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Back to repairing the HP laptop. How worried should I be that a replacement CPU has used thermal paste on it that was never cleaned off? It's an AMD.

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That SuperCPU I stumbled across sold for $2,524, more than 12 times its original retail price. That's absurd.

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$ find $HOME -mtime -1w -size +100M -ls
983935 732401 -rw------- 1 arielmt arielmt 1015803904 Sep 26 19:40 /home/arielmt/firefox.core.onegig
954267 172089 -rw------- 1 arielmt arielmt 311705600 Sep 28 11:56 /home/arielmt/firefox.core
$

find /home -mtime -1 -size +100M -ls # Try to figure out what recently used file might have just filled up the /home partition by finding files modified in the last day that are larger than 100M just to narrow it down.

@maple I got that once, too, & IDR if it was because of curl or wget.

@monorail I have so many questions about your teacher, and I fear I know the answers to them all. :<

@monorail not to mention being off by about 2-3 decades inre cobol & other early structured languages.

I forgot that the Apple Lisa Office System did this, too, in a much more flexible way. You have to copy the blank template icon to a new file icon, rename & move the icon to where you want it to live, & *then* you can open it to start editing the document.

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Republicans: States should have more freedom in their laws and shouldn't be micromanaged by the federal government!
California: OK, we're going to make our own laws to protect net neutrality!
Republicans: No not like that!

@zac Maybe. For several years after its adoption by major distros, among the things pulseaudio couldn't do was mix sounds from different applications, things OSS, ALSA, & ESD had been doing reliably forever. Just as with bad systemd design decisions currently, Poettering's inclination was to blame everyone & everything else for not using his code properly.

@zac Lennart Poettering, the same guy who made the Linux blight called systemd, that's what. The guy just doesn't know how to make decent programs.

I'd boost the whole thread if it wasn't bad etiquette.

No, help, I'm thinking about datacats now and nothing's alleviating it.

@Cr0wnless Some genuinely don't even know that much. They only know what the bitter voices on their radios tell them.

I wish someone made text editors & word processors that make you name & file the files you edit first, so that they would then be auto-saved without having to think about it.

The only ones that ever did (that I'm aware of) were geoWrite & geoWrite 128, bundled with GEOS versions for the Commodore 64, the Commodore 128, & the Apple II-series.

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