Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[BeardyHat]

Man, I love the Computer Chronicles.

As for Discord, I'm just going to keep using it until I can't anymore. I only ever use it to talk to my friends on my buddy's private server. If they start demanding ID from me, I'll setup my own TeamSpeak server or something at home and see if I can get my friends to migrate over to that.

But I'm with Zed, we've lost all shame and it drives me nuts. I can't tell you how many times I've told my wife, "We need to bring back shame" when I see some Gooner car with scantily clad anime girls all over it. I think there's plenty of room for yucking another persons yum this day in age; it's not always necessary or appropriate, but we've gone so far in the other direction we just have to pretend we're ok with everything.

Furries are still weird. No matter how much Mr. Regular tries to normalize it.

 

[BeardyHat]

Decided to try and break another computer yesterday.

It's been about 3 years since I used my T480s, so I figured I'd give it a thorough cleanout and repaste. So I took it all apart and replaced everything, including some very worn/shredded thermal pads on some chips (no idea what they are). Was hoping to be able to increase my overclock on it a bit, but so far no luck. It's almost stable at an additional 50Mhz core over what I had been running (+225Mhz on Core/+1000Mhz on Memeory), but still getting random glitching. So today I may test by stepping things up by smaller increments just to see what I can do.

I do actually like that this thing is significantly cooler and quieter than my big workstation laptop, which I guess makes sense.

Speaking of, I called a few shops about repair. One says they don't do the little soldering required for replacing fuses on the mobo and the other guy, after I told him what's up, sucks the air through his teeth and says, "Ooooh, that's hard."

Anyway, that guy is about half hour away from me, but if I have time this week (between visiting friend in hospital and painting my last two miniatures), I'm going to bring it in to him for an estimate. He says he needs to actually look at it to determine if he can do it and how much it'll be. So we'll see!

Ultimately I may just end-up selling it, I guess.

 

[Colif]

I have 4 computers of my own here,

• one is broken, has been for 20 years, should throw it away
• One has a broken GPU but I am meant to be finding a spare GPU for it and give PC to a friend
• Other two work. One hasn't been turned on for 8 months, time flies.

I find computers break without my help. I don't want either of my working ones to stop.

So I took it all apart and replaced everything, including some very worn/shredded thermal pads on some chips (no idea what they are). Was hoping to be able to increase my overclock on it a bit, but so far no luck.

should look at

PTM7950 Phase Change Thermal Pad

Upgrade your laptop or PC with Honeywell PTM7950 thermal pads. Easy to install, higher performance than paste, and safer than liquid metal.

global.lttstore.com

I have those on my GPU and its never been above 50c. (could be as I need to find a game to play still, I haven't since I installed GPU).

Its expensive but its used in industrial settings and actually gets better the more you use it.

Might think of thermal pads next time I clean the fans on CPU Cooler.

 

[BeardyHat]

PTM7950 Phase Change Thermal Pad

Upgrade your laptop or PC with Honeywell PTM7950 thermal pads. Easy to install, higher performance than paste, and safer than liquid metal.

global.lttstore.com

I have those on my GPU and its never been above 50c. (could be as I need to find a game to play still, I haven't since I installed GPU).

Its expensive but its used in industrial settings and actually gets better the more you use it.

Might think of thermal pads next time I clean the fans on CPU Cooler.

I have a wide variety of cooling stuff, including a small sheet of PTM 7950 that was quite expensive! It's exactly what I put on this laptop yesterday and the thermal pads are varying thicknesses of Thermal Grizzly Kyronaut. I also have a variety of pastes and even a putty, which is a weird one to apply, which I did on my laptop I broke!

This all relates to the reason for breaking my machine, which is that I'm a obsessed with tweaking and tinkering. The entire reason I broke my current machine was that I wanted to upgrade the screen. I just did it improperly and carelessly, which is the problem.

While I'm disappointed I busted my main laptop, I have so many computers, there's always something else for me to use. Not trying to brag, it's just that I like hardware, so I tend to collect it, but ontop of that, people just give me their old machines and I tend to find uses for them. I have 5 PC's (laptops and desktops) that get used every day, another 5 that I'm trying to repair or find a use for (including the one I just broke) and then my Deck and a Raspberry Pi that runs my DNS on my network. I also just sold a different one last month

I'd say I don't know what my problem is, but I do. I just like hardware and messing with it and I can't refuse a machine when it's offered to me. The last one I adopted was from my cousin, it's an HP All-In-One that was in a fire. I have no idea if it works or not, but I ordered a new power adapter for it just to see and if it doesn't, I may take it apart to see what I can salvage out of it.

I also have three drawers worth of random computer hardware, RAM, Wifi Cards, SSDs, NVMEs, HDDs, cables, etc, etc. I'm a hoarder when it comes to PC hardware, but my teenage self would be quite pleased...

 

[Colif]

I also have three drawers worth of random computer hardware, RAM, Wifi Cards, SSDs, NVMEs, HDDs, cables, etc, etc. I'm a hoarder when it comes to PC hardware, but my teenage self would be quite pleased...

Only one drawer in bottom area of this isn't full of PC hardware. My last GPU is in a box on top of it.

I also have spare parts inside a cupboard in the spare room as well. And in a few plastic boxes that I managed to move into the spare room as well - mum hasn't asked me to move them back yet. It is where one of my PC is, temporarily... about 8 months so far. It had sat in my room for 5 years prior to that.

Need to clear some of it out, so I can put other parts away... GPU should be in the spare room cupboard, just need to make space for it. Spare room has been a work in progress for a few months now. Mostly mums stuff... mostly.

I don't intentionally hoard, it just sort of worked that way. I don't sell things nor do I throw things away that still work, as spares are useful. Especially now. Most times I only replace things when they break though... so working spares are rare. I don't keep broken things... mostly...
I have a few hdd I never intend to use again which may have data on them I don't want to share.
I have way too many fans but thats another story

 

[Zed Clampet]

...between visiting friend in hospital...

Still doing okay? He needs to leave the hospital the second he's out of real danger. Statistically speaking, the hospital is the most dangerous place to be for someone not gravely ill. They are the densest reservoir of deadly, drug-resistant organisms in the world.

And the sad thing is, if you have a heart attack, you'd be better off at some sporting event like an NFL game. They have a statistic called "Monitoring Failures" that no one ever hears about. They say it's caused by "alarm fatigue". It's when a nurse hears the alarm for heart failure go off, and doesn't bother to check it because 80 percent of the time, it's a false alarm. That is a shocking amount of lazy considering you're a nurse in a hospital.

That's what killed my brother-in-law.

First, he went into the hospital for a minor procedure. He became infected and was in the hospital for over a year. And just when it appeared he was improving, they decided to do another procedure. That night, his heart stopped, but the nurse didn't bother to check on him until it was too late.

 

[BeardyHat]

Only one drawer in bottom area of this isn't full of PC hardware. My last GPU is in a box on top of it.

I also have spare parts inside a cupboard in the spare room as well. And in a few plastic boxes that I managed to move into the spare room as well - mum hasn't asked me to move them back yet. It is where one of my PC is, temporarily... about 8 months so far. It had sat in my room for 5 years prior to that.

Need to clear some of it out, so I can put other parts away... GPU should be in the spare room cupboard, just need to make space for it. Spare room has been a work in progress for a few months now. Mostly mums stuff... mostly.

I don't intentionally hoard, it just sort of worked that way. I don't sell things nor do I throw things away that still work, as spares are useful. Especially now. Most times I only replace things when they break though... so working spares are rare. I don't keep broken things... mostly...
I have a few hdd I never intend to use again which may have data on them I don't want to share.
I have way too many fans but thats another story

I generally don't keep broken stuff either. I tend to junk it or if it still has some value, I'll often sell it along to someone who can fix or salvage it.

With old HDDs, I usually just tear them apart, scratch up the platters and toss anything I can in the garbage.

I'm usually pretty good about keeping stuff that may have value (just swapped a WiFi card with bad Linux support on it the other night. Was thankful to have three to choose from!) and if it doesn't, getting rid of it. My broke laptop will probably be sold if I can't get it repaired, as I have no particular use case for it and I could use the money towards a different machine.

Still doing okay? He needs to leave the hospital the second he's out of real danger. Statistically speaking, the hospital is the most dangerous place to be for someone not gravely ill. They are the densest reservoir of deadly, drug-resistant organisms in the world.

And the sad thing is, if you have a heart attack, you'd be better off at some sporting event like an NFL game. They have a statistic called "Monitoring Failures" that no one ever hears about. They say it's caused by "alarm fatigue". It's when a nurse hears the alarm for heart failure go off, and doesn't bother to check it because 80 percent of the time, it's a false alarm. That is a shocking amount of lazy considering you're a nurse in a hospital.

That's what killed my brother-in-law.

First, he went into the hospital for a minor procedure. He became infected and was in the hospital for over a year. And just when it appeared he was improving, they decided to do another procedure. That night, his heart stopped, but the nurse didn't bother to check on him until it was too late.

Indeed, it's been about 50 days now. He went in there with a heart infection, antibiotic resistant MSSA and just this week finished up his third heart surgery since January! He's finally clear of infection, so they put him back together (they left his chest cavity open for an entire week while they continually washed it out) and he should theoretically be outta there in the next week or two.

Of course, that's what we thought back in January, just before they found more infection in his heart. So we'll see. I'm looking forward to seeing him. Though I did have to change our date to Thursday, since I forgot my Nephew is coming on Wednesday and I'm going to teach him how to build a PC.