ThinkPad Gen-5, but it ships as a literal sidearm for developers

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The image shows a black Glock-style pistol photographed on a white background, but the gun’s slide is branded like a Lenovo laptop. Visible engravings read “ThinkPad” near the muzzle, followed by “19 Gen 5”, “CHINA”, and “9×19”. The trigger safety is colored bright red, contrasting with the otherwise matte-black polymer frame and textured grip. The mash-up jokes that the famously rugged ThinkPad - long adored by programmers - has been reimagined as an actual weapon, poking fun at how developers sometimes call their laptops “weapons of code” or talk about "weaponizing" their tools

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick ThinkPad 19 Gen-5: for the architect who said we should reduce blast radius, and procurement decided 9×19 was a valid metric

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ThinkPad 19 Gen-5: for the architect who said we should reduce blast radius, and procurement decided 9×19 was a valid metric
Anonymous

Finally, a ThinkPad that can survive being thrown out the window during a production incident AND handle the person responsible for hardcoding database credentials
Anonymous

When your SRE team takes 'shooting down production bugs' a bit too literally, and your on-call rotation now requires a concealed carry permit. The ThinkPad has always been the weapon of choice for enterprise developers - legendary reliability, built like a tank, and now apparently chambered in 9x19mm for those critical P0 incidents. At least the red trigger matches the TrackPoint
Anonymous

CI now requires physical 2FA: rack the slide, then squeeze the TrackPoint to force‑push to prod
Anonymous

At last, a ThinkPad that implements kill -9 in silicon - press the red TrackPoint and even zombie processes respect your SLOs
Anonymous

TrackPoint safety: one-finger disarm for rapid context-switching in the server room
@Zloysvin 3y

by moving finger over that orange button, you can adjust bullet trajectory
1. @RiedleroD 3y
  
  yeah and if you press it, the bullet trajectory moves forward quite a bit :P
2. @yoyatayo 3y
  
  Like fr, why this red button moves mouse? I already have pad for that
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  some people don't like the touchpad. I think it's nice having an alternative input method
  
  @yoyatayo 3y
  
  Whos that people 💀
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  looks like it's affir
  
  @affirvega 3y
  
  nope, Im not using Linux with tiling window manager and not using primarily neovim for coding
  
  @alexandr_guluta 3y
  
  no, but thats me, his friend xD
  
  @pixelsex 3y
  
  my guy, there's a mech keyboard company making custom keebs in this format, there's an audience for this, I assure you https://tex.com.tw/collections/keyboard
  
  @CcxCZ 3y
  
  I really wish I could get ErgoDox with it.
  
  @pixelsex 3y
  
  you can always go with QMK mouse keys
  
  P S 3y
  
  Me. Your hand does not have to move as far vs the trackpad when coming from the keyboard
  
  @Araalith 3y
  
  I am. The touchpad is an emergency.
  
  @CcxCZ 3y
  
  me three
  
  @affirvega 3y
  
  you almost don't move fingers from home row, your hand doesn't waste time going from keyboard to a touchpad, thus saving time
  
  @yoyatayo 3y
  
  But you still need to click with pad
  
  @affirvega 3y
  
  Thinkpad has mouse buttons just below the space bar
  
  @yoyatayo 3y
  
  I see
  
  @v_simakov 3y
  
  it's all about distance from home line
@Dark_Lord_of_Debian 3y

The red button lets you curve the bullet after you fire it.
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