Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

After about 24 hours of random shutdowns, loud noises, and severe vibrations, the wonky fan has switched back near normal noise levels and the computer no longer feels like it's trying to shake itself apart. There's still a low level noise that's not normally there, but hopefully I'll be able to get some work done.

http://www.thisisinsider.com/a-flock-of-drunk-birds-is-terrorizing-a-small-town-in-minnesota-2018-10

alternating between using my hand to eat and petting the cat.

Set up a 2nd email account on the phone so I don't need to leave the computer on just for that. It's probably best if I just let it rest as much as possible.

but not enough. maybe I can rig an external fan?

So I guess the plan for today is to keep a temperature monitor up and if I see it spike, hit save really fast.

Placing a pitcher of ice in the air intake path (lowering the temperature of the reduced air coming in) seems to help a bit

It seems the defective fan is also not moving enough air to prevent thermal shutdown. That's going to make me substantially less productive.

Hmm... the preview image is kind of messed up. https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/d67c7949-bcc2-4ec5-92ce-302c32372c85

No, I didn't mean "blast cherry". Who would even intentionally search for that?

This morning one of the fans in my laptop started making bad noises. Called System76 support and they're going to send me a replacement fan to swap in. I was really surprised at how little information (they asked 0 questions about that) they needed to pull up my order info.

The cat keeps trying to sit on my shoulder.

@Taweret@octodon.social Geordi definitely gets priority use for dates^H^H^H^H^Hofficial engineering purposes.

@Taweret@octodon.social Do we ever see them use holodeck 1?

I have no idea why spammers think I might be in the market for a machine that makes polystyrene food containers.

Coffee smells good.

@Satsuma Seems that way, yes.

@Taweret@octodon.social Duck and cover.

So that presidential alert test? Based on what happened at my shop it seems to have taken about an hour for everybody to get the alert. Those came in one phone at a time several minutes apart for different customers.