It's been a couple of years I wanted to get rid of it, but the massive migration burden discouraged me. Today, I decided "screw it, let's bit the bullet!".
From now on, I'll use PicNoir as username, French for black woodpecker, one of my favorite bird.
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You can't change your activitypub handle without migrating your account. It'd mean losing all my past posts and followers.
I may migrate account in the near future, or not. I'm still not sure what to do here.
He compares several metrics to come up to this conclusion, such as peak throughput, throughput/memory ratio and overall memory usage. He later explains why JIT supposed gains (constant tuning) do not always pay off in practice.
That's pretty much in opposition to what I heard for the last 10 years. His case his built on a single, likely not representative of all loads, example. But the guy has been working on a JIT java VM for the last 15 years, I guess he knows what he's saying to some extent.
I'm by no means an expert in JITs, I can't determine whether this case makes sense or not yet.
Last month, the fan started to make some rattling noises. Waiting did not fix the issue. Quite the contrary: the rattling noises intensified. Last week, the laptop started to poweroff under load. It seemed like the fan was getting stuck at times, it was the end of this ventirad.
Sadly for me, the NixCon starts on Thursday: I clearly need a laptop there.
Out of despair, I tried to dissasemble the ventirad this evening.
I started cleaning the ventilator, its axis and the stator's axis with some isopropyl alchool and q-tips. I then lubed the stator axis using some bike teflon lubricant and a small needle to dispose some tiny drops in the stator.
I re-assembled everything and started the laptop: no more rattling noises, just a smooth fan sound. After loading the CPU a fair bit: it stays below 60°C.
I'm had very little hope on that one, especially provided I screwed up during the dissasembly and badly bent the whole ventirad assembly ?