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sff is not for the faint of heart, and this ncase m1 (which they no longer make) has been a monster. its a beautiful case, i love the all around anodized aluminum finish. it takes up less space than my elite 110. i did go from 15 liters to 12 but because its a bit taller and less wide it ended up taking up a lot less desk space. the real reason for the switch was gpu capacity, this new case can (supposidly) handle a full length video card (at least for the previous generation of cards). though i have my doubts. the hold over card just barely fit, i have my doubts about a 30xx series. but its not something you can work on easily. ive had to remove and reinstall my cpu cooler no fewer than 5 times. if i wanted to upgrade something other than the gpu or the rear ssd, id have to take the whole thing apart. even with the tool-less pop off panels. i think maybe 12 liters is too insane, even for me. but im happy with the build, even though im stuck on a 2070 super for now im tempted to give up the mad dash for a video card and maybe put my money to more practical things. like a bigger monitor, or replace my aging ch controllers, maybe even an ebike or new bbq grill.

to build something that big in the first place will likely involve using the low gravity body as a construction yard. to bootstrap that you need to start with a colony on said low gravity body, which will likely need a temporary centrifuge of its own to provide habitation for colonists. im quite fond of the tbm and train type. bore a circular tunnel underground, pressurize it. lay down tracks, and build habs on train cars. you can angle the tracks to take advantage of local gravity. you can also add cars as needed. the tunnel could be many km in radius and deep enough underground to provide rad shielding. bootstrapping colonies will be the biggest hurdle to space colonization.

i figure an orbital shipyard would best be connected to a massive space colony of sorts. something with pressurized and unpressurized areas as well as with and without gravity, possibly variable gravity. each to handle the various jobs required. handling larger subassemblies might be better done at 1/3g than 1g, and you can build your station with an industrial ring inside a habitation ring. you certainly wouldn't want a zero g machine shop, its probibly not safe to operate a lathe in zero gravity. large unpressurized bays (meant more to contain wayard parts than anything else) would be a good place for the final assembly of smaller ships and modules for larger ships. larger ships would probibly be handled in external construction frames, where you are mostly assembling the ship from modular sections that simply bolt together. areas meant for welding could be unpressurized or use a noble gas atmosphere. many welding techniques requires shielding gas, an unless your atmospheric recyclers can handle it, its better to keep it out of that system if at all possible. so just make the atmosphere the shielding gas, and wear an oxygen helmet (welders usually need a hood and respirator anyway so this solves two problems). small assemblies and fasteners would be done in shirt sleeve environments, possibly in the hab ring. you generally start with smaller parts the further out from the center, when you get to the industrial levels you can start handling larger more massive components, when you get to the utterly massive parts, you are either in the hub or zero g sections of the station. also you will probibly want a separate freight dock connected to the intrastation transport network. if you are refining and forging your own metal stock, its going to be getting a lot of traffic you really dont want interfering with construction operations. you will also be receiving a lot of stuff from earth that cannot be made in space, but are fairly cheap to launch, like semiconductors. you will also need a lot of storage for consumables. i expect tankage and cargo containers to be bolted to every possible surface. in star trek its usually just some mooring frame which i think is a terrible way to build a space craft. you end up losing parts which very well may damage the station on subsequent orbits. you at least ones some heavy duty nets to catch large parts, and perhaps some mylar layers to catch smaller parts. though an unpressurized construction hall with solid walls would be the best option. i like the design of tycho station in the expanse, as it has a big hanger for storage and construction, and a separate grav section (i dont think the show got the design completely down as described in the books as the station has thrust and the hab modules are supposed to rotate for thrust gravity). babylon 5 also had a fairly good design having a separate zero g part of the station. i dont think either example had dedicated shipyard facilities. i figure a large platform with a pair of oneil cylenders would work out best for a purely industrial operation. a ring station would be better if you are also doing agriculture as you could have a transparent roof and reflectors with an offset industrial ring. the former would have better capacity for industrial operations, and the latter for an overall multipurpose self sufficient space city. or maybe some hybrid of the two. im thinking it would be a very large station. i also wouldn't be totally opposed to surface facilities on a low gravity world for the big stuff. this would come with launch costs (significantly smaller than earth), but you dont have to worry about wayward components.

there was this gal from arkansas i dated had a relationship with had relations with lets just call it an fwb situation. and it was always funyuns and pork rinds. its certainly a regional thing (on both accounts).

its like truing a bicycle rim.. every spoke you adjust affects the tension on all the other spokes. takes forever. eventually you get to a point where its good enough to use.

i dont think id have evaporation issues with the humidity being so high. though ive seen aios with refill ports. humidity is frequently in the 90-100% range and dry spells are few and far between. but i am concern me about condensation. one of my cats frequently licks the condensation off the sides of my coke can or beverage glass, when shes not dipping her paw in. my biggest concern is leaks spilling on my expensive (and now unobtanium) graphics card. things were bad in the early days of xmp, i seldom got the rated clock. i spent a lot of cycles doing memtest86 and then ticking up the voltage until it passed. this took hours. you could get it to work on a pair of sticks, but with 4, you always had to take a hit somewhere. eventually 2 slot boards became common, i was a big fan of shortened micro atx and then later the mini itx form factor. id just buy the best ram i could afford that was on the qvl.

thats the problem with modern reboots and remakes. its like one part references for the old fanbase. one part actual plot, and 3 parts woke virtue signaling. their job is to entertain, not indoctrinate, and they are terrible at it. stop it. defund hollywood!

the trick is mustard seeds. some people also swear by pickling spice. just simmer it in a pot for several hours, add veggies in the last hour. i never regret this approach. you could probibly crock pot it. but i always end up with a corned beef way too big to fit. i try to make it on saint patrick's day. but sometimes i get a case of guinness instead. rarely do i have enough scratch to do both.

well the cooler ive been fighting with for months, the noctua nh-c14s. its possibly the largest air cooler ive used to date (i mostly build small form factor rigs). my case is too low profile for the standard orientation. but i found out you could get a kit to enable a 90 degree mounting option for am4. while this finally fit. the ends of the heat pipes were uncomfortably close to the gpu, so close in fact i put some kapton tape on the tips to keep them from shorting it out gpu components. newer video cards (like the 2070 super i just put in) have a backplate a few mm above the pcb. the block has removable brackets that mount it to the brackets you install on the mobo. offsetting the holes in the former bracketrs lets me lift the cooler away from the gpu a few mm. since the kit included a second set of those, modding one pair was acceptable (id still have the old ones in case it didnt work out) the plan was to drill and tap a new set of m3 holes, and i figured the carbide would make short work of it, but i underestimated the toughness of the metal. my bits kept walking off and doing their own thing, resulting in holes unfit for tapping. i did manage to tap one of the four holes, but ended up filing out the threads so it would match the others. i dug through my box of machine screws and found the right screws, nuts and washers. the mating surface on the block was slightly larger than the cpu, likely because this thing supports a lot of different cpus. though i have no line of sight i really cant tell if im overhanging a lot or not. probibly a mm or two. water cooling is something i still don't trust. i hear lots of stories where it works great one day and the pump stalls and you are offline for a couple weeks while you wait for a new pump. i also heard of coolant evaporating right out of an aio loop. this rig mines in its off hours so i didnt like the idea of random failures. the fan on my cryorig c7 in my old rig failed, and it was still able to keep the cpu cool enough to boot. i then printed a bracket to let me attach a 120mm fan to it, and now it works better than it ever did. i gave considerable thought to going with an aio for this build and probibly would have if my mounting mod didnt work. idk what overclocking means anymore. in the olden days it meant physically replacing an oscillator module on the mobo and fiddling with jumpers. then it became tweaking the clocks in the bios. now what is it, getting the most turbo? you technically overclock the memory when you load the xmp profile. last couple builds those worked flawlessly. but if this memory was engineered to be overclocked, is it really an overclock? its being used as the manufacturer intended. same goes with turbo. usually you just optimize your cooling design to get as close to the max turbo a cpu can handle. im happy to use these features in this way and dont really like messing with that stuff manually. stability is more important than a couple more fps. nice hash, which ive used to fund half this build (you could even count the gpu because its roi'ed itself twice) does this overclocking calibration on the gpu. i used the best efficiency option and it ended up downclocking the gpu slightly to get me a better hashrate/watt. im fine with this. been trying to hit those bb drops but i always end up missing them. going to a physical store is not an option for me. the cost to travel to the nearest city with a best buy would be a few hundred bucks, cost of living in rural alaska. going with a 6800xt is also an option, its supposedly slightly better than what im using, im also open to seeing what intel arc can do, but it sounds like they are delayed. id go as low as a 3060 ti. im also concerned about fitment. im using the zotac mini version of the 2070 super and it was a beast to install. i think the best way will be to do custom cables, because the ones that came with the psu are way too long and are currently taking up the space that a longer video card would go.

3070 is what im looking for 3070 ti if i can get it. i technically could afford a 3080 at msrp, but it might be exceeding my thermal and power restrictions. im also space limited. 2 slot card if full length, i can do a 3 slot if its shorter. i also have a height constraint, but this usually just means i need a u-adapter or low profile connector. i was able to get the cad reference model for my case so i can get pretty accurate measurements. can also figure out the dimensions of the card with some analysis in gimp by comparing known lengths to unknown ones. turns out i can get a rather massive card in that thing, but cards of this generation are excessively massive. on a side note i intend to get the new build off the bench today. i was actually able to buy a high performance 2tb gen4 ssd for the boot drive. i also modded my cpu cooler brackets. the metal used was incredibly tough, i killed 2 carbide drill bits and four hours with a set of files to move the mounting holes over 3 mm. i lose a bit of contact area, but at least the heat pipes now clear gpus with backplates. installed both yesterday. today is the gpu transplant. going to put my 2070 super in the new build for now. i also re-jiggered my fan arrangement and shaved a couple degrees off my cpu temps. btw, is it common for ryzen 5800x to hit 90 at full load? granted i had to spam it with cenebench and randomxmonero to get it to do that. it idles way down in the 50s. im still tweaking the fan curves in the bios to find a happy medium between loud and cool.

i did watch the mandalorian, that's kind of the thing that changed my mind.

i thought i was posting in the computer building megathread, but i was in the wrong forum. dont get old, it sucks.

yea, i need to go back and start watching all the various star wars series, i only ever bothered with the movies. with the expanse ending and star trek being practically unwatchable, there is nothing on tv anymore.

i can do fried chicken in a couple hours, it might not be fire and forget, but its damn good chicken. the trick is to use a small chicken. its hard to get large pieces to cook before they burn.

instant pot. new fangled gadget. my grandma's crock pot (supposedly won on a game show back in the '70s, though she never mentioned which one) still works fine. im no fan of smart appliances. that usually just means you need a phone to activate it.

somehow i dont think this was the thread i was looking for.

i have now won the newegg shuffle twice and still don't have a video card. no i wont change my policy about notifications being evil. never, nope, negatory notifications will never be enabled on any device i own.

the typical gray alien its just a gray cat with its ears taped down.

id love to see what a cat does in a lunar ag-dome. i imagine walking through your moon garden, tending to your space potatoes, and all of the sudden the space rodent control system is pouncing on your head from across the dome to demand scritches.

i have a chicken pot pie recipe. its pretty good. sometimes i make a turkey pot pie with holiday leftovers. but i usually rate recipes by difficulty vs end result. pies are a lot of work and when you are done you get a chicken pot pie. my pork ribs are to die for and are a significantly simpler recipe. a pot roast is set it and forget it. both leave very few dishes in the sink. the pies are complicated because i need to make stock (which can be a whole day affair depending on how much you need) and not only do you have a ton of dishes to do you usually have to clean the stove as well (or invest in a stock pot big enough, then ooof more dishes).

we have had an unusually harsh winter this year. as a result the cats have been banned from the outside. i usually do that every winter just to save on heating costs. a cat will typically demand the door be opened and then spend 10 minutes in the door way trying to decide if they want to go out or not. every time id go out to shovel snow one of them had to come out and watch but never left the arctic entry and then complain when i try to bring them in. i figure a lot of cat owners just give into the cat's demands. its when they get stuck out thats the problem. cats are smart enough to find their own heat, and usually in places that pose a danger, like inside somone's engine compartment or transformer at the nearest substation. the starlink dish is probibly harmless, but i cant imagine the added weight of 5 cats being good for the dish's servo motors. if i had a cat flap id be sure to also provide a heated outdoor cat shelter. dish owners would be wise to put the thing at least 6 feet of the ground (or however high makes the cats stay off of it, i once had a cat that could jump 7 feet straight up). thats low enough you could knock snow down with a snow shovel. its also possible that some of those cats are strays. and short of finding homes for them all, you can either deny access or give them a more comfortable alternative. bird wise were about the same, eagles, ravens and a number of species of sea birds. when my old kitty walked off to die, im pretty sure he fed some of the local eagles. we had a neighbor who was fond of feeding the pigeons and now they own the power lines near here. i keep finding piles of bird feathers around here as well, if they dont clear out by spring im going to have to make sure my cats are up to date on their anti-parasitic meds, because i have one that will hunt them.

looks like it supports cat-6 to me. i could get my little one up there.

the purpose of such cameras would just be to provide engineers on the ground with some useful troubleshooting data when things go wrong, or to help the deployment process. they would be shut down for when the telescope starts telescoping. to deal with the cold you could do fiber optic camera, with the camera itself being in the equipment bay. of course a simple resistive heater with the camera in a small pressurized dome could work, you wouldn't need much heat. i like the idea of a tentacle camera that perhaps comes out the side of the boom and can bend to look at either the top or bottom, and simply put one on each side. muscle wire can provide the actuation, such a system could inspect all the layers of the sun shield. technology has changed a lot since webb was built. years in the hanger didnt help. and then there is about the 10 or so years it takes to rad hard off the shelf components. ive only started seeing tiny cameras in parts catalogs for a couple years. cameras from when webb was build were significantly larger. from around a centimeter cube to something a couple mm square. they are intended for use as inspection cams, for medical and industrial applications. webb might be too old to use these technologies, but next time we launch something equally as complex if not more, you might see them in use.

to our feline overlords we salute you.

are there any engineering cameras on the webb at all? now that you can get a camera the size of a grain of rice i expect to see them plastered all over space probes in the near future. the webb was in the hanger too long for that to happen here, but there has to be at least one or two.