Second part of Keine Farben, Volume 7. Its very EBM / Electro-focused, and touch wee bit of Industrial towards the end.
\nThis is exactly as planned. The first show in the month is primarly focused on Punk / Post-Punk / Coldwave / Goth, while the last show in the month also features lots of EBM and dark electro.
Playlist below this post.
\nListen to the show:
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Last friday was a bit quiet, and also I had to start later than planned, because I was completely wasted from work.
\nBut live we go, cause music therapy, and stuff.
\nSo here is the first part of Keine Farben, Volume 7. Playlist below.
\nListen to the show:
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Ok, good riddance, 2025! This year was one of the worst so far .. aside of fascist / racist mass hallucinations and insane financial marketing BS like GenAI.
\nIt’s been like my worst year. First half was just about staying somehow afloat with the living situation, next on, full on troubles with work, getting the flat prepared for a new flat mate .. future perspective looking not so rosy with everything, fast forward: and here we are, end of the year.
\nLets have some basic resolutions that I formulated over this horrible train-wreck of a year – this is basically what is already set in motion, not just some flimsy “get better next year, like: tomorrow, magically” feelgood braindead BS:
\nPlaylist of our set on the Darkscene DJS Imbolc Raid Train on February 1st, 2025.
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\nAlso see the build thread over at https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/portable-workstation.19776/
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\nCurrently I’m using a Gigabyte Radeon RX 6800 Gaming OC, which is 286 mm long, up to 58 mm tall and officially only 115 mm wide.
\nAlso weights about half a ton (kidding, 1.3 kg), lovingly called The Brick. Its chonky, unwieldy and vastly inflexible in montage, esp. when wiggled inside the radiator compartment of the A4-H2O.
Rest of the specs and overall progress is found over at the SFF.Net build log: https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/portable-workstation-a4-h2o-w-280-radiator.19558/
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\nSystem specifications as follows:
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\nRoom temperature is approx. 21~ C, testing is done with CPU in idle, 100% load and mixed mode (in its original purpose, ie. streaming using OBS Studio, ProjectM visualizer and VLC running).
\nOptionally doing noise level tests, although the case fans tend to be louder than the CPU fan. Currently using the “neodym magnet” mod, which moves the case fans as far to the front as possible; also rerouting the PSU extension through the GPU slot opening, to reduce heat impact (the original routing sits right above the VRM and PCIe riser cable, the hottest part in the case during CPU loads).
CPU load is being induced using the simple but very effective method called “Yes Stress Test”, which uses the ‘yes’ binary, which is part of the GNU core utils package (ie. part of all normal Linux installations), to utilize one core at a time.
\n‘yes’ repeats the letter ‘y’ (or any other string you define) until its process is killed, utilizing 100% CPU load per core / thread. Also see the article “How to stress test your CPU on Linux” for a more detailed explaination.
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| Be quiet Silent Loop 2 | \n1x Silent Wings 3 140 HS, 1x Silent Wings 4 120 HS w/ 120-to-140 Noctua adapter | \n21 \u00b0C | \n53 \u00b0C | \n50 \u00b0C | \nFans set to exhaust; Mixed load after ~4 hours of intense streaming; both open and closed front panel in the Meshlicious (no difference in thermals) | \n
| Thermalright AXP-120×67 | \nSilverstone Air Slimmer ARGB (intake) | \n24 C | \n71 C | \n63 C | \nOpen side panel | \n
| 26 C | \n74 C | \n65 C | \nClosed side panel; Additional thermals: NVME idle: 32 C, Wifi idle: 33 C; NVME 100% load: 34.9 C, Wifi 100% load: 36 C | \n||
| Silverstone Airblazer 120RW (intake) | \n25 C | \n74 C | \n59 C | \nSemi-closed panel; Implements a mod using neodym magnets to allow for up to 82 mm of width instead of 65 mm. | \n|
| Silverstone Airblazer 120RW (exhaust) | \n26 | \n77 | \n– | \nSemi-closed panel using the neodym magnet mod (see above) | \n|
| Thermalright SI-100 | \nThermalright E-12W-S (ARGB) | \n26 C | \n63 C | \n(tbd) | \nOpen side panel; Additional thermals: NVME idle: 34.9 C, Wifi idle: 35 C; NVME 100% load: 36.9 C, Wifi 100% load: 39 C | \n
| Silverstone Vida 240 | \n2x Silverstone Airblazer 120RW | \n26 | \n60 | \n47 | \nClosed panels, but AIO sits on top of the case = outside; Additional thermals: NVME idle: 31 C, Wifi idle: 32 C; NVMe 100% load: 34 C, Wifi 100% load: 34 C; (mixed temps: tba) | \n
It’s just as I’ve feared (and probably many others): After the sell-out of CSS Tricks in 2022, its new masters let it tatter on for about a year, and then stopped publishing any new content around mid April of 2023.
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So now its only reason for existence is content, content, content = SEO paradise, and the almanac (which is also “content content content”).
\nThat 15 years project is getting now an even worse treatment than other long-time runners got, ie. letting it slowly fade-away into triviality.
\nProbably, in another few months, its gonna be folded into another “exciting adventure” of its current masters, and then disappear from the web entirely.
Although it could be revived, like other sites were in the past, for example:
\nSelfHTML – originally an introduction and daily helper in terms of how to use HTML + CSS, and to some extends, also Javascript. Eventually it was turned into a (somewhat medicro) wiki and the supporting people founded an association (Verein), but it is still active and around.
\nRecently, they even asked themselves whether SelfHTML is still valid to be around, but come to the conclusion, that yes, esp. for native German speakers, and beginners, its still a valid and solid introduction and reference.
A List Apart – from the originally ground-breaking tutorials and articles, its turned mostly into a teaser-orgy for other peoples grand books on topic xyz, and the rest is filled with essays about work, but sometimes, there still is useful content to be found.
\nSmashing Magazine – has grown tremendiously and despite having a phase of stand-still a few years ago, seems to have climbed out of that valley. Today I went to their front page, and the “top links” / introduction section about helpers and tools was indeed a tremendous help. A lot of the articles posted there are not my cup of tea, but they have definitely broadened their spectrum, and despite that mentioned “valley of stand-still”, seemingly have managed to avoid turning into yet another run o’ the mill, “jack of all trades” magazine.
\nTympanus Codrops – does still the same, ie. posts of CSS / JS / Web design experiments, but mixes and breaks up things with a bit more lively, varied content.
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