I installed my first Windows malware in a long time.

Oh, well that's fun.

Like a real malware or a sarcastic malware?

No, well, I don't know the extent of it yet.

So there was some saga with my son's gaming PC in trying to figure out what was going on with his laptop's cooling system or thermals or whatever.

I wanted to know like what do people use on Windows to show

CPU and GPU temperatures to themselves and this is one thing honestly I have found

the web in general to be absolutely horrific at this,

but chat geepte to be pretty good at recommending stuff like this.

Like, you know, like, what do people use for software type X?

That would be something I would normally just search. What do people use for software type X?

That would be something I would normally just search,

you know, the app store of the device on,

which I tried and there's nothing,

or you know, search the web and it's, you know,

useless garbage constantly.

So I actually got pretty good results and so there's a program called CPU ID,

H-W- Monitor or something that everybody uses and I'm like, okay, that's, I remember that from my old Hard OCP days that still exists okay great I'll download that and it's one of those things where like the download link opens up like an overlay on the page that looks like a download link but it's actually an ad that is made to look like a download link but it's like trying to download

Minecraft mods. Yeah, it's like it's constant just like okay here's the real download download now, but it's like that's not really

there, like you have to close the ad, the down links behind it or something anyway.

I through all the logistics of trying to find the real download link to this app, I had one wrong try and I installed apparently PC App Store

which messed up all like all his browser search parameters and stuff it was a whole

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