bonus photo with the cat ~~probably~~ definitely plotting something evil:
(face mask because insecure about physical appearance at the time)
other experiences with the laptop
trying out linux from scratch natively (two years ago):
flashing libreboot (bit over one year ago, our room is not this depressing anymore. we have since discovered furniture):
"new" quad core processor!! (thnx libreboot for intel 3000 series support)
other details for those curious
we got the laptop (lenovo thinkpad t420) a few years ago for fifty dollars in remarkably good condition. the keyboard developed a fault in shipping seemingly, and the only other keyboard the seller had on had was JIS layout, so thats why japanese key legends. came with eight gigabytes of memory!!
the disk is 256 gigabytes (solid state), and the processor we upgraded from some dual core intel 2000 series to a quad core i7-3820qm, through the power of open source firmware. it also came with the high res screen option!
for software, we run artix linux, and also had our fun with linux from scratch (compiling all the packages gets old though when you're dealing with x11... blegh). the user environment is just i3wm, configured to a reasonable extent but not really with any add-ons. and yes we use vim why wouldn't we :3
Sway window manager? Discerning choice. I see you have good taste.