410°C is probably fine for that situation but you can go considerably lower for other things. At 410°C you'll start ripping up solder pads pretty quick on smaller jobs.
Goddamn is it even possible to buy a genuine Thinkpad battery these days? My 9-cell T420 battery is only at like 60% of its design capacity at a full charge now, I'd like to replace it but I don't want a Chinese firestarter powering my laptop.
You can do it, it's just a pain in the ass. Sometimes you can still get them from Lenovo (Can for the X230) but it's expensive. The alternative is taking a risk on ebay. I managed to pull that one off recently, thankfully, after my last battery died hard (Went from holding 60% charge to 5% in one cycle).
Had a third person move into my house about a week or two ago. He has a gaming rig too and wanted to be on wired connection for obvious reasons.
So instead of doing what a normal person would do and asking the landlord if he can run proper jacks and stuff throughout the house he goes into all of our bedrooms, drills a hole through the floor, drops a couple hundred feet of ethernet through it then crams it all through a hole into the room where the router/modem is... at 10pm. Dude was crawling around in the dark under the house in a crawlspace he barely fit in so he could connect to the internet.
I'm going to like this guy I think
Sounds like my kind of housemate.
Hey if it works.
I have a larger wooden shed on my land that was previously used for housing a guard for the old decommissioned power grid substation that used to be next to it that is currently used for storage and nailed shut because of broken lock. Would it be possible to repurpose it as a server storage area for a couple of servers in a 8U rack? It has power wired to it to a 20 Amp breaker and the wiring goes through the air on the poles where I could run shielded ethernet cables alongside the power cables to the shed. Only problems I see is that there's zero airflow, it's not mice proof (live in a suburb forest area) and that it's basically all wood with no insulation. For the airflow, I could just drill holes into the wall, add a mesh and a fan and run a tube from the rack to the hole.
Before you say "destroy it and build a new one", I can't, because it counts as a building and because of the weird positioning the land is in, my land is classified as recreational area, in which only reconstruction is allowed and any permit requests for construction of new buildings are automatically denied because of that.
I only went 410 just to reduce how much time I'm soaking into the cell. 320 has been fine for the small stuff I've messed with so far.
I wouldn't do that. You would probably have weird issues with moisture and condensation in your servers.
I'd only do it if you can get a small air conditioner/dehumidifier in there. The power is good, but moisture and temperature are going to kill you.
Even then, you have to deal with outside dust particles and such. Data centers have issues dealing with certain particles so having a fan leading from the outside world with bugs, dirt, air pollution, etc. would probably lead to a pretty short life span...
Why You Should Pay Attention to Data Center Contamination Contro..
Good point that I didn't even consider. I'd imagine even with a filter on your fan intake, dust and crap will get in through the cracks.
Not entirely sure if this is the right section, would this be the right place to make a thread about 3d printing and/or to ask questions?
There's a 3D printing thread but I mean if it's technology related at all it's generally allowed here
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No more melted legs.
no it wont.
Just have a big filtered intake and make the room positive pressure. That or seal it off and have a split system air conditioner always running in there.
Former is the way to go imo but just make sure you have a decent intake and a smaller grill for output that are both weatherproofed.
Two kinds of emails you get when you have your own email server.
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I should look into spam filtering at some point.
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Repasted my T420. It's 79 degrees in my house, so it's pretty warm. Does this still seem bad? It seems bad.
I used about 3/4 a grain of rice worth of AS5.
Not terrible. It stayed under 90 while under sustained max load so it should be fine.
Less than a grain of rice sounds like a bit too little for that CPU package tho. Were you able to spread it into a thin and even layer across the entire package?
Not sure TBH. I let the heat pipe spread it out.
Laptop CPUs normally don't have an IHS so you don't need to worry too much about applying excess TIM.
websockets lol
trying to implement shit unofficially
pretend to be the client
then pretend to be the server
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errors are just taskkills, fastest way to kill both scripts at the same time
Get a lil thermal paste spreader and go at it again when you get a chance. I like to pre-spread to guarantee that I both have enough on there and that the entire surface gets covered. As long as it's a nice thin layer the excess will still get pushed out.
Also make sure you're using high quality thermal paste and not some cheap shit.
ARM launched a "facts campaign" against RISC-V, they are so fucking scared.
RISC Architecture
Yeah, I bought a lil' tube of Arctic Silver 5 when I bought a new SSD for this thing. I had some old Thermaltake paste and I just didn't know how good it still is (or, where it is after I moved, honestly.)
I'll repaste it again, since it's such a dream to crack open this laptop.
I blew away my DigitalOcean VPS and switched to Vultr to save a whopping $2.50/month and start fresh. I hadn't given that thing any updates in like a year and the install had probably been up for 5. I couldn't be arsed to set anything up beyond the essentials (Apache, ZNC, MySQL), so for the ~4 people who were idling in the dead #cipwttkt channel, sorry!
Ran our backup fridge (just holds frozen stuff mainly) on my Kill-A-Watt meter to see how much power it used over 24hours to see if I could run it on batteries and it used 1.13KWh and even peak usage when the compressor kicked on was only 110watts, so average was about 55-60watts. Could easily make a battery bank for that the size of an Xbox and have just 2-3 panels powering that. Way less than I imagined. I was thinking it would be pulling 3-4, but it's not often opened so the insulation must also be good.
Got a bunch of laptop batteries on the way. This so far is a fun project. Been really needing something to work on with my hands.
Gotta also consider when you add stuff to the freezer you've gotta pump that heat out.
Freezing and boiling shit are crazy in terms of energy usage TBH.
Goddammit, this is why people hate the Department of Motor Vehicles. Doesn't matter which country or state, the DMV is always a den of incompetence.
So I'm going online to do an address change. It used to require just a SSN or driver's license number, and a four-digit PIN. That's not actually all that secure, so they've changed the PIN to a password.
AND THEN THEY FUCKED IT UP!
The password requirements are:
12-16 characters
Minimum one uppercase, one lowercase, one numeral, and one "special" character
Only allowed special characters are: !*#$%&
I've never seen such a weird mix of requirements. That's a really narrow length range - like they had a sixteen-character limit somewhere, but also read that 12 characters is the minimum for safety. Requiring four types of character is pretty standard, but then only allowing four very specific non-alphanumeric characters? I could understand limiting to ASCII, something tells me a system that uses all-caps for county names wouldn't like combining diacritics or CJK ideographs, but what the fuck is wrong with an underscore? Or an at sign? Or a question mark?
Absolutely none of my standard passwords work. They all use disallowed characters, and are either too short or too long. So now it's pretty much guaranteed that I'll have to do a password reset the next time I have to do anything with them, since something tells me they'll find a way to make my password manager not work.
Funnily enough I am in the process of blowing away my Vultr VPS to swap to DigitalOcean
It's the same cost for both($20/month + $4 for backups), I just like DO's management software better.
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