03-09-2021, 08:20 PM
OK, I read some more posts. It's out of warranty so I don't need to baby it anymore. Sounds like a rod going through a split sleeve, so prying the sleeve open a little more is probably good. I wonder how it would be to smear the rod with a light coating of good quality automotive grease, maybe I've got some silicone.
I carried a laptop bag with various laptops in it for 15 years or so but I'm retired now. If you use it in your lap you end up putting it down a lot so I closed it a lot. Set the config file line to ignore lid close and I was off and running. Before that I found that standing it up on one side but leaving it open works fairly well. I don't take it many places but because of the long battery life I used it a lot for doing nature recordings with a USB sound card and experimental microphones and preamps.
Buying another USB adapter for the nvme, well, I wanted another anyway. The speed of the SSD makes up for the slowness of the USB connection so they're quite handy to plug into various Linux boxes. I have a 2 TB one plugged into an old Raspberry Pi downstairs. 180 year MTBF is hard to beat, Intel makes that claim on theirs.
I carried a laptop bag with various laptops in it for 15 years or so but I'm retired now. If you use it in your lap you end up putting it down a lot so I closed it a lot. Set the config file line to ignore lid close and I was off and running. Before that I found that standing it up on one side but leaving it open works fairly well. I don't take it many places but because of the long battery life I used it a lot for doing nature recordings with a USB sound card and experimental microphones and preamps.
Buying another USB adapter for the nvme, well, I wanted another anyway. The speed of the SSD makes up for the slowness of the USB connection so they're quite handy to plug into various Linux boxes. I have a 2 TB one plugged into an old Raspberry Pi downstairs. 180 year MTBF is hard to beat, Intel makes that claim on theirs.