Shylaja Bhoja

Mihajlo Peković

@tinygoose911989 · Jan 12, 2026 2:11 am

HP Laptop had no thermal paste from the factory

**TLDR**: If you work Service Desk or Desktop support at your company and use HP computers, double check the factory actually applied thermal paste.
For some background, I work on the Service Desk at my company. I've been using an HP ZBook Firefly G11 14-inch laptop for almost a year, with the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H CPU, 32GB RAM, RTX A500 graphics. I started having some strange issues with it: it would sometimes feel really sluggish, the screen would have some strange artifacting and "glitching out", the fan would run extremely loud. Just stuff that didn't happen when I first got the laptop, but started progressively getting worse as time went on.
So last week, I decide to grab a new-in-box ZBook Firefly G11 from our shelf, image it, and copy my data over to it so I can move over to that machine, with the idea that I would wipe and reimage my old one, see if the issues I had previously were still occurring, and then escalate to HP warranty support if they were.
I again started having strange slowness issues with this new laptop, and the fan would ramp up really loud. Over the weekend, I decided to run Cinebench R23 just to verify I was getting the level of performance one would e

Siiri Palo

@angryelephant385921 · Jan 11, 2026 10:57 am

CMV: All jobs should have health insurance, even part-time

This post is specifically about the US. I know that a lot of other countries already have free healthcare.
I think the government should force companies to offer health insurance benefits to all their employees, even part-time workers. **Of course, the government could also implement universal healthcare, but I don't have much faith in them doing that anytime soon, so I think this solution would work for now.**
I think it's kind of ridiculous that you could work a job (any job) and not get health insurance benefits. As of right now, companies over a certain size have to offer their full-time workers health insurance benefits, but they get around this by scheduling people part-time so they don't have to pay for it.
This would also be good for the economy since there would be more healthy workers. Also, someone who's disabled (or otherwise preoccupied) might say something like, "I can manage working part-time at Starbucks (or wherever)" because now they don't have to worry about losing their Medicaid benefits and therefore their health insurance.
In anticipation of counterarguments, an exception might be made for small businesses since I don't know if they could afford it. But big bu

Global Virtual Trust

@gvt · Jan 9, 2026 6:05 pm

Information from the Prime Minister Office

Kassem Farhat has now officially accepted the nomination for the presidency of the Global Virtual Trust! The elections will take place soon.
(@kassem)

Kassem Farhat

@kassem · Jan 10, 2026 12:06 pm

I may also take over the Dashboard Manager. Great software, great system, let's see.

~Kassem Farhat
Member of GLOBAL VIRTUAL TRUST