technology-discussion

[cold yacht]

Yeah pretty much, I was chatting with my photography professor about it earlier this week

I shoot on film

[dull garnet]

prime lenses and basic zooms aren't so bad but long zooms are a lot of glass and cost

[paper tusk]

^

[dull garnet]

film slr lenses didn't used to be expensive but hipsters may have changed that

[cold yacht]

Wanted to get a Wide angle and long zoom

I usually go to the National park often

My currently lens is a 57 mm

[minor hollow]

Best connector, awful cables

[sharp star]

https://www.theverge.com/23870387/iphone-15-plus-hands-on-pictures-video-price

[glossy ravine]

What the fuck?

With the new IPhone. (Yeah. Apple) Resident Evil 8 and Resi 4 Remake? Will be natively playable on the 15??

Inb4 it's just the ps4 but visually downscaled lmao

[dull garnet]

Dat apple silicon

[hard drift]

It’s using the a17 not the m2 or anything 😭

[glossy ravine]

Bruh. The heat generated on the iPhone is gonna be insane, and I bet that battery isn't going to last more than 4 hours running Resi games

[sly elk]

LMAO

The company is including a braided and color-matching USB-C to USB-C cable in the box, though this cable is limited to the baseline 480 Mbps transfer speeds. If you want to unlock the full potential of the Pro models, you'll need to buy your own capable cable.

[dusky magnet]

Oh Apple

[lost python]

1500$ phone but can't include a proper charger or cable

Gonna sell them separately for 150

[deep sapphire]

I’m fine with that, who doesn’t have a phone charger already

I always tossed them anyway

[hard drift]

It’s a new charger smh

It’s only usb c not lightning now

[deep sapphire]

I know

Samsung doesn’t include a charger either

Also nice to see the pro models actually getting exclusive hardware

Also damn resident evil 4 remake

[sly elk]

this is really annoying and disappointing lol

my brother is a tv nerd and loves watching tv, but I haven't had cable/satellite tv in years, so he just makes do with an antenna and some stuff he likes on roku (every thing he likes is pretty much available on dvd or youtube but he likes the recording and tuning and stuff)

so anyway - thing is, the dvd recorders he loves from the 2000s are starting to get crappy and unreliable

figured I'd try out one of the options for an OTA DVR

so here's where we are:
hdhomerun: Basically abandoned
tablo: Introduced a new device and the company was bought out by someone else
amazon firetv recast: discontinued
tivo: too damn expensive

i went with tablo's new thing because it's $99 and doesn't have a monthly fee. even has a built in 128gb ssd . Nice!
well hang on a sec.....

[dull garnet]

Data transfer rate doesn't matter on iPhone anyway, nobody transfers data to an iPhone that way

[sly elk]

I have it connected to my network via gbe. Trying to stream live tv from my phone it stutters every 10 seconds or so.

so I tried plugging in my phone via gbe.... still stutters -_-

[royal forge]

They released the mx518 legendary

[sly elk]

they don't appear to be making those anymore 😦

[deep sapphire]

if they made iTunes less shit and iCloud not utterly useless on desktop maybe people would

like I cant believe iTunes is allowed to be so fucking bad on a UI front

it gives blender in 2006 a run for its money

remember when safari came to windows and had this

we all felt it was badass

[graceful pine]

I do rarely

Just transferring audiobooks usually

[sly elk]

bluuuue

[royal forge]

Ye. Dats a shame

[sly elk]

yea but they never made the mx700 again 😉

the dorky wireless version that weighed a lot and had a charging dock 😄

I had one xD

[royal forge]

Therd IS a tutorial on how to make that wireless iirc

The mx518 i mean

[sly elk]

I did like how the buttons were seamless and made out of metal

iirc it had a nice sounding click

this is one thing I still haven't gotten used to with the razer viper ultimate. its click sounds different

[deep sapphire]

Base iPhone seems like a waste of money with how much extra shit you get with the pro lol

[modest moss]

they all seem like a waste of money

[sly elk]

so it turns out the random lag bursts on the tablo tv box don't occur on my iphone, only my android phone

wonder who is at fault here lol 😄

[umbral moss]

I'm a lot a bit surprised there isn't a cottage industry of hot swap switches and wheels for mice

[sly elk]

shit i'm surprised there's a cottage industry of mechanical keyboard stuff lol

so much ewaste 😄

[umbral moss]

yeah, but there's a lot of customization for keyboard, when you don't really need to be out there customizing the debounce time on your S key versus your W key

meanwhile, mouse is like "buy a logitech or steelseries, hope their firmware isn't garbo or that batch has good switches"

[sly elk]

that I can understand

things like n key rollover and keyswitch feel make a meaningful difference for a lot of people

[umbral moss]

n-key rollover for the time you drop a watermelon on your keyboard

[sly elk]

not just gamers trying to eek out that 99.9999th% of extra performance

[umbral moss]

how many octopi are using keyboards?

[sly elk]

caring about latency and the debounce time and like

the texture of the button so you can do that slide-finger-to-make-many-clicks trick

is shit that only people who nolife CSGO care about

[umbral moss]

yeah, but if you're that anal about the keyboard why is your mouse an off-the-shelf part

[sly elk]

good question

[umbral moss]

it's like seeing someone with a heavily modified engine and their wheels are the stock steel radials

[sly elk]

jeep people

[umbral moss]

jeep people are too stupid to mod their engines, they just replace the suspension and put 40 inch tires on it to go get groceries

you never know when you might need to ford a fucking river to go to shoprite

[sly elk]

that's american logic right there bruh

[umbral moss]

yo, they gave me a goddamn 2023 4runner as a rental for my business trip

this thing is a god damned tank

[sly elk]

i gotta spend $75,000 on this F150 because that 1 time a year I might happen to want to buy a sofa and even though they charge $75 for delivery I want it nao so I'll risk busting my back to carry it myself

[umbral moss]

why would you drive this over a much more reasonable sedan

[sly elk]

oh also i ordered gravel and want to pick it up instead of having it delivered

I'm so smart saving so much $$ driving this giant fucking truck around for the 2 times a year I could've had someone deliver instead

[wise jay]

people are stupid

[umbral moss]

https://tenor.com/view/brain-gif-22265960

[sly elk]

you also see the same argument 24/7 about not buying an EV because the range is only 300 miles

[umbral moss]

when statistically people drive under 100 miles per week

[sly elk]

and it would be an inconvenience for that one time they take a road trip to see their grandma twice a year

[wise jay]

I would argue much different things when it comes to an ev

[umbral moss]

the use case of the guy drivig 250 miles a day is like, literally nobody

[sly elk]

YEA LIKE DRIVING EV MAKES EVERYONE THINK YOU HAVE A SMALL PP

[wise jay]

The most Ive driven daily was like 70ish miles a day 5 days a week for a few years

[sly elk]

to be fair, I recall several articles online making fun of 'undateable' 'tech bros' because they all drove teslas or something like that lol

[umbral moss]

that's because techbros tend to also be far-right shitbirds

[wise jay]

Ive never met someone with a tesla who didnt shut up about it soooooo

[umbral moss]

they're undateable because they're insufferable, not because they drive EVs

[sly elk]

I feel the same way about people who buy trucks and jeeps

and especially

especially miatas

[wise jay]

I own a truck because my grandpa got rid of it and I just sold my car at the time

[sly elk]

that said, good lord, tesla fanboys are insufferable lol

[umbral moss]

y doe

[sly elk]

my favorite thing about them is they mimic the way elon musk writes

[umbral moss]

the miata is basically the intersection of "I want a fast, cheap car that takes tons of mods"

[sly elk]

Elon Musk uses broken English in a very obnoxious sort of way

[umbral moss]

he's a shitGPT trained on /b/ posts

what do you expect

[sly elk]

-recalls that scene in loudermilk about vocal fry and elitism-

the way he writes is like he's above using connector words

also, clearly, whatever elon musk or tesla does, is perfect and shouldn't be questioned, according to tesla fanboys

[umbral moss]

it's because using complete, proper english takes too long

[sly elk]

even if it's stupid like that steering yoke

[umbral moss]

also because his fans are dipshits who got G minuses in school

[sly elk]

to the people that compare steve jobs to elon musk

[umbral moss]

and are adamant that "grammar is irrelevant because we're not in school, bitch"

[sly elk]

steve jobs would've considered the yoke stupid and fired whoever designed it

well, maybe not fired but

idk?

[wise jay]

Any safety agency shouldve said fuck no to a yoke in a passenger vehicle

[umbral moss]

steve jobs is absolutely the kind of person who would sit in a car with a yoke and schedule an event to fire every single person involved

[sly elk]

lol

[umbral moss]

who the fuck approved this design?

[sly elk]

i miss him

he was an asshole

[umbral moss]

b-but full self driving

[sly elk]

to be fair, tesla made a few good choices lol

maybe a lot of good choices tbh

[umbral moss]

(coming 2016 2018 2019 2021 2024)

[sly elk]

just some really stupid annoying choices too

[umbral moss]

reminder that elon musk did absolutely nothing whatsoever with tesla

all he did was buy a majority stake and force out the real founders of the company

and the company actually runs most effectively when he's not focused on what the actual operations group is doing

[wise jay]

No he did. He made unreasonable demands to alter the product for the worse

[umbral moss]

the myth of "elon made tesla what it is" is absolute horseshit

[sly elk]

like style, the supercharger network, i even like the charger connector they use lol

[umbral moss]

he put nothing into it and actively worked against the company succeeding

[sly elk]

some of the pigheaded BS he did to work the factory workers like slaves

probably was the difference from it turning out like fisker or lucid

but you can get away with doing awful shit once or twice

if you make it the norm you'll have trouble getting good talent

[umbral moss]

lucid is the superior tech product, unsurprisingly engineered by the same guys who founded tesla

[sly elk]

sure a $100,000 car

my apologies, $83,975 for an air pure

[wise jay]

why care about a tesla when I can play factorio?

Ive been feeling the urge to go down that rabbit hole again

[umbral moss]

inevitable since battery packs for a $30,000 car are going to be the size of an iphone

[umbral moss]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/microsoft-puts-the-surface-duo-1-out-of-its-misery-ends-support/

[sly elk]

lol i hadn't realized how big the cameras on the phone are

the camera bump is bigger than the not-camera-bump

err it's wider than half the back of the phone

why don't they just make the whole rear of the phone a bump

[cold yacht]

I hate most electric cars cause they make them look obnoxious

[sly elk]

top rear**

[cold yacht]

Try to make them futuristic

[umbral moss]

wrong, make them retro

give us the N74

not more of these ugly bullshit cybertruck looking things

[cold yacht]

Tbh retro cars could work for electric

Since like don’t need curves for mpg shit

[umbral moss]

yeah

[cold yacht]

The e Mach looks ok

But fucking hate the interior

[cold yacht]

I hate having tablets in cars

[umbral moss]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Hyundai_N_Vision_74_Concept_(14).jpg

[wise jay]

make em look like fallout cars

[sly elk]

i demand all my EVs have green leaf logos on them

remember these

[umbral moss]

I talk shit about hyundai being dogshit but I will gladly blow up in a badly manufactured N74

[cold yacht]

Shit, even mazda realized having a fat tablet in car is stupid and people want physical buttons

[sly elk]

I wanna make a retro EV

no self driving, no full size screens even

in fact

you have to start it with a key

[cold yacht]

You could just electro swap a car

[sly elk]

but that would be my car brand's thing. No screens. XD

[umbral moss]

that's my dream

I want to do it to a real piece of shit too, like a 1989 escort or something lmao

[sly elk]

my one concession would be a double din radio in the dash

if they still made these lol

[umbral moss]

why not just use one of those and smarten it up with a new SOC

you don't need it to track your pornhub habit in the car

but it can at least play like, fuckin spotify

[sly elk]

https://www.crutchfield.com/p_158DSXB700/Sony-DSX-B700.html?tp=72406 most realistic would be something currently being made

though I think it'd be lame to use a double din and not get a cd player

[umbral moss]

all two times you'll use it

[sly elk]

hehe

you leave that one cd in it

your "I forgot my phone" cd

[umbral moss]

honestly, if you're going for full retro just use a damn tape deck

[sly elk]

hell yea brother

[umbral moss]

and leave the tape adapter in there for your phone lmao

[sly elk]

hang on do they have any

[umbral moss]

not anymore

you'd have to find a chassis from a junkyard and wire it

I saw a really wild one back in the day where the guy modded it to stick his ipod in

so the back of the deck had the connector for his ipod and he stuck the thing in like a tape

[potent arrow]

Well

Its finally dead dead

the t480 after 5 years

has finally passed away

I used it as a sawstop and cut the battery in two

[sly elk]

who's getting the sexy iphone 15+

[sly elk]

😮 pictures of the carnage?

[potent arrow]

I threw it in the sand bucket lol

[sly elk]

pics of the sand bucket?

[potent arrow]

Lmao in the morning

Im sitting in my room debating on new laptops

But they all fucking suck.

[umbral moss]

https://tenor.com/view/brooklyn-nine-nine-rosa-diaz-fart-noises-fart-farting-gif-22683456

[potent arrow]

If the main board is still alive maybe the t480 can be saved, but geez it's getting old

[umbral moss]

maybe the 16 will be revolutionary

[potent arrow]

Idk what laptop would even be good for me now

[umbral moss]

but tim "the logistics pipeline" cook has no fucking vision

[potent arrow]

So many shit laptops

[umbral moss]

so the iphone 16 will likely be the iphone 15 with a new number and maybe a screen size bump

just replace the ipad with the iphone 17, honestly

[potent arrow]

Framework is kinda appealing rn, wanted to buy it before but ran out of money lol

And resurrected the t480

Maybe I should get a framework....but then again....so much money

[sly elk]

why not a frame.. oh

[potent arrow]

It's like

A few more grand then other options

-_-

[sly elk]

a few more grand

what?!

[potent arrow]

?

Grand is like 1k

[sly elk]

how does it cost a few grand

[umbral moss]

because the thing is modular so all the stupid ass modules cost more

[potent arrow]

People say that here

I'm confused

[sly elk]

even if you max out the 16" with 64gb ram and a 4tb ssd it costs $2484

[potent arrow]

CAD?

[sly elk]

oh i forgot the power adaptor and the stupid modules

ok so sure, if you want a maxed out one in canada it'll cost 3k

but youre coming from a t480

a walmart laptop should offer comparable performance for $250

just get a diy model and add your own ram and ssd? idk

[potent arrow]

My t480 was 3k at the time lol

[sly elk]

get another t480 off ebay then

[potent arrow]

I might lol

But I hate how slow it is rn

Lmfao I've moved to doing more intensive stuff

And work isn't giving me a laptop -_-

[sly elk]

-gets out an m1 air-

hmm i think my g502 might be broken

i plugged it in around 11am and it's been 12 hours and it's still flashing the last light like it's charging lol

[potent arrow]

Lmfao

Easy fix if the battery is dead

[potent arrow]

Is it scary I am considering an m1 MacBook lol

Just run parallel for things I need

[odd sand]

Only the 2nd year+ ones with the faux grille rather than the filled in plastic like that IMHO

[odd sand]

It looks fine except for the tacky basic af tablet that's way too high and a giant knob on the front of it bc why not

[sly elk]

it needs a basic radio with 2 knobs

[potent arrow]

@deep sapphire

[deep sapphire]

True

[potent arrow]

Dude why does that shit hurt so much

[royal forge]

Sarah

Did u get hurt again

[fair parcel]

!hank

[vestal thorn]

i just watched that Apple announced the usb-c implementation as something they did, when the truth is they were forced by the European Union and Apple fought against it for 4 years, but the EU said "if you do this you are creating more waste so you will get fined"

[deep sapphire]

Nobody cares about europe they have a GDP a tenth the size of the US and just whine and make up annoying regulations

https://tenor.com/view/zyzz-glasses-zyzz-zyzz-pose-gif-26449511

[vestal thorn]

microsoft lost against the regulations with EU back in the day, apple too more than 3 times iirr everything related with tech, if that are annoying things.... well, everyone have an opinion

[deep sapphire]

We should block all European imports and make them cry some more

https://tenor.com/view/zyzz-glasses-zyzz-zyzz-pose-gif-26449511

[sharp star]

we should block Americans

[vestal thorn]

what

[deep sapphire]

Of course that would require them to make something

Anyways

[vestal thorn]

that's the worse/worst bait i have ever seen in my life man

[deep sapphire]

Who said it’s bait it’s true

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/09/04/the-gdp-gap-between-europe-and-the-united-states-is-now-80_6123491_23.html

80 percent

[modest moss]

Google just told me eu gdp was 17t and USA 23t tho

[vestal thorn]

from le monde... really?

[deep sapphire]

https://ecipe.org/publications/comparing-economic-growth-between-eu-and-us-states/#:~:text=The US economy has clearly,of the US in 2021.

This says 82 percent

[vestal thorn]

bro

"if the eu was a state in the united states"

[deep sapphire]

Sound mad tbh

Sorry shue

[vestal thorn]

that's a really important thing to any analysis

[deep sapphire]

I’ll stop

[modest moss]

I mean, eu gdp is about 80% of us gdp

[deep sapphire]

This is technology

A safe space

For tech

[modest moss]

Interesting that Ireland has a higher gdp by capita than usa

They're thriving apparently

[deep sapphire]

Ireland is full of tax haven people who should be fined up the ass but they have a decent manufacturing sector too

[modest moss]

UK is low but we have so many non doms hiding their cash offshore

Americans seem more keen to keep their money in the country

[graceful pine]

Monoco Switzerland Luxembourg all do

Ireland

[vestal thorn]

wasn't all the multinational companies or most of them based on Ireland to cover the UK and such?

[modest moss]

Monaco and Luxembourg don't count

They're like 50 people

[graceful pine]

Lichtenstein and Norway are higher too

The us is equal with Iceland

[modest moss]

Lichtenstein don't count either

[graceful pine]

Monoco Lichtenstein and Luxembourg have the three highest gdp per capita in the world

[modest moss]

They're basically villages

[graceful pine]

Bermuda is actually 4th

[modest moss]

Tiny tax havens don't count

[graceful pine]

Ireland is 5th Norway is 6th

Er wait Bermuda is 5th Ireland is 4th

[modest moss]

Isle of man is above USA ffs

Population of about 12

[graceful pine]

Switzerland is 7th

Singapore eight

Isle of Man 9th Cayman Islands 10th

[deep sapphire]

Norway isn’t part of the EU

[graceful pine]

Qatar 11th

US 12th

Iceland 13th

[deep sapphire]

They got that oil money

[modest moss]

We moved on from EU keep up babe

[deep sapphire]

Oh I know

I was poking fun at the EU

[graceful pine]

If you want to ignore the tiny tax havens then

Ireland is number 1

[modest moss]

We're shit talking everyone now

[deep sapphire]

Cause all they do is cry about American companies

Great way to do business, instead of making products just fine other countries

They do it to Asian countries too

[graceful pine]

Norway isn’t eu because of something about their fishing

[modest moss]

American companies are objectively terrible but that applies to all companies

[graceful pine]

Eu shit would hurt their fishing industry

So instead they are just in the free trade zone and Schengen area

[deep sapphire]

American companies can be unethical at times but they are clearly leaps and bounds ahead in technological innovation in the 21st century and that’s just not even debatable

[modest moss]

UK tried to copy Norway and failed miserably

[graceful pine]

Norway is Schengen area and free trade zone

You didn’t even try to stay in those

Switzerland is not a part of anything(in the Schengen area and free trade zone though)

Because the Swiss are Swiss

[modest moss]

Nah we thought we could cut deals that would give us similar independence

[graceful pine]

Still didn’t even try to stay in the Schengen area

[modest moss]

Anyway this is too political now

Talk about how shit amd is

[graceful pine]

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology

Wrong link

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66795168

[inland mauve]

so Intel, how is that lithography technology coming along

[graceful pine]

There we go

[deep sapphire]

Great actually

You should ask them though I don’t work at Intel

[deep sapphire]

See

This is the shit I’m talking about lmao

[inland mauve]

weird because last I checked ASML is so far ahead that unless Intel can predict the next five years of technological advancements they will never catch up

[deep sapphire]

It’s like when they ban all these “scary chemicals”

Intel literally uses equipment from ASML

they supply all fabs

What kinda argument is that

[graceful pine]

I’m sorry the WHO has said the levels of em radiation are perfectly fine

[deep sapphire]

You mean TSMC?

[graceful pine]

The fuck is France doing

[graceful pine]

Good ole California

Everything is a carcinogen

[sharp star]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669276249746571275/1151515466192388179/image0.gif

[graceful pine]

How about how shit Southgate is

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/5ZdmS-EAbHo?si=3JQaWIetoePfwd6J

He picks on all regions including the US so don’t claim bias

This dude does his homework

[graceful pine]

Semiconductors is just Taiwan anyway

[deep sapphire]

That’s not true

[graceful pine]

If anything we want Taiwan to dominate semi conductors

[deep sapphire]

A vast majority of semiconductor production is larger nodes from smaller but major players

National semi, cypress, TI, IBM etc

TSMC is for the top end market

Which yes is still major

It’s not the full picture

[graceful pine]

We want tsmc to be massive anyway

It’s Taiwan’s best defense

[deep sapphire]

South Korea and Japan also contribute

If we used Airbus as an example, that’s how the EU needs to treat its technology sectors and make joint ventures to compete

And they know they need to do this

But yet they just continue to fight with each other and pass silly legislation to keep the lights on

[inland mauve]

this is how the EU sees the US too, you know

[deep sapphire]

And yet as I posted above the US GDP is 80 percent higher than the EU

[inland mauve]

you guys over there pumping billions into your super PACs to fund the circus

[graceful pine]

The swiss have it figured out

[deep sapphire]

Not sure what that has anything to do with technology but okay

[inland mauve]

I remember reading this complaint from a colleague that after he moved to the US suddenly his mailbox was full of spam

[deep sapphire]

Okay

[inland mauve]

turned out that even the basic things that he had to sign up for for his work had sold his data immediately

[deep sapphire]

What does that have to do

With technology

[inland mauve]

data protection?

that has everything to do with technology

[deep sapphire]

So you’re just grasping at straws

Got it

[graceful pine]

The us has 38% of the world’s total wealth lol

[inland mauve]

Google and Facebook make most of their money by violating data protection

[graceful pine]

The entirety of Asia combined is like 18%

[wraith agate]

That doesn't track

[deep sapphire]

Yeah because the US and Asia actually make stuff

[deep sapphire]

Go look it up

[graceful pine]

The us is wealthier than the entirety of Europe

And the entirety of Asia

[wraith agate]

If your GDP is higher, how comes Euro is way more valuable than USD?

[deep sapphire]

Stop acting offended lol, it’s just the facts I posted multiple examples

[inland mauve]

my man

my dude

sigh nevermind

[wraith agate]

I thought the GDP was what defined the value of a currency

[graceful pine]

The entire EU is 23%

[deep sapphire]

GDP is gross domestic product

[graceful pine]

The US is 31%

[inland mauve]

I can't formulate complete answers right now because I am at work

[graceful pine]

The US has by far the largest gdp as well

[wraith agate]

That's not 80%

That's 8%

[deep sapphire]

That’s wealth not GDP

We are getting away from my original point

[wraith agate]

This is confusing and this is why I stick to technology and not finance

[inland mauve]

so forget it I am not even going to bother since the US is clearly perfect

[deep sapphire]

The US isn’t

[graceful pine]

The EU’s entire gdp is actually lower than China

And China is lower than the US

[deep sapphire]

Just don’t talk if you have no idea what you’re talking about

Simple as

I don’t talk about things I don’t know anything about

[wraith agate]

Then why are you here

[deep sapphire]

Because I hate technology

[graceful pine]

It’s about half the gdp of America

[wraith agate]

Darn

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/gachi-gachimuchi-kazuya-super-kazuya-danny-lee-gif-22011418

[graceful pine]

17 trillion compared to 30 trillion

[wraith agate]

Thought you only hated AMD

[deep sapphire]

That too

Mostly AMD users

[graceful pine]

The Eu is a bit below China in gdp combined

If the UK was still there it would be higher but of course not anymore

[deep sapphire]

Like

South Korean and Japan

Basically became giants within half a century in technology

And so did Taiwan

With even less time

So why is Europe so far behind

[graceful pine]

Granted both europe and the us are getting protectionist in their tech sectors

Rather than Atlanticist cooperation

Which would just help both parties

[deep sapphire]

That’s a valid argument and I think as of very recently that’s been even more true than ever

[lost python]

because half the european countries cant even afford to fix their fucking roads, but this is also going towards rule4

[graceful pine]

It’s just weakened a lot since the end of the Cold War sadly

Not in all places

The special relationship is still strong

[umbral moss]

40 years of US technology exports and SEA labor exploitation

[deep sapphire]

I mean, Germany is more than competitive

[umbral moss]

the US never really considered EU a "partner" the same way that american companies exploit utilize asian countries

[deep sapphire]

Siemens alone makes up a decent chunk

If the rest of Europe could be like Germany

Then they would be competitive

[umbral moss]

yeah, but like, there's a stark difference between "yeah, siemens is good" and "samsung has five sponsored corporate towns and is notorious for bribing supporting the government"

[deep sapphire]

Yeah they’re kinda weird with the large companies in South Korea but it also makes some sense they knew if the country was to grow they needed to focus on just a select few

[umbral moss]

but the main thrust of the disparity in economic growth is that the US didn't see a labor field in the EU and spent 40 years moving manufacturing and technological innovations to asia

the EU maintains its strength because of its legacy

[deep sapphire]

US still had plenty of technology sectors in house

Hence the GDP

[umbral moss]

yeah, but the question was "why has asia skyrocketed while EU languished"

the answer is "unregulated corporate power and offshoring"

[real edge]

and big tech not wanting to base their stuff here because we actually regulate things instead of letting them off scot free

[umbral moss]

yep

it took apple what, 20 years to implement a standard connector that the rest of the goddamn planet does, because the EU finallu legally forced them to

[deep sapphire]

Okay

[umbral moss]

the US wasn't going to tell apple to stop dicking around with proprietary connectors, their court system is too busy being flooded with worthless culture wars and pro-corporate bench legislation

[deep sapphire]

We’re going full circle again

Of my entire argument

If all you are gonna do is heavy hand industries

They aren’t gonna do business with you

[umbral moss]

only if you offer them sweet tax loopholes

hello ireland, netherlands

[deep sapphire]

Like I’m honestly surprised the US hasn’t intervened and told Europe to stay in their lane or face import tariffs lol

[umbral moss]

that's the opposite of free trade

wild to see someone advocating for protectionism when it historically leads to trade wars and reduced profits for both parties

[graceful pine]

Switzerlandy

[deep sapphire]

So what, they wanna make continuous frivolous fines and regulations towards American industry they should feel the pain back

[umbral moss]

switzerland just holds the money, the ireland/netherlands thing is a specific way to shuffle money around so it doesn't "exist" anywhere

[graceful pine]

They also have low taxes and low regulation

Not to mention the neutrality

[umbral moss]

I mean, the US already has fairly cold relations with most of europe and doesn't do a whole lot of investment there

[deep sapphire]

Good

[graceful pine]

We used to be Atlanticist

[cold yacht]

What y’all talking about

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/zyzz-glasses-zyzz-zyzz-pose-gif-26449511

[umbral moss]

🤔

[graceful pine]

Zbig and Kissinger were both atlanticists

Zbig more so

[umbral moss]

the key to the future is to interconnect industries globally and work to improve everyone's fortunes, not just a handful of shitbirds working at hedge funds

[deep sapphire]

Europe be like “hey we should join together to become more competitive with the rest of the world”

Also europe “scary chemicals I can’t pronounce must be bad regardless of 50 years of science and data stating otherwise it’s banned major fines”

[umbral moss]

protectionism only benefits authoritarian governments who believe in autarky

[graceful pine]

All it does is give more money corpos

[cold yacht]

Ahhh I see, complaining about regulations

[graceful pine]

Tariffs

Different thing

[deep sapphire]

Not all regulation

Just frivolous regulation

[umbral moss]

the dipshit who proposed a flat 10% tariff on all imported goods is an absolute brainlet

[deep sapphire]

Someone above brought up apple moving to USB C and tried to make it like it’s all thanks to Europe

[umbral moss]

this surely won't go wrong and every other country won't retaliate in kind

[graceful pine]

Low tariffs was the uniform ideology from the new deal until the 2010’s as well

Ever since the godawful Taft Harley tariffs that Roosevelt near immediately repealed

[cold yacht]

Moving iPhone to usb c, yeah eu probably had a hand in it

[umbral moss]

yes, apple designed the USB C connector, but why did it take 20 years for them to implement their own design on a phone

[deep sapphire]

I don’t know but what I do know is if europe ares so much they should make their own phones like Noki- oh wait

[graceful pine]

I will say the Swiss and fins got energy figured out at least

Nuclear is their main source

[graceful pine]

And then we have the French and Germans shutting down reactors for god knows what reasons

[umbral moss]

apple should just make their phones in the US, where it's safe for businesses to do whatever they want--oh wait, they use SEA like everyone else

[cold yacht]

German coal mining machine looks crazy

[graceful pine]

Moving to India now apparently

[deep sapphire]

Yeah because China is actually extremely good at tooling and manufacturing

Tim Cook said it himself

He said it’s not that they don’t want to make them in the US

[umbral moss]

fukushima daiichi gave everyone a scare, so all governments are shutting down their reactors even though they have no alternatives lined up

[deep sapphire]

It’s that there isn’t any talent to do so

[graceful pine]

You know how many people died from Fukushima too

One person

One singular person

[umbral moss]

because corporations spent 40 years discouraging that manufacturing talent in the US

"oh woe is us, why can't we find any good manufacturing engineers" - CEO who specialized in offshoring

[graceful pine]

Japan is finally reopening its other reactors

[deep sapphire]

Blame. Wait that’s rule 4 nvm

[umbral moss]

like, it's self-fulfilling

"we can't find any manufacturing engineers in the US so we go to asia, but because we invest so heavily in asia there's no incentive for US manufacturing engineers to exist, so we must go to asia"

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/nemYBeT4aQY?si=rJcnp8tJvy3ltcTq

[umbral moss]

https://tenor.com/view/brain-squidward-brainwrinkling-brainwrinkled-wrinkle-gif-25267254

[wraith agate]

Tbqh, that's all power plants since the 1800s

What we really changed is effectively how we boil the water

[finite frost]

may i get some help on steam stuff?
had to reset a drive cause overall issues then because of the new steam design and folder naming.
it is unable to see all the games on my D drive. wondering how to force steam to forget the new folder names and just get the old folders back into the library

[dull garnet]

depends how it is setup i guess

[potent arrow]

Afaik steam hasn't changed their directory structure?

[dull garnet]

you may just need to relocate your steamapps folder

depends on how steam was setup prior

[sly elk]

it is self fulfilling, and the worst part is when we bring in a foreign company like TSMC, they are politically motivated to say we suck to continue getting support for their situation

like TSMC of all companies has the most incentive to want us to need them

so of course they want to say americans are a bunch of lazy glue eating idiots that can't make a chip

and they do, often

because EE is a fucking hard major, and if you have a good GPA as an EE student you're smart enough to get a way better job than being a wage slave at TSMC in Arizona

[odd sand]

Slight oversight: Just got the Mikrotik switch in the mail, but since I got it shipped from the EU it has their wall adapter

[sly elk]

I think the situation would be different if we had a glut of EEs looking for work and they were competing for $100k/year to work 80 hours a week at a chip foundry

[odd sand]

Will need a plug adapter

[sly elk]

but maybe it wouldn't.

I noticed with kickstarter that a lot of people automatically think "let's make some electronics... CHINA!"

[deep sapphire]

https://youtube.com/shorts/ulXuSJtUhek?si=a5T72OfimgHzeSQD

[dull garnet]

cool

i'm glad the cool one is still alive

[late basalt]

@cerulean talon if you ever decide to use leather on your laser cutter, case (thoroughly soak) it first, you'll regret it otherwise

same power, same speed, same leather, only difference is one was with cased leather rather than dry

basically blowtorched the leather because vaporized leather is apparently highly flammable with sufficient airflow

[lost python]

You know what would be great?
If windows would actually fucking shut down when I select "update and shut down" instead of getting stuck at the login screen after restarting

[minor hollow]

Every time lmao

[paper tusk]

considering windows 11 still has shit from win 3.1 in it...

(ms dos icons in the print manager)

[analog aspen]

any idea how i can fix the issue i cant suddenly open discord without using exitLag.

even on my phone connected to my home wifi discord wont open

but if i use mobile data i can open discord.

[paper tusk]

open a command prompt and ping 162.159.130.234 (that's one of the ip's for discord) to make sure it's not being blocked by firewall (windows or router)

clearing out discord cache might help (or reinstalling the client since it's been fucking up hard lately)

[potent arrow]

Last bike ride of the season ;-;

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/kid-cute-unicorn-bicycle-gif-24273879

isn't this more your size?

[neon shell]

Holy fuck I hate that

Like why haven’t they fixed that yet

!hank

Damn

Bot broke

[modest moss]

the catgirls have been retired

[neon shell]

Sad

[modest moss]

it was serving too many underage looking ones, started to get a little creepy

[neon shell]

Ah fair

Good riddance then

[odd sand]

Weak! /s Just gotta wear a hoodie, gloves, and sweatpants

Ironically enough, those "sports masks" from during covid work pretty well at warming the air if you bike into colder weather as well. Short of buying some thermal contraption meant for crosscountry skiing or something

[sly elk]

lol indeed

[odd sand]

I gave myself a chest cold at the end of last year to hit my 1000mi mark for the year. Went on the last ride middle of December in WI lol

[potent arrow]

I fell off my giant last year when I hti a frost spot and got really hurt lol

[odd sand]

pretty behind last year though, only at 600mi for the year

Going to try taking the entire bike trail to my parents house and back in a couple weeks. That would be 60mi each way, which should get me up to about 750mi for the year. Probably means I'll end the year with about 900mi unless we get a warm spell in October. If its sunny and above 40F it's not too bad to go biking. If it dips below 40 though it's pretty rough

[potent arrow]

mm yeah

been doing 75km a day for four weeks

[deep sapphire]

Lmao wtf

[sly elk]

not using snow tires when it snows

noting the tail lights being on

i'm not sure that it worked

[sly elk]

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252784699

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/18/m1-macs-fast-user-switching-screensaver-bug/

one of these or the other is affecting my bro's imac lmao

i'm sitting here trying to figure out what magic domain disney is trying to hit that needs to be whitelisted to let him log into his disneyland account

and the fucker starts the screen saver and nothing I can do via screen sharing or at the fucking computer in person breaks it out lmao

[sly elk]

awhkjerhakjlfsdnsndfajwertiulhawetiuhawetawet

you gotta be kidding me

AHHAHAHA MOTHERFUCKERS

if google.com/recaptcha/<whatever> is blocked then disneyland or any other disney-owned-thing that uses their single sign on won't work

fucking hell.

[odd sand]

On the road bike, not the mnt bike right? Got me beat then. I usually ride about half that once or twice a week. I will do 100km to my parents house before the end of the season at least. And if I don't feel dead by the next day I'll try to ride back as well

Did a 100km in June, but I wasn't in good shape for that for the season yet so I was dead on my feet by the end of it

[potent arrow]

Depends on the weather, if it's nice and not absolutely soaking I prefer to go on the road.

If it's soaking and muddy and gross, MTB technical biking. Like ramps and fast downhill half turns and shit, I like getting muddy. We have a large mountain/escarpment track here that's like 2km each on the way down. Also long trails spanning the park that I use to fill in the gaps.

It's pretty chill

I prefer MTB over road bike ngl.

[umbral moss]

I'm glad microsoft is updating their new outlook app but holy shit is this a huge downgrade from the old mail app

I have no idea why they thought this was worth deprecating mail over

[night leaf]

New RAM there, and works like a charm

It's suspicious

[dull garnet]

(g)skill

[inland mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/thirsty-spongebob-i-dont-need-it-sweat-gif-5031443

[paper tusk]

[sharp star]

512GB is nice for the matte screen

otherwise you can just get the 256 and pop in a new 2230

I dunno if it works on the 64 since it's eMMC

[dull garnet]

its the same thing

get the 64GB

[sharp star]

gotcha

okay yeah get the 64GB then

[dull garnet]

bottom is the 64GB eMMC

[sly elk]

fuck it, I need a dynamic mic lol

though i wonder if I can even make it 'reach'

[dull garnet]

https://x.com/greentexts_bot/status/1702185377518211296?s=20

Greentexts (@greentexts_bot)

anon sees through the lies of the Apple

Likes

1351

Twitter · Sep 14, 2023, 4:59 AM

[sly elk]

My favorite part is the core guidance Google always told us was: "how would you feel if an email wrote showed up negatively on the front page of the New York Times".

[sly elk]

they moved their primary source of income to selling services instead of selling hardware, and then support their phones with software longer than practically any other vendor. Then they offer recycling services that actually dismantle the entire phone and recycle the parts instead of just tossing it in a pile in India

like yea I do agree they are far from perfect, and from a whitebeard nerd kinda way, they're awful. A macbook is built to last 5 years and then be recycled. A thinkpad is built to be leased by a megacorp for 2-3 years and then spend 10 years being cherished by a linux nerd who replaces parts as they break

if you wanna get on a high horse, let's talk about how the chromebook program is made to produce ewaste with 'expiration dates' and stuff

[cold yacht]

Chromebook is actual e waste tbh

[dull garnet]

remember the netbook

now that was e waste

[cold yacht]

Macbooks usually get updates for like up to 8 years

[dull garnet]

1024x600 display and a cpu that could barely handle a browser with a single tab

[cold yacht]

Bought a used 2017 MacBook Pro for like $200 recently, works great but I ain’t gonna try to do heavy programs on it

[dull garnet]

Intel

[deep sapphire]

android users cope and seethe

[sly elk]

i wanna buy a dynamic mic but it's playing the "but if I spent another $100" game now

could just get a q2u and it'll probably be fine...
or an mv7x and a 2i2 interface because I want the 2i2 anyway!

[wide hill]

just in time https://www.humblebundle.com/software/everything-you-need-to-know-about-godot-4-encore-software

i installed godot yesterday, and i can't figure out how to make my cube react to gravity, i put in a rigidbody and made it non-static.

[graceful pine]

Yeah they want to recycle phones normally

There are plenty of rare materials in phones that it’s cheaper to recycle from old ones than refine new material

[graceful pine]

You absolutely need dynamic?

Not a condenser

[sly elk]

Yea I mean prolonging the life of what’s out there is even better

The two mics I have are condensers

I’m afraid my bro screaming in the background probably gets picked up very well by it lol

[graceful pine]

A small diaphragm mic shouldn’t pic up much external noise

What do you have

[sly elk]

Elgato wave 3 for my work stuff, later versions of Mac OS hate my quadcast s lol

[potent arrow]

@lost python https://youtu.be/9TduCzIL-_Q?si=kcnsc17iLjDziFFA

[lost python]

Oh neat

[sly elk]

i am lolokinf forward to better on-device siri

the "HMMMMMM hold on a second... I can't seem to connect to the internet. please try again later" thing sucks lol

[sly elk]

https://hardforum.com/threads/anyone-make-the-switch-from-5800x3d-to-7800x3d.2027175/page-4

Mildly amusing: after upgrading they saw no difference in game performance lol

https://hardforum.com/threads/build-your-next-gaming-pc-from-walmart.2030488/

I remember when Walmart used to sell more computer stuff

[umbral moss]

I remember my first barton build being parts I got at best buy

now they stock like, two or three CPU SKUs and a handful of SSDs

[wide hill]

Should i keep it? Or dispose of them?

[wise jay]

consume them

[dull garnet]

they're fine

[umbral moss]

still funny to me that EVs are basically just super sized versions of those little power wheels cars you buy for your 4 year old

750kW dual motor supercar, powered by 18,700 AA batteries

[potent arrow]

https://youtu.be/mvibYp2wrIs?si=GwLT_jXJqj_2-PII

Wth is this

[graceful pine]

Solid state soon

[sturdy ivy]

Yall aware of the MGM ransomware incident going on right now?

[wraith agate]

No but sounds hilarious

[young shadow]

he went in person?

[minor hollow]

there's no way it's actually him

[sturdy ivy]

IDK if that's actually the guy, very high chance they're a troll

Just thought it was amusing

I'd be shocked if the threat actor(s) was based in the US

[young shadow]

I keep reading about all these breaches with game companies like Rockstar and so on, and it's funny yet concerning. They seem to almost be a prank

[young shadow]

Nice server Waffle. Btw, do you mind me asking why it's a risk to be based in the US, is it due to prosecution risk?

[minor hollow]

yes

that's pretty much it

[sturdy ivy]

Short answer would be yes. A lot of groups operate out of China and Russia because they don't extradite

[minor hollow]

and north korea

although in that case they seem to be actual state actors

[sturdy ivy]

Yeah NK to a lesser extent

Though growing in prominence, they're big on stealing crypto

[potent arrow]

I mean that's why most game crackers are not based on the US unless they are fucking dumb

[minor hollow]

NK is less ransomware and just theft, they've fucked up so many crypto platforms lol

[young shadow]

Ohh, because they don't have extradition treaties, that makes sense!. I am currently changing careers and want to go into cyber security, complete newbie, hope you kind fellas can help me out

[minor hollow]

i don't know shit about cybersecurity beyond reading basic articles and having a passing interest in the space

don't click suspicious links

the free nitro isn't real

[sturdy ivy]

I work as an ethical hacker so I get to play with some of the fun hacker toys

[sturdy ivy]

You'd be shocked at the number of people in companies that cannot follow this rule

[young shadow]

Also, Pringles is my favourite brand of crisps

[minor hollow]

my condolences

kettle chips are better

but they have a less funny logo, and i was eating pringles when i was making my discord account

[minor hollow]

but what if the penis enlargement pills are real

they said this was an exclusive email offer for ME

[young shadow]

I learned it the hard way about 3 weeks ago. It was from a friend of mine, but her account got compromised, and they were able to get into my discord. Just took one masked link. I did check the url but it seemed to be legitimate

[minor hollow]

i just assume no one is going around giving me free shit

on one hand, no free nitro

[young shadow]

Thats amazing!, and I think we are all and will be the most security risk as a attack vector xD

[minor hollow]

on the other hand, no account breaches

[potent arrow]

A few simple tricks to get free accounts!
1 scrape the source of a login page
2 rehost it on some totally not sketchy domain
3 send it out on discord!
Easy!

Use the accounts to troll your friends!

im ignoring all the back end work

[sturdy ivy]

It doesn't help that Discord markdown support can make links like this point to something else entirely google.com

[young shadow]

It wasn't a nitro link, very weird. Just had a single url to youtube but it crashed. The second url was not listed. Yes it was like this!

[minor hollow]

there are a bunch of youtubers who got caught by phishing emails by clicking a sponsorship offer for what looked to be a legitimate website

[potent arrow]

LTT with their compromised pdf

"pdf"

[minor hollow]

which immediately scraped their login details, their page got hijacked and turned into crypto shilling and sucking off elon musk

[sturdy ivy]

OMFG LTT doesn't need to get hacked to sink their channel apparently lol

[potent arrow]

Probably some fucking skiddy tbh

Always skiddies having fun with random scripts they find on Russian forums for like 99$

[young shadow]

It looked something like this and when I hovered over it, it did say youtube.com/x=aeqwe etc...

[minor hollow]

after buying their aimbots they get a bundle deal

[young shadow]

My goodness you guys know so much, I feel like such a boomer

[potent arrow]

I'm probably older then you lol, I just spend the majority of my life on old ass forums

[sturdy ivy]

Nah Raidforums pre FBI seize is where the real skiddies were

[potent arrow]

They are still around, just on discords now

[sturdy ivy]

Also a lot of discords

Yeah lol

[potent arrow]

Yeah LOL

[minor hollow]

is piratebay really a honeypot now

[potent arrow]

I miss toxic IRC scenes

[sturdy ivy]

Shame most IRC's are so dead

[potent arrow]

That was where I really grew up lol

IRC and TeamSpeak

[sturdy ivy]

Matrix kinda has the same vibes, but Discord is where everyone is now

[minor hollow]

let your cringe history die with them

[sturdy ivy]

My cringe past is still my cringe present

[potent arrow]

Kinda hate Discord TBH for this stuff

Mainly why I'm not into the scene anymore

No control over the data

[sturdy ivy]

I'm afraid it has metastisized and is terminal

[sly elk]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/11-months-after-launch-googles-pixel-watch-still-has-no-path-to-repair/

[minor hollow]

all e watches tbh

[potent arrow]

We all retire eventually, that's all imma say lol

[sturdy ivy]

Matrix and Mastodon. A lot of infosec X (formerly Twitter) has been moving to Mastodon

[potent arrow]

Stay too long and it gets boring or legal

[minor hollow]

yeah infosec people would be well aware of why you don't communicate on a platform run by a tantruming manchild

[sturdy ivy]

Made it my job so yeah, it got "legal"

But even so, can still enjoy where things are going now, pining for the days of IRC to come back won't bring them back

Technology and people evolve

[potent arrow]

I guess lol

It's not my job so I'm out

[young shadow]

Discord is no different, we are monitored and everything is saved. Tencent even owns a part of this platform, which is worrying

[potent arrow]

Least of my worries

[sturdy ivy]

All I have to say is web3 is BS and decentralization will not happen with blockchain

Everything blockchain has turned into a ponzi scheme

[potent arrow]

I mean if you have an inch of infosec knowledge you know that

[sturdy ivy]

Some people are holdouts just because it's still a popular platform for some reason

[potent arrow]

Web3 is a fucking joke lol

[minor hollow]

reason is simple

inertia

[modest moss]

something something free kevin something something 2600 something something captain crunch etc

[potent arrow]

It's kinda funny how I miss the wild West internet days lol

Lmfao back when everything was p2p madness

[sturdy ivy]

Man Kevin Mitnick is overrated, dude built a company off of clout he didn't deserve

[modest moss]

was*

[sturdy ivy]

Yeah RIP

Have a friend who works at KnowBe4 who was notified a day before the obit was published

You could say that they

Knew before

[modest moss]

[sturdy ivy]

There's also a weird contingent of infosec people that like Musk still? IDK it's bizarre

Apparently they think it's counterculture to support the billionaire IDK

[potent arrow]

It's weird

[minor hollow]

it's contrarianism, mostly

[potent arrow]

Half of them worship him and then you got the ones who worship is way of approaching innovations

The later is everywhere in my field

[sturdy ivy]

Musk is the Edison of our generation and I mean that in the most derogatory way possible

[minor hollow]

same mindset that lead to the current conspiracy theory flood

[potent arrow]

Edison wasn't great lol

[sturdy ivy]

Exactly my point

[minor hollow]

theres a vein of anti-intellectualism that tells people that if a consensus exists, there must be a not insignificant amount of truth in the opposite viewpoint

[potent arrow]

I went from software focused to hardware focused through my life lmfao

Now I'm on IOT

[minor hollow]

ok ayre

set my thermostat

to fires of raven

[potent arrow]

I mean just tie the call pin to high and see what happens

[minor hollow]

not very good at that iot job huh

[potent arrow]

I meant like tie the heating to high and just go for it

Be hotter then a coral fire

[minor hollow]

yeah but i'm asking my smart thermostat to do the job for me

clearly the former part of that appelation is a misnomer

[potent arrow]

LOL

I hate smart thermostats lol

[sturdy ivy]

MFW the IoT device has an open telnet port for some reason

[potent arrow]

Yep

[sturdy ivy]

Mirai moment

[potent arrow]

I have everything on Home assistant and zigbee

[young shadow]

You are the perfect person to explain this YouTube short. Please tell me he doesn't imply that we should use the holders that way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKjPXSLTJE8

I have never heard of handless measuring before, quite a new concept

[young shadow]

They made the iphone 15 port usb-c now and a more repaire friendly apparently

[dull garnet]

i wondered what those things were on my dmm

[odd sand]

Got the AP but forgot the new switch doesn't support POE so I had to order an injector. A lot smaller than I thought it would be: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/163886330454081538/1152339267431976990/IMG_20230915_152406.jpg

Should be able to get wifi down the block now /s

[young shadow]

Oh, the modern ones are so small and cute. Compact design, I'm sure it will function shinon

[odd sand]

That will come in the mail on Sunday and I'll go visit my parents tomorrow and yoink the edgerouter I've had sitting in their basement

Then I can ditch the Nighthawk 7000P I've been using. So tired of the 5ghz on it shitting out randomly

Along with this... with an adapter for the EU plug also coming in the mail on Sunday https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/109661585093459968/1151693284633223208/IMG_20230913_203056.jpg

UPS shipping quote: $300. Cost from DHL: $30

[dull garnet]

American shipping prices are always amusing

[odd sand]

For $300 it better be handled white-glove on a private jet

[young shadow]

From what I have seen:

[odd sand]

Yep. And you can blame UPS mgmt for that. Same happens with Fedex. Years ago I had a temp job for one night unloading trucks.

And they were just yeeting everything onto the conveyor 10ft and watching it roll over a couple times. Fragile this side up on 1/3 of what was in the truck

[young shadow]

Feels like a underpaid, overworked amazon warehouse sorter vibe. I once went inside and saw them kicking packages ...

[graceful pine]

I’ve never really had any problems with damage in shipping and

[odd sand]

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/15/iphone-15-usb-c-port-completely-standard/ We'll see...

[dull garnet]

i'm surprised they aren't doing a euro only usb-c model

[young shadow]

They caught up huh, suprised they didn't come out with a EU only model solely to comply with customer repair regulations

[odd sand]

Maybe they are?

[dull garnet]

probably wouldn't have made such a big deal about it at the keynote if so

last time iirc NA handsets transitioned entirely to esim whereas we still had our antiquated sim cards

[potent arrow]

I mean wouldn't it be cost

To have a separate model with +1 component

It'll be a while different charging and communication daughter board/supporting circuitry

VS just removing a whole SIM circuitry

[dull garnet]

apple bending the knee to the eu

[sly elk]

It's time to talk about vishing

https://blog.knowbe4.com/australia-alarming-vishing-smishing-scams-number
IDK where they got those terms from but they make me laugh

[minor hollow]

Vish vilet

Get one from maccas today

[glossy ravine]

70 usd is still too much imo

[sly elk]

ahh dang they're doing this again lol

at least they don't do it with the pro models lol

[dull garnet]

they outlawed that bs in the uk

although i'm probably misreading and the handset is the same and the discount only kicks in when redeemed

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1702804377696866807

Steam Deck (@OnDeck)

Hello! We've just shipped SteamOS 3.5 to the Preview channel of Steam Deck. This update has a ton of changes, including improvements to the default color rendering on Steam Deck, new display color settings, automounted external drives, and a slew of other improvements and fixes.…

Twitter · Sep 15, 2023, 9:59 PM

[glossy ravine]

And yet, it's still the best price I'll get on the official dock.

I'd go with the Jsaux one but.

1. (This is going to sound out of context but.) Size matters. I don't have a lot of room and it being compact really helps.

2. I trust valve a lot more to give a quality product.

3. Compatibility.

[sharp star]

The JSAUX one is "fine" but the NIC sucks

[dull garnet]

I would never buy anything but OEM

[glossy ravine]

Right. While valve is ultimately out for my $.

They are so much more consumer friendly. Being privately owned by Gaben means they aren't pressured to do underhanded/scummy business tactics.

[dull garnet]

less of a deal when you have a standardised port like the steam deck but look at all the third party switch docks fucking up hardware

[glossy ravine]

It's really great to see Valve and developers embrace the deck.

[glossy ravine]

Gotta love deferring payments/breaking up payments into smaller things.

71 usd is still really expensive but ~20 bucks for a little bit, that works for me.

[sly elk]

that's not crazy for that type of dock lol

ooo

[glossy ravine]

Yeah, I know. But it still feels almost extortionatly high.

But,

You get what you pay for.

[odd sand]

Fscking govvies... blows up the logging server, blames the tool, does one thing and claims it's fixed with no testing, then walks away

At two days and counting of no logging now

He barely maintains the tool as well, so why he tried doing it alone without working with us I dunno

I think he forgot to roll out the new config thru the deployment server, so it immediately overwrote parts of the config which made it so it couldn't talk to them anymore and they were dropped out of the cluster

[sly elk]

too bad it's not a thunderbolt dock

that's pretty normal lol

on most cars the garage opener buttons are not in the base model

man i do like the new bart trains but they don't look as futuristic as the old ones lol

they have bus windows ffs lol

the old ones windows look cooler lol

but they are oooold so

oh this is gonna sound like train blasphemy

but I think the old bart trains look more modern than those

but it's in a retro vaporwave kinda futuristic way

the design is too practical usually

yea it's a solid improvement lol

but amusingly those old trains also had bus windows lol

[minor hollow]

Its a privilege to drive a tesla

Be thankful Elon gives you that option

[sly walrus]

if you complain, he’ll take away your starlink

[sly elk]

I thought about it plenty and I think teslas are ok

we don't need to talk about him lol

[odd sand]

US can't have trains that nice bc our riders would shit them up too quickly.

I know SF has more general ridership than most areas in the US, but public transit is still mostly seen as for the poor and security isn't good enough to keep problems out of the trains

[sly elk]

lol bart is a funny one. So it was advertised as being as comfortable as a car (the cars used to have carpet and cloth-upholstered, cushioned seats)

and one of the selling points was public transit for people who lived in like, fremont, concord, orinda, berkeley, etc to get to sf

it was supposed to go further than that though

but a lot of towns didn't want BART

I hate the "but it's for poor people" thing, they too should be treated with dignity, ya know?

but yea making a public transit system that's so good that people would want to abandon their cars to use it? ha that'd be considered frivolous use of tax money 😄

[sly elk]

problem: people pooping on trains.
Solution: Install toilets on trains

[odd sand]

problem:people poop on the toilets and shoot up and leave needles and shit

[sly elk]

but it does (temporarily) solve the poop problem!

[dull garnet]

hey man it has usb 3

latest tech

[odd sand]

https://tenor.com/view/so-hot-right-now-trending-meme-zoolander-this-is-epic-gif-26091622

Titanium...

Also who tf cares if their phone is titanium when the screen is gonna crack if you drop it anyways

So then you put it in a case and can't see the titanium anymore...

[sly elk]

?

So Pro. 😄

i get discounts on some apple things but not the latest phone

[dull garnet]

All kinda uggo

[old jetty]

Is having an usb c a problem now?

[dull garnet]

Why would it be

[sharp star]

if you're Apple it is

[cold yacht]

It’s only annoying initially cause everything runs on lighting cable

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1703079481978798313

Wario64 (@Wario64)

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Twitter · Sep 16, 2023, 4:12 PM

Jesus fucking CHRIST

[real edge]

yeston

where you at

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1702820295541915877

Wario64 (@Wario64)

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[jaunty nacelle]

i forgot how cool tailscale is

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-like-share-retweet-google-gif-19457861

[young shadow]

But usbc is more widely available and cheaper

[cold yacht]

Cables yes

But stuff like air pods is still lightning cable

[young shadow]

oh yeah...

[cold yacht]

Ipads too

Initially it’s annoying when you’re in the eco system but a year two down the line it’ll be fine

[young shadow]

The markets seems to be responding well to that 🙃

[cold yacht]

It help the trade it program is great

Personally I got no reason to upgrade to a 15 my 13 is still good for a few more years

[young shadow]

Yes, make me more money :))

[deep sapphire]

buy the next iPhone

or else

[cold yacht]

I am curious sometimes what would Steve Jobs reaction to current tech and ux designs

[wraith agate]

He would call them all idiots and design a brand new product

Like that lapel phone thing his ex-employees recently revealed

[minor hollow]

you mean

he would tell the engineers to design a brand new product

[wraith agate]

What I said

[glossy ravine]

Are them Raycon Earbuds really worth all the hype I keep hearing from youtube.

[inland mauve]

I got a pair of JVCs just today because they came out best in a test of earbuds

[minor hollow]

if they were

would they need youtube advertisements?

do you see sponsorships from sennheiser from random channels?

[glossy ravine]

"Thanks to Raycon for sponsoring this video."

[inland mauve]

I won't outright dismiss Raycon, but do some investigating, look into independent reviewers

if hearing a lot of advertisement meant that something was good, then Raid: Shadow Legends would be the best game in the world

[cold yacht]

i only see senheiser in preroll video ads or side bar ads

[potent arrow]

Good bye ERX

Ya shit out on me for the last time

[sly elk]

What happened lol

[potent arrow]

Fucking I don't know

I have to restart it constantly for my network to get connection

Or toggle ETH0

I have no idea what's causing it

And I'm sick of it

[inland mauve]

can recommend the JVCs, sound nice

[buoyant falcon]

I cannot get the search feature on my TCL Google TV to work, I think it's been like this ever since I bought it. Every time I search for anything it's just stuck in an endless search loop.

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/thermal-paste-cpu-motherboard-thermal-paste-cpu-cpu-thermal-paste-gif-24047580

a work of art

[cerulean talon]

Glorious.

[sharp star]

time for some air penetration

[odd sand]

ERX = EdgeRouter X? Was just about to try one of those out that I got for my parents house. Think I'll have issues?

[potent arrow]

So I have three deployed in various locations

2 of 3 had to be replaced with the same issues

All of them were running various firmwares, mine was the newest

So I'm expecting the third to fail

All around the three ish year mark

[odd sand]

I suppose you get what you pay for bc they're pretty cheap bc I was surprised they were only like $70 or w/e

Think it may be a heat issue?

[potent arrow]

Yeah but this new one is around the same price and I have one of the v1s in place already

Definitely not a heat issue, network room is cold

I think it's an emi or hardware problem

[odd sand]

Well maybe I'll use it for now and evaluate what router I want for a bit later. Just spend like $350 on the switch and AP so

[potent arrow]

I have omada APs hanging about

They just work

No faffing about

The controller is on an RPi

[odd sand]

Yeah I got my parents house the 3 set of those bc they kept complaining about wifi coverage

[potent arrow]

I wanted microtik for router but the Hex S is sold out here

Those are bullet proof but hard to set uo