Debian on Lenovo Carbon X1 14th Gen: The Futuristic Nostalgia Experience

This is one of those blog posts that goes on for er a bit, so here’s the tl;dr: Choosing Debian as the Linux distribution for the 14th Gen Carbon X1 is not a good choice. Choose Ubuntu or Arch or Fedora or whatever. But! You can get Debian (currently Trixie) to work if you’re willing to do some twiddling. Claude created a script that should do everything you need to do and… oh deer: it’s 8KB long! OK, OK, a lot of that is diagnostics and echo statements, but… still a lot of stuff. OK? OK; with that over with, let’s get on this journey, which is actually mostly about using LLMs. Yes! Plot twist! So — I’ve got a 12th Gen Carbon X1, and I’m very happy with it… except that the keyboard has started going wonky. I’ve repaired the worst of it, but now other keys have gotten sticky, so it’s time to either get the keyboard replaced… or buy a new laptop. Reader, I bought a new laptop — the 14th Gen Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1. Looks like Lenovo has gone all environmental with their packaging —…