Permacomputing

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Computing to support life on Earth

Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

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Soo I pulled out my ageing laptop (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago by dillekant@slrpnk.net to c/permacomputing@slrpnk.net

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Inspired by the posts here, I've recently tried to set up a garage electronics workstation, and part of that involves setting up a PC. Inspired by the posts here, I pulled out my old laptop and stuck Debian on it. The good news: Debian runs fine on Mate, and all the hardware which matters works properly. The bad news: The laptop not only screams like a banshee continually (the age and usage have worn out the fan bearings), but it also has a dual core processor with about a quarter (half the cores at half the IPC) the performance of a Pi 4, and half the RAM at 2gb. Wish me luck everyone.

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[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you cleaned it recently?

Old PC and especially laptop can gather dust inside that prevent heat from escaping. The result of that the component are overheating and the fan are running non stop.

Get a can of compressed air, open the laptop and blow ask the dust.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah was thinking to do that, just open it up, give it a good clean and lubricate, re-apply thermal compound.