Hehe. On mine the cruise, high beam and fog light indicators don’t dim with the rest of the dash board.

Luckily they’re all along the top row in the centre, so I drape the glasses cleaning cloth over the dashboard to form a little curtain.

I’m in a rural area.

‘just impacted on the surface’.

Hehe ok I’ll wear those down votes. I didn’t understand the reference as I heard it first on The Two Ronnies as ‘a bird in the hand is worth two in the shepherd’s bush’ which I think think might be a carry-on reference.

I didn’t see why l would want a bird in my hand in the first place.

PS - what happened to your D key?

In the case of inverter air conditioning it might make a small difference at it won’t throttle down as it approaches the intended, not commanded, target.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush?

I use my older Linux laptop with Rustdesk to remotely control my ‘good’ one. Works nicely, and they’ve fixed the Windows key / alt tab issues as well.

A smart switch that turns off the power when the battery hits 80% and turns it on at 78%? Dunno if that would actually work.

It’ll probably work. Biggest issue will be recovery after power failure as laptops generally stay off.

Next most likely is CPU fan failure, exacerbated if CPU usage causes the fans to run high and nobody is there to blow the dust out.

Other than that I’ve had multiple laptops that run as servers over the years and generally they’re fine. Streaming audio for our community radio station, or shoved behind wall mounted TV’s for updateable PowerPoint displays.

Quadrupeds can run on the front paws better than bipeds, so the sysadmin should win.

ddrescue (or gddrescue) is a great version if you have a sick drive. It’ll try to copy the good areas first then go back to hammer on the sick areas.

Not perfect as it doesn’t know about the file system so it tries to copy the entire surface, but generally a good tool.

Naah he buggered off on a plane to Spain back in the 70s.

I think I need a new username. This one’s too confusing. I do kinda feel like I’m missing a brother I never had though.

Left reddit for /kbin.

/kbin slowly decomposed.

Landed on Voyager as it was similar to RiF.

Also Voyager.

Wish it had a ‘forward’ button for when you accidentally go back one step too far. RiF had that.

Righto :)

I was thinking of usb3 hard drives. No need for internal storage if using spinning rust.

On older laptops with optical drives you can sometimes replace the drive with a sata tray and add a second drive that way.

But yes, a server that looks like a server and can recover after power loss is useful.

A cheap laptop might also be worth considering? Built in UPS that way, and sometimes UPSes have a large standby power usage. Would support a couple of bus powered drives as well.

Main drawback is no recovery if the battery drains fully.

Rustdesk, so I can remote into my main computer and the others I manage.

PWAs For Firefox.

And that’s about it.

I use Debian BTW. (Was on Fedora but killed it when there were sound issues, turned out to Rustdesk at fault. Can’t do Mint as it boots to black screen.)

Chrome OS Flex seems OK. Not sure how it manages printers.

The light coloured Eneloop ones seem to have the lowest self discharge. I use them in Arlec PIR sensors without issue.

UHT milk.

I bought a uv tooth brush sterilizer. Not sure if it’s doing anything useful but it’s a colourful addition to the bathroom.