This 17-Year-Old ThinkPad Continues to (Re)Shape My Setup
Apart from a few broken ones, the ThinkPad X61s remains the oldest and the weakest ThinkPad in my fleet, and yet it is my most favorite. Since the time I adopted it, it has pushed me to change several elements in my computing workflow, and it continues to do so.
You can find the transcript of this video here on my website: https://myterminal.me/diary/20241018/...
Segments:
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References:
Lenovo ThinkPad X61s: https://support.lenovo.com/gt/en/solu...
Wayland: https://wayland.freedesktop.org
Xorg: https://www.x.org/wiki
Fedora: https://getfedora.org
Arch Linux: https://archlinux.org
Nvidia: https://www.nvidia.com
i3wm: https://i3wm.org
Window Manager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_...
Desktop Environment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop...
Display Manager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_displ...
TTY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tty_(Unix)
SwayWM: https://swaywm.org
Terminal Emulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termina...
Kitty Terminal: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty
rxvt-unicode: https://rxvt.sourceforge.net
foot terminal: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
Google Chrome: https://www.google.com/chrome
Mozilla Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox
Otter Browser: https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter...
Chromium Browser: https://www.chromium.org/Home
SATA-III: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#SA...)
DDR2 Memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM
Intel Core 2 Duo L7500: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/...
Audio and visuals:
Music from https://www.zapsplat.com
Pictures from https://pixabay.com
Hardware/Gear:
Primary computer: Lenovo ThinkPad T15g (Gen 2) (https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptop...)
Secondary computer: Dell Precision T3600 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precisi...)
Ternary computer: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (Gen 1) (https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptop...)
Keyboard: Logitech MX Keys (https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Advan...)
External pointing device: XP-PEN StarG640 6x4 Inch Ultrathin Tablet (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078YR2MTF)
Video equipment: SONY A-6400 (https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/...) with Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC (https://www.sigmaphoto.com/30mm-f1-4-...)
Audio equipment: MAONO PM422 USB Condenser Microphone (https://www.maono.com/products/usb-po...)
Software tools:
OBS Studio (https://obsproject.com)
Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org)
GIMP (https://www.gimp.org)
Blender (https://www.blender.org)
Find me:
GitHub: https://github.com/myTerminal
Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@myTerminal
Reddit: / myterminal_
Pixelfed: https://portfolio.pixelfed.de/myTerminal
If you read till here, thanks for your valuable time!