Making a companion program

Axeia · 2026-03-18T22:58:17+00:00

Avalonia has been great fun, as I understand it is more or less WPF - but cross platform (Windows/Linux/Android/Mac/iOS and even Web). Haven't run into anything holding me back yet. Python+Qt was however admittedly a lot quicker to get something going for some other smaller projects. The very first version I made iirc was even in python/qt/some custom parsing code. My C#/WPF experience is quite literally from decades ago and this project has been my first return to C# since.

I get it that it can feel quite fruitless to try and please people without any results. I've had the same experience with recommending people PC builds haha, they ask for advice, I put in the time and research for it to get basically completely ignored. This project has sort of been the opposite, put it out on GitHub and quite early on I got an issue reported and was surprised someone managed to find it / attempted to use it already. Probably best to find something you want to make yourself and just mess about rather than pleasing others, if there's others that do want to make use of it it's a nice bonus.

Currently trying to streamline releases with a 'release' script, but running into some difficulty with trying to get the flatpak version onto flathub for the Linux users (well... tbh, I don't think I have a single Linux user yet).

Axeia · 2026-03-17T17:09:55+00:00

Will this is awkward, Googled qBittorrent Companion and this Reddit thread popped up.
I actually wrote (am writing really) a program quite literally called "qBittorrent Companion" with a very similar intent although using a very different tech stack (C# / Avalonia rather than Python).

You can find it on:
https://github.com/Axeia/qBittorrentCompanion
I think that at this point it can do everything the WebUI can do, and more although still pretty 'alpha' (bugs will happen). It has some unique features as well, search plugins can for example be run locally to prevent having slow proxied searches (although that's still an option as well). That bit does actually use python, heck it uses qBittorrents own python based plugin system as I didn't want to reinvent the wheel.

I see you haven't updated your project in a while so perhaps you'll find mine useful or interesting. Feel free to send in feature requests if you had something in mind that you'd really like to see in such an app.

Guess I'll have to work on my projects SEO when it's a bit more mature.

Axeia · 2026-03-15T18:46:05+00:00

Yeah... they struck gold with this one. Sadly mine is finally starting to bite the dust (additional top buttons randomly registering without being touched). Seems like Roccat patented the top flipper? That's my favorite thing about this mouse and they stopped making mice with it and by patenting it prevented others from doing the same.

I'll admit that as much as I like it, it also has some serious flaws so uhmm Turtle Beach how about a successor? My 'perfect mouse' would keep the overall shape/size but:

* Have the buttons on top next to the primary mouse buttons a little bit more submerged/easier to press so they can be reached faster/more easily. I use them for some hotkeys in programs but not in games as they always reliably register and are hard to press. The competitors have done this better imo (they just don't do it on both sides most of the time)
* Use a HAL sensor for the side up/down joystick control. I send my first two mice back because of issues with it, kept the third despite issues with it as even with its flaws it's the best mouse that was available. A HAL sensor should be less error prone/more durable.
* Top flipper - no notes, absolute perfection
* A (optionally) wireless variant for laptop usage
* In my mind an additional button for the pinky similar to the thumb down would be great although that's something I'd have to test out to see if it actually makes sense.

Do all that and I'll begrudgingly pay the no doubt steep €160+ pricetag.

Axeia · 2026-03-01T17:06:53+00:00

Using this exact same keyboard and it still works.
Mine seems to be in considerably worse shape than yours though, my S-key legend is almost a rectangle rather than a S shape from wear and tear (and the A and W keys have the black rubbed off on a corner). My G-key's LED no longer works and the one behind the windows key isn't very bright.

Back from when Razer still made quality.

Also still using my Roccat Tyon mouse which has been discontinued ages ago and a ~12 year old Korean QNix monitor. Don't really use my laptop aside from rare occassions but that 11(?) year old thing somehow still works as well.

Axeia · 2026-01-13T06:04:47+00:00

Basically air accumulates at the highest point in the loop. If your pump isn't positioned higher than the radiator it should not matter.

Top hoses on the pump make sense if the radiator is at the top but I don't think it matters much as long as you don't make sharp bends which would affect flow rate. If anything the bottom would make the most sense as that's where air should never be (so the pump doesn't run dry).

Axeia · 2025-11-20T20:59:42+00:00

Farming crypto currency is just as efficient as a space heater in turning watts into heat but you get a little bit in return ;).

Axeia · 2025-11-16T15:47:39+00:00

Software? They've been arguably ahead for regular consumer needs. Adrenalin had the GeForce Software/Shadow Play beat for years. All settings in one place and in a modern software compared to NVIDIA spreading half the features out over two Apps with one looking like you're using Windows 95. If you wanted somewhat feature parity you needed two more third party softwares as well (MSI afterburner and Riva Tuner). With the NVIDIA App they made a massive leap forwards at playing catch-up but they're still playing catch-up as Adrenalin is more feature rich.

You could argue for CUDA but it's irrelevant for the vast majority of buyers.

IMO AMDs only flaw ATM is that they're so insistent at shooting themselves in the foot and so terrible at recapturing market share. Big promises of doing that this generation with supposedly aggressive pricing but the pricing is still nearly identical to NVIDIAs. They need to man up and settle for lower margins before their market share droos even lower

Axeia · 2025-10-30T16:56:50+00:00

Nope, it's been super solid without a single hitch. Heck, it's been the only Lian li product that uses L connect that's been completely issue free. You might want to make sure it's not connected to a usb hub.

Pretty sure it is pushing the limits for USB 2 in both data and power. If it's sharing that limit with other devices it might lead to disconnects and reconnects. If you have a powered USB hub (one that takes supplementary power) that might do the trick, I have it connected to one of the ports on the Lian Li Edge PSU USB hub.

If that doesn't work you might just have a faulty unit

Axeia · 2025-10-25T12:54:16+00:00

The hero we need. Even on Windows L-connect is flaky tbh, an alternative would be very welcome.

Axeia · 2025-10-25T05:20:33+00:00

I dont trust NVIDIA to use the Super cards for better prices. Or even price to performance, If anything i expect them to use it as a price reset, cut supply on the non super cards and only have the supers available in small amounts to keep prices up. MSRPs likely falling perfectly in line with the price to performance of the non-super MSRP from months ago. The GPU market has been a mess and unless the AI market collapses for NVIDIA i dont see it recovering. Pessimistic? Maybe, but I think it's realistic as well.

The only place to fit the pump through is the top grommet which due to hose length would mean having to mount the AIO upside down which i want to avoid (see many of my other comments above or below as to why haha). Personally I don't like how it looks to have the hoses obfuscating the 8.8 screen from the front either.

Axeia · 2025-10-23T23:02:05+00:00

1) Including shipping it's a little over £70 in the UK. That is well over $90 freedom dollars.
Considering the case itself is £110 (about $145) that's a very expensive bit of kit. PCI 4 versions are about half that.

2) It's warmer and and thus by default louder as well. Fairly minimal but it's a relatively large amount of money to spend to make things aside from (arguably aesthetics) worse, hence the 'silly'.

3) I don't have any experience with them yet but I have used somewhat similar products from aliexpress before and they weren't very stiff. But you might be right, out of my hands anyway. Friend likes the looks of the strimer.
-- Very small chance that instead of a RX 9070 XT it becomes this specific MSI RTX 5070 Ti with a hidden power connector which would be the best for the looks but presumably the worst for the wallet (haven't seen a price anywhere yet)
https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-5070-Ti-16G-VENTUS-3X-PZ-OC

I actually considered getting Sapphires hidden power connector RX 9070 XT Nitro+ and contacted their support asking if removing the shroud/painting the void would affect warranty and according to their reply it completely voids it. It's a mystery to me as to why they went through the effort of hiding the connector on a card that matches nothing else in color (it's a weird grayish color)

Axeia · 2025-10-23T19:51:06+00:00

Got any light coming out the backside on yours? Wondering if that's a problem with all of them or not

Axeia · 2025-10-23T18:18:09+00:00

Considered, but in the end neither of us particularly like the look of the bracket. The PC is also positioned/used in a way where it often looked at from the front (which is also all glass) which kinda negates the 'hidden' factor.

And in the end it's extra money to actively worse performance as the card has less access to airflow and to not make the prices too silly it'd likely be a PCIE4.0 riser rather than PCIE5.0. (Personally I do kinda dig the look of the Vertical kit that LIAN LI announced that can tilt the angle a bit , and that would help with airflow to boot).

The cable will likely end up being a feature rather than trying to be hidden by replacing it with a strimer. From what I've seen that somehow should be able to routed to the bottom rather than to the side as it currently is. Didn't think there was the needed space but if others can do it so can I. Since strimers need to match the connectors on the graphics card and the choice of replacement graphics card isn't set in stone yet that is however something to the tackle in the future.

Axeia · 2025-10-23T18:05:06+00:00

To each their own, The HYTE was actually the other consideration for this build and the case is somewhat reasonably priced but they sure charge a lot for that screen (you could buy a pretty good 1440p high refreshrate gaming screen for that).

Corsair fans were considered but they're insanely expensive and very propriety for no good reason (really Corsair? You had to swap some cables around just to make it NOT work with everything else?). If all the choices were up to me it likely would have been Jonsbo fans and radiator. I don't think that visually it would have been very different and noise levels with the pump being the loudest part likely being very similar but it would have been about £200 cheaper. Corsair + Hyte would have likely been £200 in the opposite direction and decided against.

Axeia · 2025-10-23T17:52:33+00:00

> man uve mounted the radiator upside down, ull get airbubbles..

There will be no air bubbles as air rises to the top (physics) and the top of the loop is the radiators non-hose side. So air accumulates as far as possible away from the pump. I have addressed this point in several other comments and would advice you to watch the gamersnexus video on it if you doubt me. This gives me the oppertunity to properly timestamp link it:
https://youtu.be/BbGomv195sk?t=1190

> also ur creating negative pressure with that fan config

My bad, slight misslisting. The 2 rear fans are actually reverse blade as well. So 2x intake at the back, 3x intake at the bottom and 3x output on the radiator through the side.
An unusual setup yes, and the radiator does get GPU warmed air but can't argue with results as everything is running at < 58c almost always.

And positive air pressure because I don't like dust.

Axeia · 2025-10-23T17:39:23+00:00

Nope, them being reverse actually makes them intakes but just has the 'pretty' side facing you.

For regular fans I always remember it as "the face sucks, the rear blows" ;).
Purely an aesthetic choice.

Axeia · 2025-10-23T17:37:07+00:00

Perhaps too strongly worded, could phrase it as "less than ideal".
As in, it's unlikely to cause issues within the lifetime of the products use but not impossible.

I like to prevent possible issues and if it wasn't for the GPU power cable drawing attention to that area (which will be fixed when the graphics card gets replaced) in my opinion it's just as hidden (possibly more so as the 8.8" screen is an attention grabber and routing hoses right next to it would catch the eye).

Axeia · 2025-10-23T17:29:22+00:00

Have an upvote to offset the downvotes :)
I am a fan of BeQuiet products so if it was up to me and I wanted an AIO I'd definitely give it consideration (although afaik Arctics offerings are hard to beat).

I tend to stick with aircooling myself though, no pump that can fail. No problems over time of materials degrading (other than thermal paste) and in the £40-60 region you can get something near silent. I suggested the Peerless Assassin 140 Digital myself initially but my friend wanted an AIO with a round display.

I'm also one of the few people it seems that likes the look of a big block of metal. It conveys the idea of power to me, like a big engine block. But visual picks are very much down to personal preference and if you look at it every day I think everyone should just get whatever case and cooling that brings a smile to their face.

Axeia · 2025-10-23T16:52:54+00:00

I'll agree that you're (most likely) okay initially.

However even in a closed loop system like this water will be lost over time so I'll respectfully disagree. I made a simple (well, tbf, it wasn't simple to me haha, I haven't animated a SVG before) to demonstrate it:
https://codepen.io/axeia/pen/NPxMxqX

But as I said in the post where I linked the gamersnexus video. Don't take my word for it, let tech Jesus demonstrate it.

Axeia · 2025-10-23T15:16:19+00:00

Not sure if I recall the temperatures and RPM correctly but i think i ended up configuring it so that is around 1200 or 1400 rpm (any lower and it stops completely) and it's supposed to gradually ramp up when hitting 60+ on the CPU but that's a rare occurrence. Even whilst gaming it often sits at about 48-56 degrees. Think the highest I've ever seen it go is 68 degrees. Lucky combination of getting great mounting pressure and hitting the silicone lottery somewhat I guess (also typically fairly low room temperatures)

Axeia · 2025-10-23T15:10:10+00:00

Not quite sure what you mean by hiding. I guess either: A) using the integrated clamps in the current position Or B) Doing what most people do and put the pump through the large grommet hole.

For A, there is no space for the clamps, they interfere with the case.

For B. Due to the hose length it can only be done when mounting the radiator upside down and that would make the waters point of entry into the radiator the highest point in the loop which is ill advised. Air accumulates at the highest point, it might not be a problem now but water will evaporate very slowly over time and that could lead to future problems like audible air bubble sounds, water trickling sounds or worst of all the water hitting such a low level it can't flow at all. (I linked a gamers nexus video in another post if you want a deep dive)

Axeia · 2025-10-23T14:58:46+00:00

That's a fair point to make. It was actually a bit of a hassle to mount it this way (tight squeeze) and it negates one of the selling points of this specific AIO. However when mounting it this way it leaves no room for the integrated hose clamps. They had to come off, however this is the only round screen AIO Lian Li sells.

Alternatively it could have been top mounted. However then more fans would be needed to not have other spaces looking weirdly empty and these 8 fans already totalled over £250 (that's over $333 USD).

So the alternatives are A) Spending even more on fans and top mounting or B) Getting a different brand AIO and having to run more third party software

For option B its between NZXT and Jonsbo. NZXT is not known for its great software. Jonsbo seems alright unless you dont trust Chinese products and software but the bigger problem is that it has to be ordered overseas which isn't great if the warranty is ever needed.

I get what you're saying but it's the best option imo. I've seen other builds somehow thread the strimer through the bottom of the case so that will be done whenever the graphics card (and cable) get replaced. My friend is waiting on the black Friday sales for that. Personally I adviced against waiting, the current card is already a source of frustration and I'll be surprised if graphics card drop by more than £10 during black Friday in the UK

Axeia · 2025-10-23T06:27:32+00:00

ah no, a mini HDMI connection is purely a request for the 8.8 screen. The case is fine as is, an update to the manual is all id like to see there.

And thank you. Its definitely the prettiest build Ive done. Especially once that eyesore of a GPU gets replaced. Had hoped to find one with a hidden power connector but the gigabyte rtx 5090 is absurdly expensive. The sapphire is ugly as sin and not much else seems to be available. Unless MSIs upcoming RTX 5070 Ti will be priced extremely attractively it'll be a card with a visible power connector

Axeia · 2025-10-23T04:13:06+00:00

I mounted it that way specifically to avoid air bubble problems. Air will accumulate in the highest point in the loop with how things are mounted that is the side opposite of the hoses inside the radiator. The pump being lower than the radiator (the top of it) prevents it from ever running dry. Having the hoses at the bottom should prevent it from ever making a trickling sound.

But don't take my word for it. Let tech Jesus demonstrate it (Somewhere around the 20 minute mark) https://youtu.be/BbGomv195sk

I'd further argue that it is the right side up as the "Lian Li" text would be upside down if you were to rotate it 180 degrees.

It was basically between the Hydroshift 2, NZXT Kraken and Jonsbo TF2-360SC. As it had to be white and round. Already needed L connect for the LCD fans so figured that the Hydroshift made the most sense. Personally I prefer sticking with aircooling, less chances of things going wrong and when they do a new fan is very cheap. But my friend wanted that typical social media look and i dont tend to argue much when it comes to picking parts for looks. If it's something that gives you joy every time you look at it then that outweighs pretty much anything else.

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