At a LAN party (yes I'm that old) a dude came in with a box fan ziptied to the side, like it was a case side.
I didn't think to ask about orientation though. As in, push or pull for airflow.
Whatever, it worked for him.
HenryDorsett
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I joked about blood on my soundcard at an IT job.
Because yes, I managed to cut myself installing a sound card.
The younger guys were just like, "Sound card?"
Unless you really need something specific, the stuff built into mobos is fine these days.
WD-40 is not a lubricant, it can do it short term, but makes things worse long term.
WD-40 literally stands for Water Displacement - Formula 40.
Its to keep mechanical components hydrophobic so they don't rust or otherwise degrade due to the presence of water.
For locks and keyways, you want powdered graphite as a lubricant. I keep a small tube (puffer style) in my pick kit if needed.
Or slightly more expensive, if legal in your area, are actual locksmith tools.
I have a pick set I busted out this morning to unlock a pad lock on our circuit breaker (outside for some stupid reason, locked because its a new development and we had construction workers turn the house off while me and the wife were the only people on our respective jobs working the shift remotely)
We need power to run desktops. A UPS is handy, but its a bandaid to shut down correctly until power is restored fully.
I been dealing with ADHD (diagnosed) since the age of 7.
It is a pendulum, but it doesn't just swing back and stop.
Throw in bipolar disorder, and your world can go to shit rapidly and you probably will not understand how until after you've done the damage of trying to fix it.
Plus how many people have multiple computers in the house?
I sure as fuck do.
I generally run a phone (just because it was mentioned), a desktop, and a laptop.
Plus, my wife technically has three jobs (1 full time, 2 PRN) and hardware (laptop) from each of them, plus she not only has a windows laptop, but a macbook, plus her phone, plus her tablet.... it goes on, lol.
My desktop is currently on windows as I'm relying on some third party tools for a game, and I just haven't had the energy to look into it and get it running on Linux. (EQ private server, well within their rules, though their rules don't match the live environment - just wanted to clarify I wasn't cheating anyone, if they include install instructions on the home page, I assume its allowable, plus the GMs give advice in chat for configuration for newbies)
The laptop, is almost, without fail, some flavor of Linux. Its a personal machine, but I've mostly worked night shift help desk... sometimes there is time to kill. So I keep it in my backpack of tools and other shit, boot it up and continue whatever I was looking into previously to entertain myself.
Technically, I'm studying for an advanced role at on the security team, for the most part, lol.
Just because I cracked the coffee shop next doors wifi to borrow their internet (So I can view things that are NOT on my employer's network on my personal phone) doesn't mean I'm doing anything nefarious to my employers, and the coffee shop had the wifi password written on a board at their stations, but they were closed because while people may NEED coffee at 2AM (especially to keep fucking children's hospitals running), they don't seem to care.
Had something similar, but for a GPU. Also corsair.
Yeah, the tubing on the AIO failed and fried the GPU. There did not appear to be any external damage to the tubing. Just... dripped out over the years. Good bye 2080 TI, you served me well during the pandemic and the scalping of GPUs.
I went back to air cooling after that, just with a lot more focus (from me) on airflow, orientation, etc.
Plus, the high end air cooling stuff is good. Like, in the 90s (decade) we dreamed of cooling that good with air, and then water cooling came along. I just never cared for the concept of water running inside my electronics.
Now if I could get that super expensive crap from 3M that isn't conductive and has similar thermal capacities to water, and run that through a water cooling system, I'd be fine with it. Its just prohibitively expensive.