I had a friend with the same symptoms, back in the days of Pentium III. His desktop was filled with thick dust in rolls. The beeping was due to overheating. If it's the SSD, you either get IO errors or just fail to boot. With RAM errors you will get strange reboots at seemingly random times. With a logic board fail, you either have a module (wireless, BT etc.) failures but that is rare. Any serious faults with the motherboard mean it won't boot or won't run for very long. Easiest thing to do is clean it and see if anything changes.
I do. The cloud is just computer that is owned by someone else I recently upgraded from Pixel 6 to Pixel 8 and normally during setup it asked me to connect the usb c cable to both phones but this time it just said restore from backup (yesterday's date) and kaboom it looks like my old phone even the background picture and all the apps, with only a few missing which I reinstalled And some apps require certain customization but all in all it was like I still have my old Pixel 6 Pro with a slightly smaller screen, did not go for the Pro, was too bulky imo I have a Google Chromebook, which if I were to toss out the window and get another Chromebook, I expect to restore exactly Mac has time machine, iphone has icloud, so I heard, there is no apple product in our household Windows, I have not used in many years, but maybe it has similar restore capability Anyway, to the original point if you have all your private files and scripts backed up to the cloud even from your laptop and desktop, you are a very trusting person, hope you do not get hacked by malware or through social engineering, because they will get every single digital thing you have, , bank accounts, social security, addresses, pictures, certificates, broker accounts, well you get the picture
you guys are worried too much, cloud, nas, whatever. your personal data is no one's interests nor worth time to hack. maybe you can make a case for your family photos, but your financial data is generally outdated rather quickly, i.e. banking passwords will be asked to chang every three to six months or so. a new computer or hardware, on the other hand, is fun to have new stuff.
Is it though? Or does it create a whole lot of work that you've got to do in order to get your environment back to where you like it? Get a proper server and use the laptop as a disposable dumb terminal.
i am old school, everything is on default setting but i need faster hardware but not necessary current hardware. got dell precision 7670 brand new before they discontinued.
My cloud (VPS) was hacked if you can call it that. I had left it open with a certain service. Most access was just via Chinese and Russian vulnerability crawlers but at least one was human as the access was for hours at random times spanning months. Seeing a brokerage and algorithms is obviously very interesting for many. Also, you don't seem to grasp what is possible using even the most simple methods. I can look at files you most often sync from cloud to local and insert a payload inside it. You will execute this code and ransomware is installed, encrypting your whole drive. Of course I can probably manage to change your cloud password as well, so you'll lose that as well. Alternatively can gain full control of your machine and from then on, there's many options, you won't even have a clue.
This is a bit of a chicken and egg... if you have nothing valuable, then there's no need to worry. Conversely, if your trading is going well and your portfolio is large, you worry. IMHO, the trick is to worry over the right things without crying over spilled milk. This isn't always easy to do.