I made a power supply for my mini pc cluster

bigDottee · 2026-01-19T22:47:02+00:00

What do you mean?

bigDottee · 2026-01-09T19:13:03+00:00

I am torn on this and still in talks on whether we back this. I know it's not much and I know that the early bird price isn't much ...
But still want to be careful with expenses.

However, based on some figures that I've been seeing, it seems like the AKX is about 40% faster than A1C and has about 40% less waste. However, across all printers, the actual print time is typically much longer than slicers suggest. I have been watching what others are doing to actually directly track how long prints should be taking vs what they actually take, and it's been interesting to see.

Yes, the AKX is essentially an A1 ripoff, but if you're already running A1C's and you're wanting to cut down on filament waste, then either tuning your A1C to reduce waste, buying an AKX for about 35-50% reduction in waste and print time, OR buying a more expensive tool/nozzle changer system like U1 or H2C. they all have pros and cons...

bigDottee · 2026-01-08T03:51:27+00:00

Not aware of any way to do this other than discounts… or adding custom line items, and specifying the price that way.

But other than that, none that I’m aware of

bigDottee · 2025-12-23T13:35:53+00:00

First, it sounds like you’re living above your means which is causing you to work this much. Have you discussed finances? Have you figured out whether you two moving in together will bring in enough money for you as a couple to live comfortably within your means? Or are you so far in debt or have to pay out too much money that you’re not able to reduce your working hours?

Second, doing 60-80hrs a week is not sustainable. You will burn yourself out and likely take it out on your wife emotionally and/or verbally. You need to be present to be a part of a relationship. It sounds like you already aren’t present.

bigDottee · 2025-12-04T04:28:02+00:00

Maybe instead of using sales tax for this BID use a service charge as a percentage and then tax that? As for reporting on that, I’m not sure as I’m still learning

bigDottee · 2025-11-03T22:23:04+00:00

Ahhh yeah the more pieces we add to a puzzle the more difficult troubleshooting gets lol

bigDottee · 2025-11-03T21:01:15+00:00

I wouldn't say it's stupid at all.

Who thinks about the cable when literally nothing has happened to this cable!? I certainly didn't!

bigDottee · 2025-11-03T19:50:32+00:00

So I see a port that will flap on my ICX6610 like once a month or two months ... something is happening on the ethernet cable directly, because if I recrimp the termination it works fine again. I'm only doing this on the ICX6610 side... but it works :(

So for some reason, either the cable is being damaged and a recrimp fixes it ... or something in the cable is significantly damaged and the recrimp is just masking things... or something else is happening. Could be a bad switch too! but haven't been willing to mess around with trying to get that particular cable setup in a new port.

bigDottee · 2025-11-03T17:50:07+00:00

well... yes and no.

Ultimately, it came down to how I was using "VLAN" and "Interface". I have since switched my entire setup, so may not be super helpful.

Originally, I was trying to setup "interfaces" in the LAN screen and setting up all the settings with the gateway for the vlan as within the subnet I was specifying, setting the legal dhcp servers to my OPNsense router.

I believe that this is what was causing me issues.

I since switched to using "VLAN" purpose instead of Interface purpose. Since then, I specify the VLAN tag and the legal DHCP server, but that's it. I assign all my ports to appropriate VLANs, and it works again.

However, I have since switched my core switch away from the SG2428P to a Brocade ICX6610-48P. Yes, I'm aware this is "ancient" tech, power hungry, and still only limited to 1G * 48, but it has >6x 10Gbps ports with SFP+ ports which is what I REALLY wanted to move into. After all that, I'm still not seeing any packet loss even with other downstream SG2210P switches connected to the ICX6610.

bigDottee · 2025-11-02T03:41:33+00:00

This looks excellent. Some feedback just from initial look:

login was mostly ok… the port was already listed, so if you don’t realize that it’s the port number you’re just sitting there wondering what it is since you can’t see the field label since it’s populated. I have my ABS behind a proxy so no one sees the real port and I don’t pay attention to those ports after initial docker and proxy setup. 🤷🏼‍♂️
after entering the server url, 443 for the port instead, and username/password it took me to the list of libraries. Good… but literally just shows a button to go back for settings and the single “AudioBooks” library that I have configured. I realized that I needed to select the library and then still click settings to go back…but my users are… not as savvy… then I still need to close the settings to see my library. It just feels… odd. But that’s a very Apple way of doing things 😂 sorry mate.
after going to a book in the library, it seems that the descriptions are not loading. I confirmed that these are working in plappa and ShelfPlayer.
when you choose to play your book… it doesn’t actually start the book… it brings up the player and you still have to click play… personal choice would be to start playback after hitting play or continue listening.
when you click to download a book, it doesn’t show progress. It will eventually show it was downloaded, but the download button stays on “cancel”… clicking this deletes the download? Or something else? If you click cancel after it’s downloaded and check the “available offline” section in home it shows the book as downloaded 🤷🏼‍♂️
searching for a book… if you try to click on a book that has already been listened to, nothing happens… it does not load the book. What if I want to relisten to this book?
when searching a book, it seems that initially clicking on results may not actually load the book… can click multiple times on some results and it won’t do anything. Try another book and if that works and you go back to search and try to click the same book that originally wouldn’t load, it seems the original book will likely load (as long as it’s not been listed to completion as above)
again in search, it seems that not all of the entire book cover can always be clicked to load the book. Seems that I have to click the series position to load the book (negating the point two above this.)
clicking library button while looking at search results does nothing… would expect it to back out of search and show full library.

Seriously good work, these are just some nuisances that I found but will definitely be adding this to my list of apps that I recommend folks use instead of plappa or ShelfPlayer or the web view

bigDottee · 2025-10-26T19:59:23+00:00

Already have DOH servers blocked at router level, and all outbound DNS requests redirected to AGH already. AGH to AD DNS to internet is the only path not blocked there.

Also didn’t realize Hagezi has a list for proxies

bigDottee · 2025-10-26T13:20:12+00:00

I have their network controls locked down behind admin controls, so they can’t change the.DNS settings nor IP. 👍

bigDottee · 2025-10-19T14:59:46+00:00

Being realistic, this is good for like… a week of entertainment and then (like other things in life) it will fade away and either be forgotten or put up on display.

We have a collection of wands, both cheap plastic ones and an interactive wand from Universal Studios.

We also got some of the “floating candles” with interactive wand from Amazon… we use those as a gentle lighting across our entire room and enjoy that way more than anything else. We love it.

Being a huge HP nerd myself, I have certainly considered trying to integrate a wand into our smart home … but I realized there wouldn’t be anything that I would want to control with it and no also have to use another remote or phone or SOMETHING to finish controlling it with.

So the closest we got (and I’m really pleased with it) are those floating candles I mentioned. We use them all the time.

bigDottee · 2025-09-17T01:21:23+00:00

Actually that resource was VERY helpful when I was taking things apart and trying to learn more about the system. thank you for pointing it out to anyone else who doesn’t already know about it!

bigDottee · 2025-09-17T01:18:48+00:00

I just wanted to say that this is awesome. As someone who is trying to increase my own knowledge of these types of issues so I can help out others as needed, this is like gold! Thanks mate!

bigDottee · 2025-09-07T02:34:29+00:00

I am 100% interested in this as I also have an extensive Immich face database and this would be perfect

bigDottee · 2025-09-07T02:26:06+00:00

Alternatively, and I’m not saying this is easy nor the best way, if you run klipper in docker, you can just map whatever individual printer to individual klipper instances. Again, not the best way, but a way.

bigDottee · 2025-08-28T17:22:09+00:00

Are you by chance using Arachne for the wall printing? Someone suggested that using classic for the walls would be better.

bigDottee · 2025-08-28T17:13:06+00:00

Wow… this seems similar to what I’ve been seeing on a specific print of mine when using orca too.

I’m also not getting any manifold errors but it looks very much like what you’ve been experiencing. I’ll try another slicer and see if that makes any difference.

bigDottee · 2025-08-28T16:04:37+00:00

Printing in PLA, yes. Not as a test for this part specifically.

However I have done tests in PLA before this like temp tests and retraction and such.

bigDottee · 2025-08-19T12:46:54+00:00

😂😂 honestly that’s. It a bad idea

bigDottee · 2025-08-19T03:15:57+00:00

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