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djSoniQ retweeted
Ridiculous that I now have to consider how Horny a CEO is when investing in a company
djSoniQ retweeted
Two years ago I open sourced my DIY CNC machine, which cost me £2,655.80 and 9 months of my spare time. The Fusion 360 project, the drawings, the bill of materials, the STLs, the wiring diagrams and the Mach3 profile, all for free.
People ask why I didn't sell the plans... the answer is simple. Selling the plans would have defeated the whole point of the project, shutting out the very people I built it for.
My goal was to build a capable, sturdy machine for as little money as possible. Industrial-grade larger footprint machines are well out of reach for most hobbyists and small woodworking businesses. With a few minor trade-offs, you can build my machine for a fraction of the price, with nothing more than basic workshop tools.
10,000+ downloads later, people all over the world send me photos of the machine I designed, now fully built and operational in their own workshops.
That's what I love about open source. It's for people. Nobody needs permission or a subscription to build their own tools. You can repair them, upgrade them, and write your own software, because you know them inside and out.
This fills me with joy like nothing else.
ALT This is the alt text for the photo of you with the CNC, the one Content wrote for the LinkedIn post: Gareth (thehardwareguy) stands in his wooden workshop next to the DIY CNC machine he designed and built, then open sourced. It has an aluminium gantry on linear rails, a water-cooled spindle in the middle and an open electrical cabinet full of wiring behind it. A large MDF spoilboard covers the bed, which sits on a sturdy timber frame.
djSoniQ retweeted
This guy in Ilorin, Nigeria will help you convert your vehicles to electric. 😅 He built this electric Bugatti from scrap, from scratch
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King Slide, a Taiwanese maker of kitchen drawer slides, owns 70-90% of the market for high-end AI server rails. On Oct 30 it approved more than $600 million for what it plans as the world’s largest rail factory.
If you were building a King Slide competitor, you could buy the steel and the steel balls. You would have to build the molds, the stamping and plating lines and the assembly machines yourself. You would also have to design around its roughly 3,750 patents.
A server rail works like a drawer slide: three steel strips nest on steel balls. The two rails on either side of an AI server are 6.1 mm thick and hold a chassis of more than 40 kg. Each rail has more than 100 parts, and none can be off by more than 0.02 mm. Pulled all the way out, the rail holds the server from one end, and Nvidia’s next racks are heavier while the rails have to get thinner because liquid-cooling pipes take up the space.
Nan Juen, another Taiwanese furniture-slide maker, had made server rails since 2002. When it went after cloud servers in 2012, it found no major customer for six years because the brands had already picked their rail suppliers. It reached Nvidia’s GB200 rack in 2024.
A rail sells for under $100 and protects a rack that costs millions. In the second quarter King Slide’s gross margin was 87.4%. It still sells kitchen drawer slides.
djSoniQ retweeted
Naa bro.. for one I actually like secure boot. It actually provides security. I will not turn it off to run a system that does not deem it important to enable.
Second I run micro$oft window$ on a second partition and that requires secure boot.
djSoniQ retweeted
Just 1 day to #OLxDCon26! 🚀
After months of planning, countless conversations, and so much work behind the scenes, we are finally here!
Tomorrow, we make it happen!
Lagos, I can't wait to welcome you all!
LEARN. EXPLORE. CONNECT.
#OLxDCon26 #OLxD
@olxdcommunity
djSoniQ retweeted
Founders in SF/ Europe don't have two heads.
It’s about having infrastructure peace of mind.
When your environment (APC) isn’t actively trying to destroy you with power outages & bad policies, you actually get to use 100% of your brain to build.
Building in Nigeria is a nightmare
djSoniQ retweeted
It's not even my main one. This one just for my jellyfin server. But I always test everything there before trying it on the other.
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WELCOME TO MY SAFE SPACE TRILOGY
STAY TUNED AND ENJOY IN YHE HOUSE OF CREAM @Dcreamplatform #safespace
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Jesus, I just experienced POLICE BRUTALITY for the very first time and I’m seriously shaking right now, everything happened 30 mins ago, I was driving out when a Corolla with no plate number suddenly double crossed my car and two officers came down corking their guns, the rest (about 3 more) remained in the car. I genuinely thought they were armed robbers and wanted to run but calm myself, when they came close to me, they started shouting at me and asking me what is in my car boot and was genuinely confused and scared because I have watched a lot of @AluyaPov videos and know these people don’t care about human lives, I turn of the engine and open my boot and came down from the car to open the boot, immediately they asked whose car is this, I said mine and they said how could I afford such a car and what do I do for a living? I didn’t answer immediately and asked what caused all this interrogation, immediately they flared up and told me to enter my car back, one of them sat beside me in the front and the others sat at the back and they told me to drive, I said to where, he shouted and said just drive, I started driving and started asking if I’m being arrested or what? He asked for my car documents and started checking it and also said who do I do for a living, I told him I’m into wine business and also said the address of my store and i also said I’m into YouTube Automation, Forex Trading and sometimes collects gigs on my social media platform but he insisted that all that isn’t enough to buy a car and he will show me pepper, so I changed it for them and parked in the middle of the road that I’m not going anywhere again and he said despite that fact he knows I’m legitimate he can still rope me and incriminate me if he wants, that’s when I realized I’m dealing with the devil and I asked him what exactly he wants, he said I must give him 100k or else I won’t like what will happen to me, I pleaded and paid 50k and that’s how they left.
Also I need to add that they told me they are SARS operatives, I thought SARS was disbanded???
I need to leave this country with my family and relocated somewhere else, NIGERIA CAN NEVER BE BETTER.
