a.Techie
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These foam dam coolers look really interesting. I can't really justify splurging for the cooler itself when I have a Notepal U3 with Noctuas, but I'd be interested in making my own foam dam and seeing how that affects performance. If anyone knows what kind of foam these use and if it's easily purchaseable in the EU, I'd appreciate any hints.
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State of Clevo in 2023, especially regarding durability?
a.Techie replied to yhancik's topic in Sager & Clevo
I remember contacting Obsidian back in 2018 about ordering a Clevo P641 and was told that the units weren't reliable and that they might have received repaired units as factory new. There was also talk in the NBR Clevo section about how unhelpful the manufacturer was when it came to implementing the fan control software; Obsidian basically had to reverse engineer everything. All this is to say that basically whatever issues there are have probably been around for a while now. -
For what it's worth, I grabbed an 8g pack of SYY-157 back in Nov. 2021 off of Amazon from ZBXC-DE. Same business address and everything by the looks of it. I repasted my P775 a week ago using that and thermals have been pretty great, so I think I'll be saving that paste for my laptops. It was a little bit of a pain to spread because the laptop has copper shims on both the CPU and GPU.
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Hello @joluke! The CMOS battery on my PA71 died and I'm considering replacing it with one of these battery holders. I'd like to know if you did the mod on your laptop and how you went about connecting the case to the battery terminal on the laptop. Cheers!
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What's your favorite RSS/Atom feed reader, and why?
a.Techie replied to Sandy Bridge's topic in General Software
There are lots of standalone RSS readers available for Android; some of them are even decent apps. I've used Flym for years now and it still works fine even though it isn't actively developed any more. I think the big problem with RSS on Android is that feed discovery isn't as easy as it used to be. Circa 2009-2010, when Google Reader was still around, every website would either link to their RSS feed or expose it to the browser (so you got an icon in the address bar telling you you can subscribe), most often both. Nowadays most sites just link to their social media pages instead, despite having a perfectly functional backend to generate a feed that maybe gets indexed by search engines, if at all. I'm not sure if any of the major web browsers on Android have the RSS feed indicator out of the box; I know Vivaldi's desktop version does. -
What's your favorite RSS/Atom feed reader, and why?
a.Techie replied to Sandy Bridge's topic in General Software
I've tried Vivaldi's built-in RSS reader and found it a little rough around the edges. I could see myself switching to it and the built-in email client full time once both of them are feature-complete and a little more polished. In the meantime, I've been using the Feedbro extension. My RSS needs are pretty basic, so this does everything I need it to. It has options for creating rulesets and tagging posts, but I haven't really dug into those. What I did find useful about it was its feed search function. I don't know where it pulls data from, but it's helped me find feeds for a couple websites that didn't link to or even expose their RSS feed to the browser. On a side note, I'm not sure I could go back to a standalone RSS reader, mainly because it would need to support some form of content blocking with cosmetic filters enabled. At that point I find it's better to just have everything embedded in the browser, which is why I switched to Vivaldi from Firefox (which used to have Live Bookmarks and other RSS features that got stripped away, unfortunately). -
introduction Laptop battery management and power state alerts
a.Techie replied to Ishayin's topic in Components & Upgrades
Both of my 7th gen Clevos have FlexiCharger available in the BIOS settings, which allows you to set minimum and maximum percentages for charging as you mentioned for (2). I looked up the manual for the P751ZM and couldn't find anything related to that; I have to assume FlexiCharger isn't available for older gen Clevos, but it might be worth a look.
