*That’s not my terminal output btw, so don’t strain your eyes trying to read it, lol. It is the fancontrol tool that I used though.

After installing Pop OS, my fans have been running super high, and I had no idea why that changed. My fan curves in my BIOS haven’t changed (I even lowered it to “silent” mode), and my temps are low. After a long time messing around with the fancontrol tool, I somehow made it worse, so I uninstalled fancontrol and am just dealing with it. I think it must have been my Corsair software on windows that was keeping my fans running at reasonable speeds before, and without it, it reverts back to my BIOS controls. Oh well, it’s not that big of a deal, but it did inspire me to make a meme out of it.

  • ClipperDefiance@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 minutes ago

    The fans in my computer are perpetually in MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE. I assume it’s some kind of hardware issue that’s beyond my skill. Literally nothing I’ve tried has worked, so I just live with it. I just wish it didn’t always sound like it’s ready to takeoff.

  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
    18·
    4 hours ago

    Knowing how you made it worse and why is just as valuable as fixing it (unless you are at work, then you should just fix it right the first time.) True mastery is when you can break and unbreak what you want at will.

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPEnglish
      10·
      3 hours ago

      This is all just for fun, so I did consider it a good learning experience. I decided to just revert back to BIOS controls, but now I know how I would control my fans in the future if I ever wanted to.

      • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Hell yeah, BIOS controls for day to day business and fancontrol settings for when you’re trying to impress a date.

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        56 minutes ago

        I was going to use fancontrol too, but then I read the advice it gave (yes I am one of those weirdos that reads all the text the programs write to the terminal), then looked into my BIOS settings.
        It had what I required (a GUI to create a temp vs fan-speed curve), so I went with it. And now I don’t have to worry about copying my configs in case of a new installation, or about removing that particular config in case I boot the HDD in another system.

  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    remembers back to when i got the cooling pad just so i could farm elemental motes in nagrand on my old dell inspiron back in 2008

  • F04118F@feddit.nl
    10·
    4 hours ago

    Thanks for the meme! This is why I always use BIOS fan control. I already did way before I started using Linux on the desktop.

    Those Corsair/Gigabyte/ASUS/etc programs are heavy, probably full of security holes, can come at the cost of gaming performance and soft-lock you into a vendor: you’ll have to set up or tune again if you buy a different brand.

    BIOS fan control all the way!

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Any beginner’s guides for this? I hadn’t thought about it until now but my fans do seem louder since I switched from Windows!

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      I’m overdue for a new build anyway, and I will not be going for Corsair again. It’s exciting to get to pick out all components that play well with Linux out of the box.

      • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 hours ago

        For future reference, there is the OpenLinkHub project that does RGB control for just about all Corsair products, and fan control if using one of the Corsair fan controllers. In my case, I needed it because RGB, but also in order to have my fan speed based on water temperature instead of CPU load.