AnarchistArtificer

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Years ago, I read that a great tip for compliments is to stick to stuff that people have chosen. So things like dyed hair, jackets with patches on, badges, band t-shirts, or indeed hair accessories.

It's certainly possible to successfully compliment people on things they can't change, like body features, but it takes more skill and can be risky if you don't know the person. I spent a long while practicing giving compliments on the safer things that I mentioned, as a sort of 'grinding social XP' challenge, but I ended up really enjoying it

2d ago

DIY

The CPU is the silver squarish shape towards the right. It generates a lot of heat when in use, so having good cooling for it is important. So important that CPUs come with a fan in the box. This involves a heat sink to help draw heat away from the CPU. This screws on mounting points around the CPU, but thermal paste is also used to help heat transfer up. Then there's a fan that attaches to that heat sink, so that the hot air from the CPU can be blown away from the CPU.

People spend a heckton of money on cooling for their CPU and GPU, because when things overheat, they throttle themselves and performance becomes super slow. Longevity of components can also be harmed by higher temperatures. If it gets too bad, then it will crash entirely.

This PC has put the CPU heatsink on the case fan on the left. I don't think this is especially harmful in and of itself — the big problem is that the CPU is entirely "naked" and has no cooling whatsoever. This means the CPU begins overheating basically as soon as the PC is turned on.

Edit: you can actually see where the heat sink should match up to the CPU here

2d ago

DIY

The big silver heat sink that's on the left is meant to be on the CPU, which is the Silver squarish shape towards the right. Keeping the CPU cool is a big deal — CPUs come with a smaller fan which is sufficient for many people, but people who use their PC more intensively, or want to extend the life of their CPU typically buy an additional cooler. Here's an example of a stock cooler, and here's a motherboard that's using the fairly basic aftermarket CPU cooler that I have. It was only $30, but when I was new to PC building, it was strongly recommended, because if your CPU gets too hot, it'll throttle itself and slow down. People who over clock their CPU (running it at a higher voltage for better performance) have to get even beefier cooling, such as water cooling. You can completely fry your CPU if you do something wrong when overclocking, and even if it doesn't get that bad, minor mistakes can cause crashes due to CPU overheating.

So TL;DR: keeping your CPU cool is super important for both performance and longevity of the CPU.

The PC in the top photo has zero cooling for the CPU. Not even the stock fan that comes with the CPU. That heatsink that's attached to the case fan is almost certainly intended for the CPU — you don't even need a heatsink in that location.

This means that this person's CPU will rapidly overheat soon after it is turned on.

Edit: you can actually see where the heat sink should match up to the CPU here

2d ago

rule 🫣

Proactively communicating your needs and preferences makes things a bit better for everyone, and takes an immense amount of vulnerability to do so. Good girl xx

2d ago

What are your favourite jokes and puns?

Piggybacking off this to add more lightbulb jokes.

The best joke I've ever heard was delivered by a German friend with an incredible deadpan delivery

How many Germans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

!"One. We are a very efficient people"!<

Another one!

How many emos does it take to change a lightbulb?

!None. They all just sit in the dark crying.!<

(I should clarify that I find this one funny because when I first heard it, it very much applied to me. I felt mildly attacked, but not in a hurtful way)

2d ago

What are your favourite jokes and puns?

Piggybacking off your comment to leave a pirate joke of my own.

"What's a pirate's favourite letter?"

(Ideally, the audience will reply "Arrr!" this this. It works best if you prime them for this by doing a bad pirate impression earlier in the conversation, or tell a joke such as "What's a pirate's favourite animal? An aardevark!")

"You might think so, but a pirate's true love be the C (sea)"

Bonus joke! What's a pirate's least favourite letter?

!Dear Sir or Madam, your IP address has been recorded downloading infringing copyrighted material on...!<

3d ago

Just in case you needed more reasons to hate Grok

That's an absolutely giant cat and surely must be of significant scientific interest

3d ago

People always want their ideal conversation to sound like movie characters, but in reality most people talk as if they're in an interrogation room or how people sound like on police bodycam footage.

Movie dialogue tries to be verisimilitudinous, rather than realistic.

I'm mostly making this comment because "verisimilitudinous" is an excellent word that I love getting the opportunity to use.

3d ago

Got spammed with hateful DMs telling me to kill myself

I am glad you exist, and I'm sorry that existing is so hard for you right now. You don't deserve this — no-one does. It's not fair that you're having to deal with so much awfulness in the world, and then an asshole like this comes along and makes it worse. Even if you know that you shouldn't put much stock in what a random asshole online says, I know how much it hurts when something like this comes along at a time when you're feeling especially vulnerable.

I am glad you have somewhere you can kind in that feels safer. I hope it helps.

3d ago

Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children

The datasets they are trained on do in fact include CSAM. These datasets are so huge that it easily slips through the cracks. It's usually removed whenever it's found, but I don't know how this actually affects the AI models that have already been trained on that data — to my knowledge, it's not possible to selectively "untrain" models, and they would need to be retrained from scratch. Plus I occasionally see it crop up in the news about how new CSAM keeps being found in the training data.

It's one of the many, many problems with generative AI

5d ago

Anyone get like this?

Here is a song that relates to your comment

"Art is for Amateurs", by Jam Mechanics (a collaboration between Narcissist Cookbook and Bughunter)

5d ago

This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.

Thanks for sharing this. This bolstered my spirit.

I liked the bit where it discusses how, regardless of the effectiveness of whistles in deterring ICE, they have proven to be helpful in regular people feeling less alone.

5d ago

Save as PDF

Next time someone asks me what PDF stands for, this is what I will tell them

(I'm reflecting on how many times I've been asked what PDF stands for, because my comment would suggest it is a thing that happens often.

Doofensmirtz_meme.jpeg: "if I had a nickel for every time someone asked me what PDF stood for, I'd have two nickels. — which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice"

I think I'm just most people's token techy friend. Or more specifically, I'm the techy friend who also knows loads of random shit and really enjoys answering random questions)

5d ago

Save as PDF

That's sort of like saying "I'm overheating because my apartment is 32ᵒC, let's turn on the heating and see how we feel once it's 45ᵒC"

5d ago

Bet

Various words and phrases I have adopted ironically over the years, that have mostly lost their ironic sense:

Yeet (this is the big one. Whenever I throw something, or see someone else throw a thing, my brain goes "Yeet!")
Get rekt (gaming slang)
Aura-farming (originally from anime, I think. It sort of means being very cool
I gotcha fam
Mate (this is an outlier because it's not so much new slang, but it's new to me. Your mind may default to an Australian accent when reading this, but the vibe is more "working class shit hole in Northern England" (in other words, home <3 ))
Vibe (despite my use of this word never being ironic, it's probably worth mentioning too, due to how often I use it. I use it so frequently that I'm puzzled about what I did before this word entered my lexicon)
[Noun]-maxing (originally stems from "looks-maxing", which means putting effort into looking very good. This isn't a term I use frequently yet, but I'm trying to use it more, in order to annoy a friend. For example, when she took 3 bathroom breaks during movie night, I said that she was "piss-maxing". I do love knowing someone well enough that you know how to cause them psychic damage. Ahh, friendship)

I felt like there were more when I started this list, but I can't remember any now

6d ago

British mothers fight the slow poison of industrial pollution in Corby

AnarchistArtificer @slrpnk.net 6d ago

Archive link: https://archive.ph/oEbD7

7d ago

Taste the flavor

AnarchistArtificer @slrpnk.net 7d ago

I love the fact that you wrote this in a science meme sub. I like getting learning alongside my memes

(I'm a biochemist, so I didn't learn anything in this particular instance, but I frequently find my day brightened by helpful people like yourself, who take the time to explain stuff)

7d ago

So how would you handle this?