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brittle coral
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dont block her from being able to easily get out to stuff, block what you want and keep the rest

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it was a nightmare for him doing it hte opposite

storm talon
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yea for sure

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i've been using hosts file, but that's a pain and she can tell

brittle coral
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cause then you have to sit in ethereal(wireshark now) and figureo ut what it is you fucked up and unblock it, rather than just blocking whatever they say to block till it stops working

storm talon
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I'd rather just redirect it to a picture of me with my arms crossed saying 'no'

brittle coral
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hahahaha

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yea im 29 now

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we got rid of it when i was like 16 or 17

storm talon
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my parents actually refused to let me get internet until 1997

brittle coral
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by then i'd figured out how to use my own proxy

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and he knew this

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so he gave up

hushed bobcat
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does she have a mobile device with cell service?

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she would be able to get around anything you do with that

brittle coral
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^^

storm talon
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yes she does, her mom is managing that with goggles

brittle coral
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theres also that

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without parental controls on the device

hushed bobcat
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especially if she learns how to tether

storm talon
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it's locked down

hushed bobcat
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kk

storm talon
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my job is to manage her pc

brittle coral
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id have left it just open enough for them to try to hack around xD

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encourage them to learn how i did

storm talon
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LOL that's a good idea too

brittle coral
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yea right

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like, if they are smart and savvy enough that i cant lock them out

storm talon
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she still hasn't realized i haven't locked her pc down yet she's still bitching about her phone not working

brittle coral
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i might be annoyed about them doing whatever but hey

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thats a valuable skill

storm talon
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the app her mom got actually locks her out of the whole device after 2h

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then she has to do chores to earn more time

brittle coral
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hahaha

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kids

storm talon
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ye

brittle coral
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the PC is the easy way through it

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you'll have to manually block VPN sites

storm talon
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yea she hasn't realized it yet

brittle coral
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xD

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as long as they know how to reroute traffic through 8080 for everything on the VPN you're golden

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thats what i did

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i set up a proxy at a friend's house who had business fiber 100mbit coming in synchronous

storm talon
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the LTT writers probably takin notes of this channel rn

brittle coral
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routed my connection through it on 8080 and it added a flat 10ms to the hop but i could game on it πŸ˜„

storm talon
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"new video - protecting your kids online at home"

brittle coral
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hahaha

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someone poke one of the active staff

hushed bobcat
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could you add stuff you want to block to piHole?

storm talon
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rule 13

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hehe

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pihole is trash

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or, no

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my rpi2 is trash

hushed bobcat
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i just remember LTT did a vid on it

storm talon
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i'm sure it works great on the new revisions but mine was slow and laggy af

rich depot
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it has to be in a domain list

hushed bobcat
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well you can run pihole in a VM

rich depot
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but yes

storm talon
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orly

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not against trying that tbh

rich depot
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@storm talon i ran Pi Hole on the original Pi 1 B

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it ran fine

storm talon
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didn't work really good for me

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but as a vm it should be fine

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I've never had a good experience with rpi

hushed bobcat
storm talon
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Thank you my friend

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esxi is my bread and butter

hushed bobcat
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πŸ‘

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i saw an article on installing pihole in docker too

storm talon
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yea i saw the docker container

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my docker env isn't prod ready yet so it could change

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still learning kubernetes

hushed bobcat
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you have a pfsense router?

storm talon
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yea I'm gonna try pihole first just for ease of use. squid as I recall does take a good bit of setup

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at the dc yes, at home I have an edgerouter

hushed bobcat
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well it seems pfsense has a built in plugin

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called pfblocker

storm talon
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pfblockerng is really good, we use it for banning chinese and colombian ips

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haven't used it for client side yet tho

hushed bobcat
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i have pfsense on my home network

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mainly because i wanted my own private vpn

storm talon
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yea pfsense + ovpn is solid af

hushed bobcat
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for me its slow af though....

storm talon
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ipsec is a bit wonky if you are using openbgp it interferes

hushed bobcat
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ive tried tuning it to no avail

storm talon
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slow?

hushed bobcat
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12 Mbps MAX speed

brittle coral
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yea larry when my step-dad did it he used a full linux PC with 2 NICs

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configured it in between the router and the outside

storm talon
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that's hard core faxon

brittle coral
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they didnt make WRT routers yet

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xD

storm talon
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LOL

brittle coral
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this was how it was done

storm talon
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wrt54g was a great router ngl

hushed bobcat
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i had a wrt54gs

brittle coral
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yup and it came out in dec 2002

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xD

storm talon
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nextal does your pfsense support hardware encryption

brittle coral
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this was 2000-2001 time frame

storm talon
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or are you running on a "computer"

hushed bobcat
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i hosted a Halo dedicated server on that wifi πŸ™‚

brittle coral
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pentium pro based xD

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thats what he did

hushed bobcat
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@storm talon yes i am using AES-NI hardware encryption

storm talon
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weird....

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i've never had a problem with speeds on our ovpns

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and we run streaming video for parliament

hushed bobcat
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i can just barley stream a 1080p stream from my plex server

storm talon
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yea i did notice media isn't the greatest thing to be sending over ovpn

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can you do a ssh tunnel?

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comapre the two

hushed bobcat
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ssh is only for command line isn't it?

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ive only ever used it for putty

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ohh

storm talon
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nah you can do a tunnel over ssh using putty and just connect to localhost:whatever

hushed bobcat
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i remember i did set up SSH for file transfer

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forwarded port 22 to the internet

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BAD IDEA

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lol

storm talon
hushed bobcat
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i had so many failed logins on that server

storm talon
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LOL

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you need fail2ban if you are going to expose anything to the internet

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I just commissioned this pbx and opened the port, within 15 minutes I had 30 hackers banned

hushed bobcat
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gotta say i dont understand anything about the last 3 things you said

storm talon
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fail2ban is a service for linux that will basically monitor connection requests, and add an iptables deny rule for anyone that exceeds the threshold

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so say you set it for 3 failed within 5 mins and banned for 7d

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they gone

hushed bobcat
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nah you can do a tunnel over ssh using putty and just connect to localhost:whatever
@storm talon
i dont understand this

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use putty too connect to the plex server?

storm talon
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yea, ssh into plex, then set up a tunnel from plex to your putty

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then in ur browser you connect to localhost:{port} where port is the one you set up in putty using the link above

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and it will tunnel thru ssh

hushed bobcat
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i cant remember the last time i ssh'd into a freenas jail

storm talon
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oh god

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freenas

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do you have uhhhhh

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HiSSH or whatever installed

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i forget the plugin

hushed bobcat
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plex is the only plugin

storm talon
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oh plex is jailed

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rip

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that's gonna be more complicated depending on if you can ssh into the freenas itself and tunnel

hushed bobcat
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i've been toying with the idea of moving plex to an ubuntu server

storm talon
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lemme get you a link to the plugin

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I used freenas for friggin years until I got synology

hushed bobcat
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freenas doesnt support hardware stream decoding

storm talon
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ah

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that could be your issue

hushed bobcat
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and im trying to add 4k media to my library

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trying to transcode 4k HDR with a 4 core 8 thread xeon is bad times

storm talon
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uh, yea

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I would be moving that shit to ubuntu stat

hushed bobcat
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its been running fine for years

storm talon
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yea but 4k

hushed bobcat
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my record is 7 ppl watching stuff concurrently

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but 1080p

storm talon
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that's pretty good

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over the internet or lan

hushed bobcat
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1 over lan everyone else over wan

storm talon
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yea it's probably not your network then

hushed bobcat
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i think i was at 15% CPU

storm talon
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if you can push 7x 1080p streams

hushed bobcat
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well i have gigabit fiber

storm talon
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mhm

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canada or usa?

hushed bobcat
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usa

storm talon
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cool

hushed bobcat
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United Fiber

storm talon
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is it actually gig to the net or gig to the router

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cause bell was "gigabit" but they only guaranteed it to the first hop

hushed bobcat
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its gig to there servers

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they arent a first tier provider

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i think thats what its called

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anyway they buy bandwidth from another company

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but usually even at peak times i can get 600 Mbps+ DL

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my upload is almost always over 900

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they actually just upgraded their backend

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@storm talon you would probably love this story

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so one day we lost internet and the TV completely

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waited a bit, tested my own network to make sure it wasnt me

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called them, got an automated message that there ENTIRE NETWORK WAS DOWN

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literally every city that they ran fiber to

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found out later a UPS had caught fire in one of there major network points

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and when that went down it broke the entire network

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🀣

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they had no backup

storm talon
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lol

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that's a rip

hushed bobcat
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if you've ever seen the South Park episode where all the internet goes down and they unplug and plug in 1 router (that looks like a giant WRT54G) that basically happened to me

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gotta say though the company surprised me with the response

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they actually discounted everyone's bill by the amount the network was down

storm talon
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lol yea I've seen that

hushed bobcat
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which as far as i know is usually only done for business class connections

storm talon
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I don't get compensated for downtime at home

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but my sla at work does indeed compensate us for anything less than 4x9's

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mind you, our gigabit costs us around 2500 a month

hushed bobcat
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they compensated every customer

storm talon
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that's really nice of em

hushed bobcat
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business and residential

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they also pushed thorough a network upgrade that was scheduled for later this year

storm talon
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I've been with teksavvy since forever. My user ID is in the 40k range. My boss got in at 300k

hushed bobcat
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i think my bill is around $75 a month

storm talon
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I pay 150 a month for 300/20 and IPTV with cloud dvr

hushed bobcat
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our dvr is a box in the house

storm talon
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I don't really keep stuff locally when is all either on yt Netflix or crave

hushed bobcat
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they even let me put their router in bridge mode to my pfSense box

storm talon
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Nice

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No double Nat

hushed bobcat
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called them up and they said sure just let me add you MAC address to our whitelist

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or something like that

storm talon
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sick

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pfsense is a solid routing platform

hushed bobcat
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i've had a few memory leak issues

storm talon
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yea

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it does have it's problems

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ecc memory really helps

hushed bobcat
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ahh you can see my hardware encryption

storm talon
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delete it :/

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I saw nothing lol

hushed bobcat
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think i have enough CPU horsepower for a home network connection?

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πŸ™‚

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8 GB of ECC Ram

storm talon
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lets compare

hushed bobcat
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supermicro 1u barebones

storm talon
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nice, we run ours as a vm

hushed bobcat
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i wanted bare metal for my router

storm talon
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oh wow you blow my cpu out of the water lol

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gg

hushed bobcat
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here it is with no CPU or ram installed

storm talon
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that's a really nice appliance right there

hushed bobcat
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i spent WAY to much

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like $750 for everything

storm talon
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it'll last forever tho

hushed bobcat
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for a stupid router lol

storm talon
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10 ports or 1g

hushed bobcat
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1g

storm talon
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you could always get a 90 degree riser and add a 10g

hushed bobcat
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dont need 10 to go out to the net

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that goes into a 24 port switch

storm talon
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yea no, on the backend it is buttery smooth tho

hushed bobcat
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now THAT i want to upgrade to 10g

storm talon
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oh my

hushed bobcat
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i think its pretty decent for a home basement setup

storm talon
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yea for sure

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your cable management is a bit wonky but it's really nice

hushed bobcat
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the cable management in the back is a bit better

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still working on it

storm talon
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if you wanna tidy up the front, get a cable tray and drop the supermicro and whatever the trendnet down 2u

hushed bobcat
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trendnet is my KVM

storm talon
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kewl

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yea i'd put those two down 1u and route the cables straight under inside the rack

hushed bobcat
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hmm

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actually i just got some cable management stuff for the rack

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that would work quite nicely

storm talon
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I use blackbox, but I'm sure there's an equivalent for your rack

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those make racks look like a million dollars. that's my only advice on your setup, other than that it's a solid home gamer setup

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I'm a structured wiring contractor, so I do all the ocd when it comes to making things look nice

hushed bobcat
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Ive been experimenting with proxmox to virtualize FreeNAS and some linux distro to run plex on

storm talon
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still tryna quote this rats next

hushed bobcat
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holy crap

storm talon
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yea

hushed bobcat
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atleast i tried LOL

storm talon
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i get paid to unfuck that stuff

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LOL yea I thought that'd make you feel better

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that's a business too

hushed bobcat
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well my mock up didnt look that great....

storm talon
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gonna cost em a 10-20 grand depending on if they want any downtime or not

hushed bobcat
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house network MK I lol

storm talon
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AHAHAHAHA

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that's not networking it's art

hushed bobcat
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i cant afford a rack

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TOTES AND TABLES

storm talon
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making it work

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I love it

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that's quite an upgrade tho

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myself I get free power at work so I don't run servers at home anymore

hushed bobcat
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howd i do on the patch panel?

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besides making the runs 3 ft too short

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rack power draw at idle

storm talon
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well

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your cables aren't to spec unfortunately

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bicsi standard only allows for 3mm of untwist before the termination

hushed bobcat
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3mm?

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dam

storm talon
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yep

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could cause crosstalk

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also your cables are not all the same length, which could case phase mismatch

hushed bobcat
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they gave me management holes to run them sideways like that

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that i didnt think about

storm talon
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it'll technically still work, but it's not quite to standard

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at least you used riser cable

hushed bobcat
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its all CAT6

storm talon
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ye

hushed bobcat
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i think 24 ga sold core

storm talon
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like I said, it works, but if I walked into that as a trained professional, I'd laugh

hushed bobcat
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might be 23

storm talon
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if you ever get bored and really wanna dive deep on it, look up bicsi structured wiring

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I would show you pics of my previous jobs but they're all either classified or nda'd

hushed bobcat
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whats your opinion on Mikrotik switches?

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they just came out with one that i think the port arrangement would be perfect on my network

storm talon
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we have a few deployed, they work great

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also, with ur patch panel, you might want to strip the sheathing before it goes into the block, cause you're gonna run out of space real quick. just sent the twisted pairs thru the middle to the portand use zip ties to keep it neat

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as long as you keep em twisted to spec you should be fine for crosstalk

hushed bobcat
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hmm

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well i only plan on adding 4 more

storm talon
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what ur doing is totally fine tho

hushed bobcat
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and i was going to come in from the other side

storm talon
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yea that'll work

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i'm just ocd about this stuffc

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probably why i get paid so well lol

hushed bobcat
storm talon
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nice

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is that a 110 or bix tool

hushed bobcat
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ill be honest, i cant remember why i numbered them that way

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a what or bix tool?

storm talon
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the punch tool

hushed bobcat
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you mean the gray punch down?

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uhh

storm talon
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it's the one that works with your stuff lol

hushed bobcat
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it came in a rosewill cable making kit i bought off newegg

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like 10 years ago

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came with a cable tester too

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really comes in handy

storm talon
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ye

hushed bobcat
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ohh you'll like this

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so my buddies got gigabit in there home and wanted me to run some hardline

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they were using either 40ft cat5e strewn in the hallway or wifi before

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so i get there with my spool of cat6 and all my tools

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except i forgot a drywall tool

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you know to poke the stupid hole in the wall

storm talon
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i hate doing residential

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yea

hushed bobcat
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so i tell my buddies "hey i need something i can poke through this wall"

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one of them comes back with a Japanese shortsword

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....

storm talon
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HAHAHAHA

hushed bobcat
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I'm like eff it lets go!

storm talon
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Arigatōgozaimashita

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ayeeeeeeeeeeeeee

hushed bobcat
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as im cutting through drywall with this thing i said to my friends "i might be the only person in history to do networking with a sword"

storm talon
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quite possible, ngl

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i've used a lot of weird shit but never a sword

hushed bobcat
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looked like this when i was done

storm talon
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that's pretty good

stark bough
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i hate doing residential
@storm talon
Is there a best practices guide for residential wiring ? πŸ˜‰

storm talon
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one sec

hushed bobcat
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ahh i found a pic of the job

storm talon
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basic rules apply, don't run power next to data etc

stark bough
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My drywall is ready

storm talon
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HAHAHAHA

hushed bobcat
storm talon
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AHHAHAHAHAHAHA

hushed bobcat
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HEY IT WORKED

storm talon
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that's legendary

hushed bobcat
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btw dont do that

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i found out that day you really need something serrated to cut through drywall

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honestly i think my car keys would do a better job

storm talon
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yea for sure

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I don't really do residential jobs for that reason

stark bough
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Inb4 exposed wiring behind the wall

storm talon
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doesn't really matter. networking / low voltage has no requirement to be secured inside the wall

stark bough
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It’s what makes me nervous about cutting into a wall

hushed bobcat
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there wasnt any outlets on that side

stark bough
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Accidentally cutting into something not supposed to be there

hushed bobcat
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and the wall to my right was an exterior wall with no outlets either

storm talon
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avoiding wires really that hard, just measure the studs and go a few inches away

stark bough
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Also pumpkin cuts and fireblocks

storm talon
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fireblocks are a bitch

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i think code is every 2nd or 3rd stud needs to have a horiz block

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not sure

stark bough
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Also sealing them

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Do exterior walls also have fire locks?

storm talon
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in commercial we use conduits

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with firestop

stark bough
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most ads I’ve ever seen for a search result

storm talon
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we seal all our conduits in and out from every room with this

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or according to spec

hushed bobcat
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well at any rate Larry you have a great story for your co-workers next time you see them πŸ‘Œ

storm talon
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lol I only have one co-worker and that's my business partner

hushed bobcat
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hey i found that switch ive been looking at

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i figure 40 gig for my 2 NAS's

storm talon
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personally I would choose edgerouter over mikrotik

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but it depends on your needs

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both are prosumer grade routers tho

hushed bobcat
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10 gig SFP+ for any server in the basement

storm talon
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copper or fibre sfp

hushed bobcat
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DAC

storm talon
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ya

stark bough
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Weebs guide to structured wiring by Kissanime

hushed bobcat
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thats the cheap way right?

stark bough
storm talon
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it's the most cost effective way, and that's what we use yes, but it has range limitations

stark bough
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I want ubnt stuff cause of that pane of glass mobile UI

storm talon
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we also run 10g on our fibre channel

hushed bobcat
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i would also convert 1 SFP+ to RJ45 and run it to #1 on my patch panel

stark bough
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I’m more likely to check into it if the interface is slick

storm talon
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yea mobius, the ubnt ui is WAY better

hushed bobcat
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for my gaming PC upstairs

stark bough
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Just wish 10gbe copper would come down.

storm talon
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uh

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the er-10x has 10gb copper doesn't it

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nvm

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no

stark bough
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Iirc running the controller on anything but a cpus key is weird for updates

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Or is that only on a RPI or a diver container

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Iirc windows or cloud key

storm talon
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10gbit lan is the cats ass ngl

hushed bobcat
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thats why i ran CAT6 in my walls

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so i could eventually upgrade to 10 gig

rich depot
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all the talk about networking, makes me consider adding extra ports to my PowerEdge

storm talon
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we're full nerding out here tonight folks

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lol

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nextal that's on my debian box at the dc

hushed bobcat
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is there an edgerouter with multiple 10 gig interfaces?

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that doesnt cost $1000?

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i think i can get away with 6

storm talon
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there's an erx sfp

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dunno if it's 10g tho

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we're using cisco

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nexus 5k

hushed bobcat
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i've looked into Arista 10 gig ethernet switches

storm talon
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tbh I would just use whatever Linus is using

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that way you know it's easy to configure

hushed bobcat
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the lack of aftermarket firmware support and needing to config each port manually turned me off

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i think hes using a multi thousand $$ dell switch

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too rich for my blood

hushed bobcat
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ohh sfp switch

storm talon
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ya

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10g

hushed bobcat
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my house is ethernet

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would cost a fortune in adapters

storm talon
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dac

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mostly

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we can do 40gbit tho with a 1200$ cable

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but yea, we are about ... 12 years into the business and just now moving up to carrier grade hardware

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it's kinda nice

hushed bobcat
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48 10GBaseT with 4 QSFP+ ports

brittle coral
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ughhhh

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time to tweeze all the dust bunnies out of my 80mm rad xD

storm talon
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oof

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my input filter gets all that

hushed bobcat
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i bought a small air compressor to do that for me πŸ™‚

storm talon
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nice

brittle coral
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P,G

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omg

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YOUR SHORTSWORD XD

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or his anyway

storm talon
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lol

hushed bobcat
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πŸ‘

storm talon
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fail2ban gonna ban u for life

brittle coral
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you're gonna love this, i traded an ooold ass PC (e5300 based) for an authentic sword from 16th or 17th centuryish, according to the stanford professor i showed it to

stark bough
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thats why i ran CAT6 in my walls
@hushed bobcat
Same. I’ve been running cat 6, but eventually I want to home run everything through exterior conduit and trying to decide if I need outdoor rated cat 6A

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I’d love to dual purpose it to use for POE later if needed

storm talon
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If you're running thru conduit you don't need outdoor rated

stark bough
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Don’t know if I need the variant to resist moisture

brittle coral
hushed bobcat
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outdoor conduit should be water tight

stark bough
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Some of the runs might be UV exposed

storm talon
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you shoudl be fine if it's in conduit

brittle coral
hushed bobcat
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i think you would need outdoor rated if the cable itself is exposed to the sun/rain

storm talon
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outdoor rated cable just means it's got extra sheilding to protect from some idiot with a shovel

stark bough
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Should I get plenum or riser to run through an attic?

brittle coral
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that sword has killed

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and also i once used it for cutting some tubing when i was out of razor blades because its the sharpest thing i own after them

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its freshly oiled and unrusted with some nicks to the blade itself but its still pretty god

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good*

stark bough
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and also i once used it for cutting some tubing when i was out of razor blades because its the sharpest thing i own after them
@brittle coral
So technically it’s a network tool that you can use in the zombie apocalypse?

brittle coral
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yea

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though the handle wouild need some love

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you can see theres a crack in the wood on one side

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was there when i got it

forest sapphire
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Anybody else folding with a 3900x using an AIO?

hushed bobcat
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F@H likes 30 threads

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doesnt like 28 or 29 though

storm talon
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wow

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I can do a few 30's

hushed bobcat
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PPD is way higher than i expected for this server

storm talon
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after I'm done hasing this btc wallet

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got a 0,25btc bounty wallet

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total is 1.5btc

forest sapphire
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I don't knwo why but I feel like my first AIO (even though it had air in it at the pump) was able to get my CPU cooler than what the replacement is able to.

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82 just seems really high for a 3900x with a 280mm AIO

hushed bobcat
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Big Advanced
Currently, bigadv WUs require a minimum of 16 CPU cores and have very tight completion deadlines, although that minimum requirement has been known to change over time. These WUs have a high scientific priority, and are so computationally demanding they could not run anywhere else on Folding@home. They also consume much more RAM and Internet bandwidth, but in return a 20% increase in point value was added on top of the existing Quick Return Bonus points system.

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ohh my

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def going to try that out on the 30 thread box

storm talon
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i did notice higher than normal temps on my ryzen vs my intel for folding

hushed bobcat
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isnt intel supposed to be better with AVX workloads?

brittle coral
#

ugh, the fans i thought were still good because i tested them after i axed the old GPU/CPU waterloop are apparently all actually very clogged now xD

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apparently sitting idle for 3 years gummed the bearings way up xD

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i need a special tube exhaust system for when i take a dab that has a face mask so i can exhaust all my cannabis vapor out of the room before it hits my fans lol

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the ones in the garage are much happier

hushed bobcat
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spray some WD-40 or 3in1 oil in the hub

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clear that right up

brittle coral
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nah

hushed bobcat
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for about 3 months

brittle coral
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3 of the fans are yate loon LED fans

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old school green led clear fans

hushed bobcat
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then it'll explode

storm talon
#

wd40 is not good for fans

brittle coral
#

the silverstone fans are more annoying

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the bearings are not good for servicing on either xD

fickle needle
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I remember when I had a grindy fan, ended up lubing it with cooking oil

brittle coral
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but those silverstone fans were like $16 each haha

storm talon
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I would use something like lightning grease or other high temp bearing lubes

brittle coral
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yea one of the yate loons is clicking on the bearing

fickle needle
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came back ~1 year later and the cooking oil and just gummed up

brittle coral
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the sliverstone ones are just sluggish

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i can see the RPM on all 3 is not what it should be

storm talon
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lightning grease, it's for bikes

brittle coral
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based on the one good one i have

storm talon
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trust me

brittle coral
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yup lol

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guess which intake fan was closest to my face

fickle needle
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yuck

storm talon
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oof

brittle coral
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yea kids

storm talon
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do you smoke inside?

brittle coral
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dont smoke cannabis inside near your rig unless you want to deal with this

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its not as bad as cigarettes and it doesn't build up in your lungs at least

storm talon
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yea that's what I was thinking

brittle coral
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still a bitch to clean

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i dab, its pure vapor

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no smoke really

storm talon
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i get the same shit

brittle coral
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yeee, i learned to make it years ago safely for a small living on the side and to not have to pay for my meds

storm talon
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nice

hushed bobcat
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my PS3 was in a smokers house for years

storm talon
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pressing?

brittle coral
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cigarette smokers houses are the worst

hushed bobcat
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still has yellow crap on the heatsink

brittle coral
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nah solvents, pressing wasnt a thing back then

storm talon
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oh bho

brittle coral
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closed loop and open both xD gotta start somewhere

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alcohols as well

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i know a lot in general about applied chemistry

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im so annoyed

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i had to buy seagrams vodka to clean thel oop

fickle needle
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most smokers I know will go out to the back porch to smoke

brittle coral
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that and im using what cleaning vinegar i have stashed

storm talon
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eesh

brittle coral
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no acetic acid

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no distilled water

fickle needle
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but all my pothead friends are happy to just sit at their computer desk

brittle coral
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just distilled vodka xD for $7 a handle

storm talon
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I smoke outside for that very reason

brittle coral
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i have an e-nail

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i cant go outside

storm talon
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lol Faxon my buddy makes his own moonshine

brittle coral
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its plugged into the wall

storm talon
#

I just have a regular dab rig with the butane torch... it's totally legal here!

brittle coral
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same i live in CA πŸ˜„

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bay area

storm talon
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is it ok to talk about it here? idk

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if it's legal, I guess. idk how the mods feel about iit

brittle coral
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idk i try and avoid it out of respect

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but on account of we're talking about cleaning PC parts

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and what effect these drugs has

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lets keep it to that lol

storm talon
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fair

brittle coral
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yea i get some might not like it though, respect brothas

storm talon
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I just know that discord is 13+ so

hushed bobcat
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have you opened up a PC from a smokers house?

storm talon
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yes

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it's gross af

hushed bobcat
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that smell really slaps you in the face doesnt it?

brittle coral
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yea its awful

storm talon
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I do not smoke in my house and I refuse to work on any gear that has been smoked around

brittle coral
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we had a policy at frys about them

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it cost double diagnostic and cleaning fee

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we would do it

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but

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for example if a cooler was gummed

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we'd tell them to buy a new one before cleaning the old one

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because it was cheaper

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$40 extra man hours or a $30 cooler

hushed bobcat
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@storm talon i had an odd issue with my F@H client on my ubuntu server earlier

storm talon
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o ya?

hushed bobcat
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i used sudo systemctl stop FAHClient to stop it

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made some config changes

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and then tried to restart it

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but it wouldnt

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gave me some sort of error

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somthing about not being able to start the process

storm talon
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oh

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did you reboot

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or just restart fah

hushed bobcat
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no

storm talon
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always reboot

stark bough
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I find that in general, smokers tolerate dust better than non smokers

hushed bobcat
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i stopped the FAHClient and tried too restart it

storm talon
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yea don't do that

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reboot every time

stark bough
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Then again I’ve always been around smokers and I’m ocd

brittle coral
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yay, now its nice πŸ™‚

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a minute under the sink with some working at the filter and all the gunk comes right out

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the bonus to cannabis smoke is once it's bound to dust it usually comes right off stuff, but if it gets in under the dust then it'll build up

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i have a nice golden colored clear fan that shines red so you dont really see it but when you shine a light on it it's super obvious

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it's the oldest fan in the rig and the longest holding out under such conditions

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came with another HAF case

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2 years of life before this case that i got back in 2014ish, maybe 13ish

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whenever the 290x came out

storm talon
hushed bobcat
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my oldest working fan

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Scythe S-Flex

storm talon
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I actually don't have that much of an issue with buildup, that's about a month

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all my fans are corsair

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I am pretty meticulous abuut keeping my rig clean tho

stark bough
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For me, dust filters are a must

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easier to clean and wash filters every week or so than doing it once a year and ignoring it

storm talon
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yup

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i check mine every other week and clean em once a month

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never have to open my case at all

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the passive intake gets a bit gunky on the outside every now and then but the inside looks like the day I built it

brittle coral
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cleaning these dust filters requires taking the panel off the radiators and disassembling the loop

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xD

storm talon
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OOF

brittle coral
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the radiators are literally bolted to the sides

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heres a partial

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Rad 2

storm talon
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eesh

brittle coral
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yup

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theres 3 like this

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2 80mm and this one

storm talon
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swiftech tho

hushed bobcat
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i love this little air compressor for cleaning PC's

brittle coral
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also a 60mm 2x120

stark bough
brittle coral
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yea this was my first rad

stark bough
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HEPA air filtration

brittle coral
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and then the others are alphacool NexXxos monsta

storm talon
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ahahahahaha

brittle coral
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i'd love HEPA air filtration for my rig

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never gonna happen tho

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not any time soon

storm talon
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too hard to maintain positive pressure with hepa

stark bough
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the sound profile for this is FAR better than what I used earlier

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Silver stone has a HEPA solution, but the filters are proprietary and so is the case

brittle coral
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man

stark bough
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I dropped like 10-20 C on this setup

brittle coral
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i forgot i spent time braiding the cables for these yate loons myself

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xD

stark bough
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They sell the Coway air purifiers on sale once in a while

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Dunno if you guys want to be notified when they gon sale

brittle coral
stark bough
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I’ve bought like 7 air purifier over the last few years so I like to think I k ow what makes one worth owning

storm talon
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I used to have those same pj's man

hushed bobcat
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ahh ketchup and mustard cables

stark bough
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The winix ones die early

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Tasty

brittle coral
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lol all 3 vibrate violently when i turned them on

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1 by 1

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haha nice

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my environment it's kind of unavoidable

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disabled me = slob and then the environment around us makes it worse cause i have cats and pollen xD

stark bough
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People have been buying em up cause of COVID

brittle coral
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ugh of course

stark bough
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Ionizer works a bit TOO well

brittle coral
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despite it not being airborn long enough to need them for most things

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let hospitals and the disabled and asthmatics/COPD et all have what we need to survive 😦

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which reminds me i should change the prefilter on my honeywell

stark bough
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Yeah. I owned 2 Honeywell’s without predictors

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They’re noisy and they get expensive to maintain

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Predicted is everything

hushed bobcat
stark bough
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Pre filter

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Groady

hushed bobcat
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3 days

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I cleaned that 3 days ago lol

stark bough
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I have to resist the urge to lean my wet prefilter against my rig to use the heat to dry it

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Making the most of that heat is so appealing

brittle coral
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thats actrually what i did

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with mine

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i just washed both panels shown so far in the sink

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xD

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the after looks much nicer

hushed bobcat
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ohh Larry i have another virtualization question

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if you have a network card with more than 1 port can you dedicate each port to a seperate VM?

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i know you can if you virtualize it

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but in my experience LAN virtual ports suck hard

stark bough
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I notice I get off a lot more if I scrub it. Coconut fiber seems to be soft enough to not rip the mesh but rough enough to give it a good scrub

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That’s what I miss from the R6 I had. Easily accessible filters through a door.

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Meshify C isn’t so easy to clean, but has better airflow

brittle coral
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okay, 2 radiators down

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one sitting in front of the blower that blows on my tube amp thats all packed into a rack xD

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should dry it out real fast

storm talon
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tube amp?

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for audiophile or guitar

brittle coral
#

ST-70 dynakit

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mid 50s build, with the original cloth jacket transformer so no rectifier tube needed, and replaced cap with a capboard of wondercaps, new JJ EL34s and 7199s

storm talon
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full class A?

brittle coral
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and i soldered together an XLR to RCA converter box

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yea

storm talon
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nice

brittle coral
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this thing is older than my mom

storm talon
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I have a 1979 yamaha CA-1000NS classa/c

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can't use it in class a unless i put fans on the mosfets

brittle coral
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yea i could use this without a fan if it wasn't buried in a rack

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on a tray

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but in there it gets so damn hot i can't touch it

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it sits cozy with cooling tho

storm talon
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yea

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it looks like a nice build

brittle coral
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its the nicest piece of audio gear i own

storm talon
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you can't beat a push pull tube amp

brittle coral
#

using an ashly NE 24.24 DSP with a QSC RMX850 for subs, a pair of 10"

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rig goes flat to about 23hz

storm talon
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tbh it's the warmest and cleanest sound you will ever get

brittle coral
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with a lot of low end parametric

storm talon
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lol

brittle coral
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yea and i have phase tech PC60s

storm talon
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I use ozone8

brittle coral
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for monitors

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flanking my imaging monitors at exactly 90 degrees lol

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wish i had better pan but it's what i got

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and the whole setup with 2 monitors in between the speakers is kind of great

storm talon
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I'm not really an audio phile at home but I do a lot of mastering work for youtubers

brittle coral
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i can zone out while i work on projects or do maintenance on my folding rigs

storm talon
brittle coral
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i have a tube headphone amp hybrid as well, opamp + 2 drive tubes

storm talon
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this is what I use, cost me a good penny

brittle coral
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balanced input

storm talon
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I would love for a hard rig with patches

brittle coral
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its the only one ive seen that takes balanced in and out

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i need to finish the wiring mod on my heeadphones

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i have so many projects

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xD

storm talon
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as do we all

brittle coral
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atl east i have all the time in the world o do em

storm talon
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I just got my asterisk server up and running

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watching all the hackers try and register

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and watching fail2ban get rid of em for 99999999999 years

brittle coral
#

ugh i sat down to take a dab and now IDK where i want to crack into ths project next

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i have 2 radiators to clean and check the fans on still, i should do that next XD

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im only using some of them for this loop but i should clean everything out from the gunk in it for whenever I decide to go back to water on a GPU later and I need it lmao

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apparently im eating more of my wings and garlic/onion fries from earlier lol

#

gotta sustain that grazing habit

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between working on projects and not being very active ive dramatically dropped my food intake and ive been losing weight literally sitting on my ass

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mania is the best weight loss aid

brittle coral
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man no wonder my loop was fucked to hell

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when i took it down like half the fans literally couldn't spin XD

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these 2 yate loons are absolutely frozen i can barely even spin them by hand

brittle coral
#

omg are you kidding me

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xD

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fml

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i BSOD from memory management error (i need more ram)

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when i come back

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the project file i'd downloaded ahead of time using slot parameters started

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the old WU is at 99%

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.......

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xD

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41 seconds left

rich depot
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lol

brittle coral
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no what's lol is what im having to clean out of my watercooling gear bluehero

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its bad

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xD

rich depot
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thats not lol yeah

rich depot
#

I just watched the review from gamersnexus about the arctic aio and I'm seriously considering buying it

brittle coral
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im using the original ABS heads they came with (they're original liang D5b pumps)

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laing*

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one doesnt need cleaning

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the other one does so im using it to clean the impeller and im gonna run vodka through the whole loop to take out the pink residue (and some green) from the 2 loops i dyed once that have now contaminated my downstream projects for years xD

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never again

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colored tubing only

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and treated distilled water

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of course i was unable to get distilled water today because its out of stock at the store

rich depot
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lol ofc

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just get a pan and a fire

brittle coral
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lol i know

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hush

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if i was going to do that i'd do it right anyway

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ugh where's my closed loop system when I need it

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xD

rich depot
#

just get an air cooler, always reliable

brittle coral
#

no but

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my 3800x is barely turboing to 4.1ghz

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thats unacceptable

#

i have so much radiator

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2 80mm thick 3x120, 60mm thick 2x120, 30mm thick 3x120

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all i needed was a new reservoir and pump head combo, so decided to check out corsairs version of the D5 with LED res

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oh and a block for AM4

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fresh bendy tubing

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the primochill rep i was consulting with via their on site chat app came in here after to say hi πŸ™‚

#

gave me his personal discord to talk shop

rich depot
#

yeah. just get an aircooler xD

brittle coral
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no way xD

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not happening

#

im putting $300 worth of radiators on this bitch

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its already been decided

#

this chip is going to sit at 4.5 non stop once im done with it xD

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it gets HOT in here in the summer

rich depot
#

xD

brittle coral
#

im future proofing

#

I wanna get that 4900x or 4950x later

rich depot
#

lol

brittle coral
#

I do have an air cooler upgrade for AM4 its just for the 2600x that's coming

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It's getting a 4000rpm delta fan

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38mm

rich depot
#

I kinda wanna go custom loop water cooling, but its expensive man

brittle coral
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It is expensive once

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Then if you're lucky your block lasts a few generations for CPU on the same manufacturer (or has both mounts), ditto the pump and radiator, reservoirs I've had hit and miss luck with but only cause I never know where to put em, and the only thing you replace more often is dead fans

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I have a massive pile of dead fans lol

rich depot
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well true. but I don't have money once xd

brittle coral
#

Fair

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If you ever do, take the plunge and just make sure you get good hose clamps so your loop never leaks. I use OG barb fittings and clamps instead of compressions, isn't as pretty but I've never had a properly clamped hose fail me

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Improperly now....

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Hehehe

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Had a couple mishaps but live and learn

rich depot
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lol

brittle coral
#

Mainly just the big one and a couple times I popped a hose in a running system, but the rig was upright and the water landed mostly on me and a bit on the gpu backplate

rich depot
#

I do want to upgrade my cooling for my cpu. I was thinking of getting just a noctua air cooler, but I saw the review from gamersnexus today and I'm kinda itching to get that arctic liquid freezer II

brittle coral
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Just get the noctua

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AIO water loops don't perform half as good as DIY

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And you can stick 3 fans on that noctua

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NH D15 is classic now

rich depot
brittle coral
#

the problem is those AIOs just don't hit the flow rate of a D5

rich depot
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thats 5c lower on the aio compared to the dh15, and thats on a 3950x

brittle coral
#

and while the fans on them are usually okay

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those radiators are not that thick

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thats why you can outperform them with a noctua with 3 fans

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or match them

#

the noctua actually has MORE fin area

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the water coolers make up for it by moving more heat quickly

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but if that heat cant leave the loop fast enough

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big whoop

rich depot
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you might wanna look at the full review though

brittle coral
#

plus then you can't double up and use your parts for a GPU as well, though i personally would run separate loops after my experience running both together

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i've seen part of it i think, someone else linked it

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i was using one they did as a review of performance for my mcr320 because i know how the MCR320 performs compared to some AIOs from the past and was able to extrapolate

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decided the MCR320 wont produce the results i wanted on it's own now

#

im not cooling some core 2 quad 9650 at 4.6ghz with the heat nicely spread out across 2 large die xD

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load temps at 56-62c

lusty cypress
#

anyone else having problems getting WUs? I usually complete about 10/day but I have only got 2 in the past 3 days o.O

brittle coral
#

yes

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have you set any slot flags to help with it?

lusty cypress
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nope

brittle coral
#

go to configure, in the slots tab

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pick a slot and edit it

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add this

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ignore the paused = false part thats normal

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the first one helps you get units that haven't fully gone through validation yet, which is what they're for, the second one gets your client to ask for work sooner

lusty cypress
#

what does next-unit-percentage 95 do?

brittle coral
#

what CPU and GPU(s) are you running

lusty cypress
#

CPU is on pause 'cause it heats up to 95C on this load. I run an rtx2080 that has no temp problems

brittle coral
#

you can set next unit % from 90% to 99%, it affects when it starts looking for a new WU

#

with a 2080ti i'd set it to 90%

#

thats a fast ass card

lusty cypress
#

yeah πŸ™‚

brittle coral
#

the fastest one i have is a toss up between my 5700xt and 980ti depending the WU

#

got a 2060 otw arriving tmrw

#

ram sat and sunday both, more for this rig and ram for the 3rd

#

i hope this helps bud

#

thats a card you want to keep fed for sure

#

FEED THE BEAST

lusty cypress
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thanks a lot! Gonna add the settings right now!

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Yeah, my flat is 100% heated by my rig atm xD

brittle coral
#

lol word

#

also @rich depot i dont think i did actually see this specific review

#

that top rated cooler in there is the best AIO LC ive seen

#

i'd still worry it's less reliable though

#

and of course you'll never get to add a GPU

#

i remember when you could get liquid cooled motherboards xD

#

northbridge/southbridge blocks came with one of the early kits i saw

rich depot
#

yeah there is a reason they would use it themselves, its like 10-15 dollar more than a nh-d15 but better performance

lusty cypress
#

I have the beQuiet darkrockpro on my ryzen9- 3900x. on synthetic loads it never gets above 75C. I think the cache usage of F@H is just so darn high, even compared to synthetic tests, that the cooling cannot keep up

#

and CPU does basically 4% of what my GPU does, so I didn't bother with it

brittle coral
#

do you know how cooling works on the new zen2 and navi chips?

#

please read this

#

πŸ™‚

#

also we need CPU folders too

#

some workloads are more CPU optimized as well

#

there's a few

#

your CPU is very capable, its designed to run as hot as it can get before downclocking basically

#

my 3800x loads in the mid 80s right now

#

wtih the wraith prism

#

im gonna find out eventually how it performs under the latest 212 as well

lusty cypress
#

well I asked around on the archlinux subreddit and they said they'd steer way from a 24/7 95C on the CPU

brittle coral
#

its always hitting that now though

#

thats by design

#

read the article

lusty cypress
#
9:56:12:WU00:FS01:Connecting to 65.254.110.245:8080
09:56:13:WARNING:WU00:FS01:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
09:56:13:WU00:FS01:Connecting to 18.218.241.186:80
09:56:13:WARNING:WU00:FS01:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
09:56:13:ERROR:WU00:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment
brittle coral
#

they turbo it as hard as it can go till it hits thermal design limits

#

even more so for the navi GPU

#

in the 5700xt and others

#

my 5700xt regularly runs t-junction around 105-109, the second it goes above it throttles turbo back 50-100mhz

#

core normally sits in the mid 70s tho

#

with the fan profile i have set and a blower fan blowing on the case as well

#

just to keep fresh air coming in mainly

#

i have so many so im using them

lusty cypress
#

yeah my case fans are on maximum anyway, bequiet won't get loud at all πŸ™‚ even under full load air temps in the case are never even 10C over ambient

brittle coral
#

depending what im doing idgaf about noise

lusty cypress
brittle coral
#

when i go to bed i turn the blower up from low or medium to high which = 1200cfm and its loudish

#

but i love white noise

lusty cypress
#

πŸ™‚

brittle coral
#

nope well done

#

its basically that question and 3 others that i stay here all day to answer

#

so i can BS tech chat with other people and work on my rigs lol

lusty cypress
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Using it for Machine Learning mainly, but during downtimes it gets to fold :)

also yeah, some 10 hours of gaming/week πŸ™‚

brittle coral
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booyah

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i managed to salvage 6 of 11 fans from my LC setup that have good bearings

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i lost one of these fans and 4 yate loons

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3 in this trim and 3 in black trim with glow blades and no lights in black frame

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thats with a 2500 lumen UV headlamp on it from my head AND flash xD

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its glowing so bright

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no uv for comparison

rich depot
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is it me or do they look awefully air restricted through the design?

brittle coral
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see

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youd think

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but

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it actually controls the blow pattern

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they are directional

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more static pressure in one direction

rich depot
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ah that is nice

brittle coral
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heres their tech demo

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i could do this demo i have a professional static output hazer

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from my rental business for lights and sound lol

rich depot
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its a pretty nice demo

brittle coral
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yea they test a bunch of fans πŸ™‚

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all with different patterns

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but yea because of that they make really nice radiator fans

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though with radiators it is less of an issue as well but still

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the air ends up moving through the fins faster

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i was impressed how relatively little dust was in the rads because the fans picked it up or pushed it right through no questions asked

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i still need to order some new fans though

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i want some of the new corsair addressable RGB fans xD

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a 140mm for the back of my case by the CPU and a 3 pack of the 120s

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ugh its 3:13am and i havent even set up the cleaning/test loop yet

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ive been cleaning parts the whole day basically

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since i woke up at 5pm ish

onyx canopy
brittle coral
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morning bloom

onyx canopy
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12

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i overslept again

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zzz

brittle coral
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12 is early for me

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if i woke up at 12 id get 3-4 hours of sleep these days

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i wish i could wake up at 12, when i had my ideal work shift i woke up around then

onyx canopy
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Im sleeping 8-9 hours

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I'd like to wake up at 10

brittle coral
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ive been sleeping 6 to try and wake up earlier and it keeps not happening

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im just hammering projects and not really burning out any so its not a big deal

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still getting minimum sleep. i set an alarm and then doze past it

onyx canopy
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well im just trying to have a normal schedule

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guess its not happening

brittle coral
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hahaha yea welcome to quarantine

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normal for me would be getting to bed at 5-6am

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and waking up with at least half the afternoon still

onyx canopy
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I have online school starting again on monday

brittle coral
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ayyyy yea thats gonna help you get up earlier for sure