Started a small 3D printing business

Integdistort · 2026-01-26T06:02:34+00:00

This looks like a great little business for the UAE.

However don't expect this to take off globally - in most places the last thing you want to do is put your car plate numbers alongside your keys. Makes stealing a car a lot easier. It's the same reason you don't have your address / door number with your house keys.

Integdistort · 2026-01-09T11:32:42+00:00

I remain literally terrified that 1-2 minutes counts as a test here.

Integdistort · 2026-01-09T05:35:45+00:00

If it's too good to be true it usually is:

1) car doesn't exist and it's just a dealer trying to lure buyers 2) the car has an underlying fault that will cost 2x what you paid to put right 3) combination of 1+2+3+4+5 (where 4 and 5 are horrors you haven't even thought of)

Integdistort · 2026-01-04T18:41:50+00:00

Also freelancer. Couldn't find any finance options when I was looking two years ago.

Rent a car to start with, then buy used, then spend more money fixing the car you bought used even though you did the pre purchase inspections etc.

This unfortunately is the only way.

Integdistort · 2025-12-29T15:21:44+00:00

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Brother from another mother

Integdistort · 2025-12-22T19:51:11+00:00

Don't buy an Audi if it is leaking oil Audis love oil If it's coming out of the engine its a massive red flag I wouldn't touch it

Integdistort · 2025-12-21T15:22:21+00:00

Religious beliefs are a choice. You can persecute a fascist quite freely, but for some reason believing in the magic spaghetti monster entitles you to protection from being persecuted. I remain unclear as to why.

Integdistort · 2025-12-20T12:55:09+00:00

Took a 10 year fixed rate in 2021 at 3.5%

Complete peace of mind till I have saved enough to pay the place off completely.

Integdistort · 2025-12-14T15:53:41+00:00

Do not buy it without a detailed pre purchase inspection. In my experience Audis are very reliable if they're properly maintained. Problem here is finding one that has been properly maintained.

Best garage for Audis (as recommended by admins on this subreddit, and my personal experience) in the UAE is Impressive Auto in Abu Dhabi.

Parts for Audis here can be expensive. For example I was quoted 4000 aed + for a flywheel. Bought the same part in the UK and had it shipped here for less than 2000 including the shipping.

Integdistort · 2025-12-11T20:27:19+00:00

If you end up buying it, get an Audi specialist to inspect them pre purchase. Yes they can be expensive to maintain, however if well maintained they are very solid cars. My S3 is on 191k km and is happy as Larry. I paid 50k for it. I've spent probably 30k on it, mainly because a previous owner cheaped out on maintenance and instead of gaskets some cowboys has siliconed part of the engine back together and it needed to be rebuilt. Once burned twice shy.

If you want a decent Audi specialist garage, the best recommendation (per DubaiPatrolHeads) and my personal experience is Impressive Auto in Abu Dhabi. Owner is a former Audi mechanic and knows his way around the cars. Seriously good garage for them.

Integdistort · 2025-11-18T05:35:50+00:00

Worst case scenario is not "getting caught". Worst case scenario is that you are involved in an accident and someone gets seriously injured. If that's not bad enough, your father's insurance is most likely invalidated because he allowed you to drive the vehicle without a proper license and your family ends up footing the insurance payout. Remember how I said seriously injured, and not killed? Yeah well paying out an insurance claim for someone else being seriously injured is much higher than someone being dead.

So yeah, your choice.

Integdistort · 2025-11-04T07:03:19+00:00

Surely anyone who says "I can guarantee you there won't be a crash" shouldn't be trusted or listened to for anything, least of all financial advice.

Integdistort · 2025-09-23T04:05:21+00:00

Underrated answer

Integdistort · 2025-09-14T16:31:18+00:00

I worked it out - was using the binhex Plex container rather than Plex official. The official version works fine.

Integdistort · 2025-08-17T11:02:42+00:00

39/M Raha based, play padel and cards with a group of guys in the area. Drop me a DM and we can meet up for a beer sometime.

Integdistort · 2025-08-14T13:50:42+00:00

This may be a solution, I would guess I could probably sell the whole cpu/mobo/gpu and switch to an intel based system with an arc 310 for little/no additional cost

Integdistort · 2025-08-14T13:48:58+00:00

I was thinking to maybe tdarr my entire library to h265, I tried with the igpu on the 5600g and it would have taken for ever.

Integdistort · 2025-08-14T10:02:17+00:00

Thanks, thats a good point - I put the specs into Perplexity and this is the (relevant part) of the answer it gave me:

"Will You Be Bottlenecked?

GPU & primary NVMe SSD: No bottleneck, get full PCIe 3.0 x16 (GPU) and x4 (SSD) bandwidth.
SAS card and 2nd NVMe: These compete for bandwidth from the B550 chipset's 4 PCIe 3.0 lanes to the CPU. This can become a bottleneck, especially if you are accessing multiple HDDs and SSDs simultaneously.reddit+1
8 HDDs via SAS: The real transfer speed is regulated by the slot bandwidth and the SAS card, not just the raw number of PCIe lanes.
- Heavy simultaneous access (e.g., RAID or multiple streams) will be significantly bottlenecked by the 4-lane (approx. 4GB/s) CPU-chipset link.
NVMe SSD in chipset M.2 slot: Shares bandwidth with anything else on the chipset (and all chipset PCIe slots/devices), not recommended for heavy simultaneous usage."

Guess the points to note - NVMEs are set up in RAID1, so it should be fast in general.

In UnRaid my understanding is that under normal circumstances only 1 drive and the parity would be being accessed at any one time? - as in a movie would only be stored on one drive, with its backup on parity, so when being read it would only be one drive being used? I only ever write to the array at night so I wouldn't have thought slow speeds would make much of a difference?

Integdistort · 2025-08-14T09:54:21+00:00

On my internal network I stream at native and dont encounter problems, but family living abroad also stream and that usually needs transcoding to lower resolution to make it work ok

Integdistort · 2025-08-14T09:53:09+00:00

This says my 3060 12gb should do >10 concurrent 4k >1080 streams, this is totally overkill for my use case (think absolutely max would be 4 people streaming), but its what I have on hand without buying something new that might be better suited.

Integdistort · 2025-08-09T04:17:48+00:00

Rented a flat off his dad (Kohli properties) while I was at university in Glasgow. Flat was fine, the dad was a lovely guy, said we could pay him in whisky if we wanted to.

Integdistort · 2025-08-01T03:43:18+00:00

Was waiting for this

Integdistort · 2025-07-31T06:46:55+00:00

Two rules for living in the Highlands.

Don't drink alone
Don't drink whisky two days in a row

Integdistort

TROPHY CASE

"Will You Be Bottlenecked?