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Saturday, February 28, 2026

[18:37:02] zer0s antithesis: I think the latest ones bring back the 4:3 aspect ratio

[18:37:57] zer0s I have one, the compatibility is excellent

[18:38:16] zer0s no driver issues

[18:39:09] zer0s The older thinkpads were built sturdier, had better keyboards, and still had really nice replaceable batteries

[18:39:12] zer0s they were heavy though

[18:39:38] zer0s t14 gen 5/6 I believe. Also p14s gen 5/6

[18:40:20] zer0s antithesis: to be fair, all laptop manufacturers ditched nice keyboards

[18:40:35] zer0s still the thinkpad keyboard is still better than the macbook one

[18:41:09] zer0s tablets are nice, but I want access to a real terminal

[18:41:24] zer0s a persistent terminal

[18:41:40] zer0s tablets aren't built for that

[18:41:56] zer0s they're really just media consumption devices for the most part

[18:42:08] zer0s i'm sure people get some work done on them, but they're not really built for that

[18:42:45] zer0s brothchild: I'm talking to you from a tty only install, 512mb of ram baby

[18:43:23] zer0s debian

[18:43:36] zer0s no desktop managers

[18:44:07] zer0s its using a normal linux kernel

[18:44:38] zer0s i'm using 272MB/512MB

[18:44:59] zer0s its pretty slick

[18:45:13] zer0s maybe, but I don't want to deal with a slow gui

[18:45:43] zer0s CLI only is the only way I'm going to get good use out of it

[18:45:54] zer0s GUI installs and runs too much crap in the background

[18:46:43] zer0s brothchild: honestly if you just avoid installing a window/desktop manager, you're pretty much set with a default minimal install

[18:47:11] zer0s antithesis: tmux user over here. I used to be a screen guy too. but tmux is definitely better

[18:47:46] zer0s my workflow mostly around 6/7 applications

[18:48:04] zer0s *is mostly

[18:48:14] zer0s antithesis: what apps do you use?

[18:48:41] zer0s thank you :)

[18:48:51] zer0s lol

[18:49:46] zer0s ah vim is a bit too extreme for me

[18:49:55] zer0s too many shortcuts to memorize

[18:50:32] zer0s it is

[18:51:09] zer0s i love nano, but micro is a bit better for modern shortcuts and syntax highlighting options

[18:51:31] zer0s i know micro uses up 20MB of ram but fuck it.

[18:52:15] zer0s yeah i have a bunch of lean apps I use

[18:52:41] zer0s I split screen about 6 times, so I have 6 apps in front of me

[18:53:16] zer0s those old OSes were nuts

[18:53:36] zer0s true

[18:53:51] zer0s I see chrome tabs using my memory than this whole system

[18:53:58] zer0s *more memory

[18:55:16] zer0s honestly, the resource optimization guys have pretty much left

[18:55:32] zer0s I look around my engineering team and no one seems to care about memory use

[18:56:49] zer0s computer and memory has gotten significantly cheaper compared to the old days

[18:56:51] zer0s no one cares

[18:57:07] zer0s even with the memory price crisis

[19:00:20] zer0s wordstar looks cool. app is far older than i thought it was

[19:02:48] zer0s thanks man

[19:03:28] zer0s brothchild: I've only invested in learning tmux commands, I wanted everything else to be relatively intuitive

[19:03:45] zer0s going though man for each thing and memorizing wasn't something I wanted

[19:04:00] zer0s ty!

[19:06:35] zer0s interesting

[19:07:27] zer0s antithesis: did you change the color defaults for w3m?

[19:07:45] zer0s I found it unusable, so I ended up defaulting to lynx

[19:08:07] zer0s antithesis: I still have colour in tty

[19:08:18] zer0s 16 colors lol

[19:08:29] zer0s not even 16bit

[19:09:46] zer0s brothchild: i think so. not complaining. merely commenting on the case for color in tty

[19:10:37] zer0s brothchild: the problem is that you're still downloading the ads i believe.

[19:11:23] zer0s brothchild: i haven't seen it

[19:11:46] zer0s btop is all the animation I need in tty

[19:13:21] zer0s woodwose: linux mint is good for beginners.

[19:14:20] zer0s brothchild: yep

[19:14:31] + zer0s ty End3r

[19:14:32] + zer0s :D

[19:15:23] + zer0s antithesis: if you hate ads, why do you just filter them on your router

[19:16:15] + zer0s *why don't you

[19:19:37] + zer0s no reason to install linux on a macbook until its EOL. I use macOS like a linux distro. homebrew is a blessing

[19:20:17] + zer0s woodwose: is it pre-M chips?

[19:20:40] + zer0s installing linux on an m4 is kind of dumb

[19:20:47] + zer0s the support isn't there yet for everyday users

[19:21:21] + zer0s you can always re-install macos

[19:21:40] + zer0s it probably is

[19:23:09] + zer0s i'm going to go roast a chicken, later guys

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