whole room re-build-log (room, desk, wiring, rig, AND server) UPDATE: bonus gaming pizza build

[comicsansms]

Why the sleeved sata cables in Stacy? 

[AbeTrve]

7 hours ago, manikyath said:

W2D5, technicly day 6 but w/e

this happened:

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added a short log of the stacy rebuild in the appropriate location, no OS yet, i'm thinking KDE neon

YES! ITS FINALLY COMPUTER STUFFS HAPPENING

I'd be very interested in hearing more opinions on KDE Neon!

[You_are_a_cunt]

Dammit Stacy is starting to look better than my daily driver =\

[manikyath]

10 hours ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

Why the sleeved sata cables in Stacy? 

because for some reason sharkoon's sleeved sata cables are chreaper than any non-sleeved cables

 

2 hours ago, AbeTrve said:

I'd be very interested in hearing more opinions on KDE Neon!

kde neon has been doing great on my laptop, but it just feels VERY un-handy for the server side of things, so i'm giving xubuntu a spin. i used to have a SUPER skinned down lubuntu on an old server using 200MB of ram, and i heard xubuntu can do pretty good as well.

not that i really care about ram with 32GB

57 minutes ago, revsilverspine said:

Dammit Stacy is starting to look better than my daily driver =\

it's kind of a personal project to make stacy look good

but... the seasonic prime power supply is heavy as all hell, it by itself is heavier than a stock TC-603...

[manikyath]

W2D6 udpate:

i just wanna mention this is how necessary the upgrade from 1TB storage was:

fyi, the thing saying 493.9GB is still counting

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also, i decided to roll by the DIY store to look for some cables, and i decided to pick up a roll of my grandpa's tape of choice, will it be able to kick tesa off it's shallow throne? nextt time on iron chef

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i'm gonna tidy up stacy a bit more (it'd be a shame not to use seasonic prime branded velcro) and after that will be the main rig rebuild i guess

[manikyath]

W2D7 lunchtime:

i've gotten stacy to detect her UPS (bad usb cable... naughty benQ...), rebuilt the whisper (main rig) and tried out the datavac. HOLY HELL THE DATAVAC

 

pictures added to the appropriate location, in terms of the datavac it was something like this

 

[comicsansms]

4 minutes ago, manikyath said:

W2D7 lunchtime:

i've gotten stacy to detect her UPS (bad usb cable... naughty benQ...), rebuilt the whisper (main rig) and tried out the datavac. HOLY HELL THE DATAVAC

 

pictures added to the appropriate location, in terms of the datavac it was something like this

 

 

[manikyath]

W3D3 update:

the week started out kinda slow, until Bpost came in the picture today.

 

9 FRIKKIN AM. Bpost is here with my second display

 

now lets see how long UPS takes to get my colorfabb fillament here, and how many more centuries it'll take "3Dninja" and PostNL to get my printer here

[manikyath]

i can really recommend going custom PCB if you want more I/O on the back of your display

[You_are_a_cunt]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

~SNIPE~

i can really recommend going custom PCB if you want more I/O on the back of your display

I wasn't expecting you to go THAT ghetto  @Comic_Sans_MS would probably approve, lol

[manikyath]

Just now, revsilverspine said:

I wasn't expecting you to go THAT ghetto  @Comic_Sans_MS would probably approve, lol

the only reason i'm going THIS getto is because my 3D printer is still in a void in the netherlands and tesa tape is very strong until you introduce the mild warmth of a display to it

[You_are_a_cunt]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

the only reason i'm going THIS getto is because my 3D printer is still in a void in the netherlands and tesa tape is very strong until you introduce the mild warmth of a display to it

Btw, you can daisy chain audio to the monitors using a TRS/3.5 splitter and 2 trs/trs cables or make your own trs to trs/trs cable. Used to do that on my old monitor setup

[manikyath]

Just now, revsilverspine said:

Btw, you can daisy chain audio to the monitors using a TRS/3.5 splitter and 2 trs/trs cables or make your own trs to trs/trs cable. Used to do that on my old monitor setup

i'm using the audio channel on HDMI because of a shortage of sound cards

[You_are_a_cunt]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

i'm using the audio channel on HDMI because of a shortage of sound cards

Ah, that mildly sucks. I have to stick to analog due to me using an amp (let's just call it that) for my speakers

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, revsilverspine said:

Ah, that mildly sucks. I have to stick to analog due to me using an amp (let's just call it that) for my speakers

i also kinda wanna avoid running another "audio" cable on my desk, i'm totally not using solid core 2.5mm² power cable as audio cables btw

[You_are_a_cunt]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

i also kinda wanna avoid running another "audio" cable on my desk, i'm totally not using solid core 2.5mm² power cable as audio cables btw

Oh god the loss on those cables

I hit the motherlode on a Kaufland sale (iirc you have those there, right?) with dirt cheap cables. Got myself about 15 EUR worth of cables, individual price was about 0.25 EUR. Now I literally have more USB and audio cables than I would ever need <_<

Scored the cheapo 10 EUR RGB kit on the same day (same store, even). Got overhyped on cheap stuff that I forgot to buy TP (WHICH IS WHY I WENT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE).

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, revsilverspine said:

Oh god the loss on those cables

I hit the motherlode on a Kaufland sale (iirc you have those there, right?) with dirt cheap cables. Got myself about 15 EUR worth of cables, individual price was about 0.25 EUR. Now I literally have more USB and audio cables than I would ever need <_<

Scored the cheapo 10 EUR RGB kit on the same day (same store, even). Got overhyped on cheap stuff that I forgot to buy TP (WHICH IS WHY I WENT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE).

the reason i'm using them is because all cables i can get locally just.. suck...

 

the cables i molested for their connectors had a resistance of 40-something ohms, now i'm back to the acceptable <1ohm my multimeter cant measure properly

[You_are_a_cunt]

26 minutes ago, manikyath said:

the reason i'm using them is because all cables i can get locally just.. suck...

 

the cables i molested for their connectors had a resistance of 40-something ohms, now i'm back to the acceptable <1ohm my multimeter cant measure properly

You're using cables that I need for my aligator clips, since the original cables on them are pathetic for what I need. replaced with salvaged AWG18 so they don't melt when I'm pushing 12v 2A to power up my MiniStack

Wanna trade?

[manikyath]

so.. with some slight delay because of audio problems...

 

in the middle of troubleshooting sound issues (involving reinstalling nvidia drivers because that's a default whenever pretty much anything on my system goes wrong, and i had to rid them from the horrors of my old setup as well )

 

i got presents

Spoiler

UPS showed up with a box labeled "colorfabb" oh what could it be?

 

and while disassembling the "setup" around my dell monitor, i got a little gift from tesa as well...

two beautiful double sided tape skidmarks...

 

[8uhbbhu8]

9 hours ago, revsilverspine said:

Oh god the loss on those cables

I hit the motherlode on a Kaufland sale (iirc you have those there, right?) with dirt cheap cables. Got myself about 15 EUR worth of cables, individual price was about 0.25 EUR. Now I literally have more USB and audio cables than I would ever need <_<

Scored the cheapo 10 EUR RGB kit on the same day (same store, even). Got overhyped on cheap stuff that I forgot to buy TP (WHICH IS WHY I WENT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE).

 

9 hours ago, manikyath said:

the reason i'm using them is because all cables i can get locally just.. suck...

 

the cables i molested for their connectors had a resistance of 40-something ohms, now i'm back to the acceptable <1ohm my multimeter cant measure properly

 I'd say over half my audio setup which includes 2 recievers and 8 (used to be 13) speakers and a jumble of audio cables from my various sources to said recievers, are all using solid core copper electrical wire  Not to mention the static is very audible at all volumes cause I haven't go around to cleaning the pots on the recievers

[manikyath]

w3d5:

my printer *should* arrive tomorrow, but in the meantime, i've added some cable management shots to the appropriate location.

 

i've also watched a video of a very strange man that couldnt help but sing while painting his ceiling with a weird brush.

[manikyath]

w3d6:

printer arrived

Spoiler

appareantly it's in two packages... i thought the second one would be fillament or something

nope.. it's the power cable:

quick assemly (only 6 screws) and figuring out the accessories (one of which was another power cable )

and test print time:

it has a touch screen

while printing i had lunch, i came back just in time:

i guess the printer works okay:

 

[manikyath]

cable management bracket hype

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the fillament i"ve used is the chinacrap i got from wanhao, i've got some samples from colorfabb to mess with:

- nGen clear (high temperature, not sure if the printer will like that)

- PLA orange

- PLA light brown

- "glowfill" glow in the dark

- woodfill (this one's gonna be a mess)

- copperfill (i'm not even sure if my printer can print this...)

[manikyath]

3D printer more or less sound insulating box hype:

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in case you're wondering, that's the protective plastic on the acryl, i'd take it off, but it'd wake up my old folks

(by the ambient light level you can storta guess the time )

that box is so tight... basicly everything in there is pushing up against everything else

[You_are_a_cunt]

Is that a floppy drive taped to your monitor?