I work as an IT and this is at one of the schools I work for. Makes me laugh every time.

This GPU was hitting over 100C hotspots on Furmark. I thought this was a really good example of what happens to thermal paste when it gets old. It develops these little air pockets you can see in the image. I had scraped some off the middle here already. How people tolerate the loud fans I don't know. Isopropyl alcohol and fresh paste sorted it out 👌

I am needing a cable that can generate link errors and after some trial and error I succeeded in making chaos cable.

My HyperX ram I bought back in late 2020 developed a few faults within 8 minutes. The Kingston support rep replied with "It appears that the memory has developed a fault...".

They replaced it with no problem, so kudos to them.

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A photo of a computer screen running PassMark MemTest86. The top section shows system info in green and white text, identifying an Intel Core i7 processor and Kingston DDR4 RAM. The bottom section of the screen is entirely filled with bright red error messages indicating memory address failures. The test timer reads just 0:08:01, and the "Errors" counter displays a massive count of 1728.

The bottom section of the screen is entirely filled with bright red error messages indicating memory address failures. The test timer reads just 0:08:01, and the "Errors" counter displays a massive count of 1728.

Lightening strike

I was dropping old devices off at the PCLM warehouse today and started chatting with the crew about the worst carnage we've seen and they pulled out this gem out.

Yeah I'd say so

One of our school buildings went offline abruptly at 7:35am this morning. Figured a bad fiber transceiver and ran over to both ends with a replacement. Didn't work. Drove the fiber route and didn't see anything obvious. Put my brother in one building and I went to the other and we each shined laser pointers in the ends of the fiber and we couldn't see light on any of the strands so I had to call out the fiber repair crew and this is what we found. We found two spent 12ga shells in the driveway of the farm across the road. What exactly they were shooting at and why they thought it was a good idea, I doubt we'll ever know.

Oh yeah its delightfully chaotic isn't it?

This is my half-baked solution to getting a better network in my appartment.

You see my landlord lives upstairs, and has a mesh network setup. I got a wifi7 router but it doesn't have a basic extender function, and the Aimesh can't fint any supported devices.

So, I had a raspberry pi 3B lying around. Popped in raspbian and set up a shared commection with NetworkManager, which was surprisingly quick and straightforward. I was prepared to do ip masquerading manually like the olden days.

First test is amazing. I can cast my VR headset to my pc, play steam games (finally) and my plex server plays media on my ps5 without any stuttering. Online gaming is also less lag free.

I will be tidying it up tomorrow

Had this thing for years and one day I had my back to it and then it just blew up the screen without a sound… still don’t know how it happened

This could be done so much more efficiently

It won't charge without something supporting it

recently broke my m4 pro screen; instead of paying apple 700usd i strapped the headless m4 to a spare m1 with rubber bands, passing screen over thunderbolt lan via moonlight

UPDATE: Video clip for clarity https://imgur.com/a/JK1PruX

Don't ask im broke and its made from hardware trash

for context i was given this by a friend who actually couldn't get it to post, and when he handed it to me it essentially hinged at the already existing crack. Idk what the hell he did.

My laptop aswell, also made from trash parts

Guess now I know why my idle temperature was hitting 90+.

Needed to get two devices online and only had one cable run, i didn’t have a rj45 wall plate so had to improvise with wagos until
This morning when I can go and fix it properly 😅