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I have an L390 Yoga (i7) and these feet are indeed way too large.
The device is painful to use even with the correct feet, though - at least if you're using Windows. It's constantly overheating, because the cooling system is just reused from the L380 and can't handle the heat of my i7 8565U processor. But hey - at least the marketing people were able to put "4.6GHz" into the specs.
I have to undervolt the CPU to make it run cool and prevent thermal throttling, which is not possible anymore if you're running a current Windows version.
That thing is probably the last Thinkpad I've ever bought, to be honest.
Yup, the port is called "MicroLAN" and the adapter was 30-50€ back when the device was new. It's of poor quality (the rubber of the cable on mine is turning into a sticky mess) and entirely passive.
Lenovo must've looked at Apple's accessory profits and thought they wanted to make money off of crap, too.
Maybe ten years back, a whole ton of consumer electronics were made with some rubberized coating which felt great when new, but over the course of several years, degraded into an incredibly sticky mess.
I had a Grundig shortwave radio covered in the stuff. A couple of other gadgets.
Eventually, after I went to a lot of work with different substances, I discovered that isopropyl alcohol and some elbow grease could get it off. Didn't look or feel great anymore -- just plasticky, no rubberization -- but it was a lot better than being sticky. But if this is the same stuff and it's just a cable, I'd probably just replace the cable.
EDIT: Probably the same stuff as here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/6fznfp/cant_companies_stop_using_coatings_that_make/
As somewhat of a retro '90's-2000's electronics collecting nerd, this stuff is the bane of my existence.
It seems like in the early 2000's there were only three types of finishes applied to electronics products:
You just can't win.
Oh, man, yeah, I'd forgotten about that. Had (have?) a camera with that.
Hah, I avoided those. I think I had one translucent device at one point.
That being said, from the 1970s and 1980s, you had all those light beige things that yellowed. It wasn't the worst kind of aging, and it was treatable, but there were so many items whose age was visible...most of those later trends weren't as universal across items.
https://www.henningludvigsen.com/index.php/2020/06/03/sun-fading-old-yellowed-plastic/
Hmmm, did you get it new?
I've checked a review of this laptop and it had correct ones:
It looks like the feet are on the opposite side of the hinge in this photo and on the same side as them in your photo?
There are feet both on the side next to the hinge and on the side opposite the hinge in the photo. Like, one one each corner of the underside of the laptop.
Yes I bought it ~3 years ago directly from Lenovo and the rubber feet look just like the ones in that photo.