For The Love of Science

I don't even know where or how to start the post this time. So I'll just start off with a bit of news that proves we are being governed by idiots, and it's not just annoying, it is dangerous. https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/india-orders-vpn-companies-to-collect-and-hand-over-user-data/ And, it's not just India. Apparently, in an effort to block TikTok, the US is also rolling out a bill that is way overpowered and straight-up ill-conceived for a neutral internet. https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ddb/restrict-act-insanely-broad-ban-tiktok-vpns Moving on... For the people who are waiting for an update on the braiding robot thing, I would have to, unfortunately, disappoint you again, for now at least, as I am still not 100% sure what I can publish into the public domain without affecting the IP / critical rights of the project. But, once I am certain I have the required clearance, then I would definitely like to share the work that has gone into it. If nothing else, it

So... For once in a millennium, Blogger will be graced with a post by yours truly within the promised time frame in the last post. That really does happen very rarely. Almost as rare as the lone Russian guy/girl who stumbled upon this blog at the exact moment I chose to call Putin a "pimmel". At least I hope that you have access to an open internet with multiple sources of verified news, so you are at the very least aware of what is happening and why the situation is critical. Enough jibber-jabber. This post would also be more of an expressionist kind of deal rather than a tutorial or science thing. When I was traveling during the Omicron wave to India in December, I had thought I would try to vlog Casey Nesitat's style. In retrospect that was too ambitious of a goal. So the only thing that I ended up documenting was the train journey from Delhi railway station to Chandigarh, and even that was not exactly easy because of the timing situation with the flight and the train.

Consider this post a miracle, because even I don't believe that I am writing an update this soon. Granted that some things that I had outlined and planned in my previous post, have not all been completed, but I think I have made fair progress and completed enough work to call it done. I think it would be better to break this into 3 parts. The first part with a general overview of what all has been done. 2nd for the server and lighting centric and finally a review of the Ryzen system that I am running. Granted the 3000 series just launched so I am officially a year late to the review, but oh well. Let's start with what all has been accomplished. And I choose my words carefully and this is an accomplishment for me personally. It's still not done to the level of detail that I would have wanted it to be done, but it is working and so far, everything is seemingly stable, so that's always a good sign. Official Ryzen Room Starting with the official "photo"