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Thinkpad Homelab Upgrades
You can spend a lot of money building a homelab that competes with small office networks. Or, you can do what I did and build a network of cast-off, unwanted hardware. A thrift-store Synology NAS, “parts-only” Thinkpad laptop with a cracked screen and broken keyboard, and a $5 goodwill router, flashed with OpenWRT forms the […]
Why I went back to using a 2012 ThinkPad
I’ve sworn by IBM and Lenovo Thinkpads for their reliability, build quality – and my users loved them. My daily-use laptop is a 12 year-old Thinkpad T410. While it’s heavier than a modern ultrabook, it’s got a traditional keyboard remimiscent of older desktop keyboards, and both a trackpoint and trackpad. With a simple set of […]