Now comes the most important part of buying a new device: thinking of what to name it while waiting for it to arrive!

Edit: So it's a really small ThinkPad that I intend to use as a travel laptop. Therefore naming it after a migratory hummingbird would be fitting. It shall be: Eugenes after the Rivoli's hummingbird!

The saga so far:

Ordered an X280 1080p 16GB  
Received an X280 768p 16GB  
Listing was incorrect  
Seller has another X280 but that one has 8GB RAM and an ANSI keyboard   
They say they'll switch out the displays of the two machines so that I can finally have an X280 1080p 16GB 

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Update:

They did it!

I just received the laptop, I now have a ThinkPad X280 1080p 16GB with an ISO keyboard! 

Buying a decent used ThinkPad for 140€ feels really nice

Buying a new 1TB SSD for it for 70€ feels less nice 

256GB is too small and 512GB is simply not good value where I looked

Finally, full size arrow keys!
It's been 84 years.

Now, why couldn't they do this for the IdeaPad line? 

Speaking of keyboard layouts, Fn and Ctrl are swapped on this ThinkPad compared to my Lenovo Flex 

Edit: ah, there's an option in uefi setup to swap Fn and Ctrl!

charging muh laptop with USB-C ✨

the future is now

I love my Bloq Mayús

this thonkpad has crossed many international borders to start its second life

Okay, so this ThinkPad has a MicroSD slot  

I'm tempted to use the 1TB SSD I bought for it as an external SSD instead, buy a 256GB for the laptop and keep movies and music on an SD card 

Holey sheet... So I've had this ThinkPad for a week and I kept experiencing constant micro-freezes of the display of 1-2 seconds, no matter what Linux distro or desktop I tried.

I think I finally found a fix. It's caused by something called Panel Self Refresh. I disabled it with this kernel parameter:
i915.enable_psr=0

It seems to be working well now 

I'm so touchscreen brained

I keep poking at the display of this ThinkPad expecting things to happen  

I did it again with the emoji selector while writing thisss  

Making myself at home in the new-to-me laptop ✨  

Important implementation detal: Copepod.

the invasion of thonkpad by stickers has begun

 by @panda_paco

I can't decide whether I should put the Linux sticker in place of the Intel one like on my other laptop or I should keep the Intel sticker and put the Linux one above it. I don't want three stickers in a row.

Very important implementation detail 

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Edit: for now I put it above it so I still have the option to change it later

Two months with a ThinkPad.

My verdict:

Why don't consumer laptops have nice matte screens like this?? 

stickerCount++;

by @dogo

...wow

I found actual 2242 B+M key NVMe 
And it's PCIe 3.0 x2 which is exactly what should work in that slot
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Edit: also ordered 

Meaning, that B-key slot is indeed PCIe! Which is apparently not obvious because some laptops use SATA for their WWAN cards... 

Now to find a 512GB card that works in there 

So... this is supposedly an OEM SSD taken out of a laptop but is technically new. As per the SMART data:

Data Units Read: 308,889 [158 GB]
Data Units Written: 352,301 [180 GB]
Power Cycles: 30
Power On Hours: 3

So what's that 180GB? Factory R/W testing?

As per Reddit, the WWAN slots support:

SATA and PCIe in T470/TP25/X270
only PCIe SSDs in T480/T480s/X280

(mine is X280)

I love my emotional support lapfop

🎨 @panda_paco

display cable replaced ✨ 

wallpaper source

@odoben

My biggest fear when getting my Framework is still running out of space too fast