I actually assembled this thing from parts, including the lid. Replacing it is not an option as it is in a very good condition except for that outer layer. I just wanted to see if I can do anything to it.
Thanks for the suggestion, tho.
It would be nice if these scars were actually by me 😅
But yeah I get your point
Definitely an option, but I'd rather not wrap it.
Hello good folks in the Lemmy Thinkpad community!
I have recently built a T420 from parts. Things have been running well. Since it's mostly from scraps, it's far from perfect, but it works.
One of my pet peeves is some discoloration along the edges and corners of the top cover. I am guessing this is the part where the paint got worn off from bumps and frictions. Is there a way to restore it? I honestly don't care about the rubberized coating, but having that consistent matte black would be really great.
I was thinking of that plastic model paint. Would it work well?
Also, the back part of magnesium chassis that's supposed to be painted black seems to have its bare color exposed.
Serious question: you'd use that for your daily driver?
This reminds me of that time I accidentally roasted my college instructor in front of the class.
It was some kind of logic class for computer science. We were going thru a topic of "statement", which is "something that has a truth value".
I asked, "what about sarcasm?"
He answered, "sarcasm also has truth value in it, so it's also a statement".
Then he told me to give an example, to which I instictively gave without much thought: "this class is great!"
Had the whole class laughing while he frowned.
It was the very first day of him teaching.
Hopefully this is the right place to ask. Lemme know otherwise.
I got a Thinkpad W530 with Quadro K2000M GPU (Kepler). With coreboot, I was able to get around all the headaches related to Optimus only having the discrete GPU enabled.
The GPU itself is well-supported by nouveau driver, missing only a few features on the power management side of things.
Things are good when I run stuff natively. However, I have yet to figure out Flatpak. I know we use org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.* packages that are some kind of Mesa abstraction layer.
Things are much more straightforward with Intel and AMD GPU. It is actually quite easy with the proprietary NVidia driver, but it doesn't exactly come free.
The ultimate question is: Should I install one of those org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-<ver> packages with my nouveau? If so, which version?
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And with the land they just discovered, they'd expand their settlements.
I guess the whole genocide thing is unintended, huh?
"Whooops, we accidentally wiped out the whole population of this land. Whadya know, nobody lives here now. Somebody should definitely claim it!"
I plan of having a maxed-out T420 for fun. Thinking that Firewire isn't particularly useful these days, but a second LAN port might. The Sub Card of T430 has a LAN port along with the USB and I was wpndering whether or not it's compatible with the T420.
I have to ask: why so many European country specific feddit instances?
Could be things to execute. They may run a shell script (source it if they don't have exec permission), but they won't have all the previleged commands (definitely no dd)
I currently have a Thinkpad W530 with a Quadro K2000M. Because I have coreboot as its firmware, I am able to run completely on the discrete GPU. So far I've been doing great.
I've looked on the feature matrix of the nouveau support and my GPU (Kepler) happens to have all the features checked-off, with the exception of dynamic power management (mostly WIP).
Right now, I'm running KDE wayland with the nouveau driver with no issue.
On the other hand, I've tried having the hybrid GPU and it sucks.
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How the mighty has fallen.
Tried uploading an image I took with my phone camera into a Lemmy post, and failed.
I gotta admit that the image was indeed large (4MB). Refusing it would be reasonable. After resizing the image, it was successful.
What I found to be unreasonable was the error message. It returned a bunch of JSON garbage on the pop-up.
I ended up having to move from my phone to my computer and went on the network inspect tool just to see what's going on (a "file too large" error).
I would suggest a clearer error message. I don't know how this could be implemented, but it will be a deterent to a lot of people.
Hi everyone, I've neen having this issue when running KDE wayland with multiple screen on my Thinkpad W530. I'm using the nouveau driver.
The primary monitor is fine, but the secondary one is glitching.
This is tested on Gentoo as well as Debian. I know it's not hardware issue because it runs fine on X11.
Anyone have any idea about this issue?
Edit: I should probably mention that I was using DisplayPort in the photo, but I also tried VGA and it gave the same result.
Edit1: I was able to narrow down the problem somewhat. Switching the BIOS setting to "Discrete only" for the GPU (thanks coreboot!) seems to make the glitching go away! This means the Optimus would be to blame.