$100 usd is going to get you something pretty dire unless you luck out. It doesn’t take too much more to go from >15 years old to something <8 with a MUCH better CPU and ram options.

It’s a passive cooled PC. The lid is mostly how it cools itself. Removing the lid would be counter productive.

You need contact in between the SSD and the case. Most cheap mini PCs like that don’t cool their drives well. You can try getting thermal pads to make good contact between the SSD and the case. Or if it’s too big and you’re stacking multiple then get a block of copper and put it in between.

Also make sure there’s something making contact between the SSD and the motherboard.

Also also flip than fan around so it’s blowing air into the PC and not sucking air past it.

Mine is purely software. I want the left touchpad to be a scroll wheel, and it doesn’t work. Well it kinda works, but not right.

For about 5 minutes when I got the controller I could set clockwise or counterclockwise motion to scroll and it would do per pixel scrolling. Now when I enable that setting it does nothing. I can add on top of it cw/ccw motion to act as scroll wheel which gets the job done. But single scroll wheel motions aren’t as precise/quick as the per pixel/accelerated motion.

If I remember right the right touchpad does it just fine. Only the left doesn’t.

Also I detest how it does different profiles automatically. I never want my controller to act differently unless I tell it to. But that’s a separate issue and I can manually revert it to what I want per game.

And yet they have no interest in fixing my steam controller issue from basically day 1.

You’d think within the same distros they’d be the same. But I was running a version of fedora from a few years ago and it worked flawlessly. Well worked in the windows way. But a few years later when I wanted to try fedora again it was nothing but trouble. I don’t get why it would regress like that.

They said windows partition so I’m assuming they mean when they boot into Linux the Bluetooth device just works instead of needing to redo the pairing process.

Linux and 6ghz WiFi has never played well with me. What WiFi chipset does the machine use? Intel ones are horrendous. The “AMD” Mediatek chipsets seem better.

But man does Linux not know what to do with 6ghz WiFi. It’s something Mac OS does flawlessly. But even windows struggles sometimes for seemingly no reason.

I’m well aware.

Honda factory head units run just straight up android. On my friends 2017 civic he could poke a few buttons and get to the normal android ui.

3 2 1 offsite backups typically happen a lot less often than local copies or local backups.

I also don’t really consider any machines data to be irreplaceable. If I lose my phone I want the latest backup. But taxes or photos I care for? Those are an entirely different backup, and those aren’t incremental. They’re just what they are.

Kinda depends on what it’s for. My server? IDK, 2 days. Maybe have a dedicated weekly/monthly backup left behind. PC? Honestly just the latest is fine.

But it’s a 10tb drive, so I’ve got months of backups even if they’re running continuously. It’s less a how comfortable I am and more a how much can I afford. (a lot more before the shortage)

I also explicitly purge stuff that’s constantly changing like logs. I don’t care for logs in my backups. Only on the live machine.

Maybe in the future I can get one for cheap in the used market?

With the price of 5 year old framework 13s being what they are I doubt it. You can get a newer thinkpad for half the price.

As long as I have space. My backups are on dedicated drives, and as they run out of space the old ones are deleted.

Just RTFM!!!

*reads the manual and there’s nothing about this*

…ok. Now what?

When people say desktop laptop is implied in that too.

But enclosed in a box without much airflow and those temps are going to creep up over time. And take even longer to cool down. Hopefully there’s fans in the bottom or side. Because one exhaust is not great for even just the heat from those hard drives.

I think the best way to handle airflow out is to have a turn or two on the intake/exhausts for the noise to get trapped. I personally just put mine in my basement though. That limits the sound pretty well.

Gotta go fast. My WiFi can achieve > 1gbit, my internal network is already 10 gig. Why not support faster everywhere?

I do this at work. If you don’t do pass through for the NICs I’d highly suggest it. When it’s a router it’s insane how much the overhead can be.

We have a 4 gig connection and with the virtual nics got maybe just over 1gbit on a Xeon silver based R640. But after pass through solid 3.5ish. Not sure where the bottleneck is currently, but our other servers do >4 just fine.

I was using an N100 based mini PC and it did fine at 1gbit. But now that I have 3, and it’s realistically closer to 4 or 5 it doesn’t cut the mustard.

Proper hardware based routers are also just so much more efficient. That N100 machine was constantly hot to the touch. My new UniFi router uses less power and does 10 gig easily.