You don't need to fuse every fiber connection unless you're doing really long distance fiber.
For runs inside a building, single pulls with mechanical splices would work just fine. You shouldn't get much loss as long as there aren't more than two or so mechanical splices.
Source: worked as a technician for a fiber optic ISP.
If you want to fully wipe the disks of any data to start with, you can use a tool like dd to zero the disks. First you need to figure out what your dive is enumerated as, then you wipe it like so:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
From there, you need to decide if you're going to use them individually or as a pool.
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Plus, there's all the cool stuff Valve has been doing for Linux gaming. All the effort into Proton, the steam deck, etc.
At this point, I'm sticking with Steam to reward them for investing in Linux.
I'm not disagreeing with anything you've said?
I'm saying that just adding Mozilla's PPA to your sources won't change apt's behavior when installing Firefox unless you tell apt to prefer the package offered by the Mozilla PPA.
As someone who uses Kubuntu as a daily driver, I'm well aware of the snap drama and have worked around it using the method I pasted above.
Even though it's an underhanded move by Cannonical, I'm still glad the OS is open source since it makes the workaround so trivial.
It takes a little more than just adding a different repository to your package manager, you have to tell apt which to prefer:
echo '
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org
Pin-Priority: 1000
Package: firefox*
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -1' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla
Biden never had enough control of the whole government to get those things done without Republican buy-in.
A Republican controlled house won't send a bill like that to the Senate. A Republican controlled Senate won't send it to the President.
You can be upset at Biden, but we've rarely ever given a Democratic president a Democratic Congress to help him get anything done.
It's generally better to use more than you need than it is to use too little. Unless you're buying specialty thermal paste, it will be nonconductive so any paste running off the sides won't hurt anything.
Using different patterns can trap air, which will reduce thermal conductivity.
I don't disagree that you're finding issues. But I'm not convinced these would cause a CPU to overheat at idle.
They might cause issues with temps under full load, but I think his main issue is the watercooler isn't moving heat from the CPU block to the radiator.
Don't do 5 dots, do one big dot in the center. About the size of a pea.
The pressure of the heatsink will spread it out.
For what it's worth, this is why I hate water cooling. Even if a fan fails, an air cooler will ambiently dissipate heat.
I ran a computer repair store from 2015-2022. Only left because I became a single dad and needed a more reliable source of income. We had a pile of dead AIO watercoolers that fried processors from silently failing.
I'll forever use air coolers.
If there was a short on something, the CPU wouldn't work.
Even at idle, CPUs generate heat because there's electricity flowing across them. That heat needs to be dissipated and for some reason, it isn't.
My bet is either a pump failure, or power loss to the pump. Looking at the thermas paste marks on both the water block and the CPU, it looks like it's making at least decent contact. If the water was flowing through it, it shouldn't be overheating at idle. It might not be performing at peak efficiency, but it shouldn't be overheating.
It's basically just an end you attach to the fiber:
https://www.gomultilink.com/products/066-222-10?category=44
You'll use a cleaver to break the fiber at a 90 degree angle to reduce attenuation, and slide it into the connector. Once it bottoms out, you press something down and it grabs the fiber, holding it in place.
I know it's Youtube, but here's a video of the process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuKm7t87SJU
The idea is you would pull a fiber cable through a building and terminate it with ends like these. Then install them into a bulkhead to make them similar to solid-core CAT5/5e/6 cable into a patch panel. You can then use premade jumpers to connect from the building wiring to the devices you're using.
The fusion machines are generally used for long distance links because of the significantly lower attenuation per splice. A fiber line that goes 40 miles is likely to have tens if not hundreds of splices in it depending on the number of spans of cable, and industry standard for fusion splices is 0.00-0.05 db attenuation per fusion splice.