Yep, I replaced the fan after 1,5 (or 1.5) years with a cheap aliexpress one and this one works way better than the original, but it’s still very loud and could actually be used as a heater for a small room. Plus I forgot, the DVD drive died last year and I won’t be replacing it.

Well my HP 250 G5 still somewhat works. The touchpad has serious ghost-touch problems and the housing is falling apart from just 2 disassemblies.

Use pliers and try not to break anything. It worked with my Lattitude, but the heatsink was still stuck on the CPU.

Well, I won’t enjoy loosing ~1060€ for the license, but I feel like I would at least enjoy driving a car.

Well, the quad-core i5 still works decently on my latitude, but it has ~30000 geekbench score.

Wow, thanks. I’m kind off sceptical of the aliexpress adapters and I don’t even know if the tape player even works. I might test it with some kind of religious tape from my grandma.

If you aren’t listening to C’est la Vie by Bewitched, you are good, but the Sabrina (animated) theme song is actually decent.

But if a city is already ruined or you live in a village without a bus station, it makes travel a lot easier.

Not yet there, but it will probably be something on the radio, as I don’t have any tapes (which is the only thing it supports). Could I still buy them anywhere?

Well, if you are in the market for a smaller laptop, don’t buy the x280, as it isn’t upgradable, buy a Latitude 5290 with the same specs as t480, but with a horrendous display and no trackpoint. It has decent build quality and the same upgradability as the t480. You could find it used under 200$ easily.

How is a t480 old? It’s around 7 years old.

Well, my mom is a computer engieneer, who had me reflash a phone from work and install libreoffice on her windows laptop (to be fair none of her coworkers could reflash the phone and the second one was probably just lazyness).

You can take care of privacy on your personal hardware, but with work issued devices, you can’t.

Or people, like my mom, who are were relatively educated about technology and don’t want to learn new technologies/tools under the pretense of security (even if the software is foss, like again most adblockers.

Edit: Whenever I use a browser without an adblocker, I remember how shitty the web is without them.

What about laptop webcams on work/school issued hardware?

If you have a chemistry education, you can sell crystal without selling crystal.

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Mi pad-s exist, which are near flagship, but of course mi unlock and no oled.

Well, I have lineageos on my XM phones (rmx4x and mi11lite5g) and they’re great except for the reliability of the 11 lite. And before you ask about it, yes the mi unlock is terrible, but after you sell your soul to Xiaomi, you can unlock it and have a good enough phone.

To be fair, they are just expensive mid-range phones (except the hardware security and build quality), but the tradeoff is worth it for GrapheneOS.