technology-discussion

[void dove]

so TV would light up, then backlight would die after

wasn't able to fix it, was a cheap TV and the circuit wasn't one you could just swap out, was a large part of the rest of the TV's mainboard

TV was something like 12 years old by then though, it had a good life.

[drowsy badge]

I assume it happened to this TV it was 3 years old

I mean it was a shame it happened

[dull garnet]

That's the worst kind of time for a TV to crap out

Most good retailers offer a 2 year warranty in the UK at least

[golden stream]

isn't all electronic goods in UK has 2 years warranty?

[modest moss]

Nah it varies

And you can often get assistance beyond that due to the consumer rights act demanding a reasonable life expectancy

[umbral moss]

imagine having laws that protect the consumer instead of the corporation

[modest moss]

A washing machine for example should last much longer than a 2 year warranty and you can get repairs or partial refunds etc

You do have to go full Karen though

[deep sapphire]

just buy a store warranty and then when you go and use it they bring out a 200 page clause that says it doesnt cover that

[dull garnet]

Richer Sounds were good handling the rma with Samsung when that pos shit the bed

Double shit there, because Samsung TV

[modest moss]

I always forget to check richer sounds for stuff, they've always had a decent rep though

[potent arrow]

@cerulean talon new toys

I just got 10 of these

[sharp star]

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-bundles-alan-wake-2-with-geforce-rtx-40-series

[inland mauve]

please buy a 40xx card

[dull garnet]

They'll set up demos if you want to sample certain things before purchase

They used to price match, dunno about now

[cerulean talon]

Smol

[drowsy badge]

My small TV that I'm using temporarily my old 1080p one it's way brighter way better

In terms of its power supply it uses a brick

I guess that's one of the benefits of a brick power supply it's easier to replace than an internal one

[odd sand]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLHJl7mwY7M

They missed an opportunity to say "Android doesn't have the blue bubble though..."

[drowsy badge]

Here's hoping my new TV doesn't get banged up in the mail

[umbral moss]

best buy has the 4TB T700 for $410

if anyone wants the absolute fastest nvme you can buy

me, personally, I want this, but I just spent my discretionary budget on a laser printer

[cerulean talon]

Gen5's are so nice, but so hard to auctually push to their limits.

[umbral moss]

yeah

I'm just that guy who wants the fastest thing even though 99.99999999999999999% of my use case is "open overwatch, drive idle for 23.975 hours"

QD 0 drive writes

[cerulean talon]

I think I'll see the auctual performance gain when I get a directstorage enabled game.

Otherwise, it's kinda hilariously just there.

[umbral moss]

some time in 2028, maybe

[cerulean talon]

Databases like it though.

Them sweet sweet iops.

[umbral moss]

the SN850P is also on sale

$230 for the 4TB seems pretty on the money

[cerulean talon]

I need to not spend money right now, you tempter.

[umbral moss]

same

I was going to start collecting parts to put in a new PC build but laser printer first

[sly walrus]

you buildin a laser printer?

[umbral moss]

no

gril is printing research notes on an inkjet and it's costing a fucking fortune in color ink

so I got her a color laser printer since the toner lasts for 1500 pages instead of 50

got one of those enterprise grade brother printers so she can't kill it printing a hojillion slides

[sly elk]

ironically the most important detail lol

if the goal of having a phone is to communicate with others and your phone can't communicate properly with the majority of people you know, it's a shit phone

[odd sand]

it's a shit phone bc the other phone company uses a 3rd party messaging app and refuses to make it interoperable

[sly elk]

yep 😄

it's not the phone's fault

or the producer's fault

[odd sand]

Also you can still do SMS and there is technically an RCS app on apple, it's just not standard

[sly elk]

it's a result of apple managing to have a monopoly in certain social crowds

like if you live in the US and your social group has a group chat using imessage

(I hear about this a lot but I don't belong to any social groups, never mind one that uses imessage lol)

[odd sand]

Just to spite them I would keep like a $100 iphone tethered to my other phone only to chat to them /s

[sly elk]

but I hear about that a looot. One of the sadder ones I saw was on macrumors, dude's an android phone nerd and likes getting the quirky phones.. is about to switch from his galaxy fold to an iphone 15 because his wife is fed up not being able to imessage him lol

yea the real shitty part about it is, apple knows they'd lose some customers if they made imessage compatible with rcs and/or somehow usable on android

so they're holding that shit hostage

[odd sand]

And Apple knows that. One of their upper mgmt said they will not support RCS bc it would only stand to lose them market share bc they have lockin

[sly elk]

lol

to tesla's credit they could've done the exact same thing with nacs/supercharger network but they didn't

(I can't remember if they were facing regulatory pressure to open it up to their competitors' cars though)

[odd sand]

Should make an app that can be a proxy from imsg to android heh. Run the phone at home and have it send the messages back and forth

[sly elk]

This is one of those cases of enshittification i personally hate

imagine if you had an android phone and a mac and your texts showed up in the mac messaging app. That would be sweet.

and if apple watches worked with android phones

[odd sand]

Sure, but they still use a connector nobody else uses so you need an adapter

[sly elk]

but NOOOOOO we have to have ECOSYSTEMS

I FUCKING HATE ECOSYSTEMS AND THINK THEY'RE BULLSHIT

lazy backwards thinking bullshit

[odd sand]

That's the thing: For literally everyone else they will decry monopoly and anti-competitive stuff... except Apple

[sly elk]

"we're too lazy to develop to a standard"

[odd sand]

ppl constantly give Apple a pass

[sly elk]

i disagree a little

call me a hypocrite for making that rant and continuing to buy apple stuff

[odd sand]

Or like that video showed off, apple acts like what they're doing is new and innovative, but it's only bc their users are under a rock and never look outside apple

So they don't know when the rest of the industry has had that shit for 5 years

[sly elk]

you mean like usb-c?

i think everyone knew about usb-c and some people cared more than others

I'm not sure what to say, I think it's a bit of a mixed bag really

I think in an ideal world a "pro" phone would actually have more than 1 usb-c port

I think that probably 99% of iphone users used the lightning port strictly for charging, and will continue to use usb-c that way... and in that regard, the lightning connector is (kinda) better

bt being able to use the same connector as everyone else is a giant win

it was funny watching people do things like plug their new phone into a usb-c dock and be like "oh now I can use it as a computer!"

YEA SHIT BRO WE'VE ALL BEEN DOING THAT FOR YEARS

[wide hill]

"yo i can connect a keyboard"

[dull garnet]

https://fxtwitter.com/Firr/status/1710787672388624782?s=20 wtf lol

[cerulean talon]

If it's an active card, mega-score, if not, it's meh.

From the looks, probally active tho.

[wide hill]

which mom sold this pc

[dull garnet]

four 2TB drives also

[wide hill]

oh nvm, it was sold as useless by a media company

[cerulean talon]

Eh, 970's though. Only PCIe3's.

They're nice, but they're not that great these days.

For 50$, sure, assuming they're not all dead like the one reported as dead.

😄

The cards are where the money's at, even a bifurcated 16x is 100-200$. Active cards can be 4-5x that easily

[potent arrow]

https://www.highpoint-tech.com/product-page/ssd7101a-1

That's it

Score

[cerulean talon]

Yup, that's worth it.

I want the insane version: https://www.apexstoragedesign.com/apexstoragex21

Do I need 21 NVMe's in a single rig? Of course I do.

[sly elk]

I mean, you can buy a bunch of 1tb nvme really cheap

or 2tb.. at some point that card basically pays for itself haha

especially if you use a schema with hot spares

[cerulean talon]

ZFS all day.

[odd sand]

The 8 slot ones are what? $800 was it? Or 1400?

Then again that price isnt much if you consider to make good use of it would probably require like an epyc or high end xeon that can address at least 24 or 32 pci lanes at once

[cerulean talon]

16 max, because it's on a x16 slot.

There's no way to merge multiple slots atm without comically custom gear.

Past that, most modern CPU's can access 64+ lanes no problem.

It's just that they're assigned out to stuff, like NVMe's. 😄

[odd sand]

Can you assign some of those to CPU lanes then even if its in the x16 slot?

Or are you stuck with x2 per for an 8x card?

[cerulean talon]

The general layout is some number of lanes direct attach, usually your top 16 slot, then your NVMe's and SSDs, etc. Then a small expander used for your lower 16's and 8x's.

You can't shunt any of them around as they're all hard-wired.

Your motherboard will have documentation for it's specific PCIe layout.

[odd sand]

lame

[sly elk]

sooo the reason why I can't use the tablotv (network tv tuner/recorder thing) from my bro's new roku player is the cheap roku players can't do x265 decoding (in hardware) lol

so it just chokes

dangit. wish I hadn't thrown the box out

[odd sand]

This is why you never throw boxes out immediately for electronics. I always hold onto them for awhile just in case heh

You still might be able to return it without the box

[wraith agate]

When used for good, yes

[sly elk]

the entire neighborhood hears it when that dude plays games

[frozen bolt]

How much better is this CPU compared to an r5 3600? https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Ryzen-5900X-24-Thread-Processor/dp/B08164VTWH/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=jjk7B&content-id=amzn1.sym.7b06cc05-4894-4995-81e8-0d089a89909e&pf_rd_p=7b06cc05-4894-4995-81e8-0d089a89909e&pf_rd_r=X9BCJY9X0AZ7H53XKA4A&pd_rd_wg=lTM4Z&pd_rd_r=115471c8-aec8-4bc2-a8fa-36f6da9b1f4c&ref_=pd_gw_deals_m1

[paper tusk]

for productivity significantly better

for gaming X3D are the go to

[real edge]

^

[wraith agate]

This is why I come here, the memes

[lost python]

but to answer the question, the 5900x is quite a bit faster than the 3600 in games

[wraith agate]

Nice

[lost python]

https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-10-10-amd-to-acquire-open-source-ai-software-expert-nod-.html

damn

nvidia about to take over gdi.ai?

[lost python]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-i9-14900k-is-2-faster-on-average-than-ryzen-9-7950x3d-in-official-1080p-gaming-performance-slide

23% faster in starfield for just 100% more power consumption

[deep sapphire]

When is AMD gonna announce 8000 series

[lost python]

when nvidia announces the 5000 series and calls the first card FX5200

good old days when the same model of card but from different companies varied so hard in performance lmao

[dull garnet]

And they were all shit because it's an FX series card

[sharp star]

late but yes get a 5800X3D; you're gonna get a lot more mileage out of that instead of a 5900X

3D V-cache CPUs are significantly better in gaming than productivity

tradeoff is that you can't overclock them, and even if you were able to, you won't get much out of it

[lost python]

it was my second ever card

[dull garnet]

Rip

[lost python]

Y indeed

[odd sand]

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1753ug6/if_youve_ever_wondered_how_mcafee_is_still_in/

[odd sand]

Curious to see what 15th gen will bring us, since it's Intel's first foreay into chiplet designs.

Although their method is slightly different than AMD's infinity fabric

Instead they layer the cache over the chiplets directly. I imagine 1st gen will be hot af

[cerulean talon]

I mean, the faster I can access cache the better.

So I approve.

[inland mauve]

I thought that was an AI generated picture at first

[modest moss]

Madness

[frozen bolt]

Is updating the BIOS easier than it sounds?

[dull garnet]

yes

[latent grotto]

Yes

[cold yacht]

Yes

[deep sapphire]

Most have an easy flash utility but sometimes you have to update it in increments cause I had to do that on my current board had to install them one revision at a time was kinda stupid

[modest moss]

I accidentally allowed windows to update my bios the other day

I was terrified

[sly elk]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/some-iphone-models-mysteriously-shutting-off-at-night.2407266/

[cerulean talon]

I need this now, thank you for sending it.

[inland mauve]

android just keeps winning

[sly walrus]

they eepy

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/shopping-wow-shocked-price-surprised-gif-11180047

(it's $199 for an a750 limited edition)

[celest violet]

Gigabyte just gave me 2 hours of hell

Since they gave no bios updates for the b450m ds3h wifi v2, I forced efiflash to ignore bios Id checks and install a bios that supports ryzen 5000

Gigabyte plz update your boards

I do wonder if that means efiflash can bypass the omen motherboards that only support one specific cpu

[neon shell]

Would Ethernet help with lag spikes? My game runs smoothly otherwise, but the lag spikes are annoying

Not sure if this is the right way place to ask

[celest violet]

Ethernet would go a long way

Provider modem could also be shite

New update also means increased traffic with the crappy server layout

[neon shell]

Yeah these new patches have been giving me lag spikes

Although not terrible

[sly elk]

the weekly kya "Why do mac users keep calling their desk setups 'minimal'?!" lol 😄

this one's sufficiently weird

[lost python]

id feel like i am sitting in a doctors office there

[sly elk]

that keyboard tho

[wraith agate]

Now that's a steampunk keyboard

[lost python]

i saw some website make some really cool wooden keyboards but they are like 250+

[umbral moss]

On the back panel, Google switched out the Pixel 8 Pro’s glossy back glass for a matte finish this time around, and it looks spiffy with the new baby blue color option. It’s a very smooth matte, and it actually makes the phone a little more slippery in your hand than smooth glass since you don’t get the same grip against your fingertips.

is it illegal to choose phone chassis materials that you can actually hold on to?

is "greased ice" really the only option to these dickholes?

[lost python]

i hate that so much lmao

my oneplus one had the best back. very grippy sandstone or something

[umbral moss]

it's so strange that there's like, a nearly endless variety of materials your grubby fingers can grip onto (that's why you have fingerprints!) and yet these assholes specifically choose the materials with the least grip

they must have a lab where they see how people hold phones and make sure the phones always fly out of their hands and eat shit

[lost python]

and thats part of the reason why everyone always slaps their phone into these rubber cases

[umbral moss]

yeah, and the best part is that the "official" first party case also sucks lmao

"yeah the phone is hard to hold, buy our slightly less slippery phone case"

whoosh

Seems like these phones are great but the reviewer seems apprehensive about Google in a way that I don’t see many feel about other companies. It’s almost as if they don’t believe Google will even be around in seven years or that they’ll shelve future updates.

I love when people live under a rock and aren't aware of google's inability to support anything for more than a few months

[modest moss]

My nothing phone was slippery af

Dreadful until I got a nice pink case

[drowsy badge]

Well my new TV shipped here's hoping it doesn't get destroyed in the mail by the mail people

The TV is a fragile thing I wonder how they ship it

[graceful pine]

It’ll be fine

The packaging is designed to protect it

[drowsy badge]

Oh

I see

[sturdy ivy]

Why does god send his most faithful FedEx drivers the most breakable TV's

[cerulean talon]

I wish the expensive stuff came FedEx, at least they show up on time.

Unlike UPS whom shows up at 11 PM.

[sturdy ivy]

Never had issues with UPS in my area, they always arrive between 10AM and 3PM

[cerulean talon]

UPS doesn't show up until at least 6 PM here.

It's annoying af.

[sturdy ivy]

Only carrier I have issues with nowadays is Amazons own delivery service because their drivers are ass and constantly deliver to the wrong address

[cerulean talon]

Amazon gets like 1 out of every 50-100 packages wrong here, so it's not too bad.

[sturdy ivy]

I'm overall just not a fan of Amazon, most of the products there now are cheap Chinese knockoffs. Even if the seller is stated as the actual manufacturer, if they ship from Amazons warehouse it seems like there's a solid chance you'll get a knockoff from a different sellers stock

[drowsy badge]

Well here's hoping for the best

[dull garnet]

i've never had a problem in blighty

although i agree that amazon is lame

[umbral moss]

scamazon is real

[dull garnet]

working at an amazon warehouse must be depressing

[umbral moss]

being treated like a disposable bearing in a large, crushing machine?

yeah, seems like it's a grand time

[cold yacht]

one nice thing is scamming amazon returns

no one gets paid enough to care about proper return items

[sly elk]

well you see, this way they can sell you the phone and a case!

I'm sure that the carrier stores LOVE that

[drowsy badge]

Dumb question but I wonder I've been wondering about TVs a lot of flat screen TVs come with plastic legs that they stand on but how sturdy are these legs that they don't snap under the weight over years

[wise jay]

Ive never worried about it. The tvs are so light and the stands are so hard and thick.

[modest moss]

Yeah flat panels aren't heavy at all

[dull garnet]

depends

but you would hope that the manufacturer would design the legs appropriately

[drowsy badge]

Not Worried about it snapping just wondering how it doesn't snap

I guess the majority of the weight is in the middle on the back

[dull garnet]

they're usually weighted despite the plastic appearance

[late basalt]

Some plastic formulations are actually pretty strong in compression, so as long as the stand style doesnt put them at such an angle it starts turning into tension, they’ll be fine

In other news, I’m finally upgrading my gpu

Starfield said “not even a 1060? Fuck you”

[sly elk]

silly question: Is it my imagination or does android not have scrollbars anymore?

like in ios if I have a list or a webpage and I wanna scroll using the scrollbar I can just slide a tiny bit until it appears, and then drag the scrollbar with my finger

likewise there's the whole "tap the top of the screen to scroll back to the top" thing iOS has

[glossy ravine]

You know. If Facebook wasn't a godawful company that's terrible at data privacy. The Quest 3 would be something to be excited about.

[sly elk]

in other news: canadian companies are good at screwing over their employees

(and in the case of their cell phone companies, excellent at screwing over their customers as well)

well YEA

that's called market rate my brother

they pull that BS within the united states as well

some companies will pay you significantly less if you change from in-office to wfh and move to a cheap state lol

and people just... take it

right

I mean of course. And I don't work for MS so I make less than that hahaha

is that 220k USD at MS canada in salary or salary+other stuff?

[sly elk]

idk what level 64 is

[dull garnet]

Nintendo 64

[odd sand]

220 huh? I'd love to make even half that. I need to push for a raise by the end of this year

This project is finally over Nov1. I'm gonna try to knock out a few certs by the end of the year then

[torpid kayak]

eh getting this one. Am I being banned? 🤔

[real edge]

no

I use ublock origin and I am not getting that

[torpid kayak]

I used the same on firefox

[lost python]

Not everyone is getting it yet but it's getting more and more ppl

[real edge]

im sure someone will make a defuser for that sooner rather than later

[lost python]

Maybe

Only a matter of time until google finds a way around it, like twitch did

[real edge]

twitch has a way to block all ads

twitch.tv##+js(twitch-videoad) you just add this to my filters and it blocks all ads from what I know

[sly elk]

i believe there is one

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/14x790n/youtube_just_got_to_ublock_origin/

sadly the fix that was recommended got broken too lol

to be fair, dodging ads on a site that relies on ads for funding is... kinda piracy-ish lol (but yes, not illegal)

(i say that as someone that also uses ublock origin on firefox!)

[lost python]

ublock is btw asking people to not use any external scripts and fixes because it messes with their own updates on the matter

[lost python]

lemme try

[real edge]

works for me at least

not sure for others

[lost python]

i havent been watching twitch actively for over a year because of ads, so i will be curious to see if i get any now

[real edge]

I use ublock origin together with that line under my filters personally

lmk if it works

also me being in a balkan country with a weird ass language might also help with me getting no ads

[dull garnet]

Yeah if ublock stops working imma just quit watching youtube

[dense dock]

A friend of mine is getting those while paying for yt premium just bc he also has ublock origins... it's bs

[sly elk]

a lot of stores have been pushing that crap too

[dense dock]

i wonder when I'm next

[sly elk]

you know those "we noticed off activity from your IP/ISP, hold this button to prove you're a human" but guess what, the page won't let you do that if you have an ad blocker or privacy badger enabled!

tbh

i'm waiting for them to block me for using a pihole lol

[dense dock]

They just wanna push us off the internet and into the real world and then we're free

joking aside, if some site doesn't let me progress, i close it and don't come back and if that's where yt is headed...

[paper tusk]

I finally got it a couple days ago and the easy fix was purging/updating the filter list manually

[dull garnet]

It's pretty simple to disable ublock on certain sites though

[dense dock]

Yeah you're right. It's just stupid that you get the message even if you already pay for ad-free yt

[inland mauve]

that's because they'd rather you completely remove your adblocker

so that you also won't block Google ads on other sites

[dense dock]

hah, they wish

[inland mauve]

Google has reached that late stage for a corporation where it has to scrounge for additional profits wherever it can to keep its growth going

even though it's not actually growing

[dense dock]

I'm trying to use as little Google as possible but they got their hands everywhere

[inland mauve]

yeah and their privacy policy is basically "if you don't want us to use your data don't use our services" but it's almost impossible not to run into Google sooner or later

and Google actively tries to circumvent privacy protection and steal all the private data they can

they got sued over those practices

[dense dock]

Well I'm trying not to see their ads but that's also wrong apparently 😂

I just hate that there are almost no or no good alternatives in some cases, like Youtube. Sure there are other websites, but there is no content on it bc everyone uses YT

[vast apex]

If Youtube ads are 1) fishy companies advertising stupid products. 2) Ragnarok Online 3) Whatever brand that is not universally known.

They deserved to be blocked, period.

[dull garnet]

Someone posted this in another discord I'm in

Spooky

[lost python]

fuck them

[real edge]

I have not been getting it yet

but the war on adblockers is stupid and unwinnable

solutions will always exist

and if you bruteforce through it then you lose viewership and revenue

in the future some adblocker VPN will exist or someshit for 1dollar or something where it bypasses everything

you know how to completely avoid that? just give ublock origin permission to work on private windows, use your main window to browse, and instead of clicking a video, right click it and select view in icognito or something

and you bypassed their million dollar anti adblock efforts

[lost python]

unfortunately, they gain more from the forced ads than they lose from the few people that actually stop using their service

especially for youtube since its too big by now

at some point they figure out a way to embed the ads into the videostream itself so you cant effectively block them anymore

but i guess the most effective way to continue blocking ads is with a pihole or something that just filters out any and all ad traffic before it even reaches your pc

[real edge]

and vpns

just vpn to laos or some god forsaken backwater

no ads there

[inland mauve]

once they've found a way to effectively fight ads they're going to start increasing how many ads you see

the same thing happened to Twitch

Twitch is constantly fighting ads, making changes that break adblockers, and they actively report to streamers how many viewers use adblockers and penalize them for it as well to create social pressure

meanwhile small streamers can barely get started because nobody is sticking around for a small stream they don't know if they first get five minutes of pre-roll ads

[real edge]

thank god I live in a bad country for ads

simple solutions still work for me :<

vpns will seemingly always work

based on my experience

[inland mauve]

Youtube won't fall unless someone like Elon Musk takes it over and starts very rapidly destroying it, unfortunately

there are too many users who don't care

just look at what happens on Reddit every time they push a shitty change and people try to protest it

users continue using the service and they will scream and cry and shit at anyone becoming between them and their increasingly shitty service

[real edge]

the dumb masses who eat whatever is thrown at them and the people that care suffer because of them

[inland mauve]

same thing with Youtube, if you stop using it others will just laugh at you and watch someone else's videos (but first, these messages)

[umbral moss]

honestly, the problem is that youtube is the only service in its class that has reach and moderation

who the fuck is going to use rumble to post cooking videos alongside anti-semitic screeds and batshit conspiracy theories

[lost python]

"moderation" lmao

[umbral moss]

way more moderated than rumble, which prides itself on allowing "free speech"

which almost always means "I just want to say racist shit without being punished"

but really, who can compete with youtube for scale and content? it costs a goddamn fortune to run youtube and google probably deducts their YT operations as a charitable donation since I doubt they've made a dime on it

[real zealot]

What do we think about custom keyboards here? I made a themed build the other night that I believe might pique this server's interest

Ik the sub definitely seemed to dig it

[modern iris]

This also ties into people who will complain about company making bad games but still buy and play them all

[modern iris]

Yeah youtube runs at a loss

Any body else that takes it over will charge you a sub to have it

I wonder if there will be an uptick in people who use Odysee

[celest violet]

I would be interested in the custom keyboard 👀

[real zealot]

I gotchu, gonna grab pics lol

"He that holdeth fast unto his convictions shall never count betrayal amongst his crimes, though all the world may call him villain."

I put together an Urianger Augurelt / Astrologian themed board

[modest moss]

I'm super torn

I hate Urianger, worst scion
I hate AST, worst job
But that kb looks pretty cool

[potent arrow]

Very very nice

I'm the local keyboard slut lmao

That looks like...an epomaker shadow x?

[lost python]

that looks sick

[real zealot]

It is! I immediately started having ideas once I saw the screen LOL

I'm using the Budgerigars that came stock with the board because I love the rounded bump and heavier actuation force than my last switches

[cerulean talon]

That's an amazing looking build tbh.

[real zealot]

Tyvm

[lost python]

are those selfmade keycaps or did you buy them somewhere?

because my gf is a sucker for any wizardry stuff so this would be perfect for her

[real zealot]

I got them from Amazon, they're they GK Gamakay Cosntellations set

[lost python]

the light doesnt shine through the keys, right?

[real zealot]

There's also Astrolokeys if they like more of a purple/pink look. That's what I was originally going to do before I found these keys

[real zealot]

Yeah it's not shinethrough

[lost python]

aww too bad

[real zealot]

https://i.imgur.com/hGl3np8.gifv

That's how it looks in practice

[lost python]

still very fancy. i will slap that on my wishlist for later

[real zealot]

Imo it makes the underglow seem brighter though

just becaue it can't shine through

[lost python]

yeah but i kinda need it because i often sit in the dark or at least a dim room.
i need to figure out a new keyboard for myself anyway but it seems like all the good ones are always 60 or 75%

[real zealot]

Yeah, larger boards seem to be the niche nowadays when it comes to hot swap

There is always the tried and true Keychron V6 though

https://www.keychron.com/collections/keychron-v-series-keyboard/products/keychron-v6-qmk-custom-mechanical-keyboard#

[lost python]

is it actually good?

see them everywhere, i just assumed they are just mid, like every other popular brand that somehow is budget friendly

[real zealot]

I've heard nothing but good about Keychron tbh, the only criticism I've heard is that their stabilizers could come pre-lubed a bit better but that's such a first-world complaint when so many boards still come dry

The V6 also has VIA compatibility, which I swear by on my life. I programmed my Panda 64 board with it

[real edge]

5k, a few hours ago it was 4k blocked

wtf is youtube doing lmao

[real zealot]

Lmao wtf

[lost python]

sounds good, their normal stuff is affordable at least.
full metal would be something id love but thats 200$ again

[real zealot]

Right. That's the only downside tbh. At least they have the pretty gameboy case

[modern iris]

Those are some sick keyboards

[real zealot]

Thanks! I like to build cheap boards and resell them afterwards once I put better switches/caps on them, but the Panda/Urianger board are my pride and joy

Those are my personal boards

[modern iris]

https://tenor.com/view/buttsmarnn-gif-18440715

[potent arrow]

Idk if you seen it but I've been shilling keychron here a lot

I've bought and made tons of custom keychains for people

[real zealot]

You definitely have my taste in switches with those Akko Lavenders

I searched 'Keychron' LOL

[potent arrow]

LOL

Listen if you like tactile, akko lavenders are probably the best safe option

Next to baby kangaroos

[real zealot]

I ended up finding out my passion lies a bit heavier in the spring but I love them a lot

[potent arrow]

My favorite are still the neopolitans

[real zealot]

AJAZZ Kiwis and Akko Lavenders are my usual recs to people

on the Tactile side, at least

[potent arrow]

Yep

[real zealot]

I haven't tried the Bananas but I've heard they're good

[potent arrow]

I have a ton of boards but rn my main is surprisingly a big brand name board that I modded the fuck outta

[real zealot]

I was originally going to buy SP-Star Meteor Orange tactiles for this board in keeping with the theme, but then I actually typed on the stock Budgerigars that came with the board and kinda fell in love ngl

[potent arrow]

I think I have meteor oranges in a container somewhere, havnt had the chance to lube/film them so I haven't tried them iirc

[real zealot]

They're only a couple grams lighter than this but I've heard the bump is more pronounced, so I do wanna try them at some point because I love a good bumpy switch

[potent arrow]

Mmm

[real zealot]

I love this board, and purple is my favourite colour so it's a complete win

[potent arrow]

Have you tried the neopolitans?

[real zealot]

I haven't yet

[potent arrow]

Currently my top tier

[real zealot]

I'll have to get some once I get some more hours around holiday time

[potent arrow]

Film and lubed, they have a real good sound and tactile bump

Because its pom stem and dual stage spring

[real zealot]

I think they'll be the heaviest switch I own LOL

[potent arrow]

LOL

I hammer board so

[real zealot]

I rest my hand on the board pretty heavy so it's nice to have something above 50 at least

When I use linears I'll find myself AAAAAAAAAAAAAAing when I get tired lol

[potent arrow]

I hate linears

Not for me personally lol

[real zealot]

I'm not opposed to them but I have to find the right one(s)

The only ones I've found so far are the AJAZZ Peaches, which is wild to me because I like mid-weight switches and these are on the lighter side

Milky Yellows are okay but too heavy for me which is funny because I never have that issue with tactiles regardless of spring weight so far

and I refuse to have them on my modifiers, I always mix my boards if I'm running linears

[potent arrow]

Ooo that's a cute board

Most of my boards are mixed because I don't want to accidentally press something during raiding lol

[real zealot]

Understandable

[potent arrow]

Modifiers and WASD are usually something different

[real zealot]

I used to have a 60% with blank keycaps so I've taught myself to touch type a tiny bit

That's the only reason I can have the constellations on my numrow

[potent arrow]

I prefer blanks >_> but nobody is making them

[real zealot]

I KNOW! MechanicalKeyboards shut down their damn configurator too

Next best thing is side-print but then it comes down to finding one with a good font

[potent arrow]

Yep

I need to find another board to play with when I'm not broke

[real zealot]

I'd recommend the Shadow-X, but there was a single problem with the board that was kind of annoying

[potent arrow]

Blugh what the fuck lol

[wise jay]

wtf

[real zealot]

This setting as described in the manual doesn't exist, so by default, your FN+1 through FN+= keys were multimedia controls. I had to go into the software and rebind it to F1-F12 myself

FN+CTRL is actually FN lock

aside from that I adore this board, but it's a pretty big flaw

easily rectifiable thankfully, but a big flaw nonetheless

[zinc sluice]

Friend buying a pc. They bought a prebuilt with 7700x and 4070. I dont know why they decided to drop 3 grand on everything suddenly, but they just need a monitor. Is it morally okay to run a 1440p monitor with 4070, or just go for 4k?

[potent arrow]

Also I would like to say with this board, it has all the features and I'm so spoiled.
The both 2.5ghz wireless dongle and Bluetooth modes are really good and latency free. The software is pretty decent. The screen is nice and the modes it has for control knob is amazing. Hotswap, gasket mount, custom pom plate, my own 3D printed stabilizers etc

[real zealot]

I don't see why not, extra frames to be had imo

[potent arrow]

Like it doesn't get better for me rn

[zinc sluice]

Do you guys see a 4k game going over 60fps on 4070 becuase theyre for some reason very wanting to buy 4k144hz

Say like cyberpunk

[potent arrow]

No

[zinc sluice]

Thought so

[real zealot]

Not significantly

[potent arrow]

Realistically, no

[real zealot]

That's definitely true. The singular mod I did was tempest mod with some electrical tape and I haven't touched anything else so far

I'm gonna get some 205g0 and properly re-lube the stabs myself though, for fun

[zinc sluice]

oh is this keeb talk

[potent arrow]

I refuse to use unlubed stabs lol

[real zealot]

Oh same lmao

[zinc sluice]

My spacebar has a tick and i am annoyed

I an too lazy to open and lube the stabs

[real zealot]

Lube syringes can be found on amazon I think

[potent arrow]

My stabs are ceramic 3D printed :P

[zinc sluice]

damn,,

[real zealot]

https://www.amazon.com/KEY-DOT-CO-TheKey-Company-Stabilizer/dp/B0C2NM2LQN/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3BWJLJCSGTX1Z&keywords=keyco+syringe+stabilizer&qid=1697214177&sprefix=keyco+syringe+stabilize%2Caps%2C108&sr=8-3

[zinc sluice]

My dumbass decided to use a gmk set

Like actually

Oil from my hand ruined it

👍

[real zealot]

ough

[zinc sluice]

its whatever

i wanted to use it anyway

[real zealot]

Oh it went through

[zinc sluice]

bye blizz

[cerulean talon]

I'm cautiously hopeful.

I dislike MS in general, so I'm hopeful this is a good turn around for them.

[dapper nymph]

there's a hole in my memory, after installing new drivers through geforce, it'd normally restarts the pc, no?

[lost python]

no

not necessarily

[umbral moss]

hasn't been a thing in a while from what I recall

[dull garnet]

last time i updated my drivers i was prompted to restart

[umbral moss]

although my PC has been offline for so long now all the water in the lines has been evaporated so I can't easily power up and check

[dull garnet]

that was for 537.42, I think there has been a release since

[real zealot]

Update on the board: stickers came in, I applied them around the case

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1069878446580318238/1162458215133487204/IMG_6948.jpg?ex=653c0293&is=65298d93&hm=f7997d4e3af11ead09572d6d84ef375ad92a9812220c691f596fc99d1693a45a&

[cold yacht]

that looks dope

[dull garnet]

https://fxtwitter.com/CounterStrike/status/1712875606776729832?s=20

lol

[modest moss]

Nice

[cerulean talon]

Fantastic.

[celest violet]

Hella nice keeb

It flows so smooth

I've been saving up to build one for myself but I've been struggling so much on a pcb I want to get

Stuck on the glorious gmmk pro, an nj80, and a keychron q1 pro

Glorious and keychron are a bit higher priced

I have a corsair and nothings wrong with it, I just hate the switches

[sly elk]

i managed to escape all the keyboard hobby stuff by buying a dygma raise

it was not cheap, but I think I've saved money in the long run. Imagine if I got into keebs and LUBING and FOAM

LUBING PANDAS

yea I'm happy without that hobby in my life lol

KEEB

[celest violet]

Making the finished product would be very nice tho

Makes you feel complete

If only custom mice were a thing so I could get move on from the scimitar

[sly elk]

to be fair, this board is 'hot swappable' so I could go buy a bottle of lube and holy pandas and go nuts

the only way I could go more custom is to buy split keyboards pcbs and assemble them myself. But DIY split keyboard cases really suck hahaha.

basically you either 3d print or use a plexiglass sandwich

which is funny because they're almost all ergodox derivatives anyway

[royal forge]

@deep sapphire AMD cant stop winning

[late basalt]

late reply, but i've been using ABP for years and have never had any ads on youtube to this day unless i'm on a mobile device

[real edge]

this seems to be for workload gpus

[sly elk]

i like yours better lol

i know! XD

but ymmv you stare at it all the time so you know best what you want 🙂

I don't like how the water tank is blocking one of the fans lol

they need a long skinny tank to go between the motherboard and the front rad

lol

[neon shell]

Thanks for bringing my pizza delivery

[odd sand]

No wonder you don't have any money, you keep buying more and more fans /s

Why did you have to return all 13?

[real edge]

hm

do you have any spare ones?

what size are those?

140mm?

I guess I shouldn't stick a 120mm fan together with 140mm case fans

different airflow capabilities even if the 140mm fans are mediocre

[odd sand]

Really depends on the CFM and which is the intake vs outflow

[real edge]

AF140L are my case fans

they are 6-7yrs old

[odd sand]

I've never worried about it though and not really had an issue with modern cases having micromesh dust covers

[potent arrow]

yerp

My pc has ike

2 fans in it from ice and one thats like 140mm somewhere taped tot he gpu

[real edge]

website says af140l have 67 cfm

[potent arrow]

and shits fine lmfao

[odd sand]

Theoretically it only matters if you're overclocking and really running thermals to their limits where internal airflow and pressure needs to be carefully managed

[sharp star]

I have four 180mms lol

[potent arrow]

What the hell

What the fuck did Ibreak

[odd sand]

Ah yes, the phase of case design where they settled on like 2x 180 up front, 2x 180 on top and like 1x 220 on the side heh

That's what you get for downloading the entire internet

Especially the midget videos

[potent arrow]

HMMMMMMMMM

[sharp star]

I set it up as 2x 180 in front and 2x 180 on the bottom

I was gonna do 1x 140 in the rear but the it's already very perforated so air can naturally escape through the back

[tame tartan]

low, fast on the street, and immediately in trouble the second you get close to a steep incline

[wraith agate]

ah yes the fan count of my RTX9090

[glossy ravine]

Hey so to save some money, I bought another FFXIV music disk off Amazon. Listed as "New" It finally came in today and I'm beginning to suspect I was lied to.

1. The back of the CD case was damaged despite having shrink-wrap on it.

2. The Disk is unreadable by my PS5. I know it's not my ps5 as it reads other disks just fine.

[modest moss]

About all you can do is try it in a different drive or rma

[glossy ravine]

Fair enough.

[odd sand]

Those cases are fairly easy to crack though. Set a stack of the stuff down too hard or set something on top of it at a pressure point and you can get stuff like that

[void dove]

yeah not unusual for one to come like that tbh, i wouldn't count that a an indicator of being a fake "new" item.

unless there are more obvious wear and tear of course.

also some music discs have shitty DRM on them

so consoles have issues reading them

if it works in a PC, then its normal

[glossy ravine]

That's the thing. This isn't my first time buying one of these CDs.

I've bought the Shb, Patch-Shb, Endwalker, and Scions&Sinners album and none of them were like this/had drm

[void dove]

doesn't mean they didn't change 🤷‍♂️

[glossy ravine]

There's like. A second ring around the CD on the bottom. A noticeable one.

[void dove]

a ring around the edge of the CD?

also can be normal (and indicative of DRM)

basically, does ti work in something else? yes/no

if no, then its bad,. get it replaced

if you have nothing else to try it in, then just rma it i guess

[wide hill]

is it a blu ray disk?

[dull garnet]

PS4 and PS5 cannot read CDs

[modern iris]

Hi everyone! It has been a longtime dream of mine to play Final Fantasy online and the other great modern PC games. So I have officially bought my first major gaming computer.

I hope this is more than enough to play FFO with ease

[wide hill]

can you run ffxiv on it? yes

are you thinking of running it on a 144hz display?

[modern iris]

Hopefully some other cool modern games also

Like the monitor?

[wide hill]

yeah, like, if you wanted to get the full 144fps with ffxiv

[modern iris]

Trying to upload the pic of it one sec

[wide hill]

you could also run the benchmark too

!faq benchmark

[opal panther]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker Official Benchmark

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/download/

[dull garnet]

what are you talking about

[modern iris]

I got this monitor

[dull garnet]

that'll run ff14 with ease

[modest moss]

That will do 1440p max settings ez

[modern iris]

Thanks y’all you’ve made my day lol been dying to play this game

[wide hill]

all of that text above in the product title and it still doesn't say the hz is

gotta be 60hz

[modest moss]

4k might not be amazing tho

[modern iris]

Ah i was told 4K was about as good as I could hope for

[wide hill]

https://www.asus.com/displays-desktops/monitors/tuf-gaming/tuf-gaming-vg289q1a/techspec/

yep 60hz

i doubt you would want to go higher than 4k

[modern iris]

Yea that should be perfect for me. Thanks for the help

[modest moss]

Might do 4k 60

[dull garnet]

that's a high hz 1440 build imo

[wide hill]

1600 points 🤔

and each point is 1 euro.

[dull garnet]

for a $20 headset

sweet

[glossy ravine]

CD-Rom

[wide hill]

well, that is the reason why you can't read it on your ps5

[wise jay]

Its kind of crazy the ps5 has reverted to not being able to run cds

Im very surprised weve gone back to having solely dvd players and not being a combo cd/dvd

[wide hill]

the ps4 could also not read cd's

the ps3 could however

[dull garnet]

and the 2, and the 1

[wise jay]

damn I didnt realize the 4 couldnt either. Thats crazy

[dull garnet]

kinda proving Sony's decision there

[wise jay]

I mean streaming was getting pushed pretty hard during the ps4's time. Its mainly odd because combo cd/dvd players were already the norm for a long time

[dull garnet]

its just cost saving

[paper tusk]

it's more saving the pennies in the BOM

[dull garnet]

ps4 also didn't do analog video

[paper tusk]

and having the emulator paywalled behind psn+

[wise jay]

there was no reason for the ps4 to have analog. End of the previous console generation already moved towards making hdmi the norm

[dull garnet]

what if i wanted analog video

[wise jay]

Id question why you were buying a ps4

also converters existed at the time and still do. Its an easy fix

[dull garnet]

gross

[sharp star]

simply put your CD in an Xbox Series X

[wise jay]

Itd cost alot more to add analog than cd functionality

[dull garnet]

you'd need a reason to own one first

[wise jay]

ya just get an xbox one for a cable box while youre at it

[modern iris]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2PDDFCX?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

if anybody needs a headset on a budget

[drowsy badge]

Always fun getting things shipped in the mail and not getting an update for several days

[glossy ravine]

I have a ps3 super slim actually.

Putting it in my usb ODD, it ran. Though the files for the music were in .CDA. whatever the fuck that File Type is.

[drowsy badge]

I remember buying that back in the day never had a PS3 I wanted one I was forced to get the lowest gigabyte model

Sad times but it was 2015

[glossy ravine]

Remember when they wanted 599 for the PS3 at launch

Wild.

Anyway. Need to rip the songs from this CD. Turn it into an Mp3

[drowsy badge]

Remember what Sony said about that price

Back in the day

I forget the exact words but it was something about if people really want a PS3 they'll save up for it

It was like really arrogant

Like I said I forgot the way it was phrased

That was a bad conference over all

https://youtu.be/fMfapDlm9UY?si=5Kq4DkWA4D9l4JHM

https://youtu.be/eaBUeINW_3s?si=3FLW6Lm-k2F6BzvC

It's ridge racer remember that one

It's funny when you think about it when it comes to the price point because back during the PS1 when they talked about the price for the first time the guy walked up on stage talked about 299 and walked off but here comes the PS3 more expensive than the 360

https://youtu.be/ExaAYIKsDBI?si=mPlmb26BwpoutuBz

[dull garnet]

The Saturn died at this moment

SEGA was finished

[glossy ravine]

Sega also had the hubris of pissing off retailers by dropping the Saturn without warning.

Gave them no time to prepare inventory or space.

[drowsy badge]

You can blame Sega of Japan for these decisions

They're also the ones who pushed for the 32x

Oh when they also passed on working with Sony

They made quite few bad decisions back then

Man it's like Savage to think that both Nintendo and Sega passed on working with Sony

And Nintendo decided to work with Philips instead which led to Zelda CDI

https://tenor.com/view/zelda-wand-of-gamelon-gamelon-laughter-cursed-gif-14618793

https://youtu.be/aMJXYgTOyhE?si=aiTXsWxY5Oi9lOcC

Gaming historian is a good place if you want to see this mistakes

https://youtu.be/RL9l2Z7sh2g?si=ePG_GGdrJaNsYqAV

Forgot about the PlayStation Vita memory card

Yikes

8 GB $30

It's a shame what happened to the Vita it was a pretty good handheld

[odd sand]

Sony hates handheld success, it's true. Continuing the trend with the bluetooth audio system/Portal heh

[modern iris]

remember when Sega decided to just release the Sega Genesis with no marketing build up lmao

[drowsy badge]

I find it funny that today you can buy a official Nintendo Sega Genesis controller

I also forgot about that huge Sony hack back in the day

[odd sand]

Yeah PSN was down for over a month was it? Pretty crazy

[modern iris]

yeah back in 2011

I was still in highschool at the time

it was a wild time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBflgU5ComI&pp=ygUPcHNuIGhhY2tlZCAyMDEx

[odd sand]

Thankfully not EVERYTHING was online yet at that time, so it didn't matter all that much

[modern iris]

I believe people's credit card info got leaked at the time

[sly elk]

Yet the Genesis was the only Sega that really sold in the US

And pretty much everyone I knew had one lol

[modern iris]

that's crazy

[odd sand]

Most of my friends had Nintendo, but my best friend at church had a genesis and maybe also an SNES? I forget, but definitely had a genesis

[sly elk]

Hehe they had a lot of cheap games for it at Walmart

Stuff like the usual nfl and so on

NFL football 94!

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/ue-1JoJQaEg?si=NOtH8hMqJKyHOZCs

[sly elk]

no surprise there.

he's being incredibly dismissive of the newer machine with the "It's... a computer"

they're still hella complex lol

that old machine HOOOLYYYY SHIT lol

can you imagine that machine was basically the AAA game of that time period

[late basalt]

Starfield kept saying the 4060 i put in tonight was too old until i realized i had to update the drivers

[odd sand]

With how poorly optimized the game is, it might be either way /s

[paper tusk]

"don't you guys have threadrippers?" - todd howard

[sly walrus]

“works fine for me” - todd coward

[paper tusk]

"20 fps worked for legend of zelda on n64" todd the duck

[royal forge]

Are there mkbs with joysticks attached?

i wonder how useful it would actually be

[dull garnet]

After the PSN hack in 2011 you were allowed to claim 2 of like 4/5 games

I had like 3 accounts so I claimed them all. No blazblue for a few months was a bummer though

[drowsy badge]

You guys remember the disastrous Xbox one announcement always online no selling or lending the game to a friend always requiring a connect focused on entertainment barely any games and was forced bundled with a connect

I think about where the Xbox would have been if it didn't fumble like that

[golden stream]

Ýe
XPS or something like that, it's tiiiiiiiiny laptop btw

[royal forge]

Nah. Just a joystick on a mech keyboard

Or basically something to scroll down with

Not a knob

[golden stream]

if not a knob so kinda hard.....

unless if something like a left pad w stick

[modern iris]

https://tenor.com/view/todd-howard-it-just-works-bethesda-this-all-just-works-gif-20598651

[neon shell]

Just take one MacBook

Easy $100,000

[sly elk]

man youtube is being a dick today

it keeps trying to play ads for me, and for my bro it gave him the "ad blockers aren't allowed" shit 😄

both using firefox and ublock origin XD

[late basalt]

Yea, YouTube’s being fucky

They’re trying to force people off adblockers

[wise jay]

being really stupid about it when I click 20 videos under a minute long and every single one tries to give me 15 seconds of unskippable ads

[sly elk]

yea like I get that playing videos with no ads loses them money but there has to be a better alternative

youtube premium is $14/mo solo, $23 for family of 5...

but I feel like that's about twice as high as it needs to be for what it is

and also so much of youtube's content and utility is to sell other stuff like shit man, I've been looking at guitar review videos. I bet a lot of those were created by sponsored youtubers.

it feels like a scenario where youtube is using you and still wants to get paid

[wise jay]

best I can do is ads on all sides and unskippable ads before the video

[sly elk]

and the video itself is basically an ad

and the video was shown to you via a targeting algorithm that figured you were most likely to buy what the video was advertising

[neon shell]

That’s the best part though

[neon shell]

nasa is jealous of this pc

[odd sand]

I mean, they're paying the content creators like you're multiple ppl watching all the ads. Also stuff like 1440p60 or 4K is expensive for bandwidth so 🤷‍♀️

I'd more be wondering why you gave bing your purchase history

[neon shell]

I hate the rgb

At least it’s big enough for a 4090

What’s that cable management

Tf lol

Cut it in half and give me 5 pounds of it

[wise jay]

need a monster energy sticker on that reservoir

[neon shell]

That’s a clean set up

Love that lalafel

[neon shell]

Also looks like a soap dispenser

What’s the gpu brand?

Neat

[deep sapphire]

love me some dew

good

[neon shell]

Bromine? Wow

Gotta make what sells right

[wise jay]

lies. My nerve damage is from getting burned and frostbite

[neon shell]

Y’all want to know something annoying that happened today? So the street where I live, people sometimes park their cars on the side of the road if they don’t have space in their own parking lot. Worst part is, the grass patch where I put my garbage to picked up is right near said spot. It’s the most annoying thing ever

[odd sand]

Put your bins on the hood of their car /s

[neon shell]

lol the weight of the handles on those garbage trucks would just turn that car into a pancake

[sly elk]

lmao I like this idea

https://tenor.com/view/garbage-truck-trash-garbage-fail-gif-4763131

out here they shake the cans to keep this from happening lmao

i still see it happen sometimes

[odd sand]

Sure if the stuff is super fluffy and loose it will take a bit to tumble out

[sly elk]

my hero

best thing I've seen in /r/battlestations in forever and a half

[proven oyster]

So im here to ask

For tech support

Why does this happen?

[deep sapphire]

AMD drivers

[proven oyster]

Funny

I dont have an AMD ;D

[deep sapphire]

damnit

[proven oyster]

FOILED YOUR DUNKING

[deep sapphire]

what browser

[proven oyster]

But no yah, its like
Such a non issue, cus the moment i move my mouse to it

Like the SECOND

[deep sapphire]

try disabling hardware acceleration

[proven oyster]

It clears up

And its Opera GX

Do mind, i also dual monitor

[deep sapphire]

that shouldnt matter, assuming it doesnt do it on all GPU accelerated content I wouldnt put much thought into it, probably a bug with Opera

[proven oyster]

Goes and delete image cus just in case

But thanks for the info

[deep sapphire]

too late I saved it and put it as my desktop wallpaper

[dull garnet]

try a better browser

[proven oyster]

OHNOS

[deep sapphire]

I use to get this annoying issue

where there would be a thin line under youtube videos

[proven oyster]

Honestly i just like Opera GX because of its innate limiters

[deep sapphire]

that was transparent

so you could see the windows or anything behind it

[proven oyster]

I like how PCs sometimes just

"Hey here is this issue"

"It is a MYSTICAL, UNNATURAL NEVER SEEN ISSUE"

"Deal with it or ignore it forever"

[deep sapphire]

its even worse when you spend a lot of money on new hardware or something because every little issue annoys you

when I had a piece of shit I didnt even care

why is it so hard to find

good 4K wallpapers

[dull garnet]

i used to use booru sites and while i get a few hits that way these days the majority is just gacha related wallpapers 🥲

[deep sapphire]

you use danbooru for wallpapers?

[dull garnet]

yeah

[deep sapphire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/606563938838249482.webp?size=128&quality=lossless

I use pixiv

https://imgur.com/YaonX6l

[dull garnet]

can you search by resolution?

[deep sapphire]

remember when the Camaro had that weird single year

Berlinetta

god is that ugly

glad they fixed that generation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=NHlZQy8D270

every piece of plastic creeks and rattle

🤣

fuckin GM of this era were so cheap

[inland mauve]

are these AI generated?

I don't think this is how a hand works

[wise hatch]

I got my monitor, but what I didnt realize is that it used a 250V power supply and I dont think I have a 250V outlet in my apartment

[potent arrow]

0_0

How did you end up with an Aussie/China localized monitor

[wise hatch]

i'm in India which uses the same as Australia/Britain, I just thought it'd be 220 not 250

[potent arrow]

man these weird ass numbers

[wise hatch]

oh fun fact of the day, the US was planning to switch to 240V soon after britain did following the end of WW2, but decided not to because by that time a lot of people already owned electronic appliances

that and the power grid was already set up so it wouldve been pretty expensive to redo it

before it became 120 it used to be 110 because that was the best for edison's lightbulb

[paper tusk]

it is 240v but split phase because it's easier to hack a fix than do something proper

open up a main box and you'll see 2 main feeds and corresponding legs in the box

large appliance breakers just take from both sides of the main voltage input

[odd sand]

Gotta be listening to retrowave driving that thing around today

And then really large outlets using 440v have to use a step-up converter or something?

[inland mauve]

laughs in superior EU 220-240V

[umbral moss]

the superior, enlightened response is "works fine on my pc"

[umbral moss]

480V is three-phase

you're tapping all three conductors for those devices since you need to spread the current delivery around to minimize the conductor demand and smooth out the current pulses

[wraith agate]

"But it ran on my computer just fine!"
"Then we will ship your computer to the customer."

[umbral moss]

god, I work with a guy who does that with our user-facing control software

"hey, there's a bug in the software where it drops comms to the device after you update it"

"works on my PC, can't fix your issue"

glad it works fine on your specific, blessed machine you insufferable clod

the omnissiah has truly spoken through you this day

[inland mauve]

"The data interrogator you gave me broke!"
"It worked fine when we handed it to you. Truly the Omnissiah has forsaken you."

[odd sand]

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer-40k-techpriest-binaric-screeching-screeching-gif-20192683

[glossy ravine]

About to go try for my ITF+ exam. Kinda nervous.

Databases/coding my beloathed.

[glossy ravine]

Terrible news: I passed.

[inland mauve]

[umbral moss]

welcome to hell

[umbral moss]

May be somebody should provide them honest review of why this happened? ChatGPT doesnt make condescending remarks about my question or doesn't start ranking me based on how many people like me! Stackoverflow, while good, is absolutely abysmal if it comes to posting comments or questions that don't satisfy their PHD level researched nuanced things. Nobody can't post a simple question and immediately either gets deleted or humiliated in worse way than twitter/instagram comments.

lmao

replacing "tech support" with chatGPT is hilarious

[wise hatch]

so I found out the problem was that they sent this giant 16A power cable for a monitor that only uses 1.5A

so I just need to go buy a smaller 6A cable

that will actually fit in my wall socket

[lost python]

my power outlet in the kitchen is making noise. i am slightly concerned

[potent arrow]

Internal arcing?

[lost python]

dunno

high-ish pitched soft buzzing sound, like similar to old lamp transformers. happens even with nothing plugged in

actually it sounds almost like very soft coil whine from my GPU, but its definitely coming from that outlet

[potent arrow]

Hmmmm

[lost python]

welp google tells me the usb ports are at fault

because they have transformers inside than can make noise

[potent arrow]

O

Yeah that makes a lot of sense

I just assumed a regular outlit

And was like....how can there be coil whine if there arnt transformers

[deep sapphire]

that plug looks unamerican (probably a good thing)

[wise hatch]

[deep sapphire]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector did you know Japan uses the NEMA plug

but they lack a ground plug

kinda weird

[wise hatch]

its a type M plug

[potent arrow]

I hate american plugs

[wise hatch]

why dd they send me a plug only used in south africa ? idk

[potent arrow]

for fun

[deep sapphire]

"im in India"

"is that south africa? here you go"

the fuckin kinda jank shit is this

they dont even hide the earth behind the socket

[potent arrow]

What the fuck why

[deep sapphire]

[potent arrow]

What the fuck

[deep sapphire]

I fuckin hate these

[wise hatch]

that looks incredibly cursed

[sly elk]

don't they do that in japan, too?

[deep sapphire]

that is a japanese plug

erm, outlet

[deep sapphire]

they are used in 240v industrial applications

[sly elk]

such a stupid outlet

i'm not even afraid to say it

[deep sapphire]

the prongs always got bent I hated using them

[sly elk]

what makes me laugh about those 220v outlets is how in the US messing with a 220v plug is a HUGE deal

like omg i'm unplugging my dryer imma die

europe they're just like lalala plugging in my shaver over the sink hehehe

and they have those cute little 2 prong plugs

where the prongs are just round

[deep sapphire]

the electrical system here is weird in general, they supply 240v to your house but then gets reduced to 120 in most cases

[potent arrow]

The worst part is that these delicate fucks are alaways found in the most rough environments

[deep sapphire]

yuuuup

[dull garnet]

bow down peasants

[sly elk]

I mean, i get that the delicate 2 prong plug that comes with an iphone is for an outlet that doesn't provide the same current as a 220v dryer outlet does

probably like 5a?

but still

[deep sapphire]

true

[sly elk]

the UK outlets are the best lmao

[deep sapphire]

had germany not destroyed half the country in WWII probably be using some donkey tail shit

[sly elk]

the reg that the plug must have a fuse and the outlet must have a switch

[lost python]

i love that i deleted my old unused microsoft account but 3 months later i am still getting emails for the login-verification because at some point that email apparently leaked

[potent arrow]

[lost python]

gonna slap microsoft with that gdpr

[dull garnet]

yeah i play games on 720p low too

[dull garnet]

its meaningless

[umbral moss]

based L250 connectors 😌

[deep sapphire]

nothing based about them

they suck

[umbral moss]

they lock and they handle high current

way better than horseshit flat spades

[sly elk]

it's like a rule that whenever you move houses, your dryer has the wrong plug lol

every time I've moved.. either my dryer has a 3 prong and the house has a 4, or the other way around lmao

and then there's the crazy houses where they don't use a plug at all.. never lived in one of those

[neon shell]

I always hated these

Sooo bulky

[sly elk]

they're as british as fish and chips, and the mini cooper

and those 2 floor buses

plus they had the neatest power brick

and also the worst XD

the EU one is cool, too

https://tenor.com/view/evil-baka-to-test-to-shoukanjuu-electric-shock-glowing-eyes-taser-gif-16870118

[odd sand]

Given how worthless Tier1 support is due to only reading off a script based on maybe hearing a keyword, I doubt it can do any worse

[sly elk]

I mean, tier 1 support is quickly getting replaced by AI support

ya know it would be really funny if some company like Dell or Apple or MS went gung-ho, used that AI shit for their phone support, and set it up to blame the customer and/or divert away from customer support at all costs...... and ended up getting sued over it

[neon shell]

Real?

Never heard of this

[sly elk]

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/acer-chromebook-516-ge-cloud-gaming-laptop-16-2560x1600-120hz-intel-core-i5-1240p-8gb-ram-256gb-ssd-rgb-kb-titanium-gray/6516347.p?skuId=6516347

seems to just be a chromebook with RGB and a 120hz screen

[neon shell]

Yeah I didn’t believe Reddit

[sly elk]

Idk if id use those

Hard to say

[buoyant falcon]

I tried to make a post in the Google community forums, but every time I bring up the page to make a post it crashes my browser. Talk about irony. <_<

[sly elk]

hopefully a cpu that doesn't want to melt your computer

yea, $160 USD is too damn much for 3 fans

Apple is rumored to be introducing a new Apple Pencil as soon as tomorrow
I wonder if they're going to sell the apple pencil 1, 2, and 3 at the same time

[potent arrow]

1 is so dead

[sly walrus]

batteries ran out a year ago

[sly elk]

yea i imagine 1 and 2 are going to be replaced by 3

(or a cheap and expensive version of 3)

[sly walrus]

i wonder if it’ll work with my ipad

[sly elk]

apple pencil pro?

[royal forge]

What happenin with the apple vr or ar glasses

[sly walrus]

we’ll find out at next year’s wwdc

my guess is they can’t find many use cases for consumers

[royal forge]

Not surprised

Wasnt one of the problems that they had to make custom lenses for everyone

Or stock interchangable ones

[paper tusk]

hmm
(guess intel gen 14 13 refresh embargo hasn't lifted yet even though the usual places are flooded with the same copy pasta bullshit press materials)

[sly elk]

ready to pay $700 for a maximus Z890 Hero?

or $800 for the Asus Maximus Z890 white edition

[lost python]

for 199$ instead of 149$ this time

[sly elk]

to be fair, it's not like wacom was a saint with pricing

[lost python]

fuck wacom

but they are still almost half the price of apple unless you want one for 3d stuff

but thats like 40€ extra for a single button more. bullshit

also love it when windows decides to lock itself because apparently me typing is not an indicator for the pc being in use

[sly elk]

?

[paper tusk]

[lost python]

we were talking about pens?

[sly elk]

I was just generally thinking that apple's overpriced ipad pen & pro models still are cheap compared to wacom equivalents lol

i think wacom used to be worse, but idk

[lost python]

nah the opposite. they used to be better

but being "industry standard" does things to your ego and pricing

[sly elk]

heheheh I wonder if oracle would ever buy wacom

[tranquil breach]

We shittin' on Wacom?

I'm always here for it

[lost python]

expensive bastards

[tranquil breach]

Like their stuff is good, but it's not good for the price

If money is no object then do whatever, but for broke artists, of which there are a LOT

Wacom kinda priced itself right the fuck out of the affordability range of most

[lost python]

well

they do have small, affordable tablets which do the job

but why pay 1000$ for a display tablet when you can also spend 400 on a competitor who is still fine