[X] My Assistant

GitHub's mobile version is a marvel of frontend design, it has almost all the information I usually need or look for, but unless I switch to the desktop version I can never find it even if my life depended on it

Even if mobile views existed before, I'll happily blame microsoft for that.

I have firefox on my phone set up to always use "desktop views" by setting 'general.useragent.override' to a desktop firefox user agent string in about:config. And I also set 'browser.viewport.desktopWidth' to somewhere from 1280 to 1920px, instead of the default 980px, to get more stuff to fit on the page and dodge some sites' methods of detecting a mobile browser.

IIRC 'general.useragent.override' doesn't exist by default, and has to be created.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 4 2019, 13:03

Why is that capacitor is in direct contact with the chipset heatsink? And is that heatsink really a heatsink at all? The black portion doesn't feel like it's made of metal. More like... hardened carbon material?

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This post has been edited by Super-hujan86: Jul 6 2019, 07:38

Why is that capacitor is in direct contact with the chipset heatsink? And is that heatsink really a heatsink at all? The black portion doesn't feel like it's made of metal. More like... hardened carbon material?

If it is a heat sink, what is it sitting on top of? A view of the rest of the board would be useful here.

My guess is that it's matte plastic or painted plastic. Especially if you can flex it/snap it.
You could always pull it off and check if it's got thermal paste/grease on the underside.
If it doesn't, it's decorative gamer crap and you should burn it/recycle it/throw it out (imho).

Another test, come to think of it, would be to take a soldering iron that's up to temperature and poke at it somewhere un-noticeable. If it melts on contact, that's plastic.
Or just try to scratch it with something harder than plastic.
Or tap it with something metal and see if it rings.

It could also be a decorative shroud that covers an actual heat sink underneath. But I don't know what chip I'd be looking at.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 6 2019, 13:23

It sits atop the motherboard's chipset/PCH.

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Anyway, I managed to remove most of the RGB thingy from the motherboard. The IO shroud in particular wasn't straightforward, requiring the removal of the back plate & integrated IO "shield" beforehand. Why would mobo manufacturers block airflow from the VRM heatsink with a large piece of plastic is beyond my comprehension.

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It sits atop the motherboard's chipset/PCH.

Ah.

Anyway, I managed to remove most of the RGB thingy from the motherboard. The IO shroud in particular wasn't straightforward, requiring the removal of the back plate & integrated IO "shield" beforehand. Why would mobo manufacturers block airflow from the VRM heatsink with a large piece of plastic is beyond my comprehension.

Form over function, I guess.

After my desktop computer, it's the turn of my laptop to constantly show extremely high temperatures.
It seems the GPU quickly gain heat, and the heat decrease the ability to cool of the CPU, and eventually, the overheat alarm ring, just from displaying a bit interactive website.
I should just change it, but the dual boot and Internet-less Windows XP for visual novels (with probably many tamperings I don't remember for everything to work best) would be too much of a pain to reproduce, or maybe it would not even be possible (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Frankly, I'm not totally against IO shroud for aesthetics. As long as it only covers the IO & doesn't extend to over the VRM heatsink. But it happens the other way around so I had to remove it.

Ryzen 3700X is great.

Ryzen 3700X is great.

Yes. Yes, it is.

This KVM switch is more of a pain in the ass than I expected.

According MSI, the 16MB size of the UEFI firmware on the 400-series motherboards proved too limited to cram in the AGESA ComboAM4 1.0.0.3a microcode. No wonder Gigabyte hasn't released yet the final BIOS for 3rd gen Ryzen.

This post has been edited by Super-hujan86: Jul 9 2019, 12:28

After my desktop computer, it's the turn of my laptop to constantly show extremely high temperatures.
It seems the GPU quickly gain heat, and the heat decrease the ability to cool of the CPU, and eventually, the overheat alarm ring, just from displaying a bit interactive website.
I should just change it, but the dual boot and Internet-less Windows XP for visual novels (with probably many tamperings I don't remember for everything to work best) would be too much of a pain to reproduce, or maybe it would not even be possible (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

…so dust it out?

…so dust it out?

Already done not long ago, back when I got the cpu fan completely changed.
I guess computers may be designed to start self-destructing after around 10 years if the user managed to keep one around for that long.

Thermal paste seems to go bad overtime. Really clean the dust out, then remove heatsimks and heatpipes, clean all the old paste off, and put a thing layer of somew new stuff on. The thermal bads are just bad, even when new.

Looks like Pcie sound cards aren't dead yet.

[www.techpowerup.com] Creative Formally Launches the Sound Blaster AE-7 and AE-9 Audiophile Sound Cards

Looks like Pcie sound cards aren't dead yet.

[www.techpowerup.com] Creative Formally Launches the Sound Blaster AE-7 and AE-9 Audiophile Sound Cards

I don't really know what's what in the computer belly since the ones assembling my hardware are others in my family that know about it, but how many pcie is supposed to contains a computer?
I mean it fit the graphic card, a kind of ssd, and now the sound card?Is there really enough room for it all?

Already done not long ago, back when I got the cpu fan completely changed.
I guess computers may be designed to start self-destructing after around 10 years if the user managed to keep one around for that long.

My daily driver is currently that old.
My oldest that I still use on occasion is now roughly 15 (Dell Latitude D610).
Neither show signs of quitting.

Edit:
You use Windows, don't you? That'll be the problem.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 11 2019, 11:30

Just made my two old WRT54G routers into a 7-port daisychained network switch.
I only have two devices that even use ethernet regularly, and the routers are old and slow, so IDK why, really.

I do enjoy the blinkenlights. Wish I had a v1.0 WRT54G which had a crap-ton of LED's. They appear to be rather scarce, though.
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This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 12 2019, 00:13

I shouldn't need an OpenGL 4 compatible GPU in order to play a game from 2007 with hardware acceleration.
(Talking about you, Runescape)

I have a modem, an ATA, a extension cable that easy to get at for testing/etc, and an ethernet over powerline bridge plugged into my router. Two desktops are each plugged into their own ethernet-power bridge. I have had the ps3 hooked up before, but nothing I do on it really needs internet access.