BarHocker

I have to press the power button.

I am running fedora server, and yes. Serialnumbers, SMART data, all seems well. Am a bit surprised by that as well.

I thought about replacing the entire bottom part of the laptop, but then I looked at the screw layout and thought this is way too much effort for not much benefit. I am not lacking in rack space so I am okay with it being bulky.

If you look carefully at the pictures, there are 80mm fans attached to the cage.

I power the laptop with its external PSU and removed the battery. Not sure that answers your question.

No, it is not. I took it out.

Cage and laptop are screwed to each other.

I am not worried about cooling. The system will be in a cool place, the HDDs are cooled by the 80mm fans and the laptop has its own cooling system that I just de-dusted.

I do not want to carry it around. I will put it in a corner as a stationary NAS.

I have so much joy looking at my abomination.

Just as a NAS.

Thanks, found it.

Somewhat off-topic: How could I crosspost to more communities, like DIY on beehaw or 3D printing communities? Would I need to create a completely new post on them? Or just post the link to this post?