So, I've been playing around with a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition for a bit.

Overall, I feel almost right at home with the X1 Carbon.

I wished I could highlight all the good things, about it, but frankly, it's mostly neck-in-neck with the 14-inch M4 Pro MacBook Pro.

That said, I may as well list out things that either laptops have missing.

What X1 Carbon doesn't have.

- Long battery life
- HDR display
- Smudge-resistant exterior
- Ability to dev for the Apple ecosystem
- Good speakers

Things that the MacBook doesn't have:

- Touch screen
- Screen real estate at the top (it's been replaced by a notch)
- Insanely lightweight (X1 Carbon is less than a kilogram in weight)
- screen folds out 180 degrees

#ThinkPad #Lenovo #LenovoThinkPad #X1Carbon #ThinkPadX1Carbon #X1

#29 Bambu Lab fiasco affects you! Even if you don't own their printer. #bambulab

https://makertube.net/w/n5pg9J91jpH1nkqyVVgedU

My trusty 'Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6!', runing Fedora 42. Perfect to be used as a Linux Workstation, even today.

#thinkpad #x1carbon #linux #fedora

Thoughts on the #lenovo #thinkpad #x1carbon 6th gen I recently bought used (I put Debian 13 on it by booting a live USB and installing from that)

Materials: shit (small hole in wrist rest material showing bare metal underneath, bezel rubber is going sticky, cleaning chemicals leave marks on lid)

Compatibility: brilliant (no drivers needed, everything just works, Plasma 6 is a joy)

Lesson learned: when buying used, buy with pure plastic or pure aluminium case only. No coatings or rubbers.

#3DPrinter Problems, #BambuLab

The print head of my #X1Carbon has recently started banging hard against the back wall (or rather, against the folded metal sheet at the back wall) 🤔.
Cleaning the carbon axles and recalibrating the printer didn't help in the search for the cause, nor did the internet.

Until the epiphany came 💡
I recently carried out a skew correction and, as recommended by Bambu Lab, inserted the measured values into the machine's G-code:
M1005 X150.05 Y149.65 ; Skew correction
M500 ; save the values permanently

The solution to the puzzle:

The X value is greater than the Y value for the entered skew correction., i.e. Y movements are corrected upwards - ergo the distance that the print head travels from the front left corner (reference) to the position near the filament cleaner (very close to the rear wall) increases -> leads to impacts against the wall / bended metal sheet because the print head wants to travel further than it can.
🤦‍♂️

Changing the G-Code to
M1005 X150 Y150
M500
and the "head bang" problem was gone. 🤷‍♂️
No problem if the Y-value for skew correction is bigger than the X-value, but do not do a skew correction if X > Y !!!

Maybe it will help someone.

@3dprinting

#3DPrinting #3DPrint #SkewCorrection #3DDruck #3DDrucker

It's hard to realize that the keyboard on #Lenovo #ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 is quite bad compared to the Gen 8 one.

I'm doing far more typos on this new keyboard than with the previous one, even after haven used it for several months. I thought I would get used to by now, but seems this will be a long journey get used to.

And the T14 Gen 1 keyboard is even better than the X1C Gen 8.

The issue? The key travel is too short and the key pressure resistance is getting shorter and lighter.

It's actually quite depressing to see what's happening to these keyboards.

#keyboard #hardware #UX #x1carbon