piquedinthe80s.bsky.social
Terminally online lurker. Host to one cat lady, many cats, existential dread and more gray hair than I care to admit. Check Engine light has been on since 2011. Two spaces after a period—a habit it just doesn't feel right to break.
102 posts
19 followers
43 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
And that's the manual I found & read last night.
Looked up power requirements for the Ryzen 7 9700x (there's only 2 9000 series CPUs, figured out which one you likely had from the box) and the PSU specs / manual was easy enough to find.
And I still didn't see anything wrong.
comment in response to
post
But all that aside... I suspect if your thermal paste had created a short the motherboard would still light up and show a CPU fault light with its diagnostic LEDs.
comment in response to
post
Thus the goal was to have the flattest mating between CPU & heatsink possible and fill the microscopic gaps with the thinnest haze of thermal paste possible.
Now heatsinks come with a mirror finish. You can tell by eye they're perfectly flat, and I figure thermal paste has improved as well.
comment in response to
post
I started lapping CPU heat spreaders and heatsinks back in the days of the single-core Pentium 4. One thing I remember reading was the point that thermal paste (back then, at least) had less thermal resistance than air, but more than direct metal-to-metal contact.
comment in response to
post
I'm really leaning toward there being something power related.
This motherboard has a bunch of LEDs next to the main power connector... if NOTHING is lighting up there, well... what else could it be but power?
comment in response to
post
I dodged a bullet with the 13th & 14th gen i9s, so there's that.
Will be very interested to hear what your gremlin is.
comment in response to
post
One note: your PC Part Picker list is private.
For the life of me I don't see anything wrong. PSU certainly should be plenty powerful. SSD is in socket M2_1?
Not being familiar with Ryzen / socket AM5 I can't get down in the weeds. Last build I did was an i9-12900 so it's been a bit.
comment in response to
post
"Ever just stare at a sentence in horror?"
Far too many, lately.
I desperately desire to escape this reality, but if I do that I'm shirking my responsibility to do something about it. Hence this damn knot in my innards.
comment in response to
post
Why you gotta do this to me?
Oof.
Also, 1990 was only 10 years ago. Right? ... RIGHT?
comment in response to
post
Did you switch the power supply on?
(Is the power strip it's plugged into switched on?)
... Did you get the power switch motherboard connector off-by-one or rotated 90°?
Also, last time I built a desktop it was peculiarly picky about which port the monitor was plugged into pre-OS install.
comment in response to
post
Derp.
Chadwick Boseman was the actor that played Black Panther. I should have put that together... too tired, that's enough internet for tonight.
comment in response to
post
(And I'm probably too old to get the pun. Sorry.)
comment in response to
post
Aaaand I missed the ultimate comparison: Red Bull.
A marketing company that doesn't even make the energy drink they sell -- that's outsourced.
At least Bose owns the manufacturing.
comment in response to
post
Bose is a marketing company that happens to make audio equipment.
Very much the same way, I would argue, that Oracle is a law firm that also happens to license (okay, and write) database software.
I was SHOCKED to see McIntosh gear in a Best Buy recently; I was reminded they're now owned by Bose.
comment in response to
post
I read Marshall Brain's "Manna" ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(... ) years ago, boy... he called it.
His work has a more hopeful ending than what I can see for the real world, though.
(Huh. Bluesky likes to add a closing parenthesis to links... which breaks some Wikipedia URLs. Today I learned.)
comment in response to
post
Okay, thanks, that's terrifying.
Jack Welch (thanks for those episodes, @iwriteok.bsky.social!) really got the ball rolling, and now everything is going down the tubes... just so long as Number Go Up™ for the shareholders.
CA's 'public benefit corporation' concept needs wider adoption.
comment in response to
post
and (2), would it be possible to thwart AI analysis, in a Nightshade-inspired way (nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html) and make it impossible to automate "this person is useful [to our agenda?], this other person is not" decisions?
comment in response to
post
Assuming everyone that gets the email replies, how could they possibly make any sense of the responses?
Obviously they're feeding this through AI, figure it's Grok because what else would it be?
So. (1) Marshall Brain wrote about something VERY similar (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(...
comment in response to
post
It's very easy to stand up and say "Don't ban The Bluest Eye! Don't ban The Satanic Verses!"
It's a lot braver to say "Pornhub has a right to exist! OnlyFans has a right to exist!" and that we should be suspicious of government and cultural campaigns to shut them down.
comment in response to
post
"Pornography" is a representation of desire and an articulation of sexuality. It does not have magic powers.
Defending sexual expression means defending our right to practice it. It's the bulwark that prevents fascist from deeming our lives, and bodies as obscene — and thus in need of suppression.
comment in response to
post
Justin Hammer.
Copycat, poseur, fake.
comment in response to
post
Potato picker, perhaps?
po-TA-to, boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew...
Okay, nope, that makes it worse.
comment in response to
post
Also, CTF-Face3... I burned SO MUCH TIME on that map twenty years ago.
Ah, memories.
Specifically memories of nuking camping snipers... good times.
comment in response to
post
Okay, thanks for resurfacing long-repressed trauma. 😆
Unreal Tournament 2004, final rung of the single-player ladder, I think the bot's name was Xan.
That wasn't AI, that was a straight-up aimbot. That thing would zorch me from across the map the instant it could see me, and it was rage-inducing!
comment in response to
post
*Sigh.*
... Because of course they did.
I'm not even shocked by this behavior any longer, I'm just so VERY disappointed.
comment in response to
post
Did you see Ursula Vernon's thread on screwworm?
bsky.app/profile/tkin...
Her talent as an author shines!
"...avoided posting a photo because holy shit it’s nasty and some of the worm scabs are like a foot across and go down to bone."
Good grief, what her reference library must look like...
comment in response to
post
Just leaving this here:
bsky.app/profile/elfs...
comment in response to
post
And I completely relate to the immersion as it relates to food. I've been experimenting with breads and bread-adjacent ... *stuff* ... as an exercise in escapism and sanity.
It's been wonderful, but I don't think I've ever spent such a percentage of my life cleaning the kitchen.
comment in response to
post
There's a quote on the linked page I absolutely LOVE:
“It is not enough to follow the laws; you must believe in their necessity.”
comment in response to
post
comment in response to
post
Well... there WAS a post about a reporter calling out Mike Johnson on his BS.
Wonder why it disappeared?
This is pretty close to the original: xcancel.com/Last_DayWith...
comment in response to
post
Guest Editorial by Clarence Thomas?
Holy shit, man...