My personal experience is that we're often unaware of the contradictions until something external happens. It might be someone pointing it out or just a passing comment in an overheard conversation. Something needs to jostle the noggin.
That's why I said what I did. You can't fix what you're oblivious too. However once you are aware, you have the power to choose to do something about it. Sounds like you exercised that power. Good for you.
To say I haven't fallen victim to cognitive dissonance would be a lie. However, I learned how to avoid it and resolve conflicts in my own beliefs over time.
I like the self-awareness of the first half, but I think the second half is likely bullshit. Unless you've become a being of total rational thought and zero emotion, I don't think it is possible.
First thing to realise is that people only repair dissonance alone and in private. As you say, debates and arguments don't help.
I just try to engage on the positive topics and not engage on the negative ones. I'm honest about why I think what I think, but I don't try to convince anyone. I say when I don't know something. I don't make shit up that I can be proved wrong about, even if that means letting something go unchallenged.
You won't convince people that something they see as a problem isn't a problem, but what you might be able to do is get people to look at alternative solutions. People don't want to be brutal and uncaring, but they that can get there when it's their last option.
Then occasionally you get a "something you said stuck with me" several days later, or maybe you don't but something did stick with them. They incorporate the idea
Into their thinking and start slowly shifting.
Nope. If they were they'd actually be a choke point in the heat transfer. You'd be better having the heat sink directly on the CPU rather than connecting it via 6-8 thin rods of metal.
Heat pipes are an amazing bit of tech that only made in to computing In the early 2000s. Without them we couldn't have laptops in the way we do and air cooling would only be for the very lowest power desktop systems.
If the heat plate is damaged or any of those heat pipes are pinched / cracked, then you're SOL. What a lot of people don't realise is there's liquid in those pipes that evaporates on the heat plate, condenses in the cooler, and then runs back to evaporate again.
How did this manifest before? You only need to look at the advertising of the time. Take the 1950s America - McCarthyism and the red scare in full force. Most US marketing relied heavily on how buying American made you a good patriotic citizen, living the American dream... even if the product wasn't 100% American.
They stream data from it while you play, so if you don't have an SSD you'll get pauses in game play.