[–] 2 points 5 months ago*

If you're on a laptop, a laptop stand with some fans help a lot, If you have a pc, pointing a normal fan at the pc so the hot air gets circulated and cool air is fed to it can really help.

Making your fans work extra hard is good. Find how for your device. Fans are always cheaper than cpu and gpu.

Undervolting a bit also helps. Use cpupower too. There are power profiles and cpu governors in linux, usually the performance governor and profiles heat up your device pretty quick. Usually the balanced profiles give the best performance. Test and see what works best for you

In my experience, if your system is off-the-shelf, it probably doesn't have good thermal paste. Re-apply good thermal paste and that also helps.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    I actually wrote a blog about this a few months back. It was after a 12 day war (Israel+USA attacking Iran) and 40 day internet blackout, and then we got into another war (Israel+USA attacking Iran) and a 90-100 day(lost track) internet blackout.

    It isn't exactly "how to survive the apocalypse" guide but it was a really helpful guide for myself and my friends and helped me keep working in those blackout days.

    It's isn't focused on hardware, just software, since I'm a software engineer.

    https://alavi.me/blog/we-need-apocalypse-proof-software/

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Keep in mind, check the solution's licensing so they don't suddenly start putting things behind paywall. Use software that is truly FOSS (GPL for example) with no exceptions.

    Saying this because I'm bit by mattermost's head-assery.

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