Today I found that Calculator.exe could not open. Since it is now a Microsoft Store app, apparently that is a thing that can happen, rather than the executable just being an innate standalone part of the OS. Moronic design decisions aside, finding a fix for this error online is an exercise in futility, because apparently nobody actually knows what the problem is and just guesses at solutions (e.g. sfc /scannow… sigh).
To save folks some reading if they’re trying to figure out if this blog post is even...
Intel Cryo Cooling is an active cooling solution that uses a TEC, also known as a Peltier element, to cool the CPU. A TEC can pump heat from one side of it to the other, meaning that one side gets cold while the other gets hot. This is useful for situations where you want to reduce the heat of something below the ambient temperature. Many camping fridges utilise TECs for this purpose.
While TECs have previously been investigated for the purposes of sub-ambient cooling, they were generally considered...
This blog post started as a ridiculously long comment on a GitHub issue. It’s long enough that it should be a blog post, as someone on Twitter pointed out to me, so now I’m replicating it here with some tweaks to make it read a bit better in continuous prose.
A caveat: I very quickly slapped this together and have not 100% validated everything. There might be some mistakes. Shout at me on Twitter (I’m over on Mastodon now) if you find issues.
The issue at hand here is this: you’ve got an x86_64 Windows...