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In college I used to see “RENDERING!” Taped to monitors
(3d rendering)
classic meme.
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
So OOP is just in the pre-sysadmin stage
They have the budget for printer ink tho
Or a local library and $0.10
Right on. This fellow libraries. :D
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
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
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.
Medium-well, more like.
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
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…
…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?
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.
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)
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…
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
which one of you took a picture of my jellyfin server?
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
Is this that thin little block holding up the Internet?
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
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
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
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'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?
