Post #3311831
2026-05-07 15:40 UTC
@inverseatascii@techhub.social Yeah, you'd want to be careful where you use something like this, especially if you're in a corporate environment, which thankfully, I'm not.
This fills a very specific use case for me.
My laptop is by far the most powerful machine I have at my disposal at home for doing big video encodes (Handbrake, etc), compressing large files, and other things like that. I got sick of being hours into a job and having the machine suspend / power save and having to start over.
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-07 15:49
@inverseatascii@techhub.social Even at home it's a good idea to manually lock the machine while one of these is plugged in and a big job is running, if for no other reason, it mitigates the issues that could be caused by a cat walking across the keyboard, etc. Can't really just close the lid, because of the heat being generated by having all the cores lit up during long encodes.