Programmer Humor

not turning off going to sleep when lid closed

Rookie maneuver.

On carpet 😬

This laptop is secretly downloading scientific papers behind a paywall to release them on the public internet. Sadly, the owner will be prosecuted unfairly and threatened with unreasonable punishment.

Remember Aaron.

And the lid is not open because of preventing it sleeping, but rather to cool it down

Disable sleep-on-lid-closed.

which one of you took a picture of my jellyfin server?

Is this that thin little block holding up the Internet?

Man when I was a kid I ran a runescape private server for anywhere within 20-100 people at a time, and for the first few weeks users reported a lot of downtime, which didn't make sense to me as whenever I tried to login it was totally fine!!

Eventually figured out closing my laptop lid put the laptop to sleep and scraped together some chore money for a VPS lol

Lol, reminds me of my old setup.

It was all old W98 laptop that I got used. I installed xunbuntu on it back when it first came out in 2006. It sat on my desk, open like that with a bit of tape over to hold the power cord because it was loose. The battery was completely dead.

It was the server I used to host all the modded maps I made for a silly little tank game. Thing ran seemlessly only going down when the power went out or somebody juggled the power cord for 5 years.

and it'll be the most reliable server you own

Disable suspend when the laptop lid is closed:

sudo sed -i 's/#HandleLidSwitch=suspend/HandleLidSwitch=ignore/g' /etc/systemd/logind.conf
sudo sed -i 's/#HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=suspend/HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore/g' /etc/systemd/logind.conf
sudo systemctl restart systemd-logind

If you are in a TTY, you can blank the screen before closing the lid to prevent burn-in. After running this, come back later and press a key to turn the screen on again.

alias blankscreen='setterm --blank=force; read ans; setterm --blank=poke'

TIL: maybe my local laptop-server shouldn't have the lid closed. Probably not gonna change my ways, though. What an inconvenience that'd be

OMG, Y500 ? Mine is still running after 13 years!

Lenovo made some kickass computers back then.

My server is a loose motherboard with a loose PSU, thrown into the living room TV rack, which I leave open for cooling. It's a repurposed (free) Athlon, DDR2. I only use it for smb and git backups, and project sharing between my desktop and laptop. What amazes me most is my IT coworkers don't find that a perfectly acceptable scenario.

Closing lid goes brrr

See I would have more problems with cats chilling on the keyboard than folks closing the lid or unplugging it

Serious question that I've wondered about but never worked on.

Can you rig a laptop to keep running with the lid closed? Either by software or hardware? I guess you could cut the switch, but an OS-based solution would be neater.