RGBTinkerman

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Many don't know that Lenovo is a Chinese company who owns other prominent companies (self.lenovo)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RGBTinkerman to c/lenovo
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I am not against Lenovo in any way, they have been making excellent products over the years, I am just surprised that many don't realize that it's a Chinese Company, despite them being such a big player in the PC market. Lenovo first acquired IBM's PC division in 2005, which majorly consisted of the Thinkpad and ThinkCentre models.

Other facts,

In 2014, Lenovo acquired Motorola Mobility which consisted of their Phone Business. In the same year, Lenovo purchased IBM's Server business.

In 2017, Lenovo obtained a 51% stake in Fujitsu through their PC Joint-Venture.

There are other companies that Lenovo ones, what do you guys think ? Do you think there are others worth noting ?

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Can CH341a programmers have malware on them ? (self.libreboot)
 

My thinkpad T440p will be coming in soon and I been considering Coreboot/Libreboot but it requirwes a usb bios programmer, there are many of these from many different sellers on Amazon, but all of them are made in China by unknown companies, can these have any malware of them ?

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Supposed Genuine Lenovo Thinkpad Battery ? (www.ebay.com)
submitted 1 year ago by RGBTinkerman to c/lenovo
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I'm shopping around for a battery for my T440p. This looks like a really good deal if it's legit. Looking at some of the other seller's listings, some of the items also have the "Lenovo Authorized seller" what do you guys think ?

Limit Battery charging on Laptop ? in c/pop_os
[–] RGBTinkerman 1 points 1 year ago

Also when I did "echo 45 > /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_start_threshold" in sudo, it said "bash: /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_start_threshold: Permission denied "

Limit Battery charging on Laptop ? in c/pop_os
[–] RGBTinkerman 1 points 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for replying ! when I ran, " cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_start_threshold" it turned "cat: /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_start_threshold: No such file or directory"

Limit Battery charging on Laptop ? in c/pop_os
[–] RGBTinkerman 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately I don't see any settings in the BIOS/UEFI for it, previously when I ran windows 11, I was able to do it with Lenovo Vantage which was a windows only software, Windows 11 was really slow and laggy so that was why I switched out of it.

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Limit Battery charging on Laptop ? (self.pop_os)
submitted 1 year ago by RGBTinkerman to c/pop_os
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I have a Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5i running a 10th gen Intel i5, I tried using TLP to set the battery charging limit to 80 but it always went over 80, but I did this using the TLPUI, where it mentioned that it was for Thinkpads, but I assumed that it should work in general. Is there any way to limit battery charging at all ?

What Lenovo product do you use? in c/lenovo
[–] RGBTinkerman 2 points 1 year ago

I am currently using a Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 with a 10th gen intel i5. I like the keyboard and the speakers a lot more than any laptop I ever had, but the battery life is not the greatest, but that is not surprising as it has an intel chip, and the fans are really loud which bothers me a lot. I am not really interested in Lenovo's latest tech, but I do like their older Thinkpad models with the removable external batteries.

Is this the community meant for the Computer Company, Lenovo ? in c/lenovo
[–] RGBTinkerman 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello ! A community profile picture would be a good starter.

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Is this the community meant for the Computer Company, Lenovo ? (self.lenovo)
submitted 2 years ago by RGBTinkerman to c/lenovo
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Does anyone actually use LibreOffice? in c/pop_os
[–] RGBTinkerman 1 points 2 years ago

I installed Linux Mint on my Dad's older computer and he uses the word and excel versions of LibreOffice, since he stores data on a USB, he uses them to modify data, he doesn't like it when google docs makes a copy of your file when you open something from USB.