Your laptop has two fans. The 15-ek00xx models used 12v and 5v fans depending on the particular configuration. You can buy each one from
this Amazon seller

Before you do, open the case up and look at the fans to see which ones you have.

here’s the 15-ek000 service manual

E: I just read the relevant section of the service manual and you gotta pull the heatsink to replace the fans. Buy some thermal paste so you can reapply while you’re in there.

What would you even do on that sub, just post weather different stuff floats?

The analog economy never died.

The people who write this stuff have literally never been to a show with less than a hundred people in attendance. You gotta make sure the 50 unit run from national comes in before everyone piles into your sisters Jetta for a quick three state tour.

Hey, I updated my images based on this and used one yesterday to help a friend.

Everything went great, thanks for the good post!

Water them every other day and keep em between 90 and 60f until they hatch into baby chia pets.

That’s smart.

I’m saying this not to belittle or hurt you, but to make my point clear:

You are not capable of what you’re saying. It is not possible to safely include people in your group while doing what you’re saying.

If that sounds like too much of an assumption, if it sounds like I’m being hyperbolic, think of this completely not yanked from the local headlines amalgamation of cop activities in the surrounding handful of rural counties over the last year:

You’re doing something, an opponent shows up to agitate. There is violence, the police show up. Did everyone leave their phones at home? Does everyone’s phone have biometrics turned off? Is everyone trained to resist interrogation? Has everyone changed login credentials from data breaches? If their phones are Apple, do they have lockdown and advanced data protection turned on? are they not carrying the recovery code on their person? If they’re using an android phone, is it running a trustworthy non manufacturer install? Are they capable of figuring out if an android version is trustworthy? If they’re all in some trustworthy encrypted chat, are they treating it like there’s someone screenshotting?

A vpn wouldn’t help at all if any one of those things were wrong.

Just recently, a peaceful talk about Palestinian resistance was interrupted by Zionists and violence broke out. Are all your people 100% prepared even when it’s a seemingly friendly environment?

Don’t organize online. In person or bust. Don’t take computers with you unless they’re wiped clean except for the bare minimum that is needed to do the job they’re gonna be used for. A phone is a computer.

There’s two ways to do this:

The online organizing way is to use a paid vpn to prevent local WiFi attacks and isp snooping, harden all devices and computers that will be used, only use encrypted communications and develop data security practices compatible with the possibility of being jammed up.

You gotta have real knowledge and awareness to pull this off as an individual, or a huge point of trust/failure in one person who does it for you.

If you do all that then the cops will just use metadata and inference to get warrants or just have someone infiltrate you or turn a trusted member.

The other way, the way the bolsheviks used, is to only organize in person and develop a no-trust framework for interacting with your community.

Then the cops will infiltrate or turn members but you have at least prepared for it and expect it.

Would it help if there were a Linux comm for all the Linux posts?

Do you still have to install some guys weird shell hack to move the taskbar over to the left side of the screen?

If you do go the t480 route: max ram is 64gb, you can put a shorty b or b+m keyed nvme drive in addition to either a 2.5” or full size nvme drive in the sata bay. Buy for display/processor and don’t get the discrete gpu.

They’re great computers.

Have you considered not doing what you’re asking and instead doing what only one person in the thread so far has suggested and getting a simple cheap old laptop and a steam deck or desktop pc?

If you’re hard on shit you’re gonna fuck up the laptop. It’s okay, I am that way too and that’s why learned how to fix em.

Don’t spend a bunch of money on something you’re gonna break.

“But farting_weedman, if I don’t spend a bunch of money I won’t be able to play video games!”

I know.

By not spending all your money on a laptop which you’re much more likely to break, you have 75-80% of your money left to buy something you can game on.

Like a steam deck or some psychogamers 2-3 year old build.

So what should you buy?

I like the t480 thinkpad. It will work fine for your needs and can accommodate a decent amount of ram and storage. Shop around, but you can get a goodass laptop for like ~$200.

Now you can either get a steam deck, the easy and “smart” choice, or you can start trying to figure out what parts you can pick out of the local dump for free to maximize the amount of your remaining $800 you can spend on a video card.

There’s much more capable people at combing pcpartpicker on this site, but I will leave you with this one thing: reduce your target resolution and frame rate to maximize your dollar.

Yes?

You gotta practice and set one up right for it but I never had a problem with trackballs and gaming. The biggest difference is that you’re using a different set of muscles for coarse/fine motion.

To me the best satire is no exit. People are all like “uhh, what about critique of dialectical reason” and that’s fine I guess.

E: the thing I’m trying to say is that satire is best when he’s just making shit up for fun, not trying to be serious.

Alternately: have you considered converting to trackball?

Most games are widescreen. There’s pinball tables and scrolling shooters, but those aren’t really genres that you use the mouse much in, so people get by with normal horizontal gaming mice.

People got used to the user interface assumptions and behaviors involved in smartphones and tablets so now what the gnome people are cooking up is lookin appetizing.

Same thing as windows 11 interface or the back to the numbered releases macos.

Deluge on the server and qbittorrent on the laptop. Might move to rtorrent this year.

Yeah if you can’t get to gloves then that’s the best option.

One of the pcb places I worked at had a training where they went over the statistics on gloves versus hand washing and it seemed dire.

At the same time I’d believe 100% that came from a nitrile glove distributor cutout.

It would be cool to drive some kind of classic style Chinese sports car around a bunch of cities and country roads on vacation.