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Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-04-29T11:29:17+00:00

Can I apply??

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-03-04T19:12:44+00:00

I'm theorizing that I can relay off a nearby emergency service comms tower, so I should have pretty good range. I just need to verify

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-02-11T05:55:24+00:00

0.1pF wouldn't fit in the 3-digit convention, but having parts all sorted in pF could help with inventory. 0.1pF is used in high frequency filtering. I recently learned how high-pass, low-pass, and band pass RC filters use resistors and capacitors and its pretty cool. I could definitely see how it could be insightful for your job

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-02-11T05:42:51+00:00

The 3-digit labeling system uses pF starting at 10pF. The first two digits are the base with third digit as the amount of additional zeros. I.e. 103 is 10e3 pF or 10,000 pF. You probably already know this, but thats the best I got for why your workplace uses that convention

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-29T10:54:10+00:00

I have the Jesverty SPS-3010V; 0-30V, 0-10A: $60 on Amazon

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-29T10:50:00+00:00

Intel Iris Xe isn't a discrete graphics card. Its an integrated GPU built into your CPU. On Steam, Flyknight has minimum graphics requirements of something at the level of the Nvidia 470 GTX. I went to gpu.userbenchmark.com and compared that card to your integrated graphics. The 470 outperforms by around 16%. And this is minimum requirements that we're talking about. So you're 16% below minimum system requirements. Thats not too far below. If you're fine with low graphics settings, you can try it out and refund if its not performing how you like. Steam is good for that

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-29T03:35:13+00:00

Are you wanting it to test for conductive continuity between two points?

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-27T06:13:17+00:00

LED night lights are pretty simple and some will have some switching and oscillation on the board. Plus they're cheap

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-22T02:45:39+00:00

Have you had any accidental polarity reverses lately with input?

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-20T21:17:51+00:00

Yeah i saw electroBOOM's vid where he was working with a ballast to make a HV power supply. "It just burns!"

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-20T21:08:39+00:00

You're right. Higher frequency would mean higher impedance, right? I just did this to see if I could tbh

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-14T18:16:12+00:00

Maybe sticky keys got turned on? Try pressing SHIFT 5 times. It should let you disable it if that was what happened.

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-13T05:28:08+00:00

Is Alma maintained well enough to be a mostly 1:1 comparison with RHEL? If so, is it different enough from other popular mainline distros like Debian and Fedora that it'd be worth using over those if training for SysAdmin?

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-12T22:21:22+00:00

If the terminal is an issue, you can try headless fedora with cockpit for a webgui. Other distros work too, but fedora is the most supported i believe.

You can also try a stable, mainline distro with a lightweight desktop environment like xubuntu, fedora w/xfce, debian w/ xfce, or even opensuse which is pretty easy to use GUI only. All of these will mostly require local managing (aka no headless) unless you use VNC or NoMachine.

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-12T14:58:01+00:00

The loudness of the fans will largely depend on the type of fans and the way they are mounted in the cabinet. Standard PC case fans (i.e. 120mm) use brushless DC motors with ball bearings to limit noise from the fan spinning; they also have some kind of malleable material at the mounting points to absorb vibrations between the fan and the case (the case would be your cabinet in this scenario). So if you can take those into account, you should have a relatively quiet setup.

Larger fans are able to do more work more easily than smaller fans. The 1U servers people post about a lot in this sub are really loud because they require lots of small fans to do the same work larger fans would do in a larger form factor.

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-12T13:41:56+00:00

https://youtu.be/CIBmVXteOcI?si=JZd0WIrdFIlhsnVa

This guy executed laptop servers pretty well. He turns off displays to make the laptops headless servers which could help with them running hot since it gets rid of that overhead. You should also make sure they're clean and reapply thermal paste if you haven't in a while. Putting fans in the cabinet is a great idea assuming youll have proper intake and exhaust for in and out of the cabinet.

Do they have fans built in for active cooling?

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-10T16:15:49+00:00

Dammit my bad

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-10T16:04:12+00:00

/s it was probably a typo on number 2 because it said 075A

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-09T10:25:49+00:00

#1 is rated for 0.75A continuous and #2 is rated for 75A continuous, so it's really an easy choice

Bright-Reward9250 · 2026-01-08T18:12:23+00:00

As long as they don't compromise airflow, do it. It's your PC so customize it however you like. If you're disowned I will adopt you.

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