OwOarchist

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Honestly, all the electrical safety/grounding concerns are completely solved if you just screw the power supply directly to the metal of the desk. The power supply is already grounded, and metal-on-metal contact with the desk will mean that everything else is also safely grounded. It's the same way the metal parts of a normal PC case are grounded.

Having the main PC case in a moving drawer greatly complicates all of the wiring connections. Could make it easy to work on ... unless it's one of those connections that has gone wrong (and it probably will be), in which case it's a nightmare.

My suggestion: Completely remove the two drawers above the bottom left, and fix the bottom drawer in place permanently. That way, all the wiring connections don't have to move at all. PC components can be installed and maintained by reaching in from above, through the gap left by removing the top two drawers. It also gives you a lot more room to think about cooling solutions -- I would do that by drilling/cutting out vent patterns in the back wall of the desk and then mounting fans/liquid coolers to that, exhausting heat out the back. Ah, but then what do you do about the big, unsightly hole that's left after removing the top two drawers? You fashion a hinged door using the face plates of the two removed drawers as the front fascia of it -- so when it's closed, it looks completely normal.


A couple other minor suggestions:

1: Consider adding the power/reset switches and status LEDs into your 3D-printed desktop connection module. You'll need to put them (or at least the power button) somewhere, and if you design it with that in mind, they could be integrated nice and seamlessly.

2: Mounting everything in the bottom drawer could be made much simpler and easier if you just buy an 'open air PC case' and attach that to the bottom drawer. Something like this:

There are a bunch of them out there on the market if you look, and they would greatly simplify the install ... if there's room for that in your budget. Or, for a similar but more DIY solution, you could just take a normal PC case and an angle grinder and cut away everything you don't need, leaving a similar result with just the motherboard tray, PCIe card supports, mounting brackets for drives and power supply, etc. In some cases, the motherboard tray (with card supports) is already a removable piece, which would get you halfway there easily.

“If Trump came out in favor of Oxygen, you’d stop breathing!”

He never would, though, because he's fucking allergic to having a good take on anything whatsoever.

Even if he tried, he'd probably get lost halfway through and end up rambling about how he breathes the best oxygen, nobody breathes oxygen like he does.

Honestly, there is potential to 'cure cancer with (help from) "AI".'

1: You take a DNA test (simple cheek swab or whatever) to identify your particular genetic risk factors might be. Or a small biopsy is done to sample some of the tumor itself and figure out exactly what kind of cancer it is. Just a needle would work, assuming it's somewhere a needle could reach. Only need a microscopic sample of it. Or if it has already metastasized into the bloodstream, a simple blood sample would do.

2: This genetic information is fed into a purpose-built AI (not an LLM) that's trained to identify the particular strain of cancer and match it with a custom-designed drug cocktail that will target that very specific cancer mutation perfectly.

3: The drug combination is synthesized, and you now have the perfect medication to combat exactly the strain of cancer you have.

The problem with 'curing cancer' is that there's millions of different kinds of cancer, millions of different mutations and genetic risk factors that can combine in different ways to produce different cancers that respond to different treatments. We already have 'cured' a few specific types of cancer -- a few specific strains that we already have found solutions to. But researching and developing a solution like that takes monumental effort and a ton of money and time. It's just not feasible to do for all the different kinds of cancer out there. If an AI could do that part quickly and easily, that might give us access to 'cures' for nearly every type of cancer, instead of just a few out of millions.

Still requires boiling oceans, but they've found a few uninhabited water planets that can safely be boiled without bothering anybody.

(Also, our AI isn't even that good. They're not boiling the oceans. They're boiling what previous little fresh water we have that could be used for drinking or irrigation. It would be a lot less of a problem if they just built their cooling systems to deal with salt water and used seawater instead.)

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If you skip it entirely, you can get your food for free! Grocery stores hate this one simple trick.