ttj - Tom Jones

I ordered a Thinkpad X12 Detachable gen 2 with mobile data.  It comes with Windows.  My plan was to confirm operation of the mobile data with Windows, and then get it working with linux. I went through the long Windows setup process.  I got to a point where I had a desktop session.  Various Lenovo shitwares were still popping up.   In the bottom-right were a panoply of little boxes giving conflicting advice on whether restarts were required or forbidden.  The consensus seemed to be that restarts were required.  But a box apparently related to mobile data, the feature of interest, disagreed. Eventually I did reboot it, and Windows spent around half an hour doing "updates".  How do product managers think this is acceptable? When it came back I inserted a (nano) SIM via the side tray.  Windows detected it, and put up an encouraging message saying it was setting it up.  This had a progress bar which increased slowly.  At the end, n...

cost around 2500 GBP(2023). bought 4 initially boots into windows. horrid, it starts talking to you in robot voice ships in card box. lenovo could learn something about experience from apple covered in stickers. sticker of fingerprint over the fingerprint sensor three camera eyes? two seem to be coverable by the slidy thing, tho cover could be transparent, the other not? In any case, red dot is probably annoying to have directly above display ugly intel vpro sticker. why do this? both usb-c ports are on left. one on right would be nice BIOS warns you if using generic usb-c power supply, even tho works fine, have to press ESC. annoyances to boot debian installer cd from usb optical drive:  annoying: power button hold for power off has been 10 seconds instead of 5 seconds for several generations now. too easy to suspend by mistake hold power button for 10 seconds press power button press enter to interrupt normal startup loud 1980s beep, then you're up against the clock to choose som...