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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

tiddy roosevelt

so yeah I can confirm you can cool a thinkpad effectively with freezer blocks if the fan won't turn on

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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

tiddy roosevelt

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If you're trying to do anything like transfer a lot of files then it takes two of them though

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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

tiddy roosevelt

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@neil Here to share my IT knowledge frog_salute

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b90g@gruene.social

Willi

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@babe what about condensation? :/

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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

tiddy roosevelt

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@b90g kitchen roll seems to do the trick

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fzer0@nerdculture.de

A Light Shining in Darkness

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@b90g @babe

It's a thinkpad, it does not care.

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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

tiddy roosevelt

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@trechnex It's thankfully only got to survive a few more hours. I saw what was happening and ordered an ideapad to replace it

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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@babe Can does not mean should. If you cool it so much that water condenses, that's bad news.
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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

tiddy roosevelt

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@pavel I'm aware.

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Devils_Rancher@octodon.social

Chris “End User” Vreeland

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@babe I have successfully used the bags of frozen peas trick to recover data from hard drives with head crashes.

I have also gotten A LOT better about backups.

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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

tiddy roosevelt

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@Devils_Rancher I used to just stick them in a freezer for an hour and say a few hail marys. Works a treat

And yeah so have I. I lost a few gig of work a while ago over not backing up, too. That was quite a lesson

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