ttj - Tom Jones

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...

My latest failed Debian installation attempt is Debian 11 on a thinkpad x1 nano gen 2. Initial installation succeeded with accepting almost all defaults from installer.  There was a big delay on startup, during which time "DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid" was shown on the screen. When I reinstalled with disk encryption, luks, set up in the installer, the installation process apparently succeeded.  But on first boot, the same message "DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid", with its big delay, is now enough to cause something waiting for the (decrypted) root file system to appear, to time out with "Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems: " [...].  At this point it drops into a busybox shell.     Previously, with no disk encryption layer in use, this waiting thing was perhaps not activated, or perhaps "/" was already mounted by this stage, and the waiting thing was happy. At least it's somewhat clear what's going wrong i...