That's like 100,000 USD. I keep thinking about making a rap video wearing a 10 TB gold chain surrounded by big booty girls with their naughty bits covered in m.2 SSD's while dissing the AI industry. Though I cant afford the RAM :-/

It’s sad that I can’t interpret if you mean to actually shoot your rap video on film, or have an AI generate it lol. Either way you’re going to need RAM.

Shooting on film doesn't need any RAM. Unfortunately the price of silver is also through the roof.

like most rap videos do with cars/jets/mansions, just rent the ram sticks for a few hours!

Yep that much. 64Gb DDR5 ECC sticks (128Gb don't exist at the moment apparently). They declined the PO 6 months ago. That'll teach 'em.

I was pissed that there weren't any sticks heading to the recycling out of the nodes otherwise I would make myself that chain :)

Use Veo

Original Unreal had soft rendering just like Quake 1/2 and so on. Though at that point my brother and I had saved up enough beans to buy a Voodoo2.

Believe it or not the Europeans run heavier trucks than Americans. Ours just get to be longer.

I doubt most people would bother to think about that detail.

> All in one systems with water heating are way too complex and _will_ fail relatively quickly, ...

Can you offer some evidence of this? I don't see how adding a refrigerant to water heat exchanger after the compressor, before the reversing valve, could possibly hurt the longevity of a system.

> ... mini heat pumps won't last 10 years, and by the time it dies you won't be able to find a replacement for your specific model

Thing with mini-splits is you replace the entire unit so it doesn't matter.

> Can you offer some evidence of this? I don't see how adding a refrigerant to water heat exchanger after the compressor, before the reversing valve, could possibly hurt the longevity of a system.

The nearly infinite amount of forum posts about heat pumps dying prematurely and costing thousands and thousands to fix. You don't see how adding complexity on top of complexity in a complex system add points of failures ?

> Thing with mini-splits is you replace the entire unit so it doesn't matter.

I forgot this is an american centric forum and things are just made cheap/disposable because "it's cheaper'

> You don't see how adding complexity on top of complexity in a complex system add points of failures ?

I don't see see a heat pump as complex. It's a compressor, valves and coils. The complexity are the stupid computers foisted onto us.

> I forgot this is an american centric forum and things are just made cheap/disposable because "it's cheaper'

We don't have a choice. Do you? We're all at the mercy of the manufactures.

Then pay one to inspect it and sign off for you.

Theoretically a good choice, but where I live, just doesn't work. Either they just say "no thanks" or they will be more expensive than letting them do the whole job.

I got the "trick" recommended to do the things yourself, then call a certified guy, and say "look, I contracted a guy, I had no idea, he came did everything, but I got a bad vibe, I would like you check the whole installation". But it also does not really work, they will come with a contract, where you are enforced to contract them to correct any findings. And boy they will find things then...

It varies for sure but in my case it helps to know people.

> Driving it with some interesting combinations of Raspberry PI's and serial interfaces and custom written Go code, but it works... :)

What protocol is it speaking? I've seen some of the more mainstream models call out that they use Modbus but all the cheap import models either might use Modbus or some custom protocol you have to reverse engineer or hope someone else did.

Find an electrician who will inspect and sign off on your work. It's not illegal as licensed master electricians have mechanics do all the grunt work who are unlicensed. The electrician vouches for his employees work which legitimizes it. No different than you doing the work and having the electrician inspect, call out issues to fix, and inspect again until no issues are found and sign off.

That's not how it happened so talking about alternatives is conjecture and a fantasy. It's not productive here.

All they did was buy up everyone's else brand and put their brand over it. Modicon PLC's, Magnecraft relays, etc.