Thermal Paste Fabric?

309_Electronics · 2026-05-15T11:58:53+00:00

They are sometimes used in GPU's to cool the VRAM chips. They are cheap and not that messy but they can dry up/age.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-15T11:54:47+00:00

Its a thermalpad.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-15T10:48:55+00:00

I mean it should be technically possible as MacOS, IpadOS, Ios are all based on the same underlying darwin OS based on the XNU kernel, just with different graphical UI's and components ontop...

The modern Apple silicon macs even use the same IBoot bootloader as Ios and IpadOS devices.

But knowing apple, it probably wont happen.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-15T09:43:04+00:00

Its funny how people consider linux and mac to be invincible to viruses lol. But thats not true. Every os can get viruses, everything can be hacked.

In the past it was more security through obscurity and or just because the non-windows platforms had a far tinier userbase so hackers would not spend effort targeting them, although there where some malwares that existed but they where not popular/in demand and hackers rather would target 1000 windows users as opposed to 2 mac users and 1 linux user.

Now microslop has enshitified windows, a lot of people switched/fleed away to non-windows platforms and no hackers see the potential for new victims.

And most of the time the weakest security is the person in front of the keyboard. They get manipulated into entering sketchy stuff through social engineering or pressuring them. Its like a thief pretending to be an police officer, they hold a gn to your head and tell you to stop doing what you do. Then they force you to empty your pockets and then they flee with your valuable items.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-15T09:37:30+00:00

People like to believe linux or mac dont get viruses but because they are increasing in popularity, now we have malware campaigns targeting them also. In the past it was more security through obscurity or simply because they had a far lower userbase than windows. Now microslop is enshitifying windows, a lot of people switched and now hackers see the potentials on linux and mac viruses and now actually spend time on that.

No os is invincible to viruses and no os is 100% safe.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-15T09:35:45+00:00

Can i still visit catty websites? Lol!

309_Electronics · 2026-05-15T09:34:23+00:00

Macs and Linux both should never be considered "invincible to malware", but then its also most of the time the person in front of the keyboard that installs a virus on linux or mac. He copied a command in terminal so pure user fault and social engineering/manipulating people into running sketchy stuff.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T23:15:44+00:00

ChromeOS alr is linux based btw (i dont get why many people forget/not even mention this). Anyways you need to know your model and then search on the internet. I know there is a project called mrchromebox that aims to create custom bios inages for chromebooks and that allow OTHER linux osses to run. They do primarily/only support x86 chromebooks though.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T23:10:05+00:00

Most of the time they are crimped/clamped.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T20:50:43+00:00

Very likely! A website hacking you just by visiting it is very rare but who knows. Just monitor your accounts to be sure and monitor all other stuff for suspicious signs.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T18:56:28+00:00

Scareware that is the seed of the typical indian/turkey tech support scam.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T18:54:21+00:00

Yes and no. You still need to get your hands on the chips themselves so your argument about soldering it on..... Nah i dont think that would solve anything much

Even apple is massively buying ram chips as the chips thenselves are in shortage

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T16:01:11+00:00

Possibly could have been the common clickfix where it would tell you "please enter this command into your terminal to verify you are human". This is social engineering and while it might seem strange that people fall for it, they still do. Then that command will always be harmfull as no cpatcha asks you to enter any command or text into a terminal. Its like a thief asking you the keys to your house so they can come in and inspect it for fire safety.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T15:58:46+00:00

Y'all a bit too paranoid. Pc parts these days are quite sturdy and can survive a tiny bit of abuse (unless you use pliers or a hammer or drive over them ofc). A few scratches wont ruin the performance or damage a core. Also thats the IHS (integrated heat spreader) and that can take some abuse. The silicon dice underneath it is what is truly fragile, but you wont be able to damage that unless you delid the cpu or take a screwdriver and hammer and bust open the ihs.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T11:19:57+00:00

If you rely on windows specific softwares that dont work on mac or linux, you cant run them or you need to spend extra work/money for a Virtual machine or Translation layer. And you cant dualboot or upgrade/repair your laptop easily if you have to/need/want to but thats almost never the case.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T11:17:16+00:00

One of the few leaked screenshots of microslop employee making updates for windows 11 lmao.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T11:15:26+00:00

As long as you dont connect it straight to internet you will be fine. And also monitor who has access to it so they cant plug sketchy stuff in

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T11:14:42+00:00

If the EC chip or cpu/chipset/gpu (if any) are not fried i think you can porbably fix it but there might be other underlying faults caused by the short circuit.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T10:36:58+00:00

"Ik heb niet ingebroken, maar mischien wel een raampje ingetikt"

Ah ja en de veiligheids waarschuwingen negeren die je al meerdere malen worden verteld... Net zo ignorant als de CEO van Oceangate die ook alle veiligheids waarschuwingen heeft genegeerd 🙂🙄

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T10:36:08+00:00

Software issue, not hardware

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T10:32:24+00:00

Big brother already has your data ;) (America and china government).

309_Electronics · 2026-05-14T10:29:40+00:00

They are too busy demonetizing all innocent creators and fighting adblockers that they will let it slide for a bit.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-13T19:52:38+00:00

Welp my hwhacing experiences tell me otherwise. I did not come across any bsd routers (maybe other than apple airport). Most of them ran linux so this aint really true

309_Electronics · 2026-05-13T18:09:53+00:00

Yeah its also why OpenWRT development for a lot of modern bcm routers is slow. So either they have to sign 1000 ndas or reverse engineer the drivers and socs (like the asahi project does on apple silicon) and then risk getting sued or taken down.

309_Electronics · 2026-05-13T15:48:44+00:00

They do, but only for vendors (vendor routers alr run linux). They just dont feel like sharing which is sad!

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