u/ArchmichaelBishop

These things are pretty disposable so I doubt I'm going to get any kind of positive response but one of my 120mm case fans (from EZDIY-FAB) seems to have seized up. It's got a lot of drag when I spin it by hand but it's still receiving power because the white LED ring is still operating. I'm not sure what caused this to happen but when I went looking for a replacement fan of a similar type they no longer seem to exist, being replaced across the board with ARGB fans. I'm not against ARGB, exactly, but this particular motherboard doesn't have any RGB headers and any of the remaining single-color LED fans on the market are also 3-pin while my fan is a 4-pin PWM fan.

So at this point, if I want to have a uniform look with illuminated case fans that are also PWM, it seems I have to either install a standalone RGB controller (and have to maintain a remote just to color all my fans white) or go with non-speed controlled fans unless I can fix this fan. Is that doable?

Apparently they did one round of shipping then never communicated again. I haven't been keeping track of it myself but I only now noticed that the backers have been getting really irate.

They are SO QUIET. Easily the worst aspect of this laptop (which has otherwise been pretty good to me).

I helped my dad reconnect a bunch of Sengled Zigbee bulbs to our Amazon Echo hub after they all dropped off for one reason or another (I think a hurricane knocking out power or something) but within a week they stopped being responsive again.

Is this something that's known to happen or am I just unlucky?

I signed an offer letter for this new job back in February but acknowledged from that point that there was a process that they had to go through on their side to clear me for the role I accepted. Roughly the time that I started the real process to being fully cleared was at the start of March and they said around two months from that point should be the time I should expect to go into full onboarding (I've done some pre-screen stuff in the immediate aftermath of the offer letter being signed, like drug tests).

I asked last week for an update and they said from that date they would estimate another four weeks before they can give me a start date. I like working where I am right now but frankly I'm also checked out (the main reason I wanted a new job is because this job just doesn't have enough going on for me, even if the pay is fantastic - new job is better on every metric, though; pay, drive distance, and workload/challenge) so I'm ready to hand in a resignation letter. The possibility of getting a start date after those four weeks isn't guaranteed but I assume with how large their company is and how often they do this that if they say four weeks based on what they've evaluated thus far that it's probably reasonably accurate.

If I resign next Friday (May 8) with a target departure of May 22-27 (since I would like a chance to do a farewell party with my coworkers and May 22 might be too busy for that), that's being reasonable without being too stretched out, yeah? I'm willing to leave here without a start date in hand simply so I can make a clean break from this job, reset myself, and settle into a more productive frame of mind with a couple of weeks to realign.