I am the second one.
Battle scars are customizations.
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Tech is a tool to me and tools shouldn't be pristine and unused.
Any time I get a new toy, I do try to keep it a shiny as possible for as long as I can, but yeah eventually the battle scars come through and then it's a different story.
Tools should be used for sure.
Still never a reason to carelessly step on cables, toss/shove the computer instead of set it down, etc.
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Hey treat your stuff however you want. But generally tools are meant to wear out from their intended use. Ususlly, the better you treat your tools the more use you get out of them.
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That’s stupid, all my tools are in great condition. Just because it’s useful doesn’t mean it needs to be dirty and damaged and shitty.
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A knight in shining armor never had his mettle tested!
Remember the old ThinkPad idiom: "If the cracks are just plastic, it's still fantastic!"
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There's a third.
I would argue this is the just the second kind
"Can you stack peltiers? NVM I'm gonna try."
"Cooling sucks? Drill a hole here and here."
No joke, that was the workaround for a gaming laptop i owned in 2010 i think?
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A Thinkpad running windows is just disgraceful. Good hardware deserves good software
Exactly. Mine shipped w/ Windows, but it never ran Windows (at least I never did). Installed Linux day 1.
What are the options? Linux is meh on desktop. I love Linux and FreeBSD for servers but for desktop duty I still find Windows to be vastly superior.
Use Qubes like a normal person you freak! That's the option.
So I started going to University recently, and the amount of people I've had actively chastise me for how I treat my laptop has been shocking.
This is a tool to get things done, it's not some precious gem, I bought a cheap laptop with the expectation that it's going to get gross and crusty and I'll have to hose it down once a year, I'm going to wing it around and drop it and clean the screen with my sleeve.
Treating a telescope like a jackhammer isn't going to work well.
They just haven't figured out your jackhammer just looks a lot like their telescope.
It may be news to you but generally people cannot tell apart semen from just crusty dirt.
It’s probably why your laptop has been such a hit around the campus.
I don’t think even the bioengineers are brave enough to take a sample
Crusty.....?
Jesus
Yeah man, have some self respect and wipe it down regularly.
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My old MacBook was first too shiny and new to put stickers on, then it lived so long that I didn't want to waste stickers on a machine that I'd need to retire. It made it ten years before having weird bootloop issues.
To try to counteract my own neuroses I went sticker mad on its replacement immediately. It also helps with easily telling which way is up at a glance (I don't know how many times I had to rotate the old one when I went to open it).
You know, aside from the i9 MacBook pros, these are really resilient machines that will last quite a while. They don’t deserve the hate they get. They easily outlast gamer laptops that bake themselves to death.
The butterfly keyboard models are definitely not included in that statement, but all other models yes they'll live forever. BUT i also have a bunch of old laptops from other companies that live forever running linux
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The scratches on my thinkpad aren't flaws. They're battle scars!
Y'all hatin on the first image, but that's me 🥺
So I'm hating you now
I admire your conviction
That's me for about a week with any new device. Then I slowly get more and more lax, until eventually I'm the one on the right.
Buy used, best feature is that it comes with scratches so you don't have to be so careful
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I ran over mine with my car (by accident, of course) and it survived, I'm still using it even though I had to take some acrews out to relieve the pressure from the fan because it was hitting the case and sometimes I have to fold it a bit to the other side so it doesn't make noises.
So I guess I'm the second one
I am the left one until the first scratch appears, at that point i manage to do worse than the Right one.
Looks at hp stream that's been choking for 5 years in cnc shavings.
hp stream that's been choking for 5 years in cnc shavings
Now here is someone who knows how to treat an hp
I've actually ran a server for a few weeks with a heatsink just sitting on the CPU with a dab of thermal paste.
I was waiting for mounting hardware. Thankfully it was a PGA so mounting pressure didn't match much.
I wouldn't even call the left side a "tech" enthusiast. More like a fad or clout enthusiast...
One isn't a tech enthusiast, but a tech idiot.
Yeah, who hooks a portable generator up to their laptop without using a surge protector??
The caps in the power supply should be enough to eat the noise in that power source.
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You're just gatekeeping.
ThinkPad with a generator? Nothing wrong with that
maybe add LoRa, get a ham license and add some packet radio or digital modes and you have a neat disaster setup.
MacBook that you don't want to scuff? Well, I'm not that precious with my gear, but you do you. Many Mac laptops last a very long time, and the performance of modern Apple silicon is really, really impressive
and you have UNIX out of the box. Plenty for a tech enthusiast to like.
The one on the right needs a surge protector.
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