Use a surface cleaner first. You wanna get the majority of the crud broken up and off first, wiping towards the middle then go get the whole thing with a glass cleaner using a microfiber cloth if you don’t have a squeegee.

Probably unplug three of those fans and block off the case openings to get some sort of laminar flow.

Switch to a more efficient power supply. Yours is platinum but it may be worth it to look into a list of low standby power units.

Maybe take out half your ram. It probably doesn’t matter though, I’m thinking about the need for lpddr to get past the 1tb barrier on old servers.

The b850 boards will have efficiency settings in the bios that will make the biggest difference.

Before you change anything though I would recommend first putting a watt meter inline and measuring.

Theres a bunch of stuff you can manually do in software but its fractions of a percent and makes your experience very nonstandard.

The biggest thing is probably gonna be turning off the computer when you’re not using it. It’s not like you’re gonna be spinning down a bunch of hdds…

A datacenter on land that relies on water for cooling is using fresh water. Aside from the insane and undesirable use of fossil water or groundwater, fresh water has a much higher ratio of surface area exposed to air and volume than the ocean does.

That ratio is important because you can only evaporate off the surface, so the same volume of water would evaporate faster in a frying pan than it would in a saucepan given the same conditions.

Freshwater is also smaller than the ocean by many orders of magnitude. That’s important because a smaller body of water will heat up more than a larger one given the same conditions.

Freshwater is also generally speaking moving towards the ocean somehow in a complex process called the water cycle. It might flow down a hill into the ocean, it might drip through aquifers to the ocean and it might evaporate and fall as rain either in the ocean or somewhere else where it takes some other path towards sea level.

That last part is important because in America rivers like the ones in Colorado and California have been reduced in volume so much due to of a bunch of manmade events and earthworks that they now lose a higher portion of their volume to evaporation as opposed to flow. That’s a big deal because the Colorado for example flows south but water vapor that comes off of it is blown east. So now much more of the rivers water is going into the desert as opposed to reaching the ocean. The water cycle has been disrupted.

Freshwater is also comparatively super rare and necessary for life on land.

So if you were water cooling a datacenter it would be better to use the huge ocean with much lower surface area to volume ratio and much more volume than to use the rare freshwater that will get heated up much more by the same energy, evaporate faster, we already know can have its water cycle disrupted and all life on land relies on.

Now a person might ask “what about the sea life, doesn’t it matter?” Of course sea life matters, but the way that sea life handles an increase in temperature that’s localized to one specific area is to just go away from there, like it does when undersea magma vents pop up. When the freshwater gets too hot it all evaporates away, there’s no water and the land animals die.

A person might say: “well don’t animals die when the oceans get hot too?” And they’re right! An average increase of .5 degrees c in sea surface temperatures would lead to massive coral bleaching. But enough energy to raise the sea surface temperatures .5c is phenomenally huge. Like getting more sun huge. Because that’s what’s raising it, getting more sun. Datacenters produce so little heat energy in comparison to that level of power that it’s not a concern.

The number one culprit of undesirable cornering behavior is incorrect tire pressure.

Why did you delete the post with system specs, @staircase@programming.dev?

That information would really help people to give you advice and your pc isn’t as unique as you think it is…

Here’s how you could have figured it out yourself:

Boot something else, read the logs.

Use a usb to boot some other operating system (or the same one) and access the logs of your system which will show where it’s failing and how.

Another person put that you could add nofail to fstab, you could also do this by moving the devices or services to nonessential branches of systemd.

Stop reading this thread and buy this thing or something like it.

There are at least three things in between the wall and what the os tries to do before you start fiddling around in the settings. Did the thing you changed take effect? Did it stay in effect? Is the cpu actually doing what you ask it? Can you even trust what the cpu is reporting back to you? The motherboard?

Don’t just start fucking around with stuff before you put a watt meter in line. Everything else is just guesswork.

To be happy. The canvas can be more than a blank slate waiting to be transformed into beloved good screen or hated bad screen. Back on x11 the screensaver can also be the locker, so if you need to know it’s not a piece of crap you can pick a locker that works good (like xscreensaver).

People have been complaining that xscreensaver doesn’t work in Wayland for a decade that I’m aware of, the answer has always been “you don’t need that”. Its not that people don’t want it, its that Wayland devs have actively resisted it.

What is your desktop environment?