what was the price before?! lol

if i suggested encrypting said files before uploading them to cloud storage, would that be good advice or ramblings-of-the-homeless-man-on-the-corner-warning-of-the-black-helicopters

edit: at least maybe the tax data

what distro was he using?

arch is for edgelords – debian sid is where it’s at :P

i didn’t believe you, so i looked it up that is so fucking moronic LMAO

thank you very much! upon more thought, i think the chips are probably fine. i’ll try flashing a known good in ~2hrs.

if already flashed, one can use flashprog -p internal. on the stock bios, at most you may be able to hack together a method to flash coreboot, but you can’t neuter the ME, nor recover the megabytes of flash the ME firmware uses.

not sure about the t540p, but the t440p isn’t too hard to externally flash. two screws to get inside, then the various internal screws (most of which are identical), remove the keyboard & trackpad, the VGA port screws, and then your flash chips are exposed. hook up an SOIC8 clip (on ebay for ~$5) to a pi pico, flash pico-serprog, and then use flashprog on another machine to flash the chips.

once successfully flashed, you can easily update coreboot from within the OS. however, if you flash a broken build, – whether it’s a lack of vendor blobs, like for the (neutered) ME, or simply a BIOS that can’t get you to your OS (or a rescue USB) – you will need to reflash externally before the machine will be usable again.

with a mild undervolt (~ -50mV core, cache, GPU), i hit ~85 C on sustained loads (~3GHz on battery), though i’ve seen it in the high 90s when closed on sustained loads. i actually cooked my speakers that way, need to buy a new set, lmao. at least they can be swapped easily

i don’t have the dGPU heatsink, if that’s what you’re asking. stock heatsink, repasted + an undervolt seems to be sufficient to tame the beast.

i highly recommend the BIOS mod if you can swing it. i run a custom coreboot build (seabios + grub), so it shows my logo on boot, has a custom BIOS password routine (rolled it myself!), and i have full disk encryption (even /boot!) for debian, with the grub in flash handling LUKS2.

my only complaint is boot times, GRUB can take nearly a minute to unlock the disk, due to non-existent SSE code. if that was taken care of, it could probably unlock in a couple seconds. (note to self, summer project!)

they are – i have 2 (daily driver & the fuck-around-box)

my daily is maxed out – 1080p IPS, backlit keyboard, t450p trackpad, 4910MQ, 16GB ram, and a 4g modem :P

the fuckaround has a 1080p TN, stock keyboard & trackpad, 4300M(?), and like 8 or 12 GB or something

they’re not socketed, are they? i have virtually zero soldering experience

edit: the chips are the W25Q32FV & W25Q64FV. both are rather cheap wholesale, at ~$0.40 / chip. i’ve just never replaced a chip like this. i did buy a pencil a while back, though, so it could be good to learn.

which one?

inb4 someone mentions an emacs lisp package for filing your taxes

intel_gpu_top, nvidia-smi, or radeontop. pick your poison.

i’d just like to interject for a moment

i’ve been doing cs for a year now with a coreboot’d t440p. if anything, it’s gotten me some greetz from my profs, lmao

i’ve made do with libreoffice just fine, i submit most of my labs in odt without issue

keep a VM for labs in case they require windows, on machine or a home server. pick your poison

i’d assume this might be a drive issue rather than a distro / linux issue. iirc i installed debian from CD a few months back on a thinkpad because i was bored… hah, parties. you’re funny. undervolting thinkpads while procrastinating finals. that’s my kind of shit.

i hate to be a pedant (who am i kidding, i love to be) but they didn’t really invent electricity, so much as discover it and improve on existing technologies. ben franklin was writing about lightning rods a century before. also autoerotic asphyxiation. that’s true, look it up.

you’re evil. i love it.

on my campus, there’s a stack of several dozen desktops just out in the open (in a basement)

plus a dumpster worth on monitors, peripherals, and at least one ipad with multiple bullet holes. the screen is fine – somebody pulled the screen off, then shot the logic board. i have so many questions

deleted by creator