Easy CPU cooler replacement for Acer PO3-620 i7 10700

Buying Acer’s Predator Orion gaming PC is one way to get an RTX 3070 graphics card without paying absurd prices. However, it comes with a standard CPU cooler that is loud and not very effective.

I replaced it with a Xilence XC026| I4026 (Amazon.com / Amazon.de affiliate links), which led to a significant CPU temperature drop under load. While this doesn’t turn the PC into a quiet machine, the cooler can be installed without replacing the backplate.

All you have to do is modify the cooler itself by moving the two brackets that hold the large screws as shown below.

Original configuration

CPU cooler in original configuration
Bracket at the bottom of the cooler

After modification

Modified CPU cooler
Bracket after being moved (ignore the incorrect orientation of the bracket the back, I wasn’t paying attention and also might be stupid)

On one side you can remove the fan to fasten the small bracket screws. On the other side there is very little room (this is the only challenge with this procedure):

Very little room to access screws on one side
Still easier than removing the motherboard to replace the backplate

Follow the instructions that came with the cooler for the rest of the (simple) installation process.

CPU temperature at full load

Temperature after 30 minutes of Folding@home, ambient temperature 24°C:

I found the recommendation for this cooler on the German Acer forum.

How to recover the name of a deleted disposable Yahoo email address

With yahoo!mail you can configure up to 500 disposable email addresses, which you can easily delete at any time. The name always consists of a base name and a custom part.

If you have deleted a disposable address and also forgotten its name, but now need it again to receive messages, there is a problem: without knowing the custom part of the address, you cannot easily recreate it. Unfortunately, yahoo!mail does not show which addresses you have used and deleted in the past.

However, this does not mean that Yahoo does not keep track of all email addresses that are somehow related to your account. If you have ever received a message on your disposable address, it may very well be possible to recover the name of the address using the method described below.

  1. Go to https://mail.yahoo.com/getmydata
  1. Under ” Contact data extracted from message”, click on Download:

You will be asked to enter an email address to be notified when the download is ready. This will take several hours.

  1. Once you get the notification that your download is ready, click on Download file.
yahoo!mail download contact data extracted from messages

Unzip the downloaded file and open ContactsData.json with Notepad (or any other suitable software, e.g. Notepad++).

Search the file for the known part of your throwaway addresses (the base name). This should give you the names of all your disposable addresses that have ever received a message. Note: See update below.

Finally, recreate a disposable address with the same name.

Update August 2021: This method may not work anymore. During my last test, it only returned a small number of aliases, all of which could also be found in (received) emails.

A user-friendly desktop wallet for Namecoin (NMC)?

Yes, such a wallet exists, though it is still in beta: AtomicDEX (desktop version only) supports Namecoin (NMC).

Namecoin (NMC) in AtomicDEX

You can even use the built-in “atomic swap” feature to trade your NMC, for example, for Komodo (KMD), which you can hold in the wallet and collect rewards or sell on many popular exchanges like Binance (affiliate link). Make sure you read the instructions first (found under Support). The atomic swap protocol requires that the maker and taker stay online and monitor the blockchains involved.

Exchanges which accept Namecoin can be found here.

Bootstrap file to synchronize your Dogecoin Core wallet faster

Update February 28, 2021: Dogecoin Core 1.14.3 has been released and significantly improves the synchronization speed. The method described in the original post below is no longer be necessary.

This article assumes that you have backed up your wallet and updated to the most recent version of Dogecoin Core (currently 1.14.2).

At the time of writing, you can get a torrent here which contains blocks until January 29, 2021. Note that it is not a single Bootstrap.dat file, instead it contains the blocks and chainstate directory.

You can find further information on the Dogecoin Discord (in the FAQ section), the Dogecoin Core GitHub and the Dogecoin subreddit.

Once synchronized, consider forwarding port 22556 to help the network. This should give you over a hundred connections instead of the usual 8:

Dogecoin Core Connections

This will, of course, create significant network activity as can be seen in Dogecoin Core under Help > Debug window > Network traffic. This is my traffic from just two days:

Interested in buying or selling Dogecoin? Take a look at Binance (affiliate link) , Bitpanda (affliate link) or Crypto.com (affiliate link).

Edit: My Dogecoin wallet on a PC that was running 24/7 still went out of sync multiple times:

Dogecoin wallet going out of sync again

Let’s not forget that Dogecoin was created as a joke.

Edit 2: I do not recommend using the full node wallet (version 1.14.2) if you’re just getting started with Dogecoin. Consider using a simple mobile wallet like Trust Wallet.

How to browse through all images from different subfolders

The problem: You want to display all images from different subfolders (subdirectories) in a flat view (instead of having to navigate to each folder).

One solution using IrfanView

  1. Download, install and run IrfanView.
  2. Drag and drop the parent folder from Windows Explorer into the IrfanView window, which opens IrfanView Thumbnails.
  3. Right-click on the parent directory and select “Load thumbs from all subfolders”:
IrfanView Thumbnail browser

After a few moments, thumbnails for all images from all subfolders will be displayed:

IrfanView Thumbnails view