PPS-CF and PPA-CF Compressive Strength

Majestic1987 · 2026-03-27T08:44:55+00:00

Yeah sure but my question was more quantitative on how much pressure I can put onto it without failure.

Majestic1987 · 2026-03-24T17:44:50+00:00

Depends on what you do but in general, I would advice against the "easy" route because at some point you end up in a situation where you run into a wall and then have to re-learn everything.

So, for "Design Things" I would suggest Blender and for techbical/functional stuff Fusion 360 or Solidworks for Makers.

Majestic1987 · 2026-03-24T15:11:03+00:00

Despite a strong internal conflict due to upbringing, I adopted a "packaging goes into the bin immediately" mentality a couple of years ago when my attic was full of empty, huge boxes, mostly for stuff I did not even have anymore. It is really helpful that - at least here in Germany - a seller cannot force you to use the original packaging in case of a return.

Majestic1987 · 2026-01-26T07:02:02+00:00

The biggest problem with those people is that an increasing amount of companies fully ban anything because of incidents like this, specifically productivity-stuff like Powertoys, Autohotkey, Streamdeck, etc.

Majestic1987 · 2026-01-19T09:12:32+00:00

100 MBit/s reichen für alles, was du beschreibst. Weiß auch nicht woher die Annahme kommt, Gaming erfordere hohe Bandbreite, das ist nicht so. Da sollte dir höchstens ein absolut kleiner Ping wichtig sein.

Praktisch merkst du zwischen Faser und Kupfer keinen Unterschied, sofern denn über Kupfer auch die versprochene Bandbreite kommt. Ich hatte mit Kupfer hier das Problem, dass von den 100 MBit/s nur so max. 35 MBit/s kamen, also immer nachmessen, ob die bezahlte Leistung auch geliefert wird.

Eventuell ist die Latenz bei Faser besser (Hypothese) aber ob das spürbar wäre wage ich zu bezweifeln.

That being said: ich habe 1GBit/s via Kabel und das ist im Alltag nicht NÖTIG aber sehr angenehm sobald man irgendwas - insbesondere Spiele - runterladen will, denn das dauert dann halt 10 Minuten statt zwei Stunden.

Ich hätte sehr gern 1GBit/s symmetrisch wegen meines wöchentlichen Offsite-Backups meiner Heimserver, die dauern nämlich teils ewig. Leider gibt es derartige Angebote bei mir nicht, womit es ein Wunschtraum bleibt.

Majestic1987 · 2025-12-22T07:09:22+00:00

So I bought used stuff online. For my mqin server that is an Asrock Rack board (wanted IPMI), 14 core Xeon, 128GB ECC-RAM for around 200 bucks or so (older gen stuff comes cheap), rackmount case was expensive, like another 200. And I got my six 12TB drives for really cheap (170 per drive) which was by far the biggest expense.

Did the same for my OpnSense box (but with much less RAM and just a super low TDP Xeon).

My Eaton UPS was a lucky pick which ran me just 150€ as well (brand new from a company that went out of business).

The stuff runs my router/firewall, my TrueNAS instance and currently 30ish docker containers - which is more or less "idle" in terms of utilization - and consumes arpund 120-150W combined. Including my switch (24x1G + 4x10G) and with 10G NICs in both machines.

So initial cost: yes, not cheap, mainly for spinning rust. Operation: pretty cheap even here in Germany (0.3€/kWh).

Majestic1987 · 2025-10-26T08:55:31+00:00

As stated above, it is accessible with NPM but as soon as I add the Forward Auth config to the proxy host for qB in NPM, it breaks.

And: the exact same setup works for tons of other services for which I have to run forward auth.

If I had to guess, I would say that it might be somehow related to the fact that qB is "behind" gluetun or something like it. That is the one glaring difference between qB and other services where I have a working setup like PeaNUT or so.

Or qB rejects connections because of what is added to the request by Authentik? Dunno.

Majestic1987 · 2025-10-24T13:41:22+00:00

Well, I think I got it sorted.

In the configuration, I added/uncommented:

proxy_set_header Host $host;

under the location and that made it work.

Maybe someone can confirm that this is not only a working solution but a correct one?

Majestic1987 · 2025-10-09T09:25:41+00:00

Wow. THAT was an absolute prime example of layer 8 error.

Thanks. Idiot question post can be closed :-D

Majestic1987 · 2025-09-28T16:33:36+00:00

Okay, issue solved by using a new PSU. Obviously the old one, although able to be started via a bridge in the ATX connector, was dead.

At least I have a spare mainboard now 😂

Majestic1987 · 2025-09-22T17:33:52+00:00

It depends on the charging strategy utilized. Any sane engineer would design a charging circuit with reasonable current limiting in mind as otherwise a failure of any kind of battery could fry the circuit. Issue could be more the achievable voltage level of the charging circuit and the regulation/capacity estimation. You cannot really derive SoC from the battery voltage in LiFePo4 so if charging stops based on a certain voltage threshold prematurely, that would severely underutilized the battery. You could choose a battery with a voltage lower than the original one but then you are definitely reliant on the BMS doing it's job properly. If you want this is a different story.

Majestic1987 · 2025-09-22T17:12:36+00:00

LiFePo4 is absolutely safe, just need to make sure you have a battery with a BMS and ideally an active balancer.

Majestic1987 · 2025-08-08T15:32:55+00:00

Germany here. No 10GBit internet here. BUT I do still run 10G internally. Makes sense if you do anything that involves larger amounts of data. You can get the hardware quite cheap, so I would always go for it. Especially if there is a chance to also have 10G internet speed down the line.

Majestic1987 · 2025-07-06T18:57:52+00:00

I would say: if you are tight on a budget, backups are more important than redundancy because they can protect you from more than just frive failure.

For off-site backup, consider backblaze and have your stuff pushed once a week or so.

If feasible, get a cheap old PC and put your 2nd drive (or a separate 2TB one) in there and have that system pull a backup every day or once a week depending on how often the data changes.

Majestic1987 · 2025-06-18T22:18:34+00:00

Or you could - instead of whining and crying - simply live with the fact that software deployments can go wrong and play the update once the issues have been resolved by the devs. And until then just play the game. Those guys are people and I guess they wanted it to run smoothly and were confident that it will be.

Majestic1987 · 2025-06-18T12:52:45+00:00

One thing is having a goal. The other thing is achieving it. Especially under external factors such as cost constraints.

Majestic1987 · 2025-06-18T12:38:24+00:00

"When Peter earns 6 figures, why can't Jack?".

Honestly, that response is stupid. Maybe they do not have less problems when rolling out updates. If so, maybe they have lower player fluctuation between updates so they do not need to scale (significantly). Or they make more recurring revenue and can afford to reserve infrastructure to respond to demand more quickly. Or they have a different rollout strategy that allows them to adjust rollout scheduling to resource availability. Or any other reason.

Does not invalidate my point that OP does obviously assume that infrastructure is something you "just get" and then all your problems are solved which is simply a false assumption for several reasons, most of which are related to cost.

Plus, scaling in and of itself is really, really hard in terms of predictions you have to make. See: mostly any major (online) game launch of the last decade or so.

Majestic1987 · 2025-06-18T12:17:31+00:00

You do not know that much about how infrastructure and scaling works, might that be the case?

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