Thank you so much :)

The easy part of this was that the foundation is just a big square. I picked an arbitrary size: ten 6x6 foundation blueprints on each side. The rest I just copied from inspiration images I found online. I pretty much copied an ancient building called the Ziggurat of Ur.

I think the important thing was that I built the thing first, then started figuring out what to put in it. If I did it the other way around, I figured I’d get stuck in analysis paralysis. I did know I generally wanted to build tier 9 parts in it, so I did make sure one floor was tall enough for particle accelerators, but that’s all i planned in advance.

I have been making buildings alternating logistics floors with production floors, and yeah it’s pretty nice to have belts up against the ceiling of the logistics floor so I can actually walk around and build.

I appreciate you posting it!

Looks good to me! Keep up the good work!

I’d love to see what y’all have got so far, could I get a join URL?

I’ve had a great experience with the TrueNAS Mini-X system I bought. ZFS has great raid options, and TrueNAS makes managing a system really easy. You can get a box built & configured by them, with 16 GB ECC RAM and five (empty) drive bays, for about $1150 at the most affordable end. https://www.truenas.com/truenas-mini/

One thing to be careful about: you can’t add drives to a ZFS vdev once it’s been created, but you can add new vdevs to an existing pool. So, you can start with two mirrored drives, then add another two mirrored drives to that pool later.

(A vdev is a sub-unit of a ZFS storage pool, and you have to choose your RAID topology for each vdev and then compose those into a storage pool)

The common wisdom about backups is the 3-2-1 backup strategy, which recommends:

• 3 total copies of your data, including your original or “production” data
• 2 different forms of media
• 1 off-site copy

Proton Drive can be a decent off-site backup, but it would be a good idea to make a separate backup of your data on a different form of media like an external hard drive, just in case Proton Drive goes down, or the data there gets corrupted and you need to restore a known good version.

Check out gamemode if you’re gaming, it should improve performance a little bit

There are a bunch of message broker services out there, and having a consistent set of common keys along with a documented process for transforming events to/from different systems means that this kind of data can move through different systems without getting mangled. It does have a spec for JSON, so it can be considered just a standardized JSON blob with transformation rules. But it also has a protobuf spec, specs for MQTT, NATS, HTTP, Avro, etc. It’s a common language for all these systems.

I’m really into CloudEvents because I love event-driven systems, and since events can come from, or be consumed by, so many different services, having a robust spec is super duper useful.

Why is nobody talking about the mouthfeel?

I came at it from the opposite direction, I love factory games and building sims, but damn it’s one of the greats now.

At least you’re using Duke’s, clear evidence you’re still sane.

Golf confirmed???

This is the nature of the world, here. When I see the world, the politics, the future, the satellites in space, and the people that put them there, you could look at everything as a man and a cat.

Nice, thank you!! I forgot about this post hehe.

I like those rules, I might ask my friends to adopt them cuz I do prefer everything to be nice and organized.

Then they put on the socks and become girls

I’ll bring some of that Giggleswick ganja