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I have a Dell XPS 9510 with i9 11900h and 3050 ti mobile. Some recent issues (possibly a bios update) has made me realize that there are issues with the TPL throttling with my laptop causing it to throttle to 800 MHz and lag out completely just from watching YouTube.

For the time being, I have downloaded ThrottleStop, and locked MMIO. However I have some questions about how safe it is to do this:

- The MSR TPL limits are showing PL1: 72 and PL2: 109. From what I gather online, the CPU is rated for either 35W or 45W. Should I lower PL1?
- Could this cause unsafe levels of power draw from my laptop charger? For context, running the benchmark causes a constant PKG power of 45W.
- Will this wear out my CPU, battery, fans, or charger faster than normal over time? Does it make a difference that I have my laptop set to keep battery charge between 50 and 75?
- When playing a highly-multithreaded, CPU-intensive game, is it a good idea to disable turbo so that my CPU doesn't constantly hit 100C? Or should I lower PL1
- Should I change the dell power manager options for thermal management? Or does not not make a difference?

As an aside, why would PL1 throttling reduce the frequency all the way to 800, when the PL1 limit with ultraperformance is still fairly high at around 24W?

(BTW, not undervolting because I use WSL)

Has anyone else experience throttling issues since the latest 0.1.47.0 bios update (I'm on XPS 9510)? The MMIO limits even with ultra performance power mode seem to be too low and causing constant pl1 throttling just from watching YouTube.

Has anyone else been recently having issues where playing videos is causing high cpu usage and making the browser laggy? I first started noticing this pretty consistently on youtube, but it started happening on nebula as well so it feels like it's more than just a youtube bug.

EDIT: seems like the actual issue is that something has gone wrong with cpu throttling on my laptop

I have seen a few instance online where people accuse American tourists visiting the UK of pronouncing place names ending with "-borough" incorrectly, by making the last syllable sound like "row" rather than "ruh". Of course compound words don't always sound like their parts combined, but this seems to simply reflect the difference in how "borough" as a standalone word is pronounced.

My question is this: is there such a thing as different pronunciations of the same place name in different dialects of a language, where they can both be considered correct? As an example, would you consider "scar-buh-row" (which is how I would say Scarborough, Ontario) to be a correct pronunciation of Scarborough, UK in American English, or does it have to be "scar-buh-ruh" (or "scar-bruh") - and a second complication here, what about "scar" vs "skah"?

If you use light mode browser, and there is an app that you use in dark mode and looks strange because of the white border around the screen, you can make it a PWA and the is no border on the PWA. Also this will make the title bar dark as well.