Got the think pad and used to have the socks, but no Arch. Fedora and Debian for me.
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2025
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Miss my thinkpads. One was IBM
The IBM branded ones are cooler. Too bad they are ancient now. The Lenovos are still pretty good computers though
The last of the IBM-branded ones are Core 2 Duo machines that can, with some upgrades, passably run a modern Linux distro. With that said, they are still nearly 20 years old.
The last of the IBM-built ones are still 32-bit machines.
I don't get the stickers thing.
Using one to cover up logo or brand etc is understandable tho.
The stickers thing has always been an "ick" for me. My friends enjoyed torturing me with this reaction to stickered laptops until I sent them a video of a person giving a talk with a massive minion sticker plastered on top of all their other stickers, to which even they were grossed out.
That said, I did have a plan to have a battle jacket made with patches like what the stickers on the laptop would be were I to attend a conference. Damn, I just realized I have attended a conference and completely forgot to follow up on that. Regret.
Some people wanna customize their machine and don't care about opsec.
I would never put stickers on my machine unless it was enough to completely cover it with hex stickers.
I always wondered where people get their cool stickers from, epspecially the 'niche ones' like the Lemmy/Fediverse ones. Like, I found shops for EU/Germany and maybe I'm to stingy, but I don't want to pay 50β¬ for 10 Stickers...
All's you need is adhesive matte paper and a printer.
Optional: Cutting machine, Inkscape, GIMP
Well, I have none of those (I don't even own a printer) :D
But you're right buying the sheets and printing them in a copyshop is probably cheaper than buying individual stickers.
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I have a ThinkPad but no socks that are long enough.
Think pad? Think again.