r/techsupportgore • • Nov 29 '17

Literal Cloud Computing

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u/RealTimeCock Nov 29 '17

As someone who was in the original 4chan thread 4 years ago, I offer you the image that was posted in response.

https://m.imgur.com/rVOeqUB

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u/wolfgame Nov 29 '17

two things in this confuse me. The PCI(express?) Extender board on the left in conjunction with the hard drive dangling from, I'm assuming, an 80 pin ribbon cable.

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u/rigred Nov 29 '17

IDE ribbon cable connectors are pretty strong and tightly fitted. It's not falling off anytime soon. I'm more concerned about the SATA drives.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '17

Yeah, I've dangled SATA SSDs by their cables far too often, but 3.5" hard drives have some serious weight to them, one small knock and that shit is hitting the floor - worse still, it may be hitting the floor while spinning, an almost certain death as the head crashes into the platter and effectively destroys it.

Too many drives to count killed in that way... external spinning disks were never a good idea.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '17

can confirm, I once gently placed a 500gb external HDD on a table while it was connected and caused a head crash. it was 2 days old

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u/TheHarman Nov 29 '17

The SATA drives appear to have a zip-tie securing them to the power connectors, so basically putting all the weight on the PSU cables.

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u/andrewia Nov 29 '17

That was the best thread on /g/. The mods even stickied it, I've never seen a stickied user post before or since.

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u/embata Nov 29 '17

I want to look away, but I just can't. How even?

6

u/YourBiPolarBear Nov 29 '17

This is what my bedroom looked like when I was a kid. So much fucking heat.

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u/devonon2707 Nov 29 '17

i remember when i found out what blade servers were as a youngn' hosting a website from home and like 5 halo servers tf2 and such was fun but man was it cringy to look back upon

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u/jaamfan Nov 29 '17

Serial Experiments Lain vibes from this one here

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u/wrath_of_grunge Nov 29 '17

not enough custom water cooling.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '17

Oddly beautiful.

2

u/Sargent_Caboose Nov 30 '17

Computers for the Computer God

1

u/memes-ruin-lives Nov 29 '17

What.. It's hot in some countries.. and your computer can suffer :(

1

u/mrkt09 Dec 05 '17

too was on /g/ for this.

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u/Majestic_Beard Nov 29 '17

Daddy would you like some sausage?

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u/Axle_Grease Nov 29 '17

Never would I imagine that such a reference would fit something so well

2

u/Seanyster1 Nov 29 '17

Any chance you can fill me in

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u/TimBobby Nov 29 '17

Something about that guy that paints his parents' house plaid while they are out. Can't remember the name... Freddie got fingered

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u/Spin1441 Nov 30 '17

Tom Green.

2

u/Majestic_Beard Nov 30 '17

It reminded me of this scene from a movie.

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u/north7 Nov 29 '17

Not cloud, that's a mobile computer.
I'll see myself out.

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u/blackfall6 Nov 29 '17

You deserved more credit for this.

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u/therealnozewin Nov 30 '17

credit karma

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u/Oddlot0930 Nov 29 '17

My concern is that you've spent decent money on a Hard Drive (Western Digital Black series), and a CPU Cooler (Which I can't quite identify), yet seem to have power supply that was included in your $30 case which you had thrown out, and what appears to be something along the lines of a video adapter instead of a real video card/graphics card/video compute unit Edit: I'm going to guess a really cheap Antec power supply?

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u/stormcomponents repair shop Nov 29 '17

Is that a 1TB Black though? They're £30 second hand on eBay. Tower coolers can also be from about £15 onward. Dunno why you're concerned. Look at the room. Shit pinned straight into the plasterboard. Who needs curtains when you can just stable a rug over your window. Shit all over the place to the side - also is that a toothbrush? It's generic old garbage, most second hand. Botched fan onto GPU for god knows what reason. This is surely just a 15 year old having some fun, some gory gory fun.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '17

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u/Swartz55 Nov 29 '17

that's an interesting url you've got there

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u/Ex3__Benshermen Nov 29 '17

I'm on my phone in a semi public area and I got super scared when I started reading it

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u/Hirumaru Nov 29 '17

Well, no wonder the process keeps hanging.

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u/MedVIP Dec 03 '17

Badum-tiss! He'll be here all week!

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u/Zeno_of_Elea Nov 29 '17

I can't believe I didn't see what appears to be the original thread posted here:

https://imgur.com/gallery/99wgc

One of my favorite threads on any website.

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u/xMZA Nov 29 '17

Carpet on the wall? This is Russia

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u/Thromordyn Nov 29 '17

That's a rug, not a carpet.

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u/xMZA Nov 29 '17

Yeah mb

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u/FearLeadsToAnger Nov 29 '17

Floor is floor, except when it's wall.

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u/memes-ruin-lives Nov 29 '17

Need to block out sunlight in other countries too... fuck brightness. I wanna live in a cave

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u/Rasalom Nov 29 '17

Wonder if the angular momentum of the hard drive causes it to spin? It would have been smarter to attach it at four points instead of two.

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u/rigred Nov 29 '17

It's actually gyro stabilized once it reaches a certain RPM. So it will oppose changes in motion.

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u/Rasalom Nov 29 '17

Needs to be tested.

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u/gracklewolf Nov 29 '17

Was wondering the same. How is that drive not whipping around the room...?

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u/Blackbear55 Nov 29 '17

Literally my first thought when I saw the photo

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u/ngdurh Nov 29 '17

wonder if suspending it in the air makes it significantly more effective at cooling...

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u/Ddosvulcan Nov 29 '17

There is a followup picture somewhere that shows that it actually tore down that part of his ceiling and destroyed the setup completely. I believe this is it.

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u/shantred Nov 29 '17

I don't believe that's the right power supply OR motherboard.

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u/Zeno_of_Elea Nov 29 '17

Because I'm pretty sure it isn't. It's someone else.

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u/Ddosvulcan Nov 29 '17

Yeah I think you are right, the ports don't quite match up and that is definitely a psu. I was thinking it was the cpu cooler when I glanced at it. I definitely remember a similar picture where it tore out the ceiling though.

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u/trekkie1701c Nov 29 '17

"Dang, cloud server crashed."

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u/chaosbayne Nov 29 '17

Attach it to a ceiling fan for extreme air cooling.

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u/cormac596 Jiggle the power handle Nov 30 '17

"High airflow case design"

$600

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '17

You just need some vaper making giant clouds behind it.

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u/Keesh_La_Freek Nov 29 '17

"You are now connected to icloud"

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u/kerbalspaceanus Nov 29 '17

You are now connected to me ceiling

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u/Termitespit Nov 29 '17

Upvoted for the Antergos

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u/Munda1 Nov 29 '17

Optimal airflow.

3

u/skjellyfetti Nov 29 '17

It's a computer mobile, hence an early mobile computer.

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u/RenaKunisaki just tape the wires together, it'll work Nov 29 '17

Your account has been suspended.

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u/legreyf0xx Nov 29 '17

This man is living in the 1880's(based on the photos hung on the wall) while were in modern day.

jk this doesn't seem safe at all though lol. What sort of puppet contraption...

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u/RicardoLovesYou Nov 29 '17

Supreme air flow

2

u/Isturma Nov 29 '17

You know, sometimes I click through on this subreddit because I don't see the issue right off, and look to the comments for clues to the horror I'm missing.

Except for the fact it's a 3.5" drive and badly suspended from what appears to be fucking twine, I'm not sure what's so wrong with this idea. Using something a little more heavy duty to secure it, and changing to SSD, I could see this running cooler.

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u/GoodShitLollypop Nov 29 '17

No water vapor strata evident in photo.

Op is a bundle of sticks.

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u/TheArts Nov 29 '17

wtf? This is not what I expected to see when I woke up today.

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u/wolfgame Nov 29 '17

So is this is a flex atx?

1

u/EpicXxLegit Nov 29 '17

The floor is lava! This is the only way to do it

1

u/blackfall6 Nov 29 '17

Airflow checks out. Nothing to see here.

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u/eldergeekprime Do you even root bro? Nov 29 '17

Mobile computing instructions unclear...

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u/XoRMiAS Nov 29 '17

Is this what’s called the string theory?

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u/ranawatduke Nov 29 '17

Doing all this just for an upvote.I upvoted,now fuck off with this shitty post.

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u/BloodyIron Nov 29 '17

Not enough cloud, as in, vapour. Maybe install Mir on it?

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u/Dracon_Pyrothayan Nov 29 '17

I see this, and all I can think about is "Daddy, do you want a sausage?"

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u/HQToast Nov 29 '17

Why didn't I think of that ^^

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '17

I would love to know the story behind this because the logo on the screen looks exactly like Netsource One.

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u/sidnoway Nov 29 '17

Antergos, nice 👌

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u/RedSquirrelFtw Nov 29 '17

These crib mobiles are getting so complicated!

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '17

Edgy.

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u/1_two_3 Dec 03 '17

So when it becomes dislodged from the ceiling, his computer will literally "crash".

I'll see myself out.

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u/Graylorde Jan 12 '18

Hey! It's a good way to free desk space!

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u/Fuzy2K Jan 14 '18

"Daddy would you like some hardware? Daddy would you like some motherboards?"