Notices by The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 3

@joepie91 none at all - however a kind Mastodon friend has offered to get some to me from a German store

Had a bit of a bad day with family news & my brain wasn’t really up to tackling the next gamedev task on my list, so I noodled about looking at what a low-effort, locally controlled Mastodon to BSky reposter might look like. I found a few examples which ranged from the usual over-engineered web bullshit to one that doesn’t do all I need but *is* a single file. Depending on how I’m feeling tomorrow I might see if I can teach myself enough TypeScript to make a more complete version

@ahchay yeah I have a couple of boxes and once I can’t fit anything else in them the oldest stuff goes in the bin. But it’s usually then that someone says “my X has broken” and I think “oh hey I have a spare one of those!” Except that I don’t anymore

@Doomed_Daniel it’s this one https://www.alpenfoehn.de/en/products/accessories/upgrade-kit-brocken-series - basically just a few spacer screws

I hate just chucking perfectly good stuff away, that’s why I have a huge stockpile of electronic junk that is worthless up to precisely 3 seconds after I dispose of it, at which point a perfect use for it emerges

I've got a decent spare CPU air cooler from a previous machine that would work fine on modern CPUs, it just needs a 95p adapter kit. But I can't find them anywhere except places that charge £30+ for delivery 🤦♂️

@gilesgoat everyone likes different stuff eh 🙂 You might find an untapped audience

@gilesgoat @ahchay @llamasoft_ox I just remembered the TV series is set after the book & isn’t a retelling of the original story , not sure if that makes it more or less appealing to you (still top notch IMO)

@ahchay @llamasoft_ox @gilesgoat it’s been years since I read the comic so my memory is fuzzy but the 2019 TV series was really very good, I’d recommend that over the film if you have the time for it

@GeekAndDad an excuse to play around with https://getfancontrol.com when I have some time

I sometimes buy RGB hardware and never even plug in the RGB cable, to annoy the RGB nerds (RGB editions are often weirdly cheaper or the only ones available because so many people want RGB on everything)

I technically have an RGB keyboard but you can’t tell because I put the circuit board under a solid brass plate mounted inside a solid wood housing with black sound dampening foam so no light is escaping from that (evil laugh) 🙃

@GeekAndDad yeah it’s an option

@idbrii @runevision that tool replicates your posts to a bsky account they make for you, so you don’t control it. I’d prefer to control the process myself

Thing is I could buy a couple of 120mm Noctua fans to quieten this down and still have spent less than an equivalent Noctua cooler (and have 2 spare fans). I’ve actually been a big fan (heh) of the BeQuiet ones and they’re slightly cheaper. My Peerless Assassin review: good cooling performance, mediocre fans you’re probably better to replace if you want quiet.

I’d still buy this kind of thing over an AIO though, I have no interest in RGB or case pimping, and air cooling is far more reliable.

The problem seems to be that in this configuration the rearmost CPU fan is a little too close to the exhaust case fan (about 2cm gap), and even though they’re blowing the same way, they’re different fans running at different speeds so I think that’s setting up some conflicting air flow and introducing extra vibration. Now that the rear CPU fan blows through the second tower before hitting the exhaust fan, it seems better. Sound profile is still a bit whiny, may replace fans sometime anyway
2/2

Managed to improve the sound levels on the Peerless Assassin, it still has a slight whine at the top end but it’s better.

I was trying to be clever with my fan placement and as always, that’s a terrible idea. This cooler has 2 towers and 2 fans so there’s 3 spots you can put them in. I thought I’d avoid covering the RAM slots and put them towards the rear of the case. The last one even slotted perfectly in the gap above the IO block. 1/2

@Wizarth erm, maybe I don’t want to know, but what else could it be?

Boop #caturday

@dev_ric oof you could whistle a better upload baud rate 😐

@runevision yeah I’ve seen some scripts that auto-split the posts into replies