Digichelle
@digichelle@hachyderm.io
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It’s me. Hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. I contain multitudes: aspiring writer, amateur photographer, tech critic, armchair sociologist, recovering alcoholic, Trekkie, squishy human. Too soft for all of it. 🇵🇭 born, 🇺🇸 citizen, neurodivergent, queer and proud.
Avatar is a portrait of the author in the style of 1990s animated sitcom Daria. Profile banner is a white text bubble on a red background reading, “What fresh hell is this?”
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Digichelle
@digichelle@hachyderm.io
It’s me. Hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. I contain multitudes: aspiring writer, amateur photographer, tech critic, armchair sociologist, recovering alcoholic, Trekkie, squishy human. Too soft for all of it. 🇵🇭 born, 🇺🇸 citizen, neurodivergent, queer and proud. Avatar is a portrait of the author in the style of 1990s animated sitcom Daria. Profile banner is a white text bubble on a red background reading, “What fresh hell is this?”
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Digichelle
@digichelle@hachyderm.io
It’s me. Hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. I contain multitudes: aspiring writer, amateur photographer, tech critic, armchair sociologist, recovering alcoholic, Trekkie, squishy human. Too soft for all of it. 🇵🇭 born, 🇺🇸 citizen, neurodivergent, queer and proud. Avatar is a portrait of the author in the style of 1990s animated sitcom Daria. Profile banner is a white text bubble on a red background reading, “What fresh hell is this?”
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1d ago
@lisamelton I feel like mansplaining web browsers to you would be like mansplaining general relativity to fucking Einstein. Pardon my language, but COME ON! 😂🤦🏻♀️
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Digichelle
@digichelle@hachyderm.io
It’s me. Hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. I contain multitudes: aspiring writer, amateur photographer, tech critic, armchair sociologist, recovering alcoholic, Trekkie, squishy human. Too soft for all of it. 🇵🇭 born, 🇺🇸 citizen, neurodivergent, queer and proud. Avatar is a portrait of the author in the style of 1990s animated sitcom Daria. Profile banner is a white text bubble on a red background reading, “What fresh hell is this?”
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Digichelle
@digichelle@hachyderm.io
It’s me. Hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. I contain multitudes: aspiring writer, amateur photographer, tech critic, armchair sociologist, recovering alcoholic, Trekkie, squishy human. Too soft for all of it. 🇵🇭 born, 🇺🇸 citizen, neurodivergent, queer and proud. Avatar is a portrait of the author in the style of 1990s animated sitcom Daria. Profile banner is a white text bubble on a red background reading, “What fresh hell is this?”
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2d ago
@gedeonm@mastodon.social I can’t believe I’m saying this, but—I hope they hang on for as long as possible. It would be infinitely preferable for them to retire or die in office under a Democratic administration. It’s hard to imagine SCOTUS justices more venal and blatantly ideological than those two, but Trump would absolutely find them and appoint them—and it would take much, much longer to dislodge them.
But yeah, they’ll probably retire specifically to give Trump that chance. 🙄
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Digichelle
@digichelle@hachyderm.io
It’s me. Hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. I contain multitudes: aspiring writer, amateur photographer, tech critic, armchair sociologist, recovering alcoholic, Trekkie, squishy human. Too soft for all of it. 🇵🇭 born, 🇺🇸 citizen, neurodivergent, queer and proud. Avatar is a portrait of the author in the style of 1990s animated sitcom Daria. Profile banner is a white text bubble on a red background reading, “What fresh hell is this?”
hachyderm.io
Digichelle
@digichelle@hachyderm.io
It’s me. Hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. I contain multitudes: aspiring writer, amateur photographer, tech critic, armchair sociologist, recovering alcoholic, Trekkie, squishy human. Too soft for all of it. 🇵🇭 born, 🇺🇸 citizen, neurodivergent, queer and proud. Avatar is a portrait of the author in the style of 1990s animated sitcom Daria. Profile banner is a white text bubble on a red background reading, “What fresh hell is this?”
hachyderm.io
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Apr 06, 2026
The worst thing about having a used ThinkPad is wanting to buy another used ThinkPad.
*closes eBay browser tab, slowly backs away from computer*
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Digichelle
@digichelle@hachyderm.io
It’s me. Hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. I contain multitudes: aspiring writer, amateur photographer, tech critic, armchair sociologist, recovering alcoholic, Trekkie, squishy human. Too soft for all of it. 🇵🇭 born, 🇺🇸 citizen, neurodivergent, queer and proud. Avatar is a portrait of the author in the style of 1990s animated sitcom Daria. Profile banner is a white text bubble on a red background reading, “What fresh hell is this?”
hachyderm.io
Digichelle
@digichelle@hachyderm.io
It’s me. Hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. I contain multitudes: aspiring writer, amateur photographer, tech critic, armchair sociologist, recovering alcoholic, Trekkie, squishy human. Too soft for all of it. 🇵🇭 born, 🇺🇸 citizen, neurodivergent, queer and proud. Avatar is a portrait of the author in the style of 1990s animated sitcom Daria. Profile banner is a white text bubble on a red background reading, “What fresh hell is this?”
hachyderm.io
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Apr 04, 2026
Looks like Stevie Bonifield of @verge@mastodon.social installed Linux (specifically, Linux Mint) on their used ThinkPad X1 Carbon. ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US! 😂
As some of you know, I just joined the club myself. Arch Linux on my ThinkPad T480 is a goddamn delight. I considered a dual-boot scenario with Windows 11, because technically, the T480 meets Microsoft’s official system requirements. So glad I went all-in on Linux, though. It truly feels like MY computer, one that respects my choices instead of pushing someone else’s on me. No forced AI, no ads, no crapware, none of that nonsense. It has everything I want and nothing I don’t.
So yeah, if you’re considering getting a used ThinkPad (or any other old PC) to run Linux, go for it! You’ll be saving one more perfectly good (but supposedly obsolete) computer from the scrap heap, and Linux will breathe new life into it. Mine is eight years old, and I imagine it’ll last another eight or more!
https://www.theverge.com/tech/905946/windows-11-forced-obsolescence-linux-thinkpad
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Digichelle
@digichelle@hachyderm.io
It’s me. Hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. I contain multitudes: aspiring writer, amateur photographer, tech critic, armchair sociologist, recovering alcoholic, Trekkie, squishy human. Too soft for all of it. 🇵🇭 born, 🇺🇸 citizen, neurodivergent, queer and proud. Avatar is a portrait of the author in the style of 1990s animated sitcom Daria. Profile banner is a white text bubble on a red background reading, “What fresh hell is this?”
hachyderm.io
Digichelle
@digichelle@hachyderm.io
It’s me. Hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. I contain multitudes: aspiring writer, amateur photographer, tech critic, armchair sociologist, recovering alcoholic, Trekkie, squishy human. Too soft for all of it. 🇵🇭 born, 🇺🇸 citizen, neurodivergent, queer and proud. Avatar is a portrait of the author in the style of 1990s animated sitcom Daria. Profile banner is a white text bubble on a red background reading, “What fresh hell is this?”
hachyderm.io
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Feb 28, 2026
I got one of these laptops from @coreysnipes@hachyderm.io, and it’s working great! Given that this is a circa 2012 ThinkPad T430s, it runs @archlinux@fosstodon.org, @kde@floss.social, @libreoffice@fosstodon.org, and @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net really, really well. It’s a damn shame that companies like Microsoft declare computers like this obsolete when they have so much more life left in them.
I’m happy that I got to save this particular machine from the scrap heap, and happy that I finally have a dedicated #Linux machine. And it’s not just any machine—it’s an honest-to-goodness ThinkPad that may outlive me. Seriously, it’s so friggin’ solid, and I love it.
Thanks again, Corey! ❤️
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