 That's right kids, you probably heard from Chopin playing, it's the end of an era. My X220, which has given you dozens of videos, dozens of my videos were recorded on this thing. I don't know, probably close to half, maybe even more, I don't even know. But here's the culprit, actually you know what, here's the culprit, right here. But here's the culprit, I'll go ahead and tell you what was happening. I just want to sweep it under the rug because it's so embarrassing, but I'll tell you anyway because you know some of you guys are paid subscribers, by the way support me on Patreon. So here's the deal, my X220 a couple days ago, well let me show you the root of the problem. This is really what you know screwed it all up. So I got this thing used for a great price, 90 bucks on eBay. If you can get an X220 on eBay for 90 bucks that is a good deal. But everything was perfect, like it was refurbished, it was fantastic. I don't think it was actually refurbished on the entry, but they did a fantastic job with it. But there is one exception, and that is this little, some kind of broadband card, I'm not really sure. There's a stripped screw here, and look at that, it's terrible. Now you might be like who cares if there's a stripped screw there. It ends up you need to remove the screw if you want to remove the motherboard. And I needed to do that to replace my thermal paste. Because if you've seen any of my videos that I recorded with this thing, yeah it gets pretty hot, it gets like 85 degrees Celsius sometimes. There are some videos when I did a different way of recording, it got up to 95 or something like that, totally ridiculous. So what I did a couple days ago, this is a longer story than I thought, but what I did a couple days ago is I opened this thing up, and I was trying to get rid of the screw again because I was like give it another shot. Look at this, someone put goo on it or something? I think it was super glue that someone was using, but anyway. I was trying to get this thing out in whatever way I could, because I don't really care about this component, it could die, I don't care. But anyway, in the course of it, I actually removed the screen cables here. I think this one's for this screen, and this one is for the lights on top. And I had taken off the lid just for good measure. But when I put it back on, everything was still working for a little bit, but eventually the screen just went black. And ends up what that was, is one of these cords wasn't correctly fitting in. Now I could wiggle with the lid and it would come back on. But I wanted to open the thing up today and actually fix it for good, because obviously one of these had come out. And I had a bunch of trouble with that, in that sometimes I would have results if I wiggled it and test it. So what I was doing is basically, the battery's out, here's the plug. And what I was doing is I'd fiddle around with it, then plug it back in, and then test it, see if it was working, then take it back out, fiddle with it again, etc., same process over and over. And you can probably guess what happened. That is one time I forgot to take it out, and that is a bad idea. I was still in, and I went to, you might be able to see it, but I went to put this thing back in, and I was trying to fit it right, and then I smelled this horrible smell, you know the smell, the smell of a dying computer. And this thing here, you probably might not even be able to see it, but it is burned, it is burned, maybe you can see that. Yeah, you can see that. That is cataclysmic for this kind of thing. And you might be able to see the burn, I guess it's burn on the little port here. I don't even know what you call these things, but who cares. You don't need to know the names, you know. Or maybe you do, maybe it wouldn't have happened, who knows. But anyway, this is the end of an era. I don't totally know, well, I'll put it this way. I could get a new screen, and that might be good for the 220, and I could probably just plug it back in and see if it works. But that would, of course, cost money, that comes with a risk. But I think that this thing might be damaged in a way that I can't easily replace it. And this is, of course, part of the motherboard. I don't think that you can unscrew this thing. I might take off this little black thing and see if this thing is actually detachable. And if it is, maybe I'll replace it. But you know what? I have four other thinkpads, or three other thinkpads. Oh, god. But this was my main machine for quite a while. Now, the reason I've been using this thing instead of the X200, which is actually Librebooted and all, is because the X200 actually had some problems that I couldn't really diagnose. I was having some ethernet problems, and I had some problems reading my solid state drive. I'm not entirely sure, which I hadn't had before. I'd been using it for months and months, and it was totally fine. But I might have been a kernel update sort of messed up, and I never really fixed it, so I just moved to the X220. So right now I have two choices. That is, one, I have the X200 in the other room, and I was sort of fixing it. Or at least trying to diagnose what exactly was wrong. Because whatever caused it is totally beyond my pay grade, because I'm not getting paid for this. Oh, unless you support me on Patreon. But yeah, so I haven't really figured out what's going on with that. But I'm thinking actually about using my desktop. So if you see right here, I have my laptop hard drive. And what I've been doing for the past couple of days, when the X220 was sort of messing up, and I hadn't totally destroyed it, was I actually have one of the best things you can ever get, is a SATA to USB adapter. And there have been a couple of times when I've had laptop problems or something, or maybe I just want to do it this way. Where I can just take my hard drive, take a connector, and just go on campus, go to any computer, plug it up, and boots directly into my Arch Linux i3 desktop. And not have to worry about anything. But anyway, so I'm thinking, well, so option one, again, is use the X200. Option two is move to a desktop, and I move my desktop into my room. Because the only thing we were doing with it in the other room is just occasionally watching JoJo. So I'm thinking about actually using this as a main machine for a little bit. Of course, it's not leap rebooted, it's nothing fancy, or it's even a modern computer, terrible. But I think it might be a good habit just to have a computer that is not mobile. And use this as a main machine, do all the important stuff here. I'm actually loading over all my files. Is there anything embarrassing I don't need to see? No, I don't care. So yeah, so I might be doing that, and I have this nice little standing desk. But yeah, so that's the update. So rip and piece, rip and piece my X220. And of course, I'm going to have someone in the comments section say, rip and piece means rest and piece and piece. Thanks, buddy. But yeah, rip and piece, it is the end of an era for, I mean, the channel isn't over. It's just in case you were worrying. Sorry, I have like 30,000 other computers to record on. But I am going to miss my X220. Maybe I'll repair it. Maybe I'll keep on to it. I don't know, would anyone buy my X220 as a memento? Maybe that's the thing. Maybe I'll do a sale for that. So if you want an old X220 that you can try and get working and try and fix the screen on just for having it, maybe I'll send it to you. If you throw, maybe I'll put it up on eBay or something. Or maybe I'll post about it on the form. But anyway, that's about it. I'm going to be putting out some videos recently. Sorry, there's been sort of a wait in what I've been doing. It's just the past week at our department, we had this student recruitment week for all the potential new PhD students. So I was doing some of that and I had a bunch of presentations to prepare for. Some of which I think I might actually put up online if you're in most of you probably aren't interested in the linguistic stuff. But yeah, I might put some of those up. But anyway, I'm going to be recording stuff pretty soon once all this finishes up and once I finish my daily work, my work work. But I'll see you guys next time. And you know, what is it? Press F to pay respects. So I'll see you guys later.