u/Rizl4s

Lately almost every site I visit throws a captcha or antibot check at me. Happens on random sites, not just the usual Cloudflare-heavy ones. AliExpress pretty much every single time, also happens on TicketOne, PayPal, and others.

Running latest stable Firefox. Everything gets cleared on browser close (cookies, history, cache).

Active extensions:

* Bitwarden Password Manager * Chrome Mask (toggled off) * Clear Browsing Data * ClearURLs * Cookie Quick Manager * Dark Reader * GNOME Shell integration * Keepa * Language Switch * Linkwarden * Redirector (disabled) * Return YouTube Dislike * Simple Mass Downloader * Tab Session Manager * uBlock Origin * Video Download Helper

Anyone else dealing with this?

Hi, I have a Minisforum TH80 (i7-11800H, 45W TDP) running Proxmox with a few VMs, one of them hosting Immich with an 8TB drive attached. Background jobs like face recognition and tagging keep the CPU under heavy load for a while and temps climb past 90C. I already repasted with Noctua thermal paste, which helped a bit, but the internal fan still gets loud and temps are still higher than I'd like.

I'm considering an external fan (noctua maybe) mounted underneath the case, blowing up into the bottom intake grille (the dark grey one from the photo attached), with foam tape around the seam where the fan meets the case bottom so air gets pushed through the grille instead of escaping through that gap (or I'll 3d print a sleeve).

Has anyone actually done this mod on a TH60 or TH80?

Questions I have:

Does the bottom fan actually make a noticeable difference, or does the internal fan/heatsink design bottleneck things regardless of external airflow?

Any issues running the external fan constantly off USB power, like the mini PC's own ports not supplying enough current long term?

Open to any other ideas people have found effective for sustained loads on these TH60/TH80 units.

Thanks in advance

Getting hit with captchas/antibot checks constantly, is this normal?

Minisforum TH80 running hot under sustained load, thinking about an external fan mod, need advice