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HVAC and plumbing were included, but not for manufacturing facilities. Just office and warehouse spaces. Far simpler requirements, but for me the challenge was the budget, timeline, and diverse stakeholders. Cleanrooms are nuts.

Yeah, I'd stay clear of that one.

A lot of the SFF machines aren't, and that would be one of my considerations when choosing.

Same. Some of the reasons I like the escape of the game version: It is solvable You have or can get the information needed to succeed You don't need to wait for permission to act If things go poorly you can just start over It is the ideal version of the world ;)

The reviews I've read on many of the small systems recommend getting a better power brick than the one they ship with. If nothing else for better efficiency, but sometimes voltage can be an issue as well.

The building style games. From easiest to most rewarding: Cities: Skylines Kerbal Space Program Satisfactory Factorio I think of them as puzzles that you work your way through to find more optimal designs.

These are the exact 3 games I've played in the last many years. I'm in Rust right now, on a cool Danish server with some rules that make it much less toxic.

I'm very happy that Intel is doing GPUs, but game devs still aren't putting in the work to make sure the experience is good enough. Even with AMD cards I feel the need to let the customer know that it is a "value" choice and that some compromises may be experienced. I can see several reasons...

Keep in mind that none of the modern CPUs will run anything near "cool" under most loads. They're basically designed to thermal throttle regardless of cooler. But that DH-15 is kinda famous for being the most effective air cooler ever made.

My dad gets a call, and if he is too busy to answer, a text. I think that is all he wants, I certainly hope that is all he wants.

I wonder if any of the game engines will try to use NPUs for NPC behavior. Probably a complete waste of time, but might be fun.

A friend lost his PC this morning, and with no money to spend, I pulled a machine from storage that had a 8700k and RX570. I was surprised how much faster his 1080 was to the RX570. 1080 was a great card.

My phone isn't the newest (Samsung S22 Ultra), but it would benefit from something that isn't glass. It already feels like plastic (apparently it is "Matte Finish Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2", and some polycarbonate with high fiber infill or carbon fiber would work just as well and last longer.

That is super rough Chewy. I didn't think of the Gold Coast as that remote? Starlink might actually be better?

Machined Ti or carbon would both be much better choices than glass, looking forward to seeing what manufacturers come up with.

That is great news, and Rufus is another fantastic tool you introduced me to.

Blowing up isn't a concern anymore, as GPUs and CPUs underclock and undervolt themselves automatically if thermals are an issue. Even though my CPU has the best performing AIO cooler on the market, it thermal throttles after about 5 minutes of synthetic load. Fortunately it is fast enough that...

In the US our daughter would use food delivery if she was home alone, as it was unusual for kids to go out for food on their own, and safety was a concern. Here it isn't a problem, and it doesn't hurt that she's already taller than most adults.

That is really good Merc, thanks! I ran it and it did the things. May actually replace Ninite in my workflow.

The internet is actually only like $15/mo of that. It is also 2 unlimited smartphone data plans and a small one for our daughter, the cell stuff (unlimited data across all of europe) is the more expensive part.

I'll just leave this here. Full symmetrical gig fiber with all the nines of uptime. Bundled with 3 unlimited cell phones for $85/mo. Edit: Oh, and a static IP to go with it ;)

I like the picture backup plan. I think you could do that with a USB-C to SD card reader and a modern Android device? I should try it.

Housing prices weren't the reason we left the US, but coming to a place that isn't crazy was quite the revelation. Denmark is considered an expensive place as far as the world is concerned, but housing is about 20% of what it was in coastal California. There are 3 bedroom houses on plots of land...

I thought they were 140mm fans, which I've had a pretty good track record with?

I love this computer build.

I feel like that is more like another worrying trend. Make the user the product by selling their data instead of taking money from them.

I just noticed that there was the option to set charging limits on Android the other day. I'd been hoping for such a setting for a decade. Is it the OS itself or the institutions management tools that are getting in your way Lunar?

In the garage I just had a second radiator that I routed the heat to in the summer. In the winter it ran to a radiator inside the house. I've used automotive and house-type radiators in the past, the advantage of the ones I use these days is that they have the pump and reservoir built-in, along...

Thanks again for the advice, the R8 is great. Even with the adapter the AF actually seems better on the 100-400 II than it did on the 5DII.

Merc, I totally believe you. My needs for a mobile computing thing are super low, mostly watching YouTube with the occasional light web research and Google Docs work and very occasional remote into something. Most devices could do it. My phone currently does all of it, and the only reason I...

The goal would be to reduce the number of larger things that I need to carry, and reduce the number of things that need a battery maintained.

Even just the phone is enough for me these days, if it had a bigger screen. Google Docs and Chrome mobile will get most of my work done, and if I'm messing with files it is while remoted into another machine anyway. The current smallest VR glasses are from Bigscreen Beyond, and they might be...

If there was a good set of AR glasses I'd stop bothering with a laptop entirely and just use the phone. It is plenty powerful, I just want a bigger screen to do actual work on.

Yup, this is kind of a toe in the water. If I'm happy with it I'll get a bunch of accessories for it and get the Mrs an R100. If I want more I'll get the R6II and all the accessories for it, and the Mrs will get this one ;)

OK, R8 body and lens adapter ordered. Thanks again to both of you for all the help.

Thanks for all the info. The 100-400 II and 180 Macro were the two big lenses I didn't want to replace, and they are big anyway. The 24/1.4 will depend a lot on whether I end up APS-C or FF. Time to research the new Canon bodies.

After looking at how little I could recoup on the used market by selling the Canon EF lenses I already have, I'm reconsidering selling them. My understanding of the situation is that, to make EF lenses work with a mirrorless body, I need to get either the EF-EOS R mount adapter and a Canon...

The main offices were always ESXi based, but remote locations frequently only had one PC, and if there needed to be server-ish stuff running it would be using VMWare Workstation on their workstation. The entire PC would be imaged to a USB hard drive daily, and that drive would be swapped out...

I used it only a couple years ago for someone's personal project that needed virtualization, but with a more user-friendly UI. The main failure at the time was not allowing VMs to auto-start on host computer startup. Most of the calls I got were because the PC had rebooted and the user hadn't...

I've read many places that the entry-level standalone GPUs are a suckers game already, with iGPUs beating or nearly beating them in most scenarios. The current AMD iGPU seems good enough for a lot of use cases, as seen by many of the handheld gaming consoles. The last several laptops I've had...

It might be if money isn't as much of a thing? I've seen really good performance from my rig even with the max power draw turned way down. It is certainly not performance/$, but performance/watt is reasonable, and if you do find yourself in a hurry at some point you can just turn it up. Your...

An advantage of the business grade stuff, even if you aren't a business, is that they give you the data. Antenna radiation patterns for each Ubiquiti AP. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005212927-UniFi-Network-AP-Antenna-Radiation-Patterns

I feel that they are just slowly finding ways to: 1. Make it a service 2. Collect as much data as possible

*This next bit used to be true, and probably still is, but I haven't actually researched it in a few years* The most important thing the controller does is monitor the signal strength from each device connected to WiFi and actively push devices to the access point with the strongest signal. If...

Ubiquiti can do everything, but it doesn't have to. The one I linked above just does Wifi. The one I have at home is a Dream Machine Pro. That is a dual-internet capable business-grade firewall with all the fittings, plus WiFi management, plus cameras and phones and door control and all kinds of...

If your tablet tends to not leave the workroom, then everything mentioned in following paragraphs doesn't apply. Just about any AP will do, call the second network something different from your first, connect to it, and don't worry about it. My understanding and experience is that unless the...

We are totally off topic, but to answer JTRs question, the hot water from the city is an isolated closed-loop system. You control the flow rate of it through the heat exchangers at your place to heat your own water to your desired temperature. The city hot water is supplied at 80C+ and they want...

At our place and in most of the cities in Denmark we get hot and cold water from the city. The water traditionally has been heated by burning waste, but as there is less waste these days some cities are implementing massive building-sized heat pumps to heat the water. Once the hot water reaches...

As summer approaches I've turned the PC down. GPU power limit is now 85% of stock, and CPU has a 200W power limit set in BIOS. At a friends place I used a water-water heat exchanger to use the watercooled PC to pre-warm water heading for the water heater. The reservoir didn't have to be that...