People arguing about lid closing when clearly the biggest sin is a laptop on a carpet. Please put a hard surface under to stop it hoovering up all dust and particles possible and having appalling airflow
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I have mine upside down so lid on ground, fan facing upwards but if I had it the correct way up wouldn't the fans be blowing outward/down?
Your intake on the side would still be close to the carpet. Also outward and down would build up heat still
All laptops I have used suck air in from the base and blow it out the side/back. I like your upside down solution.
A hard surface is a start, but a cooler stand is ... cooler. Best give it a separate power source rather than plug it into the laptop, too? Just guessing.
Yeah they can be good, but depends on what the pc is being used for. If it's not running into thermal limits it's much better off just trying to have decent airflow that won't suck up too much dust.
Laptops are usually designed pretty well when it comes to cooling vs. power when placed on a hard surface.
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why the lid thing tho? you can just disable lid detection and it'll not suspend even after closing.
Makes me think of the time I was running a stripped down laptop motherboard as a server for a while. Was given a laptop with a broken screen, but it had a wired NIC, so I pulled the screen off, along with any other component that wasn't necessary, and shoved it behind a TV where it was close to the router. Ran on that thing for years before being able to afford better equipment.
An underrated feature of the laptop server: built-in UPS!
Currently running a headless laptop with Proxmox. Love this set up and definitely great feature having the UPS.
Some laptops vent the hot air in a way that's blocked if the lid is closed.
Not gonna vent much at all if you put in on a carpet...
You could remove the laptop screen like I did with my home server. Although you'll have to put it very close to the router to get a WiFi signal afterwards.
You can get an external antenna and run it to the wifi card. I did that with my beelink mini desktop because the wifi antenna was garbage.
Why would u do that other than maybe saving space? Leaving it open would have been easier and the same thing.
The screen was broken so it was just wasting space. It also made it easier to move around because I had to close the lid to slide it in place then open the lid so it gets airflow.
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considering it's sitting on carpet, I doubt ventilation has been a priority.
makes sense. thinking again, i think my old macbook also did that..
Yeah, I think a lot of macs vent through the keyboard.
i vent through my keyboard sometimes
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I feel like I've probably downloaded a torrent off this very machine.
Disable suspend when the laptop lid is closed on a systemd-based GNU/Linux system:
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-logind
If 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'
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I'm using a crappy HP mini PC from 2016 with just 4GB of RAM and it runs my Nextcloud with Talk that I use instead of Discord. The most limiting factor is actually my internet connection... Only 8 megabits of upload only gets you so far (it used to be 20 megabits but my ISP screwed me over)
No Ethernet cable? Must be terrible running a server over WLAN.
I wonder what Lemmy instance is this server running :P
Me too.
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