@MsDropbear42Tis half-past pumpkin-hour, & i'm about to go beddybyes, after a day that did not go anything like i had expected. All plans went out the window Sat morn when during the beginning of my day's pooterising, i suddenly noticed via my Plasma desktop widget, & my #Conky, that the cpu temperature was ~30-40 deg C hotter than normal, & the reason was that its cooling fan was stopped. Bummer.
I immediately put pooter to sleep, to cool down, whilst i planned my actions. Once ready, i woke her up again, inserted my USB stick on which i do my weekly [Sunday] backups, & ran a backup a day early, whilst i nervously watched the temperature. Then fully shutdown, waiting for Sunday when i shall attempt to inspect the fan to see if it's buggered, or [hopefully] just gummed up with dust that i can clean out.
However, i have various things i need to do online [bills & stuff], so coz atm the prognosis for pooter is uncertain, i chose to plan on a worst-case scenario where she's unavailable for days or weeks. Hence, the rest of today was spent getting out my venerable old 2011 lappy, doing the backlog of [#Fedora #KDE #Plasma] updates, transferring all my pooter's backed-up data from stick to lappy's SSD, then re-customising all my main app settings to get the form & function more or less the same as i have on my #ArchLinux #KDE #Plasma pooter. I really can't quite believe all the hours this cumulative process has taken, OMZ.
Not whingeing, just quite tired now, & still a bit discombobulated.
@MsDropbear42Yay, pooter now happy again.
@captainb@im-in.space@MsDropbear42 That's good news. 
@MsDropbear42@infosec.space@captainb Yes, i am quite relieved... & also pleased to be able once more to use my "proper" pooter [tower], even though i'm ofc grateful to Lappy for being my backstop option during the "excitement", ergonomically & pragmatically my tower with lotsa RAM & the external monitor is just far nicer to use for long periods compared to cramming myself together for Lappy. However, i shan't look a gift horse in the mouth; even though Lappy is very old now, i am very privileged to have at least been able to keep doing my online stuff whilst sorting out the fixing-up of the tower, otherwise i'd have been offline all that time [which would have been very inconvenient for bills-paying etc].
@MsDropbear42@captainb Sigh, pooter now sad again. Looks like fan motor is actually cactus after all, not just that the blades & cooling fins had been choked up with dust & lint [which they certainly were, but not now]. Need to suss out fan assembly details then procure replacement.
Worse things happen at sea... & in numerous countries atm sadly... but this is still a bit of a nuisance.