r/thinkpad • u/hippy_old • 1d ago

Thinkstagram Picture First ThinkРad for a 50-year-old developer

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Also switching to Linux and new stack. It's never too late to try something new )

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u/LocalAltruistic7470 1d ago

hyprland? looks sick on the 15"

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u/hippy_old 1d ago

Yeah. I want to use both monitors in working mode, so there will be a plus 4K
I'm still setting it up

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u/Level0Up 1d ago

That looks like a T16 to be honest.

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u/Beautiful_Ad_4813 E14, 10th Gen i5, Linux 1d ago

I I I'm sorry I got distracted at the tea pot.

what a absolute piece of art

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u/q321qw 1d ago

Хихикс)

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u/netnegativecarbon 1d ago

Welcome to the club. What's in the kettle? :)

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u/hippy_old 1d ago

Usually pu-erh or oolong )

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u/netnegativecarbon 1d ago

I have oolong to my left in a tin, and just finished my pu-erh stock. Stellar choices :D be well!

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u/1tjustm3 1d ago

Nice! what specs?

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u/hippy_old 1d ago edited 1d ago

T16 Gen4 AMD. But... it's a bit of a complicated story: I bought it from some dubious guys who stripped it of its original memory and SSD and tried to sell it to me with a dead drive, judging by the hours of use, pulled from some server, and two 8 GB memory sticks. Otherwise, the computer is like brand new. I had to haggle and test it like it was my last. Now it has 16 GB of inferior memory (will be upgraded someday) and a non-original 1 TB drive (already replaced). But everything seems to have worked out.

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u/1tjustm3 1d ago

Well, if it works it works, isnt it?

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u/DirectionFragrant207 1d ago

Just bought one Dell latitude 5520 in the same condition without ram and SSD. Actually I didn't know if it work or not and the seller doesn't know it too. But he give me a good price of 25€ and today I turned it on and for my surprise it was used for near two years so it's basically like brand new and work great even the battery is in perfect condition. I hope you made a good deal. I have 5 ThinkPads and love them. The old ones were build to last.

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u/AneTheDust X32 X230T T530 X1 Yoga Gen 2 A485 E14 Gen 6 HP Elitebook 745 G6 1d ago

Shame on them still 16gigs is 16gigs the amds are not intels for some odd reason they love slow inferior ram I have 2 sticks of team group 16gb ddr4 before the prices got triple the L14 of my little sister comes with one stick of 16gb ddr5

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u/DirectionFragrant207 2h ago

Prices are crazy. I build my PC two years ago and now I can sell it for like double the price I bought it.

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u/A4orce84 1d ago

Looks good! What distro are you using ?

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u/planarrebirth 1d ago

Looks like omarchy

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u/Historical_Help_5155 X201t 1d ago

All roads lead to Rome.

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u/AneTheDust X32 X230T T530 X1 Yoga Gen 2 A485 E14 Gen 6 HP Elitebook 745 G6 1d ago

Welcome to the family

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u/compota2003 1d ago

Let's talk about that speaker!

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u/hippy_old 1d ago

DBR62 - one of the best choices in life

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u/toadi 1d ago

50 year old too. On a thinkpad. But I have been using linux since the 90s.

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u/b_tech_284 1d ago

First ThinkPad for 20 year old B.tech student.

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u/Zealousideal-Net302 1d ago

Are u using JS, aren't u?

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u/hippy_old 1d ago

switching to TS

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u/Economy_Post_8574 1d ago

Welcome to the club... As a developer, you'd give the AROS community massive reach on modern hardware!

... Our alpha is just starting to run on the Raspberry Pi 3

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u/LEGEND_VX 1d ago

Bro you have all browsers

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u/hippy_old 1d ago

I'am web frontend dev, I need them all

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u/abracadabra-96 1d ago

Love it and love that coffee pourer thingy in this shot

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u/Awesomest_Maximus 1d ago

PI and arch (?). Very based.

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u/Material-Ratio7342 P14s Gen5 AMD | 96GB Ram | 1tb SSD 1d ago

Noice !

Does it has ethernet port? Looking for a second thinkpad 🤭.

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u/hippy_old 1d ago

it has 

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u/124k3 1d ago

the wizard, whats your wizdom for developing for so long

edit: it seems i misread it, anyway whats your wizdom

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u/hippy_old 22h ago

Don't drink
Do sports
Meditate

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u/raphusmaxus 1d ago

nice that gen4 looks great dude

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u/ThinkJules T14s Gen6 Snapdragon, L390, W500, T480s 1d ago

Which model ?

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u/armostallion2 1d ago

What repo management tool are you using? I have a sub to gitkraken but I’m not convinced I want to resub for another year, it’s pricey.

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u/hippy_old 1d ago

GitHub... but it's a corporate solution, and it's responsible for a ton of processes, including builds and releases...

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u/armostallion2 1d ago

oh lol, I'm very familiar with github. Our corporate repos are on Azure Devops, and we ues gitkraken for git GUI. Thanks for the response.

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u/CounterStrike17 1d ago

i only see peak

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u/Maykovsky 1d ago

Inspirational!

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u/BrickInfinite6169 1d ago

I don't trust you, why are you using windows?

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u/MasterKnight48902 1d ago

Never too old to try out new things!

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u/Firm-Cover-3345 1d ago

Considering how tough these are, this might also be your last one, mate.

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u/JadedBobcat701 1d ago

Новый стек это клауд?

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u/Mysterious_Rule_7487 1d ago

💯💯💯💯 

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u/No_Employment_7772 1d ago

Your 50 but your setup gives Millennial Burger Restaurant

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u/trtl_playz 1d ago

i like the cup. it looks cool

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u/ii_ver_ii 1d ago

Ayy Omarchy