I do, actually! I thought I was alone in that.
I have my PC with the back facing the front. I actually flipped it to stop it from overheating from having the vents be against the walls, but I really like the easy access to the ports. It also makes opening the side panel easier, since they tend to be made to slide towards the back.
Thanks HN!!!
There are PCI slot brackets with power and reset buttons.
https://www.highspeedpc.com/ATX_Power_Bracket_p/atxbracket.h...
> Also great for isolating problem case switches!
... Which implies that that's not the primary use they envisioned.
Their main product appears to be an open-air ATX "case", which basically amounts to a motherboard mount, a fan mount, a rail to support PCI cards, and a mount point or two for hard drives, without side walls and without a power button. So they also sell a power button mounted onto a PCI bracket, to slot into an open slot on the case's PCI rail.
i.e. after press it returns to its previous state (momentary), and on press it 'makes' (as opposed to 'breaks') the circuit, or 'bridge' between pins as you said.
Which is why my screwdriver works - I momentarily hold it across the pins, making a connection between them.
But, y'know, it's not hard enough to pick up the screwdriver and poke (I do keep it right there, solely for that purpose) that I've bothered.
Bravo:)
The cheap-o original fans were quiet at low speed but hardly moved any air, and at high speed they made tons of wind noise; I think the airfoils were stalling or something.
The Gentle Typhoons were reasonably wind-noise quiet even at high speed, but made a high-pitched hissing from the bearings at all speeds, and a groaning rumble from the motors at low speed.
The Noctuas are much quieter at 1000 rpm, almost inaudible relative to the 4 hard drives, and make fairly innocuous white noise at high speed.
I also currently have my home server in a closet with the seeds I’m starting so the soil stays around 80 degrees (f).
I don't see the quote you provided anywhere on the linked page. What I see is this.
> so I was looking for a MicroSD to M.2 adapter (shut up, it exists, and I have reasons to want it) and I found something way more cursed: M.2 (SDIO) to SD card slot!
It sounds like a reply to something, but I can't tell what, and then below it are a bunch of replies, none of which seem to be related to each other. I think I have a twitter learning disability.
What do you see when you open the link ? (no sarcasm or offence intended)
...the back of my computer is ugly.
It matters! My computer is a pretty large fixture in my apartment, and I want my home to look nice.
https://www.homedepot.com/s/Spray%2520paint?searchtype=text&...
If I had a bunch of time I could probably find 'em on Archive.org or something. Their logo was very distinctive, a 3d-head sort of thing which I remember resembling the middle of the "little brain / big brain / universe brain" meme.
I lived for years with a desktop with a broken power button. Didn't miss it.
Why couldn't you replace it?
>Didn't miss it.
Initially, I didn't replace it because I had no time to go buy another on that day. Then, because of that.
If this is truly a source of friction, why bother with the case? Why not go au naturale?
http://i.imgur.com/rnEHOTD.jpg
...oh, it's not your ceiling, either? Well then I'm out of ideas:)
Of course, you can buy a USB hub, you can buy a USB ethernet NIC (though it still probably won't go as fast as the back one), but you can also just flip the box.