- carbon on contacts due to arc burn can also act as a resistance and create fire
- burned wires must be also snipped or much better, replaced to avoid electric fire.
i would avoid bulk large packed OR no named OR jumbled letter branded thermal pastes
go with the good old known ones like mx4/5 or z5, theyre waay better than the ultra cheaper ones like what ive said earlier(speaking from experience although i haven't tried the fancy ones like kryonaut or similar)
they know nvidias very slowly dying and playing some damage control, they're trying to be like apple using an open source system then making a closed ecosystem out of it.
not sure but maybe has to do with patents(?) since most companies can hold 20 yr patent terms on thier products in USA and they decided to went with the better side of "why not open this thing up? we already made some money out of it"
unrelated but unfortunately, connect seems like wasn't being maintained anymore, and it doesnt have a proper cache management. If you're looking for android alternatives, i would suggest voyager or eternity (speaking from personal experience).