Quiet fans on Thinkpad P15

Intro The Thinkpad P15 laptop is a nice linux machine, but there is an annoying detail, as Arch wiki writes: “The default operation of fans is noisy, as they are basically at medium power all the time. The thinkfan program can be used to create a quieter operation, while retaining reasonable temperatures.” . Let’s make it quieter. Prerequisite Install thinkfan rpm package and enable the daemon: # zypper in thinkfan && systemctl enable --now thinkfan Make sure modules are loaded at startup with the options to override fan control and enable experimental features: ...

September 1, 2023 · Andrea Manzini

Debugging a problematic build

The Good 😇 Today I decided to submit an openSUSE package update for the nim compiler. It went almost all well but unfortunately I faced a problem: on the i586 platform it fails to build. ...

March 14, 2023 · Andrea Manzini

a SUSE hackweek22 report

On this February I decided to participate with a project to the SUSE Hackweek. ...

February 3, 2023 · Andrea Manzini

compare package version across distros

TLDR: This script now answers the question “Do some of my openSUSE packages have newer versions in other distros?” As a following on previous post, I added an useful feature in order to have more information about a package. Since I maintain some openSUSE packages, I want to be informed if they gets outdated and if other packagers have released newer versions. ...

January 9, 2023 · Andrea Manzini