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by pbmonster 38 days 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.
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okeuro49 38 days ago
That 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

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qingcharles 38 days ago
Reminds 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.
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