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1d ago
inWas sure thermal paste swaps were snake oil until a Dell from 2016 hit 98C in my shop, now I gotta ask
My buddy Dave had a 2015 XPS 15 that would throttle just opening Chrome, swore up and down it was the CPU being old. Pulled the heatsink off one night and that paste was basically chalk, cracked and gray with a dry spot right over the die. Swapped it and dropped his load temps by almost 20C, thing felt like a new laptop for basic stuff. That said some of those Dell years also had bad fan curves and undersized coolers so paste alone won't always save you. Worth trying before you write the machine off though, worst case you're out 10 bucks and an hour.
1d ago
inHot take: the $45 breakfast at that Corktown diner did more for my pipeline than 2 months of coffee meetups
Tbh the 7am part is what does it, nobody's there to network when they're still half asleep.
5d ago
inPro tip: I used to cut dadoes with a router jig and a prayer, now I stack two blades and check with a $12 caliper
Honestly a caliper doesn't tell you the actual cut width, it only measures your blade stack. The real test is a test cut on scrap, since the arbor and flange slop can throw things off by a few thousandths.