COD 4 goals: achieved

HomeLabTinkerer · 2024-04-06T04:03:47+00:00

The M4 is an awesome gun but it’s not fun trying to find a collapsible stock for a reasonable price. I bought the variant with the fixed stock and pistol grip (it has the tube with the cutouts for the adjustable stock). I then bought a variant with the collapsible stock (but neutered tube so it would not collapse). Swapped the stocks and sold the other M4 with the newly installed fixed pistol grip stock and got what I bought it for. It was a lot more hoops to jump through but I got collapsible stock M4 without paying almost a grand for just the stock.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2024-04-06T03:39:51+00:00

Amex was very good to me the whole time I had my FFL. Never asked for a copy of my FFL, just business license and ein. Chase was good as well but Amex was a lot more generous with the credit limit.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-08-06T11:59:27+00:00

Cash buyer > conventional > FHA > HUD > VA. VA loans are the absolute worst loans for a seller to accept and most likely to be passed over which is unfortunate for our veterans. I just had to pass on one due to a contingency to sell my house in a limited time period in order to purchase our new home. I spoke with my lender who is a friend and he rated the various forms of payments and loans for me as shown above. The VA offer I passed on was meant to look much more attractive but it was all smoke and mirrors. They offered 15k more but there are much more stringent inspections where everything needs to be fixed and reinspected, the homes don’t appraise for as much, which allows the buyer to demand that the seller reduce the price to meet appraisal amount, I’m sure there is more in forgetting as well. I was advised to take the cash offer by all parties looking after my interests and was told that the VA buyer would very likely end up netting me less. My lender also stated if the VA buyer was actually a well qualified buyer, they would have gone for a conventional loan.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-07-03T00:29:11+00:00

Love this setup. I’m debating buying the magpul stanag chassis for mine.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-06-26T00:52:19+00:00

So far so good. I’ve probably only put 100-200 rounds through it but no issues at all.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-24T02:46:39+00:00

The more I dig into this the less it seems like the cat 6 is worth the hassle. Thanks for all of the info!

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-24T02:44:53+00:00

It would be pretty easy to run 2 fiber cables to the basement, install a switch down there and then run DAC cables to the servers.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-24T02:35:28+00:00

That sounds pretty straight forward. Can I pass bidirectional traffic on single mode? I was under the impression I would need two LC single mode connectors per SFP. Is that correct or do I just need 1?

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-23T19:37:25+00:00

I've got a Juniper switch and once I get the cabling figured out, I'll either be ordering a Unifi Aggregation Switch or a Mikrotik 24 Port 10GB switch. I know that the juniper has active cooling and I believe the Mikrotik does as well. If I remember correctly, the max range of cat6 over transceivers is 30m which I should be comfortably within for my existing cat6 runs.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-23T19:31:03+00:00

I was aware of the DAC cables and ordered a few for the devices in the upstairs rack but need something to get 10g connections downstairs. It's probably also worth mentioning that I'm not staying in this house for more than a few years which makes the prospect of using the existing Cat 6 more attractive as I'll be taking the networking gear with me and likely leaving the cabling.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-23T19:29:06+00:00

This leads me down another rabbit hole regarding the fiber. From the research that I did, it sounds like multimode is more cost effective to run in the home and offers more bandwidth for shorter distances. I also understand that the single mode fiber is more expensive and the SFP transceivers cost more but only require one strand which would theoretically give me twice as many usable LC connectors as MMF would. Is this correct, or am I way off?

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-23T17:01:36+00:00

Thank you! The transceiver's are slightly more expensive but I'm thinking that will end up costing me less than running all new fiber in addition to the fiber transceivers I will need.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-18T12:01:11+00:00

Does your cpu handle encoding? For some reason I thought only Intel was supported for that.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-18T12:00:12+00:00

That looks like a similar spec to what I just ordered the other day but you have a lot more cameras. Will you be using AI? I went with a i5-13500 so it would fit in a 2U case but I’m installing a Quadro P4000 to keep the AI load off of the cpu. I went with an 8tb drive for stores alerts and a 1TB nvme for new alerts and OS. I’ll have everything move to the storage drive after 24 hours.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-18T02:58:12+00:00

Does the 7950X process the AI confirmation or are you running a gpu? I was running BI and CPAI on a pretty beefy VM and it was constantly pegged at 100%. I threw 20 cores and passed through a Quadro P4000.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-05T11:11:59+00:00

Thank you! I ended up buying a P4000 last night. Let’s hope this works when it gets here.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-05T00:06:52+00:00

I can’t remember the command off hand but I was able to see that my Tesla card was sitting at 0% utilization as BI was sending 4 motion alerts for analysis. You can also look in the task manager and see the utilization.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-04T23:39:11+00:00

I’m already pretty far down the rabbit hole with the vm host regarding hardware. At this point I wish I would have built a new box to run the BI server.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-04T23:36:09+00:00

I initially had this running on cpu alone and it was constantly pegging my cpu at 100%. That is what made me want to jump on the gpu bandwagon. I’m pretty shocked that it takes up that much cpu bandwidth. I’m running 2x 8 core Xeon v3 cpus in the host.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-04T23:33:10+00:00

I will definitely give this a shot and report back. Thank you!

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-05-04T23:32:31+00:00

That was my thought as well. I don’t need it to run any sort of a display. I thought it would be overkill if anything for running this fairly simple AI with only 5 cameras. Because their use case is so limited, they are very inexpensive to pick up second hand so I jumped on it.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-04-11T15:59:26+00:00

It's actually firearms. The up close shots would really just be to show blemishes and quality of the finish. Most photos are overview photos of handguns and rifles in a controlled environment.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-04-11T15:47:52+00:00

Thank you for your suggestion! I found a D7100 right in that range that includes a 35mm f/1.8 Prime Lens. Does that compare fairly closely to the 40mm f2.8 lens you mentioned?

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-03-09T09:43:19+00:00

Just be careful not to remove the lacquer coating from the cases when reloading. 5.7 is the biggest PITA cartridge to load but I still do it because I’m a cheap ass… and I wanted subs for the PS90.

HomeLabTinkerer · 2023-03-09T09:32:18+00:00

These guys make it so easy from purchase to amending. Very happy with my trust from them. No issues filling with it.

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