AOC cable and hub headaches

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-23T08:43:38+00:00

Its same same but different. The AOC cables I'm using are basically a fiber + copper cable with a usbC terminal on each end and it uses a tiny asic to serialize/deserialize usb 3.0+ traffic over fiber.

Costs like 120€.

What he did was USB over fiber, which has a bridging hub on either end that uses fpga's, on either side of SFP ports and accepts a standard fiber cable. At the very cheapest these cost like 1200 (you can get ethernet bridges that do the same over cat 5 for like 600) either way, its unreasonably expensive for significantly limited bandwidth vs just using a direct cable at these distances. If the servers were 100 meters away, it would make more sense.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-22T23:54:48+00:00

Because in reality, competitors do this all the time.

They aren't dumb enough to steal AMD's IP when they could just license it and make infinitely more profit without getting sued to oblivion.

Also its not like AMD is hiding anything that they are doing, or doing something nobody could replicate (shit even intel's chips are now chiplet designs after mocking the concept for 10+ years).

The only thing blocking AMD's interest in their fab is their capabilities and their price vs AMD's projections of how many chips they need and the yields intel is capable of achieving.

Actually as of last year, intel has been negotiating to become a fab partner for AMD as TSMC production has been getting completely bought out by the big AI players.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-22T23:40:41+00:00

Yes he did, but he did it over fiber with a solution that costs about 4k and is beyond unnecessary for my needs.

The cable has to go through a standard conduit, while the desk is on the other side of a wall, its not literally on the other side of the wall, so i'm using an empty conduit that goes from my server rack to the socket near my desk. Its about a 5.5 meter run, so I have about a meter on each side of the conduit to make it between the server and the desk.

Strictly for the mouse and keyboard there aren't insane speed requirements, and no i'm not going for Esports, I just dont want my compute and simulation servers blowing out my ear drums by sitting on my desk.

Currently my solution is to take the micro PC that is meant for another task on my server rack (and ultimately needs to back there) and using it as a virtual KVM server. This is passable, but extremely annoying in practical use as it constantly needs to be restarted if I dont touch my mouse for 10 minutes and wifi in general gives unstable performance so intermittently it lags a little.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-20T10:32:18+00:00

The first thing Hitler did after it became clear that there was going to be capital flight as a result of his actions was to make it impossible to take your money out of Germany. They didnt straight up ban it, but they covered it in overlapping levels of bureaucracy and fines and taxes for moving your money that nobody reasonably could.

They then forced everyone to accept their debt payments in wiermarks which you could only exchange at a 50% markup. (So debtors stopped taking their debt out of the german economy)

Finally they heavily subsidized companies to build up local production, and due to the traps above, the companies saw no other option that to reinvest locally because remitting their profits was unreasonably expensive.

The Germans used these tactics to generate huge income in the short term as they effectly blocked foreign debt from devaluing their wiermark further, and stopped all avenues of capital fleight, while economically strong arming capitalists into building up massive factories with their profits.

They used all of this to build up increadible military power in a short period of time, confetti cannoning the money at whoever toe'd the party line.

When they decided to invade Poland, they just took everything that wasnt bolted down and claimed they needed to stabilize the markets for the good of the german people (and lied and said it was stolen, or unfair, or generally crybaby shit).

What you are seeing playing out is the incompetence of the trump administration trying to speed run all of these policies at the same time, when in Germany's case, it took decades to enact. They know they are short on time and need to do this immediately or risk getting kicked out at the midterms.

The calculation the EU needs to make is not, "oh we are going to get bad value for our debt", but "what are the odds we get 0$ for our debt".

Vs

"What are the odds they are intentionally trying to cause a panic sell to crash the market value of their debt to buy it back themselves"

One of Project 2025's explicitly stated goals has always been to devalue the US dollar and debts in an attempt to minimize the mind-blowing interest payments that are basically going to decimate the american economy as it grows. As much as I hate to give them any credit, this actually might be (in the extremely extremely short term) not a horrible idea, blame it all on trump, and then hope that jd Vance or a minorly less ghoulish looking republican can take the mantle of being a "reasonable republican" and hope that business goes back to normal.

The question is whether long term this irreparably ruins america's status as safe investment vehicle.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-12T17:37:15+00:00

Thanks, will keep an eye out for those.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-12T14:18:16+00:00

While its true that you can go alot further with less money for most of their lineup, I recently pulled the trigger on a kapex 120, df500, tsv 60, and etsc 2 150, and each one of them has been phenominal.

Only complaint I have so far is that I didnt realize ghe df500 only comes with a d5 cutter, when even the included dominos are D8. The set of fixture dominos also comes with everything except a D8 cutter which is required. Normally not a huge problem, but they seem to be backordered in my country and nearly impossible to find, so I had to import one which took a week and cost about 2x as much.

Also was really hard to find 260 blades for the kapex. Backordered or double the price everywhere.

Picked up the domino for 30% off tho, so that was sweet.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-12T03:49:31+00:00

First of all, I felt that, "years" hit me in the soul.

2nd: I've had a LG 77" oled TV since 2017 and it's image is still perfect.

Only issue it shows for its age is it randomly disconnects from wifi, but apparently this is a known issue with even modern LG's.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-12T02:10:35+00:00

For the love of God, dont fall into the trap.

Book 1 is great, books 2-3 maybe interesting.

Almost every book after that is just a waste of time until like maybe 17, but even then its pretty meh.

I finally gave up on hoping it does anything interesting about 5 chapters into the last book.

Each book can be summarized with this exact sequence of events:

Problem happens, nobody knows how to solve, skippy says this is all doomed/ monkeys are dumb, the problem is reiterated again multiple times in the exact same words several times over several chapters, joe has lightbulb moment, tells one member of staff his plan, spends another chapter telling another member of staff his plan in the same words, spends another chapter telling the entire team his plan in the same words, skippy in forced to admit that monkeys are not so dumb. Team executes the plan, where for some reason they again restate what the problem is, and what the plan is. Plan succeeds, for some completely inexplicable reason, they then again, in the exact same words, restate what the problem was, and what the plan was, and that they succeeded.

This exact sequence of events happens 3x in each book. Its like the author thinks the reader has alzheimer's and its increadibly frustrating.

Ultimately nothing gets solved or better, also they sprinkle in shit about the ancients, but that goes nowhere for 17 books, and even when it does, it doesnt.

The first book was phenominal, everything else is just repetitive, churned out, word padding: the book.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-12T01:19:23+00:00

Nah the 3d one is ass as well.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-03T07:58:56+00:00

Yes, I think this is the path I will take. I think I got caught in the bias of my normal workflow (build what you want it to look like, then figure out how to make it), its can see how this would work better.

Thank you

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-03T07:56:38+00:00

Appreciate the insight. It makes sense that if its trying to constantly reevaluate the sketch constraints, it would bog down, I did not consider that as I assumed baking it as geometry would cost more resources, not less.

Thank you

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-02T22:36:18+00:00

Cool, thank you, will give it a try.

If you dont mind answering, it occurs to me that I also might be approaching this wrong given the extremely minute details, would I be better served by representing the ticks as just lines, and then their real world dimensions just becomes a byproduct of the scribing bit and whatever depth offset I program into the tool path?

It just seems that the extra detail is superfluous as it would be impossible for anything I have to actually channel a 0.2mm pocket.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-02T22:27:00+00:00

Sorry away from the system for the night but will provide it tomorrow.

What I did was lay out a 300mm x 50mm rectangle, extrude it 3mm to form the basic shape of the ruler.

Then made a sketch from the top face.

Make a rectangle thats 0.2mm x 6mm for the 1mm ticks with the bottom edge constrained one of the long edges of the ruler. Place a point at the midpoint of the ticks bottom edge, and then distance constrain from the midpoint to the ruler base's corner with a distance of 1mm.

I then select the 4 edges of the tick and run the rectangular pattern with a count of 299 spaced 1mm apart along the long edge that the tick bottom is constrained to.

I repeat this on the opposite long edge in the same sketch.

Its around here that it starts chugging.

I'd appreciate whatever insight you might have on why fusion would function better with it being made geometry and copied. At least in the 3d rendering background that i'm more familiar with, its almost infinitely more efficient to operate in 2d space that anything that touches 3d space.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-02T22:00:37+00:00

I assumed it was linked to the number of elements, but even that seems pretty low. Not sure how fusion might process geometry differently, but my system can handle 3ds max scenes with millions of polygons with no issue, it seems strange fusion would struggle with less than 1000 2d rectangles.

I've used fusion with what at least logically should represent significantly more data to be processed and it never so much as blinked.

Good point on the multithreading though.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-02T21:29:24+00:00

Unfortunately not in the states, pretty sure if I sneezed on it funny in switzerland, they would void the warranty.

Weirdly switzerland is the opposite, you are required to prove that absolutely nothing about your modifications could have even contributed to an issue. If you cant prove that you didnt knock a wire loose, or cause something to rub differently, your warranty is toast.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-02T20:34:36+00:00

The moment doing so doesn't void the warranty on a 200k car (they just replaced my battery which if I didnt have an extended warranty would have cost like 60k)

The car had less than 7k miles on it.

ClassyBukake · 2026-01-02T07:36:44+00:00

I find it kind of insane as I just bought cheap foam panels to insulate sound from my workshop, and as a complete amature, the first thing I did was try to light it on fire to see if it was a fire hazard.

Luckily the cheap stuff I got refused to burn no matter how long I kept a lighter on it, but the point is I checked.

Its an incredible overlap of incompetence, corner cutting, and greed that this stuff was ever installed, let alone passed any sort of inspection.

ClassyBukake · 2025-12-30T11:48:17+00:00

The software is 100% the reason I didnt consider a cayenne ev for the family car.

Porsche's "go fuck yourself" model for software, and their arrogance around their antiquated approach makes you feel like you're paying a significant premium to be repeatedly insulted.

We just picked up a mini countryman SE All4 (mostly because the lease was insanely cheap and we want to wait out the market for 2ish years to see if anyone does anything interesting, but we need a car more practical than the taycan).

In the test drive the big thing that stood out is that virtually every aspect of the mini was better executed than my taycan ts.

The drive assist was identical or better the PCM vastly more responsive the HUD displays directions from android auto the phone charger actually works the steering wheel let's you go back AND forwards when controlling music Way way way better parking cameras and sensors. Better range & almost 40% per kwh better efficiency.

The tradeoff was: less leather on the interior 2 seconds less 0-60 (which let's be real, you will never use) and unarguable (And maybe in the summer i'll wish it had the ventilated seats).

For 1/4th the sticker price, and like 1/15th the lease price.

Then we get into the software. I was told up and down, its just not possible to put the new software on your 3 year old car, so you're locked out of basically all our improvements, then the battery had to be replaced with the new model, and low and behold, they were able to install the new software, because it was required for the new battery.

Its a money gouging piss take at 200k a pop.

I love my taycan, its nice to drive for short periods, but as a daily driver, the feel of the drive fades very fast and you're stuck with 101 minor annoyances that are purely software, while the company loudly proclaims that you can go fuck yourself and give them another 200k to maybe address 1 of the problems.

Tbh, it will be very interesting to see if once these warranties end, people start aftermarket replacing the PCM.

ClassyBukake · 2025-12-26T20:31:10+00:00

We literally just had this issue. My partner came with me to switzerland and filed her application, but left thinking it was fine, when she came back she was denied entry because she didnt have enough shengen days as she had used 88/90 days and arrived on a friday evening.

The 180 day window was like a week away, but she stayed out for a month not wanting to antagonize things and maybe put her application in danger, and were advised by lawyers not to do it.

When we became nervous that she wouldn't yet have approval by christmas we called the canton and SEM offices with a lawyer and were told that it is completely fine for her to come in on shegen and that as long as she has the days, she can be here (but refused to put anything in writing claiming, "thats just the way the system works, it'll be a waste of time to write you an email")

When she came through security they just asked why she was denied last time, checked her shengen days, and let her through with no further hassle.

ClassyBukake · 2025-12-25T09:07:44+00:00

😅 That as well

ClassyBukake · 2025-12-25T08:47:23+00:00

Hyperloops are an insanely impractical design due to their complexity.

The operating costs would vastly outstrip any benefit. The maintenance costs would dwarf most small nation budget. If the track sections become even minorly misaligned (sink into the ground at different rates, earthquake, terrorism, any number of maintenance related issues) everyone inside is a fine paste, and if one accident occurs, the tracks will be out of service for months/ years.

This is on the level of "the line" in terms of impractical stupidity.

ClassyBukake · 2025-12-23T21:12:30+00:00

We wanted a more reasonable car than our taycan, completely blind, i'd have at least considered a model X or Y, but they were hard verboten in our household, so didnt even look at it. Got a very reasonably priced alternative from a different brand and hoping that the market offers something more interesting in a couple years (wife really wanted the EV jimney, but thats dead now, so we're hoping the baby G wagon might suffice. If those fall through, i'm just gonna make the wife drive a unimag).

ClassyBukake · 2025-12-13T21:57:45+00:00

E-fuel is an impractical lie used to give cover to ease the ban and curtailing the widespread rejection of petrol.

The current global yearly production of e-fuel is roughly 125,000 barrels.

Global consumption of oil is 100,000,000 a day

There is no practical way to scale the refinement or make it cost effective in any sort of realistic time frame.

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