🛠️ 💻 In the spirit of repairability and keeping good equipment alive, I've gathered up a few retired Thinkpads from local surplus auctions.
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@coreysnipes Posted about the same time as you, funny...
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@coreysnipes
that is very sweet and i am honoured to be an inspirationesp. if it involves Thinkpads and sustainable technology lol
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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!
@coreysnipes I would be very interested in one of these! I really appreciate that you're doing this.
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@coreysnipes Thank you so much! Reply sent!
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️ 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!
@coreysnipes I recommend Nixbook
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What would it take to train people to do this? I would love to participate in this work if I knew how.
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️ 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!
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.
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@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.
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@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.
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HaikuOS??? There is an operating system named after a form of poetry???
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️ 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!
@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. -
️ 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!
@coreysnipes
A little advice for all here searching for devices.
A skip can be sometimes be a real treasure chest, too. -
️ 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!
Shipped out the first two rehabilitated Thinkpads this morning. These have SSD drives, upgraded RAM and are running Linux Mint instead of the usual bloatware/spyware. Light and lean. Yay for repairability.
️ If there's someone in your life that needs decent laptop for general use, let me know. I will refresh and ship one at no charge. (Donations are welcome, to cover the cost of shipping.)
More info at the top of this thread.
#SolarPunk #RightToRepair #Linux #EthicalTech #reuse #EthicalTech
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