We Call It "Weather" Here

Even as my colleagues around Europe complain of a heat wave, things have been pretty much normal here–35oC outside, 27-ish inside, made tolerable only by the fact that I have minimized the number of active devices in my office (where the hottest things are probably my monitors and the ageing Surface Pro 3 that I use at my standing desk). Borg ThermalsWhich doesn’t mean things don’t get too hot. I woke up the other day to find that borg had halted at around 5AM, and I immediately suspected thermals, so, again, I popped it open, swapped out the CPU fan (some things are so predictable I keep spares) and, while I did that, asked one of my agents to check telemetry–which, despite my best efforts, I’ve been neglecting to turn into alarms: That last spike is clearly where the fan started failing It’s pretty obvious, even looking at the monthly data (which I pulled out to get an idea of the overall trend), that one of the fans started failing over the weekend–and it was the Noctua NF-A9x14…