BobVonBob

Do you have a cooler for this chip? If not this build is already dead in the water. You'll need an adapter that accepts external power (you need 75 watts available on the PCIe slot, and that Mini PCIe slot isn't going to do that) and another PSU, and even then that Mini PCIe slot is too slow for this to be worth it. I guarantee you can find a faster PC with actual PCIe slots for less money than it would take to badly shove a GPU into this one.

If you've lost, forgotten, or haven't enabled all of those account recovery options the account is gone. Nothing you can do. In the future perhaps write down your passwords or use a password manager.

GRUB should have been installed when you installed Ubuntu. I think that's the "boot menu" you mention here? I don't have a very clear picture of the problem you're having, but I'm guessing what you want to do is set up your BIOS to boot to GRUB, which I think is already happening, and then have GRUB handle choosing the OS. By default I believe GRUB boots to the last OS you booted to, but you can change it to always choose Ubuntu by editing /etc/default/grub and then running "sudo update-grub". The GRUB_DEFAULT variable will choose the default option in GRUB, either by number or by name, and that option will be launched automatically after GRUB_TIMEOUT seconds if you don't interact with the system. More info on configuring GRUB is here: https://www.howtogeek.com/196655/how-to-configure-the-grub2-boot-loaders-settings/

It's gonna be roughly equivalent to a current low-end laptop. Not fast, but totally competent for web browsing and older/low spec games.

There aren't any indications that Kaspersky is unsafe to use, at least not from security professionals. However, Kaspersky would also be well equipped to hide malicious activity, perhaps if under duress from the current regime. That is utterly baseless speculation. But regardless, I'm hesitant to suggest Russian software, especially Russian security software, given current events. If for no other reason, taxes on the money you give to Kaspersky will fund the Russian government. Personally I'm not comfortable with that, but make your own value judgement there.

Excuse me what?

Inevitable subscription service aside, GM isn't going to support this long-term. With CarPlay and Android Auto the consoles are basically glorified monitors, the phone is doing the heavy lifting. When your phone eventually drops out of support you can upgrade just the phone. When GM stops caring and this drops out of service in five years what do they want do you do? Rip out the entire center console and buy a new one? (The answer is obviously yes, but my wallet says GM can fuck right off)

Completely unfixable. You can even see components that have been removed, probably as donor parts for other repairs. Turns out those components probably weren't there to begin with (WTF MSI?) but that damage still looks awful. Don't bother.

Doesn't matter. Every one of those is well beyond the capabilities of our petty human ears. If it gives you the warm fuzzies then go ahead and choose the biggest number. You could also listen with a program that uses some sort of exclusive mode like WASAPI or ASIO. They'll adjust the sample rate and bit depth to match the audio source, although you'll only be able to listen to that one program. It still doesn't matter, but some audio equipment has lights that respond to the sample rate and I'll be the first to admit shiny colors are fun.

Let's just ignore the temperature swings of hundreds of degrees (pick your kind of degree) between light and dark parts of the Moon. Or that the renewable solar energy comes in the form of two week on/two week off chunks. I'm not too sold on space data centers.

The Frost looks anemic. I doubt it's any better than a stock cooler, if it can even achieve that. The Vortex looks like a pretty standard Hyper 212 style tower cooler. Both are absolutely not capable of handling the TDP ratings in their specs.

Chrome tends to do special things with Google sites. Firefox and Chrome might be using different audio or video codecs that are more or less stressful on your CPU/GPU. You can right click on the YouTube video and select "Stats for nerds" to see if anything there changes between browsers. Otherwise maybe Firefox just supports your system better.

Which GPU is being used by Minecraft? If I recall last time I ran it on a laptop I struggled to get it to use the right GPU. You can check using the "GPU engine" column in Task Manager. If it's not there right click the column names and a menu will open where you can add it. The Performance tab will show you which GPU is which. My screenshot probably looks different because it's the new Windows 11 Task Manager, but the options are there in Windows 10.

It looks like they did allow the TVs to run their own refresher, and used their own video to see if it would clear up any more of the burn-in. At least that's what I understood from the article.

1/2. Who knows? Other cooler designs aren't getting thrashed by the STRIX, so I'd say the effect is probably minimal. I'd lean more towards marketing bullet point than actually important. Only some pretty complex and difficult simulation or testing would show a difference. 3. Putting aside the effectiveness, you'd need a reversed fan and to turn it the other direction. You won't find a reversed fan anywhere and a homemade one will be worse. The motor also might not be meant to run in the other direction, so you might need to replace that too. Just water cool your GPU if you want better cooling, don't try to re-engineer the card.

This is some top quality irony right here, looks like RTINGS might have some work to do on their pixel refresher video.

I don't know everything needed to be certain of my answer, but I'm reasonably sure chemical computer cooling isn't possible. The main issue is that you don't only need an endothermic reaction, you need a sustained endothermic reaction. That means either constantly feeding in new reagents, which is pretty obviously not viable, or reversible reactions. Reversing an endothermic reaction must necessarily be exothermic, and that reaction (or series of reactions) will either have a positive or negative temperature coefficient. In both cases the reverse reaction itself will need to be cooled to prevent the reaction from stalling (bad) or running away (very bad). The final result being you've successfully moved heat from one place that needs to be cooled, to another place that also needs to be cooled. You could use chemical reactions to cool that too, but then you have the same problem. At some point you need to break the chain with a cooling method that doesn't need to be reversed (at least on an individual level), like throwing the heat out into the air with a radiator, and at that point why bother with an intermediate chemical step?

5mm SSDs never made it to mass market. I think some early Lenovo Yoga laptops were the only thing that used them. Assume that it's 7mm, because you won't be able to find a 5mm drive anyway.

They went from nothing (excluding a lot of former Nvidia knowledge from their founder and reportedly many engineers) to basically an AMD HD 6870/Nvidia GTX 480 with 16 GB of RAM in 2 years. That's not a good GPU by modern standards, but it's still a lot of progress. Bit of a shame about the whole "only 17 motherboards even boot and good luck finding compatible software lol" thing.

Plugging in a different USB-C charger isn't going to damage anything, but the laptop won't charge from a charger that isn't powerful enough, so there's no reason to try in the first place.

I don't know if a Bluetooth expresscard exists, but if it does it's going to be a very old and bad version of Bluetooth. A thing that definitely does exist is a USB 2.0 expresscard, which you can plug a Bluetooth dongle into if you find one with drivers for whatever OS you're running.

Do they work at higher refresh rates with only one or two monitors attached? 3 4K 165 Hz monitors is right on the absolute limit of the RTX 4090's pixel output rate, and potentially beyond it if the Odyssey Ark requires DSC. From https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/40-series/rtx-4090/:

I think you've got a problem with your thermal paste, your cooler, or your CPU. Any 360mm liquid cooler, including the Arctic LFII, absolutely should not be hitting 100C in low spec games (Terraria!) if everything is working right, with or without a contact frame (or the magic of sales commissions on a new cooler).

Those two mice are very different. What are you looking for in your mouse? Both are great, but they aren't really trying to perform the same role. I think you'll be happier with your purchase if you identify what you're looking for first, whether that be the extra keys of the G502, the light weight of the Model O, or something else entirely.

You're right to be afraid you won't be able to turn it back on, because you won't. The power button needs to be repaired if you want to be able to turn the phone on. It can't be remapped, and other buttons will not turn on the phone.