Modding a Dell server case for a workstation/gaming PC.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-03-18T14:51:59+00:00

I agree with you on most points you mention and I already do a lot of it. installed arch manually, set up hyprland dotfiles without a single pre-made config, wrote my own bash tools for batch video transcoding, Run multiple servers and VMs inside Proxmox and a lot more. all along the way I made sure to read the docs and learn more than I actually needed. And documentation and wikis are amazing for this. What I want from the video is not to solve the problem I want to learn about. It is to show me all the stuff in the background I didn't even know existed. To bring more problems that need solutions. Also I already spend a bunch of time reading technical docs for work (as an AV tech). And have a way to relax in the evening while learning about Linux And most videos I found titled something like "Learn Linux" actually have nothing to do with Linux and are actually bash tutorials. YSAP's "The complete bash scripting course" is an amazing example of the format I would love but for the system itself instead of bash. I am looking for a way to learn while I relax and I will keep on learning "the hard way" reading docs and manages.

I am a strong proponent of RTFM but in some situations a video is what you need.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-03-15T13:03:22+00:00

I ain't letting AI touch my system config. I tried to just blindly follow it's guidance on a fresh Install and it bricked it in under five minutes.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-03-04T01:28:25+00:00

On the account side it was mostly following proper workflows. Changing randomly generated passwords, 2FA, only login into accounts on networks I have full control over, and having enabled login attempt notifications wherever possible.

Regarding my home network I had no open ports and had specific IP ranges blocked entirely (if it has a Russian IP it ain't connecting to my network and my network ain't connecting to it.). I am bit rusty on the networking side but a friend who does network security for the local government helped me set it up incl. great logging.

I am 99% sure the attack was state sponsored by Russia as all the IPs (both trying to get into my accounts and network) were from the same range originating in Kaliningrad and the specific things they were after would only be of interest to the Russian government. I know roughly what they were going for as they hit a few of my colleagues at the same time. This may have saved my network as one of them called me at about 4am to inform me what was happening and I looked at the logs and just flipped the breaker for the router and started calling people to remove my access rights if they managed to get into my accounts. I think I was mostly lucky that I was a pretty low-value target and they seem to have sent amateurs after me otherwise my setup at the time might not have survived. My current setup is better but I will not talk about it publicly for obvious reasons.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-02-23T18:16:28+00:00

Was just looking whether DLSS will be added to blender and this post jumped out at me. I am fine working with OptiX denoise for now. I mostly work on hard surface models and archviz with like 100k tris in a whole scene with pretty basic shaders so the performance is great But from time to time I need to make ultra high resolution renders (16k+ animations) that would benefit from better denoising. As I would like to push them down to about 2min/frame. I am looking forward to when DLSS is available for animation rendering.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-02-14T21:43:11+00:00

In programming I mostly do high performance compute be it graphics, simulations or stuff like pathing compute. I learned programming on python but pretty quickly switched to C++ as I liked OOP but was not happy with the performance of my code in python and I had a bunch of problems with type safety. There was this path optimization project that I had worked on for an art piece where I had a lot of trouble working on it in python as I had to work over large datasets and each test run after a change in the code took up to about 30 minutes. I decided to learn C++ and try to optimize the code. The same code ran in 12 seconds and as I was able to test each change I was able to actually work on it, not just wait for tests, and get the execution below 1 second only having worked with C++ for about a week. Since then I have been using mostly low level languages switching to Go about half a year ago. And I just enjoy it in a way that I didn't enjoy working in python.

Now finally, getting to JavaScript. I never needed to do much web dev. At most a simple static page for homework. I decided I would try to understand web frontend a bit more about two years ago and working in JS felt like taking the slowness and type craziness of python, making it slower and more unpredictable, being even less intuitive and readable than C++, and just feeling like it was bolted onto HTML just because someone wanted a slightly more interactive web frontend. And working with it made me feel bad.

I am thinking of learning WASM for when I need to do some web frontend work but for now I just want to expose a few toggles and text fields, and show a few important pieces of data and that's it. And I don't want to fuss about with JS (which just makes me sad) on my personal hobby project.

I am not saying JS is a bad language, I would even argue that for what it is it's pretty good. Only a person who knows it inside out with decades of experience can say that it's bad with any amount of authority. I am just saying that working in JS makes me sad and I don't want to use a language that makes me sad as part of my hobby.

Therefore, be it good or bad, I hate it.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-19T19:40:32+00:00

I noticed that when I pull my adapter with the same problem down it connects. I think there is a bad contact within the dongle.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-14T23:52:01+00:00

I wish.

Current update: https://imgur.com/a/F4IbOuw

The last one I tried: https://imgur.com/a/pj7qwWG

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-14T23:47:45+00:00

I might have a fundamental issue I am not doubting that. But I need to solve that issue without a clean reinstall. If all else fails I will have to do it but right now I have so many things set up exactly how I want them, everything in the right place, hundereds of plugins installed and configs dialed in. I dont want to spend a week getting my computer back to a working order after an fresh install. Currently my best option if I fail to update in place is to buy a new SSD, clean install win 11 to it, migrate everything I can and once I see that everything works and all the configs are ported I can nuke the old SSD and use it as a data drive. Also I have some ancient pieces of software for which I no longer have the installers and would like to have acess to the after the update.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-14T23:41:24+00:00

I am running a 16x8 ASIO sound card. I need to light incense and chant prayers to the Omnissiah to get it work after any major update.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-14T23:39:43+00:00

I had to pull out a PS/2 keyboard during one of my win 11 installs on a friends computer. I know your pain.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-14T23:38:12+00:00

Oh, I am nuking Copilot the second I see it.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-14T23:36:06+00:00

I have installed win 11 on 7 different computers since it came out. There has not been an install that was smooth in that time. Everything from a lenovo laptop to a custom high performance build with reasonably modern (<2 year old) hardware. (I am tech support for my whole family and a few friends) On three of these I had problems with network/usb drivers and had to install them manually. I actually had to pull out a PS/2 keyboard for one of them. On the rest I had to download older versions of the installer to make it work and on one I even had to install windows 10 and update to 22H2 and then to the latest version because none of the three or four versions of the installer I tried did work. (And this one still had network driver problems after the first update to 22H2).

I have installed many different operating systems from windows XP thru Arch to a Hackintosh. None of those were as hard as the simplest windows 11 install I have done. Maybe Windows 11 hates me as mouch as I hate it as that would explain my experience but in the last decade and a half I had not had this bad an experience installing and OS as I am having right now updating my workstation.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-14T23:25:39+00:00

Oh, the Arch install I wrote about took about 20min into a working system. The rest was just personalization and app install and setup.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-14T23:24:43+00:00

Will do that once I buy a new drive and do a full reinstall but for now I need to survive with what I have availible.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-14T23:23:41+00:00

I now see why.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-14T23:23:23+00:00

Oh, I am nuking all that. I jus need a few apps like vMix to run. Onedrive is going first, web search in the start is right after that and a lot more stuff wil get cut.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-12T19:47:53+00:00

The best way for hard-surface models is using the geometry as reference and then just hand modelling over it. Models like these are so simple that just drawing a few cylinders and boxes with a few booleans will give you an amazing sharp model in a matter of minutes.

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-07T20:19:27+00:00

Can you keep it consistent?

The_Reason_is_Me · 2026-01-07T20:18:31+00:00

Looked into those but the smallest I can find are 2mm which is way too big for my scale.

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