

I will never understand the move from forums to discord. when discord is the only way to get assistance, I go find another product.


I will never understand the move from forums to discord. when discord is the only way to get assistance, I go find another product.


I had to look this up right away! thought you were messin with me… ;p


yes. luckily my viper ultimate is very old and starting to act weird.
any recommendations for alternatives? I need the mouse to be plug-in and wireless, so I can move between my office and field setup.


when people start using the “don’t question them; they know what they’re doing” argument…I become even more suspicious. If they knew what they were doing the results would be apparent and spectacular to everyone; no one would question it…
the fact that trickery and forced adoption are required for the technology to succeed is very telling about the competence of the technology itself.
no doubt.
I remember when you’d put a jacket on before you went in the halls… but now everyone wears shorts.


10-15 degrees is all you need to keep a “cold aisle” at 85degf, most places, on the worst day.
IIRC Amazon figured out that individual components could actually run hotter within an acceptable replacement window.
higher equipment replacement is more than offset by the fact they don’t have to do refrigerant based cooling which makes daily operation ridiculously cheap… no pumps or complicated mechanical devices to produce cooling… no people with special skills to maintain them, etc.


critical data centers use swamp coolers because they don’t have to treat the water or expose it to contamination from outside. they use straight domestic water… super cheap.
if the conductivity gets too high, they dump the basin and fill with fresh… rinse and repeat.


a chiller is not a swamp cooler.
picture a fan with a wet sponge in front of it… that is a swamp cooler.
oh man! I just poked ptsf@lemmy.world for a Austria!=Australia flub in another thread… my come uppins!


yes. I programmed and integrated swap coolers at Amazon data centers. when the cool air hits the hot aisles the humidity goes down.


is liquid cooking cooling really necessary? critical data centers I have worked in use swamp coolers. cheaper, more efficient, more reliable, uses same water as your house…
edit: d’oh! :)
hah