Also, keeping the pool at 8c in Canadian Winter is a whole ball of yarn in of itself. Just heat the whole thing half the year, that's cheaper than a 'real' cooling solution, isn't it? The more he invests in dealing with the jank, the more pointless and expensive this whole enterprise gets.
lel, our brains must be wired opposite, strongly prefer structured text or ladder, function blocks drive me nutters and the whole project in one application concept that Siemens has with TIA makes me batty. Not that Other Evil Automation Corp, AB, is any better with their Arm & Leg software subscription pricing. And fuck tags with a rusty spork, direct memory access enjoyer till the day I die. Though it looks like only glorious Nippon PLCs, Omron excluded, will be accommodating.
What a ding dong! Hey Linus, your ultra tryhard centralized rackmount fiber optic pool cooling loop home PC setup thing is just fucking retarded at the end of the day, and the majority of people watching are only entertained by you spending huge amounts of money and time to achieve mediocre results and having to constantly cobble together fixes for your stupid ideas that turn into stupid projects.
I cringe seeing yt pc build videos with people putting overpriced 240mm or 360mm AIOs with all the RGB and waterblock mini display bling on mid-range CPUs when an air cooler would have worked perfectly for 1/3 the price, and more reliably.
This sounds very environmentally friendly. If he whines ever again about companies not having muh eco-friendly packaging i will seethe. Being a goddamn hypocrite is probably the only thing left that can make me MATI.
I don't have a lot of background on home installations but from what I saw, I imagine that he has a power surge problems due his mansion being and old house, which probably uses old wiring and the amount of inductive things that he has plugged(AC, Coolers, Fans, high power stuff and being an cheap retard to not do it properly) so when his kids turn 10 things on the same time, it goes a few kv on its wiring and it fucks the power supplies of everything
I thought Electrical was part of what they had overhauled when the building was still mostly stripped down to its beams and they were running all the other wire. This place has been a project house for years though so I might just be misremembering from sheer time passed. If I am wrong and he didn't, he's retarded for having not done so when he had the place in the perfect condition for it - Linus of all people should know how important it is for a 'Smart House' to have good wiring. I can only imagine the abuse a shitty home grid could be doing to his EV's and their power management systems. And he's definitely got the cash for it.
I'm getting flashbacks to that prebuilt review on GN of a system with a Ryzen 5600x, and a 240mm push-pull radiator.
LTT has also done the opposite.
He could spend all that money on functional systems instead of making an absolute circus of a network.
Its pretty funny to see Linus try and pull a Mr Beast move, only to get neurotic over the whole thing while his penny pinching side comes in to try and eke maximum value from every drop of what was really just a charity publicity move. Shoulda just doubled down and done a tech crunch event, get a sledgehammer and some safety gear and let people pulverize some shit. Take advantage of some of those fancy ass cameras to do some slow mo tech death and you mighta had something.
Or get fans that are silent.
Same, when I'm doing flooring I just order 1.5x if not 2x what I actually need, use what I need, throw two spare boxes in the attic, then return the rest. Way easier to deal with having too much rather than not enough. The last time I didn't do that was the last time I'll ever not do it that way, customer had some tiles, all just loose so I didn't know how many boxes to count up the footage and I wasn't gonna count the loose tiles, they said it would be plenty for what they wanted. Ended up literally one tile short
If you wanted year round pool use (one of the points of having a heated pool I imagine); wouldn't the answer be to build a structure around the pool, like even a green house unit help hold heat. I also would use real copper piping; sure it may cost more and require a lot more effort and a license plumber; but running pipes from your pool to your basement and all this other shit is built as a permanent solution, and permanent solutions require permanent parts.
That one at the bottom makes me recall when Jim Metokur was doing a DSP stream and one of Phil's paypigs was in the chat. And despite the mocking tone; Jim gave him a real "Don't you have things you want to do? Don't you want to buy a house yourself?" Nothing wrong with being a fan, but the number of para-social relationships that are popping up are frightening.
Calling this abomination a smart home hurts me. Even disregarding the general stupidity of a smart home in so far as putting massive corporations in control of your home, a 'proper' smart home puts its power towards making a house a more efficient, convenient and livable space. Shoving eight amps of bullshit in to support a retarded computer build is to a smart home, as what an escaped convict is to a butler.
The evil part of me hopes not.
I can confirm from experience. I had an NH-D14 on my 16-core machine and while not 90s delta screamer loud it was obnoxious. I got a cheap AIO (well, cheaper than upgrading all my case fans to exoensive ass noctua) and it cut 10 degrees and the machine is barely audible now.
Hit the nail on the head. It's consoomer shit. Years ago I saw some video from Crestron or Lutron or something about some mansion they automated in the late 90s/early 2000s and it looked like magic. Tons of automation that was well thought out, wall and table mounted control panels. Like the house would open these special louvered windows depending on wind speed and sun exposure so you could avoid using AC all the time. Different light zones fading on and off depending on room occupancy and time of day. Different music depending on time of day and where you were in the house, like really insanely well done.
