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As recent as last year their coolants were on "do not buy" lists because of clogging blocks. Few years ago they were talking shit about Mayhem coolant being to blame for their plating failures (again) and then they got dunked on when Mick @ Mayhem was like "oh yeah BTW you guys were rebranding our coolant anyways sooooooo yeah".  Years before that their "warranty void if sticker removed" bullshit.
 
And overall their stuff is pretty much always the most expensive option and when you put it up against Alphacool or Watercool it isn't even close in terms of hydraulic design quality or finishing.  Their business for the last 10+ years has been "max $, minimum quality, and accept no responsibility for any failures in field".  So my recommendation to everyone whose like "oh should I buy EK?" nope, go on aliexpress and buy Bykski and it's the same thing at 1/5th the cost.  Or pay slightly less and buy Watercool or Alphacool stuff that is bomb proof.

I'd be fine with EK disappearing.  Quality on par with China and price on par with Europe.  But every kid buys them because they don't know any better than sponsored youtubers telling them that's what they use *cough jayztwocents*.
 
And I'll never forgive or forget them blaming literally everything but their own shitty nickel plating.  Hell I have a picture somewhere of their "gold" plating peeling off.

Lithium hasn't worked its way down yet to the consumer space but it really is way better overall for UPS's since it offers 100% depth-of-discharge and the batteries will last 10 years instead of 2.  I had to build mine myself to stay under $1000 (it's basically the same thing you'd put in an RV.  Lithium battery, DC-DC charger, 12V power supply, inverter).   But it's online (aka "double conversion" because it's doing ac - dc - dc - ac) so it wouldn't be practical outside a utility closet unless you don't care about 24/7 fan noise.  And it's more expensive to run because it draws 30% more power than it supplies with the efficiency losses.  It'd be more expensive to have automatic transfer switch to run off utility power and switch over to battery fast enough to not interrupt electronics.
 
So if you want to go the standard UPS route I'd look at the runtime charts for APC / TrippLite / CyberPower and then decide how much time you need and buy from there.  Sustaining 800W for more than 20 minutes gets expensive with the readily available stuff (I personally targetted 2 hours to match the longest power outage every experienced here).  If you want to rummage around and save money you can find rackmount stuff or retired UPS's on ebay that just need new batteries put in them.  There's loads of stores that will sell replacement generic batteries.
 
It's easier to say "I just need 5 minutes to save stuff and shut down" and then play on your phone while you wait for grid power to come back.

Apple users don't avoid switching Android because they're being blocked from doing it.  They don't because they don't want to.
 
The entire strength of the Apple ecosystem comes from it being centrally managed by Apple.  iMessage is good because it's run by Apple.  Apple Pay is good because it's run by Apple.  The app store is good.....because it's run by Apple.  You open this shit up and you end up with the Android shitshow where nothing works with anything else and a 5 year old can hack it because there's more gaping holes than a BDSM porn set.
 
If the DOJ is bored why don't they sue Nvidia...who has an actual monopoly on everything GPU compute right now.  Oh yeah because it's harder to explain that in a press release when it's an election year vs. "iPhone bad"

Apple users don't avoid switching Android because they're being blocked from doing it.  They don't because they don't want to.
 
The entire strength of the Apple ecosystem comes from it being centrally managed by Apple.  iMessage is good because it's run by Apple.  Apple Pay is good because it's run by Apple.  The app store is good.....because it's run by Apple.  You open this shit up and you end up with the Android shitshow where nothing works with anything else and a 5 year old can hack it because there's more gaping holes than a BDSM porn set.
 
If the DOJ is bored why don't they sue Nvidia...who has an actual monopoly on everything GPU compute right now.  Oh yeah because it's harder to explain that in a press release when it's an election year vs. "iPhone bad"

Apple users don't avoid switching Android because they're being blocked from doing it.  They don't because they don't want to.
 
The entire strength of the Apple ecosystem comes from it being centrally managed by Apple.  iMessage is good because it's run by Apple.  Apple Pay is good because it's run by Apple.  The app store is good.....because it's run by Apple.  You open this shit up and you end up with the Android shitshow where nothing works with anything else and a 5 year old can hack it because there's more gaping holes than a BDSM porn set.
 
If the DOJ is bored why don't they sue Nvidia...who has an actual monopoly on everything GPU compute right now.  Oh yeah because it's harder to explain that in a press release when it's an election year vs. "iPhone bad"

He still hasn't learned from Whole Room Watercooling: glycol isn't antimicrobial by itself.  It relies on whatever you're cooling being 100C to be sterile so it's going to be screwed up shortly.
 
You have a 3d printer and a CNC and that's your manifold situation with silicone holding it together?
 
I'd have spaced everything out with a 1U gap and put drip trays with drain ports between each machine.  And put a contact sensor on the drain so if water ends up in there you get an alarm.

He still hasn't learned from Whole Room Watercooling: glycol isn't antimicrobial by itself.  It relies on whatever you're cooling being 100C to be sterile so it's going to be screwed up shortly.
 
You have a 3d printer and a CNC and that's your manifold situation with silicone holding it together?
 
I'd have spaced everything out with a 1U gap and put drip trays with drain ports between each machine.  And put a contact sensor on the drain so if water ends up in there you get an alarm.

He still hasn't learned from Whole Room Watercooling: glycol isn't antimicrobial by itself.  It relies on whatever you're cooling being 100C to be sterile so it's going to be screwed up shortly.
 
You have a 3d printer and a CNC and that's your manifold situation with silicone holding it together?
 
I'd have spaced everything out with a 1U gap and put drip trays with drain ports between each machine.  And put a contact sensor on the drain so if water ends up in there you get an alarm.

Didn't forget about ya, it just took a month to get the printed parts delivered.  Looks like the dude use .1mm layer height cause it's finer than I've seen before.
 
Anyhoo HOLY SHIT does the air guide work a treat.  The videos make it much more obvious than the screenshots here but without the guide the stream breaks up within 18".  With it, it's solid out to 3' easy.
 
(the smoke is burning mineral oil, meant for this type of purpose)
Video without the air guide:
 


Video with the air guide:


 
Turns out I also stumbled on the correct size of the funnel "vents" to not retrict the fan with the engine running.  I measure about 11mph peak speed  on the fan with no restriction, it drops to about 9.7mph with the engine off, and goes back to about 11mph again with the engine on indicating it's full flow.  I don't have a great means of visually showing it, but I can feel the warmth of the exhaust on my hand much further behind the car so it's *throwing* it like I wanted.

Didn't forget about ya, it just took a month to get the printed parts delivered.  Looks like the dude use .1mm layer height cause it's finer than I've seen before.
 
Anyhoo HOLY SHIT does the air guide work a treat.  The videos make it much more obvious than the screenshots here but without the guide the stream breaks up within 18".  With it, it's solid out to 3' easy.
 
(the smoke is burning mineral oil, meant for this type of purpose)
Video without the air guide:
 


Video with the air guide:


 
Turns out I also stumbled on the correct size of the funnel "vents" to not retrict the fan with the engine running.  I measure about 11mph peak speed  on the fan with no restriction, it drops to about 9.7mph with the engine off, and goes back to about 11mph again with the engine on indicating it's full flow.  I don't have a great means of visually showing it, but I can feel the warmth of the exhaust on my hand much further behind the car so it's *throwing* it like I wanted.

Nothing about that sentence implies the lenses are permanently installed or can't be removed for resale.  Kinda jumping to conclusions eh?
 
I'm also doubtful that Zeiss is pre-making and "stocking" every prescription combination.  It's literally tens of thousands of possibilities when you factor in astigmatism and the axis angles.   They would do what every other eyeglass / lens lab does which is made-to-order.  It's probably the Bloomberg guy misunderstanding the supply chain and *really* Apple just doesn't want to deal with separate lens orders and packaging and shit when they can deliver a prescription package in one shot.

TLDW:
 

 
Kinda looks the same size to me?

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Kinda looks the same size to me?

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Kinda looks the same size to me?

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Kinda looks the same size to me?

The video is talking about USB over ethernet, not USB over IP which is incredibly niche to where I can't think of any scenario a normal user would want that.   VNC-like software probably dominates most every place it could be contemplated.

Sent this off for print.  1mm wall thickness on the grid which is as low as I can go on the design rules.  It should mate perfect to the funnel sandwiching the fan.
 

 
I'm excited to see how much of a difference it makes in terms of air guiding.

Sent this off for print.  1mm wall thickness on the grid which is as low as I can go on the design rules.  It should mate perfect to the funnel sandwiching the fan.
 

 
I'm excited to see how much of a difference it makes in terms of air guiding.

Yes I contemplated the temperature in the design, so I selected PETG for the purpose.  By the time the exhaust gas gets to the tip it's already been heatsinked by the rest of the pipe so while it's hot it's not melting hot.  Especially at idle where it's not a lot of gas to begin with.
 
If anything PLA would have been fine but I picked PETG since it's practically the same material cost.
 
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This is where I'm camping in the car and have fans pulling fresh air into the cabin so I don't have to deal with condensation on the windows and I can cook in there without building up more condensation.
 
EDIT: You do make a valid point about just running a section of pipe or hose to extend the tip away from the car.  It'd be viable but I was also trying to avoid carrying extra stuff since the cargo capacity gets maxed out when it's in camper mode.

I'm growing tired of literally everything becoming a subscription.    I like things that I don't have to think about anymore once they're "taken care of"...like one time purchases.
 
It's really the opposite.  Long trips are far less tiring when you only need to deal with speed management on the scroll wheel and passing other cars ocassionally. I wouldn't have been able to do a 14 hour trip in one shot without autopilot helping.

I'm growing tired of literally everything becoming a subscription.    I like things that I don't have to think about anymore once they're "taken care of"...like one time purchases.
 
It's really the opposite.  Long trips are far less tiring when you only need to deal with speed management on the scroll wheel and passing other cars ocassionally. I wouldn't have been able to do a 14 hour trip in one shot without autopilot helping.

3 days.  That's 3x how long my 10TB drives take to rebuild.
I'm a simple man running raid 6 with NTFS on top...and SMB (but hey at least we have dual 10Gb for SMB multithread...).  It's dumb and basic but it's all I really want to be bothered maintaining and setting up when I need the thing to run plex and a file host accesible to the world, and be accessible to other windows boxes.  And host 2 windows VMs.  And be available 24/7/365 where I can't take it down for a week to clean slate.  I'm in a mental state where I'm annoyed when I have to do SSL certificate renewal every year.

I'm growing tired of literally everything becoming a subscription.    I like things that I don't have to think about anymore once they're "taken care of"...like one time purchases.
 
It's really the opposite.  Long trips are far less tiring when you only need to deal with speed management on the scroll wheel and passing other cars ocassionally. I wouldn't have been able to do a 14 hour trip in one shot without autopilot helping.

The rebuild has no awareness about the filesystem or contents.  It's all bits.