Well, I wasn't sure what to tell others and I only talked about this in secret with a few people I know in XMPP. I talked to angryhat and Arjan about this and am about to tell everyone else what I fucked up here... I guess. Well here goes nothing.

I bought a thinkpad x201 on 20th of May 2026, it had only 2 problems on it, it came with no working battery and the display had a single line directly in the middle, honestly directly in the middle is honestly as good as fucked up as it is when it comes to watching videos on it or something. The person who sold me the thinkpad told me that "This line doesn't stay like this" and so I figured maybe there is some like seating problem? or the ribbon problem? but debugging would require another working display, and instead of doing that I basically tried doing buncha random shit seating it over and over, and loosing the screws and shit, they did work for a single day and then went back to however it was... Lastly I talked to manny (manny-the-grim-repear) again after a long time and he told me to seat it again, well I know it wouldn't work, so I ended up trying to test and "fix it myself" and I was thinking while turned on to test if any of the lines on the display's port had problems while turned on hohohhohohoh this sounds so stupid right? yeah I was stupid, and I ended up basically doing some sort of short curcuit I think and then the PC just failed to boot. because it just fails to boot meaning there is some initiation failure, the thing can run without a display and can be used as a headless server as well but, on the other hand if it fails to boot without the display connected meaning that there is some kind of issue on the motherboard, and my issue in particular was the GPU IC, it was abnormally heating up and I guess something in the display surging didn't fry the display, but fried the gpu? urgh this makes no sense in particular. So that ended up being the case, its not a dead motherboard but the gpu ic on the board doesn't work, replacing it can work, but I don't think I could find the gpu ic in particular and in most cases this ends up with having to replace the motherboard itself, and basically rendering the motherboard as dead (even though it kinda is not) but in terms of cost effectiveness, replace than repair that's the logic that everyone follows to fucking save money, when it comes to that replacing is actually more cost effective. So I understand that logic I guess, they asked around $30 for the gpu ic (repair) and straight $50 for the used working motherboard, so I opted for the latter and basically hooked up a used display that has NO lines, because this all started with me fucking with the display, better replace it anyways, and that was honestly cheap... like around $12 for the used one, honestly if I knew that I would have just replaced the display and not waste $50 I wasted by ruining the gpu ic...

That is what basically happened and I ended up spending a ton to get back my x201 (or another x201 atp?) working and running. and enjoying Unix back again with openbsd... Well there are a few problems in OpenBSD better left unsaid, I will probably give my Daily Life In OpenBSD experience later in my next blog. Till then, stay safe and eat more Unix pills!