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There are many different ones and, I watched a video of one doing it's rotating thing...

 

Pah all you need to do is go outside, instant blue balls.

 

(Googles MOVA globes) Oh, my... (drools)

 

Recently bought a MINI ES121 electric screwdriver:



Satisfyingly hefty CNC'd stainless steel, motion controlled, 4mm hex bit fitting, rechargeable Li-ion battery, OLED display, customisable firmware with variable speed and angle control settings. It looks like a sonic screwdriver; it feels like a sonic screwdriver. I find myself looking around the house for things to screw (er… that came out wrong).

Motion controlled? Yup: you press the single button and either angle clockwise or counter-clockwise and it will spin in that direction to fasten/loosen the scews. The further you angle, the faster it spins. OLED shows operation, battery status and control settings.

 

Always knew you were a fscking Time Lord. All these Gallifreyans running around, lowering the tone.

Now we know why you had the red dress.

 

I said a hip hop
Hippie to the hippie
The hip, hip a hop, and you don't stop

 

I figured if i'm going to do my first fully scratch build in best part of 5 years, I might as well do it properly!

Christmas bonus will be spent on a Patriot VPN100 SSD (capacity depending on what is on offer at the time, but most likely 1TB so I can get away with just the one internal drive). Still not decided on CPU yet - part of me is saying "just pick up a dirt cheap 2600/X to get up and running and upgrade to a 3700/3800 this time next year", but another part of me is like "or just get a 3600 now and know it'll be good to last 2-3 years right off the bat!"...

I'll see what the January sales say!

 

Merry Christmas to me!

 

Why, to lower the tone, of course.

 

If LEGO had had that stuff when Star Wars first came out (I was 12 at the time), I would have been all over that!

 

It's never too late...

 

I thought it was a robot arm for a moment.

Me no brain to day.

 

Finally (re) bitten my HEDT bug with a i9 7980XE:



Managed to snag one from CeX for around half of what the 10980XE seems to be retailing for. Got it up to 4.3Ghz all core on my Rampage VI Extreme with a quick and dirty bios fiddle. It will go higher but I really need to play with the voltages. Left at "auto" with 4.4Ghz all core MCE enabled (or whatever it gets called on X299) and it hits 109C under a 280mm AIO . I knocked 20c off of that with my 4.3Ghz overlock and voltage at 1.1v.

Oh but it does hit 10k in Cinebench R20 so that makes up for it...

Overall board and CPU for less than a 3950X.. can't really complain there.

 

Tools!


From Italy
Beta 1750M baby grease gun

From Germany
Bit driver
wera 818/4/1 kraftform kompakt
CK Torpedo level

Finally, From Japan
Pliers
Engineer PZ-58
Engineer NS-04
Engineer PS-01
Screwdriver
Vessel Megadora 900 +2X100 JIS

No images as, its a lot. I'll post the finished toolset at some point.

 

Ticket for "Fully Charged Live 2020".

 

Pretty successful run on ebay.

DS412+ and another 16gb of RAM. I don't really need the RAM, but it will fill the slots and that'll shut the nagging voice up.

 

Finally after 10 days my Bose Soundtouch arrived. So I got a bracket.



Trunking



And an extended power cable.



And these.

 

It will use all it can as cache for whatever you don't "need", so it's not a total waste.

I spite of using only 1.5GB for services on mine, I still have an itch to throw 32GB in there, so know what you mean.

 

Ahh, the RAM is for the desktop not the NAS. The 412+ can only support 2gb (Officially the CPU supports 4gb - Across two channels. The board only has one, and that seems to be the root cause of problems for users who have tried 4gb), and frankly the amount of work needed to go from 1 to 2 gb doesn't appeal - It won't be running anything like PLEX. Much like the two bay it's replacing, it'll be a fairly dumb "Here's some files" setup.

Although if I had a mo-biggerer NAS then I might be interested in doing fancy stuff with PLEX and iSCSI. But I spent less than a quarter the price of a new fancyschmancy one on this, so for my use case it's all gravy, and any homelab stuff I do is going to be limited by it being based on NUC's and them having a single ethernet port, so fancyschmancy-fast stuff starts to lose its luster before it even starts.