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Coronavirus has robbed me of one of my favorite productivity hacks, which is coding on old Thinkpad with 4:3 ratio display, at a coffeeshop or library with Internet turned off. No distractions, no multitasking, just pure focus on a problem.

I miss it.




My friend, when I moved into my new apartment I went without WiFi for 2 years and did nothing but code on my T43. In that time I managed to rewrite (a variant of) Age of Empires 2.


> (a variant of) Age of Empires 2.

What's this?


https://github.com/glouw/openempires

I chip away at it now every other night. It's namely a simple multiplayer client. Britons is the only civ.


My home internet went out yesterday (I WFH full-time).

“No big deal”, I thought. I’ll just go to Sta... Dammit COVID!


Which old thinkpad?


With a 4:3 ratio, probably a T60 or a T61.


Right on. T61, with one of the best thinkpad keyboards ever.


Those keypads, you could throw anything to them and they would still give you that travel, click and satisfaction.




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