #x62

It seems the issue I'm seeing is when you have the default "emerald" theme on widescreen (or maybe external) display. It shows up correctly on a tiny 4:3 display
#debian #plymouth #boot #luks #x61 #x62

Featuring my #Thinkpad #x61 #x62 #USBC

cc @jered

Featuring my #Thinkpad #x61 #x62 #USBC

cc @jered

@thegibson where my choice machine is my personal monster on the left. Originally an #x61 #x62 #Thinkpad, but is 10yr mod work of 💙

@thegibson where my choice machine is my personal monster on the left. Originally an #x61 #x62 #Thinkpad, but is 10yr mod work of 💙

@RL_Dane @array @benjaminhollon I have a #system76 lemur pro, and still prefer a #thinkpad. All day. Every day. My favorite is my #x61 #x62 frankenstein

@RL_Dane @array @benjaminhollon I have a #system76 lemur pro, and still prefer a #thinkpad. All day. Every day. My favorite is my #x61 #x62 frankenstein

Travelled this week to #kubecon with my #x61 (#x62) #thinkpad Frankenstein.
I've done other small trips, but this was a lot more situations.
This is my favorite machine. It is such a comfortable piece of trash. Parts of this machine are 15yrs old, but then cobbled together from various broken machines. Then in the past couple years, I got the drop-in modded board from #lcdfans #51nb out of China. Now a 32Gb with nvme drives, it is a total sleeper. Luckily found a decent battery. avg 7-8hrs.