Compaq Presario, i think ram is 8 MB, playing DOS games where it always shows the error of insufficient memory, and configuring the sound system (the blue box where we select the different cards, sound blaster, etc until there's sounds coming out of the games (shareware games) 😃

@Smeeding2535 You're welcome!

@bariton Seems I'm going along with Elon to Mars lol. Let's see if this machine lasts 10 years like the one it replaced.

I got an appointment with the GP, who referred me to an Audiology clinic. The GP said there was no problem with ear wax, but I have some Olive Oil Ear drops to take before the appointment.

@nomadic
Thank you for sharing your interesting thought.

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@Smeeding2535 Good idea. 👍

I literally made a blog post about my custom tweaked windows UI either last week or the week before. Explorer Patcher is great. You can even center the open window list on the windows 10 taskbar using it. Important: Though you'll want to be sure to click the restart file explorer button after editing most of the settings.

@Pathduck That's why I'm happy with Linux for PC.
However, one of the evils I've to depend on for a while - on mobile and tablet level.

@teots Please refer to the previous comments on your last post for my opinion on the matter. Except this one is much worse because the GPU is the bare die without an IHS (integrated heat spreader) to help spread the heat out, so you could do some serious damage.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/667848
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/667923

But also see this graphic to maybe help understand why this is a bad idea (think of the lines as flowing water; there is more resistance on the left):

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While metal to metal is good for heat transfer, there isn't actually all that much full contact because the surfaces aren't perfectly smooth. So you have areas of great heat transfer in combination with air pockets that are an insulator with terrible heat transfer. Thermal paste isn't as good as an ideal full metal to metal contact, but it still is better than the combination of low and high thermal conductivity when you don't use it.

Another easy sanity check, if going without thermal paste was better, then why would companies bother putting it on in the first place? Sure it costs them only a few cents per device, but with the volume they produce, they would save tons of money if they skipped applying it.

@teots As said above, I think you're misinterpreting "if necessary" as "not needed", it's not the same thing.

There's good reason thermal paste has been needed since the dawn of PC building. No metal surface will be completely flat, there will always be small irregularities. Especially your image of the cooler base shows this clearly.

The job of the thermal paste is to smooth out these irregularities, getting into the small holes and ensuring a good heat transfer from the CPU to the cooler.

Playing a game is not a good stress test - games are too varied in CPU load, and most newer games are much more taxing on the GPU than the CPU. A better test is using a tool to load your CPU directly over a long time.

A great tool for this is Prime95, it calculates prime numbers and will max out all your CPU cores while running. If your system can run this for several hours without crashing or lowering the CPU speed because it reaches the heat limit, it means your cooling setup is working.

https://www.mersenne.org/download/

@DoctorG, yes, but my standart apps are not from MS in W10, despite a certain insistence on the part of Windows, but if I get something between my eyebrows, any insistence will be fruitless. My W10 is now an obedient little lamb, although it took me a bit of time and research.

@Catweazle said in Someone need a new keyboard:

Maybe this is what you want

Amazing. As someone with a physical disability I can visualize this keyboard helping a lot. In addition to my regular keyboard I have an additional keypad and track ball to achieve what I need and have been planning to add yet another keypad. This keyboard may make it possible to replace them. But ya, not inexpensive at all.

@a1simpleton Thanks. Looks like a great coffee table book. 🙂

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Hi,

You may find this interesting

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Here are Laptops instead so boring in comparison 😆

@straxjulia544 Upgrading to a solid state drive (SSD) will greatly improve the performance of the computer. A few months ago, the hard drive in my older desktop was replaced with a solid state drive and you'd think it was a brand new computer, it's that fast now.

I have Debian Linux installed on both desktops today and on the one with the SSD, it boots up in a matter of seconds. I would expect the same performance with any operating system installed on one.