<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> it must be compressed to work, yea</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> It doesn&#39;t seem like there&#39;s going to be much room to move around once it is installed in the enclosure anyway.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> they&#39;re less &quot;adhesive&quot; as in covered with glue and more just sticky</p><p>think silly putty, not duct tape</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@darkling" class="u-url mention">@<span>darkling</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> this is in fact the intended use</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@NetworkManager" class="u-url mention">@<span>NetworkManager</span></a></span> btw i really like networkmanager</p><p>it mostly just works. nmtui rules. network sharing is so handy. i can use bare wpa_supplicant and udhcpd but why would i</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> In my experience, thermal pads are designed to not need paste -- they&#39;re pliant enough that they&#39;ll form a good contact with the device and the heatsink on the two sides.</p><p>I mean, obviously, everyone has thermal paste in the house anyway, but...</p>

<p>If the instructions for this M.2 enclosure say to &quot;paste&quot; a silicon thermal pad onto an SSD, is the implication they simply assume thermal paste is something I already have around the house?</p>

<p>We received some very kind messages lately and gained quite some new followers. Perhaps more than a daemon that sets IP addresses deserves.</p><p>Let us take this opportunity to wish you all a year that&#39;s as good at it can get!</p><p>Hope networked computers bring you a smile and not a frown. Share not only software, but also love and kindness. :blobcat:</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Yikes!</p>