<p>happy 2025. may your components exceed their rated specifications, and their errata be minimal</p>

<p>I&#39;m not the first to say this, but there&#39;ll be tough times ahead of us this year. We *will* get through it, and whatever your stance on new year&#39;s resolutions are, there&#39;s one we could all use.</p><p>Resolve not to be safe from your enemies, but to be dangerous to them. </p><p>Remind them that this cat has claws, this dog has teeth, and that we aren&#39;t afraid to bite the hand that feeds us if it&#39;s the same hand that strikes us.</p><p>Y&#39;all take care of each other out there and let&#39;s make 2025 a happy new year!</p>

<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>