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Is nothing sacred anymore‽
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It's super handy on my X1c 6thgen when my trackpad randomly freezes about once a month and I need to shut everything down and reboot. Bah.
Open to tips for fixing the trackpad if anyone has that on their radar!
The new ones were garbage anyways. Mine is stuck at a polling rate of 10hz, and the acceleration is god awful
Now it looks like...every other generic laptop.
I'm not a huge fan of the nub, I personally have always found it in the middle of the way. I do understand it's use, though.
A few years ago, Lenovo released some Thinkpads without the three buttons above the touchpad. After a lot of pushback, they stopped making those. They also tried using Linux-hostile components for a while. My impression is that Lenovo is on an inexorable enshittification trajectory, but backs off a bit when pressured, only to make some other stupid decision next time.
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I use the "control nipple" occasionally, but I use the physical mouse buttons every day always.
Even though they're slightly oddly positioned to use with the touchpad, they're a million times better than not having any buttons at all.
A brand has (finally) died.