I logged into my old US account. It didn't have anythin on me, but did have this:

LOL. Fuck no.

I'd rather someone occasionally shop at Amazon than be a self righteous muppet.

You'd get muscular shoulders from holding the doors open.

I disagree about why I got downvoted, but I don't care enough to argue the point.

You're correct about the temperature/duty cycle curve, but not "the only things that determine maximum fan speed" and what that means in relation to that curve. I'm loath to toot my own horn, but the concepts you're describing and are claiming I don't understand are what I work in professionally. I mentioned earlier I'm an EE - an electrical engineer.

Maximum fan speed is inherent to the fan itself and, put very simplistically, in a brushless DC motor is determined by the torque generated. As the motor spins faster, the total resistance (again simplistically, back EMF and net friction) increases, and once it equals the motor's torque output, the motor has reached its maximum speed. Fans operating at a given voltage will have different maximum speeds based on blade size and geometry and motor design.

PWM fan controllers simply correlate a temperature with a duty cycle percentage, but cannot cause a fan to spin faster than its maximum speed. If one fan is rated for 3500 RPM and another 6000 RPM, they will spin at their respective rating at 100% duty cycle. No more.

Noctua's fans in general tend to have engineering superior to many lower priced alternatives, somewhat reducing the sound generated at a given speed, but the low-noise line of fans for which they are often noted achieves that low noise primarily through reduced speed, and thus reduced output. Similarly, the low noise adapter included with some fans is simply an in-line resistor, also reducing speed for reduced sound.

While I agree with the heart of your comment, the true test is what Democrats do when they have more power. Historically, Democrats have often retained and even advanced policy they previously denounced, such as when Obama era politicians renewed and even extended parts of the Patriot Act.

I suspect there's also some paralysis from not knowing what to do. Many US citizens seem to feel voting is futile, which is understandable: the Democrats seem to be scarcely better than Republicans save for a handful of issues, and some Democrats seem to be sliding to the right on those.

It's becoming increasingly clear that more than voting is needed, but it's much less clear on exactly what needs to and can be done with the limited capacity of the overworked, underpaid average American citizen.

Vote AND take action. The US is well past the point where voting alone can dig them out of their mess.

What boggles the mind is Trump's followers will not see the glaring hypocrisy here, assuming they hear about this at all.

Add some boiled bacon and my family resembles this comment.

Elmo is the level of ginger achieved when one ginger eats the heart of another, absorbing their power.

I understood that reference because I'm likely nearly as old as your parents. Big sigh.

Pretty much. In a typical motherboard, the fan controller is linked to temperature monitoring and the duty cycle is changed in correlation with another variable, generally CPU temperature. The PWM control method actually doesn't require the monitoring of fan speed at all, but it's included for informational and safety purposes.