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Starbucks posted:Yeah but he has a rack there with free spots. When in Rome and all that. Just throwing out there that most people would be surprised by how little horsepower most of this stuff needs. If I had a server rack I'd be finding ways to fill it too.
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jesus christ shut up nerds. more copper please njan99
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Get a Cray-1 to use as the house brain and also double as a fancy sofa.
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Cat Hatter posted:Just throwing out there that most people would be surprised by how little horsepower most of this stuff needs. If I had a server rack I'd be finding ways to fill it too. I ran my entire "home infra" on an old Lenovo M93p tiny (i5-4590T / 16GB RAM) up until last week  That includes pfsense, pihole, home assistant, irc client vm, SSH bastion host, some web services, statistics server etc. It doesn't take much.
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Arrath posted:Why in God's name would you just blithely open the door and invite the vampire in like that? Could be worse, could have mentioned Solarwi... shoot that was too close.
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Can that foundation handle a rouge cargo freighter?
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Not Wolverine posted:Can that foundation handle a rouge cargo freighter? No but it might be able to handle other colours.
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Whats been occurring. Not a lot to be honest. I didnt get any easter eggs so I sulked for a few days I was gonna start tiling some floors but realised I didnt have any of the tools I needed somehow. The tiles in the great room are 900mm long so need something big to cut them. I looked at getting yet another little wet cutter but I hate them so I ended up convincing myself to get a ryobi one plus cutter instead. Like thinking itll be easier to move the cutter than the tile when theyre that big.  I practised on an offcut and hosed it up. regrets but we'll see and the big chopper   oh and then I read the primer and it reminded me I need to turn off the underfloor heating for 48 hours first lol. WHich I was pleased about as I could go back to sulking Electricians been  Put that big box on the right in and connected up proper power. So the house is now running off actual proper power rather than an extension lead. So I can like plug things in  but also just turn on some lights  I've got several light circuits plugged in to one of these as I couldnt bring myself to buy all the ones I would actually need to have them all switch seperately. So this can do two cicuits  only got a couple of things wired up to consumer unit  plenty to go yet  more crappy woodwork  the wall on the right is massively put of plumb so that'll be I'm sure really fun to deal with  the reason I had to put all that timber in is I've run out of the backer board sheets so am making do with offcuts  Heres the basin setup opposte the shitter  Tap bolts arent long enough to go through the 40mm worktop  So make a test bit up, routed out the bottom to see what to do   Same idea on the actual piece    and of course it lands right on the sup[port woodwork so have to hack that about    Trip to town to buy some hep20 hoses. and wine.  drop one of the nuts down the little gap around the wastepipe so have to undo the wall there. That will be tiled later so wont be able to do that again  all a bit loose... and floppy? but I guess thats that  test it all works   And thats how you spend a whole day sort of halfway finishing fitting a tap.
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It is all starting to look pretty good! It's exciting to see it all come together. But my god, it really is a colossal amount of work to build a house. You've certainly warned me off ever even considering it.
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it's nice to see it come together, but this is the kind of project i could see making someone have a mental breakdown. just the amount of boxes and cleanup poo poo i got a glimpse of you'll have to do _after_ all the actual bullshit critical thinking problem solving fuckery makes me want to take a nap instead
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Splode posted:But my god, it really is a colossal amount of work to build a house. You've certainly warned me off ever even considering it. It's a lot of work, but it's not usually this much work
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Splode posted:It is all starting to look pretty good! It's exciting to see it all come together. Yeah, but when you build it yourself, you get to make sure it’s done right and the builders didn’t just use the cheapest materials they could find off eBay.
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Wifi Toilet posted:Yeah, but when you build it yourself, you get to make sure it’s done right and the builders didn’t just use the cheapest materials they could find off eBay. I'd say it's better to build the house more in this way than buying some ready made crap by developers where they cut corners without your knowing, well until it's too late. You can hire a house building company that will build a house for you here at an agreed fixed price, and you get to be involved in every step as much or as little as you like. That's how we built our house and I got everything documented about the house build.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I'd say it's better to build the house more in this way than buying some ready made crap by developers where they cut corners without your knowing, well until it's too late. But did you get a thread of lols to pass down to your grandchildren?
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Yes, though it doesn't hold a candle to this one.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I've got several light circuits plugged in to one of these as I couldnt bring myself to buy all the ones I would actually need to have them all switch seperately. So this can do two cicuits I've forgotten what this whole thing is even for. You've got the usual electrical panel and then you've got this thing. Do you have multiple circuits coming off the panel to this lighting board and this then further distributes the power in a network-addressable way? It's been a while since I've considered the lighting.
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Wifi Toilet posted:Yeah, but when you build it yourself, you get to make sure it’s done right and the builders didn’t just use the cheapest materials they could find off eBay. I see what you did there!
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Fidelitious posted:I've forgotten what this whole thing is even for. You've got the usual electrical panel and then you've got this thing. Do you have multiple circuits coming off the panel to this lighting board and this then further distributes the power in a network-addressable way? Its a big lighting box. I've run two lighting circuits from the main consumer unit to cover everythimg and then will disperse from the top. To allow me to do whatever I want here. Like for instance right now I've got the one lightswitch in the hallway by the front door turning on several circuits, both bathrooms. No other house could do this. Also I can do it in an app on my phone. from anywhere. in the world! primed bathroom floor  ok laying out this poo poo to try and see how its gonna work  hmmm... tricky  chop some bits up i guess. line up the tiles so i get a full run off them down the drain bit  so I've spent all this money on ways to cut big metre long tiles... how you cut little tiles?  dont think this will work watched soem youtubes... tape them up i dunno  yeah this thing just pisses water out all over the place no way to control it spend more money  just to use the same grinder i had in the first place lol gently caress  something like this i gu3ess  masking tape and cuts with grinder seems to work. and my hands a bit   ok ok all laid out. easy peasy  gunk down, back butter as best can   looking good? nah. its total poo poo. multiple reasons. nothing is right and you'll stand on this in bare feet. so you'll know. I've dragged it all back up, hosed it off, its all fallen to bits and today has been a loving disaster. great. amazing try again tomorrow
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NotJustANumber99 posted:all laid out. easy peasy I love a good example of not ever being able to know where the tiles will end up
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This thread is an excellent answer to "why do the trades exist and get paid better than most?"
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:This thread is an excellent answer to "why do the trades exist and get paid better than most?" Yeah, but it seems like the tradies have mostly just ripped him off and left him with only poor work and a hateful memory of tradie crack.
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Tradies don't get paid that well though, most of the money usually ends up in the pockets of the general contractor or company owner and not the tradie who's doing the work as a sub-(sub-)contractor. It's a big part of why so much of them are terrible, because all the competent ones gently caress off to better paying jobs.
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All you need is a solid foundation
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Just Winging It posted:Tradies don't get paid that well though, most of the money usually ends up in the pockets of the general contractor or company owner and not the tradie who's doing the work as a sub-(sub-)contractor. It's a big part of why so much of them are terrible, because all the competent ones gently caress off to better paying jobs. Just Winging It posted:Tradies don't get paid that well though, most of the money usually ends up in the pockets of the general contractor or company owner and not the tradie who's doing the work as a sub-(sub-)contractor. It's a big part of why so much of them are terrible, because all the competent ones gently caress off to better paying jobs. Residential trades don't get paid well.
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I wouldn't backbutter mosaics, they are small enough that you will get full coverage without it. If you do back butter them you will be endlessly digging adhesive out of the grout lines.
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Tiling looks exactly like the kind of fiddly bullshit that would slowly drive me insane as I try to line up everything juuuust right until I'm halfway through (after 5 false starts where I caught my mistake) and I realize I hosed up and my eye twitches then I'm "here's johnny!"'ing the entire wall with a sledgehammer. I'll just pay a dude
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Arrath posted:Tiling looks exactly like the kind of fiddly bullshit that would slowly drive me insane as I try to line up everything juuuust right until I'm halfway through (after 5 false starts where I caught my mistake) and I realize I hosed up and my eye twitches then I'm "here's johnny!"'ing the entire wall with a sledgehammer. I wouldn't mind the finickiness if I wasn't racing against time.
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Yeah but if you just pay a dude he might do a bad job.
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Given the rest of the house, I assume these are the circuit breakers you're usingPile Of Garbage posted:Apologies if this was already posted here but I feel it's very relevant: a WiFi-enabled circuit breaker.
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drgitlin posted:Yeah but if you just pay a dude he might do a bad job. And poo poo in your garden.
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aren't you supposed to use those little insert spacer things to get all the tiles to space exactly equally so they line up
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Leperflesh posted:aren't you supposed to use those little insert spacer things to get all the tiles to space exactly equally so they line up Yeah it helps, the net thing is more to hold little tiles together on the back so you don't have to deal with each tiny tile individually for like a one foot square. I think a lot of the problems there are due to the floor being uneven to provide drainage, it's more of a challenge to tile than flat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReoG1XwT860
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I've never done any tiling, I had a guy do our floors and he was professional and did a good job. He used ropes or string..
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CancerCakes posted:I wouldn't backbutter mosaics, they are small enough that you will get full coverage without it. If you do back butter them you will be endlessly digging adhesive out of the grout lines. yeah this was definitely right lets try again  with sloppier gunk, less of it in one go, actually trying, using a level and not stopping halfway through to chat to the neighbours for 45mins  ok, still a bit wank, but going better. Needed that proper tile in as well to give a nice clean, level edge to mosaic up to. Also thats where the glass is going to sit. so kind of need it nice and level. Which last time it wasn't.  This is notswift progress. but well... probably unnecessary to say that at this point finally get to unleash my big chopper  so  Thats all done for the mosaics. thank god normal tiles for the rest. apart from the whole other bathroom that needs doing exactly the same. It probably looks ok in the photo... once its cleaned off a bit. Not so sure though... maybe always have to wear flip flops in the shower so I dont notice the unevenness
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Looks really nice imo which is what counts since I will never set foot in it.
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