AIO water cooling and heatsinks are so last year. DIY Perks takes a brand new i9-13900K processor, mounts all the major components with water cooling bricks, encases the entire PC in a waterproof acrylic tube, and runs all the cooling through external copper tubing. How does it cool it? Using a pond.
And it turns out to be extremely effective – reaching only 20C (only 5C more than standard) at full load after an hour. Dang.
Besides using Glassdoor, Levels.fyi can be an invaluable job seeking tool for tech workers. It informs you which level/grade/rank/etc at one employer would translate to the equivalent in another company. It also gives you a salary comparison for those levels for various roles at most major companies.
This page has a great rundown of the 2015 Crosstrek maintenance schedule.
With locations in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines is filled with vintage arcade machines that date back to the Soviet era. They also have a museum of smells, old phone booth and mail boxes, and soda machines. Go along with Real Russia to check it out.
If you have a 2015, 2016, 2017 Subaru Crosstrek and need to pull/replace your window switches – this is a good video on how to do it. You have to unscrew the door panel screw in the inside handle recess and pull the door panel off to access the 2 screws and the wire harness you’ll need to access to remove the trim piece and associated windows controls.
Ocean’s 11 is an amazing movie – one of my favorites. It has a fantastic style and creates a unique feel and atmosphere. Besides the fun, unique, energetic soundtrack by David Holmes, it has a really slick visual style that really accentuates the characters. CinemaStix shows how Steven Soderbergh uses a series of seemingly simple shot and cut decisions to enhance the actors’ unique energy to create the rhythm of the movie.
It’s surprising how much of a movie’s feel comes from simple choices in how it is cut (or not cut) . I can appreciate it because I know that a ton of the feel of my landscape photos comes during the post and editing phase.
Quantum Solar System (QSS) features miniature replica planets that float and orbit around the Sun using magnetic levitation technology.
Some of the neat features:
How could this go wrong? Smart as ChatGPT and fully autonomous.
Robotics and AI enthusiasts at the YouTube channel Underfitted recently upgraded their Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robots with ChatGPT.
After a 72 year ban on self-serve gas, despite it passing unilaterally through the Oregon house and senate, and despite the governor waffling and ‘wanting further input from citizens’ before signing – as of today you can now pump your own gas in Oregon.
Don’t worry – local news is alway helping with instructions for scared residents that are sure this is what’s about to happen all over the state:
This is a great video on the various issues that led to the hacking of the original XBox.
It turns out, a similar method by causing a processor fault has recently been used to hack Tesla cars recently.