arosano 🇩🇰 🇮🇱May 22
After updating my home server to 7.9, #openbsd obviously, I still need to update my #postgresql to v18. Then I will reshuffle the laptops: #alpinelinux will go onto the #x240, #openbsd will go onto the #x270, and whenever #netbsd11 will be there, it will go onto my new favorite, the #t490s.
When will #netbsd11 be there?
I am making it between the stages of #giroditalia2026, hitting the gym, and other things old people do.
Show threadpopitter_net ☃️May 1
But this did help me to figure out the mystery of my #ThinkPad #X260 Mainboard which broke after I installed the #X270 keyboard: there seems to be a short circuit in the keyboard!!! I think I can measure it with a multimeter.
Why am I so sure? I bought another #X270 #ThinkPad and installed the keyboard: Mainboard also destroyed.
(On both, only the TrackPad controller is irreversibly gone, not the whole Mainboard.)
popitter_net ☃️May 1
I asked the #AI about the pinout of the 12 pin ribbon cable of my #Lenovo #X270 #ThinkPad. Instant answer, even citing a source 😲. Measuring myself: answer 100% bullshit 😓. The source the AI cited: a 30 second video of someone showing the key combination to turn on the keyboard backlight 🤦.
Show threadpopitter_net ☃️Mar 8
But is the initial Magic Eraser necessary, you ask? Fortunately, I ordered another #ThinkPad #X270 to figure this out 😇
#sunkcostfallacy
L.J. McLeanMar 6

It’s alive! #ThinkPad #X270

Wish list is more memory (when affordable), a dock, and a backlit keyboard swap. Once I figure out the software and workflow, this will be my writing machine.

Jörgi (chaos.social)Mar 1

People with a ThinkPad X270 - what have you upgraded so far?

Thinking about replacing the HD display with a full HD one (so far around 55€ at AliEx.).

Has anyone ever tried to use an external graphic card?

What else have you changed?

#thinkpad #x270 #modding

Show threadpopitter_net ☃️Mar 1
Asking ChatGPT and Gemini. The electrical layout or protocol of the #ThinkPad TrackPad between #X270 and #X260 changed. Plugging a X270 keyboard (with TrackPad connected) into a X260 may have permanently damaged my X260 TrackPad mainboard part.
I will not test the X270 keyboard in my X250, as it could cause the same damage.
N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 24
🖥️ Oh, wow! Someone actually took the time to port #Coreboot to a #ThinkPad #X270, proving that you too can waste hours of your life for an unnoticeable boot time #improvement. 🕒🔍 Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to choose between 50 shades of syntax highlighting themes, because that's what really matters, right? 🎨👨‍💻
https://dork.dev/posts/2026-02-20-ported-coreboot/ #BootTime #SyntaxHighlighting #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
I ported Coreboot to the Thinkpad X270!

dork.dev
Hacker NewsFeb 24

I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270

https://dork.dev/posts/2026-02-20-ported-coreboot/

#HackerNews #Coreboot #ThinkPad #X270 #Porting #TechNews #OpenSource #Hardware

I ported Coreboot to the Thinkpad X270!

dork.dev
BoxcarraceDec 6, 2025

Mein ThinkPad X270 ist jetzt komplett fürs Indie- und Retro-Gaming optimiert. Leichtgewichtiges Manjaro, saubere Kernel-Tweaks und ein paar kleine Performance-Anpassungen machen das alte Gerät überraschend stark. Perfekt für unterwegs, kurze Sessions und Klassiker, die wieder richtig Spaß machen.

#ThinkPad #X270 #LinuxGaming #Manjaro #RetroGaming #IndieGaming #FOSS #Tech #Linux #retrogaming