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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 (self.permacomputing)

submitted 1 year ago by dillekant to c/permacomputing

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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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[–] poVoq 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You could probably take it out of the case and rig up some external cooling fans powered via USB or so.

Additional RAM and a STAT SSD would be probably an easy and cheap upgrade as well.

[–] dillekant 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah right now it's working OK, even for internet, so I'm trying to see if I can survive as is. Otherwise I'll replace as the need arises. I might consider pulling out the cooling solution and putting fresh thermal paste, and oiling up the fans.