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https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/08/europe/chechnya-music-ban-scli-intl/index.html "Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision to limit all musical, vocal and choreographic compositions to a tempo ranging from 80 to 116 beats per minute" So this may not fit the bill :O)

Some details about extended support. https://www.ghacks.net/2024/04/03/microsoft-reveals-windows-10-esu-pricing-starts-at-61/

Nice for early mornings :O) Five Finger Death Punch - Got Your Six

Thanks for replies. Looks like there is nothing basically wrong, except that the thing runs quite hot by design when stressed. No real problem in practice here. Surfaces looks flat \ good contact, screws \ springs all ok. Did a few more repasting tests, with more or less paste, differences were of no practical importance > cool enough (silent) with low utilization, more heavy demands the usual jumps to 100 with fans then bringing it down in the 80s. Am leaving things as they are ftm, will someday try another brand \ type of paste. Yes, a good thing, access very easy. A picture of the complete cooling setup.

Here you go. Fans\vents clear. At first sight, can't spot any obvious catastrophy, either pasting or contact surface. Pushing on top of cooling conduits, the contact surface to processors seems to be mating very well, flatly. Maybe too much paste? Appreciating any input. The paste, enthusiastically named "Plexgear MX990 Carbon Freeze", claiming 11 W/mK2 Nvidia left, i7 right. The heat figures posted earlier, only i7 in use. Edit, pic of cooling system (looks well designed, but...?)

^^^ Replies appreciated. Will investigate..

Thanks for the hint that it should\could be improved. Will do some new pasting test in the future. Am suspecting this Precision of not having any audience-awing cooling\fan capacity by design. Anyway, not often I need to stress it (does the job, apart from heat+fan noise), but highly appreciating the total silence \ lowish temp under normal\medium daily use.

Hotspot 5g mobile, travelling, currently in Norway, French roaming sim. So a 'far away' + "all the way back" test. And 'only' 66 ping, which is of no concern. Lots more than needed, and the evolution from not that long ago!, was more like 30\5.

Recently repasted i7 9850H (Dell precision 5540) with some not-big-brand stuff. 100% cpu spikes to 100c then quite quickly settles in lower 80's, sustaining good turbo values. Near-idle ok. Results decent? Any reason to try another paste? Thanks

^^^ Caution Running Driver Verifier could cause the computer to crash. You should only run Driver Verifier on computers that you are using for testing and debugging. Quite clear :O) I'd never venture into this unless very serious, very specific reasons. Surely useful in corporation setups with maybe 100's of machines before deploying any mass updates, 1st the period of hard-testing on dedicated, friable pc's. Am trusting the manufacturer (Dell in this case) provided drivers (for Dell, Intel, Nvidia), updating a while after they become available. Giving them some real-world test time before committing (like another version comes 5 days after the initial release), maybe with a little reading in manufacturer's support forums, any reports of unexpected behavior. ------------------------- And this month's 'nothing to report' report, another perfect ltsc update from MS.

Insomnium - Songs of the Dusk

Blackberry Smoke - Whatcha Know Good

LTSC february done. All smooth, no changes, all stable. & no update to 11 ad plague.

Cat invasion https://packaged-media.redd.it/xvz7j84e6ndc1/pb/m2-res_852p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1707692400&s=cb22ba0ffecc94d9b6cadfb0cfb4d600a4eecf5a#t=0

Finally got the Dell Power Manager app to install (after x years and x failed attempts > "not compatible with your operating system" install roll backs (w10 ltsc 1809). Tried earlier app versions and lots of other possible workarounds, to no avail. Just recently had another go, digging the net for users reporting similar install fails, came over a reddit post stating that "Distributed Transaction Coordinator" must run, for unknown reason disabled in my setup. Miracle, Power app installed and working. That install fail was a recurring irritation on an otherwise perfect pc+os combination. The app may prove usefull or not, wahtever, very satisfying getting that install success, also dispelled doubts about ltsc having compatibilty problems.

Jut a late update, TPM update executed flawlessly.

Draconian - Rivers Between Us

In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading

Time to congratulate w8.1 here (original installation + all updates, open shell). 9 years of astonishingly perfect & stable service, OS solid as rock. Same for the old Dell e7440, behaves like new (even the battery has aged well). Laptop in daily use, browsing \ email \ yt streaming \ music playing. MS continues to provide daily Defender updates. (so far) been enough security for my kind of net activity. & the old Tosh mentionned in post above also alive as well.

If of any remote interest (it's a 15" and some years old now) my Precision 5540 I7 is remarkably silent (highly appreciated). Even when quite hot (like at the bottom cover), fans won't start until having a very good reason to do so, ie real \ sustained use of cpu\gpu. & no coil whine and that sort of thing. So "completely silent under light work\internet browsing\picture editing\idle etc" laptops exists, problem, one must usually buy first then find out if lucky or not.

Degoogle and privacy, my take on the subject. Quite easy really to acheive a good rate without too much hassle, and still keep the useful \ needed bits available as options. They gracefully offer to disable (+ easy to uninstall things with ADB if one wishes going deeper). A reset \ new phone got no need to set up with any google (or phone brand) account or email. As for apps, pretty ok for me just starting with whatever the phone maker delivers in their setup (some will label an app bloat, some may label same app useful as gold), then tune into needs & wants > disable, uninstall, permissions, stop data activity etc. Got a google account, an absolute need for some short commando raids into the playstore to get things like banking apps updated. So enabling a few g-store related apps for a few minutes, then disabling and\or stop data access. As for general apps I use apkmirror etc. In my case a Samsung account is acceptable, fine to update their own set of apps. No real name or personal data there, no payment things etc. Looking at my google account (fake name & personal data etc), shows never bought anything, never been anyplace (am using Here WeGo, offline navigation, complete country maps predownloaded), never searched for anything, no sharing, seeing nothing except the list of apps in use. Of course they surely still get lots of info like region\cell towers\imei\phone brand whatever, but avoiding that and one moves into pigeon post territory. Example screeshot, in addition to the 'disbaled' a bunch of preinstalled stuff from both Samsung and Google have been ADB'ed away. + Netguard (screenshot) blocking all data except for those apps I use. Result is the wanted half-dumb\severly-notgoogle phones for normal daily routine (email\sms\internet\some social\bluetooth\photo etc), & can be non-dumb'ed anytime when needed. F.ex. monthly security updates, am keeping the related apps on the phone, only allowing them a short window of data\wifi access for doing the download. This imo is the major privacy tool, Netguard (and great for curbing data use if on a monthly quota). And the ADB program (with backup\restore\snapshots > useful after any failed late night experiments like ending up with a phone that can't make a call or take a photo lol, so make a plan and do some research :0) https://adbappcontrol.com/en/

Apple

Looking back at the SSD history, "OCZ's listed MSRP of $499 for the 32GB drive and $1,099 for the 64GB" (+40% in today's money). Better speed than HD's but no immense revolution, and surely questionable reliability\lifespan. Early adopters > "You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt" :O) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/03/ssds-in-2008-fast-speeds-200mbsec-over-price-cuts/

^^^^ The above affects only non-ltsc \ newer w10's? Posts probably belongs in the general w10 board. ltsc 2019 (1809) got KB5034127. btw no WinRE recovery partition om my system. As always, no issues, no new features.

Astralia - Solstice