iamdarkyoshi

the funny thing about that is, i got an asus transformer book, that is the same clamshell style as the surfaces, but instead of having to unglue the screen to access the insides, you can just unclip the back of the shell. it's not even that you're losing water resistance because the surface is full of vents to not melt while in use.

oh.. and a lot of people dont know, HP has got ridiculously good repair services on their premium devices.. (at least here, and i refuse to believe tiny belgium is a positive outlier in that regard)

the problem with HP is that their customer support is not exactly easy to navigate, it's sort of like walking trough a maze hoping you end up at the right exit.. but when you know the maze, you can just dash trough and have parts next day. (and if it's within warranty, those parts come with a guy to install them for you, next day.)

22 minutes ago, manikyath said:

the problem with HP is that their customer support is not exactly easy to navigate, it's sort of like walking trough a maze hoping you end up at the right exit.. but when you know the maze, you can just dash trough and have parts next day. (and if it's within warranty, those parts come with a guy to install them for you, next day.)

Navigating the HP support is like navigating my grandfather's filing cabinet(s) everything that's ever existed is there, and it all has its spot, but there's no directory and it's a coin flip whether it's in the archive (chronological) or "active" where the deed to the house is under "D" for "Deed", but insurance is under "V" for "Vanguard" and archived patient records are under "D" for "Dentist". 

Also, yeah, my experience with HP support has been "be firm, but polite, be patient, but stand your ground" and then you get white glove next day service and someone tracking your claim progress.

3 hours ago, ItTakes2ToMango said:

 

Those damn kids and there pesky fonts 

1 hour ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Love the use of the stovetop as the tech testing area. 

Any flat surface can and will be used as a workbench

If you want to delid an old chip you just need to turn it on

35 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

If you want to delid an old chip you just need to turn it on

That's....what she said...?

I've been contemplating building one into a Steam Machine and selling my PC while I wait for prices to normalize.

Microsoft has released an optional preview update (their monthly test update) that is said to fix some of the bugs that appeared in the January update.

However that preview update seems to have made new bugs for some. There are unconfirmed reports of cameras not working properly and that the lockscreen clock missbehaves. I've also read some people complaining about their Wi-Fi stopped working.

And if Windows is in a "bad state" on your pc, that is a previous monthly update that did not install properly, will still now cause Windows to not bootup properly with the Unmountable boot device bluescreen still.

Thankfully these preview updates are optional, so let's hope the February monthly update is properly cooked before served to us....

Those Chinese companies that make motherboards from whatever salvage parts they have lying around could do some wild stuff with GPU VRAM....

inb4 they start desoldering VRAM from RTX 5090s, selling the GDDR chips separately, and soldering on DDR2 chips 

Cooling is a lot easier when you don't have side panel

When my previous large fan'd high air flow case was better for GPU cooling

7 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

We do have kitchen grinder and kitchen drill tho

or you could learn to cook beef properly and you'll be able to use a knife.

1 hour ago, manikyath said:

or you could learn to cook beef properly and you'll be able to use a knife.

Learn? Cook??

4 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

kitchen drill

Very underrated tool. Replaces stand mixer, hand mixer, and with the correct socket: food processor motor. All in the palm of your hand.

this is what computers should have looked like by standard 

Who invited bro

20 hours ago, piemadd said:

Who invited bro

Power outlet socket. Dumb, but not the dumbest I've seen

4 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

The outer two were about 160 PSI

 

The inner two were

 

7

Sounds about right

unplanned water injection system.

Weirdest looking pc front panel fan mount I've ever seen :^) 

2 hours ago, Caroline said:

Mobo heatsinks then: solid copper core with brass or aluminium fins designed for maximum airflow contact surface

 

Mobo heatsinks now: heatsink? what heatsink? anyho here's some good thermal insulating plastic shroud you can't remove 

REAL

At best they're more or less heat spreaders now

Heat capacitors

15 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

 

Heat capacitors

can we make that a thing? this should have been an engineering term decades ago.

1 hour ago, manikyath said:

can we make that a thing? this should have been an engineering term decades ago.

I'm onboard with this idea

lmao didnt expect that davepl plug