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Reminds me of a fix I wrote a decade ago. My Laptop would sometimes start emitting a high frequency whine when on battery. I figured out it only happened when t
by pbmonster 3mo ago
Reminds me of a fix I wrote a decade ago. My Laptop would sometimes start emitting a high frequency whine when on battery. I figured out it only happened when the CPU went into performance states lower than P2 for power saving.
So I wrote a bash script that auto-started on battery mode and then calculated a hash every few seconds. Boom, whine solved. Terrible fix, but I never measured how much battery it cost me, so it was... fine.
- okeuro49 3mo agoThat reminds me a lot of this xkcd comic where a user depends on an application overheating when the space-bar is pressed. https://xkcd.com/1172 https://xkcd.com/1172
- qingcharles 3mo agoReminds me of some my USB HDDs that spin down and the only sane fix is to just "touch" a file every couple of minutes to keep them running.