i have socks but no thinkpad :(
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That reminds me that I have a stack of Vista era laptops (and one Win 7) gathering dust. I should find something to do with them.
I use an old laptop as a Pi-hole, personally.
I've thought of doing it, but the power draw wouldn't be reasonable.
You could try salvaging any good components to try and reuse for another project, maybe strip any RAM, drives, etc... to use in a storage bank.
I have seen some unique project ATX motherboards that have SODIMM slots on them
I've already taken the RAM and SSD for my home server, but I don't think I can use much else. Not much of a hardware guy. I'll happily send it over to anyone if they paid for shipping (I'll even add some old RAM). Some screws are stripped, so the chassis doesn't close properly, but if those are replaced, it can be a perfectly usable laptop with some RAM and SSD. It'll be better than just dumping it.
Plot twist: the second person is the same as the first.
laughs in Ideapad
I'm a secret third thing
Miss my thinkpads. One was IBM
The IBM branded ones are cooler. Too bad they are ancient now. The Lenovos are still pretty good computers though
The last of the IBM-branded ones are Core 2 Duo machines that can, with some upgrades, passably run a modern Linux distro. With that said, they are still nearly 20 years old.
The last of the IBM-built ones are still 32-bit machines.
Got the think pad and used to have the socks, but no Arch. Fedora and Debian for me.
I always wondered where people get their cool stickers from, epspecially the 'niche ones' like the Lemmy/Fediverse ones. Like, I found shops for EU/Germany and maybe I'm to stingy, but I don't want to pay 50β¬ for 10 Stickers...
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In Slovakia we have a stationery shop chain called FaxCopy that prints stickers as well. Rather than a limited number of stickers, you get to fill an entire page. For example, SRA3 page, matte exterior-grade (I assume that could be waterproof, they don't explain that...) costs β¬5.47. I only tried the cheapest paper option so far. That includes the cutting. However there's 2 ways, I prefer to kiss-cut over die-cut due to spacing, then just cut it up with scissors. For kiss-cut it's 5mm and for die cut it's 3cm.
Right, that brings me to another point, it is quite manual. You have to create the print template and cut template yourself. I used Inkscape for that. -
Stickermule. Right, so they've went fully pro-Trump, sending pro-Trump emails to customers, and now I even found they made some 100ft wide "Vote for Trump" sign and Trump's statue.
Well, so why am I mentioning them? They've got a couple of promotions of 10 stickers for around $1 including shipping. Each can only be used once, but it's possible to delete and re-create the account (needs a different phone number). Certainly doesn't make them money.
Unfortunately, the latter is the company that acquired unixstickers.
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All's you need is adhesive matte paper and a printer.
Optional: Cutting machine, Inkscape, GIMP
Well, I have none of those (I don't even own a printer) :D
But you're right buying the sheets and printing them in a copyshop is probably cheaper than buying individual stickers.
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I have a ThinkPad but no socks that are long enough.
Think pad? Think again.