• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    As right as that might be, it’s on carpet!

    I don’t believe they put much thought into airflow and overheating…

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      4 days ago

      We don’t know that it’s directly on the carpet. When i want to put my thinkpad on a soft surface I use the Beano annual as a handy intermediate layer (other A4 hardbacks are available).

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      4 days ago

      Which is exactly why it overheats so quickly when they close the lid.

      Let’s face it, the place using a laptop on the floor with a paper sign probably doesn’t have the budget for real sysadmins. At the same time, most real sysadmins know to disable the lid-closing behavior and get the laptop off of the carpet because they’ve been foiled in their past by people who refused to read the goddamn paper sign.