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Rookie maneuver.
As right as that might be, it's on carpet!
I don't believe they put much thought into airflow and overheating...
Which is exactly why it overheats so quickly when they close the lid.
Let's face it, the place using a laptop on the floor with a paper sign probably doesn't have the budget for real sysadmins. At the same time, most real sysadmins know to disable the lid-closing behavior and get the laptop off of the carpet because they've been foiled in their past by people who refused to read the goddamn paper sign.
Sadly, I've actually seen a couple model laptops that were designed with one of the fan vents right above the keyboard, and only ventilated when the screen is open. VERY piss poor design, but yeah those do exist..
Example: https://i.redd.it/wcp4rm5o7u7a1.jpg
They have the budget for printer ink tho
Or a local library and $0.10
Right on. This fellow libraries. :D
So OOP is just in the pre-sysadmin stage
We don't know that it's directly on the carpet. When i want to put my thinkpad on a soft surface I use the Beano annual as a handy intermediate layer (other A4 hardbacks are available).
I can't tell for sure, but it looks like a Lenovo y510p. Or at least it looks very similar to the one I owned back in the day.
There was a vent in the hinge, and these things would absolutely cook themselves with the lid closed
I'm currently using a y510p as a home lab. Every update resets the shutdown-on-lid-close setting. Had to set up a cron job to re-disable it on boot.
I'm pretty sure there is a regular systemd config option for that
I also have a laptop working as a server. The problem is that the WiFi antenna is in the lid and it just doesn't work well when the lid is closed
It's still better to have a server like that run hot for a while before someone who knows what up can open it back rather than allowing someone to just walk up, accidentally close it, and shut everything down. If your laptop is mission critical, no sleep when closed needs to be on