Hi, the weather is quite hot here, right now (France, Paris vicinity). I’m curious about the temp of my system and wether the air I blow upon it (under it, actually) has any effet. How do you monitor it usually ?
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I live in the part of Germany where it also got more than 40°C hot but i had no problem with my MNT devices so far.
I think the bigger issue for them is when they are chucked into my backpack without me turning them off (because there is no working suspend/resume). But temperatures never exceed 70 °C which should be fine for electronics.
I can always see the temperature because I am using sway and have temperature plugin set up. Probably gnome has something similar?
On the command line, you can use sudo sensors to get the temperatures of CPU, SSD and other devices with a thermal sensor.
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For continues monitor of resources load via CLI I use btop. It shows only CPU temperatures for each core and no other temperature sensors if there are present (SSD or other devices). I do like it, because it’s customizable. Been using it on multiple systems like my Pi4s and VisionFive (RISC-V).
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Indeed, sensors and btop are what I also use to monitor temperatures.
Concerning sensors, if I want to monitor constantly its output (let’s say, every 10 seconds), and if OP is OK with keeping a terminal open, I use the good old watch command:
watch -n 10 sensors
(at least on my reform, no need for sudo to run sensors)
One thing to keep in mind is that the Reform aluminium case can become quite hot (not burning hot, but hot) near the OLED screen (where the heat dissipator and the case make contact).
While charging here, temps are usually ~10°C higher than when on battery, so around 61/62°C with a room temp ~35°C (help me 
), and around 50°C when on battery, normal usage (web browser, shell, ssh, git, vim, k9s and such relatively lightweight usage). Playing Luanti, around 65°C while charging.
Keep in mind that the RK3588 throttle when its core temps are around 85°C, which I never saw yet.
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I am on Gnome on my Pocket Reform and I use the Vitals extension. Puts the temperature on the top line so it is always easy to check.
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