Just a record for another cheap kit. A green zaku for RMB 7.02.

The overall experience was not as good as the previous kit. It was just okay to assemble. Anyway the cheap price rules!

This was a dirt cheap (RMB 9) model kit I bought from PDD. I assumed it should be some kind capsule toy, it turned out to be a complete model kit! Just named as Gandam instead of Gundam 😆.

Unboxing it revealed the kit with a manual in Chinese. The plastic looked much nicer than the other kits I bought from Taobao ages ago.

The whole assembly process took an hour or two. Pretty smooth except the few glitches among the nub marks. Not bad given the unbeatable price!

During previous Black Fridays I have bought a few stuff including notebooks, Chromebook, RAM, micro sd cards and VPSs… This year tried to order the Eco series dedicated server on OVH https://www.ovhcloud.com/. In the end got a KS-LE-2:

No luck in getting a free upgrade as per the OVH lottery just others get. Although IPMI is included in the server, setting up an environment to run a Java applet has proven to be quite challenging. Oracle has changed its licensing, making Oracle Java unavailable for free in commercial environments, while OpenJDK does not support applets. Additionally, I have found that the applet always crashes when attempting to mount an ISO, which forces me to install the server using the templates provided by OVH.

The installation process was almost seamless, requiring just a few clicks. However, my first attempt hung midway, prompting a technician to intervene and update the BIOS settings. For my second attempt, I tried installing Hyper-V Server 2019, which went smoothly, but I faced issues managing it via Hyper-V Manager over the Internet. Additionally, I encountered dynamic disk limitations, restricting to only two disks for mirroring the system volume. As a result, I decided to reinstall the server using the Proxmox Virtual Environment 8 template:

I must admit that Proxmox has a pretty neat GUI and creating VM is just easy using the wizard! Here is the YABS result:

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Mon Dec  2 09:00:52 HKT 2024

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 5 days, 17 hours, 48 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz
CPU cores  : 8 @ 3425.075 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 31.1 GiB
Swap       : 4.0 GiB
Disk       :
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.8.12-4-pve
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP        : OVH SAS
ASN        : AS16276 OVH SAS
Host       : OVH Hosting, Inc
Location   : Beauharnois, Quebec (QC)
Country    : Canada

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition data/zd2):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 36.91 MB/s    (9.2k) | 431.89 MB/s   (6.7k)
Write      | 37.01 MB/s    (9.2k) | 434.16 MB/s   (6.7k)
Total      | 73.92 MB/s   (18.4k) | 866.05 MB/s  (13.5k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 1.06 GB/s     (2.0k) | 1.25 GB/s     (1.2k)
Write      | 1.11 GB/s     (2.1k) | 1.33 GB/s     (1.3k)
Total      | 2.17 GB/s     (4.2k) | 2.59 GB/s     (2.5k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 377 Mbits/sec   | 862 Mbits/sec   | 76.9 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 884 Mbits/sec   | 847 Mbits/sec   | 91.1 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 823 Mbits/sec   | 481 Mbits/sec   | 183 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 590 Mbits/sec   | 508 Mbits/sec   | 243 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 891 Mbits/sec   | 547 Mbits/sec   | 68.1 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | busy            | busy            | 12.1 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 846 Mbits/sec   | 713 Mbits/sec   | 119 ms

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 872 Mbits/sec   | 739 Mbits/sec   | 75.1 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 873 Mbits/sec   | 852 Mbits/sec   | 91.1 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 778 Mbits/sec   | 464 Mbits/sec   | 183 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 562 Mbits/sec   | 603 Mbits/sec   | 243 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 880 Mbits/sec   | 872 Mbits/sec   | 68.2 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 924 Mbits/sec   | 925 Mbits/sec   | 12.2 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 833 Mbits/sec   | 606 Mbits/sec   | 119 ms

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 1257
Multi Core      | 4178
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9191014

YABS completed in 14 min 1 sec

Recenty bought a small nanoblock clone robot that looks like Gundam RX78-2 from Taobao for just HKD 4.12:

The package was a bit squashed as expected:

Here are the materials inside:

Assembling took around 30 minutes with a final product: