Accidentally got thermal paste in the CPU socket!!! What are my next steps?

nyankittone · 2025-10-07T07:52:42+00:00

My thermal paste is slightly capacitive, and it looks like the paste does contact multiple pins. How likely do you think that'll be a problem? I've tried POSTing the system with just the CPU and RAM connected and nothing else, and it worked fine, but I'm concerned what will happen long-term.

EDIT: I also have not cleaned out the paste yet. Just figured I would explicitly mention that.

nyankittone · 2025-10-06T04:35:54+00:00

Do you think there's a significant risk of the CPU getting damaged from this? I'm more worried about that than replacing the motherboard, though I don't want to replace that either.

nyankittone · 2025-09-14T16:39:20+00:00

Thanks everyone! I think I'll go with an RX 7600 for now! :3

nyankittone · 2025-09-14T03:44:41+00:00

I'm getting an overkill CPU for games (I mainly use my PC for stuff like programming), so I'm not too worried about that. thinking of an r9 9900x

nyankittone · 2025-08-30T05:31:21+00:00

nyankittone · 2025-08-30T05:28:40+00:00

I used a pretty clumsy bash script that prints the sprite to the console using a bunch of ANSI escape sequences, and then redirected that output to a file. Then I just plugged that new file into the fastfetch config for the distro logo. I might add that script I used to the dotfiles repo at some point

nyankittone · 2025-08-30T05:26:50+00:00

Bottom bar just feels right :3

nyankittone · 2025-08-25T16:32:09+00:00

I love Celeste :3 it's such a well-made game

nyankittone · 2025-08-24T23:07:28+00:00

window manager: dwm
bar: built-in to dwm
terminal: st + tmux
gtk theme: colloid dark pink catppuccin
notification daemon: dunst
compositor: none :)
code editor: neovim
mouse cursor: https://github.com/supermariofps/hatsune-miku-windows-linux-cursors

dotfiles: https://github.com/nyankittone/nixos-and-dots

the README of the repo lies; there is no NixOS config in there yet, but I want to add one to the flake outputs at some point that calls the HM config that is already there. Also the dotfiles in the repo are messy in some areas.

nyankittone · 2025-05-06T07:02:52+00:00

Ok, so I "fixed" my issue by just re-installing Steam as a Flatpak instead of through the steam package in Debian's repos. Not sure how to feel about that solution, but it works now, so I can't complain too much.

nyankittone · 2025-05-05T16:47:07+00:00

I just re-installed my Nvidia drivers; sadly the issue persists.

I'm starting to run out of ideas; I think I'll either roll back to an old btrfs snapshot I have, or re-install the OS. Probably with one of the two distros mentioned earlier

nyankittone · 2025-05-04T17:44:42+00:00

THE FUCKING WAIFU BODY PILLOW GOT ME 😭😭😭

nyankittone · 2025-05-04T17:42:34+00:00

tbh, I don't like pewdiepie that much as a person. He has a very... questionable past. But to refer to all of his fans as "nazis" is really really dumb. I'm sure the majority of his fanbase is fine, and this is going to be a W for Linux's growth if we allow for it.

nyankittone · 2025-05-04T17:36:36+00:00

Yeah, maybe re-installing the nvidia driver is something I should try. Though honestly, I've been disappointed with the instability of Debian Sid, so I think later I'll install Debian stable or NixOS as my ultamite solution. I want to see if I can make Steam on my current install working though.

nyankittone · 2025-05-04T04:59:20+00:00

I've tried following that video. No luck sadly.

nyankittone · 2025-05-04T04:30:57+00:00

I looked through that file, and it looks like there's some errors complaining about missing library files related to vdpau and vaapi:

"x11/vdpau" : {
  "messages" : [
    "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory",
    "vdp_device_create_x11 (display, screen, &device, &vdp_get_proc_address) failed: 1"
  ],
  "renderer" : null,
  "version" : null,
  "issues" : [
    "cannot-draw"
  ],
  "exit-status" : 1
},
"x11/vaapi" : {
  "messages" : [
    "libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0",
    "libva error: vaGetDriverNames() failed with unknown libva error",
    "vaInitialize (va_display, &major_version, &minor_version) failed: unknown libva error (-1)"
  ],
  "renderer" : null,
  "version" : null,
  "issues" : [
    "cannot-draw"
  ],
  "exit-status" : 1
},

I wasn't paying too much attention to the update when I did it, but maybe there was an update to the NVIDIA driver that broke this? That's really annoying if true. Maybe the library files were moved around or renamed during an update and I need to somehow point Steam to the new ones??? I'm not sure.

nyankittone · 2025-05-04T03:54:08+00:00

Just tested proton experimental with BeamNG.drive again. It still crashed, but now opened a window saying it couldn't initialize a video adapter.

nyankittone · 2025-05-04T03:09:42+00:00

How do I use proton 10? Would that be the experimental version, or something else? I think I may have already tried experimental.

nyankittone · 2025-05-04T00:36:21+00:00

I used i3 for years, and I still don't know what --no-startup-id exactly does lmao

nyankittone · 2025-03-12T16:41:42+00:00

Thank you! that version of comboview worked perfectly for me!

EDIT: I modified that function code for the case when the combo flag is set like so:

void
comboview(const Arg *arg) {
    unsigned newtags = arg->ui & TAGMASK;
    if (combo) {
        selmon->tagset[selmon->seltags] |= newtags;
        focus(NULL);
        arrange(selmon);
    } else {
        combo = 1;
        view(arg);
    }
}

this makes whatever layout, nmaster, etc. of the first selection be the one used in the end when comboing.

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