technology-discussion

[golden stream]

I'm hoping that just the board borked, tbh it's the cheapest part in all the rig

NEVERMIND IT'S STILL ALIVE but data salvaging is still in schedule

[sly elk]

most PSUs have some form of overcurrent protection and leaving them unplugged for a little bit will usually reset it

heheh my favorite one is when the psu is on its way out and you have to unplug it from the motherboard to get it to reset and power on again

I know stuff is up when the computer won't turn back on until I've done that >>

that reminds me

[golden stream]

Mine is Corsair SF750, very uwu
Ya I unplugged for a while, it resetted back

[sly elk]

when my brother's computer fell off his table that one time

the only thing that broke was the power supply

[golden stream]

How tf

[sly elk]

I think one of the heatsinks fell off

I can't remember, fan was catching on it so I swapped the psu out

but I'm not 100% sure what it was. If I shake the psu around I can hear rattling inside but I couldn't see what it was -shrug-

[golden stream]

Imagine the most fragile part is not the GPU but the PSU bruv

[potent arrow]

It's normally either the HDD or the PSU for me

[golden stream]

Ya the HDD is fragile af

[modest moss]

my heart is the fragile part

[dull garnet]

i just avoid dropping my pc

floor gang floor gang

[sly elk]

heheh, I remember when they put accelerometers in laptops to shut the hard drive down if it detected it was falling

[dull garnet]

oh shit my thinkpad r51 had that

[modest moss]

floor gang gang but also carpet gang so it has a soft landing just in case

[dull garnet]

you could see the hdd current orientation with a 3d model too

and that was 20 years ago

[modern iris]

That sound when you moved an external drive on accident

[golden stream]

[modern iris]

Yeah it's awful

[potent arrow]

I have two external NVME drives

I'll never go back

It's not even the speed, because 9/10 times it's going into a USB 2 port. It's the peace of mind that it'll survive the nuclear apocalypse

[modern iris]

yes

[dull garnet]

yeah flash memory isn't at all volatile

[potent arrow]

I mean for everyday use? Shits been fine for the past million years. Although all it has are diagnostic tools and windows isos. It does have various drivers and stuff on it. But really all of it is just a copy of the master folder on my PC, I just use it to set up post install windows on new PCs

And if you are storing stuff long-term on any external without back up, your asking for it

[buoyant falcon]

I have FFXIV's sound out put set to my TV's sound bar via "App volume and device preferences," but every time I start the game up it comes out of my PC's speakers by default until I go in, open the drop down menu (which is still set to my sound bar) and pick the sound bar.

I'm not sure why it's doing this, but I feel like this rather defeats the purpose of this feature if I have to go in and manually change it every time.

[dull garnet]

https://twitter.com/HumansNoContext/status/1625479676926783490?t=kB6hysCsg23N3DprYvwHHg&s=19 fuck

NO CONTEXT HUMANS 👤 (@HumansNoContext)

https://t.co/ULFvlKVWUb

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[sly elk]

yea I remember the first time i worried about hard drive orientation in a tower

and then i was like hang on a sec they stick these things in laptops, who cares?!

laptop HDDs were very often upside down

[jaunty light]

if its upside down the rum will leak out.

[cerulean talon]

It makes the magic smoke sink, thereby improving performance. nods

[odd sand]

That's an interesting idea: I dunno if Akinator is still around, but they could overhaul it with newer AI and see a comeback maybe heh

[fathom igloo]

I have a fun Lodestone coding question, but not sure if that belongs here
Does anyone know how to get this "Click to Show" to work? I looked it up and it should be the BBCode for [spoiler]. However, it's not working on Lodestone posts when I try but I see it on others.

[void dove]

where did you find out it should be that?
pretty sure blog posts, have an advanced setting where all the things you can do, are shown as buttons at the top,
click the hide/spoiler button there to add the tags, will probably do what you want.

[golden stream]

time to open le editor lel

But then again, Lodestone could be simple enough for many malicious website can just ctrl c ctrl v

[torpid kayak]

500 GB PCIE Gen 4 SSD or 1 TB one? I have a 500GB SSD SATA 🤔

[sly walrus]

go for more space, if that’s the only difference

[real edge]

price dropped by 100 for the wrong card

[fathom igloo]

The editor used in Lodestone posts is very limited and the closest markup I could find was BBCode, but there is nothing in their wysiwyg editor for hiding text.

[void dove]

i dont make blog posts, but are you sure? because this button is there when i check, and the icon seems to indicate its what you are talking about.

kinda looks like a mini version of it

[torpid kayak]

there are some cheaper RTX cards, but their brands are kinda strange. Well I only know Gigabyte, ASUS and MSI anyway 🤔

[real edge]

only some of the EU has manli cards

for some reason

and none in the US

[sly elk]

EU also has GALAX

and PALIT

we don't get galax hall of fame cards or palit gamerock cards

[torpid kayak]

what brands of graphic cards should I avoid?

[sly elk]

I don't know that there is a brand to avoid

if you're in the US? Any brand Best Buy sells is fine.

[fathom igloo]

omg i thought that was a file upload this whole time THANK YOU

[golden stream]

He's in SEA

[sly elk]

for nvidia, msi, asus, asrock, gigabyte, zotac, and pny.. although I've never seen pny sold at an attractive price

zotac has a lot more variety in sea lol

[golden stream]

Palit Galax XFX if AMD

Tbh kinda depend on availability

[torpid kayak]

voodoo?

[sly elk]

aye, what about powercolor and sapphire?

[golden stream]

No sapphire in SEA

[sly elk]

voodoo?

[golden stream]

Like, it's rare

[sly elk]

bla i'm missing my trackpad 😦

[void dove]

does HIS still make cards?

[golden stream]

PNY am not rmb tbh

Not sure

[sly elk]

i think HIS does

-gets out a voodoo 3-

i like how the video card is so small and underwhelming by today's standards

at the time that gpu was cool af and I wanted one >>

[void dove]

i think the company is dead, or only trading in HK now.
I can't find a single card in a few online retailers i use (im in Aus)
and their .com website, says it needs Flash player, lol, dead website 😛

[sly elk]

ahh fair enough

and you're in aus ^_^

[void dove]

had an old ATI HD 4870 from them back in the day

that i had to RMA

and i do recall seeing their brand every now and then, but i guess theyve died off

last thing tehy launched was back in 2019, according to wikipedia anyway

[cerulean talon]

Who? ATI?

[sly elk]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304759321616
this does look pretty good for a 25 year old gpu :]

[void dove]

no, HIS

[cerulean talon]

Ah.

[void dove]

ahh 3dfx

nostalgia

[cerulean talon]

Also, GPU's are still shockingly small, the thing that isn't is the coolers >.>

[void dove]

never had one myself

[cerulean talon]

The single slot 4090 waterblock setups are

[void dove]

but im intimately familiar with 3dfx glide wrappers for old games 😄

seeing the 3dfx logo when booting up an old game makes me feel like its 1999 again 😛

[golden stream]

Surprise, for current cards no one made a better cooler than EVGA

[sly elk]

wth apple

they don't sell the colored trackpads separate from the imacs ;_;

[golden stream]

Because $

[cerulean talon]

Tbh, I'm not a huge evga fan anyway, they were my last-resort vendor.

I tend towards gigabyte when I have a choice.

[sly elk]

yea bt who the hell is going to buy an imac just to get the trackpad lol

in the last 5 years I went kinda stir crazy so I've had asus, gigabyte, zotac, sapphire, and evga GPUs

[cerulean talon]

In the end though, as long as the card is compatible with a 3rd party waterblock, it doesn't matter much.

[sly elk]

I think the brand hype is ridiculous

[golden stream]

Tfw apple creating first world issue in its eco

[cerulean talon]

Imagine owning apple products.

[sly elk]

I had a gigabyte vision 3070, IMHO it had the best build quality of all the GPUs

the saddest little rgb light behind the gigabyte logo though hahah

[golden stream]

In AMD end, sapphire has decent cooling, design and at least it fits the case kind of design

[sly elk]

but it was sturdy af, no sag, nice finish

but the worst software of all of them >>

[cerulean talon]

I had a couple windforce 2080ti's I really liked.

[sly elk]

the asus card was a 1070

really pretty backplate, nice looking shroud

but it had the most flex of any gpu i've ever owned

and the software was stupid

[cerulean talon]

I had a weird mix of 1080ti's just due to purchasing timing. Then the 3xxx's I've had no choice in as both of them were "My systems are dying, I need a new one now"

[void dove]

had a gigabyte 560. then a mini gigabyte 1060 6gb, but got a evga 3070 this time around, but that was more that, its waht i managed to get my hands on during the shortage.

snatched the first thing i could find in stock 😄

[sly elk]

the zotac was a 1070ti amp extreme, I think it was the biggest GPU I've ever owned

[cerulean talon]

For being a SFF vendor, I've always been surprised how large zotac cards are.

[real edge]

every new gpu is too expensive for me now but I want an upgrade to my 1070 :<

[sly elk]

my only beef with the zotac was I couldn't spin the fans down to 0rpm

that really bothered me

[cerulean talon]

I need to order a 4090 soon-ish now that they're dropping to reasonable-ish prices.

[real edge]

860euro 4070? that is some fuckery

[cerulean talon]

This machine was built for one, and it needs that upgrade.

[sly elk]

chonker

[cerulean talon]

V.chonk.

[void dove]

edgy gamer card

[void dove]

rog always gave me those vibes

[sly elk]

the sapphire is still one of my favorite designs

3070

[golden stream]

Sapphire is sleek and pretty

Like really sleek, less flair no weird 3D mold

[modern iris]

hewo

[golden stream]

tbh would love a custom waifu backplate or custom flower-fan shape for it

[torpid kayak]

is there RGB setting where it flashes 😄

[sly elk]

ofc

evga 3080ti 🙂

evga's light diffuser is really neat though

[golden stream]

Sad that they left the gpu market

[sly elk]

they look really cool when you set them to a solid color

[golden stream]

I saw ther 4090 card, the heat sink is DENSE

Like fookin dense

[sly elk]

they went out with a bang, though

ah this pic illustrates my point nicely

doesn't it look more like blue plastic than blue lights?

[real edge]

that blue looks like the kind you'd find on blue nerf guns

[sly elk]

this gen I think I like the zotac design the best

[torpid kayak]

smol

[sly elk]

i really dig it

[real edge]

a used 2080ti might be a good option considering they are under 400euro hmmm

if push comes to shove

but I'd rather have something new

[sly elk]

the asoos reminds me of an xbox one .. or a vcr

a vcr with RGB

it even has the darn slot for a tape

[cerulean talon]

I hate how much I love the look of that card.

I don't want the RGB, but I like the asthetic.

[sly elk]

I mean the evga also had a bricky aesthetic

but they made it look good

[cerulean talon]

Yeah, it's the rear grille that makes that slick tho.

[sly elk]

ya know what this reminds me of

sapphire's nitro 60 series cards

oo speaking of that

i like their 7900 too

[cerulean talon]

It's too futuristic imo.

That curved edge kills it for me.

[sly elk]

except

the backplate is FUGLY

[cerulean talon]

Oh yech. Hard pass.

[sly elk]

you HAVE to vertically mount it

it's too ugly to horizontal mount lol

ya know what always made me laugh with the 30 series cards was when people bought the asus white strix

only to immediately strip it and put a custom loop block on it

[cerulean talon]

Huh, the gigabyte 4090 aorus is nice looking.

[sly elk]

like people who were obsessed with flexing

no way

[sly elk]

i mean it's better looking than the 30 series aorus but

[cerulean talon]

Nah, the watercooled one.

[sly elk]

oh that one's sweet

[cerulean talon]

Yeah.

[sly elk]

although they are still SO WIDE

i love this

[cerulean talon]

Yeah, but as a no-sider for my cases, idgaf.

[sly elk]

there was another card I can't remember now

hmm

[cerulean talon]

My only concern is finding somewhere to put that radiator.

:D

[sly elk]

oh right

suprim lol

[cerulean talon]

I don't think I've got room for a 360 in the case, might have to live outside.

[wide hill]

is there a tool that combines 2 displayports into a single monitor?

[sly elk]

which case?

i was thinking about getting an alphacool 360 for my 3080ti lol

maybe it'd make things quieter >>

[cerulean talon]

I'd have to pull it, but the 360 space in there is used by I think the CPU cooler atm.

[sly elk]

as it stands i have a 360 on the top but i've got room for a 360 on the front 😄

[cerulean talon]

I could stand up and look, but that's effort.

[sly elk]

mmm

mac pros are nice >>

waste of money but nice

[cerulean talon]

I don't like em, but I'm not a mac guy at all.

[sly elk]

i have a love/hate with apple

[cerulean talon]

I want arm on desktops, just not apple. :P

I don't like the closed ecosystem.

[sly elk]

i don't like the way they're doing ARM

and I fucking hate the "ecosystem"

fuck that shit man

[cerulean talon]

I understand it, and for most people, I kinda prefer ir.

*it.

[sly elk]

I really wish they'd just focus on making stuff good on its own

if that makes sense

[cerulean talon]

I'm also perfectly fine accepting that /I/ am the one that mucks up my environment, and I get to fix it when I break it.

:P

[sly elk]

but they've gotten a little lazy and rely on that sweet vendor lock in

for example, if you use an iphone and don't have icloud

[cerulean talon]

And yeah, I think the m2 chip would be sweet as it's own processor with standards and compete proper, but it's not what they want.

A2? I can't recall their naming scheme offhand.

[sly elk]

the phone will get super obnoxious reminding you that you don't have icloud and OMG YOU WONT HAVE BACKUPS AND YOU ONLY HAVE 20% SPACE LEFT

YOU SHOULD GET ICLOUD NOW

[cerulean talon]

Yeah, pass please, I already don't like the google integration on android and really want my stupid linux phone to show up to get away from that.

[sly elk]

^ yea google is similarly obnoxious about it lol

[cerulean talon]

Librem's only been on order 2 years so far. Doing good.

[sly elk]

i've been using onedrive lately since 1tb came with office 365 and I got that cheap

^ I bet they'd freak out if a website turned on their webcam

[cerulean talon]

This seems like a good problem for .NET developers, have fun.

[royal forge]

[sly elk]

maybe it's a guy that owns the makeup store 😄

[royal forge]

This is some galaxy brain shit

[modern iris]

what

[cerulean talon]

Y'all already rely on magic everything, so why not turn a LED monitor into a camera.

[royal forge]

Just turn off the monitor then its a mirror 4head

[sly elk]

someone suggested it just show a picture of the owner of the site

[royal forge]

https://tenor.com/view/clown-gif-25799821

[sly elk]

but yea I hate how apple's "ecosystem" works

[cerulean talon]

Tbh, I almost want to see if you could do that with a LED monitor, just cycle hard through the color filters and convince the screen to output data instead.

Hrm.

[sly elk]

plus icloud feels so unreliable

like if you have icloud and a few macs, right

and you leave one be for a while

[cerulean talon]

I'm not rich enough for this.

[sly elk]

100% chance it'll log out of icloud and need you to accept new TOS and

and do something stupid

[cerulean talon]

Wait, really?

[sly elk]

yep

[cerulean talon]

That's uh. Special.

[sly elk]

the icloud login times out after a while

and they rather regularly force new terms of service

and it'll do really stupid shit like

[cerulean talon]

I'll just keep syncing everything important to rsync.net.

They work exactly how I expect every time.

[sly elk]

"oh we paused all your cloud syncing because you haven't accepted the new terms of service yet"

-clicks notification- -it opens system prefs-

-tos never pops up-

^ one of my macs did this for like 3 months

I can't remember what the stupid workaround was but eventually a software update fixed the broken terms of service box

[wide hill]

iirc, one part on the ios, is if you don't own an apple watch or airpod (idk which), it left an empty space.

[modern iris]

Apple is fun anyway. Can't use my apple ID cause I don't have the phone number anymore and they only accept that one or another one I have registerd. I don't have another one. XD

Sorry apple I don't have 2 iPhones like you want me too

[cerulean talon]

I've seriously been considering something like a twilio number or something for any account I consider remotely important these days.

Recovery via 2fa sms is just so annoying as a last resort given how terrible cell companies are.

[modern iris]

I don't have my number anywhere on the internet. If it requires my phone numer I won't use the service anymore

[sly elk]

ah yes the apple watch

I love the apple watch BUT

say you ignore your software updates for like a year

[golden stream]

Not sure if you're intro makeup and cosmestic but I remember some such website has function of "quick swatch cream/foundation" or whatever and it may ask for camera perm

[sly elk]

if you do that and then finally give in and update your iphone!

[modern iris]

I just use an authenticator app'

[sly elk]

it will refuse to connectto the watch

and then you got o update your watch

and it goes

[modern iris]

Also very great

[cerulean talon]

Same, some accounts are still important enough they get a phone number.

[sly elk]

hey you need to accept the terms of service from the apple watch app on your iphone

and you go to od that and your iphone is like

[golden stream]

Speaking of that I must use the 2FA CALL, the sms is so damn unreliable

[sly elk]

EW YOUR WATCH IS OUT OF DATE UPGRADE THE OS ON IT

[cerulean talon]

Having a tree-based recovery system means there's a root of trust somewhere.

[sly elk]

so you kinda have to get the watch app to glitch to let you accept the TOS

[golden stream]

/root user lol

[cerulean talon]

P.much.

[sly elk]

but there is one thing i like about apple

[wide hill]

imagine downloading the app as apps on app store than having apps directly into the OS updates, who would have thought of that

[cerulean talon]

One of my emergency backup routes is a friend having access to a root level account on one of my boxes which contains the encryption key to my secure NAS which can get them elsehwere.

Full disk encryption has it's downsides.

[golden stream]

Soooo backup = having a fren

[cerulean talon]

Pretty much.

[golden stream]

But ya no joke of full encrypt disk ya

[modern iris]

time for a DAS no network needed XD

[cerulean talon]

We're each other's backup plan. :D

[golden stream]

Fren w benefit 👍

[wide hill]

how much tb do you have on your nas?

[cerulean talon]

I mean, it's a full xeon box, so it's perfectly fine for local acess

[wide hill]

surely you have a backup for your nas, right?

[golden stream]

ME WAN BEEG NAS mostly for my cousins and their fam for images and stuff

[cerulean talon]

That one is a 12 tb + 2 tb of NVMe's, there's 180-ish TB of spinning disks, then another 20-ish tb of SSD's.

The secure nas is offloaded regularly to rsync.net

[golden stream]

Das a lotta spinny

[cerulean talon]

Yar.

Mostly WD golds, so they're kinda bullet proof.

:P

[modern iris]

I still haven't turned on my PC to check what my nas had in. XD

[golden stream]

Speaking of bullet, I bit the dust and nuked OS from the orbit
Just a regular day lel

[cerulean talon]

All the big arrays are raid 5, the secure nas is raid 10, it also hosts a few critical internal services for me, like my bitwarden, etc.

[wide hill]

i wish i had a home server

but i need money

[golden stream]

Can desktop spinny be convert to NAS?

[modern iris]

My NAS only hosts pihole cause I'm lazy

[cerulean talon]

Sure.

[golden stream]

Naisu

[wide hill]

maybe i can "loan" some from work when they are going to throw it away

any moment now

[modern iris]

but no google or cloudflare dns

[golden stream]

"Loan"

[cerulean talon]

Talia, which is my secure nas is a really nice embedded xeon box.

Blessed supermicro and their weird AF boards.

[modern iris]

Yeah they are weird. I have one of there servers still in my closet

[cerulean talon]

Add a local resolver, no more external dependencies.

[modern iris]

that's what I've done

[cerulean talon]

\o/

[sly elk]

rawr

[modern iris]

First thing you do when you set up pihole before adding lists

[cerulean talon]

Yup.

My setup is jank af. Tailscale -> Jump box (Caching DNS) -> Pihole (Local Resolver) if the pihole goes down, it falls back to using a resolver on the jump box.

[modern iris]

Then back it up and never do anything on it again except checking the lists from time to time. I don't even update it anymore. Everything is done by it self

[sly elk]

that's smart

if my pihole goes down, I'm going to have to change my dns 😄

but that's ok because it never goes down

[modern iris]

if the pihole goes down my network complains and just hits a reboot to the vm

[cerulean talon]

Also, SuperMicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F is the core of Talia, which is the most adorable xeon board I ever found.

[sly elk]

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ uptime
00:42:47 up 34 days, 9:50, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00

[cerulean talon]

Mine's a physical box that crashes occassionally because I haven't rolled a VM for it yet due to the epyc still being on the floor.

[golden stream]

Floor setup?

[modern iris]

I had 1 outage of pihole for some reason once. But just restarts the vm and it's fine. And since it's debian and it's on an nvme it's super qick like under a minute

[cerulean talon]

You didn't see the pics of my setup did you?

:D

[golden stream]

Wait, defo not the milk crater

[sly elk]

hng

[golden stream]

That was Sarah

[sly elk]

I do like that you can ssh from a fucking cmd.exe window now

thank you microsoft

[cerulean talon]

It is nice.

[sly elk]

welcome to 1993

[cerulean talon]

I like that none of my boxes run SSH any more. Blessed tailscale.

[sly elk]

but still, thank you

[cerulean talon]

Lemme find the posts in here, it's hilarious, and horrifying.

[sly elk]

micro$hit and their non-posix-compliant crap

but it runs games so whatever

[cerulean talon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/148162866208440321/1071964666433118289/IMG20221203050617.jpg https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/148162866208440321/1072036178192252978/1675663729054.jpg https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/148162866208440321/1072036236753117235/IMG20230205220741.jpg

[modern iris]

My NAS is just in a closet next to the my desk. I could see it from here if I would open the door

[modern iris]

Holy what

[cerulean talon]

That's my setup!

[sly elk]

to be fair

if I saw a mac in there I'd be amazed

[golden stream]

I AM SCARED FOR YOUR LENSES LOL

[golden stream]

Nice setup tho

[cerulean talon]

They're out because my roomie was taking some pics w/ em.

[sly elk]

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

[cerulean talon]

Otherwise they live in a desk drawer with my USB keys. :D

[royal forge]

Its..

So fukken stupid

[sly elk]

i think codingway's room might give me nightmares

[cerulean talon]

The worst part is there's 2 more machines in there that aren't even online atm.

[modern iris]

I would not want to stay in that room over night. You could all over so many things

[sly elk]

uh huh

[cerulean talon]

One of which is the epyc, which is on the floor waiting for drives, then the other is a retired ryzen.

[modern iris]

So an Re-Ryz

[golden stream]

Altho, is that some acrylic tubes I spot there

[cerulean talon]

5xxxg chip, decent little machine, but no reason to keep it online once I took the FPGA's out of it.

[golden stream]

Dem

Mine smol rig is 5600G

[modern iris]

fair enough.

[golden stream]

Smol nice tea sipping machine

[modern iris]

Tea. UwU

[cerulean talon]

My roomie's wife's machine is fully watercooled, so was his 1950x rig he never finished. Hers is the hard-plumbed one.

[cerulean talon]

I think my smallest rig is a 5700g, everything else is larger than that.

[modern iris]

ever build a 1920x1080TI machine?

[sly elk]

my computers are mostly slow lol

[cerulean talon]

No, I did have a triple 1080ti rig for awhile tho.

[sly elk]

my fastest has a 9700k (and a 3080ti :])

[golden stream]

Bacc when multiGPU be cool?

[sly elk]

then there's my mac pro

[golden stream]

ARM Mac Pro?

[cerulean talon]

Technically, the epyc's the fastest rig in the house, but it has the least GPU power, which is unfortunate.

[modern iris]

iGPU SLI? XD

[golden stream]

Ya xD

[sly elk]

no it has a xeon e5-1650v2

trashcan mac pro

[golden stream]

Ah, not the ARM ones

[sly elk]

that's a mac studio

[golden stream]

AHHHHH THE TRASHCAN ok

[sly elk]

they don't make an arm mac pro

[cerulean talon]

I think we've got one of those on the floor we "acquired" from work.

[golden stream]

Hey you're reducing their e-waste so prop on u I guess

[modern iris]

Maybe they will make a leg mac pro one day

[golden stream]

Me just like
Just VESA MOUNT

[cerulean talon]

They can't, they already cost you both legs.

[sly elk]

it's been all but confirmed that the next mac pro is going to use an m2 and have soldered-onto-the-soc ram

basically just a mac studio with some pcie slots

[modern iris]

Imagine being able to repair later macs. I don't think that will be an option.

Time to but framework. Well even not a fan of those. tho

[cerulean talon]

I'd like to get something decent-ish to play with ARM builds in the house.

But there's so few good options.

[sly elk]

why not?

[modern iris]

I'm not an ARM fan at all

[sly elk]

I think the framework is one of the most beautiful laptops I've seen, in terms of the inside

[modern iris]

idk just don't vibe with me

[sly elk]

reminds me of the 2010 era macbook pros

[cerulean talon]

I like it in theory, but until they standardize some, it's hard to justify.

[modern iris]

Yeah they are pretty

[cerulean talon]

Because it's still "Compile for the arm version" verus "Oh yeah, just slap it into amd64"

[modern iris]

Yes

[sly elk]

?

framework laptops are just intel lol

[cerulean talon]

Not them, ARM desktop setups. :P

[sly elk]

oh you're talking about arm computers

[modern iris]

Didn't they wanted to make AMD as wekk?

[sly elk]

agreed

I REALLY HATE the way apple is doing ARM

even the way the SOC looks hahaha

what is this shit

[cerulean talon]

Like, I almost want to get one of the POWER setups as they're sort of standardized enough.

[golden stream]

Fookin miniature iphone

[cerulean talon]

Even if expensive af.

[sly elk]

hahaha

[modern iris]

Only reason for me to go arm is if I had to save power. Otherwise doesn't make sense for me

[sly elk]

POWER is just coasting hardcore on the grand days of yore

probably still using OpenFirmware

[cerulean talon]

POWER had a fun revival in crypto for a minute.

[sly elk]

this is an ugly motherboard

very ugly

[cerulean talon]

ARM on the other hand I'd like to have a machine to compile for to target gravaton.

But yanno, you really need a gravaton-style arm chip to compile for their hw exts.

[sly elk]

the only nice thing is the io ports are separate modules

so you don't have to trash a board because the hdmi port wore out

[cerulean talon]

That's a hella large amount of power reg on the ight.

[sly elk]

for reals

[modern iris]

That cut ihs makes me feel weird

[cerulean talon]

Like damn, that's some regulation.

I wonder how many phases that setup is.

[modern iris]

Question is how long will it take till M2 or M3 or that ever is in iPhones

Once chip to power them all.

[sly elk]

I mean

they use similar cores it's just the m2 has more 😄

well, more everything else too but

[golden stream]

Innit m2 is just m1 refresh?

[sly elk]

Yep

[golden stream]

Huhhhh

Ya I saw Lina inspected m2 chip the other day

[modern iris]

Fair enough. I'm 0 into apple I have no clue what they are doing. We don't develop for apple at work either so no reason for me to look into that sorta stuff.

BSD, Linux and if we have to windows

[golden stream]

Asahi Linux

[sharp star]

I played around with the third-party Mac launcher

[golden stream]

Or "we don't give a verfucc linux anyway"

[sharp star]

it tanks if you go past 900p

on M1

This is a maxed-out M1 MacBook Air mind you

[cerulean talon]

Hrm, m2 does have a different micro-arch apparently

Also, has anyone tested the ARC cards to see how they are in general?

I kinda want one for transcoding purposes.

[golden stream]

Iirc seems good in AV1 stuff?

Not really tho

[cerulean talon]

Yeh, that'd be my target.

They're auctually reasonably priced so it's tempting.

[golden stream]

Tho lemme see if there is any cheapo ARC in my place

[cerulean talon]

Then I'd have team red, green and blue under one roof.

[golden stream]

Holup the latest ARC?

[cerulean talon]

A770's like 400$

Like that's cheap enough I'd consider getting one just to play with. Hah.

[golden stream]

O there is one in my place for like........180 buck or something but A380

[cerulean talon]

Ye, i'd like a little more vram in case I want to use it for something else.

[golden stream]

Make sense, that one is 6gb mem and pretty low bus

[cerulean talon]

I'd be super interested if it's good enough to do VM passthrough and render games for VR.

Which it seems like the opnion is "maybe"

[golden stream]

Wait wut just 75W??

[cerulean talon]

I don't see any power connectors, so prolly on the A380.

[golden stream]

Ya prob A380

[cerulean talon]

750/770 both have dual PCIe powers, so probally 250-300-ish w.

[golden stream]

Tbh the A77016gb price is p nice I guess

Oh 225W

If you count wikipedia

[cerulean talon]

Oh it's a 4+3, not 4+4

[golden stream]

So roughly 250w then

[cerulean talon]

Yeah, that seems about right.

Hrm, might have to give that a shot at some point. Seems like drivers are shoddy, but it's intel, so.

[golden stream]

Now the bigger thingy, howz le driver tho

[cerulean talon]

I mean, it's intel, so I assume bad.

[golden stream]

Also Intel is the cheaper gateway for AV1

[cerulean talon]

It's just a question of /how/ bad >.>

[golden stream]

^

Tho lemme dig, iirc LTT did a 1 month ARC challenge

[cerulean talon]

There's "I'm just gonna be depressed for awhile" bad, then there's "I'm using intel" bad.

[golden stream]

nvidia last driver lmao

[cerulean talon]

I was torn on that or blaming it on discord.

As it seems like both of them were doing something stupid.

[golden stream]

https://youtu.be/j6kde-sXlKg

Discord is weirdly stupid tho

[cerulean talon]

I mean, electron apps are stupid in general.

If one crashes on my desktop, it breaks the entire RTC system and I can't use voice or video chat.

It's great.

[golden stream]

Tfw discord dev does not know linux

"Have you try running discord without it?"
"Sir it's the whole op system"

[cerulean talon]

Seems accurate.

[golden stream]

Waitaminute wat, only support dx12 + vulkan but not olders?????

I mean ARC

[sharp star]

yeah that was a point everyone brought up, it worked fine on DX11/12/Vulkan but not older APIs; more recent driver updates addressed that

[cerulean talon]

Interesting.

It feels like a very intel choice.

[golden stream]

For dx9, it's emulation dx9 in dx12

[sharp star]

and now it can run DX9 games and R6S (because that was one of the games it had issues with) just fine

[golden stream]

But prop for ARC dev lol

[modern iris]

Was about to before I could get my hands on the AMD card

[golden stream]

Hmmm tbh, Intel GPU rn is a bit early adoption-ish situation

Driver dev are pretty poggu, quicky patch and big improv stuff but also pretty lmao

[modern iris]

From what I have heard the encoder is good to if you only want to use if for encoding stuff

[golden stream]

Ya for AV1

[real edge]

intel gpus need more time in the oven before they are viable for consumer use

[golden stream]

Lemme check if the A380 price can go lower in my place
Idk may get it for the sake of experimental and lulz

[modern iris]

I think they all have the same encoder so you can get the smallest one to test that if you don't want to game test

[golden stream]

SEA price lol

[real edge]

A770 is like

280-380 euro

here

[golden stream]

Ya same encoder, and A380 is the smallest as far as I know, of available

[golden stream]

Ya
Incl VAT right?

[real edge]

yes

[golden stream]

Oh shoot forget this
So OBS AV1 apparently is nvidia exclusive for now, so ARC or not is not quite matter, for now

[golden stream]

Not sure about the other stuff tho
Doesn't count the linux scheme just yet

[modern iris]

Most stores I look at don't even have it or it's sold out.

[golden stream]

It's available in my place

But then bc it's full of nvidia plebs here

[modern iris]

so ur in canada right?

[golden stream]

No, SEA

Tfw SEA price is like EU price (included VAT)

[modern iris]

Sorry my brain aint working SEA?

[golden stream]

South East Asia

[modern iris]

oh thx

[golden stream]

We do have some weird wacky stuff tho

Imported from CN

[modern iris]

Neat

[golden stream]

Sometime it's kinda neato but then a bit on the edge bc taxes and customs stuff

For nvidia gpu we do have weird brands like Manli or Leadteck or whatever

Mostly for quadro

[real edge]

we have manli as well

they are a lot cheaper than the other brands

for some reason

by 100-200euro margins

which is odd

[golden stream]

Ya

Iirc chinese brand or something like that

Also there is the uh, waifu brand
They're a tad exp end but hey waifus

Ah ye Yeston

Kinda rare tho but can Aliexpress?

[torpid kayak]

random thought: if Asrock ever makes something that bricks, that part becomes as rock

[golden stream]

That's correct tho, my ASR b350 itx is kinda semi giant paperholder lol

Weird bios interaction

[dull garnet]

b350 💀

[potent arrow]

Discord is probably on its own the weirdest fucking app period in my lifetime

I feel like they failed to make a deal with an eldritch god making it and we have like this abomination of an app to show for it

[modern iris]

Never used the Discord app it's weird and laggy for some reason.
Either used a terminal version or just a browser works better for me.

[hard drift]

Discord app is awful

[dull garnet]

Hell yeah

I use chrome and the discord app. My ram is free real estate

[modern iris]

I use it in firefox atm.

[golden stream]

Then discord on android is awful

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/112nw1a/intel_arc_a770_stability_on_linux/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Aight, seems ARC is not really good on linux :/

[hard drift]

It’ll get there

Lets hope that a lot is improved by the time battlemage rolls around

[modern iris]

We can be happy they get us drivers at all.

[hard drift]

Lol

[modern iris]

For linux I mean.

[dull garnet]

ah yes I will buy an intel card for my linux machine

[umbral moss]

https://tenor.com/view/same-pointing-gif-23659204

I want leather jacket man to sweat a little, but intel and AMD seem to be perfectly content at fucking up

[royal forge]

eww rosanno

[sharp star]

I know someone who insists that it is and is really annoying because they keep yapping on about Linux superiority

[umbral moss]

whomst?

[sharp star]

like they keep telling me about how Linux is great and I'm like "cool, I don't care, it doesn't fit my usage so I see no reason to switch to Linux yet"

[deep sapphire]

Linux

https://tenor.com/view/antonio-banderas-oh-sweet-impressed-not-bad-gif-9592821

[umbral moss]

damn, I miss antonio banderas

[sharp star]

if you wanna insist that Linux is the future, cool. I don't care. I only care about now

[golden stream]

Windows keeps middle finger me across many nuke with weird arse behaviors
Me: bai linux then

[umbral moss]

"linux is the future" - 1992 1998 2002 2010 2022 2023

[sharp star]

I acknowledge that Windows is absolute dogshit

[umbral moss]

windows is quite a bit better than it used to be

the era of M$ is largely over

[void dove]

i know a person like this, reason my pfp was changed to a penguin and has evolved to pingu 😛
A friend and I absolutely ripped him apart in voice chat when he would profess Open source is the only way to go and has no faults or downsides whatsoever, and you can do literally everything possible with open source and linux.

[sharp star]

oh my god

[golden stream]

Win8 was ass tho, win7 and 10 are p dope if not for occasional f up

Imo win7 in later is solid

[void dove]

needless to say, we never played games with him again 😛

[sharp star]

they were also going on about "Nvidia bad" without stating why

I know Nvidia's bad

yet they can't put up an argument that's worth a lick of salt

[void dove]

yeah nah, stop listening to people who just spout shit with no actual logical way to back themselves up.

[umbral moss]

win8.1 was breddy gud

and people being like "win10 is grate" are conveniently ignoring that win10 is win8.2 lmao

[golden stream]

I skip w8 and 8.1 tho so no experience of it

[umbral moss]

https://tenor.com/view/mihoyo-genshin-genshin-impact-ayaka-aether-gif-22577072

[deep sapphire]

8.1 was great and you just had to download a 4MB file to give you back windows 7 start menu

[umbral moss]

nvidia is bad because they have no reason to adjust prices or performance since their only competition is themselves

AMD and intel are basically chasing each other for that 4% second-place marketshare

[golden stream]

Sadly ^

AMD at least has the custom OEM stuff like deck and some console stuff

[sharp star]

Plus Jensen has his head so far up his ass that it's impossible for him to see the light of day

[golden stream]

Intel, well, laptop

[sharp star]

I want Intel to succeed, I really do

but that latest report was pretty bad news

[deep sapphire]

What report

[golden stream]

At least in GPU end or both CPU?

[void dove]

Win8 was fine, had hardware compatibility issues and other teething issues because it introduced a bunch of back-end changes as well.
same issue with any new Major windows core changes, (like vista).
its not "bad" but it isn't as stable as the previous because of the changes .
next iteration then improves it and software adapts, (so windows 10)

[sharp star]

Uh lemme pull it up, but the tl;dr was that their earnings or something took a bigger than normal dent

[golden stream]

Vista was......interesting

[sharp star]

their GPU division was among those affected

[golden stream]

Ah

[modern iris]

Yeah but the fact that you had to that's the problem. Tell that my grandparents who use pc's but have no clue how to change settings.

[golden stream]

^

[sharp star]

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1600/intel-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2022-financial found it

[deep sapphire]

Not my problem

[modern iris]

Every time smth is with there PC I just have a remote connection to it cause it's every other day

[modern iris]

Not yours but 100% off all the users who are not into computers

[deep sapphire]

Every IT based company is having a shit time with YoY growth

[sharp star]

I'm not an economist and I definitely won't be so like

admittedly I don't have the full picture

[deep sapphire]

Shareholders should probably understand that instead of jumping the gun

Being Intel has seen significant gains from new driver releases it shows good promise

The board just has to be patient

[sharp star]

Yeah shareholders need to shut the fuck up

Rome wasn't built in a day or something

[golden stream]

Holy that's big loss

[deep sapphire]

After all technology is RnD, RnD is expensive and can take several years before it gains competitive traction sometimes

[golden stream]

^

[modest moss]

you fucken nerds talking about tech

[modern iris]

No

[deep sapphire]

TECHNOLOGY

[sharp star]

no

[golden stream]

Then again, for now Intel is the affordable AV1 encoder/decoder

[sharp star]

we're talking about money

[modest moss]

ok carry on

[sharp star]

and how shareholders are dumb

[golden stream]

tech-money relative lel

[deep sapphire]

I’m doing math on slings and loads

[modest moss]

shareholders are humans, therefore obviously dumb

[modern iris]

True worlds spoken right there

[golden stream]

Then again shareholders want $

[modest moss]

humans are so dumb they can't even type words

embrace idiocy

be like me

[modern iris]

I want money too. Pls hand it over now.

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/idiocracy-dumb-gif-22939957

[deep sapphire]

The modern shareholder is even worse than before

This ridiculous notion that growth always has to happen at any cost instead of long term viable growth is dumb

[golden stream]

Wasn't CP2077 was botched by the director board and shareholders?

[modest moss]

do you mean the redditor investor?

[golden stream]

r/wallstreetbet lmfao

[deep sapphire]

Sure if you are posting 8 quarters of losses I would be annoyed but using the example above the average idiot would just see the headline and say Intel is dying or something when in reality almost every single tech company got hit massively hard for the same exact reasons

Staying at home, needing a computer to work, having more free time and money to buy stupid shit etc etc

[golden stream]

Innit also affected by silicon and semiconductor shortage, privacy and stuff?

And still Intel dominant laptop scheme

[deep sapphire]

Intel was never impacted by the silicon shortage because they own their own fabs

It’s mostly just over market cannibalism and peoples purchasing power being reduced globally

The market is now in a near correction and the inflated stock values are coming down

The only thing keeping us out of a total market correction is strong labor participation globally

[modest moss]

Hank your lalas are doing good

[deep sapphire]

Thanks for checking on them shue

[modest moss]

[potent arrow]

shue u never say hi to me in game : (

[modest moss]

I never say hi to anyone tbh, do I even know your character name?

[potent arrow]

Sarah

lmfao

what limsa you in I wanna say hi

[modest moss]

I'm in Il Mheg now, just doing custom deliveries before I log

[potent arrow]

which seeerver

Ill come byyyy

[modest moss]

greg

I think

[potent arrow]

greg....

[modest moss]

yeah must be greg

gilgamesh

[potent arrow]

oh lol

[modest moss]

because I was at Hank's lala bench and didn't go home

[deep sapphire]

[potent arrow]

there you are

SHUE

[modest moss]

CAT

[potent arrow]

I have shue on my list now, I am happy

[modest moss]

yeah I cba with adventurer plates

I made them before, now they're gone and people kept complaining so I haven't bothered remaking them

[potent arrow]

are you refering to portraits or plates

portraits suck but the plate itself is fine

[modest moss]

yes

that whole system is too much effort

[potent arrow]

I like plates because its like an id card

[modest moss]

I'm barely touching my main anyway

!housing

[opal panther]

Current Housing Bidding Progress

Next Results Period in 1 day, 56 minutes, 35 seconds
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[modest moss]

I'm playing through MSQ on JP alt, up to ShB now

it's fun

[potent arrow]

oooo nice

[royal forge]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosanna_Pansino

basically she was part of the TGS crew

but then some drama happened and she ditched em all iirc

[sharp star]

Best Buy going nuts overnight

[deep sapphire]

Damn that’s a good deal

[real edge]

I want that

where are my american prices

[dull garnet]

america

[potent arrow]

Yum.

The good ole, time to unfuck something kit lite

[modest moss]

minidisc

hipster

[dull garnet]

Stinkpad

[modest moss]

nice torch though

[dull garnet]

https://www.torchdirect.co.uk/coast-professional-led-torches/coast-hp7r-rechargeable-led-torch-kit.html i have one of these

its dope

[potent arrow]

Leave my shitpad alone

[potent arrow]

You should see my microcasette player

[modest moss]

hipster indeed

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/hipster-pretend-roger-smith-roger-american-dad-gif-5625781

[deep sapphire]

[jaunty light]

why are you posting a news article about your crime

[bitter girder]

https://youtu.be/UV2bzDk-LeQ

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/taxi-driver-gif-24590232

[wide hill]

man i need a better way of getting audio from ps5 to obs.

i noticed that there is audio delay if i use audio from the capture utility

but there is only usb i can connect to.

[hard drift]

get a dedicated capture card maybe? i believe that works

i could be wrong though

[wide hill]

i am using a dedicated capture card

[hard drift]

[wide hill]

but there is still a tiny delay

[hard drift]

maybe lower bitrate?

[wide hill]

you mean i shouldn't use the highest bitrate?

[hard drift]

only if you want it the best of the best quality wise but i'm pretty sure there's tradeoffs for it

[wide hill]

i got a gamedac, i connect it to the ps5 with usb, and then use the line out jack from the game dac to line in to pc.

but then microphone and game sounds are within the same channel

[hard drift]

idk

never gotten that in depth for streaming

i just do casual shit for my buddies and never have problems

[hard drift]

what is your audio bitrate at?

try lowering the video bitrate to about 6000 and then raise audio bitrate

[wide hill]

I'll try it out soon

[jaunty light]

@deep sapphire https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=1262558&cc=1414651&pt=8900&jsn=2245 why mofuckinbelts $40

[deep sapphire]

Fancy belt!

[jaunty light]

apparently

the "standard" one is the same price

[paper tusk]

when using hdmi out (in ps5 settings) is audio set to pcm?

it might be thinking the receiving device can decode doby/dts

usb capture isn't that good at latency if it uses mjpeg internally

that setup should at least have proper audio sync

[sly elk]

I still think it's all a bunch of BS to some degree

[dull garnet]

I don't get why people are so fascinated with ai

I watched enough 90s science fiction to be skeptical of it all

[hollow hamlet]

oh wow you can hide muted channels! Sweet!

[deep sapphire]

Wow what did #technology-discussion do to you

😦

[hollow hamlet]

No the newbie channel discord sometimes drops me in randomly so I end up getting a stern "Stop that" from the mods over thre

I don't even know why it drops me in there when I click off the server to view a different one, then click back here

[deep sapphire]

Lmao I did that the other day

[hollow hamlet]

wait wtf am I doing in this channel

[deep sapphire]

I was like wait this isn’t the main channel

[hollow hamlet]

I thought it was not-ffxiv wtf

hank fix my pc I didn't click this channel lol

[deep sapphire]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrpyDacBCh7DBTZPD_JLCY-EjQTGjCKQF

[jaunty light]

[dull garnet]

i love sitting in complete silence with open headphones

[jaunty light]

outside world: ʷᵃᵏᵉ ᵐᵉ ᵘᵖ

https://tenor.com/view/wake-me-up-get-up-band-rocking-musicians-gif-14316461

speed's world:

[dull garnet]

speed's world:

https://tenor.com/view/smashing-pumpkins-simpsons-gif-11713887

[deep sapphire]

[torpid kayak]

what are mouse/mechinical keyboard with good software? Logitech is a pain in the ass

my logitech keyboard's keycaps are now all smeared and blurred

and the logitech software is very hic-up.

[dull garnet]

you shouldn't need software for a mouse and kb

[jaunty light]

not razer

[dull garnet]

has razer software installed

set my mouse to pulse with music because that's such a needless feature

[torpid kayak]

I use macro. It is easier to setup with Logitech software than X-mouse

[torpid kayak]

I have my rgb fixed

but I guess that is not a bad choice

[torpid kayak]

does it still worth for a 5.1 sound system if your PC desk is in the corner and cannot utilize surround setting?

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/procrise-art-nipple-gif-15145350

[sly elk]

damnit i miss my trackpad

i still catch myself trying to 2 finger scroll without i

[jaunty light]

@deep sapphirei wish for maintenance time to be over

i should take off the egr valve and look/clean it while im in there too

[golden stream]

Sound is sound, plan sound and how it travel first

Also, Logitech mech keeb or just regular membrane keeb?

[deep sapphire]

[jaunty light]

just need to record the noise because it couldnt be a vac leak

dunno how to even describe it, kinda mid-high pitched whining, almost like it'd be caused by a pump or air

[golden stream]

Kinda a hiss?

[jaunty light]

but no engine problems so shrug

not really a hiss tbh

[golden stream]

Ah

[jaunty light]

could be nothing or something on the serpentine but it's not consistent enough, happens once in a while

don't even really need to replace my serpentine but I know the tensioner is OEM so it's got 100k+ miles on it

the PCV hose is probably also fine because it's plastic, but the insulator is complete charcoal bullshit now. and i'm pretty sure the original owner "DIY'd" the EGR line because it's supposed to be a solid plastic green line

but it's broken in two and ran into a larger diameter rubber line. that I never noticed till I had to move shit around to replace the plugs

[sly elk]

what was it again? ford truck?

[jaunty light]

ye

[sly elk]

ahh ok

in mopars they use an electric steering system that makes a whine noise

but it changes pitch when you turn the wheel

could be the alternator

[jaunty light]

hm good point, bearings somewhere

dont think it's the alternator itself doing it, but my power steer does make noise if you max out the wheel, so that could be related

just about all of this needs to be done regardless because of the climate so it doesnt bother me that much but if they could make the EES line better quality that would be cool

only had it for a few years and its already trashed

[sly elk]

they all do that

especially hydraulic ones

i like the ones that almost stall the engine when you bump against the stop

[jaunty light]

well, louder than normal

the last thing I do after some of this is look at my driver side front suspension cuz I think something came loose just like the right

steering is just not as firm as it should be and sometimes likes to "bite" a direction, like at a right hand turn i can notice that it would prefer staying turned right, or at stops sometimes it pulls left

[torpid kayak]

mech keeb for me. I like the red capped key

[golden stream]

Tbh if for macro heavy keeb while still mech, get Corsair

Macro King(tm) approved

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/fuckeduppcs/status/1625968190202302464

fucked up looking computers (@fuckeduppcs)

https://t.co/SjiBktuk3J

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[sly elk]

I have never seen that gpu before

LMAO

the kleenex box top

basically one of those

admittedly i love the cpu waterblock cover

[royal forge]

The case actually looks good

[sly elk]

except for the kleenex box top

[royal forge]

That could have been better designed

[golden stream]

imo custom made/custom painted

full fine china theme is 👌

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/hadeel928-tea-time-break-time-relax-gif-25844602

[outer sand]

what other country enjoy tea like British do? lol

[hard drift]

i hope this is still in stock when i go on the weekend

[golden stream]

basically asian, from east to west from north to south

bot not as weird rigid level as le brit tho

[sharp star]

I might upgrade to Zen 4 soon

gonna take those Ashes of the Singularity scores with a grain of salt though

[hard drift]

i am just debating it because this bundle is a great deal and i wanted to upgrade soon anyways

been nearly 4 years

[sharp star]

I’ll get the 7900X3D if anything

[hard drift]

what do you currently have?

[sharp star]

5800X3D, turning 30 so I might get it anyway

[hard drift]

oh lol

i wish i've been waiting

but the 7900x combo is pretty damn good for 600 despite x3d right around the corner

it'll likely be sold out anyways lol

[umbral moss]

I suspect the x3d parts will largely supercede the flagship X parts

[real edge]

^

[potent arrow]

I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it I don't need it

[dull garnet]

that's hideous

[rigid hill]

[potent arrow]

I'm replacing the keycaps and switches

Also got a friend to cerakote the top

[dull garnet]

💸

[potent arrow]

Yes

It'll still somehow be cheaper then my current board

https://youtu.be/vwQ_ntw22FU

[dull garnet]

gamers be like: 1.2" oled panel

https://tenor.com/view/nintendo-switch-baahh-tada-hi-gif-12601447

[potent arrow]

Gasket mount, screw in stabilizers, OLED, really low latency wireless dongle AND Bluetooth, some dial

It's literally got all of the features I wanted in my grail keyboard

It also comes with silicone, poron etc filler so I don't have to really do it myself

[dull garnet]

heh kiddos, this is my endgame keyboard

[potent arrow]

Only gripe is I have to use armory crate

[potent arrow]

buys another a year later

Although I really don't know what else I would need...

The only thing I can like think off is analog optical switches or w/e

But I really didn't like the wooting

...I've spent more in keyboards then monitors at this point ._.

[potent arrow]

[torpid kayak]

wiring is tiring

I tried to have external cables to not touch the ground for easy room cleaning, but they refuse to cooperate by being as tangled as possible

[hybrid prism]

what does two fretboards give a guitar outside of looking unusual? looking at old rock music concert vids and i wondered lol

[torpid kayak]

the thing on the top?

how do people make their cables look neat?

without drilling things on the wall

[potent arrow]

Cable tubes

Zipties

[humble cloak]

So assuming these all remain in stock and price being no concern , which one would you pick ?

https://imgur.com/8OQGpUZ

[dull garnet]

the cheapest

[real edge]

none

they are too expensive

better get the 7900xtx instead when it drops to 1000euro or the 4070ti when it drops to a reasonable price point

[humble cloak]

i am going to grab one of them either way .

Question that remains is which one ?

[real edge]

uhh

if you are spending that much

and do not care about the cost

then might as well get one of the better ones

look at each manufacturers warranty first of all

check which manufacturer has the best warranty

and get the most expensive model of that manufacturer

usually the asus rog strix is the best model

[lost python]

stay clear of the asus tuf or the gigabyte gaming oc

the others are ok

[hard drift]

Why

[dull garnet]

because if you're not paying $250+ on a retail keyboard to then drop another 200 on it to make it less obviously a retail keyboard are you really a computer user

[late basalt]

Even if you did, you aren’t

You aren’t a computer user until every component you get is more expensive than the cpu

[dull garnet]

[potent arrow]

That's one of the main reasons I'm so interested in it, it seems like Asus tried to make something competitive with custom, while ripping off everything good with customs

Like gasket mounts and all of that keyboard filler and screw in stabs in a gaming keyboard just blows my mind

[potent arrow]

.....I hate that you point this out...

[lost python]

razers new keyboard looks like it could genuinely replace the stupid remote i had to buy for my graphictablet because it comes with a wheel you can re-configure to zoom or switch layers etc

[potent arrow]

I have a stream deck that does that for me

It's got a lot of adobe shortcuts on it and it helps a lot in my workflow

[lost python]

thats pretty neat

[rigid hill]

The huntsman v2

Very based

[modest moss]

👀

[deep sapphire]

AirPods Pro 2 are 199 right now think I’m gonna go for them, so sick and tired of my XM4s lmao

[sly elk]

you have the necks tuned to different notes

like one could be tuned to E and one could be tuned to D or something

[hybrid prism]

ahhh true

[sly elk]

also sometimes they do things like have a 12 string neck and a 6 string neck

or a 6 string (normal) and a 4 string (bass)

for when someone is playing 2 different roles in the band

or for the really weird stuf

the ergnomics of these must be awful lol

[umbral moss]

is the bass line to "love shack" the best bass line ever?

[hard drift]

The only good part is the noise cancellation

[sly elk]

the fun thing about changing tuning to a different note is you can make F chord easier to play

[deep sapphire]

They aren’t worth the hilariously bad issues they have

[hard drift]

true

[hybrid prism]

my synth playing brain cannot comprehend

[wide hill]

so, i found a program that lets me do av1 cpu encoding

[sly elk]

it'd be nice if airpods had a pairing button though

well, I guess the case does

but I have 2 phones and 3 macs that it can pair with, and sometimes I'll want to use it with my work mac and my personal one will steal it, or whatever >>

[wide hill]

nooo, the encoder crashed on me

oh

[potent arrow]

Don't tell shue

[deep sapphire]

Damn they sound way better

[hard drift]

i never understood why people like the xm line

[deep sapphire]

I didn’t know shit about them when I bought them lmao they were highly praised in reviews and when they actually work they do sound good but that’s the when part that’s a problem

[hard drift]

lol

[deep sapphire]

The battery case barely holds a charge and this was after I had to RMA them

That’s pathetic

My fuckin original AirPods I bought 5 years ago still work

[hard drift]

[deep sapphire]

https://wccftech.com/latest-amd-radeon-graphics-drivers-reportedly-causing-pc-boot-issues-corrupting-windows/

[dull garnet]

Same old AMD, always crashing