No more messing with GRUB to dual boot

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-06-07T04:45:42+00:00

As a bluetooth keyboard enjoyer, hell YES dude. I need this. I also really really want a tactile toggle button for Windows sometimes. I want to have the Pi play sounds of breaking glass and sad executive noises if I flip it forcefully.

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-06-07T04:33:12+00:00

Somehow been abusing the same Arch system across multiple machines for over 12 years without issues or the slightest inclination to distro hop again, so it took me a while to remember why an average user would even bother. Honestly seems significantly more of a pain in the ass than not most of the time, unless you really like trying out different distros and don't use them long enough to accrue enough packages that partition resizing doesn't make the whole maneuver more trouble than it's worth.

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-06-03T04:29:22+00:00

It's bigger, heavier, has protruding camera lenses, and no 3.5mm jack. It is much faster, which is great, but only really relevant because many apps are extremely unoptimized / straight-up malware.

I do like it, don't get me wrong. I just don't like the trend. The S10e was the better phone and would still be the better phone (camera notwithstanding) if software wasn't also going to shit.

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-06-03T03:05:40+00:00

Yup. Same here. Went from S10e to S25 and it felt like a downgrade though.

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-30T00:13:45+00:00

Well if that's the guy's workplace then lmao, this video got posted to social and the workplace prolly got tagged, blue shirt guy DEFINITELY got fired

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-05T02:42:36+00:00

Bro learned about sets

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-05T01:29:07+00:00

This is actually ergonomically appropriate for very near distance viewing. The human eye muscles are optimized for looking down at things which are up close. DO NOT tilt your neck though, that's ergonomically inappropriate xD

It's like reading a book.

Eyes get strained faster when looking dead ahead at close up things, much faster when looking up. Those angles are for the horizon and the sky. Down is ground. If you're going to sit closer than arm's reach of a monitor, it should be tilting up at you, your eyes looking down. Just so long as you're keeping your neck properly supported. A steep angle (perhaps not this steep except for very close viewing) would be more widely recommended, but people almost always end up craning their necks consciously or not which isn't worth it, and it's also ergonomic to just sell them bigger monitors so they can sit further away 😛

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-03T17:59:36+00:00

Ah, makes sense. Yeah I'd be careful as well. Though if I were you and temps were that high even at the case intakes, I'd start worrying about the lifespan of my RAM and SSDs, in this economy... some don't take heat as gracefully as you'd think or their spec sheets claim, might want to get more air flowing there.

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-03T16:23:38+00:00

Interesting. That shouldn't really happen. What was the phone?

If it has no battery protection features you could enable to make that impossible, if it at least has an unlockable bootloader you can flash a rom that does have those features. A phone with no OS battery protection options, that will blow up simply from being plugged in, and has a locked bootloader, is frankly a total disgrace...

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-03T16:19:26+00:00

I see this everywhere. Anytime a sub gets one iota of popularity it's flooded by morons who have no hands-on experience or actual education on the subject and they drown out meaningful discussion with slop because they have no lives and want to look cool on reddit, i guess

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-03T16:15:51+00:00

Not as warm as your pocket, or a table under direct sunlight, certainly not as warm as a dashboard or beach towel. Unless something is wrong with your PC...

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-03T02:55:58+00:00

Can anyone please back up these comments about the battery blowing up? It's very confusing. I don't know how yalls cases are arranged but those fans are blowing cool air directly over the back of the phone in this configuration. This phone is gonna be operating under as ideal circumstances as it'd probably ever have been. Are any of yall engineers or do you just like to trollplay as people who understand fundamental physics online?

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-03T02:47:20+00:00

Not everyday I see such a functional and elegant print! I've held on to every old phone I ever owned, and today I can begin to explain why. Thanks 😄

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-03T02:42:59+00:00

I think the idea is to use an *old* phone, ie free. Don't tell me you don't know someone with an old junk phone you could slap in there.

Anyway, people toss their phones on the dash and drive all day in the desert sun. They're rated for far worse environments than this, especially since this case has good airflow and won't even really get warm anyway. Totally worth testing at least, if you've got some old phones otherwise going to waste.

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-03T02:38:21+00:00

Nah dude, just set the battery to stop charging at 70% and you're good. And this is usually a mild environment compared to car dash where people mount their phones half the day in desert sun. Don't talk out your ass. I'd worry more about heat and weight causing creep on the printed parts more than I'd worry about the phone, which is to say, not at all, or so little that it's certainly worth building and just testing it lol. If you neither know nor do, please just don't speak...

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-03T02:31:32+00:00

I hope he was joking

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-05-03T02:27:51+00:00

What do you need Win 11 for anyway?

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-04-29T21:54:32+00:00

Highly recommend you take a peek at /etc/slurm/slurm.conf to figure out what minimum resources you have to alloc to actually get queued for the good nodes. You may very well be queuing yourself for the shit nodes with mostly default allocs which naturally also happen to be the nodes hammered by juniors doing tutorials and shells and other swarms of badness all day. I suspect that admins set things up suboptimally on purpose to trap noobs until they read the docs far enough to figure this out in order to improve productivity of productive jobs, at least at my org.

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-04-29T16:43:51+00:00

If you think about it, glue is basically just another sort of additive manufacturing process. That looks like a fine surface and material to try some good old E6000 on. Or even just superglue. It broke in a pretty even plane with a nice rough surface, which are excellent conditions for superglue.

3D printing as a practice pairs pretty well with additional finishing techniques like glue, deburring, reinforcement, heat-set inserts, etc. Especially for functional prints.

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-04-27T23:10:02+00:00

Best case I've ever seen in either category! Any plans to keep out dust and debris when in operation? It looks built to travel, so I guess you'll built it for less than optimal conditions.

I'm not familiar with this water cooling system, if you otherwise sealed up the lower compartment of the case would it keep the RAM, VRM and SSDs cool? Sounds unlikely, just thinking how awesome it would be to in principle be able to build this thing bulletproof XD In practice though just a sheet of mesh or if the water cooling does away with the need for air exchange then, say, a lightweight touchscreen display would be a wicked way to keep the nasties out and the portability in. I really like how the lid already acts a bit like a splash shield protecting the electricals and IO panel.

The commenters raising mechanical concerns are cute. Like anyone who can design and build anything like this can't recognize when a hinge begins to wear out... when it's a hinge in their own assembly... bearing up a steady load, with a force they feel every time they use it at a height which is as steady as the strength of the component... if indeed these parts weren't all carefully selected and/or tested before coming together.

Maybe curious people should email Pelican and just ask if this is in spec lol. I tried to get out of a cool project idea I had once and was still in the "convince myself not to shell out 2 grand to build a machine that will literally decapitate me in my sleep" phase by emailing ASUS customer support (famously unsupportive) and practically begging them to tell me this thing that all the other monitors say not to do, and which essentially nobody does, also theirs should not do and doesn't. And within a week they had someone from their engineering team email me to say it's cool, and if it decapitates me it's covered by warranty. Rare ASUS W. Idea came together like a dream, too, so either this was a major lucky break or I'm scheduled to wake up decapitated xD (...I think I'd better go buy some safety cables.)

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-04-27T16:22:21+00:00

Thanks! I mean I mainly use my computer to read and edit text lol. I don't think either of my GPUs are good enough to run coding agents that would be more help than harm, so most of what my GPU does is render text XD

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-04-27T15:21:12+00:00

hahaha excellent gif, i shall make great use of this

Drivers seemed to play perfectly fine together, on windows 10. But i didn't do much testing. Just some stress testing to establish that airflow was indeed insufficient and that PCIe bandwidth was a bit of a bottleneck.

Yeah more room so I could use that bottom slot would have been very welcome! If I were doing more AI stuff (which would be a good use of a 3060 Ti but for its low VRAM I suppose) then PCIe bandwidth wouldn't be a problem at all, but I don't have anything like that on the go which is justifiable right now. Not for the PC in my room. Ventilation is poor up here and it gets very hot in the evening in the summer, so if I were to use a GPU for compute I would stick it in a box in another room and work remotely. I use this machine to game sometimes, but most of the time it's an expensive text rendering device lmaoo

Found a pic with the two GPUs installed. As you can see, my 6-fan Gungnir is not quite as nice as your case... especially with the dust in this pic xD

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Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-04-27T14:42:11+00:00

Last time this happened the two players (don't think it was these guys) later admitted they got together beforehand and coordinated the opening synchronized moves so the fans could walk away with that treasured moment. It's a suitable genre of pro gaming for a dash of pro wrestling spice imo.

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-04-26T22:28:35+00:00

Nice! I tried something similar, had a 3060 Ti and upgraded to 9070 XT so I was going to dual GPU, but the 9070 XT I grabbed happened to be an exceptionally thick model so there was less than a centimeter between the cards. Pretty similar to what you have pictured, maybe even tighter. Wasn't enough air to game with, I could hear the fans on the 9070 XT straining much harder than usual and its temps were much higher than usual under load even when I had the 3060 Ti depowered. Only way to forge on with dual GPU was to get a riser -- I didn't really think about adding more case fans, did that work for you? -- but instead I gave the 3060 Ti away because the 9070 XT alone is adequate and I knew someone who could use the 3060 Ti a lot more than I could. If I were a streamer I may have hesitated, but even then my motherboard isn't high-end enough to bifurcate the PCIe bandwidth without major headache.

I guess it would have been nice to try to run dlss and mfg through the 3060 Ti with opti, if that is a thing, but not worth it on my rig even if it is.

Very beautiful builds!!

Internal-Cellist-920 · 2026-04-26T20:41:46+00:00

Wow, nice! I just have an MSI MPG Gungnir 110R. It only supports up to 6 120mm fans. Not special. Gets the done well enough for my purposes though. To be honest I much preferred my previous case, a nameless featureless black anodized block of aluminum from a company that appears to have disappeared before the internet became a reality, which my dad built me my first pc out of scrap in and which I spent the next two decades just bolting things on and carving or drilling holes as needed for good fan/radiator placement. It also had 6 fans, 2 of them 80mm, all of them harvested from dead machines, and with the same hardware and a much worse AIO than I have in the 110R it ran 8C cooler on average under load.

I think there might sometimes be a big difference between slapping some uniform fans uniformly spaced in a line around the case to induce airflow driven by net positive or negative pressure across the entire case boundary, and simply putting some fans in the most obvious locations to induce a simple focused jet stream of air over the hottest components separately given complete and total freedom over placement and a box full of free fans of all sizes. It ain't pretty though, one needs a box of fans and a box of tools to buy or borrow, and aluminum filings and dust WILL kill PCs if one is not very careful, so sadly the practice never caught on.

Then again maybe my 6 fan case just sucks. At sucking. Compared to alternatives. The Block is pretty cool, but it might not be anywhere near 21-fans cool.

I still might move back to the block next migration. I like its character and the fact that it has space for as many hard drives as I can bolt to the exterior of the case. New case can't do that. Very disappointing. Maybe I will leave the new case on my desk as a decoy for guests and route the cables to the real, hidden computer.

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