• Bakkoda
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      82 months ago

      “Can you stack peltiers? NVM I’m gonna try.”

      • @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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        “Cooling sucks? Drill a hole here and here.”

        No joke, that was the workaround for a gaming laptop i owned in 2010 i think?

        • Bakkoda
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          52 months ago

          I fried a graphics card in college because the electrical tape i wrapped around the custom paper clip heatsink retention clip came off and shorted something lol

          • @InputZero@lemmy.world
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            I miss those days when my builds had that level of jank. Learned a lot really quickly lol. Now everything I own is impossible for me to hack into without completely fucking it up, or is so expensive that I’m just not going to try it. I used to hold a RAID 5 array together with tape. I’d never try that now. Oh, youth lol.

    • I took a dremel to my $20 case to install a front fan to cool my NAS drives. Taped that sucker right to the front bit of the face, and ran it that way for years.

      It’s not quite as hardcore as this, so I’m not sure if I qualify for the second or third type.

  • randombullet
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    I’ve actually ran a server for a few weeks with a heatsink just sitting on the CPU with a dab of thermal paste.

    I was waiting for mounting hardware. Thankfully it was a PGA so mounting pressure didn’t match much.

  • @XiozTzu@lemmy.world
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    Oh so that is how PC users overcome their shitty battery life.

    Now, how do you overcome the shitty trackpad and screen?

    • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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      Use a mouse like a smart person? The only people who use the track pad have no alternative at the moment, or are brainwashed by apple ads.

      Laptops have terrible ergonomics. Hunching over a desk like that is pretty bad for you. Use an external monitor, mouse, and keyboard and you’ll remember how useless a tiny 16" screen and shitty unmoving glass pad can be as an interface.

        • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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          If you can master the subtle science and exact art that is the clitmouse, then yes it can be a pleasant experience. But even the nicest tent isn’t going to make camping feel like a Ritz Carlton.

    • ElcaineVolta
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      it’s so weird seeing this kind of gate-keepy tribalism in the wild still. loving the leash that keeps you in the walled-garden is cringe as hell.

  • Lucy :3
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    One isn’t a tech enthusiast, but a tech idiot.

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        Lol, how is this not more common in the answers? Lotta people on Lemmy don’t know how to use a generator…

        That shit also isn’t grounded, though I think some specific generators may be alright without that.

    • @qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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      You’re just gatekeeping.

      ThinkPad with a generator? Nothing wrong with that — maybe add LoRa, get a ham license and add some packet radio or digital modes and you have a neat disaster setup.

      MacBook that you don’t want to scuff? Well, I’m not that precious with my gear, but you do you. Many Mac laptops last a very long time, and the performance of modern Apple silicon is really, really impressive — and you have UNIX out of the box. Plenty for a tech enthusiast to like.

  • JckRppr
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    I ran over mine with my car (by accident, of course) and it survived, I’m still using it even though I had to take some acrews out to relieve the pressure from the fan because it was hitting the case and sometimes I have to fold it a bit to the other side so it doesn’t make noises.

    So I guess I’m the second one

  • @Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
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    So I started going to University recently, and the amount of people I’ve had actively chastise me for how I treat my laptop has been shocking.

    This is a tool to get things done, it’s not some precious gem, I bought a cheap laptop with the expectation that it’s going to get gross and crusty and I’ll have to hose it down once a year, I’m going to wing it around and drop it and clean the screen with my sleeve.

    • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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      It may be news to you but generally people cannot tell apart semen from just crusty dirt.

      It’s probably why your laptop has been such a hit around the campus.

      I don’t think even the bioengineers are brave enough to take a sample

    • Miles O'Brien
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      452 months ago

      Treating a telescope like a jackhammer isn’t going to work well.

      They just haven’t figured out your jackhammer just looks a lot like their telescope.

      • @Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
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        My tap and die set sit on a shelf, my lathe is in the shop. I’ve dropped my hammer from 150 feet because the tether broke and the most upsetting part was climbing the ladder down and back up.

        It depends on whether you view it as a lathe or a hammer. My nice computer is at home, my computer that I sit in the park under a tree and code on, then set it on the grass while it compiles is in my bag.

  • Flamekebab
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    372 months ago

    My old MacBook was first too shiny and new to put stickers on, then it lived so long that I didn’t want to waste stickers on a machine that I’d need to retire. It made it ten years before having weird bootloop issues.

    To try to counteract my own neuroses I went sticker mad on its replacement immediately. It also helps with easily telling which way is up at a glance (I don’t know how many times I had to rotate the old one when I went to open it).

    • @muusemuuse@lemm.ee
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      182 months ago

      You know, aside from the i9 MacBook pros, these are really resilient machines that will last quite a while. They don’t deserve the hate they get. They easily outlast gamer laptops that bake themselves to death.

      • Beacon
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        The butterfly keyboard models are definitely not included in that statement, but all other models yes they’ll live forever. BUT i also have a bunch of old laptops from other companies that live forever running linux

        • merde alors
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          i recently bought a used macbook from 2015 and immediately installed archlinux on it. Now, free from macOS, it can really “live forever” :)

        • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          I still use my 2011 MacBook Pro hahaha. I’ve added a SSD and maxed out the RAM, but it runs amazingly.

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        That’s why I buy 'em. All other personal laptops I’ve had over the years don’t make it past the two year mark but I’ve been really impressed by Macbooks. I expect there’s probably some amazing Linux machines with similar hardiness but I’ve not had reason to roll the dice on that front.

        • @muusemuuse@lemm.ee
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          32 months ago

          It will be interesting to see the long term of the asahi linux project. They are doing some absolutely incredible work without apple’s help.

  • this is not funny. the computer on the right is using windows. put both of those pieces of shit in the same left panel and on the right put a logo that isn’t linked to some closed-source piece of trash