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not turning off going to sleep when lid closed
Rookie maneuver.
Could be an overheating concern maybe. Some laptops weren’t designed to run with the lid closed, if it inhibits the air flow.
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
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.
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
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).
classic meme.
I have a minecraft server running on an old chromebook which I installed arch on, though I made sure it stays on when the lid is closed (screen still turns off).
which one of you took a picture of my jellyfin server?
On carpet 😬
Same here. I ran a kitchen server precisely like that (minus the sign) - - but on a carpet?
(as another commenter said: even if you just moved in, you put it on a box or something)
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…
…but then the sign would have affected the airflow…
This is the best compromise until mom visits and steps on it.
I have killed two laptops by stepping on them. Is this a sign?
… Mum?
I mean, literally just lean it against the wall, at the very least…
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. Or would the heat be an issue?
I have the lid closed, yes. I wasn’t aware that there could be a reason to choose to keep it open
In college I used to see “RENDERING!” Taped to monitors
(3d rendering)
See I would have more problems with cats chilling on the keyboard than folks closing the lid or unplugging it
Closing lid goes brrr
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'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 think that’s a Y510p. This was the machine that made me think Lenovo knew what they were doing and were the true successors to IBM, for laptops at least.
This machine was released right before the gaming laptop age really kicked off, so its paltry GT750(M! Sometimes two of them) was about as good as it got outside of a sketchy DTR from a company you’ve never heard of. Only a few years later did the standard go way up for gaming laptop performance, with everyone and their dog getting an Nvidia 1050/1060/1070 machine.
But I really liked the Y500/Y510. Serious design that made it look like a thick business laptop with polished black surfaces and cool red key edges vs gaudy RGB sludge with LOOK AT ME I AM EPICLY GAMERING all over it. I kind of wish they kept this design style.
Oh well. Tongfang has my back now.
