[04:14] <netritious> minasota: If I install the OS directly to USB, and the OS boots, runs normally, I should, and have, expected the OS to perform as if installed directly to internal storage. ALthough the thumbdrive will get hot.
[04:14] <netritious> BUT...
[04:17] <Omnifrog> ..
[04:18] <netritious> power management seems to be lacking sometimes in Live OS
[04:18] <netritious> many chars redacted lol
[04:19] <netritious> ...regardless of the media I boot the Live OS from.
[04:21] <netritious> howdy Omnifrog
[04:21] <Omnifrog> hi netritious
[04:22] <Omnifrog> I cant think of anything that could be the problem
[04:23] <netritious> I was pretty sure it was an old hardware kind of issue, where some drivers are just dropped because they aren't maintained and/or are too old to worry about, but I might be wrong.
[04:24] <Omnifrog> have you ever run that distro from a hard drive on that hardware ?
[04:24] <netritious> tails? no
[04:24] <netritious> I don't think you are supposed to? idk
[04:24] <netritious> maybe some people install it.
[04:25] <Omnifrog> well probably
[04:25] <Omnifrog> I've never played with it
[04:26] <netritious> but if my laptop was overheating from a live distro I would probably try to install it just to see what happens.
[04:27] <Omnifrog> did you look see what processes are running?
[04:27] <Omnifrog> did you try $top
[04:29] <netritious> Omnifrog of course. But when the fan is running wide open with an idle CPU, <512MB RAM utilization, and ssd?
[04:30] <netritious> ..or the fan /is not/ running...lol, or running at min speed while my CPU is peaking.
[04:31] <Omnifrog> is the air coming out of the fan exhaust actually hot when this happens?
[04:31] <netritious> I've experienced this more on old hardware than anything else though, and not recently.
[04:32] <netritious> depends
[04:32] <netritious> I've had different hardware act different ways with Live OS
[04:33] <netritious> this was originally an issue minasota had with a more recent laptop
[04:33] <netritious> *current
[04:33] <netritious> oh yeah, you were there for that :D
[04:34] <Omnifrog> does your bios have a cpu fan calibration option?
[04:36] <netritious> I honestly do not recall a BIOS that doesn't have it, at least in the past 7-10 years
[04:36] <Omnifrog> try that?
[04:36] <netritious> I'm sure I did at some point lol
[04:37] <netritious> not all BIOS confiruations "stick" when the OS boots....you know that
[04:37] <Omnifrog> I got no idea. this problem would drive me nuts if it were mine
[04:37] <netritious> *configurations
[04:38] <Omnifrog> I wouldn't give up untill it killed me though
[04:38] <Omnifrog> I HATE being defeated by hardware
[04:39] <netritious> eh I have a really old toshiba laptop that I keep around to remind me that sometimes no matter how hard you try it just won't work.
[04:39] <netritious> lol, me too Omnifrog!
[04:39] <Omnifrog> does it have a floppy drive on it?
[04:39] <netritious> not that old
[04:40] <netritious> although it was maybe five? six? years ago maybe I tossed a 486 DX4-100 compaq
[04:40] <netritious> finally
[04:40] <netritious> the toshiba I believe is 2003/2004
[04:41] <netritious> it came from the factory with XP
[04:42] <Omnifrog> I have an old Toshiba 2065CDS I've been itching to try linux on
[04:42] <netritious> it ran ubuntu jaunty ok. Nothing has ran right on it since.
[04:42] <Omnifrog> it's got a win95/NT sticker on it
[04:42] <netritious> this is a tecra, but can't recall the model atm lol
[04:42] <netritious> nice :)
[04:43] <Omnifrog> complete with a floppy drive and a CD drive
[04:43] <netritious> NICE! Runs?
[04:44] <Omnifrog> not a single USB port to be found
[04:44] <Omnifrog> it does run! win95
[04:44] <Omnifrog> not sure why 95 is on there
[04:45] <netritious> lol
[04:45] <Omnifrog> yard sale find
[04:46] <Omnifrog> I still have a 486 DX2
[04:46] <Omnifrog> and an apple II
[04:46] <Omnifrog> oh, and a 286
[04:47] <Omnifrog> not sure why I keep them
[04:47] <Omnifrog> the mice in the garage like their company I guess
[04:47] <netritious> nice. the last 286 I saw was .... 1995? yep, about right. Even then it was ancient.
[04:47] <netritious> lol
[04:48] <netritious> I had to get rid of my old stuff. I still have a lot but not nearly the amount I used to.
[04:48] <Omnifrog> my youngest childs first computer was that old 286 running win 3.11 in 2002
[04:48] <Omnifrog> the 486 was his second machine
[04:49] <netritious> Those are very good to start IMHO
[04:49] <Omnifrog> he was 2 at the time, heheh
[04:50] <netritious> I gave my daughter my oldest hardware when she was 5 or so. Before that she sat in my lap and typed on Her keyboard (wasn't connected)
[04:51] <Omnifrog> at 4 years old I upgraded his rig to a 333mhz K5?
[04:51] <netritious> I used it to help her learn ABC's and 123's, and eventually to type properly heh
[04:51] <Omnifrog> dual boot
[04:51] <netritious> I did
[04:51] <Omnifrog> lol, geeks of a feather flock together
[04:52] <netritious> but it was an AMD K62 500Mhz, Socket 7
[04:52] <netritious> so true Omnifrog :)
[04:53] <Omnifrog> I have a grand daughter now. she is going to be 3 in Feb
[04:53] <Omnifrog> she got her first computer at 2
[04:53] <netritious> that's awesome Omnifrog! Congrats!
[04:53] <Omnifrog> I built it out of junk drawer stuff
[04:53] <netritious> Oh wait, I read that wrong lol
[04:54] <netritious> For some reason I read it as /will have grandaughter on Feb 3 lol
[04:55] <netritious> Omnifrog: did you use to DJ?
[04:55] <netritious> or do you still?
[04:55] <Omnifrog> I did
[04:56] <Omnifrog> but not now any more
[04:56] <Omnifrog> for a little more than 2 years
[04:56] <netritious> are your sets on soundcloud?
[04:56] <Omnifrog> no. I was on a game related station
[04:57] <Omnifrog> Kingdom Of Loathing
[04:58] <Omnifrog> I really didn't have "sets"as such
[04:59] <Omnifrog> it was total free form, almost all requests accepted, listener created bumps and content accepted
[05:00] <Omnifrog> the station really didnt have any rules for content or format
[05:01] <Omnifrog> other than the golden rule
[05:01] <Omnifrog> Dont Be A Dick
[05:02] <Omnifrog> all hail our patron saint Wil Wheaton
[05:10] <netritious> :)
[05:29] <netritious> I thought it might be electronic maybe, something I usually have on in the bg for white noise.