Result: trade association I do work decomssioned #Lenovo #T460s #laptop as defective due to poor audio and battery life, generally being flaky and not Win11 compatible - I was told as long as data wiped I could strip it for parts or do whatever I wished with it, they don't want it any more as enduser has a nicer Lenovo refurb with bigger screen I set up for them a few months ago.

Thought there was a worse fault, but it seems just the speakers are goosed, and it wasn't that difficult to source replacements.

Managed to force Win11 onto it with #Rufus USB Also installed 2 new aftermarket and the laptop is still running 3 hours later (there are reasons I want Win11 and decent battery life, which will be shown in the next toot)

#HardwareRepair #repair

Damn! Looks like my beloved #Thinkpad #T460s is nearing its end of life.

A few weeks ago, the trackpad started not working randomly - since today it's now completely dead.

Now, it doesn't recognize the 16GB of the second RAM DIMM anymore and there are every now and then weird interference-like distortions on the external display.

If it was just a single component, I'd repair it in a heartbeat, but this feels more like total system failure.

Framework or hunt for a refurbished Thinkpad?

The secondary #battery of my #LenovoThinkpad #T460s was completely dead, which somehow confused the whole battery management and it just turned off after 3 minutes, even when the primary battery still had a sufficient charge left.
Replaced now both and after 3 full charge/discharge cycles for initial calibration, #UPower reports the secondary battery now at only 77% capacity left, which I'd expected after 500-600 cycles or so.

Where do those numbers come from? UPower itself? Battery internal?

Used #Thinkpad #T460s, bought for 130€. Installed #opensuse #leap with full-disk-encryption. Set up using #Ansible.

Works like a charm.

Thanks, Linux! Thanks, openSUSE! Thanks, Ansible!