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[neogunhero]

Maybe farmers could just use genetic modification enhancing beta-carotene levels in cows’ milk. That or just get yellow cows?

Perhaps the cows have a strong love for turmeric and saffron in their food. Fancy!

 

[BeardyHat]

Did you know you can lubricate PC fans? I had no idea.

Keep ‘Em Spinning: How To Lubricate PC Fans - Overclockers

Wouldn't you like to be able to use a sleeve bearing fan and not have to worry about your CPU overheating? Read on to learn how to lubricate PC fans to do just that.

www.overclockers.com

I have this old (from 2018) laptop cooling pad that did service on an old laptop, which was acting as the driver of a TV. The laptop had a burnt out CPU fan (of course, it was a Razer. Crap laptops.), so I took the bottom case off and stuck this cooling pad under there and it did service 24/7 for like 4-years.

Anyway, the cooling pad has been in storage until I recently took it back out to help with my very hot new laptop. I'm not necessarily convinced it does anything, but propping up the laptop and/or getting it off my lap helps both with throttling and not burning the hell out of my legs.

But one of the fans in this cooling pad was a bit noisy and basically refused to spin, so today I figured I'd take the cooling pad apart and see if I could replace the fan with something else. Long story short, it doesn't appear that I can, but I looked into lubricating them and found the above article and it was shockingly easy. I have some oil I used for my RC car shocks and it took the fan from feeling very gritty and barely spinning to working flawlessly.

I had been investigating a new cooling pad (it still would be nice to have something more slim), but now that I've salvaged this one, I've saved us $30 (wow.) but more importantly, kept something out of the garbage, which I'm happy about.

Edit: Opening it up also allowed me to get the last of the spiderwebs in it, as well as thoroughly clean the fans with some IPA.

 

[Colif]

Occasionally we've mentioned the odd thing that cheese in the US is yellow. Turns out, it started in England in the 13th century. Cheese and butter made from milk that was taken during the summer when the cattle got all its food from grass was a golden yellow in color, but in winter it was white because they weren't getting the beta carotene from grass. People started to associate the yellow color with higher quality, so farmers started dying all their butter yellow, and later cheese was added to that. This practice was brought to the US and Kraft and a few others continue the practice, although much of the cheese in the store I go to is just white. Butter, on the other hand, is always yellow.

We don't do that here, our cheese is all over the place when it comes to colours. They fairly anal about food colourings here.

Colour and Cheese

COLOUR AND CHEESE There are three basics colours when it comes to cheese – white, yellow and orange and all the shades in between - mostly this is all about carotenoids in the milk.

www.ksfromagerie.au

 

[Pifanjr]

My parents dropped off another old PC last week and I finally had some time to start it up to see what's in it. It's a lot better than the other one:

i5-3470
No dedicated video card, only the integrated Intel HD Graphics 2500 with 32 mb VRAM.
4 GB DDR3 RAM
Kingston SUV400S37240G (240GB SSD)
Speakers somewhere inside of the case

The lack of a video card severely limits what this PC can do, but according to systemrequirementslab.com there are still 1400+ games it can run, among which Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Sunless Skies, both of which I've been meaning to play.

Though my wife is now pushing for us to get a new PC because our current one can't handle the World of Warcraft raids she's trying to do, so once we have that we probably won't really have a use for this one.