When You Don't Let Your 30 Year Old ThinkPad Die

The ancient ThinkPad begging for sweet release while its obsessive owner keeps upgrading it with new SSDs and RAM modules for the 47th time. That battered keyboard has typed enough lines of Perl to deserve retirement, but no—you've installed Linux on it again and keep bragging about how "they don't make them like this anymore." Meanwhile, the poor machine's fan sounds like a jet engine and the battery lasts exactly 12 minutes, but you're still convinced it's superior to any modern ultrabook. The relationship is basically tech Stockholm syndrome at this point.