A few years ago, I switched from a PC to a laptop. I didn’t spend much time choosing and just went with the simplest MSI GF63 model, equipped with the bare-minimum acceptable RTX 4050 graphics card and the corresponding i5-12450H processor.

I then made some upgrades: a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro, 64GB RAM (greatest possible for this motherboard), and a Honeywell PTM7950 thermal interface material. Right after that, it would have been an excellent workhorse, if not for one ″but″ – an extremely weak cooling system with a single cooler. Under heavy load, the 12450H would instantly heat up to 95°C and start throttling.

Long story short, I managed to solve this problem without putting the laptop in the fridge, attaching a water cooling system (yes, people actually do that), or even using Peltier elements – heaven forbid. On my unit, I dropped CPU temperature by ~25°C at idle and ~20°C under load without huge performance loss.

Released a free tool for one-way replication of DNS zones from Enhance CP to Bunny.net DNS service.

Another keyboard done. Base – Keychron v1. Switches – Kailh Box Autumn. Keycaps – Akko Clear Black. This time, there was more changes in the microcontroller firmware than usual.

I had a spare M.2 NVMe SSD with nowhere to install it — only SATA ports were available, and for some reason, NVMe-to-SATA converters simply don’t exist. However, there are adapters that convert such a drive into a USB flash device.

Mini-instructions on how to make your own adjustments to the Vivaldi browser interface. Today I wanted to change the color of the active tab to a more visible one.