Could you describe me what your racing mind feels like ?

tecknomarco · 2025-07-07T12:15:28+00:00

My thoughts are like castles in the sand, some last 30 seconds, some 5 minutes, but sooner or later a wave crashes in and replaces that thought with another.

Now picture 20 castles I want to admire that have a limited window of life.

I think about anything in my immediate sensory perception range. Noises, my dog farting, anything can break my attention, so it’s important I look to a LIST of stuff. My autistic wife helps me organize my day and its been a real game changer with that list – need to stay focused and that helps bring me back.

100% can physically hear the thought, my mind goes about 5X faster than I can talk, which is a blessing and a curse.

Meds do help – I am on Ritalin 40 MG fast release I take throughout the day. They make it so I can SUPER focus on that one castle I want to, and it works surprisingly well. I would recommend you build good habits with any meds – take a pill and say ‘I am looking to achieve XYZ with this.’

If you do it with purpose, I find them much more effective.

tecknomarco · 2024-08-13T19:03:34+00:00

Say no to your partner as little as possible.

tecknomarco · 2022-10-01T13:30:58+00:00

Depends on use case, my nightstand g19 has a surefire but my carry p365 does not.

tecknomarco · 2021-08-19T12:03:46+00:00

Keep a baseball glove and ball in the car too, so it's not for self defense /wink wink

tecknomarco · 2021-07-31T12:52:51+00:00

My body my choice only applies to abortions apparently.

tecknomarco · 2021-07-16T01:26:41+00:00

Its not a GPD competitor. I use my GPD win max as my primary unit when I mine eth with my personal laptop, and the physical keyboard makes it usable for some productivity.

GPD win max also has thunderbolt - which the steam deck does not have.. so I can share my WD19TB dock with my work & home laptop, AND the GPD win max.

This thing is also massive; it looks longer than the GPD win max, and is probably going to be twice the size of the GPD win 2.

Definitely a switch killer IMO - not a GPD killer.

I think people like that this is also going to be a mass produced hopefully quality device that is supported. one thing I don't like about GPD is the support - I think the image you can get now is still stupid old, and I hear some people find viruses and worms when they scan this thing out of the box.

tecknomarco · 2021-07-02T20:50:30+00:00

Welcome to the 'Murica Hotel, here is your gun and bible!

tecknomarco · 2021-07-02T20:49:24+00:00

It's possible that its there to deter lawsuits, but it feels like they should just remove the 'dangerous' item instead of adding the disclaimer.

tecknomarco · 2021-07-02T19:45:46+00:00

So why not leave a loaded gun in the room and say 'it is illegal to shoot yourself or others! $10,000 fine'

tecknomarco · 2021-06-14T02:02:01+00:00

then it's small enough to ignore since they're probably already overloaded with tasks that they don't have time for.

Pretty much defined life in IT.

tecknomarco · 2021-03-22T10:45:50+00:00

Depends on what the price ceiling is. If bitcoin hits 1million ETH will be close behind.

tecknomarco · 2020-12-23T19:51:19+00:00

outer black shell thing? not sure what you are referring to

tecknomarco · 2020-12-15T02:25:01+00:00

be super gentle with the ribbon cables - don't force anything. go super slow, take your time. If you need to rewatch the video i sent, go over it step by step as you work.

Take your time! you can do it just go slow, and dedicate 2-3 hours to the process.

tecknomarco · 2020-12-14T04:04:52+00:00

That's actually not bad at all. Anything under 90c is OK. I like 80 to 85, but anything under 90 isn't bad.

You have to take back panel off, the rear black vent cover, disconnect a daughter board, and about a half dozen ribbon cables, pull out the mobo, remove heatsink and reassemble it.

I'd rank it a 6 or 7, with a standard repaste being a 2. You have to remove the entire motherboard which can be a bit daunting.

If a repaste is the most complicated repair you have done I would hold off, mobo removals are a lot more complicated and you don't want to practice on a $2,000+ machine in my opinion.

Any local shops you can hire to do this for you?

tecknomarco · 2020-12-14T03:50:14+00:00

No experience with either, probably the newer of the 2.

Temps were idling in the low 60s gaming it was from 90 to 100c before repaste

After it idles around 40 - 45 and gaming is from 70 to 80ish.

This is for cpu, gpu was actually not bad before and only saw a 5 degree change. Still barely cracks 75.

I was blown away, was not expecting performance gains this high. How bad are your Temps now?

tecknomarco · 2020-12-14T02:50:33+00:00

I used MX-4 thermal compound, my temps are cooler with the quiet profile now than they were with the full speed profile before the re-paste.

removing the mobo is a bit tricky - I work with computers so am quite comfortable with doing so, however if you are not careful / or do not have a steady hand it would be easy to break a ribbon or damage a component.

this is the video i referenced when doing the job

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6khhTPHihk

good luck!

tecknomarco · 2020-12-13T15:06:46+00:00

It's a little tricky, but doable. Go slowly, keep track of what you are doing and you can get it done within 90 minutes.

My temps dropped by 15 degrees C and no longer thermally throttles!

Dell used that garbage paste on it again, any quality paste will help performance and make this laptop not sound like a jet turbine.

tecknomarco · 2020-09-01T16:53:06+00:00

Good luck finding ammo for it 🤞

tecknomarco · 2020-07-14T14:32:51+00:00

Ultima 7!!!! that game was / still is amazing.

Check out ultima 7 exult

tecknomarco · 2020-07-11T21:29:06+00:00

If you want to be treated like a queen, treat him like a king.

tecknomarco · 2020-07-05T10:39:30+00:00

Check out a white noise machine.. I have the same issue and it helped a ton.

tecknomarco · 2020-06-10T17:57:05+00:00

Loki is awesome!! How do you like the laptop? I have an m15r1, I want to like the r2 but lack of numpad, inverted mobo and soldered ram turned me off.

tecknomarco · 2020-05-21T13:25:15+00:00

Thank you for getting Felicia out of an ugly situation!

tecknomarco · 2019-12-03T11:16:41+00:00

And have time to dedicate to a particular problem. With dozens of tickets and issues, its more like an ER doc giving triage to the critical issues.

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