commit e9194b1db364a44fb0bd04b558abf02778e2e132
parent 2935ab92c3c1ecce96c861cdf7e230e9ffe2c6cb
Author: Martin Kloeckner <mjkloeckner@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:44:51 -0300
set fileformat to unix; minor syntax fixes
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diff --git a/blog/bought-a-thinkpad/bought-a-thinkpad.md b/blog/bought-a-thinkpad/bought-a-thinkpad.md
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ picky, I was looking for a cheap old ThinkPad like this for a while and this was
the perfect opportunity.
So I contacted the owner, and we agree to meet the next day so I could pick it
-up. Fortunately the owner was about 30 minutes in public transport from my place
-so this was also a plus point for the publication.
+up. Fortunately the owner was about 30 minutes in public transport from my place.
When the owner give it to me obviously it was very dirty but also I felt like
something inside was a little bit loose; the transaction was very quick, in a
@@ -43,8 +42,8 @@ I started to look carefully at the machine again, and noticed that there was a
"Lenovo enhanced experience" sticker on the bottom, so it couldn't be a copy,
after searching for Intel Centrino on internet I found that it wasn't a
processor but a network card, which the genuine x200 came with, so it actually
-was a *genuine ThinkPad*, in fact the cheap clones where more rare than the
-x200 itself.
+was a *genuine ThinkPad*, and in fact the cheap clones where rarer than the
+genuine x200 itself.
Since I hadn't the charger, I couldn't test if it worked, so I started to deep
clean it, at least all the exterior dirt, and the keyboard, which was
diff --git a/blog/spending-money-on-thinkpads/spending-money-on-thinkpads.md b/blog/spending-money-on-thinkpads/spending-money-on-thinkpads.md
@@ -1,47 +1,46 @@
-%%
-title: "Spending money on thinkpads"
-date: "14-Oct-2023"
-%%
-
-# Spending money on thinkpads
-
-This is both a happy and a sad post.
-
-
-
-For the last couple of years my country's currency has been facing a big
-devaluation, in fact is one of the countries with the most inflation rate per
-year in the world at the moment, I'm talking about Argentina.
-
-Also I bought my first thinkpad back in October 2022, a thinkpad x200 for $27
-which had no charger, and the seller didn't knew if it worked, I bought a
-charger for it, then did a full cleanup, installed an SSD, and it has been
-working perfectly since then. (I posted an
-[article](https://kloeckner.com.ar/blog/bought-a-thinkpad/bought-a-thinkpad.html)
-on my blog back then)
-
-As you can see in the picture the story doesn't ends there, in fact I bought
-more thinkpad products after that, since I was impressed by the build quality of
-the x200, and also because I noticed that there is an active market for them.
-
-A while ago I started to ask myself why do I spend money on thinkpads, the main
-reason of course is that this computers are so nice to tinker with, as an
-Electronics Engineer student I enjoy disassembling this machines to take a look
-at the design, and also to restore them into functionality, another reason and
-related to the country situation, is that I buy thinkpads because I don't want
-the money I had in my pockets to lose value, and I think this is a good
-justification, I love thinkpads but I also don't want my money to **devaluate**,
-and this is one of the main things the current government want you to do, spend
-money, this is what they achieve with printing money like crazy, they destroy
-the people saving capabilities, forcing them to spend money in things to prevent
-their money to devaluate.
-
-If we take for example the x200 that I bought first, I paid $8000 Argentine
-Pesos for it, which was around US $27 back then, today the $8000 would be
-equivalent to US $8, and it only passed a year.
-
-Of course this story has a happy side too, always has; during the last 12 months
-that I been a thinkpad owner I met people that also where into thinkpads, also
-people asking me or amazed by the modular design of the thinkpads, and people
-who listened to me when I explained to them why thinkpads are better that other
-computers haha.
+%%
+title: "Spending money on thinkpads"
+date: "14-Oct-2023"
+%%
+
+# Spending money on thinkpads
+
+
+
+For the last couple of years my country's currency has been facing a big
+devaluation, in fact is one of the countries with the most inflation rate per
+year in the world at the moment, I'm talking about Argentina.
+
+I bought my first thinkpad back in October 2022, a thinkpad x200 for $27 which
+had no charger, and the seller didn't knew if it worked. I bought a charger for
+it, then did a full cleanup, installed an SSD, and it has been working
+perfectly since then. (I posted an
+[article](https://kloeckner.com.ar/blog/bought-a-thinkpad/bought-a-thinkpad.html)
+on my blog back then)
+
+As you can see in the above picture the story doesn't ends there, in fact I
+bought more thinkpad products after that, since I was impressed by the build
+quality of the x200, and also because I noticed that there is an active market
+for them.
+
+A while ago I started to ask myself why do I spend money on thinkpads, the main
+reason of course is that this computers are so nice to tinker with, as an
+Electronics Engineer student I enjoy disassembling this machines to take a look
+at the design, and also to restore them into functionality, another reason and
+related to the country situation, is that I buy thinkpads because I don't want
+my money to lose value, because of the high inflation rate, and I think this is
+a good justification, I love thinkpads but I also don't want my money to
+**devaluate**, and this is one of the main things the current government want
+you to do, spend money, this is what they achieve by emiting money, they
+destroy the people saving capabilities, forcing them to spend money in things
+to prevent their money to devaluate.
+
+If we take for example the x200 that I bought first, I paid $8000 Argentine
+Pesos for it, which was around US $27 back then, today the $8000 would be
+equivalent to US $8, and it only passed a year.
+
+Of course this story has a happy side too, always has; during the last 12 months
+that I been a thinkpad owner I met people that also where into thinkpads, also
+people asking me or amazed by the modular design of the thinkpads, and people
+who listened to me when I explained to them why thinkpads are better that other
+computers haha.
