Little Laptop

One day many months ago I made an impulse purchase of a netbook. It's a Lenovo ThinkPad x120e. It's cute :3

I've been using it more lately. It's pretty nice to sit and type on. I can carry it places. I just got a new battery for it, so now it lasts like four hours? Not the infinite laptop of my dreams but a nice amount of time. I could probably do stuff to make it last longer, idk, Linux.

There are three problems I'm having with it that I don't know how to solve. These are:

Refusing to load the OS after a reboot
Not picking up wifi networks if the daemon starts automatically
Not applying my custom cursor to the base window manager

All three of these problems seem like "one thing going faster than another thing" to me. I don't really know about the rebooting one... what makes a reboot different to a regular start? But something must be happening differently. The wifi daemon, iwd has to be trying to find networks before something it needs is ready. Likewise with the cursor, it has to be trying to set the window manager's cursor before i3 is ready.

But. Like. What do I do about it??

Another little problem, a slight annoyance, is that the function key on this keyboard is to the left of left control. So control is not right on the corner. So I keep pressing function by mistake. They look to be the same size keys... I wonder if I could swap the keycaps around. I'm sure I could swap them around in the Linux kernel firmware, somewhere. That'd be nice.

Really this is a very nice little laptop. Nice to hold. Nice to use. Very capable! It's kinda pushing it to run Godot on here, but it works! YouTube is a bit much, I've used yt-dlp when I've wanted a video for something.

And the ports! It's got three USB ports. One SD card slot. And VGA and HDMI ports. Riches.

They don't make them like they used to :p