https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-windows-10-kb5072653-oob-update-fixes-esu-install-errors/

Looks like there’s an issue installing the extended support updates should you subscribe to it. So it makes sense to just give everyone the update.

Also sometimes when there’s security issues that MS thinks are absolutely critical they’ll release those updates to everyone. Windows 7 got a few.

What are the updates? Is it Windows getting the update, or Windows defender/programs that use windows update for updates?

As far as I’m aware even windows 7’s windows defender still gets updates.

NVM looks like that one got EOLed too

Find an app for your phone/watch that wakes you up at the end of your sleep cycles. When you’re in deep sleep you tend to be pretty still, but when you’re at the end of a sleep cycle is when you typically move around a night. There’s apps that will wake you up when it’s almost your alarm time, but you’re moving around.

Also try to maintain a consistent sleep schedule. Eventually you can kinda figure out your own sleep cycles and try to work with them instead of against them.

Most current Gen. thinkpads have fully upgradable ram. The T4XX/14 series had half soldered ram until a year or two ago. SSDs have basically always been replaceable.

They’re also very easy to work on since it’s only a couple of screws and you have full access to the inside of the machine. Those older thinkpads were nightmares if you had to take the whole mobo out. Even MacBooks were easier.

You can only “roll back” to 10 if you just upgraded from 10 to 11. If you bought something new then you can’t “roll back” to something that was never there.

Also if it’s a newer laptop expect a lot of things to be broken or work poorly. A lot of new hardware has come out post Windows 11.

but they’re a pain for the pre-auth.

I think I’ve only ever had a credit card decline one me once for being outside of my normal area. What kind of cards do you have?

Iris xe is what the iGPU is called. Execution units is what intel calls the amount of “processors” in the GPU.

If the laptop only has single channel memory they can only advertise it as “Intel Graphics” or something like that. As soon as you put the second stick in it magically renames itself to “Iris Xe”. It’s mostly just marketing.

What budget do you have/what are you goals both gaming and otherwise?

If you’re buying something with an iGPU then for gaming don’t even bother thinking about the CPU. The GPU is going to be holding you back way more. Also IGPUs don’t normally have dedicated vram. They just use system memory.

Intels 11th-14th Gen. all have the same IGPUs and the higher end ones are reasonably capable. Core 100 brought Arc IGPUs which are also a big step up, but idk if they’re very cheap yet. AMDs IGPUs are still so much better so try to aim for AMD if you can.

I have the startech usb kvm. It’s expensive new, but used it can be pretty cheap.

https://www.startech.com/en-us/kvm-switches-accessories/notecons01?srsltid=AfmBOorkwy-lfw8bfGyWO5qu2NWQPUt9LGTeMR_-blosZkMcY1mOsfBI

It’s based on the speed limit of the road. Yellow means proceed if safe or stop if safe. The faster it is the longer the yellow. And usually the longer the time between it turning green on the other side should you pull a whoopsie.

Just because you can type that fast doesn’t mean you should.

Do you even care about the things you’re posting?

I ran ESXi on an a ThinkPad W520 for years with no issues. Make sure you set a battery charge limit or else that battery will be toast in no time. A UPS is insane overkill. A laptop battery will long outlast the UPS batteries. Not just run time, but in terms of degradation. even without the charge limit.

Swap would probably destroy that thing. And be unbearably slow.

I agree with the others, a rescue partition type thing is probably the best option.

The case around it does. That’s what I want to replace.

That brings up my following question.

If the thumb sticks are capacitive and they wear smooth over time how do you replace them? Are the capacitive sensors under stick caps? Do you just have to replace the rim only?

Or just only looked at the raw page source.

Why have a full web browser running when wget gets better results?

Some people are just absurdly lazy.

Also what kind of kit does op have? A sim card ejector, a metal brush, a q tip thing, half a zip tie, and some adhesive things? Any thin plastic shim will work perfectly, and sometimes even a stiff plastic bristle brush works well.

1000 horses sounds cooler than 735 electrical pixies a second.

Like this?

12th gen Intel is the last to support OG standby. 13th gen and up are S0 standby only. AMD gave up on S1-3 standby even earlier.

ThinkPads with 12 gen CPUs support the good standby if you want a nice machine with it.