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  • It’s basically just an end you attach to the fiber:

    https://www.gomultilink.com/products/066-222-10?category=44

    You’ll use a cleaver to break the fiber at a 90 degree angle to reduce attenuation, and slide it into the connector. Once it bottoms out, you press something down and it grabs the fiber, holding it in place.

    I know it’s Youtube, but here’s a video of the process:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuKm7t87SJU

    The idea is you would pull a fiber cable through a building and terminate it with ends like these. Then install them into a bulkhead to make them similar to solid-core CAT5/5e/6 cable into a patch panel. You can then use premade jumpers to connect from the building wiring to the devices you’re using.

    The fusion machines are generally used for long distance links because of the significantly lower attenuation per splice. A fiber line that goes 40 miles is likely to have tens if not hundreds of splices in it depending on the number of spans of cable, and industry standard for fusion splices is 0.00-0.05 db attenuation per fusion splice.





  • I’m not disagreeing with anything you’ve said?

    I’m saying that just adding Mozilla’s PPA to your sources won’t change apt’s behavior when installing Firefox unless you tell apt to prefer the package offered by the Mozilla PPA.

    As someone who uses Kubuntu as a daily driver, I’m well aware of the snap drama and have worked around it using the method I pasted above.

    Even though it’s an underhanded move by Cannonical, I’m still glad the OS is open source since it makes the workaround so trivial.



  • Biden never had enough control of the whole government to get those things done without Republican buy-in.

    A Republican controlled house won’t send a bill like that to the Senate. A Republican controlled Senate won’t send it to the President.

    You can be upset at Biden, but we’ve rarely ever given a Democratic president a Democratic Congress to help him get anything done.






  • If there was a short on something, the CPU wouldn’t work.

    Even at idle, CPUs generate heat because there’s electricity flowing across them. That heat needs to be dissipated and for some reason, it isn’t.

    My bet is either a pump failure, or power loss to the pump. Looking at the thermas paste marks on both the water block and the CPU, it looks like it’s making at least decent contact. If the water was flowing through it, it shouldn’t be overheating at idle. It might not be performing at peak efficiency, but it shouldn’t be overheating.