> as if the Thinkpad isn't going to survive a nuclear hellscape (it will)
I don't think anything after, like, x220 will. The T60 definitely will survive.
> no, you have not rambled about DevTerm
It has completely replaced my Thinkpad. Open hardware (all the way down to the CPU if you get one of the RISC-V ones, but I went with ARM), pluggable CPU board (including a carrier board for a Pi CM-4), battery power is two standard-ass 18650s, three USB ports, nice enough keyboard (can touch-type, small enough to thumb-type if you have long enough thumbs). Also, bafflingly, it comes with a receipt printer. It is like the perfect portable machine, ideal hacker device, I haven't even powered on my Thinkpad since I got it. Plus it's designed to look like a Model-100. It's excellent.