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Still no good news with the freshly out #NetBSD 11.0 RELEASE. S3 suspend woke up with dead WiFi (Intel 8265, iwm driver), in addition to keyboard and touchpad as before on my #ThinkPad T470s. So basically dead machine and no way to reset unless long press power button for a hard reboot. Desktop usability needs more love.

#runBSD #BSD #Unix #AskFedi

I wanted to check something with Librewolf... So I installed #FreeBSD 15.1 on the #ThinkPad T480s. TL;DR Librewolf has the same issue on FreeBSD that on OpenBSD. But there is a new #dmesg here: https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=9078

Good grief, the third-party external battery I got for this #Thinkpad x260 is only lasting 59 minutes on an 80% charge now. I better do a full charge to calibrate it, but I think it's dying.

Crappy batteries are the scourge of the otherwise delighful experience of buying old #Thinkpads. :P

I really am thinking about buying a couple new batteries from #Lenovo for a current model Thinkpad T-series, and then waiting 5-7 years to buy the actual laptop, used. 😂

Having tasted the mighty #ZFS on #FreeBSD , I have always been wondering how it would work with #Linux , so I fired up #Alpine Linux with the #ZFSBootMenu on my #ThinkPad T470s. Not bad! And #systemd free experience is still nostalgic and enjoyable!

#Unix #Sreenshot #Xorg #pfetch #FunNixExperience

ThinkPad X220 (2011) running Slackware-current in 2026.

Linux console + tmux. Sometimes that's all you need. :)

#slackware #thinkpad #x220

Whilst looking at possibly purchasing a ThinkPad T480 I thought I'd play around with the #NetBSD live image on my #Thinkpad P14s gen 1 AMD. So far I can boot Xorg and the touchpad works even two finger scrolling. Obviously the AX200 WiFi doesn't but I'll dig out my USB WiFi dongle as it'll work albeit not full n speeds but upto 54.
Suspend doesn't seem to work as yet and I've still to test the onboard audio too. But hey it works. Oh I did notice on the Ethernet it's speed is halved as under FreeBSD I can pull around 900/100 where on NetBSD I get 350/100.
But I got the same results on another machine a Dell Optiplex 3080 so it must be a NetBSD Ethernet issue??

Currently building a new #NetBSD kernel for my #ThinkPad gen 1 P14s amd with amdgpu and NET_MPSAFE . I wonder if my amdgpu will then use the correct driver without issue and my ethernet speed double from 450 download to about 900mb like when it runs #FreeBSD for example? Time will tell and yes I do like a challenge. #RunBSD

Back to square 1: Slackware 15.0 on the older ThinkPad. I get Python 3.15.2 from pyenv, that should keep me occupied for a while.

#slackware #linux #thinkpad #pyenv

my memory of drawterm is fading 2

#unix_surrealism #comic #glenda #9front #plan9 #thinkpad

Weekend mode in full effect! 🥃☁️

#OpenBSD #ThinkPad #RunBSD #BSD #aNONradio #Hashnix

Upgraded to #FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p5 on my #ThinkPad and Beastie my server all without issue. 😄
#RunBSD

"FreeBSD is only for servers" needs to be permanently retired.

Running FreeBSD 15.1 on the trusty ThinkPad T480, and the desktop experience is outright sublime:

- Idle power draw: hovering at an absurd ~2.0W package power
- Wi-Fi: 802.11ax rock-solid
- Hardware video acceleration: fully working in both Firefox and Chrome
- Webcam and audio: working flawlessly
- Productivity: Xfce 4.20 on X11 flying along on ZFS
- Yes, even Factorio runs like a dream

Between the battery efficiency, sane base system, and native ZFS, this machine feels faster and quieter than it has in years.

2026 really is the year of the BSD desktop.

#FreeBSD #ThinkPad #T480 #Unix #BSD #OpenSource #Xfce #Factorio