#FP dual

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Educación destaca la importancia de impulsar la FP Dual en el sector audiovisual para conectar la formación con el ámbito empresarial

La directora general de Formación Profesional, Marta Armendia, ha asistido al IV Congreso de Profesorado de Imagen y Sonido, que se ha celebrado en Almassora, donde ha destacado la importancia de impulsar la FP Dual en el sector audiovisual para conectar la formación con el ámbito empresarial. La directora general de Formación Profesional ha explicado los cambios que supone para el sistema…

[genteyhogaressostenibles]

Sostenibilidad en la FP: hoy hablamos con Antonio Guirao Silvente, profesor del IES Ramón y Cajal (Murcia)

Hoy caminamos hacia la sostenibilidad en la formación profesional con Antonio Guirao Silvente, del IES Ramón y Cajal (Murcia), a quien hemos entrevistado para que nos presente el proyecto FP Sostenible: la huerta de Murcia como germen de belleza y salud 👨🏼‍🏫🥕

Un proyecto reconocido y premiado que se basa en la producción y comercialización de cosméticos ecológicos, partiendo del cultivo de plantas medicinales en el huerto escolar del instituto. Pero que además, colabora con entidades, empresas y ONGs del entorno💄🌱

Te animamos a leer el artículo “Innovación, compromiso e impulso hacia la sostenibilidad desde la Formación Profesional”, publicado en nuestro blog Señales.

Fotografías cedidas por Antonio Guirao.

[devileaterjaek]

[posicionarte]

Nuevas tecnologías de pantallas en notebooks: OLED vs. Mini LED

La evolución de las tecnologías de pantallas ha llevado a la introducción de OLED y Mini LED en el mercado de notebooks, ofreciendo a los usuarios opciones avanzadas para mejorar su experiencia visual. A continuación, exploramos las características, ventajas y desventajas de cada una. ��Qué es una pantalla OLED? OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) es una tecnología en la que cada píxel emite su…

[adriaticpulse]

Rainbow Six Siege X: Besplatna revolucija za Ubisoftovu pucačinu

Rainbow Six Siege, jedan od najuspješnijih taktičkih shootera posljednjeg desetljeća, službeno je ušao u novu eru – i to pod novim imenom: Rainbow Six Siege X. Najveći šok za dugogodišnje i nove igrače? Igra je od sada potpuno besplatna – barem u osnovnoj verziji. Provjeri još i… Besplatna verzija – ali s pravilima Od danas, svi igrači na PC-u, PlayStationu i Xboxu mogu besplatno preuzeti…

[vmantras]

CMF Phone 2 Pro: A Mid-Range Marvel for 2025

Expected Launch: April 28, 2025Expected Price: ₹21,999Segment: Mid-range Android SmartphoneBrand Association: CMF by Nothing (sub-brand known for minimal design and performance focus) 1. Design & Build Quality Aesthetics The CMF Phone 2 Pro continues the design language of Nothing, embracing minimalism and futuristic touches. The phone features a clean, industrial back panel, with subtle…

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Panasonic Australia: The LUMIX G9II, “Capture the Decisive Moment” – Press release

[skmalik0089]

Canon EOS R6 Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera with 4K Video, Full-Frame CMOS Senor, DIGIC X Image Processor, Dual UHS-II SD Memory Card Slots, and Up to 12 fps with Mechanical Shutter, Body Only, Black

High Image Quality featuring a New 20 Megapixel Full-frame CMOS Sensor.

DIGIC X Image Processor with an ISO range of 100-102400; Expandable to 204800.

High-speed continuous shooting of up to 12 fps with Mechanical Shutter and up to 20 fps electronic (silent) shutter.

Dual pixel CMOS AF covering approx. 100% area with 1,053 AF areas.

Subject tracking of people and animals using deep learning technology.

Video capture resolution: 4K UHD 2160p 

[ultrakart]

We love and stan pipelined architectures in this house

That post got me thinking about programming, and that maybe I should talk about one that I really had fun writing recently, and that I'm kinda proud of, so here it goes!

So, in my computer experiments and stuff like that, I often have to write scripts that process entries in various stages. For example, I had a thing where it read a list of image urls and downloaded, compressed, extracted some metadata, and saved them to disk.

That sort of process can be decomposed in various stages which, and that's the important part, can be run independently. That would massively speed up the task, but setting up the code infrastructure for that every time I needed it would be cumbersome. Which is why I wrote a little library to do it for me!

That gif is a bit fast, so here's what it looks like when it's all done:

This is from a test I wrote for the library. It simulates running a set of items through 4 different processes (which I named production lines), each with their own stages and filters.

Each line with a progress bar is a stage in the process. If you follow the traces on the left side, you can visualize how the element enter the 4 production lines on one side, and are collected on the other. The stages I wrote for the test are simple operations, but are written to simulate real world delay and errors.

To set up the processes, I do practically nothing. Just initialize the production line structure and connect the stages together, and that's it! All the work of setting up the async tasks, sending the entries from each stage to the next, filtering, error logging, even the little ascii diagram, all that happens automatically! And all that functionality packed into one data structure!

I feel like trying to explain how it does all that (and why having built it myself makes me proud) would make it harder to believe that I actually had fun doing it. I mean, it involved reading a lot of code from high profile open source projects, studying aspects of the language I had never played with (got really deep into generics with this one), and I can't really explain how I really enjoyed doing all that.

I don't know, I feel like I lost the point of what I was trying to say. Hm, I guess this feeling are harder to pin down that I expected.

[theguywithaplan]

List of Games Turning Twenty (20) Years Old in 2025

Advance Wars: Dual Strike

Advent Rising (they started planning the trilogy before the first game was out lmao)

Age of Empires III

Animal Crossing: Wild World (the DS one)

Arc the Lad: End of Darkness

Area 51 (the FPS that was low-key kinda creepy)

Banjo Pilot (the Banjo-Kazooie racing game on GBA).

Battalion Wars (the spin-off of Advance Wars).

Battlefield 2

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30

Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (yep, they released two mainline games in one year).

Burnout Revenge (this cleared Burnout 3, and I will fight you on that).

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Call of Duty 2

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (go play the Castlevania Dominus collection. It has this game and a few others and it's GREAT).

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

Civilization IV

Cold Fear (answering the age old question: what if Resident Evil 4 was on a boat and not as good?)

Condemned: Criminal Origins (a launch title for the Xbox 360 and a pretty solid horror game).

Conker: Live & Reloaded (maybe a controversial opinion, but this is WAY better than the original).

Crash Tag Team Racing

Dead or Alive 4 (aka, the one with not Master Chief in it).

Destroy All Humans!

Devil Kings (all the sequels would be under it's non-translated title: Sengoku Basara).

Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (let's rock, baybeeeeee)

Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat

Dragon Ball Z: Sagas (I saw a stream of this game a few months back, and oh my god, this looks so shitty/funny).

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

Dynasty Warriors 5 (who's excited for Origins???)

Far Cry Instincts (a console version of the PC exclusive original game)

Fatal Frame III: The Tormented

F.E.A.R. (if you haven't played this before, change that. it's fantastic)

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (the one with Ike the Bisexual in it).

Forza Motorsport (the very first one).

Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows

Geist (the rare M-rated Nintendo game).

The Getaway: Black Monday

God of War (the very first one).

Gran Turismo 4 (one of the few PS2 games that could be played in HD, along with... Jackass: The Game...)

Guild Wars

Guitar Hero (the very first one).

Haunting Ground (a very rare PS2 horror game from Capcom).

Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee

The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction

The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer (since the second movie came out, this game is now considered non-canon).

Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit (the second game from known hack/fraud David Cage).

Jade Empire (the last game that BioWare made before they got acquired by EA).

Jak X: Combat Racing

Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death (there was a for real-ass Judge Dredd game on the GameCube).

Kameo: Elements of Power (another Xbox 360 launch title, this one made by a post-acquisition Rare. It's pretty fun).

Killer7 (from the greatest to ever do it, Suda51)

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (you guys think it's based on the movie or what...?)

Kirby: Canvas Curse (a really fun DS game that only used the stylus)

Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament (i think klonoa would get along really well with sonic)

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (the one where Link gets really small)

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game

Lunar: Dragon Song (one of the worst RPGs I've ever played. Don't play it).

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (the one with the Baby Mario Bros.)

Mario Kart DS (the first one with online play).

Mario Party Advance

Mario Party 7 (my personal favorite)

Mario Superstar Baseball (we didn't get a Mario Baseball game on the Switch. Because they're saving it for the Switch 2).

Mario Tennis: Power Tour (so many Mario games...)

Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects

The Matrix Online (an official continuation from the movies)

The Matrix: Path of Neo

Medal of Honor: European Assault

MediEvil: Resurrection

Mega Man Battle Network 5 (the only one in the series to have a DS version)

Mega Man Zero 4

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction

Metal Gear Acid (a launch title for the PSP, and a card game set in the Metal Gear universe. It works better than you might think).

Meteos (a puzzle game made by Masahiro Sakurai, the Smash Bros. guy)

Metroid Prime Pinball

Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks

Myst V: End of Ages (the final Myst game)

Need for Speed: Most Wanted (did you know that this game outsold the entire Halo series?)

Neopets: The Darkest Faerie (is Neopets still a thing?)

Nicktoons Unite! (a crossover between Spongebob, Fairly Oddparents, Jimmy Neutron, and Danny Phantom).

The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge (an honest to god sequel to the movie that plays like Devil May Cry).

Ninja Gaiden Black

Nintendogs

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

Pac-Man World 3

Perfect Dark Zero (yet another Xbox 360 launch title, also made by Rare, and a sequel to one of the best FPS games ever made. It was fine).

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (it had been out in Japan for a few years, but us Yankees got this four years after it came out).

Pokemon Dash (a Pokemon racing game. It was not very good).

Pokemon Emerald Version (I sunk like 500 hours into this game).

Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness (a sequel to Pokemon Colosseum where you could capture other people's Pokemon).

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

Psychonauts

The Punisher

Quake 4

Ratchet: Deadlocked

Resident Evil 4

Serious Sam 2

Shadow of the Colossus (one of the best games ever made. Play it if you haven't yet).

Shadow the Hedgehog (pretty good to be a sonic fan right now).

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga (parts 1 and 2).

Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves

Sonic Rush

SoulCalibur III (RIP, SoulCalibur. Tekken is just too powerful.)

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (RIP, Splinter Cell. Ubisoft just sucks too much to make you anymore).

Spyro: Shadow Legacy

Star Fox Assault

Star Wars: Republic Commando

Star Wars: Battlefront II (this game's story mode is permanently etched into my brain).

Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse" (presenting it to you with no context. Look it up. It's hilarious).

Super Mario Strikers

Super Monkey Ball Deluxe

Tak: The Great Juju Challenge

Tekken 5

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect (RIP, TimeSplitters. Embracer Group killed you before you could come back).

Trace Memory (got remade in 2024 as Another Code)

Twisted Metal: Head-On (another PSP launch title)

Ultimate Spider-Man (you could play as Venom in this one)

WarioWare: Touched!

WarioWare: Twisted!

We Love Katamari

Wild Arms: Alter Code F (a remake of the first game)

Xenosaga Episode II

X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse

[elliespassagerprincess]

I don’t know if you ever wrote something like this but streamer Ellie? Where reader is also a streamer and dating Ellie and the whole internet is obsessed?

THANK YOU AND I LOVE UR WRITING MWAH MWAH!

Headcannons: simp!ellie williams x reader

masterlist

part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4

☆ Ellie’s the gremlin gamer who rages at Soulsborne bosses; you’re the calm, cozy vibes streamer with a warm voice and comfy background.

☆ The internet calls you “sun and moon” because of your opposite energies on stream.

☆ Your couple name trends constantly — “Ellie + Reader = ElRea supremacy” hashtags show up after every collab.

☆ You often stream late into the night together, cuddled up, sharing one mic between the two of you.

☆ Fans know when Ellie’s staring at you off-camera because she gets weirdly quiet mid-game.

☆ She made you your own emote — it’s a chibi version of you with hearts in the eyes.

☆ Your “We’re not flirting!” clips are so infamous they’ve been edited into a ten-minute compilation on YouTube with 5M views.

☆ Ellie’s background is always a disaster — tangled cords, snack wrappers, chaos. Yours looks like a Pinterest board.

☆ Ellie pretends to hate chat’s romantic shipping comments, but she secretly loves them.

☆ Chat screams when you lean over and kiss Ellie during stream — especially when she goes red and hides her face in her hoodie.

☆ You do “cozy co-op” Sundays where you play indie games and bake on stream while Ellie yells at dough.

☆ Ellie once tried to speedrun a horror game while you read calming affirmations in the background — it ended in her full panic mode.

☆ You stream Stardew Valley together and your in-game characters are married. Viewers lost their minds when Ellie proposed in-game.

☆ You both accidentally went viral after a clip where Ellie says “I’d die for you” during a Minecraft Creeper ambush.

☆ You play Among Us with other streamers and Ellie always rats you out — then immediately says “She’s too pretty to be sus.”

☆ Ellie has a deep hatred for fall damage and every time she dies to it, you say “Oof. That’s karma for roasting my tea.”

☆ You play horror games with Ellie clinging to your arm, screaming every time there's a jumpscare.

☆ Your dual cam setup is legendary — Ellie’s in gamer mode, and you're sipping tea in a soft hoodie with fairy lights behind you.

☆ You made a bet where if she lost in Valorant, she’d have to wear a cat-ear headset for a week. She lost. It became her signature.

☆ Your cooking collab streams always end with the fire alarm going off and Ellie blaming you.

☆ You both get invited to streamer conventions and always do chaotic panels where Ellie flirts with you in front of thousands.

☆ Fans cosplay as you both at TwitchCon — you’ve seen couples in full Ellie and reader outfits re-enacting your viral clips.

☆ Your shared Discord server is massive and has separate channels for "Ellie’s Gamer Rants" and "Reader’s Soft Corner."

☆ A fan once made a full animated series based on your Stardew characters and shipped them like it was canon.

☆ Someone made merch that says “I'd simp for reader too – Ellie” and Ellie actually wore it on stream.

☆ You trended on Twitter after Ellie kissed your cheek live and said, “Sorry, couldn’t help it.”

☆ Your anniversary stream broke your viewer records — you both played your first ever game together and read fan letters.

☆ Fans send in endless art of the two of you — Ellie secretly saves her favorites in a folder titled “My Girl.”

☆ People speculate you’re married because of the matching rings you wear. (You are. You just haven’t told chat yet.)

☆ Stream highlight edits of your best moments are lovingly called "Ellie & Reader: The Love Story."

☆ Ellie stops streaming when she hears you’re sick just to bring you soup and chat teases her mercilessly.

☆ She reads your chat messages aloud with a smile even when she’s mid-FPS battle.

☆ She insists your voice calms her rage — “I’d uninstall every game except yours.”

☆ You once walked behind her on stream and she said, “There goes the love of my life… and my aim.”

☆ Ellie has a whole stream segment called “Reader Appreciation Time” where she just compliments you for ten minutes.

☆ She doodles you in her stream notebooks and sometimes flashes them on cam accidentally.

☆ Ellie refuses to stream without you in the room — says it’s “bad luck.”

☆ When you’re off-camera, she still speaks to you and forgets the mic picks it up: “Babe, can I get another Red Bull?”

☆ She once got drunk on stream and called you “the only person who makes me believe in happy endings.”

☆ She cancels collabs if you’re feeling down — no hesitation.

☆ You made an entire playlist called “For Ellie” and played it softly during her birthday stream.

☆ You stream yourself painting and often choose Ellie as your muse.

☆ Your sub badges are little versions of Ellie’s tattoos.

☆ You know how to calm her down mid-stream with just one word or glance.

☆ You always defend her when she gets hate and you once delivered a gentle but savage speech that went viral.

☆ Your go-to line when she’s raging is: “Don’t worry, she’s still cute when she’s mad.”

☆ You once got her a custom keyboard with engraved lyrics to a song she wrote about you.

☆ You organize her collabs and help her with tech support like a loving gamer wife.

☆ You play guitar on stream sometimes, and she melts every time.

☆ When she forgets to mute her mic, viewers often hear you say “I love you” off-screen.

☆ You two live in a cozy apartment with LED lights, plants, and gamer gear everywhere.

☆ There’s a shared fridge whiteboard with doodles, stream ideas, and love notes.

☆ You wake up at 1PM, eat cereal on stream, and share your silly dreams with chat while Ellie laughs in the background.

☆ You celebrate milestones by baking poorly shaped cakes and decorating them together.

☆ You both wear each other’s merch unironically — she wears your comfy pastel hoodie, you wear her cracked gamer hat.

☆ You share a streaming room now because Ellie couldn’t stand being more than five feet away from you.

☆ Your pets sometimes photobomb the cam — your cat is the real star.

☆ You once got banned for being too spicy during a subathon kiss (you got unbanned after Twitter exploded).

☆ Ellie proposed off-stream but you announced it with matching “she said yes” and “I said yes” shirts on cam.

☆ You livestream your wedding. Chat collectively cries.

☆ You’ve both rage quit and ended up cuddling on the couch mid-stream to decompress.

☆ Ellie once deleted a save file by accident — you forgave her live, and chat called it "the most romantic forgiveness arc."

☆ You both stream drunk karaoke once a month. Ellie always sings soft love songs to you.

☆ Ellie made a horror game where the final boss looks like you — she said “So I can finally kiss the boss at the end.”

☆ Your “accidentally touched hands and blushed” clip is now a gif used across all of gay Twitter.

☆ You call her “my wife” on stream even before you're legally married. Ellie always grins.

☆ You have matching pink and black gaming chairs.

☆ Fans often say you’re their “comfort streamers” and it makes you both tear up.

☆ Ellie says she never believed in soulmates — until you joined her co-op game and said “Hi, I brought snacks.”

☆ No matter what happens — tech fails, trolls, chaos — you always end streams with “Love you, chat. Love you, Ellie.”

And she says it back.

[12endigital]

La oficina de información de la Conselleria de Educación atiende 17.045 consultas de enero a julio

La oficina de Información Conselleria de Educación, Cultura, Universidades y Empleo ha atendido un total de 17.045 consultas entre enero y julio de este año. Este centro de información atiende consultas a través de tres vías: telemática, presencial y telefónica. La vía telefónica ha sido la más utilizada, con 10.083 consultas, seguida por la telemática, con 3.790 consultas planteadas a través…

[ageless-aislynn]

Friends. I come bearing a recommendation from the Steam sale. I'm so serious right now - I'm already in love. 🤗🤗🤗

You can't beat the price:

For your dollar and change, you get a dual-level pool with one duck. I named her... Ducky.

When you name them, the name floats over their heads with them. Don't worry about Rockelle, btw, she's made of stone so she's just doing her thing chilling down there with what I believe is a golf ball. You can edit the names as much as you'd like or you don't have to name them at all.

Ducks spawn in at regular times (you can also stop that feature if you don't want more to literally continue dropping in 😉).

You have a radio with music you can turn off. You can hang out in the either of the beach chairs or you can anchor to any of the ducks and just bob along with them. They'll eventually come down the little slide, then move over to that device by the beach ball which sucks them up like a pneumatic tube and sends them back to the main pool.

Things are not without peril, though! Skelly somehow bounced off the slide and landed in the grass and slowly rolled until...

He's making a break for it! I floated with him for as long as I could, then I got sent back to the pool while he went on his adventure.

I watched him until he went out of sight. I hope he'll be back or, at the very least, that he'll send a postcard, lol! 🦆🥲😉

An airplane went overhead and there's a day and night cycle. There's also DLC with more ducks and other locations that can be added for $10. It's really worth it to me, what can I say? I love my FPS and RPGs but I'm also an almost constant ball of anxiety and stress and I think naming my duckies and watching them float around is JUST what I need in addition to my Halo and Mass Effect et al.

Just wanted to pass this along because I already adore it. For under $2 you can try the basic game with this pool and, I believe, 46 different ducks and see if it charms you as well. 😉I'm definitely going to dedicate some "Hanging with my duckies" time every day and just breathe. I think it'll do me good. 🤗💖

[posicionarte]

Reparar vs comprar nuevo: la mejor decisión para estudiantes con notebooks lentos o dañados

Estás en medio de un semestre difícil, con tareas, pruebas y clases online… y tu notebook deja de funcionar. ¿Lo reparas o inviertes en uno nuevo? Para los estudiantes, esta decisión no solo depende del presupuesto, sino del momento académico en el que se encuentran. Aquí te ayudamos a tomar la mejor decisión. ¿Por qué los estudiantes dependen tanto de su notebook? Hoy, los notebooks son…

[melissa-titanium]

sits down very politely last time i checked youre the only moot i have that is into monster hunter and i wanna learn a bit more on behalf of my fp!! mainly if the game is worth playing and what game to start with, alongside anything else youve got to offer :33 he wants to get into it and i trust your opinion on the subject bc youre very cool hehe

OH FUCKING BOY DO I LOVE 2 HEAR THIS. SMIRK.

ok ok ok ok so.

mainly if the game is worth playing

is the game worth playing.. you ask...HA.... HAA!!!!!! SMILES!!!!!! LAUGHS . CHUCKLES EVEN. Yes. AGAIN it isn't for everyone, the mainline games follow a pretty simple structure.

you are a hunter. there are monsters. you hunt them.

the game progresses with new monsters to hunt, new locales to explore, and as the world around you gets more difficult to traverse, you are able to upgrade your gear with the parts of the monsters you have hunted. each fight is very unique to itself, monsters often utilizing the area around them or certain abilities they possess (usually given biological, mostly down to earth explanations,) and overall you'll find yourself discovering little interesting tidbits to each fight the more you fight a specific monster.

there are 14 different weapon types to choose from (18, if you include frontier.) some are slashing, some are piercing, some are bludgeoning. heres the weapon list;

greatsword, longsword, sword and shield, charge blade, switch axe, hammer, insect glaive, hunting horn, heavy bowgun, light bowgun, bow, dual blades, lance, & gunlance.

i personally main greatsword, sword and shield, charge blade, hammer, hunting horn, and gunlance.

i recommend sword and shield as a beginner's weapon because it's versatile, not too fast but not too slow, allows you to dip into both defense and offense depending on how you use the weapon, and also. fun to use :)

i don't know how to segue into this efficiently but mh has some of the most spectacular armor, weapon, & creature designs i have ever seen in media. here are some of my favorites

and what game to start with

HONESTLY. it all depends on your taste in games & what platforms you can play on. the series goes suuuuuper super far back, i believe 2004 was the very first entry in the series ? AND I PERSONALLY DONT RECCOMEND THE FIRST GAME UNLESS YOURE ALL FOR THAT BUGGY SHIT <333

A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO PREFER LIKE. NEWER GAMES R INTO MH WORLD.. IT HAS A LOT OF QOL CHANGES & IS A BIT OF A CHANGE OF PACE FROM THE REST OF THE SERIES BUUUUT. MY PERSONAL FAVE IS 4U :) older games r slower paced but. like. not in a bad way!!!!! i like it :cblush emoji:

you can play on like. literally any console i think. theres so many fucking games. switch has mhsunrise, mhgenu, mhstories2 ... pc you can play sunrise, worldborne, mhstories 1 and 2 and emulate anything LOL... 3ds has ?? tri and 4u.. uhhh. wii has tri. umm. fuck. theres more. i forgor.xbox ps4 etc can play world & rise... and wilds is coming out soon which is crossplay.. grinsssssss......

OK IM DONE. AUTISM OVER. SMILES. EVEYROEN SAY. WE LOJKVE U CIELERRRRRRRRRRRRR <3333333333333333333

[mr-rogers-blood-stained-sweater]

Not sure where i would even go to talk about this so im posting it here to my tumblr.

I have this laptop, a lenovo thinkpad t420 ive been customizing mostly because of the funny weed number, but as it turns out this laptop has a few neat features and can often be bought used for under 50 usd. My first change was to, of course, upgrade the dual core sandybridge cpu to a quad core, so i ordered a 2760qm for under 20$ from ebay. The performance was good and it ran the thinkpad a little hot but it was acceptable, especially since the heatsink is only rated for 35w and the 2760qm is 45w.

My second change was to improve the cooling and I had a few original ideas. I opened up the laptop, swapped the stock heatsink for one with a gpu heatpipe that came with some t420's (but not this one obv). As part of my original idea I decided to do my own version of the "copper tape" mod where I used thermal tape instead of copper tape (this mod aims to use copper tape to join the gpu heatpipe to the main heatpipe or heatpipes). My thought process is that copper tape is probablly better than nothing but the adhesive adds an insulating layer decreasing its effectiveness and copper tape isnt mesnt to be used like this so why not just use a tape made to move heat instead? Thermal tape should in theory be much better than copper tape since its actually designed for this kind of work, with the downside being it will eventually dry out like thermal pads and paste. I didnt just experiment with this new mod though I also tried adding thermal pads to the underside of the gpu heatpipe where it would contact the gpu, the idea here being thick folded thermal pads would fill the gap well and drain heat from around the cpu through the board. I figured it would at least be better than covering the whole gpu pipe with tape. Finally i drilled some holes beneath the fan for added airflow using a design printed on paper and taped to the inside of the case as a stencil. While I had the laptop dissasembled I figured i might as well swap the cpu out one more time since i noticed an elitebook I got had a 2860qm, the fastest 45w sandybridge laptop cpu. I also applied some thermal grizzle duronaut thermal paste since its added thickness should fill the slightly larger space between the cpu die and heatsink better.

And finally the results were astounding, I can stream 1080p 60 fps video and the fans hardly make a sound, the laptop is unbeleivably cool and quiet for a 14 year old cpu. Even the passmark scores were incredible, its multicore score in windows was 5268 and 5168 in linux vs the average of 4559, over 10% increase with just a cooling mod! Its singlecore scores were even better though with a 1717 in windows and an 1826 in linux vs the average of 1562 almost a 20% boost in performance with just a cooling mod, no overclocking OR underclocking! This 2860qm is besting the 2960xm by a large amount and its in spitting distance of the next generatioms best chip the 3940xm!

Im not sure if i lucked out and found a golden superperformimg 2860qm or if i discovered a new goated cooling mod for the t420/t430, i corebooted the laptop the other day and i have a 3940xm on its way from china so im gonna figure it out. Dont worry if the 3940xm is somehow too hot for my mod i have a w520 to put it in and a 3632qm on its way too, although if it is just a golden 2860qm i might keep using it since its scores are also much higher than the average 3632qm!

Theres other mods you can do, and im doing most of them. I already installed a modded bios to remove the wifi whitelist and ordered a wifi 7 compatible adapter, the modded bios also allows faster ram so i ordered 2 8gb 1866mhz ddr3l sticks. I got an express card to dual usb 3.0 adapter, I also bought a w520 charger and cut out the wedges so it woukd fit the t420. I threw in a 2tb msata ssd, found an xl slice battery for cheap on ebay (2, 9 cell batterys installed, i get over 10 hours of hd youtube streaming!) And lastly i ordered a 1080p ips panel and an adapter board for it. This is a lovely laptop with one of the best keyboard ive used ever, and its performance is astoundingly good.

For someone not wanting to go as far as me you could get a used t420 or t430 for under 50$ a 256gb ssd for 10$ a cheap quad core for 20$ or less and a charger for around 14$. Thats a sturdy, fast, reliable, and genuinly cool laptop for under 100$. It is luck of the draw if you get a good batt or not though, of the three I got 1 9 cell was in perfect health another 9 cell was worn but usable and the 6 cell was mostly used up, add 20$ if you get unlucky with the battery and another 10$ for an 8gb ram stick if yours comes with 4gb or less.