Messing around with Debian on an old IBM ThinkPad T42

"Nibby" (nibby68) 08/23/2017 at 22:22 • Filed to: None

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bit of a ghetto setup, running off an external drive that is too thick to fit

but yeah, Pentium M 1.8GHz and 2GB RAM (max’d out) sadly means this can’t even be used for basic browsing anymore... on an OS that uses less than 200MB RAM idle.

this one below is the 2005 T42 my sister gave me in 2010 which I used a lot for college

sadly XGA but I ended up replacing it with the SXGA+ screen, see more pixels!

The T42 is my favorite laptop ever. 4:3, amazing build quality, great touchpad + keyboard, easy maintenance and reliable.

Honeybunchesofgoats > Nibby 08/23/2017 at 22:24

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T Series, BRUH.

Also 4:3 is the best. Fuck everyone who thinks widescreen is better.

Nibby > Honeybunchesofgoats 08/23/2017 at 22:26

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FUCK 16:9!

Honeybunchesofgoats > Nibby 08/23/2017 at 22:29

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Back when I used ThinkPads, I regularly told people “my screen is closer in proportion to a sheet of paper. This is for work.” I think it made me retroactively a virgin every time I said that.

Nibby > Honeybunchesofgoats 08/23/2017 at 22:31

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Honeybunchesofgoats > Nibby 08/23/2017 at 22:36

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That’s AMAZING.

Also, what sort of loser brings a W to a party over an X? No none gives a shit about that second screen.

CB > Nibby 08/23/2017 at 22:38

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RIP Netscape Navigator.

Nibby > CB 08/23/2017 at 22:40

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greatness

E90M3 > Nibby 08/23/2017 at 22:40

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Netscape Nibby, has a better ring than Nibby68.

Nibby > E90M3 08/23/2017 at 22:43

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Netscape Nibbygator

E90M3 > Nibby 08/23/2017 at 22:43

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Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > Nibby 08/23/2017 at 22:54

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Winamp, it really whips the Llama’s ass...

That is a hell of a college flashback.

Chariotoflove > Nibby 08/23/2017 at 22:56

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I miss Netscape.

Svart Smart, traded in his Smart > Honeybunchesofgoats 08/23/2017 at 23:07

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We use an old Accuterm program at work that always displays the same amount of text in the window regardless of the shape or size of the window. Most of my coworkers stretch their window to fit the entire screen, which looks *terrible* when you’re reading text on a widescreen monitor. I use the full height of the screen but leave some dead space on the sides to approximate a 4:3 aspect ratio because stretching text horizontally beyond that doesn’t make it more legible.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Nibby 08/23/2017 at 23:12

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Nibbybaby why not run Opera? Or that new Firefox ultra lightweight browser?

Nibby > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 08/23/2017 at 23:15

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I have alighte FF on it but it’s still not great for browsing... HTML5 heavy pages and especially stuff like imgur, YouTube, etc. crawl like cockroaches in your bed whilst you sleep