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Star Wars Memes

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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

Technical note: if you're coming from another star system and are getting a "Subscription pending" message when trying to dock, that's just the console being slow to display the right message. The connection is already established. (Probably.)

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IMPORTANT

Do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Special days!

Friday and weekends: Caption contest. An image will be pinned, and we shall make captions for it and post them in the comments.

Wednesday: Theme day. We have Droids day, EU day, poem day, aliens day... Let the pinned post guide you. Memes with the theme are preferred.

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Other universes to visit:

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Separatist systems:

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Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When will they add the option to sort processes by "reason your fans are blowing"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

perhaps more like "power used in the last 10ish seconds" so that you can catch those sneaky processes that seem to go to 0% as soon as you open the task manager

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Power usage trend maybe?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I go 5 hours without installing a windows update for the drivers and the laptop suddenly leaves sleep mode in my backpack for no reason, draining the fully-charged battery in minutes and nearly catching fire

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

meanwhile my fans still screaming after the task manager says everything is below 20% (it was a goddamned windows update again)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My laptop's cpu normally idles at 40C but whenever I do something moderately complex it immediately shoots up to 60X and the cooling fan goes brrrr. I've tried replacing the thermal paste and even the heat pipe system but neither helped. :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

40C is a decently warm idle temperature, is your cooling system powerful enough?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know but there's not much I can do about cooling in a laptop. The laptop is 8 years old and I don't use it enough for this issue to be that big of a deal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If its a modern intel laptop, its likely the PL2 clocks. The PL2 level is basically a time interval where the cpus run at a higher boost clock than sustained turbo, and ia defined to run at that for a short time period (e.g about 40 seconds) before clocking to the standard boost clocks (PL1). Its why laptops heat up fast and ramp very quickly. It makes processors seem faster than they are. (Similar to like running speed in a 40 yard/meter dash vs a marathon running speed)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The laptop has a 4th gen cpu, I think an i3 so it's probably not classified as modern lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see. I also have an old laptop (4th gen i7). I personally use throttlestop to limit its turbo clock speeds just for sake of noise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I decided to try undervolting my laptop's cpu and found the intel-undervolt tool. It seems that reducing cpu voltage by 25mV has solved the issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

my PSU fan is clicking and im just llike "this is fine"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You sure it isn't crypto mining malware that will hide when task manager is open? Like the one described here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

70% of the it's either Antimalware Service Executable or a dozen microsoft edge tabs open in the background for some reason

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

See this is why I always leave the task manager open

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For some reason i have a firefox instance that starts up on windows start and hogs a lot of CPU. Ive narrowed it down to ublock origin but i have never read that it does that so im just assuming its a bug and delete the process until the next reboot lol.

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