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No expert on CPUs and coolers, but

• begin by checking levelness of the plate and functionality of the mounting mechanism. I suspect that if they got badly warped, all work could be futile.
• when trying to bend things back, apply some external heat to them first (duh) [edit: dubious, see another user's comment below] and pay care not to impair the levelness of the plate (duh)
• personally I would only try it on a CPU and motherboard that are old and cheap enough for me to be okay with them breaking. If you don't have them, perhaps there's some PC re-use initiative in your vicinity which would either accept and try your cooler, or give out corresponding components to you.

Like I said: it can be gamed to some degree, but what system can't?

Besides finding better ways to positively recognize bots, we also need to invent ways that make it quicker to realize "false alarm, this user is actually legit".

For example, users should have an option to pin posts and comments to their profile, and I suggest to provide at least two different 'tabs' for this in the public profile: One tab just for the usual "posts and comments you would like the world to see", but another tab for "some recent, complex interactions between you and other (established) users that in your eyes prove quite well you're not a bot". The purpose is simply to save others, worried that you could be a bot, some time of going through your posts in search of signs for humanity. Yes, this can be gamed to some degree (what can't?). However, at a technical level, the feature is little more than a copy of the "pin" feature that would be very nice to have anyways, so we can get an appreciable improvement in our ability to tell users from bots for very little programming effort.

It was a bit of a long shot experiment to begin with. The commands I posted can be useful when an audio device suddenly stops working after it has been working initially during a session, but since your problem is most likely about your device not being recognized at any time, it's not too surprising that they don't do much. Just worth the try.

Do any of

    
alsactl clean 0
alsactl clean 1
alsactl clean 2


  

do anything for you? (The numbers are for sound card 0, 1, and 2. It looks like, if anything, only 0 would be relevant for you, but you can try the others just in case.)

This command cleans the controls created by applications.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/questing/man1/alsactl.1.html

Came here to point to this.

Also, if outside noise is preventing one from keeping the windows open over night, get custom-fitted silicone earplugs.

There is forum software that's integrated in the fediverse. Most often I've heard about NodeBB, which is open source and one can self-host it for free; there is even a YunoHost package.

What hardware do you currently use and what software do you intend to run on the new machine? And what's your budget situation?

In any case, I would always recommend to buy used or refurbished hardware. Even if it's not necessary financially, it's better for the environment.

That's very cool indeed – although I dread the moment he starts talking to his followers about Lemmy.

This is in all likelihood the way to go. These instructions from VeraCrypt might lead the way.

Of course, OP should create an exact duplicate of the disk to another drive before making any changes to it.

As an aside, I know that GPT partition tables likewise come with a backup header at the end of the disk. Whether LUKS encrypted devices also have backup headers, I don't know, but it doesn't seem so. So, my fellow LUKS users, perhaps you would like to run the following:

sudo cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup /dev/LUKSDEVICE --header-backup-file ~/nas/backups/lenovo_x280.luks.bin

There's a provision that says the trust structure can be changed without everyone's consent if the intended change is in the interest of all trustees. Rupert, Lachlan and their team want to exploit this by arguing that the ongoing financial success of the media empire is dependent on it retaining its staunchly conservative editorial line, so that it is in fact (from a financial point of view) in the interest of the three non-conservative children if they don't get to have any influence. The first judge wasn't buying it; let's hope that the others will rule the same way. (One argument in their favor is that the $787 million settlement that Fox News has to pay to Dominion Voting System due to a defamation lawsuit was a consequence of Rupert's or Lachlan's die-hard conservative messaging.)

What's less good: I remember dimly that, should Rupert live long enough (past theö year 2030?), he can change the trust at will again.

Thank you, that's interesting and good to know. At least it's probably a good idea to not increment/decrement properties in very small steps (like 2% at a time) on a regular basis. I suspect the 5% steps I'm using for brightness should be fine, but I'll implement some shortcuts that go in bigger steps just to be sure.

The most staggering thing though is that the show has had quite noticeable repercussions on the dealings of the real-life Murdochs. Anyone who would like a long read on all this can check out the Atlantic article linked in the post description.

The Atlantic article that I linked in the post description talks at length about the spicy shit (especially about the family relations and only comparatively little about the legal aspects).

I'm curious about both things you mention. Do you have the name of the kernel module at hand? And can you point me to a source on the monitor flash memory (as I couldn't find anything on that)?

To add to this, I'd recommend to go through the BIOS/UEFI settings and turn off things you don't need, e.g. certain card slots, ports, fingerprint scanner, maybe the webcam.

I feel you basically. I have given up trying to control the RGB on my RAM (even though it's probably decently documented somewhere).

Physical! The same as if you reached with your hand to access your monitor's inbuilt settings dialogue.

Your comment has now motivated me to add a Windows section :)

I know nothing about this, but can OpenRGB (Linux tool) talk to your device in any way?