🛠️ 💻 In the spirit of repairability and keeping good equipment alive, I've gathered up a few retired Thinkpads from local surplus auctions.

[coreysnipes@hachyderm.io]

️ In the spirit of repairability and keeping good equipment alive, I've gathered up a few retired Thinkpads from local surplus auctions. I'm upgrading the RAM and drives and will be making them available in the next few weeks. These will be cozy little Solarpunk machines, older equipment preinstalled with a lightweight linux desktop and all the software you need for browsing, writing, docs, email, managing passwords, and videoconferencing.

I would like to find each one a good home with a nice person who will appreciate and take care of it. If you know of someone in the USA who would be a good fit, please put them in touch. I will be sending these for the cost of shipping (estimating about $40) with a completely optional tip jar to help cover the cost of upgraded parts.

When I have more details together I'll send out a link but for now ping me with any questions. Thanks!

[jeffmcneill@hachyderm.io]

@coreysnipes which Linux distro?

[piper@sunny.garden]

@coreysnipes you're doing god's work

[csalzman@a2mi.social]

@coreysnipes lemme know when the tip jar is live!

[digichelle@hachyderm.io]

@coreysnipes I would love one of these laptops! Thank you for doing this!

[oggie@woof.group]

@coreysnipes
This is fantastic.

Can I ask what types of laptops you're talking about? T420s or similar?

Great machines, really just a fantastic thing, and I hope that they get some solid second life in the hands of people who could use them.

[caban4@mastodon.online]

@coreysnipes I'm very interested in adopting! We've been limping along with an Acer with a broken hinge for years and would welcome this as a replacement. It would be treated with much love and appreciation.

[papawilf@hcommons.social]

@coreysnipes

Amazing! Shoutout to you!

[astifter@mastodon.astifter.com]

@coreysnipes Posted about the same time as you, funny...
https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/115885550557698632

[piper@sunny.garden]

@coreysnipes that is very sweet and i am honoured to be an inspiration

esp. if it involves Thinkpads and sustainable technology lol

[leokirke@retro.social]

@coreysnipes I would be very interested in one of these! I really appreciate that you're doing this.

[leokirke@retro.social]

@coreysnipes Thank you so much! Reply sent!

[flypaper@autonomous.zone]

@coreysnipes I recommend Nixbook

[bramblebearsnoring@mastodon.ie]

@onebyte @coreysnipes

What would it take to train people to do this? I would love to participate in this work if I knew how.

[bramblebearsnoring@mastodon.ie]

@coreysnipes

Brilliant!!!

Tagging for #SolarpunkSunday

I would love onecof these, and wpuld loce to learn how to upgrade and install Linux as well, to spread this work.

[bramblebearsnoring@mastodon.ie]

@coreysnipes haha, it will take me some learning to get there but I am game.

I am in The Dawnland aka in colonizer world as Maine, in the disintegrating states of amerika. Will look for linux folx.

@tinker

[bramblebearsnoring@mastodon.ie]

@coreysnipes Thanks!!!

Tech has most of us by the short curlies. To survive the polycrisis even those of us non-tech folx will have to evolve adapt to privacy focused, resiliant forms of tech tools. I don't know much about tech and am artish spirit at heart, but I do seem to have some skill translating tech concepts to non-tech folx, once I understand them myself.

[bramblebearsnoring@mastodon.ie]

@onebyte @coreysnipes

HaikuOS??? There is an operating system named after a form of poetry??? ️️️️️

[derek_diy@mastodon.ie]

@coreysnipes
A pity I am not in the US to help you find someone.

In germany is a organisation, that collects old laptops and do them up like you.
They ship them to poor people in Africa. Even slow machines to their job for the from you mentioned purposes.

[derek_diy@mastodon.ie]

@coreysnipes
A little advice for all here searching for devices.
A skip can be sometimes be a real treasure chest, too.