Replaced the “soft dome” trackpoint cap with a new “classic dome” one from http://trackcap.com/ and I’m very impressed just how much better this is. (They also put an extra 2 “soft rim” ones in the letter with the 4 classic ones I ordered. Thanks!)
Small snag: the X61 apparently has a very tiny nub holding the cap; the old dome had a black plastic… adapter? that does not quite fit the classic dome, and I had to pull it out a little after making it fit, otherwise it was too low.
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Pics of the new cap; old and new caps in comparison. The old (soft dome) basically lost all of its "cat tongue" surface that made it somewhat usabl-ish, and its too wide but rimless design made it stick below G and B way too often.
Change your nipple caps, people, it makes you really love the stick much more!
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@mirabilos
I'm surprised by how long the original ones last TBH — I only replace mine once in a decade or so 😆
Despite having lots of spares.
Thinkpads aren't my daily drivers anymore, I have at T40 and a T43 — their specs align badly with nowaday's requirements, but even when they were, these caps didn't wear down fast.
@m0xee yeah well I got my X61 thinkpads with those awful “modern” ones, so I ordered the classic one to make the laptops even more useful. My X40 had a classic one.
@mirabilos This reminds me that a pal of mine wanted to give me his old X61 that he didn't use before he left the country to work abroad. Maybe he has left it to someone so I can still pick it up… 🤔
It's an amazing machine, Core 2 Duo is a perfectly capable CPU for some tasks — even by today's standards 😄
@m0xee it’s my main work machine
@mirabilos Most of my daily drivers are a decade or more old, but not that old 😅
I could probably live with C2D too as I bare use all that computing power — except for when building something.
@m0xee I couldn’t live with the Apple-style keyboard of newer models, or having to use a touchpad, not to mention those awful no-longer-4:3 displays with a much too high DPI.
@mirabilos PowerBook and early MacBook Pro era keyboards have been good, next to or probably even on par with those of Thinkpads', but then Apple has replaced them with keyboards similar to those in their cheaper models — who knows why. And now every laptop has something like it.
As for aspect ratio — I've thought I'll never get used to it, but I did. Wider screen might even make sense with something like dwm with main window having more or less 4:3 aspect and everything else stacked on the side
@mirabilos
Are you the one behind mksh by any chance? If so, thanks for it — that's the shell I use almost universally. Once I discovered it, probably through Suckless project recommendation, I use in on nearly all of my machines. I've never even thought how much in bash I do not use, Korn-shell derivative is perfect for me.
And if you like cats, here are mine. They don't have tails — a breed thing, but otherwise are very sweet creatures, just like all cats 😸
@m0xee indeed, I am, and thanks for the feline insight!
Written with a black cat (with white nose, socks and bikini) resting on top of me.