manikyath

ohlord, it's not at all, not by a long shot. but... in case of failure, the less the manufacturer skimped on protections, the less likely it is for things to go *very* bad.. in this case, EVGA GQ is reliable enough to assume that it's fine on that part. having that said - your power supply doesnt care about power outages, surges maybe but they have built in surge protectors for that.

depending on the number of deployments you do, this might actually be that "place where teamviewer makes sense". if you can get away with one engineer seat you can just throw the quicksupport widget on every install you do, and it costs you nothing extra. i've had a rummage around their site, and as far as i can make out, for 33 bucks per month you can even customize the logo in the QS widget.

i assume you have a cpu cooler, and we're talking about case fans... acceptable: yes. good: no. even with open air test benches you want some airflow over the testbench or trough the room, hot air rising is good and all, but it doesnt go up all that fast. so like said before.. you cant not have 5 bucks for at least one xilence something piece of crud.

i've never worked with any of the brands you mention, but i'll tell you this: remote access for business is very much a case of "you get what you pay for". the expensive ones suck, the cheap ones suck even more. the one i have most experience with was around the $1 per endpoint mark, on top of a bunch of other licensing and engineer seat stuff. at the end of it we had more cost on this software than on staff wages, but it was EXTREMELY powerful. i could do software installations on the other side of the planet from my home desk faster than the on-site guy could even dream of doing. what it comes down to is 'what are you using it for?' - in some situations even teamviewer's ridiculous pricing makes sense.

1: questionable. there's xpenology, but it's very much not supported by synology. 2: afaik hardware support is fairly limited on synology, because they only need to support what hardware they elect to use. 3: i dont think so, but there's no guarantees in unchanted terretory. 4: that's where #1's questionability comes in. you cant buy a license for the software, but there is no official way to install it on anything else than synology hardware. the question here is if the company has the recovery files to reinstall available for free, does this mean that the software itself is also free? 5: yes, but again.. uncharted terretory, no guarantees here. i've dabbled with xpenology, and from experience i can tell you to use something else instead. it's a fun 'project' but long term there is zero guarantee that your NAS will keep running as expected.

i did run into this one at my usual supplier for parts that keep the wanhao 3D printer alive.. and one google later apparently i dont even need to import it from sweden (as opposed to the wanhao parts..) https://www.3djake.be/nl-BE/creality-3d-printers-reserveonderdelen/falcon2-pro-lasercutter-22w there's cheaper ones too, but i'm quite opposed to running lasers without an enclosure.

i'd love some cheap CO2 lasers that make their way into europe, got some sources for reliable units on that part?

congestion is interesting to deal with, i make massive slipway intersections right trough the middle of my city and i still deal with congestion at certain key points. the way to reduce that problem is to have as long distance as possible between intersections on the busy roads, and to have no "single" entry point to a region, you want to spread the influx of highway cars across as many stoplighted intersections as possible. as for expansion: making highway "ringroad" type structures between districts is my way to go. i also prefer to expand towards a side that gets me something i want, usually something from this checklist: - a water area where the wind/solar generators get me max power. - a resource for industry (oil, for example) - access to more highways for before mentioned ringroads - access to rails for freight trains (this reduces the in/out truck traffic A LOT, which helps with before mentioned congestion) as for making it pretty.. i'm not your guy, i *always* do grids. efficient cities are not pretty.

I was planning to 3D print some big flat things, but then i realised that that's really not a sensible thing to do. so my first solution to this problem was to print some cutting patterns on my A4 printer and cut/saw them out of some form of board. unfortunately my printer has a very slight deviation on the 'length' of the paper, so a square doesnt come out square, and i dont feel like doing offsets in the drawing software to fix that. then the other day i was working on a shopping list for an entirely unrelated project, and i happened upon this cutter/laser that's a much more palletable price than the CO2 laser stuff: https://www.xtool.com/products/pre-order-xtool-m1-worlds-first-desktop-hybrid-laser-blade-cutting-machine in short; Xtool M1, it's a combo laser cutter and vinyl cutter (the classic style with a blade) it's available here locally for €1000. however.. i'm REALLY not home in the cutting plotter market, and i've no idea if Xtool is a reliable company to begin with. available from the same site are also some options from cricut and silhouette, ranging in price from around 500 bucks all the way down to 180. these are all only cutting plotters ofcourse. there's 3 considerations that i'm hoping to get some feedback on; - i've no idea if the 10 watt laser can actually cut plywood, like they claim it does. if the laser cant cut 3mm plywood i'd rather buy a cheaper cutting plotter and some woodworking tools. - this thing (only?) works with Xtool's special sauce software, i presume this is the same issue for both cricut and silhouette. does anyone have input on how well these softwares work and/or how much one could assume the company behind said software to keep supporting it? - does anyone have experience with how accurate these things actually are? if i dont get sub-millimeter accuracy i may as well fudge an offset on my A4 pritner. my viewpoint on it is that i'd really enjoy being able to cut at least 3mm materials, but if the cutting is questionable at best or if the software is questionable i'd rather buy a cheaper vinyl cutter and use the budget for woodworking tools. besides that i'd also much prefer a €180 paperweight over a €1000 paperweight if the manufacturer breaks the software because they feel like i need the new model.

for minecraft, the more single core speed the better. the 'bottleneck' is always the tick thread, which as the name implies is a single threaded operation. the amoutn of ram you want depends on a lot of factors, but 4-8GB allocated should be plenty. the suggestion for valheim appears to be 4-6 cores, and memory requirements seem to be 2-8GB depending on your needs. i'm also gonna assume there wont be a situation where both servers will be full of people causing load, so while you might want to account for the total memory usage, the "adding up of cpu usage" is much more lenient, so the i5 you proposed is probably more than plenty. to put some context behind this, i've never hosted valheim, but it seems to have simular enough requirements that i can use my conan exiles experience. i've used before mentioned i7-4770 to host multiple minecraft servers, multiple gmod servers, and a conan exiles server simultaniously, alongside of some other random minor stuff like a discord bot. it took all of that to 'fill' the 32GB RAM this system is maxed out to, and the cpu was fine as long as none of the servers was going haywire.

that's not how minecraft servers work. you can easily run a 20 person minecraft server on 4 gigs assuming you dont cake it with mods.

i mean.. technically 9Ah is above average, because most UPS'es prefer to put more batteries in series instead of more in parallel, but it's at 24 volts, which means that if OP is pulling 1200 watts (assuming zero losses) it's still pulling 50A from those batteries, and lead-acid's capacity goes down exponentially when current goes up.

also worth considering, especially for such high spec power supplies, if they have a "zero fan" mode and spend the great majority of time in said zero fan mode, it might be better for PSU thermals to have fan side up. i run my power supply fan side up for this reason.

minecraft servers essentially run on a single thread, so this for that is a horrible idea. the modern i5 is also faster than 2x E5-2640 while consuming less power than one of them. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1216vs4675vs1907/Intel-Xeon-E5-2640-vs-Intel-i5-12500-vs-Intel-i7-4770 i've also added an i7-4770 to my list, because i've been batting at an odd performance issue with villagers on minecraft, and that's the cpu i'm running said tests on, and at times one village gets me to around ~20ms tick time (above 50 the server starts skipping ticks aka lagging) being on there just by myself with a bunch of villagers.

this seems to fit the bill: https://www.magewell.com/products/usb-capture-sdi-4k-plus but realisticly, what are you doing with this thing that you want such high quality?

i'd say something like truenas. also, realisticly, even with rates close to 50 cents per kwh you're only looking at maybe 20-30 bucks per year in power cost.

to make sure the parts work before going trough all that effort. also, some cpu coolers are hell to mount while in a case, so it's partially out of habit on that side. on my Z97 system the cooler was such a horrible mounting system i ended up 'mounting the motherboard to the heatsink' outside the case, and then slice my fingers open to drop it in.

it's 1200W (2500VA), but that figure is very questionable. with the batteries that are in it, assuming high quality brand new cells with zero wear, you'd get at most 5 minutes runtime assuming 100% efficiency. realisticly, a 1200W or higher category unit should go at least 48 volts on the battery, just to not wreck the battery each time it has to kick in. thermodynamics is great.. 1200W out of the best cells i'm aware of, this unit is dissipating at least 60 watts in the battery just from internal resistance at max power. (that's again a very low estimate) (EDIT: should add, it's a 24V 9Ah battery)