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Rustic Retreat

Live broadcasts and documentation from a remote tech outpost in rustic Portugal. Sharing off-grid life, the necessary research & development and the pursuit of life, without centralized infrastructure.

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Render Beast Build EP1

Building a Workstation or a Tank, or both

The foundation for this project has been laid a long time ago, on the premise that off-grid operation needs highly efficient systems to be viable at all. With the ongoing energy crisis (that's has been coming a long way) it seems prudent to cut down on energy in order to not bleed out more hard earned money. Therefore, the current main computing workhorse (HP DL-380 G8) has to be replaced with something that is more energy efficient, can be run way more silently and will adapt better to different environmental conditions.

Today we will take a look at the cooling assembly and continue to work on it, since all other parallel series are still waiting for parts to arrive :/

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