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@SiliconMagician No drive cages on thingiverse I can find but I did find this: Cooler Master MasterCase GPU Support Arm by WheresWaldo - Thingiverse Thats SO epic, Imma try and get one made!

Yeah @SiliconMagician, I've debated doing that. Currently I have the 5.25 drive cage ripped out. I know I could cram more total drives in using the oem cages. I think I can get atleast 9 3.5 drives in if I had enough cages which should be more than enough considering I'd start upgrading hard drive sizes if I hit that point (currently have 5 8 TB drives, one is redundancy, and server is half full of data).I'll check inot the thingyverse though as that is an interesting new thought

Hello all! I have 2 Master case pro 5's in my house, and I am looking for one extra 3.5" drive bay for my unraid server. Preferably a 3 drive bay, but beggars can't be choosers. I love the size and breathing room these cases offer, and while the bigger fans and extra hard drive spacing isn't "necessary", it definitely helps with cooling and noise (not to mention I already have the cases and dont want to spend $100+ on a fractal define R5) I don't need the expansion space right this moment, but eventually I will need some more hard drives and as these cases are discontinued I have tried multiple times over the last 1.5 years and can't seem to track any down (really should have sourced them when I first built the server). I figured now is the time to try you fine folks out. If anyone has one of the things laying around and is willing to sell it or knows of some obscure site that has some I'd be grateful. Sorry mods if this is in the wrong section (or possibly not allowed). Amazon.com: Cooler Master Three bay 3.5” drive cage bracket for the MasterCase 5 series : Tools & Home Improvement There is a link to what I'm talking about. Thanks all for the time.

Using used, or slighly older parts, $800 would normally get you a pretty bang up PC. I know the hurdle of building yourself seems daunting, but I've been tons of computers in the last 18 years and can say its not "that hard". I always say if you can build legos, you can build a pc.

Yeah, I totally see this as an easy money grab, or trying to spur the courts to break up google (again). But I always refer back 2018 when Europe sued google for "forcing" the gsuite with playstore (basically all or nothing). There was a big google payout, but then google came out and said "fine, europe, I use to provide gsuite for free, but I'll give phone makers the option to break it up for a per phone license fee, or you can keep it all for free". Google is smart and they are going to keep theirs. Now, if they did in fact do anti-competitive practices like the news articles are saying, then they will definitely get thrown in the fire for that.

Tales around the internet is gpu's will finally start becoming available soon. Id wager something like a 1650 or equivalent would be "reasonably" priced until then. What's your budget if you don't mind me asking?

This argument always burns my toast. While I do agree more money going to Devs is always nice, google does atleast allow other app stores on their devices, and even side loading of apps. Yes, the google play store is married to the entire G-Suite, but in all fairness some of the google play store money helps support continued updates to the entire g-suite (of course ads are their primary income). It still blows me away google keeps coming under fire for the play store in general while apple does the same things (see revenue share), or worse (no other market places) and somehow keeps trotting along. I would LOVE to see apple allow sideloading, but I highly doubt the epic case will spur that. It'll take another antitrust investigation to get that pushed through, which hopefully the epic store lawsuit spurs.

How important is the mobile aspect of the laptop for you? Do you game only* at home, or is it a true pick up and go see friends gaming? What I've been doing the last 2 years is streaming my desktop PC to my tablet, or wife's weak laptop to play on the couch while we watch TV at night (I rarely get "me" gaming time anymore). So long as you game only in your own home, I HIGHLY recommend it from a price to performance perspective. You can have a cheaper, more powerful desktop in another room, and even use your current laptop to output the video signal and use the keyboard and mouse. If you dont go nvidia route, Parsec streaming works pretty dang awesome as well (linus even did a video on it last year). Just know a wired PC connection is highly recommended if you do the streaming option.

The fiber unit does not have a built in router. The master bed room is on the entire opposite side of the house from the closet, and I currently get about 2 bars of wifi if I have only the primary on base hub spitting out wifi. Supposedly I can use it as a great access point and should be "fine". Budget is cheap as possible, but I want something that is good and will last. I'm not above spending some money for a solid system. I've debated one beefy wifi 6 router to cover the entire house from the closet, and not resort to the proposed router and center house access point, but my current router doesn't have enough range to hit the smart plugs in the master.

Sorry, I didn't describe it best. I currently have a mesh setup. The middle of the house has weird hand off issues where the user gets bounced back and forth between nodes, so I am nixxing the mesh setup and instead would like to put a single access point in the guest room in the middle of the house. Basically every room has one ethernet jack, all fed into the network closet on the farthest end of the house. This closet also has the main fiber line also. My understanding is you need a router to assign it addresses. My question is what tech do I need to have the ip addresses assigned in the closet, and then I can pipe the wifi out on the other end of an ethernet jack?

I thought the internet had to go through the router before a switch is introduced?

Looks like auto correct has done a number on that post. What exactly did you mean?

Hi all. I currently have a network closet on one end of the house all my wired ethernet runs to. My asus Google wifi mesh has been weird,and I'd like to relocate just one wifi point to the center of the house guest room. Issue is the room only has one ethernet port. Do I need a managed switch, and then an access point in bridge mode. Is there such a thing as wired router to stick onto the access point. I've been googling a to know good answer. Thanks all

Hello all, I'm looking to remove some soft encoded subtitles from a video, and slot in another SRT without any sort of re-encoding/quality loss. Anyone know any programs that can do this? The video in question is very high quality, and I cant find anything that doesnt want to re-encode.