Mastodawn

New ThinkPad arrived! 2.8K IPS! Matte! Exclamation marks! YAY

This is my first “new” ThinkPad ever, I’ve always had second hand machines. Also marks the end of my personal Mac era, having first got an iMac DV in 1999, and a bunch of iBooks and MacBooks since.

Next step is to wipe the unserious OS off it and put FreeBSD and Fedora on it.

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Wesley Moore

@rubenerd

> Also marks the end of my personal Mac era

Another tech-savvy, long-time Mac user leaving the platform (as I did back in 2017 after nearly 30 years). You'd think Apple would take notice of this, but it seems they mostly care about mainstream users now.

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Tim Preston Mar 18

@wezm @rubenerd same for me. I gave up in 2018 and instead have a used HP SFF ProDesk and a $1000 intel blank laptop 🤷

My first Mac was a used LCII with a black and white monitor, around 1994-5. Feels a bit sad, but I’m pretty happy with FreeBSD for my needs.

Enjoy the new machine @rubenerd !