[2026-04-04T05:30:28Z] badwdsd'd my ps3 successfully [2026-04-04T05:30:37Z] that soldering was difficult [2026-04-04T06:30:27Z] does anyone here have opinions about 19-inch racks? [2026-04-04T06:30:43Z] i'm thinking about an 8u in the future but i've never bothered looking into racks before and figure you guys might have ideas [2026-04-04T06:32:16Z] also for whoever was working on loap is that still a thing? [2026-04-04T06:32:35Z] i might be able to donate some compute power since i'll have two KCMA-D8 machines running [2026-04-04T06:33:35Z] i'm probably going to switch to using a desktop reform as my main machine in the future and then just have these run as a couple of headless servers [2026-04-04T07:14:43Z] midfavila: ive been thinking about getting a minirack. i think theyre rather cute looking, and its decent because they take much less space. probably not helpfull though :p [2026-04-04T07:15:55Z] the ones im thinking about are these https://www.rack-magic.com/en/p/10-rack-3he-6he-9he-12he-depth-290-mm-wall-or-floor-mounting-rack-magic [2026-04-04T07:16:12Z] jeff gerling did some videos about them, which is how I found out about them [2026-04-04T07:16:49Z] which also led me to r/minilab [2026-04-04T07:29:15Z] oh my gosh that's adorable [2026-04-04T07:29:44Z] unfortunately i mostly work with ATX and CEB machines :c [2026-04-04T07:30:59Z] minilab looks useful though [2026-04-04T07:37:04Z] i have to wonder if i could print a CEB enclosure [2026-04-04T07:37:36Z] i know of subcompact ATX-compatible power supplies and the KCMA-D8 have internal USB ports that could run a simple read-only KISS system... [2026-04-04T07:38:10Z] that would mean the only issue is cooling, but there are 45W piledrivers that you can grab, so those can be cooled nearly completely passively [2026-04-04T07:40:46Z] add a half inch of space to the CEB spec just for some space for cable management and you'd be good. height would be dictated by cooling solutions. the heatsinks i have now are 2U and they're plenty fine with just a single tiny little case fan blowing hot air out of the case [2026-04-04T07:41:38Z] https://aerocooler.com/dynatron-t319-socket-c32-f1207-1u-passive-cpu-cooler/ [2026-04-04T07:41:40Z] ding ding ding [2026-04-04T07:42:15Z] four of those for the two 1U systems... [2026-04-04T07:44:20Z] looks like pcbway is more than capable of printing the parts for a CEB chassis in a single go [2026-04-04T07:44:50Z] this could actually be a pretty viable little setup [2026-04-04T07:49:45Z] oh wow you know what- [2026-04-04T07:50:02Z] the openwrt one is almost exactly six inches across so i could "standardise" on a 12-inch rack [2026-04-04T07:50:21Z] and then have "half" six-inch bays which would be enough to handle little SBCs [2026-04-04T07:50:29Z] i might look into that seriously [2026-04-04T07:54:11Z] yeah, so you could have each 1U 12-inch bay have mounting interfaces on the top and bottom for more 1U bays, and some sort of insert that could subdivide each bay into two 6-inch 1U bays [2026-04-04T07:54:31Z] then you could print or machine an arbitrary number of 12-inch bays and stack them together [2026-04-04T07:57:10Z] i mean it would probably come out to 13 inches across just because i would like to have a good half inch of material on all sides of each installed rack for robustness but still [2026-04-04T08:03:44Z] https://hdplex.com/hdplex-nanoatx-power-supply-explained [2026-04-04T08:03:56Z] something like this could be nice assuming they're reliable, power supply wise [2026-04-04T08:06:11Z] 64gb of ddr3 plus two EE piledrivers could easily run on 300w... [2026-04-04T08:07:41Z] https://hdplex.com/hdplex-500w-gan-aio-atx-power-supply.html [2026-04-04T08:10:42Z] actually apparently the KCMA-D8 can handle RDIMMs which means you could squeeze out a cool 128gb of memory per board [2026-04-04T08:21:21Z] sad_plan: do you know about homeracker.org [2026-04-04T08:21:22Z] ? [2026-04-04T08:29:17Z] cpubenchmark says the 4365EE is only marginally less capable in multicore tasks than the 4332HE according to passmark, by about 300 points, while being notably more efficient... considering, between two KCMA-D8 boxes, that that works out to 32 cores compared to 24... [2026-04-04T09:17:27Z] https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2/ [2026-04-04T09:17:28Z] !!! [2026-04-04T09:18:02Z] apparently this can run without any proprietary software, and they seem to public schematics as well [2026-04-04T09:18:13Z] s/public/have public/ [2026-04-04T09:18:20Z] can't english jfc i need to sleep [2026-04-04T09:57:05Z] I did not know about homeracker, no [2026-04-04T09:57:20Z] I can vouch for the hdplex psu though, Its what i have in my desktop [2026-04-04T09:58:39Z] sick that the sbc you linked doesnt require blobs, buut its really weak though :( [2026-04-04T11:10:44Z] ehhhhhhh i just need an SBC that works with upstream linux and has a decent amount of I/O [2026-04-04T11:11:04Z] i need one (or a dedicated burner) to flash libreboot to my bios chips and stuff [2026-04-04T11:11:13Z] plus i'm sure they're useful in other places [2026-04-04T11:11:29Z] good to hear you have experience with the hdplex. i was pretty surprised to see they support dual-cpu setups [2026-04-04T12:23:51Z] I see [2026-04-04T12:24:32Z] yea, hdplex is or was atleast used a lot within the sffpc guys, mostly sub 5L cases though, as else nothing else fits, or youd have to have an external psu, which is cheating imo [2026-04-04T12:24:52Z] yeah lmao [2026-04-04T12:24:52Z] mine is 2.97, all internal [2026-04-04T12:25:01Z] lol [2026-04-04T12:26:12Z] I think ive found one which is smaller though, the guys from nfc used something else, which seemed pretty small too. although their case is just above 3L. yet they claim theirs is the smallest. he be lying when he says that, but ok :p [2026-04-04T12:26:55Z] on another note, if luakit could just stop being partially broken under swc for me, that would also be really nice [2026-04-04T12:27:19Z] surf probably doesn't do wayland does it [2026-04-04T12:31:52Z] it does, I have a patch for it. but itll error if you try to run dmenu, because it tries to run xprop, and I dont have xwayland. it doesnt crash though, so one can atleast view websites [2026-04-04T12:32:53Z] however, it seems to suffer from the same issue as luakit. the zoom is all zoomed out on kisslinux website, suckless.org fills only half the screen at first, then fills up as you scroll down, although also really zoomed out. github.com is just a small line in the middle, making the website completly unusable lol [2026-04-04T12:34:14Z] rip [2026-04-04T12:34:20Z] honestly fuck the web [2026-04-04T12:34:25Z] it's such a pain in the ass [2026-04-04T12:36:50Z] i knooow [2026-04-04T12:37:28Z] netsurf works though, but sometimes I kinda like being able to have js. sometimes atleast [2026-04-04T12:38:39Z] I should get better with using sacc too, which lets me use gopher, but I dont know a whole lot of gopher sites lol [2026-04-04T12:44:44Z] on another though, despite luakit and surf being somewhat broken, I can still just use conty/firefox, which obviously would solve these issues, buut I often prefer using luakit instead, moslty because it fits with my scripts. I could probably just adopt my scripts to use firefox instead though [2026-04-04T13:05:28Z] yeah but firefox sucks too :\ [2026-04-04T13:05:49Z] why not try uh [2026-04-04T13:05:53Z] ladybird or whatever [2026-04-04T13:05:53Z] ? [2026-04-04T13:06:06Z] isn't it pretty capable for what it is? [2026-04-04T13:27:09Z] its still in pre-alpha though. but yeah, ive heard about it. I suppose it looks promising [2026-04-04T13:34:14Z] im thinking about maybe testing qutebrowser though. it remiinds me of luakit in some ways. and I think it supports wayland ootb [2026-04-04T13:34:47Z] ive been wanting to test it for quite some time actually. but never got around figuring out the whole qt thing [2026-04-04T13:35:32Z] not super hyped about it being python based though.... [2026-04-04T13:36:45Z] wait.. what? qtwebengine is based on chromium? holy fuck, that sounds like its going to take forever to build. [2026-04-04T13:37:03Z] * sad_plan sobs [2026-04-04T13:37:18Z] unless using qt6 though it seems [2026-04-04T13:37:22Z] maybe its fine after all [2026-04-04T18:09:58Z] the web revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity [2026-04-04T18:37:35Z] indeed it has [2026-04-04T18:37:45Z] yet another thing enshitified [2026-04-04T19:50:04Z] dery: i have just learned that cheetos-brand pasta sauce exists [2026-04-04T19:50:20Z] i thought i would inform you of this as it seemed like something you would appreciate [2026-04-04T20:24:35Z] uh [2026-04-04T20:24:40Z] that's... interesting [2026-04-04T20:34:31Z] :3