Compressed Thoughts

A Journey Through Some Rough Lenovo Firmware

How I diagnosed a bad NVMe drive on a laptop over several hours., Jan 18, 2025

I recently had the displeasure of working on a Lenovo Yoga C740 which had stopped booting into its operating system (Linux Mint). What should have taken 30 minutes, ended up taking me probably around 8 hours.

Why Are Mousepads Still Useful?

If you're looking at the title, and wondering if I've gone crazy, trust me I'm going somewhere with this!, Jun 02, 2020

In this day and age, I was surprised that they still made mousepads. Long gone are the days of ball mice, and keeping the spinning bits clean. But there is still a surprisingly good reason to use them, even today... but why?