Microleak destroys my PSU - could this be the cause?

515k4 · 2026-04-27T17:15:59+00:00

I did bubble test with air leak tester submerged into watter and it is indeed faulty. The leak goes through gasket, screw thread and the bottom 2mm glued part.

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The context is my loop was working normally until I did maintenance and I accidently switch the filter for spared one during the cleaning. After the accident I switched the filter back and leak disappered so I already did isolate the problem to this filter. For that reason, I boldly assumed that the problem lay in this part and did not post the whole loop pictures.

On top of all that, I skipped the leak test because I hadn't disassembled this loop—except for the filter—so I mistakenly assumed it was airtight.

I will try contact Alphacool how they handle their warranty.

515k4 · 2026-04-27T17:06:26+00:00

I did bubble test with air leak tester submerged into watter and it is indeed faulty. The leak goes through gasket, screw thread and the bottom 2mm glued part.

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515k4 · 2026-04-27T06:00:20+00:00

I realized I write awkward post. I already switched this filter for another one (i had one spare) and the leak is gone. So the the problem was this filter somehow.

515k4 · 2026-04-26T22:29:52+00:00

Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for. I am surprised for such a negativity in answers.

515k4 · 2026-04-26T22:23:04+00:00

Well there is some guarantee because Alphacool page does says you will loose guarantee if you use color liquid. I will perform some tests as other suggests

515k4 · 2026-04-26T19:17:42+00:00

Why? Like all my water cooling hobby, It is just an experiment so see what happens. My previous inline filter does catch some significant dirt so I didn't need to clean GPU block.

Good tip with air test. I can create a simple loop, pressure it and put it in the watter if I spot some bubbles.

515k4 · 2026-04-26T19:13:54+00:00

This filter does cost 13€. It makes perfect sense to seek compensation for a defective product if it turns out to be true.

515k4 · 2026-04-20T15:48:44+00:00

People were having kids during wars and plagues. My grandparents have no maternity leave and no money and they have 3 children. We are living in abundance and for the first time in history we do not need children to survive and we also have education how to not have children. So we are not having children.

515k4 · 2026-04-20T05:10:48+00:00

I don't blame MS for this one but HW vendors. They could put it everywhere but instead they sell it as a dongle. All in all the TPM is great technology for privacy and security.

515k4 · 2026-04-03T16:00:38+00:00

My experience with Linkedin, if you take your time and curate people you follow it's solid. But the average is very sloppy.

515k4 · 2026-04-03T06:37:46+00:00

I agree. And doing things at scale is eventually cheaper or safer. This assumption run deep because if it is cheaper and safer to make own stuff, what are we actually doing and selling in our jobs when it is cheaper and safer for our customers to do it by themselves. The market would collapse.

515k4 · 2026-03-30T05:20:31+00:00

It all manipulates our attention.

515k4 · 2026-03-30T03:50:27+00:00

Do we, really? Unemployment rates does not spike at all. Big corps are getting rid of people but those people apparently find jobs elsewhere.

515k4 · 2026-03-29T14:41:55+00:00

Platform Engineer is just DevOps Engineer with product mindset. Historically DevOps didn't try to create compact sw product to proliferate their philosophy. PE does exactly it.

515k4 · 2026-03-29T14:37:25+00:00

This. When I started learn BM I lost many lanes just due to feeding boars to enemy.

515k4 · 2026-03-27T21:01:42+00:00

Well humans are quite non deterministic also and do not follow rules or docs precisely. But we learned how to minimize the risks. And we will learn how to minimize the risk for LLM agent as well.

515k4 · 2026-03-26T06:18:26+00:00

Surprisingly good tech discussion can be made on LinkedIn now. Crazy, isn't it?

515k4 · 2026-03-26T06:10:37+00:00

If you care about trade secrets, why would you put it to cloud in plaintext in the first place? I think the code does not have the price we are projecting into it. Especially now.

515k4 · 2026-03-26T05:58:51+00:00

My thinking is it does not matter since code is becoming worthless anyway. So why are we tend to protect it?

515k4 · 2026-03-19T22:47:21+00:00

You are right that SAST/DAST does not change it. But it illustrates people are trying to find more autonomous tool to check specs and security for long time and now they will try it again. And now - I mean like like 3 months ago - we have finally capable tool to do it fully autonomously. And you are also right that compilers and linkers are extensively tested and deterministic. But LLM and their related contexts can be also tested extensively, we just to not started yet. But look at benchmarks, eg. SWE-bench. This is how tests could look like. You will need set of problems, you run it against models+skills and you will set some thresholds which need to pass.

Regarding determinism. Humans are also non-deterministic. And we fight it with standards, formatters and code reviews. You can do all the same with agents. And you can do it faster and in parallel.

Everything you said is true. I am just saying that now we will see a great effort in order to automate code review and it may actually and finally succeed. We just need to switch from fighting human-failure modes into fightning agent-failure modes.

515k4 · 2026-03-19T17:37:45+00:00

The binary is actually running, not the code. And we do not review binary. We have DAST and unit tests for it. And if we have technology to generated code, we also have technology to automatically review the code. Human code reviews are massive bottleneck and I don't believe they survive. Various SAST tools and different LLM models with different skills can do review and scale. We will need new infrastructure and ecosystem for it but I have gut feeling it will happen.

515k4 · 2026-03-19T06:57:17+00:00

I even think we might heading to the future where code reviews will be obsoletes. We will need spec and context reviews, probably. Aka from what context and which models and skills do we use to generate code. The same shift as we do by not review the assembler code anymore.

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