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So my CPU needs to be rebonded to the cooler using "liquid metal" - properly this time because it wasn't done right from factory.
Please accept our apologies for
the repair delays you have experienced. We know how critical it is to
have your Lenovo device repaired as quickly as possible and we
appreciate your continued patience and understanding.
Apparently they can't find liquid metal.
I've got a guy in Florida who has worked on a ton of these Legion laptops. He charges a reasonable amount to redo the thermals on it, and he'll even dial in the processor's clock and voltages for you on your shiny new i9. He can do it all without voiding the warranty, and people are singing his praises on the Legion Discord server.
My current plan is to wait and give Lenovo a chance to do right by me.
This guy in Florida is my plan B.
Not my favorite position to be in - having to go outside official channels to get reliable work done, but I've heard bad things about Lenovo's service techs. Like, they'd be better off working a deep fryer.
I guess as long as they don't destroy it I'll give them a chance, but I may insist on watching them work on it.
Ugh. It's a bad place to be when I'm more inclined to trust "some guy" than Lenovo.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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I have heard about fried motherboards caused by service people not used to liquid metal paste, after spilling some in places where it should not be 
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Yep, and I really hope they don't screw it up, because this particular bit of silicon die is lovely. I've undervolted the caches by 100mV! And it's still stable. That's great. Silicon lottery. Now if it was just bonded correctly my temps would be fantastic.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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honey the codewitch wrote: I've got a guy in Florida
You're going to trust a Florida Man with your pride and joy? 
Given that your portable is still under warranty, I don't see how you can avoid going the official route. The question is why a new portable needs servicing. Apparently Lenovo's QC is not all it should be. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yeah, he may strap a gator to it and power it with meth. 
The QC I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt. Everybody makes a bad batch once in awhile. It's what they do about it at the end of the day that is the measure of their product.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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#Worldle #496 3/6 (100%)
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Probably won't run Doom, though 
Keep Calm and Carry On
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My first thought - will it run Doom?
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Adobe Creative Cloud might have finally met its match.
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Still won't be able to run GTA at Ultra details...
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Now this is just a guess, but I suspect the price is in the "if you have to ask ..." category.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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With my retirement later this year, I've been thinking about the most meaningful projects I've worked on.
Top of my list is the work I did for the 1984 Olympic games held in Los Angeles. I was working on the operating system of the IBM S/38 back then. IBM was a corporate sponsor of the Olympics. My task was to make some modifications to the operating system so we could print a special bar code that we were not making generally available. This was printed (by a dot-matrix printer) onto the employee and athlete badges. The badge had a dark red square where the black bar code was printed -- so even though it was machine readable it was not easy to read with one's eyes.
I felt a lot of responsibility as a 25 year old. Of course the application worked well and there were no security problems. It's a special memory.
Best wishes everyone - Craig
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Just noting you can volunteer which I believe includes applying your expertise in computers.
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I may have posted about this before, I should check.
Waaayyy... back when I was in college (circa 1990), working on my BSCS, I had a co-op job.
There was a Nice Young Lady there who caught my eye... she kept printing (dot-matrix, fanfold) long lists of numbers. List after list after list... The printers were just outside my office.
Eventually, I went to ask her what she was doing.
First, she had to validate the numbers and correct any errors. Then she had to transcribe them into a report. The reports went to a state agency.
Once the process was explained to me I said, "I can write a program to produce the report, then all you have to do is validate the report" (it was a one-page report) -- it would not only be legible, but it would save paper and printer ribbon at least. If I recall correctly, I also wrote something to detect and report any obvious referential integrity issues in the database -- don't get me started.
And so, after discussing it with my boss, I did just that.
Thereafter, a simple command (this was OpenVMS) would spit a report out of the printer and she would review it and fix any obvious data errors (e.g. columns with values greater than 100%).
The company has since gone out of business.
Why is this project meaningful? Because the Nice Young Lady and I have been married since 1992. 
I don't think any of the other projects I have worked on have really had an impact on the world at large.
Edit:
Re: Programming Paid Off [^]
Re: Top 10 Pick-up Lines the Code Project Ladies Are Sick of Hearing[^]
modified 11hrs 15mins ago.
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I don't have a publicly meaningful project, but there is one that's special to me called Trace Viewer. It's a Windows app that connects via TCP/IP to one or more servers embedded in our product software. We build commercial ink-jet systems, so several computers running multiple processes each. TV captures messages from the servers and records them to one or more files. Trace Viewer has become indispensable for developing these complex multiprocessor, heavily multithreaded applications.
Trace Viewer's been under development and maintenance since I started it in 2000. When my normal work tasks aren't providing satisfaction, I'll spend time tinkering with it. I've learned a lot, especially Windows UI in the process. Let me put it this way: CListCtrl (actually, CListView) is my bitch.
I'm rather proud of it.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I had the Xbox360 (yes, I know, it's "vintage") Rock Band 3 game disc, but because of my stupidity, I banged into the console, and that disc was trashed - and so I bought a NIB replacement disc. However to avoid this in the future, I want to make a copy of this game disc, and only use the copy disc to play, that way if I do this again, I could easily make a new copy.
Anyway, so I need to get an external CD writer, and I want to make sure that it can make an exact copy that the console will accept. Is there anything special I should look for in a CD writer? It seems that all such writers can write DVD, and I presume that any such writers could do a proper game disc copy.
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I think any DVD writer will be sufficient. However you probably can't use a normal disc copy program, as I believe XBOX (and PlayStation, other consoles) use various tricks to prevent illegal copying. You should probably do a web search for something like "how to copy XBOX disc", and use that information to find a utility that will allow you to copy the game disc.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Yeah, they usually have some kind of hidden sectors that consumer grade writers can't duplicate.
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Former unadorned prior ruler creates understanding. (9)
I'm heading out to a meeting in a few minutes, so unless someone gets it quickly (quite likely), there'll be a couple of hours delay in replying.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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