Mihajlo Peković

Mihajlo Peković

@tinygoose911989 · Jan 12, 2026

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

Mihajlo Peković

@tinygoose911989 · Jan 11, 2026

CMV: People who raise children create a positive externality for society and should be compensated for it.

A positive externality is when someone’s actions create benefits that others receive without directly paying for them. I think raising children clearly fits this definition in modern societies.
Parents privately bear large costs: direct financial costs (housing, food, healthcare, education), opportunity costs (career slowdown, reduced mobility, lost income), time, stress, and risk (children may require lifelong care).
Meanwhile, society broadly benefits from the outcome:
\* Children become future workers and taxpayer
\* They fund pensions, healthcare, and public services. They reduce the fiscal burden per capita by maintaining worker-to-retiree ratios.
\* They contribute to economic growth, innovation, and institutional continuity
These benefits are socialized, while the costs of producing them are mostly privatized.
Importantly, child-free adults still benefit from:
\* Pensions funded by future workers
\* Healthcare systems sustained by the next generation
\* A functioning economy and stable institutions
To be clear, this is not a moral argument about whether people should have kids. Reproduction itself is a personal choice. But economically, it seems clear ot me that having child

Mihajlo Peković

@tinygoose911989 · Jan 10, 2026

Tell me I’m wrong

I feel that everyone around me isn’t pulling there weight and that the world has become way to selfish.
I went for a walk today and a woman told me that I was in her way she needed space. I was 10 feet away and she was walking towards me I was on the right side of the sidewalk. I didn’t move and as she passed me she said thanks for nothing.
I might be old but what happened to people.
Something in this world needs to change,

Mihajlo Peković

@tinygoose911989 · Jan 10, 2026

Нужен совет

Я общаюсь с парнем, будем звать его пит, в общем мы познакомились в 22 году
С того момента было много разных ситуаций конечно, хороших и плохих в общем первый его косяк такой, у меня была лучшая подруга назовем её кэйт, она всегда не ровно дышала к моему парню и я решила это проверить, попросила парня написать ей чтоб они вышли погулять и чтоб я не узнала об этом и она согласилась
После этого я палила его переписки с другом где они друг другу скидывали инст девочек и обсуждениями, потом узнала что он подвозил 2 коллег девочек до работы, потом узнала что когда мы были в ссоре он общался с одной девочкой и флиртовал с ней заметно, была девушка с его работы, общение длилось пару дней, но все же
Я всё это ему простила и на все закрыла глаза
Конечно я не без грехов, как то я не сказала что поехала гулять с подругой и её парнем
То есть он знал что мы встретились, но не знал что поехали куда то, и то это было не далеко от дома и буквально на 10 мин
Я без каких либо мыслей и не намерено солгала ему и в итоге он узнал это не от меня
И в порыве ссоры я расцарапала ему всю машину и била ногой капот( кстати было в тот момент когда он общался с той девушкой, типа пару дней)
Как он вышел с моей

Mihajlo Peković

@tinygoose911989 · Jan 9, 2026

I’m not unhappy, but I’m not fulfilled either, and I don’t know what to do with that

Lately I’ve realized that nothing is wrong in my life, but nothing feels especially right either. On paper, things are fine, I’m functioning, moving forward, doing what I’m “supposed” to do, but there’s this quiet feeling that something is missing.
I’m not sure if this is just a phase, burnout, or a sign that I need to make a change. I’d love to hear from anyone who’s felt this way and what helped you figure out your next step.