My Thinkpad kicked the Thinkbucket.

 My main laptop for the past ~6 years was a Gen 1 Thinkpad L13 Yoga. I bought it during COVID, figuring I'd need something decent to work from home (and not strapped to my desk, since I'd built a high power desktop the year before). I don't think I'd go with the Yoga today, it was a little too chunky to be super useful (I like it better on ultrabooks and the like). It got kind of flaky last year, but I refreshed it with Mint, swapped the battery, and it (mostly) seemed to be doing well. It was still old (and it wasn't exactly high spec when I bought it), but it chugged on pretty well for a while. Until I went to turn it on yesterday and it made the "my memory is borked" beeps. Since it has soldered memory, it's probably screwed. 

So, goodnight sweet prince, you survived Covid, grad school, international travel, and even a couple drops (oops, that's probably what did it...) 

Fortunately, I have an old Samsung Galaxybook my wife passed on to me. I Fedora'd it a month or two ago, so it only took a half hour or so to get it up and running as I liked it.

Again, I can't overstate how easy it is to set up Linux general usage and even basic gaming these days. And it's run every game I've thrown at it. Most of them are older (gotta blog about Unreal on something...) but it's still impressive. Again, it wasn't top of the line when she bought it 4 or so years ago. It doesn't have a real graphics card. But it's chugging along with no problem. I originall was planning to spend some of my summer work money on a mini-pc with a semi-decent graphics card this summer, but I dunno. If I'm going to mostly be playing older/lower spec stuff on Linux, do we need them anymore? Onboard graphics have come a long way. I'm gonna find something decently modern/high spec in my Steam library and see what it can slug it out with.

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