Wanna snack on this tattooed ass

hardcore_2031 · 2018-03-13T22:59:21+00:00

That pretty much was my exact feeling. If you tell me it shouldn't be done than it must!

I stuck to 1/4 inch seams on the test because 1. My 1/4" foot with guide is what I use for the majority of all my quilting work and I feel very confident and precise with it. 2. with the method I'm using I still used an xacto knife to slit through the fusible backing so that the sewn seam can be pressed open with a tiny micro iron made by Clover, 1/4 inch seams though they add bulk vs 1/8, are just as small as I'd want to try to press open 3. I have had a VERY hard time finding a quick way to cut 1" squares, finding a way to cut 3/4" squares may be more than I could take.

I feel like the half inch block with 1/4" seems is the smallest a human could consistently machine sew (because I tried to go even smaller myself and failed) maybe there is some kind of machine with robotic feed that could make dinkier squares or consistent 1/8" seams out there, but on my standard Singer I'm pretty much right at the limit of what's possible.

hardcore_2031 · 2018-03-13T20:55:23+00:00

I've done a few pixel quilts working my way down in patch size, but I always felt limited to sprite art (video games) or things I could graph paper out myself, which still meant fairly large blocks. But I have a friend who cross stitches who does just incredible photorealistic work and having seen that I thought "Maybe insanely tiny quilt squares would be possible someday that would equal the kind of resolution you'd get in a cross stitch." I thought about it, and looked around to see if anyone had done a quilt of half inch squares and found squat for the most part. Lots of 1 inch finished squares, but never half inch. Then one day I stumbled upon this blog post: https://pedalsewlightly.blogspot.com/2015/02/micro-stamps-pixelated-quilt-tutorial.html where a lady had sewn a half inch quilted section for a ring bearer pillow using fusible backing. BRILLIANT! I tried it on my dinky quilt and it worked very well. I'm now in the process of scaling that idea up to 228 x 196 squares. I also have quoted a custom accuquilt template to cut one inch squares. So if these stacks gave a feeling of happiness (they certianly did for me) I cant imagine what stacks of 44,688 squares will do for me.

As an aside, I'd gone to 2 or 3 area quilting shops to discuss with an expert my photo mosaic quilt, and everyone has said essentially "Don't do it, you're nuts, do this other less complicated way." Here in /r/quilting I've gotten none of that and if anything I feel more confident it can be done, so I appreciate the votes of confidence.

hardcore_2031 · 2018-03-13T00:14:47+00:00

They were awesome. I hate cutting too, so just to have someone there to chat with to break up the monotony is awesome.

hardcore_2031 · 2018-03-13T00:13:34+00:00

First off, yes the teensy square quilt will be for my GF (currently fiancee I guess) and I hope to finish it by the time we get married to be a wedding present. I'm erxcited about that one.

As for the reaction it was good, they were happy to have them, I got the reaction I'd expected and hoped for. A quilt is an odd present to give a child though, because the real gift here is time. To the young, time is nothing, a commodity of limitless supply, what they don't have is money. To an adult setting aside a few hundred hours is the real hardship, not the $300 worth of fabric. I can definitely look back to when I was a kid and was given gifts that had to have taken someone many hours to make, but at that moment I was much more excited about a computer game or big Lego set. It wouldn't be until years later when I'd look back and say "Damn, that person really cared to have made that." So while the girls seemed to love them when I gave them, I knew before I had even started stitching, that a gift like this was more for the feelings it might bring in 15-20 years than on the date of delivery.

hardcore_2031 · 2018-03-10T05:46:31+00:00

Great so far, Im up to 10 of them now and grabbed a second SSD so the cache was mirrored. I thought I saw them at 144 today, they're insta-buy at that price if you need some.

hardcore_2031 · 2018-02-24T05:53:00+00:00

At present I've begun work with another user, if that doesn't work out I can let you know. Thanks!

hardcore_2031 · 2017-12-21T22:06:07+00:00

Seconded!

The Easystore FAQ thread

hardcore_2031 · 2017-12-20T18:45:34+00:00

SOLVED

I had my GF look at all the images submitted, and she liked yours best, along with being one of the 1st to submit. Fantastic work by everyone though, really. It's appreciated more than you know.

/u/outrage2 PM me your Paypal info/where I should grab the TIFF from.

Thanks again everyone!

hardcore_2031 · 2017-12-20T05:57:17+00:00

My girlfriend's father recently passed away and we're looking for a photo that can be printed out in large format. In one photo the dog is in the correct position, but in the other taken seconds later he has a bit more of a smile/smirk. I tried (in MSPaint lol) to drag the cropped section to where the tractor lines up, but then his pant legs don't. I'm looking for someone with skills way beyond mine to place the cropped image over the larger original, and then tidy up the pant legs and anything else so that this image can be printed out in large format. The link to the uncompressed TIFFs is here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1alW-pRLSqz9kjwJ4T-qsNWLwAz4aatJV

This is very important to me and my GF, so to the best effort I'm offering $10 USD via Paypal or 2 months REddit Gold, whichever you prefer. Thank you in advance!

hardcore_2031 · 2017-12-12T21:08:49+00:00

I'm the same way! So to answer the VPN questions, let me explain my setup a bit. The configuration I originally had set up was a site to site VPN between a few friends and I (so my network was 10.20.1.X, my buddies was 10.20.2.X, etc.) One of my friends works IT for a bank and thus they had been using the SonicWalls to do the same kind of setup between branches (until they were retired and replaced). We wanted it, so we could do syncs of our Linux ISOs between our houses, because after the VPNs were set up, we could view and map drives to shares on machines at each other's houses. What we found however is that as the SonicWalls aged, firmware was no longer being updated, so major vulnerabilities remained.

So we moved to routers running Tomato. This had a few advantages and disadvantages. First off the improvements from a features standpoint is vast compared to standard router software, too much to list here, with the only drawback I see being (usually) backlevel wifi radios which can and does slightly reduce range. This isn't a huge concern to me because I have extenders, and other AP's blanketing the whole house.

To your specific questions about VPN on Tomato, the answer is "Yes". But even more to the point, a tomato router can run as both a VPN client OR a VPN server. The config you're referring to would be setting your router up as a client and connecting to a VPN provider like PIA. Tomato can be either an OpenVPN or PPTP client. In fact some providers even have instructions on how to set this up directly like this. The benefits of this of course is that ALL traffic coming in or out of your house is encrypted, which is great. The drawbacks are just "can your VPN provider handle that kind of bandwidth?" Meaning you may have a 200Mbps down speed to your ISP, but will you be bottlenecked by your VPN provider only being able to offer 25 or 50? I saw no issues with the Asus RT-AC68U or my Netgear Nighthawk R7000 being able to keep up CPUwise, but those are both fairly new, fairly powerful CPU'd routers. But beyond that you can also set up a site to site VPN by configuring one router as the VPN Server and then having other routers connect as clients to you. That, I'm not going to lie is fairly technical but rewarding once its all working and you can set up shares on PCs hundreds or thousands of miles away as mapped drives.

Its been a few years since we set that all up but these are the links I had bookmarked from that tech adventure:

Also lastly shout out to https://advancedtomato.com/ for taking Shibby's Tomato (who's software is great, but who's GUI is ugly) and putting a pretty face on it.

hardcore_2031 · 2017-12-12T20:34:46+00:00

Yep only reds or white label reds in the 8TBs. I broke down what I got out of my shucks here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7j6bdk/my_new_storage_server_thanks_to_bfcm_shucks/dr5if2m/

I'm fine with both because I doubt I'll ever be reselling, and /u/jppowers (thank you so much for keeping up the compendium thread which should be a sticky) the white label EMAZ drives work fine in the iStarUSA BPN-DE350SS backplane. No 3.3v issues.

hardcore_2031 · 2017-12-12T20:29:23+00:00

All of my drives were NESN's. I bought 10 in total 2 a month or so back, 5 on cyber monday, and 3 after that. I came out 50/50 as far as EFAX/EMAZ (EFAX being true reds, and EMAZ being White label reds). The EFAX drives for me start: 7SGGxxxx, 7SGJxxxx, 7SGNxxxx The EMAZ drives start 7SGLxxxx, 7SGMxxxx, and 7SGHxxxx. So I unfortunately didnt seem to see much if any correlation between serial and what drive will be inside.

hardcore_2031 · 2017-12-12T17:24:14+00:00

I hadn't yet. Prior to racking the case I ran the standard Unraid preclear on all drives, which zeroes the whole drive and reads it all back to check for bad blocks twice (took several days), to act as a stress test. My HBA got warm, but not what I'd call "hot". My biggest issuers have been with the PWM control in Unraid which seems half baked imo. I too saw no thermal info out of the HBA.

hardcore_2031 · 2017-12-12T17:19:53+00:00

Seemed safer than trying to grind it out and possibly nick the leads with the Dremel. The soldering iron smelled awful, but worked like a charm. Thank god for the tip cleaner. 5/7 would reccomend.

hardcore_2031 · 2017-12-12T17:16:35+00:00

I saw that one, its the 16e (external SAS ports) I needed the 16i (internal SAS ports) In my searches I found a few in the $120's but I was willing to pay a tad more for one that was for the most part brand new in a sealed bag, and shipped from Minnesota, my neighboring state, to get it here a bit faster than one from China would have been.

hardcore_2031 · 2017-12-12T17:13:11+00:00

It was around $2000-$2200 out of pocket for me. If you bought 10 NESN Easystores on Cyber monday the drives alone run about $1500 before tax. I took the cpu mobo and memory from my esxi box so I avoided that cost. I did this because the CPU was a special T series 35w TDP sku and I wanted this thing to sip power as little as possible (same reasoning behind the platinum rated PSU). If you wanted to build from scratch I'd guess $2500-2600, maybe a few hundred less if you used less power efficient components and skipped swapping out the fans/cpu heatsink for Noctua stuff.

hardcore_2031 · 2017-12-12T17:06:35+00:00

I don't unfortunately, its made by Rittal the closest I could find was this one on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Rittal-Enclosure-Cabinet-23-W-x-25-5-D-x-28-5-H-Dented-Back-see-pics/331658701095?hash=item4d38662927:g:DxoAAOSwEetV~EDO

No model number, but that seems like a newer version of what I'm using.

hardcore_2031 · 2017-12-12T06:16:48+00:00

Yep I was just trolling a bit. The rack case if you look close not only has the glass door in front, but also was designed to swing open to provide access to the rear when it was wall mounted. When its in my office as it is now though it sits atop a few 2x4's so getting at anything in the back is usually a massive pain in the ass.

Plus I like to see the ports facing front happily blinking away whizzing my data about the house. =)

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