a man finds pleasure in the most unimportant things amidst chaos
i had my cs exam today. it went well, but what i want to talk about today is how, under the umbrella of preparing for my cs exam, i disguised myself and tried to fix my 12-year-old lenovo thinkpad l412.
i probably am everything that you associate me with because of that thinkpad. my father gifted me this laptop on my fifth birthday in 2013. i remember playing road rash, surfing the internet on internet explorer, searching for the tallest man in the world, et cetera (good old days). i remember making scratch programs for flappy bird while watching a youtube tutorial.
so, it did have some emotional memories associated with it, too.
anyway, i opened that old mess up with just one screwdriver. this really is crazy compared to what laptop companies provide us with nowadays: soldered ram, soldered hard disks, and no back screws (why?). i figured out that the installed ssd was corrupted, and therefore, for it to work, i needed a bootable usb. i created a fedora bootable usb and plugged it in. i played around in the bios, then in the terminal, and it somehow worked.
i am happy that it is working right now, but will i use it daily? maybe not. it is maxed out with 8 gb of ram (sounds funny? it is) and with an intel i5 processor. still, it doesn’t get done what my new device can. anyway, i’m happy that it revived some of the old memories and taught me how to remove an ssd from a laptop.