LGA sockets (including AM5) have flat contacts on the CPU and spring-loaded contacts on the motherboard. No pins, no holes. You could take a small tweezer or precision flathead screwdriver and lift the CPU from a corner. As long as you don’t reach in too deep, it won’t damage either side. You should be able to lift it with minimal force.

Find the motherboard’s manual. It will have instructions for installing and removing both the CPU and the cooler. If the CPU uses a PGA socket, removing it might require a little force.

If you’re sure the clip and the retaining frame are released, but can’t/don’t want to lift it by its edges, you could use suction.

• If there’s still some moisture in the thermal compound, you can use a flat piece of glass or plastic. Press it against the CPU’s surface and lift gently. If the thermal compound is dry, apply a little from a new tube.
• A small suction cup might work.
• There are vacuum pens made specifically for this kind of work.

(edit) The MSI B650 uses an AM5 socket, which is an LGA package. The CPU itself doesn’t have any pins that could be damaged, so you can be a bit more forceful. You could even take a small tweezer and pry it out from one of the corners (as long as the retaining frame is off, of course).

I currently run Nextcloud inside a Debian 11 LXC container on Proxmox, together with Apache, Mariadb, and PHP. I followed this guide. Once Apache and PHP were running, the rest of the process was straightforward.

My entire house is 3000K

Your heating expenses must be absurd.

Pretty sure it’s the other non-brand name for acetaminophen.

If you have a way to sync files (Nextcloud, Syncthing, etc): KeePassDX on Android (f-droid), and KeePassXC on Linux (Flathub). They both support TOTPs, and XC has browser and libsecret integration.

Somebody made it this way years ago and there’s not enough demand to warrant the effort to change it. KDE Plasma is 16 years old. GNOME is 25. Some features are so deeply embedded in the spaghetti code that any significant change would result in a cascading break.

One that is nothing but positive: you can edit post titles and use limited markdown in them.

One that’s done as much good as it’s done harm: polycentric moderation. One instance can’t enforce its own community rules on others. It protects lemmy.blahaj.zone from bigots, but it’s also why Lemmygrad exists.

Take a look at this list: https://networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html

I use an older APC Back-UPS 500 to power my homelab and all network devices. So far it’s saved me from 3 power outages, and can last about 30 minutes with a 50W power draw. It doesn’t have data connections of its own (newer devices do), so I had to improvise with an ESP32 board that reports if it detects a voltage on the beeper, plus some cron jobs on Proxmox.

I simply use Nextcloud to sync the vault directory. It has clients for both desktop and mobile and works perfectly fine. I use it to sync basically everything between my work, home, laptop, and mobile.

The only drawback is that I don’t know if Obsidian automatically reloads a file if it is changed - if not, and you leave the file open in the editor, you might accidentally overwrite the new file with old data.

Being the more virtuous party doesn’t work, so yes. Yes to all of the dirty tricks, including extralegal. Anything to preserve some kind of sanity because the alternative is unacceptable.

Like pouring salt on a leech.

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

I was ready to have a rant about PHP. Well played.

“Archiving legally purchased content as an insurance against corporate-sanctioned theft”?

I challenge you to make an appetizing meal out of the plants (and specific cultivars!) used as animal feed.

You’ll encounter math eventually. It could be as simple as implementing linear interpolation for a custom type, or understanding why a type is not suited for a particular application (e.g. never use floating points to represent money). If you delve into low-level networking, you’ll need a good understanding of binary/decimal/hexadecimal conversions and operations. If you go into game development or graphics, you won’t survive without a deep understanding of vectors, matrices, and quaternions. Any kind of data science is just math translated to a machine-readable language.

In my opinion, knowledge of the basic concepts is more important than being good at actually performing mathematics with pen and paper. For example, if you need to apply a transformation to a vector, nobody expects you to whip up a program that does the thing. Instead, you should immediately know:

• what a transformation is (translation, rotation, scaling, projection, etc),
• that each transformation has a corresponding transformation matrix,
• that you’ll have to deal with inhomogeneous and homogeneous coordinates, and
• that you’ll have to combine the transformation matrices and the original vector.

That abstract knowledge will give you a starting point. Then you can look up the particulars – the corresponding transformation matrices, the method to convert between inhomogeneous and homogeneous coordinates, and the process of matrix multiplication. I know because I failed calculus.

Elephants. African elephants have large ears to assist in maintaining their body temperature. Asian elephants that migrated farther north (India and S-E-Asia) evolved smaller ears because the evolutionary pressure wasn’t as significant.

For comparison: African, Asian

I’ve never seen that, even in university, and it would be equally as confusing without explanation.

Pascal uses = for comparison (and := for assignment), which confused the fuck out of me when I switched to C.