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McRo

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    McRo reacted to TiamatGorgon in DIY Laptop station   
    Yes actually, I saw some guy on youtube drilling the back cover of the same laptop as a solution for the heating problem. However, since this thing was a gift from a family member. I'd have to deal with a lot of guilt by just drilling this thing. Also, the laptop is still going to be portable (Just not that usable for heavy usage) after this project Since I'm not going to glue/screw this thing to the drawer...Thanks for the tips
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    McRo got a reaction from TiamatGorgon in DIY Laptop station   
    This looks neat. Did you consider saying screw it and modifying the bottom cover of the laptop to add some fan holes? It would still be clunky, and sounds pretty memey too, but it would still be "portable" that way lol.

    If you use PC fans you can control their speed, aka their noise, for when you want them on but are only watching videos, or maybe if you let it update or downloading overnight. I'm guessing you could find more powerful nonpc fans, but you really only need enough power to get the job done right? So personally I'd go with a PC fan solution, and use something like an arduino to control the fans since you probably can't attach more fans to the motherboard (without doing more meme level stuff lol). You could have a nob sticking out of the plastic cupboard allowing you to control the fans manually.
     
    I intend to try it someday but haven't yet, but you might even be able to get temperature readings from your pc using software and then having the arduino control the pc fans based off the data. I know getting data to and from an arduino is trivial, just haven't tried reading temps from a pc yet.
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    McRo reacted to Zodiark1593 in Intel Announces $20 Billion Fab in Ohio   
    Janitors are very important to a worksite. The Architect Behind The Curtains, I like to call them. You hardly notice when they’re doing an excellent job, but when you’ve got a terrible (or no) janitor, everyone is miserable. Good janitors are worth their weight in gold, and more. 
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    McRo got a reaction from WkdPaul in Steve Wozniak supports Right to Repair!   
    I agree that the socket stuff was probably because they were off the shelf parts, but, not having seen the insides of one, I still have to wonder about the breadboard area. If the breadboard area was designed as a feature rather than a byproduct, then it would totally point to the machine having tinkerability as part of the design.
     

    The "because that had absolutely nothing to do with it." is totally an assumption on your part. When you say it had absolutely nothing to do with it, at least with the way you said it, you are saying they didn't care about it being modifiable. You are saying they had zero care for it being fixable, modifiable, etc. Maybe that's not what you meant to say, but that's how it reads, so that's what you said.
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    McRo got a reaction from soldier_ph in Question about LTT Discord   
    Ty!
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    McRo reacted to draifetee in Set a macro to run at a specific time   
    So my solution was:
    I installed a software program called "jitbit macro recorder" 
    Then I created my macro and compiled it as an EXE.
    After that I went into Windows Task Scheduler and added a Task that opens my EXE. file and runs it at 11pm every day
     
    Hope I helped you guys and thanks also to Dujith for helping!
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