Yes. Hard drives aren’t really all that loud either.

The paint sounds promising. It just needs to stick to ASA. I’m not sanding anything either so it’s not flat but that might be a good thing to increase surface area for the paint to bind to.

I thought about that, and I can change that bottom plate at any time, but the GPU takes a lot of space in there. I need to be sure there’s enough air reaching the cpu cooler so I allowed bypass to reach that.

So I can restrict entrances or I can add ducting. But then I have to worry about dividing up thins on the intake so much the GPU and CPU side can’t cool effectively.

AirPower is a thing and my CAD image proves it!

Can’t fit that in the shape I want.

I wonder if I put chicken wire against the inner walls and run that to the case of the power supply would that work well enough?

I want to have as few visible seams as possible but I can make them where I need. My primary concern here is thermals.

I don’t know, someone online, I remember arguing the exact same thing about 3-D printed computer cases being a bad idea because of static concerns,but I was basically mauled in the comment section for it

The openings under them and the spacing between them is to allow air to be pulled through them.

I was concerned about the filament and ESD too but have been told the motherboard would just ground out to the PSU through the power connector and not to worry about it. Since the hard drives are also connected I figured they would ground out the way too. There is ESD safe filament I could use for the drive cage though.

I’m actually just using onshape. It’s all done in a browser.

It’s sad to see sites like Reddit and Imgur dying. They used to bring me so much joy.

At least Fark is still holding steady, although photoshop contests just aren’t as fun as they used to be.

I was considering doing that but wanted to build my own more capable firewall/router first and get my cloud based thing off the network. But by the time I get the thing done, VPNs will require ID, you know, “for the children.”

Is actually kind of sad. Microsoft Windows does have a really stable and performant core. It has some bad decisions made years ago that legacy compatibility holds them back on, but even so it’s amazing it works as well as it does.

But they ruin all that by piling on the BS literally nobody wants but they have decided you must have.

No one is forcing them to do anything. They can choose to play the game or to do anything else.

https://www.ipfire.org/

I was considering IPFire if OPNsense doesnt play out well.

Yes we can.

its basically a bit of futureproofing. 1 gig is fine for my home but I want the option to go a step further if I want to later.

I need VLANs and I’m planning some PoE+ stuff too, meaning higher costs though now that I think about it those are probably more common in 10Gig switches anyway. But that still means they are consuming more power, making more heat, making more noise from fans…

well it’s just for a home network and theres nothing I have that will ever need 10G. I energy consumption is higher and equipment costs are higher on 10G as well. I’ll likely be on gigabit for quite a bit but I’m planning the 2.5G as a compromise for future upgrades.