So it's been KIND OF A RABBIT HOLE gang.
Fell on a thinkpad meme one month ago on tiktok. I was like "damn that's funny".
I did not know anything about computers, nor linux, nor privacy, fully using my gmail on every gafam apps imaginable.
And here I am now, having gone full degooglelized writing on that t440p I bought for 40 euros that I brought back to life only using locally bought used hardware :D.
Took this one cause it yas cheap and saw it was easy to disasemble and because it has a socketed CPU so the right to repair was more accessible in the future.
pumped it with a 4810mq and 16 gigs of ram yith a 500gigs SSD. I'm planing to produce on it as a way to prove to myself I can do music on a popato with opensource DAW and plugins. downside is the battery that last 3 hours max, gonna try to cyrberpunk mod it with a 100w powerbank held in place with velcro on the lower topcase yith a USB-C to slim tip cable If I manage to find one. When I'll feel more confortable with a soldering iron I'll look into building a battery inside the CD bay.
Also need to find an azerty kezboard because this one feels great but the german disposition is driving me mad
Okay, so it's a tinkerer kink! Something like the current Cyberdeck trend?
you could say that exept Cyberdecks usually works around buyind new tech, the mandatory rasberry pi, those influencers seems to work around a pile of amazon boxes, meanwhile old thinkpads are big tanks people use on construction sites, somes times ago the military or in fucking SPACE (they use them is the ISS). Cyberdecks have qualities : they bring back fun design in tech that severly lacks it nowadays and is in my eyes important, whereas old thinkpads are - yes - very funny to use, have a fun community, is built for linux compatibility, are VERY easy to fix for cheap using second hand pieces that flood the market for cheap, and they just work. They are big fucking bricks that can withold a building collapse (true story) and run your shit and it's really usable everyday. (it's not necessary my POV rn I just got into it, I'm just giving you the general community perspective).
Does not mean Cyberdecks sucks but in my opinion the trend tends to rely on consumerism and highly unethical sellers, like "buy this list on components from AliExpress" which is kinda sad. But that's not all cyberdecks users. It's nice so see a majority of women in a tech trend also.
I am myself considering building a mini notebook on a bracelet. could use a used smartphone but they sadly don't boot on linux and instead rely on emulate linux, but android and google would still hard spy on me sooo
That all sound genuinely good, actually