Inside a computer case showing a green motherboard with CPU socket, various colored cables (red, yellow, black), a hard drive, and metal casing components. The cooler has fallen off the CPU.
I think they were a clueless computer user so I just told them what the problem was and how we fixed it went over their head. But we laughed good with my colleague. Falling coolers were common on Intel boards at the time when the retention brackets used to be hooked with push-pins. Note this is the factory installed bracket on the board that's fallen. 😄 It's not a poorly installed cooler. This is prior to the user-installed push-pin design that came with the Core processors on the LGA sockets.
Pretty sure it's a P4 on a 478. 423 is significantly larger and the cooler retenrion clip goes directly on the socket. This socket has no retention protrusions. Instead there's a plastic bracket that the cooler is attached to, but the plastic bracket itself has fallen off the board. You can see it on the cooler itself in the other photo. 😄
It's really unfortunate how naive we (us in tech) still are about the employer-employee relationship and how much leverage we got. The talent/merotocracy propaganda we've been showered with since The Great Recession can't wear off soon enough. Labour organizing in Big Tech can really grind the machine to a halt, given its dependence.
No, I've been GNOME peasant since Ubuntu switched to it from Unity. Now also using it on Debian. Some day when very bored, maybe in retirement I'll try Plasma again. 😆
Wisdom, 39, has aligned herself with some of the positions Mamdani has taken on countering antisemitism, including opposition to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, which considers most forms of anti-Zionism as antisemitic.
Brad Lander, a former New York City comptroller who is running for Congress and who has criticized Israel extensively, stated that Wisdom “is the perfect person for the job.”
A good move in the current context. The anti-zionism-is-anti-semitism zionists are already complaining about her. 🤭
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, told European newspapers this week that European preference should be focused on certain strategic sectors, such as clean technologies, chemicals, steel, automotive and defence “otherwise Europeans will be swept aside”. ...
No question. I feel like by this point the problems with free trade should be obvious to most economic managers. This is why I'm a bit shocked at some of their statements against Buy European. They sound like they're afraid making trade less free is a dangerous change.
His lawyer also told the court Laher was “otherwise a very decent individual” whose business, an IT consultancy and distributor would become “unviable” if he received a custodial sentence. ...
So if you own a business in the UK you can basically commit any crime and go unpunished as being charged would affect your "employees".
Once you start noticing the privilege afforded to business-havers over have-nots, you can't unnotice it. It's the same in Canada.
Gee, I wonder how things would be if there was good safety net for unemployment andrights for employees to take ownership if the boss croaks (or goes to jail) with cheap gov't loans.
Spain has fallen for the fifth consecutive year in the corruption perception index compiled by international experts, down one point from 2024 (from a score of 56 to 55 in the world ranking) and once again placing it below countries such as Rwanda (58) and Saudi Arabia (57), which are authoritarian regimes. ...
Some Cubans say everyday life on the Caribbean island has reached a breaking point amid a fuel shortage brought about by the U.S. squeezing the country’s oil supply. Meanwhile, Canadian airlines suspended service to the island and are ferrying tourists back home. ...
"For me, any change for us will be better than what we are living through, because what we are experiencing is not humane," Isben Peralta told CBC News in a phone interview during a blackout.
This is the point of sanctions. Get people to suffer so much so they come to accept anything in order to stop the pain.
Progressive Analilia Mejia has pulled off a long-shot win in a special election primary for New Jersey’s 11th congressional district, defeating favorite Tom Malinowski thanks to AIPAC’s intervention in the race. ...
Trying not to fall for it on a moral and idealist level isn't enough. The far-right groups are gaining momentum because they're offering more prosperity to the people of their respective countries than the status quo. The foreign funding provides fuel to their ability to operate but their promise is what gets them real numbers. This promise is not going to be fulfilled long term since it doesn't address the real problems. But that won't stop people from trying it. There's a very real possibility that their message will still gain overwhelming support even if the foreign funding is cut (which should absolutely be cut). People are entirely capable of funding popular political movements themselves. Not to mention domestic corporate interests coming onboard. This is why I think the real medicine is a material alternative for increased prosperity beyond the status quo. Increasing the retirement age to pay for tax cuts in the age of automation is the opposite of that.
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I was this close 🤏 to immigrate to the Silicon Valley in the early 2010s. There's a good chance I'd still be enjoying licking boot to this day if that happened.
Didn't do it for me and my wife either. It felt unfocused with different bits being self-consistent but disconnected from each other, like an LLM wrote it. There's a lot of filler too, or at least felt like filler. I haven't played the game. I'll probably watch the next season just to see if it connects the dots or whether it was all just sloppy. :D
The Numbers: Liberals in majority territory, but there's no election — yet? ( youtu.be )
Another good discussion of the latest poll numbers with Philippe J. Fournier and Eric Grenier.
Just rolled into the shop for "freezing"
At Canada Computers in Toronto, circa 2009.
Salesforce workers outraged after CEO makes joke about ICE watching them ( www.theguardian.com )
GUIs
Best remote control option to support non-techies
Hello all, ...
Zohran Mamdani appoints liberal Zionist to lead Office to Combat Antisemitism ( www.thejc.com )
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed the Zionist leader of a liberal Jewish community group to lead his Office to Combat Antisemitism. ...
New York City to Bring Back Year-Round Outdoor Dining. The Previous Mayor Worried About Losing Parking Spots. ( nyc.streetsblog.org )
AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution. ( crabby-rathbun.github.io )
The contribution in question: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132 ...
Microsoft's Notepad Got Pwned (They Added AI To It, So...) ( foss-daily.org )
Remember when Notepad was just… Notepad? A simple text editor nobody asked to be modernized? ...
EU leaders to clash over ‘Buy European’ push at Belgium summit ( www.theguardian.com )
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, told European newspapers this week that European preference should be focused on certain strategic sectors, such as clean technologies, chemicals, steel, automotive and defence “otherwise Europeans will be swept aside”. ...
ProtonPass finally gets offline mode in v1.34 ( github.com )
Version 1.34.1 ...
Noam Chomsky's wife admits 'serious errors in judgment' over Jeffrey Epstein ties ( www.nbcnews.com )
Bears don’t actually hibernate, their winter survival trick is a months-long power-save mode ( www.popsci.com )
Roblaws
Driver described as "otherwise decent individual" spared jail after ramming cyclist off the road - road.cc ( road.cc )
His lawyer also told the court Laher was “otherwise a very decent individual” whose business, an IT consultancy and distributor would become “unviable” if he received a custodial sentence. ...
France sends letters to 29-year-olds telling them to get on with having children ( www.independent.co.uk )
A Homegrown Cloud: Bell and SAP Double Down on Canada’s Digital Sovereignty ( www.telecomreviewcanada.com )
Archived link ...
International perception of corruption in Spain grows, now worse than in Rwanda or Saudi Arabia ( www.majorcadailybulletin.com )
Spain has fallen for the fifth consecutive year in the corruption perception index compiled by international experts, down one point from 2024 (from a score of 56 to 55 in the world ranking) and once again placing it below countries such as Rwanda (58) and Saudi Arabia (57), which are authoritarian regimes. ...
In Cuba, people go without food and power as U.S. chokes oil supply and tourists flee ( www.cbc.ca )
Some Cubans say everyday life on the Caribbean island has reached a breaking point amid a fuel shortage brought about by the U.S. squeezing the country’s oil supply. Meanwhile, Canadian airlines suspended service to the island and are ferrying tourists back home. ...
Progressive Democrat Wins New Jersey Primary as AIPAC Money Backfires ( newrepublic.com )
Progressive Analilia Mejia has pulled off a long-shot win in a special election primary for New Jersey’s 11th congressional district, defeating favorite Tom Malinowski thanks to AIPAC’s intervention in the race. ...
European far-right parties advocate for police units similar to ICE ( brusselsreporter.com )
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I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too ( www.androidcentral.com )
Tesla’s Head of North American Sales Out After Just Over Six Months, With Canadian Sales Down 60%+ ( fuelarc.com )
A gentle visual critique of Blueman, from a UX design perspective
Verity,a Perplexity style AI search and answer engine that runs fully locally with CPU/GPU/NPU acceleration ( github.com )
'Fallout' Season 2 Ranks as Prime Video's 6th Most-Watched Season Ever, Amazon Says ( www.thewrap.com )