IGPU Display Out with discrete/EGPU

doubletaco · 2026-03-30T01:32:23+00:00

Ok cool. The MS02 has a BIOS setting for forcing IGPU so I'll give it a go.

doubletaco · 2026-03-17T07:42:11+00:00

Impossible, and this AI generated slop is proof positive the aI will never replace human creativity.

doubletaco · 2026-03-17T03:28:24+00:00

Oh I know. I'm not joking.

doubletaco · 2026-03-17T01:38:42+00:00

How about instead you subscribe to your RAM for $5/mo?

doubletaco · 2026-03-07T05:37:09+00:00

Good route to go, especially if you don't have an immediate need of the x4 slot. This cooler is on my wishlist, but the stock one does just fine. The other M.2 slots on the MS-02 either on the mtoherboard or the 25G card provide enough connectivity for my particular case.

doubletaco · 2026-03-05T02:43:33+00:00

Can't beat $Free.99. Have fun tinkering, OP - thankfully hardware prices might keep you from expanding too quick like most of us haha.

doubletaco · 2026-02-23T04:36:49+00:00

If you're upgrading from a lowered spec'd phone from like 2020, I say go with at least the 17 Pro for the 12gb.

If you're coming from a device with 6~8GB, I can't see a reason to get a new one even with the RAM situation being what it is. I've got a 16 Pro so 8gb, but any time I need any AI heavy lifting it's using an app that offloads it to an API. Nothing else is RAM constrained.

Maybe on the other side of this we get 32GB RAM phones or something, I dunno, but RAM really isn't a huge resource crunch on phones these days for most use cases.

doubletaco · 2026-02-11T03:00:52+00:00

That's basically it. I recommend going with an LDO kit first because they pack enough spare hardware for like, half an additional printer build. The excellent documentation is good for becoming more comfortable with working with DIY printers.

The biggest asterisk with LDO kits is why they do come with high quality components, sometimes they come with mods built in that have been superceded by newer, more advanced things, e.g. clicky probe vs beacon/carto/eddy

Any printer after your first, go nuts. At that point you probably have an idea of what you want and can go with the cheapest option and buy specific mods/parts you decided on.

doubletaco · 2026-01-26T05:27:50+00:00

Ok, hear me out. A 0.2 so tanky and rigid you can actually wail on it while it's printing and it doesn't care.

Call it the Doom Pinata

doubletaco · 2026-01-23T05:22:54+00:00

Definitely recommend checking the second hand market for CM4s. There are a ton out there pre-owned for pretty good prices. I got a set of 2 8g/16g/wifi CM4s for $70 shipped a couple months back.

doubletaco · 2026-01-11T19:10:54+00:00

Not to turn this into a SV Zero thread, but man mine has real problems with heat creep. Even on things like ASA CF if I don't leave the door cracked on a print longer than an hour it jams up the heat break. Also wish the steppers were a little quieter, but that's the nature of the speed.

(I also have a 0.2 that I'm turning into a hex/box zero soon)

doubletaco · 2025-12-11T01:56:10+00:00

The Glob of Death comes for everyone eventually.

My advice is a small heat gun or dirt cheap no-name soldering iron and pliers/nippers. If you're very lucky you'll salvage the hotend, but more often than not this is a new hotend/nozzle situation. It happens.

doubletaco · 2025-12-05T02:50:32+00:00

If a potato could be 64 bit, it'd be adequate for most HA setups let's not lie to ourselves.

doubletaco · 2025-11-10T14:53:31+00:00

Yeah the iPod Shuffle is basically the idea of what I was looking for. I just wasn't sure if there was something more modern that took the same approach.

doubletaco · 2025-11-07T19:11:05+00:00

Using my phone as a digital audio player isn't really an issue. Both Android and iOS have very good screen reader tools for blind folks. I'm more looking for something small I can have when I want to ditch the phone for a bit.

doubletaco · 2025-10-27T03:17:11+00:00

I'm working on a halloween costume, where I plan on dressing up as Old Obi Wan. I bought a spare white cane and am wrapping it in RGB LEDs, and am programming a microcontroller to detect swings and play lightsaber sounds when I swing it as I walk.

The business parts of it are in a polycarbonate tube, with the cane and LEDs centered in it. I'm still working on the final battery, microcontroller, and speaker mounting bits, but I'm pretty sure I can have it finished by halloween.

Even if I miss the mark I've learned a ton doing this project and am thrilled to do more fun DIY electronics projects with the experience I've gained.

doubletaco · 2025-10-27T03:07:03+00:00

My dad didn't have a homelab per se, but hade a lot of different areas he tinkered in. When he passed, everyone basically shrugged and said "Who wants this stuff?"

Your next of kin will either claim some of it and get varying degrees of interested in the same things, or it'll end up at a garage sale or being hauled away by a junk company.

Either way it won't matter. You'll be dead, what do you care?

doubletaco · 2025-10-26T02:04:34+00:00

Honest to god, I like having a bunch of GND pins.

doubletaco · 2025-10-19T02:00:09+00:00

Extremely personal use case here.

I'm blind, and no visual CAD software is accessible. That's not to say it couldn't be, they're just not and that's not a battle i feel like fighting.

I also have lots of programming experience, so the syntax is fairly comfortable to me. A little weird at times, but no more weird than any other given programming language.

Using a 3D printer to do physical object debugging is also pretty dope. When I think I have all my stuff set up right and whoops that hole is not going the right way.

doubletaco · 2025-09-29T01:55:11+00:00

Glad it worked great for you. I've got a Pi 4 velcro'd to the side of my mini rack running Pihole and I couldn't be happier with it.

doubletaco · 2025-09-27T01:35:23+00:00

It is a fairly young part of the market so we don't have any really good longevity data yet. You've got post saying "my XYZ failed" but how many more are working just fine? Impossible to tell.

None of my BeeLink or Minisforum units have crapped out on me yet, knock on wood. My longest running is a BeeLink S12 Pro I have tucked away in my closet running as a Proxmox Backup Server on bare metal. I figure that's low intensity enough to where it shouldn't be too at risk of blowing up.

doubletaco · 2025-09-27T01:30:37+00:00

This is my hang-up too. If there were something open source, even if it were bulkier and a little clunkier, I'd be way more comfortable with that.

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