technology-discussion

[bitter girder]

0o yeah

the ultrasharp

ultrafine

ones dell ones LG i cant keep up ahahha

[dull garnet]

ye lol

[kindred brook]

Why would you want lddr

Vs regular

[dull garnet]

power consumption, maybe

[kindred brook]

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidias-quad-slot-geforce-rtx-4090ti-titan-800w-graphics-card-has-been-pictured

Thicc

[potent arrow]

@deep sapphire
https://deadline.com/2023/01/king-of-the-hill-revival-hulu-original-cast-returning-1235245072/

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/king-of-the-hill-koth-yep-yup-hank-hill-gif-18879339

[bitter girder]

lets goooo

[dull garnet]

thank you nvidia, very cool

[bitter girder]

https://tenor.com/view/eating-the-chip-chips-chip-eating-chip-man-eating-three-chips-gif-18885184

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/riding-dirty-riding-dirty-gif-8847209

[sharp star]

wasn’t the Meta Quest Pro discounted to $1000

for $1000 that thing better give me the best sex of my life

(impossible)

[sly elk]

HAHAHAHA

introducing the world's first VR sex brothel. The sex is real but they add VR so you can have your fantasies come true

[dull garnet]

[jaunty light]

mm my fingers are ruined already

hey bro what's your hobby?
"i smack thick metal wires with my fingers"

[dull garnet]

x86 is cringe

[sharp star]

more frequency is more better

and more better means more points of failure

[odd sand]

Sasuga, Shadow-sama.

[sly elk]

just put more screws in

gg that looks flimsy

[jaunty light]

are you watching it too

[odd sand]

Yeah my friend have been watching it as a drinking show heh

https://tenor.com/view/the-eminence-in-shadow-the-eminence-of-shadow-shadow-garden-kage-no-jitsuryokusha-ni-naritakute-kagenou-gif-27024398

100% in the eeeeeeedge

[jaunty light]

i too would bark for the tsundere twintail princess

although it was amusing they put fairouz ai in a booth and had her do guttural screams for an entire scene

i want science girl scenes but they always just give like 5 sec screentime n cart her off

[odd sand]

Who does she play? The feral wolf girl?

[sly elk]

oof one of these youtubers suggested the image quality on the panasonic s5iii is about as good as an a7iii, just better color quality

that's rough since you can sometimes get the a7iii much cheaper on a very good day

it still kicks ass for video though

https://youtu.be/DTPuPXGURLA?t=566 sheesh

wonder what kinda lens they were using going down that dark alley

[royal forge]

Ok... our hosp forces install AVG. And it just quarantined powershell

[golden stream]

AVG WAT

Quarantined powershell WAT

Tfw my dad's workplace just enforce Ubuntu no one would mess around with fookin shenanigan shiet also no gil for MS windows deal

[sly elk]

tbh I'm pretty sure out here they'd lock the computer out of running anything except the hospital's software lol

so like, epic hyperspace or whatever

and nothing else

[royal forge]

Theres a trojan on the network i think

[sly elk]

usually enterprise scale IT doesn't fuck around

[royal forge]

From some fuckin idle hero game

[golden stream]

Oh ye that

[sly elk]

hell, it's a problem when you're a programmer at a large not-software company

they';ll be like

"why do you want powershell? that's a huge security risk!"

[golden stream]

[sly elk]

"you want bash? are you some kinda hacker?!"

[royal forge]

Our clinic runs on google drive

..

[sly elk]

and then their always live file scanner quarantines your software as you build it

[golden stream]

Me casual sudo dnf install
My fellow same dept student: ONO HACKER
Me: tf

[sly elk]

LOL

yea but here's the thing, if you're a programmer

it's like telling a car mechanic

you can't use wrenches

[golden stream]

Ya art peep tbh is either very tech savvy or tech illicite
No inbetween

[sly elk]

it's too dangerous

[royal forge]

I can impress people with a cmd ping

[sly elk]

here, have some channel lock pliers instead

[royal forge]

[real edge]

go be the tech director of your clinic where you decide what goes into what

[golden stream]

Also again 3 2 1 backup rule

[real edge]

ull do a much better job than AVG guy

[royal forge]

100 GB storage. 99GB anime girl pics

Real talk

I dont wanna

Doctors are idots

Speakin as one

[golden stream]

No joke can vouche for that

[royal forge]

Talk about their field and they'll give you a 10 hour lecture

[golden stream]

My dad can windows or macOS just fine but will pull his hair when dealing with linux
Me: linux pleb

[royal forge]

Talk tech and get blank stares

[sly elk]

haha

I sometimes feel the opposite viyana

from a programming point of view, windows makes me wanna pull my hair

windows software is just WEIRD

MS caught on at some point that a lot of programmers hated using windows and started to really change things in the past like 5 years

but before that, windows was this weird ass backwards sideways thing

but a whole lot of people were fine with that because that's all they knew

[golden stream]

My dad is also a photographer, hobbyist tho
I asked if he worried about Olympus gon bankrupt and he said lmfao nah
then frickin processing pulling out his TECHNICAL LENSES IN HIS FRICKIN MACHINE and showed le Olymp lmao

[golden stream]

Tbh MS kinda lmao in the scheme of pirating windows stuff, same to Adobe
Bc peep used to it too much it'll be a huge hassle to switch

But ya, I saw peep in my place using a mix of windows and linux, kinda depend on the hospital/clinic

[umbral moss]

MD programs are less rigorous than nursing programs

they take longer but that's about it

[royal forge]

sure buddy

[umbral moss]

doctors specialize in a subsystem, nurses get slammed with having to know everything

since it's the nurse's job to execute the doctor's instructions

[dull garnet]

hey i posted about this a little while ago!

downgrading my driver seemed to fix it

which isn't really a fix

[umbral moss]

quality software as ever

bring back irc

god, I hope efnet died

efnet was /pol/ before 4chan

[dull garnet]

pol is where you go to post the worst opinions on the planet

[umbral moss]

/pol/ was a shitpost forum that became victim to poe's corollary

[dull garnet]

illegal!

[void dove]

IRC still going strong, its one of those more obscure things, like the emule network, that just keeps plodding along and mainstream forgets exists

a number of Anime ripping sites used to use IRC to distribute shows via xdcc

still fairly recent, though ive not checked in a few years, i wouldn't be surprised if the channels and bots were still going.

youll be surprised what you can find one some of the more obscure parts of the internet 🙂

[kindred brook]

https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/manufacturer-recertified-drives/products/western-digital-ultrastar-dc-hc550-wuh721816ale6l4-0f38462-16tb-7-2k-rpm-sata-6gb-s-512e-512mb-3-5-se-manufacturer-recertified-hdd

should I replace my 4TB WD drive

with this

[golden stream]

16TB

[umbral moss]

re-certified

[golden stream]

for le NAS?

[kindred brook]

lol PC

[umbral moss]

https://tenor.com/view/nope-nopenopenope-fuckin-no-smh-gif-5632955

[golden stream]

Mmmmm nice

my case can't hold 3.5 lol

SFF pain

[void dove]

i have, umm, 6 full hdds in my PC

[potent arrow]

I don't think I can fit another 2.5 even lol

[void dove]

32TB of glorious space

[potent arrow]

SFF suffering

[void dove]

and i was thinking of upgrading to some 16tb drives, i thiink?

[hard drift]

time to make the whole outside of the case a bunch of 2.5 drives

[void dove]

they were real cheap a while ago

[hard drift]

tape it to the case sarah

[kindred brook]

@umbral moss

I GOT THESE OLD DRIVES

[void dove]

someone gift me a 2.5 inch disk shelf, so i can plug in the 30 something 128Gb SSD SATA drives we have lying around 😛

[void dove]

literally useless

[potent arrow]

Like my fans?

[kindred brook]

lmfao

[hard drift]

exactly

[golden stream]

oy oy is dat le FormD?

[kindred brook]

what's a hard drive

health detector tool

[hard drift]

my fans are held to the top of my case with zipties, i couldn't find the screws

[kindred brook]

crystal something?

[golden stream]

CrystalDisk

it comes with 3 flavors

[potent arrow]

V1 yeah

[golden stream]

vanilla, waifu and other waifu

iirc

I have one vanilla on my smol machine and waifu on this home machine

[potent arrow]

I have a couple of these cases now, still my favorite case for personal builds

[kindred brook]

WTF

THEY HAVE WAIFU EDITIONS NOW?!

[golden stream]

SEE

2 WAIFU EDITIONS

NOT ONE BUT TWO

[potent arrow]

I edited the image files so mine is shinobu lol

[void dove]

they have had waifu editions for as long as i can remember, 5+ years

[kindred brook]

yeah I haven't used this

since my college days

[golden stream]

am torn between Lianli h2o and FormD lol

[potent arrow]

FormD

[golden stream]

import tax lol

[kindred brook]

I'm fucking getting on shizzuku

she seems like a nice girl

[void dove]

correction, 10 years!

[potent arrow]

I had issues cooling the lianli

[golden stream]

lianli is easier to get somewhat while FormD is more function lel

aight rly

howz the temp in FormD?

[void dove]

the Kurei Kei edition is from 2019, so not as old

[golden stream]

waifus sell well yes yes

also Moondrop IEM is nice, really cute waifus with pretty ok price

[potent arrow]

Uh with working fans now? Low 70-80 on GPU and CPU is always sub 60 iirc

[golden stream]

I swear my setup is cursed

[void dove]

the hard decisions we must all make

[golden stream]

that's pretty good temp tho

[hard drift]

that'd make me cry

[potent arrow]

:3

[golden stream]

[potent arrow]

With barely working fans it was like 104 and >80 lol

[hard drift]

this already makes me cry but my aio is pretty meh

[golden stream]

I mean, SFF

[kindred brook]

olk wait

why isn't it telling me

the name of my drives

[golden stream]

eh?

ss pls?

nahhhh htye do tell, look harder

[potent arrow]

Nom nom

[hard drift]

it says right there what drive it is

I:

[kindred brook]

WHAT the name

[hard drift]

that is the name 😐

[kindred brook]

See how this one

says the name of the drive

[kindred brook]

this one too

[golden stream]

ya they do tell the name

[hard drift]

why do you want the full name 😭

[kindred brook]

I want to see the name of my older drives

[hard drift]

I: C: is all you should need smh

[kindred brook]

to see if I should replace them

my SPINNY

DRIVES

[hard drift]

THEY STILL HAVE A C: OR SOMETHING ELSE

[potent arrow]

Sometimes I forget who is the blocked message on this discord and realize it's Raz lol

[hard drift]

C: D: F: G: H:

[golden stream]

O WAIT NO MY OTHER DRIVE IS NOT NAMED

[void dove]

just, match the names to the letters

[hard drift]

[void dove]

its not hard

[deep sapphire]

damn checking your HDD health looks like this!?

[golden stream]

waifu iz gud y know

at least she cheers you up from disk health despair

[deep sapphire]

yeah owning a new samsung SSD

"it could be worse"

[hard drift]

[deep sapphire]

[hard drift]

the new 990 drives or whatever they are killing themselves super quickly

[golden stream]

ya

[void dove]

i like how my old 840 EVO, still says its at 94% health

[kindred brook]

good thing I got a 980

that doesn't kill itself right

for NOW

[deep sapphire]

I still own an 840

back when samsung meant QUALITY

[void dove]

has 6.5 years power on time

[golden stream]

idk it's weird now

[void dove]

not even my main drive anymore, ive outlived it

it has been relegated to a mods only drive 😄

[kindred brook]

like when tesla meant quality too?

[void dove]

500Gb SSD, too small 😛

[kindred brook]

https://tenor.com/view/pew-pew-pew-finger-guns-jake-adventure-time-gif-16206356

[hard drift]

it just says good for my HDD

[deep sapphire]

tesla never meant quality

[kindred brook]

I know

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/likearock-chevy-gif-24185646

[kindred brook]

thats the joke

[void dove]

tesla was always a meme

[hard drift]

[kindred brook]

do I ahve to run a scan on those

[golden stream]

for windows ya
windows my beloadtheth

[void dove]

im running a 2TB WD SSD now

soooo much space

very comfy

[deep sapphire]

I think it would be cool if windows told you the drive health under the storage capacity bar

but I mean, microsoft makes everyone add features for them and then they just buy out the company

[golden stream]

I plan to ask what the hecc are you using that much but then UE5 project is likely 200GB or something be normal lel

[void dove]

yea that would be nice, windows CAN report drives that are failing, but it almost never does 😦

ive seen it maybe 2 times, in 10 years in IT

[deep sapphire]

ikr

[golden stream]

they CAN but doesn't mean they would alert

bruv

[deep sapphire]

30 pending sector reallocation

DRIVE IS HEALTHY

[golden stream]

[void dove]

fucking dumb yea

[golden stream]

imma be like HOW

[void dove]

spinners are an all or nothing affair usually

if you see a few new reallocations, prepare for the disk to die rapidly, or not at all

[deep sapphire]

Microsoft diagnostics have never been good

let me ask you something

has the recovery environment ever done anything remotely helpful

other than provide you with a command prompt

[void dove]

it can repair issues

[golden stream]

actually nah

[void dove]

without requiting a boot disk

[golden stream]

some issues tho and only without a boot disk

[void dove]

and the command prompt can be handy IF you dont have a boot disk

[golden stream]

but if I have a boot disk I just recheck from it/check from linux boot disk

[void dove]

but a prepared IT technician, rarely uses the recovery environment built into windows

[deep sapphire]

thats my point though, the command prompt does have some nice features BUT that usually requires manual intervention

the automatic repair

is just a waste of time

[void dove]

the RE, is more for when someone wants to reset Windows

couldn't easily do that back in the day, now you can press shift on restart, and force a rest of Windows entirely to factory default

[deep sapphire]

https://www.tweaking.com/content/page/windows_repair_all_in_one.html best tool

got me out of some jams

[void dove]

and thats enabled by the recovery environment

[golden stream]

nice

[void dove]

cant say ive seen it

but tbh, ive not been in the general service desk side of things for a few years now

perks of promotion 😛

i dont have to unfuck users broken windows installs

[hard drift]

[void dove]

i get to play with the big toys

[deep sapphire]

based

[void dove]

i still have a hard drive in my bag, i take everywhere thou

old habits die hard

[deep sapphire]

yeah im not even a tech anymore I became a mechanic rofl but its always good to know stuff

[void dove]

has all windows install ISOs, also have 5 or 6 different usbs

[golden stream]

imo hard drive still handy ya

[deep sapphire]

gotta keep that thumb drive on hand

[hard drift]

that's obvious by how dated your build is

[golden stream]

and usbs for live boot and stuff

[deep sapphire]

6700K

LIKE A ROCK

[void dove]

one USB custom made, with a grub boot loader on it, multi booting a shitton of tools

[golden stream]

LIKE A ROCK YESSSS

[hard drift]

can't say the same about your chevy

[void dove]

even made a cool background for the loader 😄

[deep sapphire]

hey my truck is 33 years old

and starts every morning

YOU DONT EVEN OWN A VEHICLE

[void dove]

had ppl at my old job ask me for a copy so i cloned it for a few ppl

[golden stream]

me intern in tech company
collegues asked me for boot disk

[void dove]

and put the company logo on it 😄

[hard drift]

I OWN THESE LEGS, CHEVROLEG IT TO WORK EVERYDAY

[void dove]

because why not

[deep sapphire]

YEAH GET TO WALKING BINCH

[hard drift]

[hard drift]

it's fine, when i'm not walking i'm lifting treadmills on the truck BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE MORONS AND DON'T RACHET THE FUCKERS DOWN

[golden stream]

NO SHAMING WALKIN LEL

[deep sapphire]

https://i.imgur.com/iBnX9SZ.png

[hard drift]

hank wishes he could walk but it's too cold for his frail body

[deep sapphire]

yeah its been fuckin -25c all week

why the hell would I walk

barely stand being outside for more than 5 minutes in that weather

[hard drift]

because walking is nice

get some icecream on your way to work

[deep sapphire]

no it isnt

I have a vehicle

I'll drive thanks

man invented transportation

should look into it sometime

[golden stream]

I don't drive if the distance is under 2km

just walk lmao

[hard drift]

man has invented many things, doesn't mean i should try all of them

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/a9qXbgrx9rg?t=101

WALK!?

[golden stream]

traffic jam in my place is horrib, walk is even faster

[hard drift]

yeah

[deep sapphire]

bidori lives in the middle of no where he's full of shit

just too lazy to get a license

[hard drift]

that's a damn lie

i live close to DC

[deep sapphire]

you live in alberta or something

[hard drift]

BRO STOP SAYING I LIVE IN CANADA

[golden stream]

oomph the moose

[deep sapphire]

[hard drift]

😭

i haven't lived in canada in over 3 years

[deep sapphire]

so you lived in alberta then

[hard drift]

i wish i still did though, it was nicer there than here

[deep sapphire]

gotcha

no wait

nova scotia

thats what I said before

[golden stream]

hey better than at aussie, anything in aussie zipcode can turn you to past sentence

[hard drift]

send some my way

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wqzZOFOcYo

australian drivers be like

[golden stream]

nah am not in aussie but my fellow has talking tree specialty

speaking of aussie I have aussie HUD

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-drops-the-price-of-arc-a750-gpu-to-just-249-new-driver-gets-performance-improvements

if these new drivers are that great nvidia/amd really need to release new low end soon

[deep sapphire]

not like its hard to beat AMD in drivers

[hard drift]

i'm not debating this 😒

nvidia lost performance to discord with its new drivers

[golden stream]

I'm kinda want to look at their AV1 perf stuff tho

[golden stream]

lost perf
to discord
TO FRICKIN DISCORD

me be like how

[hard drift]

[deep sapphire]

discord's hardware acceleration is terrible

I turned it off because I kept getting random frame drops

[hard drift]

they released a workaround before they actually fixed it

[golden stream]

ah ok smol indie company can't hire real person for CS

yeahhhh unless some work stuff/major update I don't update GPU driver at all

unless linux

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ

[golden stream]

huh, I found nvidia on fedora was fine (Xorg)
kinda arse on Wayland tho

[deep sapphire]

mfw people come in here asking for help getting ffxiv to work on linux while posting 20 things they tried to troubleshoot

https://tenor.com/view/wackaflocka-gif-7684829

[golden stream]

just yoink em to goatcorp ez

[deep sapphire]

or just play on a real OS

[golden stream]

the Deck does be a bit workaround tho but not that bad

[deep sapphire]

you must really hate microsoft at that point

like sure we all do

but like

come on

[golden stream]

I don't have any issue with linux so far but ye

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j9j-Ywjmbk

[golden stream]

LEL

[deep sapphire]

bill gates casually waiting for a burger

[bitter girder]

Bubger

[deep sapphire]

bidori im gonna buy one

so I can be a bloke

[modest moss]

buy a pink gun

[potent arrow]

You know I kinda always hate this videos

Shit pisses me off, but maybe that's because I'ma round computers so much

Like 99% of the time I'm probably going to be that tech guy if I'm the area

[deep sapphire]

show up with harbor freight tools

[potent arrow]

Fucking use it on the user computer

[deep sapphire]

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SNYAAOSwpdpVVkdY/s-l1600.jpg

oh here we go

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/how-linux-users-install-a-web-browser-linux-linux-users-gif-20223386

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

[bitter girder]

Hello kitty girl bb gun

OH FOR FUCKSAKE I SCROLL DOWN AND ACTUALLY SEE A HELLO KITTY GUN

[jaunty light]

i dare u hank

pink tiger stripe

and carry it in a louis vuitton

[golden stream]

That's quite accurate

Peep been downloading either flatpak firefox or just compile it themselves

[deep sapphire]

everyone needs a deagle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRkgO02Uy5U

[deep sapphire]

@grizzled notch

have you tried updating graphics drivers

[grizzled notch]

Yes

I tried everything

[deep sapphire]

have you tried the custom launcher

!faq launchers

[opal panther]

**Official Launcher Giving you Trouble on Updates?**

Try these alternative 3rd party launchers.

For Windows:

https://goatcorp.github.io/

For Mac OS:

https://www.xivmac.com/

For Linux:

https://flathub.org/apps/details/dev.goats.xivlauncher

Alternative cross-platform:

https://github.com/eorzeatools/microlaunch
(developed by rin#3487 - contact them for help)

Please read all the documentation and guides for these launchers before requesting assistance.

Do note that these programs, like ACT, are technically against TOS. Treat them like Fight Club, and don't be rude while using them.

Please note no staff have tested the Mac, Linux and cross-platform launchers so use at your own discretion.

[grizzled notch]

No

Thx I'll try this

[deep sapphire]

no problem

[jaunty light]

thank you irs for my $3 federal refund

[hard drift]

I don’t think i can own one yet

[jaunty light]

are you still under 21 bidori

[deep sapphire]

he has weak arms

[jaunty light]

shameful

[deep sapphire]

cant handle the recoil

[hard drift]

No but i have a medical thing on my record that may disqualify me

[deep sapphire]

of a desert eagle

[hard drift]

i can handle the recoil just fine

Can’t be worse than the kick of a 12 gauge

[jaunty light]

uh, idr what counts but if you had a court order or smth that went on perma then yeah

[hard drift]

Not a court order so maybe

[jaunty light]

like if you got a 5150

[deep sapphire]

if you own a ford you should be prohibited from owning a firearm

[jaunty light]

ford but its a gun

[hard drift]

Wtf is that lol

[umbral moss]

the .50AE is a notorious gun range griefing tool

plenty of videos under ".50 cal desert eagle KO" lmao

[deep sapphire]

yeah

[jaunty light]

a person with a mental illness to be involuntarily detained for a 72-hour psychiatric hospitalization

[deep sapphire]

the .50ae is ridiculous

[umbral moss]

it's for show and not much else

[deep sapphire]

the desert eagle is fuckin massive too

[umbral moss]

it's like $7 a shot lmao

[deep sapphire]

you need some big hands

[hard drift]

not that i know of

[umbral moss]

the .357 deagle is breddy gud

it's so fuckin heavy the .357 kicks like a 9mm

[jaunty light]

deagles have 0 reliability so its a waste of money for showpiece

[umbral moss]

yeah

it's a garbage gun in general

[jaunty light]

but gold tiger stripe

[umbral moss]

if you want .357 buy a P229

or if you want meme small dick calibers buy a S&W 500

[jaunty light]

i just buy nuffin but CZs

gimmie shadow 2

[umbral moss]

dis is de wae

CZ3A1

they make a no-stock version and sell it as a "pistol" lmao

fuck outta here, pistol

[jaunty light]

i probably need to polish my omega feedramp because it doesnt like 124gr fmj

[deep sapphire]

garbage gun?

uhm

its made by minnesotans

excuse me

its a great gun

fuck you all okay

[umbral moss]

that explains why it breaks all the time

[deep sapphire]

IT DOESNT BREAK

[umbral moss]

you right, it jams

[jaunty light]

it is an omega, i might just get a normal p01

but getting it remilled and modifying ccw is a pain in the ass

[umbral moss]

isn't there a P02 now?

[jaunty light]

p07 p10 but they are poly

also unobtanium in CA

[umbral moss]

I mean, I live in NY, the other no-fun-allowed state

[jaunty light]

newest pistol you can buy here is 2013

[umbral moss]

most US-based airsoft companies won't even ship fake guns to NY addresses

amazon has a big "this does not ship to your current address" if your shipping address is in NY

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[jaunty light]

haha holy fukkkk they are going for 850 bucks ar SMW

could probably find someone to buy my omega anyways

offroster so i can play that angle

$799.. plus tax, dros, dealer fees. I didn't even pay 600 for my omega

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-launches-february-28th-costs-699

[real edge]

7800x3d same msrp as the 5800x3d had

altho still expensive

we can expect a price drop in a year

[hard drift]

7900x3d is hopefully going to be good

The cache jump over 7800x3d is massive

[real edge]

I wonder if there will be diminishing returns eventually

[hard drift]

7950x3d seems useless unless you need the extra cores

[dull garnet]

that's what she said

[hard drift]

100%

[umbral moss]

nah, you can just keep cramming on-die cache and storing more and more data

the limitation is in how many transistors you can fit

[umbral moss]

also nah, you can definitely put that hardware to work

[jaunty light]

699 seems.. cheap?

[umbral moss]

yeah

$699 for what's aiming to be the fastest chip you can buy is a breddy gud deal though

[sly elk]

so basically, always use the browser version of discord since it's less creepy

[sly elk]

699 isn't that bad for a flagship cpu

It's all the small things. Windows isn't a POSIX-compliant OS. Imagine that POSIX compliance is like how every car has a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, and brake pedal. They also have a thing that displays speed in MPH or KM/h.

Now MS comes along and makes a car that has two joysticks and no pedals. Oh and instead of display MPH it displays meters/sec

but because EVERYONE BUYS ONE

they decide that all the other dozens of brands of cars are wrong

and microsoft patents that design and says nobody else is allowed to copy it

and then mouth breathing morons go around complaining that the other cars don't "follow the standard"

except "the standard" is some proprietary BS that MS invented

(cough cough, directx)

[umbral moss]

where's that xkcd comic about specifications

[sly elk]

again @tame fulcrum I'm acknowledging that MS came a looong way with windows 10 and 11 in terms of making it developer friendly for those of us who didn't learn how to write software on windows

but I really learned how to program on bsd machines and then mac os x and linux machines

going from that to windows 7 or earlier is fucking barbaric

everything's so ass-backwards and you have to use shit like cygwin which always felt wrong

and then there were the basic tools like fucking putty

I HATE PUTTY

I always have and always will 😄

iirc there was a windows native version of gvim that was perfectly competent

i usually don't even use vim 😄 I'm a lazy fuck that uses vscode now

though I admit

I sometimes think about going back to sublime

vscode (by default) is very in-your-face about installing features and extensions it thinks you should be using but aren't

[sly elk]

what if I want it configured differently?

if vscode changes config on me because I opened a project, I'm not going to use it anymore lol

god

if MS made a car they'd probably make the seat and mirror settings group policy

"we set the car to a standard seat/mirror profile every time you turn it on!"

"Also, all of the radio presets are pre-programmed and cannot be changed"

[odd sand]

Makes sense though, it was supposed to be a bone for ppl due to low availability of PS5 games early on. And it's been around for over 2 years at this point. No company likes having open liabilities forever.

[dull garnet]

Remember kids, services are cringe

[sly elk]

yup lol

[dull garnet]

Think I have physical of most of those anyway

[jaunty light]

unfortunately mobos will be like $1k but..yknow

[hard drift]

For sure not especially since that’s what the cpu launched at for the base model

[hard drift]

Nah, get a b650 and you’re good to go

[jaunty light]

thats what a poor would do

imma get the asus EXTREME HERO GAMER board

[hard drift]

Nah, poor goes for A series

And the rumor says a620 is coming

[dull garnet]

poor ain't buying am5

[umbral moss]

imagine paying $1200 for a first-gen chipset board

you spend that kind of money on a near EOL chipset product release so they actually fix all the fuckin bugs instead of being like

https://tenor.com/view/buy-another-one-you-rich-gif-26527770

[odd sand]

I hope that was ironic bc his room looks like a whole lot of product consumption heh

[dull garnet]

costs nothing to be self aware

[sly elk]

Lol

[sly elk]

Admittedly figures fall very much in a consumption bucket. They’re very expensive decorations

[glossy ravine]

Bruhhhhh

Gamers. I need some advice™

I need a new monitor.

[sharp star]

what do you even want out of a monitor

[glossy ravine]

No more than $200.

[sharp star]

resolution?

[glossy ravine]

Back when I built my PC in 2019. I had to cut corners on other things. Like the monitor.

So I got a 50 dollar monitor off Walmart.

[odd sand]

What is your GPU? That determines the res for monitor

[glossy ravine]

1080p

I have a XFX RX 5600 XT THICC PRO 14 GPBS with 6 GB of GDDR6.

[sharp star]

Hmmm

I'm normally a 1440p guy so I don't know many good 1080p ones

[glossy ravine]

Just. Something better than a 50 dollar monitor off Walmart

[jaunty light]

https://www.newegg.com/black-acer-ed0-ed270u-pbmiipx-27/p/N82E16824011417

https://a.co/d/7DAd2gK

[sly elk]

nbd just that thing you're staring at literally all the time when using your computer

https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/806908232

see if they have this in stock for you

$199 3440x1440 VA ultrawide

[glossy ravine]

🙏

Thank you friends. Y'all are a blessing

[glossy ravine]

Hey AMD what the fuck

https://www.pcworld.com/article/1499957/amd-is-undershipping-chips-to-keep-cpu-gpu-prices-elevated.html

[sharp star]

BREAKING: PC gamers discover capitalism

oh yeah the HP one is good but I hear more swear by the similar Dell S2721DGF

[sly elk]

in other words, AMD enters its malaise era

https://jalopnik.com/chp-would-really-like-people-to-stop-driving-into-this-1850058786

[glossy ravine]

[odd sand]

That's an expensive dumbass award to earn yourself. That's what? A 70k truck at least?

Also: Are you telling me good-guy AMD the slayer of Intel is ... just another company that becomes Intel given the chance?

[hard drift]

i mean that's what happens when shareholders are running the company basically 😭

i added an item to my watchlist and i got a special offer

i didn't know this was a feature

[odd sand]

Sure, but it's always funny to me bc of all the bandwagon Team Red people since Ryzen2 having their schadenfreude at Intel getting knocked down a peg

[hard drift]

i like amd don't get me wrong but anybody who didn't see this coming is blind

[sly elk]

lmao AMD made this clear a long time ago though, so I'd be surprised if anyone did a shocked pikachu

[hard drift]

intel will become the new budget king until they get back on top and they go back and fourth

[sly elk]

i wanna say it was with vega 56/64 during the first crypto wave

they were riding the "friendly value underdog" hard with the rx480 and 580 and then suddenly crypto took off and they were like

[hard drift]

man.... remember the radeon vii 😭

[sly elk]

"fuck gamers"

[hard drift]

that card was so dogshit

[sly elk]

"You mean we can get double MSRP for these things? SHOW MEH DA MONEY BABEH!"

as I recall

[hard drift]

that was also where they were banking on HBM

[sly elk]

the vegas and the r7 were very very good for mining

so they sold at this insane premium and were always sold out

[hard drift]

the r7 had 16gb of it

and the vegas had hbm as well

that's what made them mining monsters at the time

[odd sand]

There were a ton. Go to literally any social tech area when Ryzen 3000 series was dropping and you would get snowed under with snide remarks if you showed any interest or admitted to buying Intel around then. I bought a 9900K bc I couldn't find the 3900X in stock for 2 months and I didn't need 12 cores and got it for like 20% cheaper than the 3900X. I got a lot of shit for it lol

[sly elk]

yep

but that's what I meant

they were being dicks about it back then

zen 1000/2000 were friendly low price things, then 3000 came out and it was actually good and AMD jacked the prices way higher

the only good thing about amd is xilinx

also, their GPUs are the only option if you want to build a hackintosh (although, for how much longer, who knows)

[hard drift]

Well also back then amd motherboards really were a lot cheaper

[hard drift]

That’s because of apple and nvidia hating each other

[sly elk]

right

[hard drift]

Like it will stay that way for a long while

[sly elk]

point is, you don't have a choice

[hard drift]

[sly elk]

but intel macs are dead

[hard drift]

good

[sly elk]

I think they'll maybe make 1 more release of intel macos

maybe

the last intel mac they're selling is the mac pro and that came out in 2019

[hard drift]

Doubtful, their in house stuff is much better

[sly elk]

and apple generally stops selling macos software updates after 5 years

[hard drift]

I imagine it is cheaper to get too

[sly elk]

I mean, bigger profit margins for apple, for sure

I wouldn't be surprised if the $2000 mac studio makes them more profit than the $6000 mac pro

that feels like an insane hypothesis though

but what all is in a mac studio anyway? it's just an iphone with a little more juice and a lot more cooling

The Apple A15 Bionic features an Apple-designed 64-bit six-core CPU implementing ARMv8 with two high-performance cores called Avalanche running at 3.24 GHz and four energy-efficient cores called Blizzard running at 2.01 GHz

The M2 has four high-performance "Avalanche" and four energy-efficient "Blizzard" cores, first seen in the A15 Bionic,

admittedly the m2s have a lot more gpu cores lol

The M2 Max offers the same 12-core CPU (8 performance cores, 4 efficiency cores) as its cheaper sibling the M2 Pro, but it includes much bigger and more performant GPU options. You can configure a 2023 MacBook Pro with an M2 Max chip that has up to 38 GPU cores, the most GPU power we've ever seen on a MacBook chip.

[sly elk]

oooo

https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp

it makes sense that the shell scripting book has a tortoise on the cover lol

[sly elk]

the advanced version of that is going into the source code and finding where the error message comes from

[odd sand]

You'd be surprised how many people don't have that book on their shelf as it were...

"Wow, you know so much stuff. How did you learn to do this?"

I spent 5 minutes Googling it 20mins ago...

[sly elk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/macsetups/comments/10rdzio/new_home_office_clean_and_simple_setup/

that is a lot of apple products

[sly elk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/10qqvx7/anker_finally_comes_clean_about_its_eufy_security/

i get a good laugh out of this sorta thing

security cameras can never be trusted

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-admits-to-be-undershipping-cpus-and-gpus lets see how bad x3d stock will be with this

[deep sapphire]

lets see how bad it'll be first

[hard drift]

we already know it'll be good hank smh

[deep sapphire]

we dont know anything

all we know is intel is the best

[hard drift]

tell that to a company that gets beat by a little cache

look at what the 5800x3d accomplished, the 7900x3d/7950x3d just has so much cache it's sure to dominate gaming

[deep sapphire]

nope

no evidence

just like how AMD overclocks its CPUs from the factory and they die after 2 years

[real edge]

when have you ever seen an old gen CPU compete with new gen CPUs

[golden stream]

Just be SFF pleb just undervolt/underclock anyway

[sly elk]

i'm beginning to feel that way too >>

-peers over at those m2 mac minis-

[deep sapphire]

bidori is on AMD damage control in my linkshell rn

you should see it

[sly elk]

linkshell?

[hard drift]

😒

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

[sly elk]

that an ffxiv thing

[hard drift]

yes

[deep sapphire]

yeah

[sly elk]

oh

i'm really stupid about xiv things

[hard drift]

it's not even damage control lol

hank is being dumb and only reading titles to bait me

[sly elk]

-siiiiigh- It feels like every time I log in it costs me $12 lol

[deep sapphire]

I dunno I stopped paying attention he's still typing in it

[sly elk]

I think I log about twice a month

[deep sapphire]

like 12 paragraphs

[sly elk]

HEHE

[hard drift]

that's a lie

[sly elk]

i should join whatever server you guys are on >>

[hard drift]

don't do it

gilgamesh is shit

[sly elk]

and just annoy you with my noob ass

[deep sapphire]

I showed him concrete evidence of AMD making customers lives bad

and he just replies with "WELL ACTUALLY"

its just disgusting, intel doesnt do that to its customers

[sly elk]

ACKKKSHUUUALLY

[hard drift]

that was awful evidence lol, you would've lost a case if you used that

[sly elk]

idk don't they set the MSRP of the x900 cpus at like $900

[deep sapphire]

"intel announced alder lake CPU prices will be reduced by 20 percent"

wow you see that?

intel is the best

[hard drift]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/10p4h50/an_update_on_my_rma_from_amd_5800x3d/ this is the evidence he used lol

[sly elk]

nvm 629

heh

ya know what's funny.

the only time I've ever RMA'd a CPU

[hard drift]

because they can't compete with x3d they knew it was coming eventually

[sly elk]

... was an AMD K6-2

[deep sapphire]

yeah I never had to RMA any CPUs before

are processors just bad now days

whats going on with quality control

[sly elk]

my rig at the time was a cyrix 266 '6x86'

[deep sapphire]

3600s are dying left and right

[sly elk]

my mom let me buy some upgrades so

[hard drift]

the problem is some motherboard makers overvolting cpus

[sly elk]

i ordered a k6-2 550 and a tnt riva 2 or whatever they called it at the time. because my pc had a crappy trident 2d gpu

and

[deep sapphire]

uh huh

[sly elk]

this combo was BSOD after BSOD

so I sent both the things back

[deep sapphire]

or AMD quality control just isnt very good bidori

[sly elk]

because I couldn't figure out which one was causing all the BSODs

the store told me the CPU was defective

then charged me a restocking fee on the gpu because back then, all the parts stores were shitty

oh well

so yea, the only time I've ever had to deal with a defective CPU it was an AMD cpu

[real edge]

I've had a 2700x for 3? 4? years at this point, since release

and I have not had problems tied to the cpu

[deep sapphire]

I rest my case ladies and gentlemen

[hard drift]

longer than that, my 3700x is nearing 4 years this year

[sly elk]

my 9700k rig was supposed to have a 2700x lol

[real edge]

and I bought a 5800x3d last year and I did not have to replace anything

[sly elk]

found it 😄

[real edge]

just plop it in for new-gen performance in games

[sly elk]

yea, that's the one thing i've always been sore about

i'm still rocking that 9700k

[real edge]

all of this amd and intel hate is overblown

I just want a good product and competition brings good products

[sly elk]

same

[real edge]

if both companies make good cpus thats good

[sly elk]

and it does

https://tenor.com/view/apple-apple-m1-m1-apple-silicon-silicon-gif-26285794

[real edge]

for a budget gamer like me, not having to replace my whole system is a big deal

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/throw-out-rage-parks-and-rec-nick-offerman-ron-swanson-gif-17688925

mac users when the new one comes out

[deep sapphire]

I've had my 6700K since 2016

still works great

[hard drift]

it's time to retire the cpu old man

[real edge]

imagine replacing your 4-5yr old cpu just by buying a new cpu and slotting it in that was what made me go amd all those years ago

as for gpu, the current market is fucked and I might be fucked cause my gpu is 6yrs old at this point and might die due to age

nvidias new prices suck and amd is overpriced in my country, no respect for the msrp what so ever

anything I get will be a massive upgrade

but I am not paying 900euro now for what used to cost 500euro

[hard drift]

i can't wait to upgrade cpu my 3700x going to a 7900x3d will be massive

[real edge]

im waiting for reviews but I will not be upgrading

I am just curious as to how well they do

[hard drift]

even if it's a slight let down in gains for gaming it'll still be massive overall for me

[inland mauve]

if apple is so great how come there is no apple 2-

https://aramgarhorchards.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/pear-1.jpg

oh shit

[sharp star]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II ahem

[sly elk]

the apple ii is lit

idk anyone who ever used a tin tv as a monitor with an apple ii

pretty much always see them with a monitor ii

or someone who's fancy and has the color one

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-confirms-upcoming-xe2-lpg-architecture-for-integrated-graphics lets see how these compare to rdna

Can’t wait to be off work today, my new speakers want setup

[rigid hill]

I want the 13900KS

[deep sapphire]

Apple II was the genesis of personal computing

[golden stream]

me just a simple SFF pleb, default undervolt everything, still rock just fine

[hard drift]

Undervolting is the way

I need to lower my voltage on the cpu…. I noticed it’s too high smh

[hard drift]

Why though….

[golden stream]

then again my boards are not highend boards so yeah still undervolting anyway

[rigid hill]

6 ghz

[hard drift]

Just get a 13900k

[hard drift]

I want this emote

[golden stream]

back in PSO2 server peep told to not overclock/underclock CPU/GPU due to game jank and whatnot
bruv that game stresed my GPU harder than MHW custom high, can't think of not undervolt it

[rigid hill]

But the S version 🥺

[hard drift]

But nothing, basically pointless

[rigid hill]

6 ghz tho

Stock

[rigid hill]

Hehe

[hard drift]

Just wait it’ll need that subzero cooler to cool it

[umbral moss]

you don't need megahurtz to make your CPU fast

AMD and intel just ran out of ideas to jazz up x86 so they tried cranking the frequency up

[bitter girder]

yuuuup

[dull garnet]

arm bros

[torpid kayak]

dumb question, but can I charge bluetooth earbud case with wall outlets, using my smartphone charger?

[bitter girder]

i do it all the time

[torpid kayak]

cool

[odd sand]

I got a polite chuckle out of this https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/951972847675387990/1070762871895621723/AI.png

[bitter girder]

@deep sapphire

[deep sapphire]

Hahahahaha

[burnt swallow]

I'm never buying a Razer headset again

@deep sapphire give me good headsets that aren't from Razer

This shit's made out of the cheapest fucking plastic I've ever seen in my life

[deep sapphire]

I’ve had a lot of luck with my hyperX headset it’s built like a tank and most headsets usually die on me after a year

Good sound quality, detachable cord, solid metal construction

Had mine since 2019 and still works great

[burnt swallow]

I'm at just about 1 year 3 months and the plastic around where the speakers are attached to the piece that goes over your head broke off on both sides

[deep sapphire]

Yeah razer headsets are shit

[burnt swallow]

I can see screws that I shouldn't be able to see

[burnt swallow]

Which hyperx model

[deep sapphire]

Just get the 2.1 stereo headset

[burnt swallow]

This does not help my google searching

[bitter girder]

get the 8.2 stereo headset

[hard drift]

Steelseries

[fair parcel]

Hyper X cloud orbit something or other I have

And Bose QC Wired so I don’t break my neck or make my ears sweat

[umbral moss]

hyperx makes a slightly less advanced clone of the audeze mobius

it doesn't have head tracking or 3d audio, but does have the planar magnetic drivers inside

[glossy ravine]

Gamers. I got a full refund for the headset without the transmitter.

I was entirely expecting to get a half refund for the missing bit, or reject outright.

[bitter girder]

thats class

[dull garnet]

Stores like walmart don't give a fuck

[sly elk]

congrats

don't buy one of those things again 😛

[potent arrow]

@burnt swallow the new Corsair headsets are very good

I've been buying them for my clients

Like for money to value, very naisu

https://youtu.be/1PpHeorQjDA

Just pick one

[dull garnet]

There are no winners when it comes to headsets

Only ignorance

[jaunty light]

hardware canucks

[glossy ravine]

Never.

[dull garnet]

Canadians

[glossy ravine]

Turtle Beach make a wireless headset for PlayStation that doesn't need a transmitter to work on PlayStation challenge.

Or the TBMAWHFPSTDNATTWOPS challenge.

(impossible)

[bitter girder]

cuppa tea anyone?

[sly elk]

i mean if you're sitting someplace while playing

why not just get a table mic?

[potent arrow]

Shhhh don't tell people

Did not jack up my mic prices

[kindred brook]

How come the bigger the NVME drive the faster the drive gets for the same models?

https://www.pcgamer.com/an-error-in-samsungs-980-pro-firmware-is-causing-ssds-to-die-id-check-your-drive-right-now-tbh/

WHAT THE FUCK

now the 980s

are fuckin dying?

I have that drive

[odd sand]

Next time put duct tape over it so the cats can't eat it

[glossy ravine]

I'm thinking of just actively putting the thing in a safe place that I know the cats can't get at

[kindred brook]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/894943624775749682/1070849314986926191/image.png

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/894943624775749682/1070849345861193862/image.png

[odd sand]

Buy a plastic storage tote and cut some holes in it for ventilation but not so large they can get a paw in there and mess with it. Or duct tape might work unless they like eating tape

[sly elk]

it's funny because up until now, samsung SSDs were considered the "don't even think about it, just buy it" brand for their reliability

and not doing BS like changing the parts/controller for slower/cheaper parts after the reviews come out praising the drive and benchmarking it

it's really funny because samsung isn't known for quality

seen this with their monitors, appliances, phones

it's like buying a new ford

it's shiny, comes with neat gadgets, the car review sites LOVE it

then 6 months later there's 35 recalls and complaints about them falling apart

[modest moss]

Did you tell them you lost the part or did you commit fraud?

If it's the latter it's probably better not to talk about it here

[glossy ravine]

So when I first went to return it, the guy there told me that the system wouldn't let him return it, and to call corporate to see if they would do anything. He explicitly mentioned to not say anything about the transmitter and say it's broken. (Technically true?)

As it turns out, the Walmart app. (Which I bought the headset off of. Let me return things until the 31st.) So I set it up on the last day to return it and the person there just took it for returns with a word.

[modest moss]

no comment

[glossy ravine]

Also note that I was honest with the guy when I went there first and told him upfront about the transmitter situation.)

(Is it dishonest if I was following what a Walmart employee told me to do? Just on the app.)

[odd sand]

Nobody at Walmart is gonna give af they don't pay them to care lol

[glossy ravine]

I'm just. Gonna drop the topic.

[void dove]

this is more of a, no one there cares about corporate that makes millions or billions a year, and fucks people over regularly.
zero sympathy for a corporate giant, ill take what i can get

i wouldn't do that if it was a independent, mom and pop type store

[sly elk]

the indie store wouldn't accept it for return anyway

but, understand that in this case, the entire chain was against fade's favor lol

he lost the usb dongle and the company doesn't sell replacements

but for some arbitrary reason they sell replacements for every other model they sell

so, the manufacturer didn't care, the employee at the store didn't care, and the one that took the return looked at it and was like 'yea good nuff'

[void dove]

yeah, fair, ive been screwed over by shady warranty practices enough times, that i dgaf anymore, i straight up lie through my teeth so they have zero ammunition to push back a replacement.
even if it is my fault, if i can milk a free replacement to something, i damn well will.

[kindred brook]

Omg

When I said pass me the aa battery

I was lying to people

It's pass me the aa cell

[sly elk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl_YttAjl0s

but the nimh ones do something similar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q11yRODOBtU

[kindred brook]

Wawe

[buoyant falcon]

I'm trying to connect my PC to my new TV, my primary screen goes black, flickering the desktop every couple seconds, my secondary monitor goes completely black, and the TV doesn't pick up the computer at all.

Any idea what could be causing this?

Oh, there we go, just had to replug the other monitors.

[outer sand]

not sure, hardware acceleration? HDMI cable? more spec mentioned would be great

make sure it's not duplicate display, use extend display instead

ah alright

[buoyant falcon]

Okay sooo...

I seem to be having some issues with getting FFXIV to display on my TV at the proper resolution.

Oh there we go, it's because windows changed the size of the layout by default.

Any particular reason why FFXIV doesn't do 120Hz at any resoltuion higher than 2560×1440?

[odd sand]

6x AAA I think. or maybe even AAAA but you don't see those sold separately generally

[buoyant falcon]

I'm noticing some pretty significant input lag after connecting my PC to my new 4K TV. Would there be any reason for this other than outdated HDMI cables?

Because I thought the cable I was using was at least 4K cable, but I guess I'm not.

Anyone heard of a brand called AudioQuest?

If not, look up what some of their cables go for...

[sly elk]

A BARGAIN

ahahah I wish I could find the one where someone bought a like $500 aux cable to hook their macbook up to their speakers

and they went on and on about how much better it sounded

[buoyant falcon]

Some of there 8K HDMI's go for over $4,000.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioquest-dragon-10-4k-8k-10k-48gbps-hdmi-cable-black-gray

[sly elk]

my favorite are the ones with a battery powered dongle

i think these

https://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/review/cables-reviews/reviews-digital-cable/audioquest-diamond-usb-cable/

i'm pretty sure trhat rack costs more than most houses

First up was the KingRex. Yup, once again there was a deeper, fuller, more colorful sound that had even greater acoustical believability. Suspension of disbelief (it is not a computer) was already beginning when using the standard cable, but now it was even more like listening to a Wadia CD player. But not quite, because the treble was now definitely a bit coarse and lacking air. Annoyingly, the standard USB cable had more air!

Naturally, this called for the Diamond, and just like before, it consistently provides a supremely open and airy treble, along with excellent timing, and an overall more coherent, more focused, and more refined sound.

they're talking about a fucking USB cable

speaking of overpriced iphone lighting cables

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioquest-diamond-2-5-lightning-to-usb-charge-and-sync-cable-black/8907192.p?skuId=8907192

I can't find any reviews of it

[jaunty light]

its audioquest

thats all you need to know

[sly elk]

yea i'm impressed

there's only 2 reviews at best buy and they're both satire

[jaunty light]

I own 1 audioquest cable but its only an evergreen

[sly elk]

for once they made something too stupid for anyone to buy

[jaunty light]

https://a.co/d/hbLAa77

[sly elk]

did you pay 50 bucks for it?

[jaunty light]

yes

[sly elk]

why?

[jaunty light]

it has different performance and rf handling characteristics than cheaper ones

if i didnt have a high noise environment its be useless but

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/rhonj-melissa-gorga-drank-koolaid-gif-13401454

[sly elk]

Lmao

Microsoft is going to stop offering custom domains for Basic and Family 365 plans this fall. You'll be able to keep using it if it's already setup by Nov 30th but you won't be able to add new email accounts after that.

Custom domains in family 365 is a total shit show anyway

So no actual loss

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/yo-hi-oh-block-gun-gif-13007753

[odd sand]

I feel like you could have wrapped it in teflon tape for $2 and done the same

[sly elk]

lol

get monoprice fat rubber meme cables

[jaunty light]

i should try this with my xlr cables

[odd sand]

At least in my head that should work unless it does the opposite? Or maybe teflon isn't metallic at all? heh

https://www.amazon.com/Wire-Shielding/s?k=Wire+Shielding

Apparently this is a thing

[jaunty light]

can also use ferrite rings

[odd sand]

I had this absolute chonker of a 25ft HDMI cable like ten years ago. I want to say it was like 18AWG but maybe it was only 24. Like half an inch thickness at least

[sly elk]

oo

[odd sand]

Active shielding?

[sly elk]

RJ/E Diamond prepared Cat 7 Ethernet cables use solid 100% Perfect-Surface Silver conductors, which completely eliminate strand interaction, one of the biggest sources of distortion in cables, for clearer, more dynamic and involving sound. Superior conductor metals minimize distortion by having fewer grain boundaries and less impurities (such as oxides) at those boundaries. Solid High-Density Polyethylene (PE) insulation helps maintain critical signal-pair geometry. Of course all AudioQuest Ethernet cables honor the directionality inherent in all analog and digital audio cables; arrows on the jackets indicate the direction (from source to destination) for the best audio performance.

https://tenor.com/view/anime-laugh-sarcastic-smile-king-gif-15896630

directional ethernet cables

[odd sand]

Everyone knows the front side of the electrons sounds better than the backside

The doppler effect causes minute distortions in the signal

https://tenor.com/view/nom-nom-hungry-eat-meat-gif-12638335

[jaunty light]

but yes then you have this shit

directional cables..

[sly elk]

-giggles-

Ok, for those of you who are reading this, hear me out! I took the advice of a salesperson at BB to upgrade my HDMI cable. He pointed me in the direction of the AudioQuest Diamond 3.3' High-Speed HDMI Cable in the stunning Dark Gray/Black color scheme. As I walked away with my new purchase, I turned to thank the salesperson, but they were gone, in a puff of smoke. I returned home and installed this to my setup (19" Dynex 720p 60Hz) and IMMEDIATELY, the room filled with light, surrounding me from all sides. I was transported DIRECTLY into my television, a la John Ritter in his 1992 box-office smash, Stay Tuned. Unfortunately, I'm now stuck in syndication land somewhere, sandwiched between Will and Grace and Twin Peaks. If someone could help me get out, that would be great! Thanks a bunch, Best Buy!

I like that the dynex 19" is mentioned in multiple reviews

I bought this cable to hook up my recently purchased a Dynex 19 inch color LCD 720p HDTV (WIDESCREEN!). My TV/VCR combo had served me well for many years and I felt it was time for an upgrade.

they couldn't fork up some extra cash for that insignia man

speaking of cables, that cable matters vesa certified displayport cable fixed the issue with my monitor going black every now and then for a couple seconds lol

[sly elk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/10s0ltk/oled/

that dude's all like

https://tenor.com/view/money-money-money-make-it-rain-dolla-dolla-bills-dollars-cash-gif-15485267

but I guess that comes back to this dude

[sharp star]

https://youtu.be/b-6sHUNBxVg

[sly elk]

knew it'd be a good little gpu ^^

[sharp star]

tl;dw significant gains in games where it had problems (CSGO and R6S in particular), some nice gains, some regressions, a great start but it still has issues

oh and the A750 is $250

apparently Arc is still broken on editing software

[sly elk]

ye you're beta testing a video card, pretty much

[sharp star]

I hope Intel keeps up and can seriously compete with Nvidia one day

[sly elk]

same!