Can’t you just disable sleep on close? Fuckin noobs

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  • ropatrick@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Utterly pointless thread. Drivel. Change your power settings so that you can close the screen and have the machine “do nothing”.

    Is this the level of content that is deemed worthy these days? Literally a non-story.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      The story here isn’t actually about the laptops, it’s about the people addicted to the AI use.

  • otacon239@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Can’t you just disable sleep on close?

    Most modern laptops have their air intake in the keyboard, which would cause them to overheat on a matter of minutes.

    Edit: I may have been confidently incorrect here. I know I’ve seen this done before, but I guess it’s not common like I thought

    • thejml@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Decent ones dropped this practice a while ago. Some pull in the sides, some crappy ones use the bottom. My coworker actually got much better performance out of his dell by closing the lid and flipping it over. With it positioned normally it would overheat and throttle the cpu.

      • frongt@lemmy.zip
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        1 month ago

        The vast majority take in from the bottom and blow out the hinge. That’s how you can fit the larger blower fans.

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          1 month ago

          Right, Those are the terrible ones. Put it on your lap (which, let’s be honest, is basically the whole point) or a slightly soft surface and it just gets starved of air.

          • frongt@lemmy.zip
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            That’s why they stopped calling them “laptops” for a while, and instead “notebooks”.

            But I actually just went and checked Dell, HP, and Lenovo and they do call them laptops again.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      I remember being a young intern and a senior dev taught me about screen. It was cool and I immediately forgot how to use it.

        • frongt@lemmy.zip
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          1 month ago

          I’ve been using byobu, which is a wrapper. No idea how actual screen or tmux work, but in byobu it’s just F2 for a new screen, F3 for previous, F4 for next, ^A, D to disconnect. And ^A, & to kill a screen. Those are the only commands I’ve ever needed.

          I should probably learn how to actually split a terminal, but I’ve never been in a situation that I couldn’t just move the terminal emulator window.