So who is still alive 'ere ?

[coolcat37]

My god, since I last actively logged in 'ere, we actually still had a decent world. Back then:
- you could actually find interesting results in your search engine of choice (and you weren't nudged toward searching with AI)
- you still had an internet that was populated with die-hard amateurs (like this one). RIP 95% of forums and obscure, non-commercial knowledge
- websites weren't full of sockpuppets and bots
- you still had mental freedom (and weren't self-policing your expressions on the internet (and thus your thoughts) because of not allowed to hurt 'someone else's feelings')
- the internet wasn't cluttered with each websites asking for permissions for cookies + wanting your e-mail address + wanting your location + automatically opening a 'chat window' with some AI algo asking me how it can help
- YouTube wasn't full off no-lifers making silly faces and adding them to their thumbnails to have more hits and likes


2015ish was not 2005, but my god was it infinitely better than 2025. What have we become? What has the entire human experiment become? Some insect society with each node being driven by their borg gadget in their pants/hands..

Thank god I still have some 4:3 screens. Thank god we still have archive.org.

So how is everyone enjoying their Westworld?

[dr_st]

Welcome back.

This die-hard enthusiast forum seems to have been doing better than many *knock-on-wood*. And it shows a healthy mixture of retro and modern Thinkpadding.

[shawross]

"coolcat37" you ain't seen nothing yet. And survival is going to be a balancing act.

[grepex]

FWIW I'm just now discovering this forum! I've had a T480 for a couple of years and looking into modding it.

[dcfbf]

Still surviving and trying out as many classic ThinkPads as I can before they crumble to dust.

[coolcat37]

Welcome back.

Thanks to you and all the lurking submariners

In the meantime (since 2015ish) the price of T6X caddies went tru the roof. The price of W70X shot up drastically.

Sooner or later I'll have to httrack this very forum, as it's really a goldmine

[TPFanatic]

been sleeping in my lincoln’s trunk since august or so, it really builds an appreciation for the X-series thinkpads, and Elon Musk’s starlink.