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I love those thinkpads so much. Perfect hybrid of functionality and physical buttons.

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one thing I don’t get is why the proper mouse buttons are above the mousepad

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This is just the better way, just as its better to swap Fn and Ctrl

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the Fn shouldn’t be there at all, just add more buttons

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Opening beer bottles is so hard with these modern phones.

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That Nokia was never a shitbox though. That was an excellent product when it launched and you’ll have a hard time finding owners who disliked it. Heck, you’re liable to get an earful for disparaging it, and rightfully ao.

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I prefer the slightly newer 3410. It has a better button layout and added features such as web browser, picture editor and downloadable games (my grandma somehow has the long-lost first ever 3D Java game Munkiki’s Castles on hers, which has been in daily use for 20 years). However, they are so similar that their later revisions only differed by the button placement and firmware (see Janus Cycle’s video).

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Yowza, that man certainly violated that 3310 in ways it’s going to remember. That’s a neat piece of hardware for sure.

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Funny how he flashed the firmware and struggled with the incompatible button layout rather than getting a cheap second-hand 3410, even a broken one would do (are there any broken ones, though?)

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I love it when I can still repair or modify a piece of gear. The large physical size and relative simplicity of older gear makes a big difference for that, especially for home users. And then there’s the whole thing where a lot of newer stuff is just glued together, so you can’t even access the insides without expert knowledge.

Back when I was making chip music, the original Game Boy was all the rage, despite the shitty display.

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Hahaha not those Thinkpads

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