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- What problem do you have?
- It gets very hot, and fans are very loud.
- What's the brand of the laptop?
- NEMO
- Nemo? Like in "Finding Nemo?"
- Yes
- Not Acer, ASUS, MSI, Lenovo... just "NEMO"?
- Yes, I 've already told you.
- Are you sure madam?
- Yes, very sure.
- And... how do you know is "NEMO"?
- When I turn it on it reflects the brand on the wall.

#Laptops#Laptop#HP

The year is leaving us 😿
here's a rough draft for 2025:

#AlternateFridayMusic

Jan 03 #Asylum
Jan 17 #Battery
Jan 31 #Colour
Feb 14 #Denial
Feb 28 #Elevate
Mar 14 #Forever
Mar 28 #Gather
Apr 11 #Horrible
Apr 25 #Insect
May 09 #Jerk
May 23 #Karate
Jun 06 #Lies
Jun 20 #Myth
Jul 04 #Never
Jul 18 #Opportunity
Aug 01 #Pop
Aug 15 #Quiet
Aug 29 #Robot
Sep 12 #Simple
Sep 26 #Technique
Oct 10 #Universe
Oct 24 #Vast
Nov 07 #Work
Nov 21 #Xer (generation)
Dec 05 #Yank
Dec 19 #Zombie

#FortnightFridayMusic

Jan 10 #Zoo
Jan 24 #Youth
Feb 07 #Xeno-
Feb 21 #West
Mar 07 #Void
Mar 21 #Utopia
Apr 04 #Terror
Apr 18 #Substance
May 02 #Release
May 16 #Quasi
May 30 #Prove
Jun 13 #Omen
Jun 27 #Nowhere
Jul 11 #Movement
Jul 25 #Lounge
Aug 08 #Kick
Aug 22 #Jam
Sep 05 #Imagination
Sep 19 #Home
Oct 03 #Ground
Oct 17 #Fountain
Oct 31 #Electric
Nov 14 #Defend
Nov 28 #Captive
Dec 12 #Breakups
Dec 26 #Apathy

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@readbeanicecream
The Celebration (and Experimentation and Observation) of the #KrononautMoon invites #TimeTravelers to show up or send a #signal to #Earth on the #TotalLunarEclipse (#TLE). Ancient #Babylonian texts may be accurate in some deadly #omen cases, but it's important to differentiate that there are three major classes of #Lunar #Eclipses, of which "total" is only one — occuring on an apparently eccentric (to us) schedule of approx once per year, next up on 14 Mar 2025.
#GoodOmen 🌕 🌑

Note to self: do not buy any #HP #Omen any time soon for #Linux use:

"[…] I *DO* have to warn you that fan control for both the GPU and the CPU is done solely and passively by the embedded controller, and not the #kernel -- and that is problematic.

On my laptop (8BAD), it is pretty clear that the provided/passive fan curve table is broken. The fans run slower than what they should be, which results in potential overheating UNLESS […]"

bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.c #LinuxKernel #Laptop