technology-discussion

[deep sapphire]

time to look for another job

[royal forge]

It DOES significantly tarnish their rep

Imo

[wraith agate]

Wait wait wait

LTT went from being criticized over bad data to sexual harassment?

[odd sand]

Drama train has no brakes

[potent arrow]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/15t1mzn/mandatory_meeting_the_after_madisons_departure

Someone leaked the meeting

[wraith agate]

It escalated quickly

[potent arrow]

[wraith agate]

Lmao

[potent arrow]

Transcription if you're having trouble hearing:

(speaker 1, Linus) So we called this meeting because it's come to our attention that we need to have a quick chat about the best way to handle HR related feedback and rumors. We won't be giving any names for what I hope are extraordinarily obvious reasons, but what we can do is give you the following guidelines for problem solving and conflict resolution.

Sorry that this is all boring and corporate, but here we are. Number one, always stand up for what's right. We're only a team as long as we're all working together and working for each other. That's the most important one. Number two, always reflect on your own personal experiences and use your common sense. Few things in life are truly black and white. Number three, always wait to hear both sides of a story before passing your own judgment. Be cautious when you know that one side is bound by legal and ethical disclosure guidelines, when the other is not. Carefully consider what it says about the character of someone who would engage in that type of gossip against someone who has no power to defend themselves.

Number four, always encourage openness and transparency. If you have a problem, you need to speak up. We want to fix it. If you receive feedback about somebody else at this company, the first response is, have you spoken with this person? Followed closely by, you need to speak with this person. We don't solve interpersonal issues here, or really anywhere in your life, if you wish to live in a drama free zone, by engaging in water cooler politicking. So, if for any reason that individual is not comfortable approaching the person they're having a conflict with, we have a chain that they're supposed to follow.

So first, you advise them to take the problem to their manager. Followed by me or Yvonne, followed by our third party HR firm. I hope that you all trust that we're here to make this a safe, fun, and productive workplace, and we won't tolerate mistreatment of any of our team members.

If you have any reason to believe otherwise, then I refer you again to point number four, which is to address the issue with the individual directly, or bring it to me or Yvonne, or bring it to our third party HR firm. Since I'm not at liberty to share any details about what occurred, uh, all I can do is ask that you trust me and Yvonne.

Um, some of you know us very well, I've been here a very long time, um, some of you have not been here for as long, but I like to think that whether you've been here for nine years or nine days, you're here for a reason and you believe that we are utmost to run this company with integrity and compassion.

Um, We can't solve problems we don't know about though, so on that note, I'd like to invite anyone who has concerns about a fellow team member or about a manager to submit their feedback either by speaking with their manager, me or Yvonne directly, or if you would prefer to provide your feedback anonymously, we have an option for that as well.

It's the manager and co worker feedback form. Uh, Yvonne, if you're not aware of it, show of hands who is not aware of it. Hey, a lot of people aren't aware of it. Good, so now we all know. There's an anonymous form, if for whatever reason you're not comfortable, (inaudible) you can talk to me or Yvonne directly about it (inaudible) in the general chat.

Man

That's depressing

Encouraging to talk to the harraser

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/15t1mzn/mandatory_meeting_the_after_madisons_departure/jwhlkus/

There's the full transcription

[wraith agate]

Yeah that's not how it works

And shows why Linus wasn't probably a good CEO

[potent arrow]

James making a sex joke at a sexual harassment meeting is.... something

[wraith agate]

That sounds like classic James ngl

[sly elk]

I'M OFFENDED!

https://tenor.com/view/kanokari-anime-fall-kazuya-kinoshita-gif-26402084

[minor hollow]

Steve: I just thought your methodology was bad Linus christ what the fuck

[glossy ravine]

The "joke" James made was... in really poor taste, especially considered the circumstances

[deep sapphire]

I need to make this a sticker

[odd sand]

The crazed "wtf am I reading" looking heh

[minor hollow]

ok reading the transcript, the HR bit about harassment is clunky but not malicious

there's a lot of relatively innocuous low-level harassment that mostly involves one person being made uncomfortable by another's actions made in ignorance

talking face to face often does actually resolve them

assuming the offender is a adult

if they're not, and there's reason to suspect a power imbalance or refusal to address it, then that's what going to HR first is for

[royal forge]

So what exactly was the sexual harrass stuff

[minor hollow]

which is what is stated as the option for someone who is uncomfortable with the prospect of bringing up such an issue with the person who caused it

[minor hollow]

the former community manager stated she felt there was a culture of harassment

[royal forge]

Oh

Hmm..

[minor hollow]

anyways we need to remember that what creates a toxic work culture is often not a singular or multiple instances of blatantly overstepping boundaries

far more often it's a lot of small instances that add up over time

and realistically, a lot of those CAN be nipped in the bud

especially with nerds, many are in fact just trying to be funny/casual and dont have any real personal investment in positions they threw out haphazardly

[mortal condor]

25+ vids a week?

And we're supposed to be surprised things have always been on fire behind the scenes?

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-gif-24177057

[mortal condor]

You can't produce that much content per week without cutting corners and crunching the hell out of your employees

[sly elk]

I think you can if you have a lot more employees than that

[fallen musk]

Im prolly gonna move the monitor with apex in the middle once I get a longer displayport cable

[sly elk]

looks so clean

[fallen musk]

Tyty took me about a month to get it done, wanna see the before picture?

[sly elk]

sure

[fallen musk]

Before then the above is after

[sly elk]

where'd the bed go?

[fallen musk]

Here

[potent arrow]

Bahahahah

[fallen musk]

louis rossman has always been a savage lmao

Oh right heres the pc.
Specs:
I5 13600kf
RTX 4070Ti
32GB Corsair Vengeance 6000 mhz ddr5 ram
Mobo is an MSI B760 Gaming plus wifi (i shouldve spent more on it tbh)
Heatsink is a thermalright peerless assassin
Ssd is a wd black sn850x 2tb m.2
Psu is an 850w corsair gold rated psu
Case is a lian li 205 mesh c or something idr

[real edge]

cheapest 4080 dropped to 1070 here

[wise jay]

hot

[real edge]

if it drops below 1k

I might consider it over the 4090

[wise jay]

Im locked in. I went all in and got a 4090.

[odd sand]

And that one expose reddit post from like 6 months ago claimed 7+ videos a week, so it sounds like they ramped up output dramatically more recently too...

[odd sand]

I'd consider a 4080 if they dropped to the price of a 1070 when it was new /s

[real edge]

lmao

the if the 4070 costed 100euro less I would have given it consideration

[odd sand]

Got my 3080 for $840USD when they first came out. I got in before all the stock dried up and prices spiked

Rather than fighting bread lines like its the 1930s for a card from retail stores, I preordered one thru my local computer shop. Paid like a $40 markup getting it thru them of course, but a lot better than the alternatives

[real edge]

I have my 1070 that I paid 450-500 for 6yrs ago

now I have to pay double or triple that for similar longevity

[potent arrow]

My poor pc

is leaking again

[sly walrus]

duct tape it

[potent arrow]

Jb welding it

[sly elk]

you should put it so that the motherboard is on the top

so that when the aio leaks it doesn't get your components wet

unless it sprays

[odd sand]

3080 is still doing really well for me so the earliest I might upgrade is 50 series, but depending on what I'm playing at the time might even be 60 series

[sly walrus]

guess what, it’s gonna spray

[sly elk]

i wonder why it's leaking like that

[sly walrus]

is sarah

disasters just happen around them

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/adrenaline-water-cooler-fail-leak-gif-12621472

[sly walrus]

pain

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/custom-loop-liquor-cooler-gif-19118559

https://tenor.com/view/leaking-water-leaking-flex-tape-fixing-leak-water-leak-fix-gif-12150979

let's get sarah some flex seal

[potent arrow]

You are so fucking far out of line

but you are right

[potent arrow]

The ram slots are so corroded, the alst time I pulled out the ram I need vice grips lol

[sly elk]

impressive

[potent arrow]

Cracked two slots

[sly elk]

i wonder what would happen if you had a slow leak and were like eh just let it

[potent arrow]

: 3

[sly elk]

-computer keeps leaking-

[potent arrow]

I leave it most of the time

[sly elk]

it's like an old car

[real edge]

how do you manage to corrode your ram

[sly elk]

they let it leak for a while

https://tenor.com/view/king-of-the-hill-wd40-diy-handyman-gif-3473951

just use some wd40

and maybe put some dielectric grease on the ram sticks next time lol

[odd sand]

I have thankfully never had any leaks with my AIOs

[sly elk]

sarah isn';t really using an "aio"

[potent arrow]

Its uh

[sly elk]

it's a custom loop that was made out of 2 broken AIOs?

[potent arrow]

special

Yeah lol

[real edge]

I put air on my pc cause I do not want to have another point of failure

[potent arrow]

its like half corsair h100i and half gallahad

and a few garden hose clamps

[sly elk]

too bad they don't sell them at amazon go

they appear to be trying to take on costco

[odd sand]

Why would you frankenstein a watercooler solution?

[sly elk]

cuz she could?

man this boomer flex

[sly walrus]

diy

[potent arrow]

I am cheap

[sly elk]

you could buy a car with all that canon gear, no?

[odd sand]

she could...leak water all over it multiple times and corrode the ram slots?

[potent arrow]

its just junk from client machines

[odd sand]

Yeah that 500mm there is probably like $2500-3000

[sly elk]

sheesh

$5800 body

[fallen musk]

Thats cracked, I got my 4070ti for like 770

[real edge]

sarah gives me confidence that no matter what I buy, it will work for 10 years cause she will absorb all of the bad component luck for me

[potent arrow]

I mean I know I can fix it if it goes wrong

[real edge]

the 4070ti is 770 here but that is too expensive for the memory bus it has and vram

[potent arrow]

so im not worried

[fallen musk]

The vram is insanely low for the price yeah

[real edge]

for me personally

[odd sand]

So what's worth $2-3k with that to buy an R3 over an R5 or R6?

[fallen musk]

I kinda wish I went with a 7900xt

[real edge]

I want my gpu to last 6-7 years so I want more vram than 12

[fallen musk]

But it is what it is

[real edge]

16 might last

24 is surefire

[odd sand]

Yeah that's the only downside about my 3080 is its the 10gb

[sly elk]

milky bokkeh

[odd sand]

$3k for the milky bokkeh made from diamond dust I guess

[real edge]

there is also this, but I cannot power it with my PSU(750w) and I want DLSS

this gens radeon gpus are terrible in terms of power efficiency

6xxx was even worse

[fallen musk]

Howre the drivers tho?

I didnt like them on my old rx 5700

Since thats what I had before I got my 4070ti

[real edge]

they work fine if you are just browsing and gaming, but they turn finnicky if you do specialized stuff like VR and fall behind in workloads such as streaming, rendering videos or blender work

[fallen musk]

Yeahhhhhh not it for me lmao

[odd sand]

Still silly you can get a 24gb card for 900 euros and for almost the same price Nvidia is selling 8-12gb cards

[real edge]

yeah its dumb

nvidia is stingy asf with vram

[sly elk]

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/08/16/2128240/bambus-3d-printers-started-printing-while-owners-were-asleep

[fallen musk]

Ye ngl I feel like I got scammed in that regard but in terms of my old card its a massive upgrade in every category so Im satisfied for now

Time to become like that Brazillian dude who soldered 8 extra gigs of vram onto his 3060 or something

Idr what card it was

[real edge]

the 3070 being 8 gigs was the biggest insult

bruh my 1070 had 8 like years ago why do we get another 8gig 70 series part 4-5 years later

:x

[fallen musk]

Apple of GPUs fr

[odd sand]

I think vram usage spiked around the time the 30 series came out so it was rather poor timing. Bc I remember them saying at the time that 10gb should be fine even for 1440p for the forseeable future. And within 2 years there were 1080p games that could use all that if you went ultramax settings

[wise jay]

If I didnt play older games that have issues with amd gpus I wouldnt have a problem using them, but I do so Nvidia has me by the balls

Also I got sick of hearing about problems with their drivers a long time ago so I just pushed them out of my mind

[cold yacht]

It sucks when you do productivity work cause that’s usually like nividias thing

Working in blender on amd not as good

[odd sand]

@deep sapphire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTfScQv4RcE

[deep sapphire]

[sharp star]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/17/23835550/microsoft-windows-11-uninstall-built-in-inbox-apps

[royal forge]

So.. any new drama?

[sharp star]

not yet

[lost python]

well

reddit admins deleting posts about the madison story from multiple subreddits

and deleting/hiding comments about it

[sharp star]

okay guess that's new drama

[sharp star]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/15tlao4/rlinustechtips_is_in_community_only_mode/ oh

they demonetized it lmao

[hard drift]

they said they weren't going to in the video so it should be that way

[buoyant wasp]

Youtube sets monetise to default

But they wanted to see if they can get away with it knowing them

[sharp star]

good to know

[dull garnet]

oh yeah they definitely just overlooked it

[wise jay]

listen guys were so busy pushing out crap we forgot to demonetize our apology video

[dull garnet]

uwu

[sharp star]

needs a ukelele

[fallen musk]

Video felt like a disingenuous pr stunt instead of an actual apology. Its like we have a plethora of apology videos that date back to almost 10 years ago of big creators who also fucked up yet they dont learn a thing... hilarious

[sharp star]

It did

[dull garnet]

linus tears up a little! must be legit

[sharp star]

If they didn’t go “ELL TEE TEE STORE DOT COM” every five minutes I would believe them… somewhat

I also would’ve given them the benefit of the doubt if not for the Madison shit

[fallen musk]

Bro is fr not having a good year lmao

First we get the "I used to drop hard r's" clip which almost ended his career.

Now this lmfao

[odd sand]

It's possible it's bc she mentioned self-harm, and rather than just striking out that part they delete the entire post

[odd sand]

Did that blow up? It was a funny like 2mins, but he corrected himself quickly after ppl were like AYO.... EXPLAIN

[fallen musk]

I mean I found out about it thru Charlie's video and ngl it was funny.

[odd sand]

I knew he must be confused bc there is no way he would casually say he dropped hard Rs for real

So my immediate response to him saying that was:

https://tenor.com/view/princess-bride-gif-5023039

[fallen musk]

My response was: "Damn, mans a gamer fr"

[dull garnet]

cries in millionaire

[wraith agate]

BIG WRENCH

[modest moss]

buy it

how much is it

buy it

[paper tusk]

o:

[deep sapphire]

60mm wrench

[odd sand]

This feels like one of those mindfsck scenes where you would look down see the giant wrench, look up and everything seems super big, look down and see it's a normal wrench but you're now a baby sitting on the floor with it

[paper tusk]

I was going to say after a certain size (42mm?) might also be better to say fuck hand tools in general unless you have body builder levels of swol

[deep sapphire]

it depends, large industrial equipment still relies on large fasteners in tight spaces like pumps, plumbing and what not

some of the fasteners I had to remove were upwards of 2 3/8ths inch lol

[paper tusk]

D:

[deep sapphire]

thankfully you could get an impact on them

using a wrench fuck that

[buoyant wasp]

https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1692267839594316137?s=19

Tom Warren (@tomwarren)

Microsoft replaced dozens of journalists at MSN with AI more than 3 years ago. That AI is now recommending the Ottawa Food Bank as a tourist destination, saying you should “consider going into it on an empty stomach.” 😬 https://t.co/553ghkVjpY

Twitter · Aug 17, 2023, 8:11 PM

[deep sapphire]

they must use AI for their search bar in windows too with how fucking useless it is

[inland mauve]

I hate it when I search for something and open an article and after one paragraph I realize it's AI generated

there are so many sites like that on the internet now

we did it, we made the internet useless

[buoyant wasp]

Scary times for any journalist

[inland mauve]

people make fun of the writers' guild for making this one of the things they strike against but we've already been there for a few years

the only thing a website needs to make money is for people to click on it, everything else is secondary 😔

[dull garnet]

real

[cold yacht]

i remember reading something that went along the line of in 5 or so years 90% of the content online will be ai generated

since ai can just output that much more

in related news openai, folks behind chatgpt, could be heading into bankruptcy

[dull garnet]

good

[cold yacht]

something something something it cost them 700k a day to run daily with no solid revanue

[umbral moss]

not really, the algorithm is just generating the same no-effort content that shitposters used to fill

can you tell the difference between a buzzfeed article written by someone fresh out of college and an AI generated duplicate?

click here to find out

[dull garnet]

yeah they're both equally worthless

keeps the nepotism hire in a job though

[sly elk]

tbh the AI generated content is pretty fucking easy to tell was written by AI

[odd sand]

And that SEO site is like "Gotcha, bitch!"

[sly elk]

like if you read it out loud with feeling well, you can't because it has no feeling, and when it does there's a sorta systematic way to it being written

and it almost always throws in extra words like "furthermore" and "nevertheless" which people almost never use

[dull garnet]

me writing an essay

[sly elk]

nah they have a way of writing that is.. different than what I've seen people do

[wraith agate]

Y'know what? In this economy that's a good tourist spot

[potent arrow]

https://twitter.com/EmilyAYoung1/status/1692228640988443113?s=20

Emily Young (@EmilyAYoung1)

@JennaHuskers I'm trying to stay out of everything publicly but I'm pushing for change internally. I don't want to speak for Madison unless she wants me to, and I don't want to say anything as an LMG employee that might jeopardize the impartiality of whatever investigation happens.

Likes

1432

Twitter · Aug 17, 2023, 5:35 PM

[sly elk]

i found a pic of someone using one of those weird shopping carts microcenter uses

the ones microcenter uses are an interesting variant though

they're one sided

as I recall, there was a chain of grocery store that used weird checkout counters where they didn't have a conveyer belt, and instead the cart would roll over the counter

so the cashier would pull the cart behind them and you wouldn't actually carry the cart through the checkout

I think those fell out of favor as ADA laws demanded lol

oit was a really obnoxious design

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/souljaboy/status/1365701665047732225

Soulja Boy (Draco) (@souljaboy)

You a bitch

Likes

45829

Retweets

9714

Twitter · Feb 27, 2021, 4:33 PM

[sly elk]

?

I don't get it

I hate that dell case though

[dull garnet]

i like it

[sly elk]

speed and that dell 3630 case sittin in a tree

lol jk

[dull garnet]

i like workstation-ish cases

I used to want something like this for a sleeper build

zero airflow though lol

[sly elk]

oh this is wild

and that is in fact the same building lol

reading the history of unimart, most of their stores became target eventually lol

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/halomancer1/status/1692434171694625253 ???????? this is some boring-ass trip

jenny_tightpants🪑 (@halomancer1)

wonder what he's on rn

Likes

285

Twitter · Aug 18, 2023, 7:12 AM

[wide hill]

human... machine... must... do... something...
so... deep... thoughts...
i... am... edgy....

[inland mauve]

!faq reaperbismeme

[opal panther]

The Edge is Calling Tonight

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/cnviolations/status/1692504211416653832

community notes violating people (@cnviolations)

https://t.co/1ZDtjV7R4s

Likes

1133

Retweets

131

Twitter · Aug 18, 2023, 11:50 AM

[modest moss]

That is ugly af I love it

[wise jay]

I shouldve kept my eMachine case for a sleeper build. It wouldve been hilarious

[tame tartan]

elon is an overgrown, overpaid angsty teen trying to desperately prove it's not a phase

[umbral moss]

elon is the definitive answer to "what if a /pol/ poster had lots of money?"

tl;dr it's real bad and it's for the best those people are largely poor and have no real power or influence

[paper tusk]

Also the current macbook is impossible to self repair because the screen and lid position sensor are married to the logic board

[tame tartan]

by design, of course

apple's always been an awful company practice-wise

[sharp star]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-claims-19-gpu-driver-average-fps-improvement-since-launch-intels-new-presentmon-beta-released

[paper tusk]

guess i should update xe driver. again

[cold yacht]

Tbh ketamine is not fun tbh

[snow cypress]

Ok so I was told to upgrade to the Ryzen 5800x3d but I don’t know if my motherboard would be able to properly accommodate it

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A320Mac/index.asp#Specification

[modest moss]

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A320Mac/index.asp#CPU

yep

might need a bios update, so probably easiest to do that before you slap the new cpu on

basically make sure you're on P7.20 or later

[snow cypress]

That's great! Was worried I'd have to cough up another $100-$200+ for another motherboard just for the cpu

[sly elk]

As I read this on an iPhone XS on the latest iOS but using a phone from 4 years ago is nothing really these days

[lost python]

man

id be scared about that board overheating while trying to power the 5800x3d lol

[cold yacht]

Tbh even though Apple throttle, it’s nice to see they usually give supports to phones for a while

It’s like 6 years on average

[lost python]

if you can spare a few more coins, look around for used or cheap B550 boards tbh. the A320 is really barebones and while it can "run" the 5800x3d, it most likely wont run it well.
you can often find decent used B550 boards for like 80€ already, or whatever it is in your currency
that way you can also be sure that you can actually run a proper m.2 SSD AND a GPU at the same time

[deep sapphire]

AMD?

https://tenor.com/view/smh-wow-oh-my-god-gif-13298370

[lost python]

yes hank we know you have to say these things so you feel better about your 1800$ GPU and 350W spaceheater

[deep sapphire]

1600

[lost python]

even after taxes?

[deep sapphire]

I dunno what it was after tax I didnt look but 200 would be insane

only 7 percent sales tax

we dont pay that silly VAT bullshit

[lost python]

7% so its like another 112$

[snow cypress]

Something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/ROG-B550-F-II-Motherboard-Addressable/dp/B09GP7P1XS/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3EZK3DBZWH1J9&keywords=b550%2Bmotherboard&qid=1692379900&sprefix=B550%2Caps%2C1216&sr=8-3&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.f5122f16-c3e8-4386-bf32-63e904010ad0&th=1

[dull garnet]

I mean they don't boost much so idk

[lost python]

it says 210$ for me which would be like 100$ more than its worth

[lost python]

A320 boards like that have basically no cooling at all so even "just" a supported 105W CPU will get it really toasty
also they barely have any bandwith for ram and PCIe lanes

[dull garnet]

neither does my b450 😭

[late basalt]

Ok nerds, it’s unfortunately my turn

[lost python]

yes you need that 4090

[late basalt]

I need suggestions on a decent laptop <800 because apparently I’m starting courses in…10 days

[dull garnet]

m1 macbook air

[late basalt]

And my old laptop from WBW has a battery life of about 10 seconds

Besides rob, my case might fit a 30 series, it’d give a shitfit over a 40 series

[inland mauve]

you need it

and a bigger case

[late basalt]

Bigger drives more tbh

Network systems tech degree

Gonna be fun

[potent arrow]

Homelab time

[cerulean talon]

I heard homelab?

nodnodnodnod

[deep sapphire]

!hank

[opal panther]

白月いと | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/94288092

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/31254299

[potent arrow]

Hrank

[deep sapphire]

Sarah

I did the big 3 upgrade on my truck

nice thick 1/0 AWG wire

[potent arrow]

ayeeeee

How long did it take?

[deep sapphire]

most of the evening, I had to crimp the wires and I bought some cheap shitty crimper on amazon lol

I should have bought a hydraulic one

oh well live and learn

[potent arrow]

I used a bench press for my crimping lmfao

Mine took two days because I couldn't reach the alternator

[deep sapphire]

ha, that'd work

is it under the engine or something

thats the best part of old chevy engines, all the accessories are right there in the front, super easy to get to

[potent arrow]

So on the RX5 swapped Neon, it's surround on four sides with ducking steel plates

Because we didn't have a mounting solution for it

[deep sapphire]

oh fuck

[potent arrow]

We just made a box and threw it in

[deep sapphire]

[potent arrow]

Dude

We got the RX5 to hit 350hp

This thing is going fucking blow up

[deep sapphire]

Ha

[potent arrow]

Dude it's gonna blow up

Also man

I know this car is probably a menace on the road

[dull garnet]

30% of what

[deep sapphire]

30

[dull garnet]

9?

[sly elk]

hgtv: we like to entertain and we're looking for a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home with at least 2500sqft and dual sinks in the kitchen

[dull garnet]

my best friend's parents had a volvo when i was a kid

[sly elk]

hgtv: <husband> I am a paralegal <wife> I make flower pots on etsy

[dull garnet]

it had black leather seats, in the summer it was like sitting on fire

[sly elk]

the trick to that is to avoid exposing the seats to direct sunlight

so like, keep the windows closed and use a shade when you park the car

[dull garnet]

[sly elk]

I'm a weirdo that likes leather lol

[dull garnet]

less fart absorbtion

[potent arrow]

I wear short skirts often

leather seats means thighfriction

Ill die

[dull garnet]

[odd sand]

Thighfriction or nuclear temp leather in the sun against bare skin

[umbral moss]

those memes exist because they already saved up and purchased the home they live in before the show

also because the majority of those episodes were being filmed during the peak of the "no job? no problem!" lending spree of 05-08

[paper tusk]

fucking stupid fucking shit computers
now i remember why i was forced to buy a new motherboard at a moment's notice
ebay gtx 1080 works though :^)

(hopefully micro center has something on clearance I can pitch in for the bigboi parts bin system)

[dull garnet]

nani

[sly walrus]

https://www.pcgamer.com/razers-first-hot-swappable-mechanical-keyboard-will-let-you-mix-and-match-switches/

don't fucking tempt me

[inland mauve]

[royal forge]

I thought kbs already allow hot swap switches?

[odd sand]

Isn't that the definition of being hot swappable?

If they're hot swappable then put whatever you want in them. Although it's silly to use different ones, but I guess maybe you might want light ones with lots of rebound on WASD?

[minor hollow]

What's the difference between a swap and a hot swap?

[sly elk]

lol you mean the same way that a lot of other interfaces are advertised as 'hot swappable' but actually doing that tends to break things?

[odd sand]

I don't think there is technically a swap vs hot swap. But swap would be literally desoldering them I guess lol

[sly elk]

in pcie land there's 'hot plug'

i dare you to unplug a pcie card from a running computer 😄

[odd sand]

So swappable would be the ability to desolder and put new ones on, hot swappable is they snap into the board without soldering.

[sly elk]

iirc sata is supposed to be hot swappable

[odd sand]

I feel like even hot plug PCIe would be advisable to use some sort of "Eject" functionality to power down the slot first lol

[sly elk]

yea by that definition, I can 'swap' the nand chip on my iphone 😄

[odd sand]

I mean that it's an intended functionality to solder them vs most electronics you're not intended to do something like that

[sly elk]

idk if you'd break the keyboard if you yanked a switch and popped a new one in

by virtue of being a switch, I kinda doubt it

[wise jay]

ya I love my hot swappable keyboard. Tried a bunch of different bags of switches and got a bitching setup

[potent arrow]

If a keyboard is not hotswappable its a deal breaker for me

I own many many many different sets of switches now

probally all the mainstream gaterons, most of the icecream series, most of the glorious switches and probally like 75% of the akkos

[wise jay]

Im pretty happy with my current switches. I dont have any motivation to try new ones currently

[potent arrow]

I just like it

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hAy5V91Hr4

This is neat

[odd sand]

No wonder you're forced to build your PC out of rusty old parts from your customers /s Spends all her money on switches and other keyboard parts

Gotta build yourself a throne out of keyboards like its Game of Thrones

[potent arrow]

I'm not sure what costs me more, my keyboards or my gunpla

And yes I'm ordering the new razer board

It's only fair I give it a shot if I gave Asus's Azoth a shot

thats just what I'm telling myself

[sharp star]

$230

oh that's the pro model but still

standard is $170 Christ

[potent arrow]

I spend 500$ on the Asus one LOL

[dull garnet]

💀

[potent arrow]

I think the worst part is that it's my favorite board of my collection while being the middle of the cost range of my collection

Some of the more expensive group buy boards I own just don't measure up

The azoth has become my most reliable wireless workhorse board. The everyday driver of my board.
But I do have prettier boards for show that have various other issues and reliability when it comes to wireless performance.

[dull garnet]

welp

i'm just happy to have a kb that works after the hassle my filco gave me

[royal forge]

Who gonna go fuck themselves

[sharp star]

I think that was directed at LMG?

[potent arrow]

Aoi come to Canada and fix my leg

I cut it and it's been bleeding a lot

[royal forge]

But why? Considerin that they just said they hope they do good?

[royal forge]

Cut it off

Replace with machine piston leg

[potent arrow]

I was welding and fell on some sheet metal

https://tenor.com/view/rage-gif-26438788

[royal forge]

Do you not wear long pants

Did u go get a tetanus shot

[potent arrow]

I did not

It's fine

for now

No inflammation or anything

Was mostly kidding, I have it....under control

[sharp star]

oh no wait it's just dbrand being dbrand, nvm

[odd sand]

The Filco didn't work well? That's surprising, I normally hear good things about them.

[dull garnet]

well, I did spill ramen in it

[royal forge]

Holy shit

Im reading up on the game piracy scene

Them people be nuts

[royal forge]

I dunoe if i can post the info here cuz its..

Fuckin crazy

[dull garnet]

referring to what exactly

[royal forge]

Skidrow vs Empress drama

[modest moss]

it's the usual scene shit, lies and accusations along with hypocrisy and slurs

[sharp star]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-monkey-knife-fight-fight-fight-fight-gif-12214898

[dull garnet]

empress seems like the real issue

[royal forge]

Skidrow is mental too

So

FIGHT MONKEYS FIGHT

[dreamy chasm]

empress needs help

also, just how disillusioned linus is, is beginning to show with the recent drama lol

i knew something was off the second they doubled down on the trust-me-bro bullshit with their backpacks

[paper tusk]

she's a grade A asshole yeah

[cold yacht]

Funny how all this happened cause Linus and crew fucked up on water block review and how they treated it

[void dove]

the proverbial straw as it were

everything snowballed from there

[deep sapphire]

holy shit LMAOOOOOO

[odd sand]

Yeah it was only the latest in a long line of errors... hence the video documenting the long line of errors. Also like 10 staff all saying they wish they could take more time, any time..

I feel like this is different than the trust me bro thing bc they were going to have a warranty, they just didn't have it up yet and they hadn't actually sold the backpacks yet. So it was like don't worry you'll be taken care of regardless. I have a track record of doing right by the customer on the merch etc. Whereas here is sliphod videos on a product that was already released as it were

And affecting purchase decisions

[dull garnet]

i dunno why you'd even buy a bag from a youtuber

[potent arrow]

I mean he's less a small utuber and more of a company making equipment and entertainment at this point

I know a climber who uses his bag for climbing ropes and harnesses and says it holds up fine

So it's probably a pretty ok bag

[odd sand]

I have one, the bag is very nice

The price comes in things being like triple stitched and riveted and the titanium strap holders and zipper pulls etc.

So it's expensive, but that's not surprising bc it's overengineered to a rather hilarious degree

[potent arrow]

Yeah it's competiting with high end bags

[modest moss]

holy shit a $250 backpack

[potent arrow]

Like my northface bag is 400-600$ and I think the LTT bag might win against it

So uhm...

But the warranty is a deal breaker, NF replaced the bag if you return 25%? Ish of the material

And it's lifetime warranty

But idk, LTT is untested for that stuff and I like knowing if I jack up my bag from work or backpacking I can get a replacement easily

[odd sand]

I don't remember exactly what the warranty is on the bags. It's probably not 100% no questions ask replacement if you do something incredibly stupid with it, but I remember it sounding more than fair when it was read when the bags were first coming out.

I've actually gotten a small gash in the outer layer of the bottom of the bag already, sadly. I think it must have happened when wedging it under the seat on the plane on one of my flights

It's just a small nick though and there are like 3 layers on the bottom so it's fine

[modest moss]

they are still shipping ltt bags with a known fault

[odd sand]

You mean the zipper pulls?

[wraith agate]

What fault?

[modest moss]

yeah

"We are aware that the carabiner zipper pulls on the LTT Backpack have a common failure point that often leads to them breaking"

[wraith agate]

Ouch

[cerulean talon]

Ooof.

[wise jay]

"We are aware, but you shills will buy it anyway so get fucked -LTT"

[odd sand]

I dunno about saying "often" bc I dunno what ppl are doing to break them. I've noticed like twice the clip part of them didn't line up 100% and I had to readjust them

[modest moss]

if LTT are saying often, it's probably very often

[odd sand]

But in order to literally break the carabiner clip part to the pulls you'd have to really abuse them

[modest moss]

and you're probably sensible and take care of your possessions

[odd sand]

Also I don't understand why they're carabiners anyways bc it's not like you're gonna really clip anything onto them

I have an actual mountaineering carabiner on the outside of mine to carry my water bottle. More likely to rip the plastic lid off before that breaks heh

[modest moss]

it does look like a nice bag, but if you showed me it I'd have probably guessed more like $100

[wraith agate]

I missed it, how much do they ask for it?

[odd sand]

Decent backpacks aren't cheap. Here's something vaguely in the ballpark from Timbuk2: ($150) https://www.timbuk2.com/collections/all-backpacks/products/1849cust-custom-division-laptop-backpack

[wise jay]

Im good on backpacks. Ive had a skull candy branded one for like 13 years. Damn thing is indestructible

[modest moss]

$250

[wraith agate]

Damn

[odd sand]

It's also an enormous backpack. I have 2 laptops in that right now, plus my large portable battery, 2 power adapters, headphones, a controller, and a change of clothes + a toiletries bag

And my TKL keyboard and 2 mice

[modest moss]

similar looking north face one is 150 https://www.thenorthface.co.uk/shop/en-gb/tnf-gb/bags-equipment-backpacks-rucksacks/surge-backpack-52sg?variationId=KX7

[odd sand]

Plastic strap ties and cheap aluminum zipper pulls

Also I assume the volume for the production run is a lot smaller than North Face + dealing with international shipping + of course you're "supporting the channel" so I'm sure there is a bit more of a markup than a standard retailer

[modest moss]

https://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/15980734/eurohike-nova-25l-daysack-15980734 just buy these, £10 each

(just bought 2 as school bags for the kids lol)

[odd sand]

Neat thing with the Timbuk2 ones is they're essentially made on demand, so you can customize the colors and materials a lot

ALLTHECOLORS

I think some of them you can even get with waterproof materials but of course the colors for those are restricted to like black or grey

[modest moss]

yoo that one is a winner

[odd sand]

Oh it does offer the waterproof materials, you just have to hover the names of the types

My previous backpack is a Timbuk2 I bought in like 2010

[modest moss]

ugh the uk store can't do custom colours

so I'd have to pay $60 shipping plus taxes on top

that's a shame

[odd sand]

Ship it to a friend in the US and have them mail it to you /s

Ahh

[modest moss]

US store ships to UK it's just $55 minimum

I don't think I want one that much, they look good though

[odd sand]

They're based out of San Francisco and were still a rather obscure name of HQ backpacks in 2010, but they've expanded in sales and popularity a lot since then, so you can find them all over the US now

Mine is a little dingy now, but I'm sure I could fix that by gently hand washing it in detergent and some stain remover

[paper tusk]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/334049720001626112/1142634145797898350/F37Q398XAAAhi-f.jpg

[muted spoke]

my timbuk2's fantastic. survived some utterly horrendous shit and kept my laptop in one piece. worth every penny

[sly elk]

I have a north face big shot (dumb name) for like a decade now and it’s holding up ok lol.. it also fits 2 laptops happily. I could probably stick 4 or 5 laptops in there lol

Or 2 boat anchor laptops

I think osprey bags are pretty

My camera came with a free backpack that had this hilarious “rain coat” hood that you pull out from the bottom and wrap around it hahahaha

It’s the strangest way to water proof a backpack I’ve seen

[sly elk]

I remember them being popular for messenger bags back in the 2000s

It was like the standard mac hipster bag

[deep sapphire]

!hank

[opal panther]

rst_hoshinono | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/94435539

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/43576373

[latent ore]

!hank

wah

!Jeans

i need one

[deep sapphire]

!hank

gotta wait

[modern iris]

!hank

[deep sapphire]

[latent ore]

https://tenor.com/view/pepe-laugh-he-doesnt-know-pepe-gif-14019260

!jeans

[modern iris]

!chevy

[latent ore]

!hank

[opal panther]

ゆきうなぎ | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/81115452

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/38436050

[latent ore]

chika

[modern iris]

oooo

now that's pin worthy

[latent ore]

https://tenor.com/view/chika-uwu-dance-fujiwara-gif-18286560

[latent ore]

pin this

[deep sapphire]

@lament crow

[deep sapphire]

die by the sword

https://tenor.com/view/cupid-hanzo-overwatch-loverwatch-hanzo-kiss-hanzo-gif-27527948

[latent ore]

thats an arrow hank

[deep sapphire]

it has a bladed tip

like my

MY

MY

[latent ore]

[lament crow]

[latent ore]

your?

[deep sapphire]

dont worry about it

hi teddy

[latent ore]

your?

[deep sapphire]

[lament crow]

hi Hwardware_Hank

wait

[latent ore]

i see

[lament crow]

that last one didn't work so well on paper

wtf is paper

[latent ore]

trees

i speak to the trees

[lament crow]

those things in game scenes?

[deep sapphire]

!hank

[opal panther]

抹茶Amigo | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/93733699

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/14089200

[deep sapphire]

[lament crow]

nice

[latent ore]

my turn ill get you a good one

[deep sapphire]

oh yeah new iPhones next month

[lament crow]

this is such proof you're a big weeb hank

[deep sapphire]

NO

I AM NOT

[latent ore]

!hank

[lament crow]

literally a weeb command named after you

[deep sapphire]

NAH UH

[lament crow]

yeah

[latent ore]

!hank

ok next minute

[deep sapphire]

I DIDNT MAKE THE BOT TEDDY

[latent ore]

hank you weeb

[deep sapphire]

[latent ore]

!hank

[opal panther]

あんず | https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/seiga/im10620381

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/user/illust/97529431

[deep sapphire]

eh

[wise jay]

!hank

[latent ore]

i am dissapointed

[deep sapphire]

same

[latent ore]

i am pathetic

im sorry hank

[deep sapphire]

you just need sleep buddy

[wise jay]

wait it didnt work for me. not fair

[deep sapphire]

has 1 min timer

[latent ore]

i do?

why do i need sleep?

[wise jay]

!hank

[deep sapphire]

!hank

[opal panther]

Nami | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/83870090

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/7321921

[deep sapphire]

ha

https://tenor.com/view/mike-ohearn-gif-5978288995841027384

[wise jay]

https://tenor.com/view/waah-waa-sad-wah-waaah-gif-25875771

[latent ore]

ill just get you a random one from my ushi folder

[deep sapphire]

whats a ushi folder

[latent ore]

ushi

https://tenor.com/view/ushiwakamaru-fate-grand-order-wave-hello-smile-gif-17451507

[deep sapphire]

oh I see

[latent ore]

!hank

[opal panther]

檸檬乃れもね | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/78913931

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/34582180

[wise jay]

theres alot of jiggling in that gif

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

[latent ore]

NOOOOO

NOOOO

THE BAD MEMORIES

[deep sapphire]

why she pouting

[latent ore]

CRUNCHYROLL YOU BITCHES

BECAUSE CRUNCHYROLL SHUT DOWN THE GLOBAL VERSION

BITCHES

FUCKERS

im sad now

istg ill do one more for you, you weeb

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9QXfu1H31U

[latent ore]

!hank

[opal panther]

HwanHee | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/89850041

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/30298457

[wise jay]

https://youtu.be/EvuAVr88XoM

https://tenor.com/view/turn-up-the-volume-turn-up-the-music-gif-20340548

[deep sapphire]

[wise jay]

seriously who tf gives this game such a banger soundtrack?

[deep sapphire]

yeah the game is pretty shit ngl but the soundtrack total banger

I saw that

[wise jay]

!hank

[opal panther]

かえで | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/88682108

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/47065875

[deep sapphire]

nice shes cute

[wise jay]

finally i got my own hank

[deep sapphire]

[latent ore]

just mega man

[deep sapphire]

oh, glad you deleted it then

[latent ore]

ill start sending d4dj music hank

[deep sapphire]

LOL

[latent ore]

https://open.spotify.com/track/0TFqh51HxV31RjDroiPvOF?si=6ac2ca2fc04646d5

new abyssmare song

!hank

[deep sapphire]

that is weeb

[opal panther]

Ria | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/100689634

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/18950053

[latent ore]

no

it is not

it is from game

[deep sapphire]

yes it is

weeb

[latent ore]

nou

[deep sapphire]

[wise jay]

https://youtu.be/oePpxKvfChA
Another track with TJ Davis as the singer

[latent ore]

weeb calling weeb a weeb

[deep sapphire]

that game has a suggestively themed song in it

look up passion MSR

its full of moaning sounds

imagine your dad walkin in on you playing it

with the belt

DAD NO

[wise jay]

I was more of a jumper cable fan myself

[deep sapphire]

ha

GETTIN BEAT WITH THE JUMPER LEADS

[wise jay]

ya honestly that song, I remember quite a few games having songs like that now that I think about it

Although uhhhhh this one ya. Its good but wow some parts are graphic

[deep sapphire]

LMAOOO

[wise jay]

weird, I clicked that spotify link and I guess the app was autoinstalled when I setup this pc the other day

[sly elk]

agreed but I think the game wasn't a bad concept just

it doesn't have that many tracks lol

and the running action was total jank

[deep sapphire]

yeah you can 100 percent the game in like 30 minutes

[sly elk]

the way everyone runs like they're on ice

[wise jay]

ya and they stretched the sound track by doubling the tracks by just taking out the vocals

[deep sapphire]

god the sega saturn was bad

and no, you cant defend it

im a sega fanboy

and I will tell you right now

[wise jay]

Im glad my first console experience was a PS1

[deep sapphire]

the saturn was bad

[sly elk]

i coulda swore the reason for that was the menu had vocals on/off as an option

[deep sapphire]

and killed sega

[sly elk]

they didn't use the same song for 2 different tracks

and to be fair, sometimes T.J. Davis hits better, sometimes the instrumental hits better. lol.

[wise jay]

couldnt say since Ive never touched a saturn nor I have I personally seen one

[deep sapphire]

cant blame you, I didnt know a single person who owned one aside from my neighbor who had one for like 2 months and traded it in for a PS1

[wise jay]

Ya Richard Jacques compositions are really solid on their own.

[sly elk]

here's a laugh

I did in fact see a sega saturn in person

... at service merchandise

[deep sapphire]

[sly elk]

dating the shit out of myself aren't i

[deep sapphire]

this is a true story

Sega gimped the manufacturing of the Saturn

because it cost them 500 dollars to make

even near the end

they lost over 100 dollars a unit to make

and with it selling poorly

[sly elk]

yea idk, when I was a kid my intro to video games was my brothers lol

[deep sapphire]

it made more economic sense to limit production

[sly elk]

my oldest bro had an atari 7200 or whatever, and then the NES

older bro got a sega genesis

my first console was a gamecube

[deep sapphire]

oh damn

[sly elk]

or maybe it was an xbox. tbh I can't remember.

the gamecube was a neat piece of tech

[deep sapphire]

yeah gamecube was cool

[wise jay]

ya my first actual console was a gamecube. The first one i played somewhere was a ps1 which later became mine

[sly elk]

the OG xbox was fucking cool for its time though, even if it was just a crappy computer lol

it's funny how MS and nintendo did opposites there

[wise jay]

What you didnt like The Duke?

[sly elk]

nintendo: dorky simple menu, solid hardware

xbox: cool AF menu software, the hardware broke itself without even being used sometimes

as I recall the dvd drive was basically made out of paper 😛

[deep sapphire]

gamecube had issues with its optical drives but overall yeah was well built

[sly elk]

mine came with the smaller controller. I've never held The Duke

[deep sapphire]

the xbox drive was just a bog standard PC based DVD drive

[sly elk]

I thought the gamecube controller design was really stupid when I first saw it

but it felt real good in the hands

just didn't like the layout of the buttons on the right

I realize that may anger smash fanboys

[deep sapphire]

I liked the 8 way directional grooves in the control sticks

that was actually a great idea

[wise jay]

https://youtu.be/MgjNyS95OLE
First game I booted up on that gamecube because it came with. Shit was so hype as a kid

[sly elk]

when I saw it i was like

[wise jay]

My Uncle had an og run xbox and its fucking huge

[sly elk]

you guys didn't learn your damn lesson from the n64 did ya

like people talk about The Duke

the N64 controller was awful

[deep sapphire]

as a kid I dont really recall the N64 controller being that bad I guess if you had larger hands it was stupid

[wise jay]

they didnt. The camera button on the gamecube controller was such ass in particular

[sly elk]

lol

well, here's the thing hank.. I didn't own an n64

[wise jay]

It was super senstive in anygame that used it

[deep sapphire]

oh fair

[sly elk]

the couple of times I played a friend's n64 i couldn't get past how weird the controller was

but the games were fun af

[deep sapphire]

N64 was popular in my neighborhood, I only knew 1 person that had a PS1 everyone else had an N64 rofl

[sly elk]

otoh, went to a friend's house for his birthday party and they did dual xbox 4 way split screen halo

at that time I was playing that game on my computer

I WAS SO DANG CONFUSED

how the hell do you play fps games on a gamepad?!

[wise jay]

duke versus regular controller. Its so damn big

who tf thought the duke was useable?

Also not shown in almost any picture of the duke is the fact that it was also ungodly thick compared to the regular

[sly elk]

what I remember about the smaller one

is that the vibration is incredibly strong

[wise jay]

Ya its really good.

[sly elk]

too good -_-

[wise jay]

Playing Halo 1 or 2 at someone's house was so hype. New rumbles just arent as good

[sly elk]

my white camo xbox controller is real bad

one of hte motors has rattled since the day I got it 😦

first gen was too much for me though hahaha

i liked how the gamecube did it better because it jolted instead of ptbptbptbptpbptbptbptb

[wise jay]

i dont remember rumbling on gamecube controllers at all. I had like all madcatz and other offbrands

rip madcatz

[sly elk]

i thought they still existed

[odd sand]

They saw the Dreamcast controller and said hold my lite beer

[wise jay]

They technically do but not like before their 2017 bankruptcy

[odd sand]

They went bankrupt huh? Seemed like everyone used to buy their controllers, but I guess there were a lot of new competitors with controllers by that point like Hori, Power A, etc. Also ppl just seem to settle for junk controllers a lot less than they used to

[sly elk]

lol

i was gonna say, it's all about 8bitdo now I think

didn't know PowerA made stuff other than Nintendo stuff

[wise jay]

I mean its like Gameshark which their parent company owned. It just wasnt as relevant

[sly elk]

lol the controllers with the turbo switch

not turbo button. Turbo SWITCH

[wise jay]

ya I got alot of old controllers with turbo on them

[sly elk]

you know you got the crappy controller when it had those little switches

[wise jay]

The only controllers I still have for my gamecube that I actually care about

[sly elk]

the only thing worse were the controllers with the screw-joystick-onto-dpad thingy

hahahaha who said the dreamcast controller resembled The Duke

I think MS' controller team saw the sega saturn controller

but to the point

[odd sand]

Yeah most ppl if you're not buying first party you go with 8bitdo unless going baller for the King Kong Guili kit

[sly elk]

I recall hearing that a lot of the people who worked on the sega saturn also worked on the original xbox

omg rofl

peak 90s

i can't believe someone made a fucking jog dial controller

[odd sand]

I used a 1st gen dual shock for FF11 on my PC. Had a PS1 to USB adapter

[sly elk]

that sounds very period accurate lol

like people who insist on playing smash bros on a crt tv

[odd sand]

Also a good way to avoid a dogshit controller on PC at the time

Since your alternatives were whatever awful garbage logitech or similar were peddling at the time

[sly elk]

ah my pc controllers were these

I had a pair of those

i liked them because I could daisy chain 2 off the same game port

[odd sand]

I wonder if its that they've cleaned up their acts, or if its that licensed controllers for consoles have to be close to the same spec as the actual one

[sly elk]

but this was before analog sticks lol

[odd sand]

Yeah for my mac I had some weird one you could screw in a stick into the dpad to make it a ghetto fight stick

[sly elk]

i joked about those above

[odd sand]

Or ghetto analog I guess

[sly elk]

they usually looked like the 6 button genesis controller

[odd sand]

Another thing that doesn't help the 3rd party peripherals is you can just use the official console controllers on PC now

[sly elk]

ewww

i wanna try one of these

the buttons look satisfying

[deep sapphire]

The genuine sega 6 button pad is amazing

The d pad is like

Fuckin perfect

Feels so good to use

[sly elk]

yea

[deep sapphire]

It has this like perfect depth and feel to it

[sly elk]

idk if they still sell them but

ahhh I see it's retro-bit huh

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09C56X67S I bought my bro one of these and it felt pretty good

[odd sand]

They were okay. Not the same plastic as the regular controllers. Kinda a brittle lighter plastic and bc the buttons were so big the travel time on them was far

[sly elk]

thaaaat's unfortunate

they looked so cool in the ad lol

[odd sand]

The two big red buttons were that plastic I mean. The rest of the housing was solid

All about the NES Max controller with the turbo buttons heh

Fsck this thing though:

It was so flimsy and a single race in Track and Field and your legs were mush

[sharp star]

I'm sure that Logitech controller is eco-friendly

[royal forge]

Any new drama?

[sly elk]

with all the rumors about an apple watch x, i wonder if apple would skip the '9' like they did the iphone 9

rofl I only ever use my laptop on vacation and i forgot that after a while of the fan runningm full blast one of the fans starts buzzing

[dull garnet]

Fan?

[sly elk]

internet plans here are a ripoff :\

[wraith agate]

Damn

I'm paying 20 bucks for 2 gigabit

[lost python]

holy shit that expensive

wtf

[valid siren]

O.o

[wise jay]

god I wish that were me

[potent arrow]

That's like 96$ USD a month

[real edge]

-5 email accounts

wat

[potent arrow]

Yeah

ISP given email domains or something

This is residential btw

[real edge]

-up to

as well

[lost python]

god damn you guys are getting scammed

all thats missing is a monthly data cap onto of that

[potent arrow]

There is a cap

[lost python]

[potent arrow]

It's just hidden and they don't cap cap you, they throttle it to like 10mbos

[lost python]

double scam

[wise jay]

I hate fucking internet in america. its such a bitch

[potent arrow]

Canaduhhhhh

Telecoms in Canada is a scam tbh

[wise jay]

Just like America

[potent arrow]

Fucking monopoly shitlords

[lost python]

internet used to be so behind in germany, and it still is in some more remote regions
but here in the city i pay 40€ a month for a 1gbit line and unlimited data

[wise jay]

ya thats hot as fuck

[potent arrow]

Adds Germany to potential places to.live

[real edge]

in greece

I pay 33 month for 200mbps

goes up to 45/50 month for 1gbit

[inland ridge]

I'm considering getting a Steam Deck or ROG down the line. Which would be the better of the two to pick up, especially considering Dawntrail's gonna get a sys req update?

[dull garnet]

the rog is more powerful but the deck has the better experience and doesn't have hardware issues

[inland ridge]

Hardware issues?

[lost python]

deck for sure, just because of the bigger userbase and better support for it

[dull garnet]

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/asus-rog-ally-may-fry-microsd-cards/#:~:text=Asus has just confirmed that,it's going to be addressed.

valve sell refurb decks now too

one of those + 1tb 2230 ssd is a good buy

[inland ridge]

I see... doesn't the steam deck require you to have a key on steam for you to play it?

[dull garnet]

fair point

can the official or third party launcher be used with proton i wonder

i don't use steam for ff either

@modest moss

[sharp star]

XIVLauncher doesn’t need Proton

it has its own Wine wrapper

[inland ridge]

I see...

Not sure if I want to use XIVLauncher... or even get a Steam key just to be able to play it on the Steam Deck

[void dove]

the point was, XIVlauncher, doesn't need a steam key, on steam deck.
and if you already play ff14, from a non-steam account, you can't just get a steam key to play on deck.
you cannot use Steam keys on an account that already has a PC non-steam key on it, they are NOT compatible. your account is forever locked to whichever PC version you first registered on your account.
so if you want to play on deck, and already have a non-steam account, you have no choice but to either, use XIVlauncher on Steam deck, OR, figure out how to setup ff14 manually on deck.

[inland ridge]

Oh!

I see, I think I get what you're saying

Also, seriously? I've only heard about this now. Why is that not possible?

[void dove]

what, moving from non-steam to steam?

this is not new

it has been like this since day 1

[inland ridge]

Huh

[void dove]

its a common question/issue that comes up in the beginner lounge and Questions channel

steam and non-steam keys, take the SAME slot on your account, but are different

and once you buy on One system, you cannot change to another

Each store, lists in the product description, that its key, CANNOT be used for the opposite system

[inland ridge]

Ah

[void dove]

but people still dont read

and end up buying keys they can't use

if you want to buy other platforms, thats fine

but PC you can only use One, either Steam, or non-steam

the ONLY time you can ever change is from free trial, non-steam, to Steam, when you buy the game.

if you use free trial on Steam, you are stuck there for purchasing.

this all assumes, you dont want to make a brand new account of course.

[dreamy chasm]

https://youtu.be/KuTsTjFZf5M

[dull garnet]

the sheer contempt of that bald dude

so funny

[cobalt karma]

Hallo, I am getting the error "unable to patch file [30413][25008][10009]" and nothing seems to work. I am using XIV Launcher and it seems that I can download the game normally. But I was wondering if anyone knows if this error continues ingame or only during patching?

[latent ore]

!hank

[opal panther]

十神乃 | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/94696103

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/32753294

[modest moss]

if the game is downloading with XIVLauncher it should play fine

[deep sapphire]

!hank

[opal panther]

ink. | https://twitter.com/ink92947641/status/1553734070450126850

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://twitter.com/ink92947641

[dull garnet]

https://twitter.com/_sysengineer/status/1693067263778173438?s=20

sysengineer (@_sysengineer)

Girl dinner

Likes

1931

Retweets

267

Twitter · Aug 20, 2023, 1:07 AM

[deep sapphire]

hot chip

[dull garnet]

it may well be a prescott p4 so yes

[latent ore]

!hank

[opal panther]

黒澤チョコ | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/96933280

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/66525820

[latent ore]

[opal panther]

黒澤チョコ | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/96933280

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/66525820

[dull garnet]

!hank

[opal panther]

habanero_mgmg | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286244046315241473

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://twitter.com/habanero_mgmg

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojJIki1vKAs

uuuuuh todd

[dull garnet]

I like wera screwdrivers

[deep sapphire]

me too

[odd sand]

Worst time for LTT to release the stubby screwdriver lol

[latent ore]

!hank

[opal panther]

しそは | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/92844081

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[latent ore]

https://tenor.com/view/d20-dice-roll-the-dice-gif-17381032

!hank

[opal panther]

ひな虫 | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/41378163

Sourced via nekos.best || Artist Page: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/2417964

[latent ore]

[modest moss]

@potent arrow help @vernal cipher

keyboard business

[potent arrow]

Huh

Har

Oh

Hello?

[modest moss]

#1142929171354501170 message

help here or there, it matters not

[potent arrow]

Done

Back to eating my food

[modest moss]

👍

[vernal cipher]

Thank you for the help and recommendation!

(I have a few other questions, if you don't mind)

I posted them in the same tehc support post c:

[latent ore]

Drop a

[deep sapphire]

!hank

[opal panther]

WooGi | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/90008565

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[latent ore]

Duck

I was gonna

[stable mirage]

you cant hide jeens

[latent ore]

You

Mf

[latent ore]

Fine I’ll run to #not-ffxiv-discussion

[deep sapphire]

ruru could smell the waifus

[stable mirage]

this is literally the first time ive ever talked in here i think

[latent ore]

!hank

[opal panther]

五円玉 | https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/87117534

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[potent arrow]

Boutta buy all of walmarts penzoil

[stable mirage]

also ti thought this is tech discussion why are there catgirls

[latent ore]

Ruru is chasssing meeee

[stable mirage]

:3

[latent ore]

Fine

I won’t tell you where I’m going this time