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On carpet 😬
if you just moved in, server comes first, then a mattress, then the rest of the furniture
The laptop could have setup to not sleep on close and could have been laying closed, screen on the ground. Also it would have provided completely unrestricted airflow to the fan…
You could put the laptop on a box
you see ivan, server is much happier when comfortable on carpet, you can tell it wams its heart
Yeah. That one triggered me.
I mean, literally just lean it against the wall, at the very least…
With a risk of falling hard drives and such? I’m not doing that…
This laptop is secretly downloading scientific papers behind a paywall to release them on the public internet. Sadly, the owner will be prosecuted unfairly and threatened with unreasonable punishment.
Remember Aaron.
RIP
And the lid is not open because of preventing it sleeping, but rather to cool it down
Yes! Very important!
I remember it being a bit trendy to turn old laptops into desktops by just unplugging the display and plugging peripherals into them, but people were finding that the keyboard actually was designed as another heat escape, so running them with the lids closed wasn’t so great!
There’s people who gut them and build a nice wood-and-allu mini-pc (not me, too lazy, would order a case).
But it looks like it’s sitting on carpet which would definitely block the vents
Truee, didn’t see that. But generally just wanted to add to the vibe of these laptop hosters
The more I look at it, maybe it’s hard flooring. Lol
Disable sleep-on-lid-closed.
Take out the lid-close sensor and use it in a side project that requires a proximity sensor.
isn’t it Hall sensor?
I might/might not be one.
But it definitely is a proximity sensor. Unless yours is an Apple device, in which case, it might be an angle sensor.
The term “Hall sensor” would refer to the tech used in it, whereas the term “proximity sensor” refers to its function.
It could be using any other proximity sensing technique too and it would still be a proximity sensor.technically yes. usually proximity sensor is used to mean IR or sonic sensors and I read in that sense.
I see.
I used “proximity sensor” because I didn’t know what these sensors use and didn’t want to worry about it while writing that comment.
If the Dexter actor is near it, the screen goes off
On thinkpads it is, there is a magnet on the bottom.
I had a dell latitude for my first server. even when I removed the magnets, some how it still would detect that the kid was closed and turn off. I tried everything I could think of and more, without any luck. the solution? I removed the display entirely so it couldn’t be closed and only used it via ssh or a VGA monitor if I really needed it.
I removed the magnets
I have an older ASUS ROG laptop in which the sensor is a separate PCB (less than a thumb in size) connected using a few IDC pins.
It could simply be taken off and I haven’t even opened the monitor frame yet.
It’s probably to prevent overheating.
Why is it just sitting on the carpet though?
To prevent underheating, they’re going for a medium laptop.
Is this that thin little block holding up the Internet?
Man when I was a kid I ran a runescape private server for anywhere within 20-100 people at a time, and for the first few weeks users reported a lot of downtime, which didn’t make sense to me as whenever I tried to login it was totally fine!!
Eventually figured out closing my laptop lid put the laptop to sleep and scraped together some chore money for a VPS lol
Lol, reminds me of my old setup.
It was all old W98 laptop that I got used. I installed xunbuntu on it back when it first came out in 2006. It sat on my desk, open like that with a bit of tape over to hold the power cord because it was loose. The battery was completely dead.
It was the server I used to host all the modded maps I made for a silly little tank game. Thing ran seemlessly only going down when the power went out or somebody juggled the power cord for 5 years.
Wow five years is a long time to juggle something
and it’ll be the most reliable server you own
Well, for one it’s got a built-in UPS… Too bad for the storage connectivity tho
TIL: maybe my local laptop-server shouldn’t have the lid closed. Probably not gonna change my ways, though. What an inconvenience that’d be
You should be able to deactivate shutdown or sleep mode on lid closure with some commands.
I have the lid closed, yes. I wasn’t aware that there could be a reason to choose to keep it open
Disable suspend when the laptop lid is closed:
sudo sed -i 's/#HandleLidSwitch=suspend/HandleLidSwitch=ignore/g' /etc/systemd/logind.conf sudo sed -i 's/#HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=suspend/HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore/g' /etc/systemd/logind.conf sudo systemctl restart systemd-logindIf you are in a TTY, you can blank the screen before closing the lid to prevent burn-in. After running this, come back later and press a key to turn the screen on again.
alias blankscreen='setterm --blank=force; read ans; setterm --blank=poke'but my keyboard is a heatsink…
put it in /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/nosleep.conf so that updates can’t ever undo this
Thanks, but honestly, a simple cat <file> would be more helpful than a sed line. I mean, who reads sed lines?
OMG, Y500 ? Mine is still running after 13 years!
Lenovo made some kickass computers back then.
I instantly recognized it too! Mine got stolen. I loved mine.
My server is a loose motherboard with a loose PSU, thrown into the living room TV rack, which I leave open for cooling. It’s a repurposed (free) Athlon, DDR2. I only use it for smb and git backups, and project sharing between my desktop and laptop. What amazes me most is my IT coworkers don’t find that a perfectly acceptable scenario.
That free computer is going to cost you a lot on your electric bill.
Not in winter it won’t.
Even in winter, it’s terrible compared to a heat pump or (probably) directly burning gas or wood.
Not how heat works.
If you’re trying to heat your home, every electronic device becomes 100% efficient. All its “waste” heat becomes wanted heat. That it might only be 40W of heat is not the point.
Every electronic device is 100% efficient after the electricity has already been generated and delivered, sure, but a bunch of efficiency losses occurred before that. If you’re comparing methane burned on-site in a furnace to methane burned at a power plant, transmitted to the site as electricity, and then used for electric resistance heating, burning on-site is gonna be better even if the furnace loses more heat up the chimney than the power plant does.
Also, a heat pump is “300%-500% efficient” in the sense that it moves 3x-5x as much heat as it uses. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_performance
That’s the joke. :)
Not really, electricity is pretty cheap when you live right beside the largest hydro plant in South America.
Closing lid goes brrr
Serious question that I’ve wondered about but never worked on.
Can you rig a laptop to keep running with the lid closed? Either by software or hardware? I guess you could cut the switch, but an OS-based solution would be neater.
Yes, easily. Most OSes let you do that.
In some cases, is a bios setting also.
Sure, it’s part of windows settings under power management.
Same with Linux!
Yes usually it’s the OS that handles it and it can be set to ignore the lid detection.
I did it for a while. Also removed the battery so it doesn’t start swelling
classic meme.
