Nup

Ive got a custom case I designed and had fabricated. Its 4 computers in one case with 40 hard drives.Its done now. These are older images. It actually started its life in an enthoo case.

New Deskmat arrived a week ago and I finally took the time to open it - 
 
 

They really missed the chance to re-sub-brand as "Firewire2" because "now it's blazing (fast)"

’Chew’s Keycap Sets!
(Left to Right, Top to Bottom)
 
KAT Alpha Blank Keycap Set
/dev/tty MT3 Keycap Set
OEM Fog White Keycap Set
POM Ink Keycap Set ()
SA Classic Dolch Doubleshot PBT Keycap Set ()
Classic Dye-Sublimation Keycap Set (Cherry Profile, )
XDA Gentleman Blank Keycap Set
EnjoyPBT Blank Black PBT Keycaps (Cherry Profile, In Use: K-4398)
 
Personally, would recommend these containers to save on storage space. Keycaps will be loose, but legended keycaps are easily identifiable, and blank keycaps can be sorted by rows.
 

Generic Plastic Container
Dimensions: 11.81" × 7.87" × 2.36"
As far as I can tell, these containers are identical to Kinetic Labs’s Keycap Containers, sans the branding.
Kinetic Labs: $10.99 (1 pk), $19.99 (2 pk) | MaxGaming: €17.89 (1 pk) | Amazon: $9.99 (1 pk)

 
Alternative Container Options
JTK Polycarbonate Keycap Tray (Various Vendors): Storage option that displays keycap sets side-by-side. Short height profile, but long length and width profile. Popular among keeb vendors, but often back-ordered or only available by pre-orders. Generic Keycap Tray (Amazon): Storage option that displays keycap sets side-by-side. Short height profile, but long length and width profile. A more accessible option (for Amazon US), if JTK keycap trays aren’t available.  
Notes
Cherry, OEM, XDA, DSA, etc. profiles should be compatible with most aftermarket keycap trays. OEM profiles may not be compatible wtih trays specifically designed for GMK keycaps / Cherry profiles. SA profiles will need trays that are at least 16.5 mm in depth.

TIL the Apple Campus is just various sets.

It can't be sodimm because everything phillip's makes is sobright.

Yvonne's magenta highlights looks fantastic. Am wondering if she does that herself?
 
If this was 20 years ago, I could buy my parent's old place right now. Regrettably, time machines do not exist (the house is now above 4x), and it seems like the more money I make, the higher housing climbs. Need to really step on the gas with the photography side hustle.
 
Pretty awesome home there, Linus, and those renovations will really push it over the top. Wishing you many years of enjoyment there. 😁

Wow! Microsoft is buying Activision-Blizzard for $68.7 Billion.
Seriously Microsoft, you couldn't have at least shelled out an extra 300M for the memes?
 
https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/microsoft-acquire-activision-blizzard-bring-joy-and-community
 
 
I have some bad news for you...

The only thing HP is king of, is acronyms for what HP stands for:
 
Hardly Perfect
Has Problems
Horse Pucky
Hideous Product
Horribly Produced
etc.

You might find this of interest (the original site is gone however)
http://h2operation.org/sugarstacks/
 

So I went a little stir crazy while Isolating myself in these funky times.

Decided to make my own keyboard layout from scratch and hand wire a prototype.

She isn't the prettiest gal in the ball but she's definitely one of a kind, and I can really call her mine.

MOMOKA Flamingo Linears / Kailh speed Pinks
1.6mm 5052 Brushed aluminium plate laser cut by a third party and (poorly) hand bent by me.
Some 3d Printed PLA supports (will be revised, way too much flex from side to side)
Maxxkey Blue/Cream SA Doubleshot keycaps
Durock Plate Mount Stabilizers
A metric ton of wires (that will be revised eventually for better organization)
And a Teensy++2.0 microcontroller.

Not sure what to call it just yet.

I found Waldo! 
 

A man is teaching his rat to play doom, the VR getup used to do this (since a rat does not know how to use a controller or a keyboard) is rather interesting.
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Honestly this could be expanded to other animals to see how they behave in various environments without subjecting them to it. Also know that there are people RIGHT NOW that play DOOM worse than this rodent.
 
Sources
 
https://hackaday.com/2021/12/29/rats-learn-to-play-doom-in-this-automated-vr-arena/
https://medium.com/mindsoft/rats-in-doom-eb6c52c73aca

You do know that wafers are made out of mono-crystalline Silicon (which is not a metal), with the least amount of impurities and the wafers are cut to a specific crystal plane? Your $3500/ton is just an arbitrary number for some form of silicon, not for the stuff that is actually used to make state-of-the-art electronics. 
And you don't need the entire wafer to be made out of Gallium. The substrate can be almost anything. White LEDs (or the blue ones) use a sapphire substrate and MOVPE to get the GaN layer. Your calculation doesn't make sense. Material cost are quite frankly almost negligible compared to the price of the rest of the process. 

As exciting as this is, this will never come to the consumer tech space in its current form for one reason: cost.
 
As I'm sure you know, normal semiconductors are made using cheap, abundant silicon. These funky new transistors, however, were built using germanium. And germanium isn't cheap.

Silicon metal is currently selling at ~$3.5k per ton, although this price has been very volatile the last few months. But germanium? You're talking ~$1k per kilogram. You're talking a 300x increase in raw materials cost per kilogram, which even the theoretical maximum space savings of 85% advertised here wouldn't be able to offset. Also, germanium is ~2.5x as dense as silicon, so a germanium chip utilising this technology would only use ~60% less material by weight than a comparable silicon chip. Add this all together and you get a happy face each germanium-based chip costing ~120x as much as the comparable silicon chip, at least when you're talking raw resouces. Ouch.
 
And this cost increase will, of course, just get passed down the chain. If the raw material costs 300x more for the foundry (eg TSMC) to buy, you can bet your ass that they will sell that wafer to AMD, Nvidia etc. for a buttload more than a silicon wafer. This price increase would of course get passed down to the board partners who, due to their complete lack of profit margins, would have no choice but to pass it on to us, the consumers. Yay.
 
Note: germanium is currently used in industry as an alloy with silicon (SiGe) in products such as photovoltaic cells and LEDs. This is not the form used by this research - this research uses pure germanium. Germanium is usable by these other industries despite its price partially because a large amount of the cost of germanium actually comes from the cost of purifying it. Silicon is required to be at a very high level of purity for wafer production - 99.9999999% (9N) is normal pre-doping - but this level of material purity is generally not required by other applications, thereby allowing them to purchase lower-grade materials at a lower cost. They also generally use a very small quantity of germanium (eg a thin layer atop a silicon wafer) so the cost increase vs pure silicon is not particularly high.
 
If this technology is able to be applied to SiGe-based semiconductors then this could get very interesting. Simliarly if someone manages to make Germanium drop in price by a few orders of magnitude, that would be great. Until that point, however, I don't see this getting out of a lab. I also wonder if it has more of an application in FPGAs than in conventional CPUs/GPUs thanks to its ability to change configuration at runtime, and question how capable they would be vs conventional transistors at reaching the high frequencies used by modern electronics. Reducing the size of our CPUs by 85% is useless if it means reducing their maximum frequency by 85% as well.

Thanks, sure will... I've posted some as status updates lately, although smaller chips
 
The 386 was a challenge because of the area, used my CNC router to hold the chip and shift it around
 

a day ago I have got a response from the company. Here is some additional information about their company and the business:
 
 
It sound likes they have some action going on at the moment. when i was involved in a LoRa IoT  project a couple of years ago, there was a talk about making smart disposable tags for the packages, so they would respond to the scanners in the post offices when the packages pass through, that is instead of scanning the bar-codes which is happening these days. I have not seen it in practice yet but this is something I thought could be quite cool.
 
I will keep my eye on this company and post here if I find something interesting.

Christ their website really is devoid of information, but there was some details of the battery cells in one post in their "latest news" section (its in Swedish sadly, so i cant understand more than the slides. But the source is there if anyone feels like translating those couple of talking points :P).
So it looks like they're not too bad, with a low density compared to lithium ion cells, and much better cycling.But i have really no idea how these batteries work, I cant find anything on them.
 
The company does to have patents on organic electrodes and water-based electrolyte, but no "normal" documents on battery structure (reading patents is a bore, maybe its in there).
A lot of this tech & materials seems to be based on the university's research group, their papers utilise the same materials as in the patents, although they focus on redox flow batteries. One post does associate Ligna Energy. So its unclear to me weather they are making just "normal" batteries, or also redox flow batteries later on for even larger scale solutions.
 
Overall I think that the tech they have developed is really cool, using a waste product to make something of high value like batteries is smart, and the research papers seems to indicate they put a lot of work in optimizing organic redox flow batteries. Even if the performance isn't like that of Lithium ion batteries, its evident that they are targeting at a very different need than lithium cells which are expensive and relatively dangerous solution.
 
I guess it can be frustrating to read about research technology that isn't at the point of being in the working world yet, but its equally frustrating to have a novel technology get immediately dismissed just because its not in everyones hands yet.
 
 
 
 
 

Christ their website really is devoid of information, but there was some details of the battery cells in one post in their "latest news" section (its in Swedish sadly, so i cant understand more than the slides. But the source is there if anyone feels like translating those couple of talking points :P).
So it looks like they're not too bad, with a low density compared to lithium ion cells, and much better cycling.But i have really no idea how these batteries work, I cant find anything on them.
 
The company does to have patents on organic electrodes and water-based electrolyte, but no "normal" documents on battery structure (reading patents is a bore, maybe its in there).
A lot of this tech & materials seems to be based on the university's research group, their papers utilise the same materials as in the patents, although they focus on redox flow batteries. One post does associate Ligna Energy. So its unclear to me weather they are making just "normal" batteries, or also redox flow batteries later on for even larger scale solutions.
 
Overall I think that the tech they have developed is really cool, using a waste product to make something of high value like batteries is smart, and the research papers seems to indicate they put a lot of work in optimizing organic redox flow batteries. Even if the performance isn't like that of Lithium ion batteries, its evident that they are targeting at a very different need than lithium cells which are expensive and relatively dangerous solution.
 
I guess it can be frustrating to read about research technology that isn't at the point of being in the working world yet, but its equally frustrating to have a novel technology get immediately dismissed just because its not in everyones hands yet.
 
 
 
 
 

The standard for dual gpu is 4-slot (2-slot spacing) .
Most motherboards that support dual gpu will have slots spaced as such for pcie lanes at x16 speed. 
If the motherboard supports more x16 speed with 6-slot (4-slot spacing), that may be better.

All three OEMs of IBM Model M13 buckling spring keyboards with TrackPoint or other pointing stick:

 
L-R:
Lexmark-made P/N 92G7461 Maxi Switch-made P/N 13H6705 Unicomp-made P/N 18P7970 This was at one point going to be the cover photo for an article I was working on comparing the three, but the article was scrapped before release due to a lack of interesting commentary. Instead, recycling the facts for my site's wiki in the future. Just found this otherwise cool photo whilst digging through my unused stuff.

Well they're the ones that missed out on the free advertisement!

this:

Damn... Guns and the devils lettuce don't mix in my state. 
 
  
Limonene and Pinene make great natural tackifiers. Interesting to see how 'low' the THC content is, I always assumed they were 95-99%.

Christ their website really is devoid of information, but there was some details of the battery cells in one post in their "latest news" section (its in Swedish sadly, so i cant understand more than the slides. But the source is there if anyone feels like translating those couple of talking points :P).
So it looks like they're not too bad, with a low density compared to lithium ion cells, and much better cycling.But i have really no idea how these batteries work, I cant find anything on them.
 
The company does to have patents on organic electrodes and water-based electrolyte, but no "normal" documents on battery structure (reading patents is a bore, maybe its in there).
A lot of this tech & materials seems to be based on the university's research group, their papers utilise the same materials as in the patents, although they focus on redox flow batteries. One post does associate Ligna Energy. So its unclear to me weather they are making just "normal" batteries, or also redox flow batteries later on for even larger scale solutions.
 
Overall I think that the tech they have developed is really cool, using a waste product to make something of high value like batteries is smart, and the research papers seems to indicate they put a lot of work in optimizing organic redox flow batteries. Even if the performance isn't like that of Lithium ion batteries, its evident that they are targeting at a very different need than lithium cells which are expensive and relatively dangerous solution.
 
I guess it can be frustrating to read about research technology that isn't at the point of being in the working world yet, but its equally frustrating to have a novel technology get immediately dismissed just because its not in everyones hands yet.