technology-discussion

[cerulean talon]

It's all servers all day.

[sly elk]

I wanna see how far nvidia can push the xx90 series

but so far

[hazy frost]

Which now they’re losing money on to AMD

[sly elk]

I still see "I worked extra shifts at mcdonalds to buy my 4090" posts on reddit

[dire viper]

I wish they stopped smudging numbers on shareholders reports

we know they just be lying about how many consumer cards they sell

[cerulean talon]

Yeah, now that AMD finally started to step up their auctual code-dev side to compete with CUDA.

Took em long enough.

[hazy frost]

I mean they can’t actually use their own favourite power connector if the 5090 is more powerful so like

[hazy frost]

It took a while but now it’s as good or better on server hardware

[cerulean talon]

We'll see though, AMD's big benefit is if they work with HBM, their xilinx acq gave them a bunch of background on it.

[hazy frost]

Implementation for consumer grade stuff is still kinda bad

[dire viper]

how many fucking OS's does IBM have

[deep sapphire]

OS/2

[dire viper]

got Z, got IBM Power

z/OS, i

[cerulean talon]

I haven't toyed with any of the big server GPU's in a minute, I stick mostly to CPU based compute, wave-based on GPU's hurts my brain most of the time.

[hazy frost]

I’ve just seen a lot of companies buying up the current AMD ones despite having the Nvidia servers for AI

[dire viper]

AIX

[hazy frost]

Based on the fact rocm/HIP is actually usable on consumer cards as well

I’m assuming it actually works now as well

Lmao

[sly elk]

As someone who uses xilinx stuff all the time, I laugh at the idea that AMD bought xilinx just fr the HBM ram

[cerulean talon]

There's alot of interesting chatter about some new interconnects too for AMD, Nvidia getting Mellanox years ago kicked them into high gear for infiniband/etc, AMD's finally getting xilinx where it needs to be, so we'll be in for some interesting time.

[sly elk]

when it comes to FPGAs

there's Xilinx

.... and that's pretty much it

[hazy frost]

Competition is never bad anyway

[sly elk]

there's also that bullshit Altera stuff Intel bought a few years back

[cerulean talon]

Certianly not /just/ for the HBM, but they got a bunch of experience with it in the acq.

[hazy frost]

It’s been Nvidia on top and no one else for too long

They’re just doing nothing now

[dire viper]

what is efficiency

[hazy frost]

The fact AMD managed to play catch up and beat them as well shows how little they do tbh

[sly elk]

it's not like amd didn't make the 7900xtx

but

they utterly failed hard at marketing and pricing and

[hazy frost]

Was talking about server hardware

[sly elk]

actually I think AMD is just GM selling holdens in the US

[hazy frost]

Consumer yeah the 7900xtx was fine

[sly elk]

server hardware is a hard sell

[hazy frost]

Besides the reference cards

At the start

[sly elk]

a really really hard sell

[hazy frost]

It’s a lot of money

[sly elk]

Not being an expert at buying server hardware

[hazy frost]

And companies are already choosing AMD over Nvidia and placing orders

[sly elk]

afaik there's 2 kinda server hardware crowds: 1. We automatically buy everything we need from Dell/HPE, 2. We're willing to explorer other OOOOH CHECK THIS SEXY ARM SHIT OUT

[hazy frost]

Which hopefully makes them do something for once

[dire viper]

when NVIDIA just keeps turning people away and you dont have options of course you'll make do with what else is on the market

[sly elk]

#1 is like "How many xeon cores and how many quadros do you need"

[hazy frost]

The 7900xtx is fine tbh but if I’m spending $1000 On a gpu I’d rather have the 4080s now

[sly elk]

it's like those toyota commercials with the family and they're like "we're expecting a kid! guess it's time to buy a new toyota1"

like they insinuate there's people who don't even bother considering another brand. just toyota. all day every day.

[deep sapphire]

yeah because toyotas last

[hazy frost]

Yeah but companies tht already have Nvidia servers are buying the new AMD ones

[deep sapphire]

just like nvidia

AMD is like dodge

[sly elk]

do they?

[dire viper]

if you do the maintenance yea

[sly elk]

I've seen enough toyotas making weird noises and stopped on the side of the road with smoke coming out

[hazy frost]

As do most cars tbf

[deep sapphire]

toyota on average has a much better track record than just about any other automaker

[sly elk]

maybe it's because i live in california where damn near everyone drives a toyota

[deep sapphire]

and I say that as a chevy fanboy

[sly elk]

that reminds me

[deep sapphire]

if you didnt care about cars you should buy a toyota

[sly elk]

I have been noticing lately

[dire viper]

Porsche has a better track record

#1 in the world in fact on the track

[hazy frost]

Just take care of whatever car u own and it’ll probably last long enough given it’s not a shitbox

[sly elk]

you know how some cars have a weird rep for like, they were EVERYWHERE during a period of time and they just don't exist anymore?

like pontiac grand ams and dodge intrepids

and ford tempos

[dire viper]

its cause they got scrapped

probably the scrap for new cars program

[deep sapphire]

dodge intrepids were terrible cars

[hazy frost]

American cars are all terrible

[sly elk]

yea let's add 8th gen honda civic to that list

I realized lately

[deep sapphire]

hows the british car industry doing

oh wait

[sly elk]

I saw one yesterday and it's the first time I've seen an 8th gen civic in a while

[dire viper]

for the most part

[sly elk]

like these

[deep sapphire]

my dad drives one of those rofl

[dire viper]

its a combination of now having to have an identity and then also lots of poor decisions from management

[hazy frost]

We got the other one in the UK

[deep sapphire]

thing is falling apart though

[dire viper]

well UK has Rolls-Royce and GMA

so

[dire viper]

GMA being the namesake of the guy who designed the best road car ever produced

[sly elk]

yea the reason I mentiion that

[hazy frost]

Yes

I’m aware

[sly elk]

I haven't seen many 9th gens either

[hazy frost]

The UK has their own good cars

[sly elk]

i saw a 9th gen last night and was like wow i haven't seen one of those in a minute

the really lame refresh of the 8th, no?

[hazy frost]

Lotus making not shit cars again tbh

[sly elk]

anyway

[dire viper]

no they are

[sly elk]

i think it's because they barely sold any, that was when the cr-v got super popular

[dire viper]

they got bought out by a chinese company

and are now going pure EV

and the reviews are really bad for the SUV

[sly elk]

yea didn't uh MG or whatever also get bought by a chinese company

lol the UK is showing us how it's done

[dire viper]

it would be fine if they stayed with sports cars

[sly elk]

we're like

[hazy frost]

They set some good lap times with the hyper car atl

[dire viper]

but now they want sedans and SUV's

[hazy frost]

The emira was cool too

[dire viper]

yea but thats different

[hazy frost]

The SUV is

[sly elk]

maybe a few years away from the US car brands all getting bought by chinese companies at this rate lool

[hazy frost]

Something

[sly elk]

like

[dire viper]

thats a bespoke limited production super high performance sports car

[hazy frost]

Volvo isn’t doing too badly tbf

[sly elk]

i wonder if there's a horse betting place taking bids on when stellantis becomes chinese

[hazy frost]

They got bought out

[dire viper]

the GMA T.50 is peak

[sly elk]

I don't like mclaren anymore

[hazy frost]

I mean I’d rather have the F1 but it’s cool

[sly elk]

not after last weekend 😛

[dire viper]

oh this is a 1/8th model

I just want the V12 out of the GMA T.50 to put in something

[hazy frost]

I don’t like the t50 that much

[dire viper]

12,100RPM V12

[hazy frost]

Yeah

But like if I had that much money and could buy one car it probably wouldn’t be that

[dire viper]

2200 lbs dry weight which is insane

as a sporting car, it is the best

[hazy frost]

£2.8m

[dire viper]

look at how much the F1 costs now

10-20

and GMA intends to keep making cars

[hazy frost]

Could buy like 9 GT3RS

[dire viper]

the T.50 now, the T.50s Niki Lauda track car, the T.30 with a removable roof

[hazy frost]

Yeah but it’s also way cooler than the t50

The t50 is just like the one people can actually get their hands on

[dire viper]

plus the price of cars like the GMA are only super high to start

2.8 million per unit is accounting for the cost of them building two entire factories for the car

plus all the parts etc

which knowing Gordon Murray, there are parts on the car from brands like Volvo or Honda

the F1 has 300Z headlights

[hazy frost]

Yes

But it’s still a lot of money

[dire viper]

its why the Prodrive Impreza costs 550k starting

they were going to build more units but not enough interest

if they did the projected number they wanted to do they would have started at 250k

100 GMA T.50's, then the Niki Lauda goes into production, then the T.30 which the T.30 is going to be more stripped down iirc

T.50 and T.50s are literally just getting the debt out of the way

tbf.

it is expensive yes

but not as expensive as a Pagani

for less

[hazy frost]

The new pagani costs less

[dire viper]

I wish pagani's werent so insanely outdated in even the late builds and new builds

[hazy frost]

Utopia is like £2.2

T50 is 600k more

[dire viper]

the newest Huayra was 3.4

base

which there is no such thing as a base Pagani

[hazy frost]

Utopia is 2.5m usd

Current car

[dire viper]

yea but you arent getting a bespoke engine

[hazy frost]

Yeah but that’s not the point

[dire viper]

you're getting a Mercedes

[hazy frost]

It doesn’t matter where the parts came from the end product is all that matters

[dire viper]

yes but the Utopia is not compelling

[hazy frost]

U could buy a pagani and a daily instead of a t50

[dire viper]

Pagani's are uh

lacking

from what ive seen personally

fit and finish could be better

plus most of the systems they used, even on the newest Huayra, were out dated

single clutch torque converter? really?

might as well have thrown a ZF 8HP in

[dire viper]

or just daily the T.50 or F1 cause thats what the car was designed for

iirc the T.50 has even more storage than the F1 did

enough for two mid sized suitcases

im really particular with cars cause I worked on and restored Porsches

and did brakes for billions of other things cause thats what the company I worked for specialized in

a pagani doesnt make sense cause you cant drive it, which is why Pagani can sell cars, people treat them as an investment rather than a vehicle

unfortunately price dictates how ppl treat cars which is the main reason why I like the Porsche community cause people will daily drive their million dollar 2.7 RS Lightweight despite most of the car not being replaceable

why buy a T.50 or a Pagani when you could just buy a 918 Spyder and take it to any local Porsche dealer and they have a tech that is trained to work on it, you dont even have to pay 50-100k per week a technician has to fly out from wherever the hell to work on the car

@sly elk @deep sapphire oh yea have you seen this goober

Porsche Panamericana concept

baja 911

[deep sapphire]

thats the ugliest car Ive ever seen

[dire viper]

it has porsche shields in the tires and the top is neoprene with a zip top

[dire viper]

that is exactly the same thing Ferry Porsche said when they presented it to him for his birthday lmao

it runs and drives and everything too lmao

it is a complete car

iirc it even has a vin

they were even thninking of simplifying it and selling an offroad 911 which would have been funny in the 90's

turns out two decades later selling a factory off road 911 was the right thing to do

[hazy frost]

It’s still not a good daily lmao

Giving a car more storage doesn’t make it good for daily driving

[dire viper]

it has ample ride height, adjustable dampers, adjustable torque curve and quite a few other things specifically put in to keep it civilized when touring Europe

[hazy frost]

A good GT car still isn’t just a good daily tho

It also doesn’t have enough storage despite it being more than the F1

[dire viper]

the only good daily car is a Rolls Royce

[hazy frost]

Literally anything that isn’t a hyper car giving u some of the luxuries of a daily driver is good

[dire viper]

yea but you can comfortably live with a GMA every day, thats the point

[hazy frost]

It’s pretending to be a potential daily driver tbh

[hazy frost]

Ok gl with that lmao

[dire viper]

I had customers who daily drove 918 Spyders

here in Utah

which has the worst roads in the country

[hazy frost]

918 was probably more comfortable tbh

[dire viper]

er

they're ok

[hazy frost]

I wouldn’t drive either

Daily

[dire viper]

a normal 911 is way better

[hazy frost]

Yes

[dire viper]

but also a normal 911 isnt a 918

so I would prefer to daily the 918

or even a Carrera 2.7 RS

torsion bar suspension is comfortable enough when cruising

[hazy frost]

New 911 turbo S is ideal daily

Tbh

[dire viper]

and the factory front end bilsteins are ample

[hazy frost]

But the new turbo S is still stupid money

[dire viper]

the 992 Turbo S is cheaper than a base Turbo used

[hazy frost]

It’s fast tho and it would definitely be comfortable

[dire viper]

cause for every Turbo there are three Turbo S'

the market generally is crashing if you know where to look

and has been for the last 8 months

GT4's are actually reasonably priced

[hazy frost]

When they’re available used they’ll still be expensive anyway

[dire viper]

I wouldnt ever daily one of those, even in comfort those are way to harsh to drive around

same with the GT3

ive driven them enough on road to know its a bad idea

and hell even a Turbo probably is too

[hazy frost]

0-60 in 2s

[dire viper]

its fast, too fast

[hazy frost]

For the new turbo S

[dire viper]

sweet spot ive found is at most 400hp

[hazy frost]

Turbo S is 450 ish

[dire viper]

400hp is a lot in modern cars

[hazy frost]

I think

Current one

[dire viper]

Turbo S is 650

GT3 RS is 540

[hazy frost]

650 is reasonable

[dire viper]

nvm GT3 RS is 520

[hazy frost]

Just don’t use all of it

[hazy frost]

Track car not daily tho tbh

[dire viper]

yea but the Turbo S is in torque super low down cause its a Porsche lmao

from what ive heard they are fun but not great all the time

its why so many people are speccing out Carrera S's to like 150k when they have a base price of 100

[hazy frost]

Yeah but u don’t need to go fast all the time and when ur not it’s still a comfortable car with all the luxuries you would want for daily driving

[dire viper]

oh nvm the Carrera S went up

132

[hazy frost]

The carrera S is cool too

Considering how much cheaper

[dire viper]

I know somebody who has the most expensive 911 Carrera ever optioned

[hazy frost]

Lmao

[dire viper]

its like a 400k Carrera

cause its a special wishes cars

custom paint job, custom interior etc etc etc

factory options were to 200k

so every box ticked

and then another 200k from sonderwunsch

[hazy frost]

That’s crazy

Idk why you’d even do that

[dire viper]

cause you can

[hazy frost]

I know a lot of people spec it high but like

[dire viper]

very few GT2's were sold under 550k btw

[hazy frost]

400k

[dire viper]

almost every single GT2 got touched by Sonderwunsch

there are a few that had a sticker price of 700k when they were delivered to the customer

[hazy frost]

It’s just a carrera S tho

[dire viper]

no thats a carrera

not an S

[hazy frost]

😭

Bro

That’s just dumb

[dire viper]

why would you not order something like that that is completely custom when you already have a 918/Carrera GT etc

you are already on Porsches list of VIP's so they will do what you want, in fact that was probably cheaper cause of it

[hazy frost]

I’d just buy the current turbo S before I spec a carrera like that

I dont think I’d ever care about that kind of thing tho

Even if I had the money

I’d rather just spend the money making something unique more personally

[dire viper]

I wish I could find it but there is a Cayman that was optioned and it is considered the ugliest porsche ever and it sold at auction for 450~550k iirc

[hazy frost]

Lol

[dire viper]

it was also another Sonderwunsch car

so a 987 Cayman S with like 200k dumped on it over the already fully optioned price

the dealer salesman even tried to tell the guy off

[hazy frost]

That’s insane

[dire viper]

guy said "I dont care" and bought the car new like that

its the watermelon spec car, watermelon green for the exterior and red on the inside

ah ha I found it

[hazy frost]

Ir sure is something

I think I’d rather own just unique cars that I don’t see very often than spend so much doing that

[dire viper]

factory carbon ceramic brakes

[hazy frost]

Like an e92 m3 GTS

Or something

[dire viper]

which is so insanely rare on a 987 Cayman

Original owner: “I got into Porsches a long time ago, in 1978. I had a Z28 Camaro at the time, and my business partner bought a 911 SC when it first came out. I laughed and laughed at him, because why would he spend $21,000 on a car with only 180 horsepower? To make a very long story short, he finally talked me into swapping the cars for a weekend. Right after that I was a believer. I bought my first 911 in ’83.”

the original owner is also a Porsche VIP

[hazy frost]

He should be taken off the list for that one

[dire viper]

so hes the kind of guy that gets the very first call when a car like the Dakar or 918 comes out

[hazy frost]

I hate the VIP lists thing

[dire viper]

the painted interior thing is cringe but honestly

Lind Green as an exterior color goes hard

[hazy frost]

I don’t hate the exterior colour

[dire viper]

its becoming more common cause Porsche added it to their paint list after it being gone for 35 years

[hazy frost]

The watermelon is just bad

[dire viper]

the only people on the VIP list are original buyers of the Carrera GT or 918 Spyder

so buying a used one doesnt get you on the list

[hazy frost]

I still think the concept of those lists is dumb

[dire viper]

so ppl who were already buying Porsches

otherwise, the list doesnt do a lot other than, "hey we have X amount of new cars set aside, do you want to buy one?"

oh also you get MSRP on all Porsches you buy, thats the big one

no dealer fees or anything

but if you are buying and reselling they axe you off the list

[hazy frost]

It’s just a stupid concept

Just let people buy cars lmao

[dire viper]

I mean you still can

its not like Koenigsegg

they have a limited amount of VIP only cars

[hazy frost]

Yeah but ur gonna pay markups or potentially not be able to get one

[dire viper]

well yea

[hazy frost]

Anyone should be able to buy the cars they produce tbh

[dire viper]

even without a VIP list that doesnt change

whats worse is

Pagani, Koenigsegg, De Tomaso etc

[hazy frost]

Porsche is like the least terrible about it

But it’s still bad

[dire viper]

well also Porsche has a new thing

[hazy frost]

I really hate koenigsegg tbh

[dire viper]

when the Dakar came out you actually were leasing it for 6 months

if you tried to sell it they would take the car back

they did that to a few people

locally here in Utah ive seen about 15 different Dakar's

and a few have been seen out in the sand dunes

like Porsche intended

[hazy frost]

I don’t see many people owning those in England

Clearly

[dire viper]

yea that figures

[hazy frost]

Lmao

[dire viper]

I know a lot of them were sold in France

[hazy frost]

Most common thing I see is mclarens if anything now

Idk why

[dire viper]

the first two delivered were to some french rally drivers

who promptly drove the tires off of them

[dire viper]

cheap

[hazy frost]

650s and 720s is everywhere

[dire viper]

also the same reason Lamborghini stands out

loud and obnoxious

young buyers with parents money

[hazy frost]

I mean 200k isn’t cheap

[dire viper]

or older buyers who are weird

[hazy frost]

For the 720

[hazy frost]

I don’t think that’s what mclaren is tbf

[dire viper]

well its buy a 720 and only wait a few months or order a Porsche and wait 2 years

[hazy frost]

They’re not close to as in ur face obnoxious as a Lamborghini would be

Those people own Ferraris here tbh

Which is worse

[dire viper]

its all three brands

most Ferrari owners in europe sound cringe

here its usually just old guys

[hazy frost]

Idk mclaren rly isn’t one of those brands to me

[dire viper]

anybody who owns a Vintage Ferrari also probably owns a vintage 911 here

the reason I say that McLaren is is cause of the funny accident statistic

[hazy frost]

Most mclarens are bought in understated colours and aren’t particularly loud or obnoxious

Here

[dire viper]

out of the super car brands, McLaren and Lamborghini are battling it out to see who can have the highest insurance rates and the most crashes

[hazy frost]

It’s closer to the kind of people that own Porsche I think

Than Ferrari or Lamborghini anyway

Do the new mclarens still just rust tho

[dire viper]

they fall apart before that

[hazy frost]

I went to their hq in the UK before it was open to the public a few years ago and it’s actually pretty cool

[dire viper]

idk why their build quality is so bad

[hazy frost]

I assume they don’t show off as much stuff now it’s fully open to the public tho

As like a tour thing

[dire viper]

I would buy a Shelby Super Snake instead of a McLaren, walk that british thing in a pure blood american muscle car

[hazy frost]

One of few times I’ve seen an F1 GTR anyway

I’ve only seen them there and at goodwood fos

Lol

[dire viper]

super snake cant hook up tho like 900 ft lbs of torque

too much torque for Pilot Cup 2R's

[hazy frost]

Lmao

[hazy frost]

New Aston Martins are actually kinda hot

Feels less like the old man car

[dire viper]

yes

thats the other brand I would buy

Porsche or an Aston

I want a V550 Vantage

[hazy frost]

No one seems to like the new vantage styling lol

[dire viper]

well the 90's vantage is kinda ugly

but its a brutish kind of ugly

fits the power it has

[hazy frost]

I mean the current one

I like all of them tbh

[dire viper]

they look fine

they arent crazy looking

also astons are surprisingly small

[hazy frost]

TVR is pretty cool but like in no world is it practical to own one

[dire viper]

TVR

if only it wasnt mismanaged

[hazy frost]

They’re cool but I can’t imagine having one lmao

[dire viper]

the Tuscan is cool

[hazy frost]

Good thing

[dire viper]

ive heard those are fine to daily

or like

drive regularly

Tuscan is uh

not the best looking lmao

[dire viper]

agreed

[hazy frost]

Chaemera and t350 are cool

They’re less ugly than the tuscan

[hazy frost]

Idk I don’t trust British engineering tbh

[dire viper]

I trust british engineering

when its not built in a shed

[hazy frost]

Not with cars

[dire viper]

that kept catching on fire

like TVR

[hazy frost]

Lmao

Yeah well

It is what it is

[dire viper]

some british idiots in a shed built the AWP

and lied about having a company

lmao

[hazy frost]

Everything decent in britland is built in a shed and promptly goes to shit

[dire viper]

Accuracy International is still around at least

[hazy frost]

We don’t get to have nice things here

There’s a reason nothing is actually made here now tbh

[dire viper]

whats the other limited aston martin they are building rn

they have the Valkyrie and then the other one

[hazy frost]

Except random shit like turbines

We make those

[dire viper]

the other one is awesome

[dire viper]

Rolls-Royce moment

they make the best aircraft turbines in the world period

[umbral moss]

20 years of dipshits insisting the awp uses 338 lapua

no it doesn't

[dire viper]

shit American F-4 vs chad British F-4 with Rolls-Royce powerplants

[hazy frost]

It’s cool

[dire viper]

British F-4 was substantially better than the American one cause the RR Powerplants had way better thrust off afterburner and also simply used less fuel

so it had better flying dynamics

[umbral moss]

They sure do, their warranty is literally that they pay you if the turbine goes down

[dire viper]

bold bastards

[hazy frost]

My physics teacher in school was an engineer there lmao

[dire viper]

real

[umbral moss]

Witness the power of a six sigma designed product

[dire viper]

one of my friends is in marine engineering study and he got an offer to work at Rolls-Royce

hes in the UK

has to finish his course tho

[hazy frost]

Rolls Royce seem to actually give out opportunities tho unlike other companies

[umbral moss]

I'd buy a spectre

[hazy frost]

Like it’s actually possible to get in there

[dire viper]

oh the Aston Martin Valour thats what the car was

I think thats EU only

cause EU has less stringent homologation standards than US

its just more money, which is way easier than crash testing 10 limited production cars

https://youtu.be/-UipcZ1z_g8?si=B-ZG9DiTeb3l9qrl this car is so sexy

color shift paint just makes cars like this look so good

the R34 GT-R also had a similar color shift from factory

110k sterling paint job

about what porsche charges for color shift

[hazy frost]

Fun

Brake discs on most of these cars cost more than what I drive is worth

[outer sand]

should I be worried my cheap BT dongle to overheat if I leave it on my PC?

[modest moss]

no

[outer sand]

thanks

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY

[deep sapphire]

@dire viper

https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1cp0321/customer_states_collision_warning_light_was_not/

[dire viper]

Have they tried checking the gas gap

[deep sapphire]

we need to make vehicles scary again

people treat them too comfortably

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/aimoto-rinku-d4dj-first-mix-anime-eating-popcorn-gif-19850531

also that skeleton shirt looks hella cool

didn't realize it had printing on the back lol

did asus contract out ford to build that shit

[deep sapphire]

Yes

[sly elk]

lmao

jfc their turnaround time is atrocious

what do they do ship this shit back to thailand

[lost python]

oh god

[sly elk]

I can't be the only one who thinks this would work better if they hadn't put that awkward screen in the center console

without that it's kinda like a modern take on the mk8

[paper tusk]

it looks like a designer said we must put something there or our budget gets cut

disclaimer: I'm a simp for geely geometry m6 design. simple but not stripped down like tesla's design

[wraith agate]

That gives me anxiety attack, that thing will look so dirty so soon

[sharp star]

can't wait for the threequel next year

[sly elk]

They should add a screen wiper lol

-hits button- -arm wipes across screen-

[dire viper]

Meanwhile Lamborghini Countach

Even the sills you step over are wrapped in leather

It’s a certified shoes off kind of car

The one local guy I knew that has one had driving moccasins in his and he had a box for his regular shoes so he wouldn’t get the white everything dirty

[wraith agate]

Don't get me wrong, I think this is beautiful and love it, it's just not for literally dirty peasants like me

[dire viper]

Also I love looking at the really small Instagram accounts I follow of car collectors and this dude has a one of one spec Ferrari 550 Maranello and every time he posts about it, he also posts that he’s in the Taco Bell drive thru, ig you gotta make sacrifices to own these cars

Bros living one cheese quesadilla at a time smh

[dire viper]

Yea nah interiors like that I wouldn’t want

Give me something boring

[dire viper]

Idk if it’s true but apparently a lot of the very long time NVIDIA engineers are starting to dip and cash out their stocks cause of how high the value has risen

Like theyve been there 15 years and a very good retirement has turned into a retirement with a new house and a fleet of cars to go along with it

[inland mauve]

who is buying the stock now that it's so overvalued?

like it can pretty much only go down from here

why do I bother to ask

I know that people will buy high and sell low

[dire viper]

No clue but one main source is mutuals

[cerulean talon]

Just wait for wallstreetbets.

[dire viper]

Also apparently some senior engineers have like 20 million plus in holding value that’s so insane

I would retire and dump like 15 million in a trust fund

[cerulean talon]

Senior engineers tend to love what they do.

Retirement is a very boring prospect for some of us.

[dire viper]

True but also that’s a lot of money

[inland mauve]

with that much money I would just commit to full time content creation

[dire viper]

Might as well dip, reinvest what you can get, then get another job for probably the same pay cause you are like… hardcore industry vet

[inland mauve]

like who even cares about viewership or sponsors or anything like that at that point, you can just do whatever you want

[cerulean talon]

I'd build my workshop, then pick up another job, because I'd be bored.

[dire viper]

Yuh

[cerulean talon]

Also, Nvidia's best engineers would have issues finding new jobs due to NDA's, and how specalized their work is.

[dire viper]

One of my grandparents friends is a retired hardware engineer, I think he worked for apple like forever ago, and he now works at a Lowe’s for fun lmfao

Think he was like a cabinet builder before working at whatever company he was at which is amusing

Lots of weird people in Utah but that’s the fun part ig

Sigma grindset old guy waiter at a bar here and he was a skunk works engineer and just has fun now working at a bar

[deep sapphire]

https://youtube.com/shorts/dpJh-JNGD-Q?si=TbY-01a2sKwvIEi1

[sly elk]

;-;

meanwhile me at my space company: 10 years and no fucking equity at all

would've been nice to land a job that had RSUs lol

oh well at least I like what i do

but maybe i'd like what I did at nvidia if i worked there

[sly elk]

something like a dodge charger with a lexus NA v8 under the hood?

get that infinite reliability while having an easy ass engine bay and little tech to deal with

[hollow hamlet]

the cat came back literally the next day with a bsod. Forgot to post this

ignore where it says HankHelp uwu

[sly elk]

lol

[paper tusk]

do you have intel ethernet chipset by the way?

[hollow hamlet]

this in device manager?

[paper tusk]

yeah

I have a gut feeling about that

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/15084/intel-ethernet-adapter-complete-driver-pack.html

try updating the driver

[hollow hamlet]

currently installed

[hollow hamlet]

Aaaand bsod again right now

At 12:55

Almost ready to throw this in the trash and get a prebuilt under warranty T_T

Del and F2 aren’t booting despite boot screen saying to do so. Hard rebooting with the power button again.

[real edge]

just bring the PC to a mom and pop repair shop that you trust

and have them repair it after you explain the issue to them

just make sure you backup the files inside your C drive

before you do

[hollow hamlet]

ok I updated the ethernet

I just want to know wtf is going on

[neon shell]

this looks pretty cool

I didn't make this btw, I just intalled it from a 3d printer community website

[hollow hamlet]

ok so I just installed the chipset drivers for my mobo I never installed

....mnaybe this will fix it >.>;

listen I just assume it just works™️ outt of the box

good to know windows update 0x80070643 still doesn't work, and expects me to resize my partition to make it work. xD

yeah I ain't that bold

but the good news is there's no more yellow exclamation marks in device manager I keep ignoring xD

[paper tusk]

if it's a january security update that's known to be buggy and can be ignored (later patches have the security fixes)

should have 2024-04 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5036893) if on 11

[hollow hamlet]

yeah it's the january one lol

[modest moss]

chipset drivers are super important lol

[deep sapphire]

usually microsoft offers your chipset drivers for you in windows update

granted its under optional updates

[modest moss]

yeah, but they had the ! in device manager so that could easily be giving bsod

[deep sapphire]

another job well done for <@&607647345936695316> s

[modest moss]

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-done-dusting-job-well-done-gif-8957562

[hollow hamlet]

BSOD again. no minidumps made, the folder doesn't even exist

maybe Fry's electronics sold me one final defective piece of hardware before they closed down lol

[hollow hamlet]

Well this is going to be a pita to diagnose what hardware is causing it

[paper tusk]

yeah 😐

it's not writing crash logs to disk, there's firmware-tpm issues, seems like either nuke and pave windows (probably done already) or there's a hardware fault on the mobo

this feels like a case of it would be really nice if there was a spare cpu to test on to rule that out

[sly walrus]

that requires a spare 300-500 dollars

[paper tusk]

just plop it in and stress test the system(doesn't have to be the same cpu, can be the cheapest thing the system accepts)

[hollow hamlet]

I would have one but I switched from intel to a Ryzen 9 5900

And after how difficult it was to connect I’m never going with and again. I love how easy intel is. You just drop and go

My liquid cooler for the cpu is on the tail end of the lifespan for the unit, and while my case does fit a noctua d15, I kinda don’t wanna flop around with the amd connectors again

[sly elk]

hmm

you mean those stupid ear clip things?

i was happy that the instructions for my aio were take those off and just use screws lol

stupid mounting brackets are why i'd never buy an arctic aio

[hollow hamlet]

Yeah mine had to use the ear clips lol

[sly elk]

ewww

oh that error

did you try swapping the PSU?

although looking at reddit the kernel-power things really could be anything lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/rzpu4k/event_41_kernelpower/

i'd still try switching the psu, cables and all. last time I had weird crashes like that, it was the culprit lol

[hollow hamlet]

It’s going to be a pita swapping out that huge mother of a box

[sly elk]

you could ghetto rig one

[hollow hamlet]

To this day I still don’t know why I went with a 1000w psu

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/jeremy-clarkson-power-gif-11143478

[hollow hamlet]

I think all they had was like 12 1000s and like 1 650

And being the inpatient person I am, I grabbed the big one lol

[hazy frost]

Yeah I had this and the actual problem was 1 stick of ram

The error code tells u fuck all

It’s a pain

[hollow hamlet]

Well when I ran memtest nothing came back problematic

[celest violet]

Kernal can be so many things its toxic

[sharp star]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHQqKi9NcTs

[sly elk]

and yet it comes as no surprise lol

[wraith agate]

It seems I should break Asus' legs

[sly elk]

yea to me this kinda crap is some kinda validation of my feelings about them hahaha

[wraith agate]

It annoys me considering I have asus stuffs

[paper tusk]

big mood

I'm not buying asus again

"you have dust on graphics card warranty void"

[quiet gyro]

can i have a example of tech support scam

[modest moss]

you were correct earlier

[quiet gyro]

did you mean private chat

[modest moss]

you described one in #video-games-general earlier

[quiet gyro]

did you mean this

[modest moss]

right

[kindred brook]

lol

[sly elk]

that would be an improvement

[umbral moss]

Imagine having neighbors that understand programming and technology, not slinging absolute batshit conspiracy theories they saw on boomer media

[inland mauve]

well I got the Scarlett 4i4 in the hopes that it would let me fix my sound issues

instead every time Focusrite Control 2 tries to update the firmware, the device locks up

completely unresponsive

and without the control software, I can't configure the device to do the kind of audio routing that I got it for

the technical problems persist, but so do I

[lost python]

some new issue every time you try something

maybe your whole setup is just cursed and you should really pray to the machine spirit and rebuild

[inland mauve]

I just want to stream more Stellaris

I really hope this isn't because the box was so beaten up when it got here

I think the postal office dropped it

I will never use DHL again

[lost python]

dhl, hermes, dpd, gls, fedex, ups, all the same shit with a different name on it

honestly amazon are the only ones that dont drive over my packages and actually have them arrive in good condition

[umbral moss]

Amazon also ruthlessly terminates drivers who make any mistakes

Ups and FedEx are union so it's a huge bitch to fire bad drivers

[deep sapphire]

FedEx ground isn’t

FedEx ground are contractors

I don’t think FedEx air are union but they are paid well

[potent arrow]

Im just saying as someone who deals with tech daily, expecting tech to just work out of the box is a false dream

[umbral moss]

I wonder why FedEx has such careless drivers if they're not protected from summary execution

[wise jay]

ya something to remember is all the services use contractors to some degree. YMMV

[inland mauve]

the firmware update fails literally every time I try it, no matter what configuration I try

different USB ports

USB-C port

and every time the device locks up and I have to unplug and replug it to get it to work again

[umbral moss]

It's certainly something how brutally Amazon maintains discipline in their delivery pipeline

[potent arrow]

you have the latest drivers right?

[umbral moss]

Someone swapped the label on a package my girl got last week, when she called to complain about it they said they had an idea who was responsible and they would be dealt with

[potent arrow]

for the correct generation of interface too?

[inland mauve]

I installed the drivers for the 3rd gen at first, but I removed them and installed the 4th gen drivers

that's the only thing I can think of that might have caused issues

[wise jay]

ya the only time amazon cant do much is if they have to rely on contractors in an area and they cant be gotten rid of

[umbral moss]

I mean, Amazon has a disgusting amount of pull with last mile contractors and the threat of dropping someone is enough for the drivers to get booted

Losing Amazon as a customer can bankrupt you if you're serving a low density area

[potent arrow]

its usualyl that so idk uhhh

[dire viper]

I think my monitor is finally kicking the bucket

[inland mauve]

huh???

I don't understand

[dire viper]

Got a line on the bottom of my monitor for a minute or two on startup, changed cables plugs etc and monitors even and it’s the only one doing it

[inland mauve]

okay listen

[dire viper]

MSI quality aka non existent

[inland mauve]

I restarted the Scarlett 4i4 for the gorillionth time

then instead of clicking on the "Upate Now" button in Focusrite Control 2

I hit the three dots in the upper right corner

and selected the option to reset the device back to factory settings

after that the firmware update worked

[umbral moss]

It's really wild how every oem in the market is just trash but nobody is trying to upend the order of things

It's just like "eh, what can you do?"

[potent arrow]

I am beyond glad I got out of the pc building business lol

idk who I would even recomend now

like asus is shitting the bed

msi is msi and its satan

gigashart is mid at best and at least doesnt hate me so most likely them

[sharp star]

Gigabutt, yeah

[potent arrow]

assrock kinda exists but I have scars from them

[sharp star]

Gigabyte seems to be doing okay this gen lol

but yeah everyone sucks

[sly elk]

Hi I'm coil whine

[sharp star]

that's me with MSI

[potent arrow]

asus tuff whine

also with how much power we are pushing through these cards, im not suprised these dumbfuck companies fail to combat it lol

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/-e5qocpvXHw?si=90mH6bvLb7kK2s1d one day I will have a Spyder 😔

californian noise laws actually gimp the manuals in most sports cars

they do a weird test where you are in 3rd gear at 45mph and floor it to 60mph and the car cant exceed a certain noise rating

so most of the car builders just make 3rd really long, so all the gears have to be longer to compensate

or you are Aston Martin and they cheat and make their cars quieter in 3rd gear

[hollow hamlet]

piece of fucking...

Hank if I mail my pc to you, with a partially used Wendy's gift card, would you fix it

[kind rune]

whys ur pc always broken

[hollow hamlet]

I don't know Bido probably cursed it

[cerulean talon]

Them are some wide-scale errors.

[paper tusk]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-security/tpm/initialize-and-configure-ownership-of-the-tpm#clear-all-the-keys-from-the-tpm time for the nuclear fix

if bitlocker is enabled obviously decrypt the drives first

[hollow hamlet]

wtf is a bitlocker

[cerulean talon]

MS's drive security solution.

[hollow hamlet]

oh it sounded like a boredape thing

Probably nothing, but the BSOD only happens when firefox is open

and everytime it auto restarts, pressing DEL or F2 do not advance to UEFI bios setup. Even leaving it alone will not boot it. I have to press and hold the power button to shut it off, then turn it back on to advance past a BSOD reboot.

[paper tusk]

might be a keyboard issue if you have one with macro capabilities (the keyboard itself isn't starting up)

[hollow hamlet]

oh but outside of BSOD restarts del and f2 work just fine

[paper tusk]

:/

weird

[hollow hamlet]

after a BSOD reboot it just hangs up on the "press this or that to enter UEFI bios setup" and will not advance

even if I press nothing

it looks like the normal boot screen when I turn it on in the morning

[modest moss]

seriously just take it to a local tech guy

[sharp star]

yeah

anyway: does anyone here have experience using PTM7950? how does it perform compared to other pastes?

[deep sapphire]

I only use my 20 year old tube of IC Diamond

[umbral moss]

I mean, Tim is tim lmao

You can use goddamn mayonnaise and it works fine

[deep sapphire]

[hard drift]

Thermal pad gang is where it’s at

[sly elk]

ya know i'm using a 7800x3d on an msi x670e board. How has my computer not blown up yet.

everyone hates AMD and MSI soooo

like if I had gone with an ROG STRIX Z790 and a 14900k I'd have zero problems whatsoever, for sure.

welcome to ROG land

[sly elk]

lol https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1cqpp68/killprocessorsacrificechild/

i'll probably try gigabyte for my next motherboard though lol

no reason not to. though my msi one has been just great

[cerulean talon]

I mean, at least sacrificing the child means it won't be an orphan.

[pine thistle]

Wait until they hear that there's a OOM Daemon in their TV that's doing that

[sly elk]

There's demons in my TV?!?!!!!!!!!!

https://tenor.com/view/mairimashita-iruma-kun-laugh-evil-smile-clara-valac-giggle-gif-19639431

[cerulean talon]

Yeah, installed by the manfuacturer to feed you ads.

[modest moss]

at least Icehunter's TV scam company is open about how scammy they are

[inland mauve]

I forgot my DAC has two big jack outputs on the back to connect to speakers

so I connected those to the two big jack inputs on the back of the Scarlett

it works

yeah now I can direct anything I don't want to be recorded on stream to the DAC and everything I want to be recorded on stream to the Scarlett

and the audio separation is done at a hardware level

but both devices can be recorded individually to OBS

and I can listen to the mixed signal of both over my headphones

at long last

my quest is over

[hollow hamlet]

So I applied for a medical expense grant and got 1,500$ after showing my bills. Time to see what prebuilt I can buy with this

That’s a joke btw. But I’m tempted after all these bsods

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/apple-apple-mac-apple-mac-studio-apple-mac-studio2022-apple-mac-studio-m1-gif-25082412

^ get one of those

admittedly there's the whole finding one for <$1500 thing

[modest moss]

Seriously why haven't you taken it to a local tech guy

[umbral moss]

He needs an old priest and a young priest

[hollow hamlet]

I don’t know. I need to backup some stuff and my usb drive isn’t big enough. lol

But the bsod isn’t often enough to really get me motivated to fix it if it requires a weeks stay at a mom and pop shop

[modest moss]

Okay but it's the obvious move if you want it fixed

[hollow hamlet]

I know ;-;

I still don’t have one drive in from when I reformatted it last time. I left it out… oooh. I could use that one to back it up!

[modest moss]

It needs a guy with spare parts so he can pull it apart and test each bit

[sharp star]

M4 iPad Pro reviews are out

[deep sapphire]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/204707054226?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=NyW3aziORHW&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

IM DOING IT

[sly elk]

the bestest fastest most powerful ipad ever

-makes a video editing a hollywood film on an ipad-

actually fuck that

-puts the ipad on a gimbal and records hollywood film and then edits it on the ipad-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3dbG9pAi8I
who needs cameras and grandpa box computers anymore

[deep sapphire]

the specs are impressive but iPad OS seems so useless from a power user perspective

never owned an iPad though so cant really comment

[sly elk]

it's just a much worse MacOS lol

[umbral moss]

It's for pro users (who don't need to use any actual productivity software to do any actual work)

But you can play candy crush blazing fast

[sly elk]

idk i think they're great to draw on but i'm not sure what else lol

i want screen space and ltos of it and lots of random windows

[umbral moss]

No, you think you want that but apple knows you don't actually want that

[sly elk]

right right, 12" screen with 1 thing taking up the whole screen it is

[umbral moss]

You want a walled garden with a heavily restricted experience that isn't as useful as the desktop products it's intended to replace

[sly elk]

I was marvelling about that on hackernews yesterday in the comments of something

because someone was like

'apple invented the app store'

and someone else was like "nah you could get 3rd party apps on phones before the iphone"

and I was like DUDE YOU COULD JUST DOWNLOAD THEM FROM THE WEBSITE LIKE A PC

which is the damn truth

you can still do it on android phones if you allow it in te settings lmao

[umbral moss]

Windows ce had a wifi Hotspot app lmao

[sly elk]

what's pathetic is even stuff like firefox can't simply be downloaded as an apk ;_;

they make you use google play

like wtf lmao

[umbral moss]

Because they want to lock you into the Google api

[sly elk]

yea the amount of fuckery mobile customers put up with is ridiculous

and it's all

at first it's about "security"

but in reality it's about $$

i'm still dumbfounded that people argue on apple's behalf in those threads about apple dicking around in the EU with their surcharge fee

like whaaaat

if you made software for windows or macOS, the only thing you're paying for is the dev tools

apple/ms don't charge you for a per-install fee

of course I'm pissed off about that because I have to pay for that shit

apple deserves someone like spotify charging $2 extra a month for iphone users

[deep sapphire]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1cr5pzi/shout_out_to_gm_for_their_lovely_engineering/

damn I guess the 3.0 diesel isnt very good

I would never buy a modern diesel they are just so taxed with emissions shit thats gonna fail

[sly elk]

lol 😄

they are, because diesel engines are disgusting

like I get all the upsides of a diesel

but it's just barely better than burning leaded gas in a 1970s v8

[deep sapphire]

right, so any efficiency it gained is fruitless if you're constantly getting it serviced

[sly elk]

yea and it's funny

because all that emissions crap itself is .. not environmentally friendly either

[deep sapphire]

"wow it gets 25 MPG in a full size truck!" has a blown out rear main seal at 50,000 miles

[sly elk]

I remember thinking the diesel jeep was neat until I saw posts about forcing a regen

and oh my gosh

so you can be driving along and then it pops up a warning on the screen like

"regen in progress, keep driving for 15 miles"

and you're not supposed to turn the engine off for some period of time

what the fuck

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/exhaust-system-regeneration-in-progress-👍.130097/

[deep sapphire]

yeah plus the DEF filter clogs up easily if you arent always driving it

[sly elk]

like why even bother

[deep sapphire]

Ive heard of EGR and DEF failures because people idle abunch of trucks rofl

[sly elk]

iirc the diesel is a byproduct of producing gasoline?

[deep sapphire]

other way around

[sly elk]

ahhh ok

[deep sapphire]

gasoline is more refined

[sly elk]

can you produce gas without producing diesel?

the real frustrating part atm is the prospect of widespread change with how cars and trucks work as a sorta future-looking perspective

[deep sapphire]

not sure, I just remember some picture that showed the refining steps from crude oil to get to different fuels

[sly elk]

and how upset some people are over it

[sly elk]

I don't like the authoritarian "like it or not something has to change" way of saying it, but it kinda is

[sly elk]

aye

[cerulean talon]

In general, yes-ish?

[sly elk]

like if these people were around when indoor plumbing started becoming a thing

they'd probably be defending outhouses

outlawing indoor plumbing in their city

[deep sapphire]

diesel still has a ton of torque qualities so I dont see it going anywhere for semi trucks and heavy equipment for now

but for like 1 ton trucks and what not

rather buy a gasser

[cerulean talon]

Tbh, diesel's not awful if you strip all the sulfur from it (Which is a PITA in crude), and need that low end torque.

[deep sapphire]

do you really need "1100 lbs ft of torque"

[sly elk]

I think eventually those dumbasses will buy something akin to a cybertruck

(which is also bad news lol)

[umbral moss]

Defending shitting inside their homes

see, it's perfectly fine and safe

[sly elk]

people need to stop buying giant 7000lb WMDs to drive like a BMW M3 on the freeway

[umbral moss]

has cholera

[sly elk]

like i don't even think the cybertruck should be street legal

like we need to lay some ground rules about how fast a vehicle can accelerate vs size/weight lol

it's ok if a ferrari can take off like that

because the stupid thing weighs nearly nothing and breaks in half when the dumbass crashes it into a tree

[umbral moss]

To be fair, these insanely powerful electric motors aren't really possible in smaller platforms so the weight is kind of concomitant with the insane torque

[sly elk]

fair nuff

[umbral moss]

Putting the cyber truck motor into a miata chassis would get like 35 miles per charge lmao

[cerulean talon]

I mean, yeah, it's all about the batteries really

[sly elk]

but it still screams "they spent too much time thinking about if they could, and none thinking about if they should"

[cerulean talon]

You could 100% move away from lifepo4 and into lion pouch cells and jam /way/ more burst power into a small chassis, but you ain't going far.

[sly elk]

LOL

[umbral moss]

People wont consider evs without a hypothetical range of 500 miles even though they will literally never use it

[sly elk]

oh man i wanna see that

i so wanna see that

a chassis jammed full of lithium polymer pouches

[cerulean talon]

They're all over the place.

[umbral moss]

So the battery pack alone is like 12k kg of fucking aa batteries

[cerulean talon]

That's what most hybrid traction packs are made from.

They need it for the bursty-ness.

[sly elk]

aye including the samsung one jeep uses in the 4xes lol

so you can have a giant ass spicy pillow

[umbral moss]

The fucking Chevy bolt was all pouch topology lmao

[cerulean talon]

My subaru is 4500lb curb because of it's pack.

xD

[sly elk]

"why is the bottom of my car dragging along the ground?!"

https://tenor.com/view/batter-explosion-fire-flame-gif-7680155

[umbral moss]

Imagine if you just charged the stupid thing passively and it didn't need to haul a whole ass second vehicle worth of batteries around

[cerulean talon]

I mean, it's an EV.

So I don't really have a choice. 😄

[sly elk]

a pure EV that does like 100 mi range is probably amazing

if you don't drive more than like 50mi a day anyway

[umbral moss]

Yet

[sly elk]

just pop it on the charger when you get home and then it's always full when you leave

never have to worry about stopping at a gas station

[cerulean talon]

I'm slowly losing my range anxiety w/ my subaru.

It's taken a minute tho.

[sly elk]

i could easily replace my jeep with that kinda vehicle

it has never been driven more than 100mi in a day lmao

[cerulean talon]

My natrual distrust of battery packs doesn't help. 😄

[umbral moss]

This doesn't serve people who don't have a driveway or access to a charging station

[sly elk]

true for now

[cerulean talon]

Yeh, the solterra gets ~200mi with the AC on, I'm comfortable driving it 50-60 miles away from the house before it gets driven home again.

Only thing I wish so far is that the stupid center console wasn't so weirdly designed.

[umbral moss]

I need to actually do that damn research and become unlimited wealth

[cold yacht]

Electric sucks for me cause how my driveway is set up

[sly elk]

'lectric would be fine for me, but I don't have 220/240 in my garage in the front and the panel is in the backyard lol

there's a subpanel in the garage so depending on what they did it could theoretically be possible

but I wouldn't anyway, this house is a piece of junk and my renting days in it are very numbered

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/-0VcNPFq0O4?si=s2ELasnSdTXwBszu maybe one day I will have one 😔

[late basalt]

wonder how long before they start making wireless charging floor plates for EVs?

[sly elk]

those are already a thing but they don't really charge that much

there's a supercar or two that does it

https://carbuzz.com/news/the-mclaren-speedtail-can-now-be-charged-wirelessly/

[dire viper]

wtf

[sly elk]

but it only works there because the battery is teeny tiny

[dire viper]

thats cool

[sly elk]

it's basically a plug-in-hybrid

[dire viper]

the Speedtail has body panels that flex btw

its fucking wild

[sly elk]

yep

and the only reason for the electric here is to give you a faster torque boost

... -chuckle- kinda like why some people like 4xe wranglers

[sly elk]

the people who whine about 4xe wranglers are mostly idiots >> there are plenty of reasons not to buy one but it is faster and better on gas xD

[sly elk]

they should use this to make pop up headlights

[dire viper]

you could, its just carbon fiber

and despite popular belief, carbon fiber is actually stupidly cheap

[sly elk]

ya know, i'm ok with cf but I think it's lame how many sports cars used to have wood but no longer even offer it as an option BECAUSE SPORTS

[dire viper]

well

a lot of the old sports cars that had wood were touring cars

like Ferraris and what not

actual ferrari sports cars were built under the Lotus philosophy

it should fall apart by the end of the race

I do agree tho, wood is awesome

I just think its hard to design an interior to incorporate wood properly with modern design

like american cars still do it but it doesnt look that good

[dire viper]

lmao

vette drivers

[deep sapphire]

dude is lucky

[dire viper]

if it was a Mustang it would have somehow found the nearest group of people

[deep sapphire]

LOL

[dire viper]

man I want a Cayman or Boxster S so bad now 😩

the power delivery from those flat 6's is so unbelievably smooth

[deep sapphire]

smooth is boring

I want it to shake the engine mounts

[dire viper]

I mean most V8's have smooth power delivery

its just

A LOT

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/top-fuel-kifluggs-fire-engine-fail-gif-24765303

[dire viper]

the Viper V10 is smooth its just in a lightweight performance orientated chassis so it feels like a fucking freight train just punched you in the dick

the 2000's were really peak for like

every sports car I think

the 2nd gen Viper is still faster than 99% of the sports cars you can buy today

in all aspects

[deep sapphire]

the viper V10 is just a chrysler LA 360 with 2 extra cylinders

[dire viper]

gobbless

imagine a Plymouth Superbird with a Viper V10

that would go so hard

call that shit the Freedom and Liberty mobile

[deep sapphire]

you ever seen that dude in the UK that made a Viper bike rofl

I think I posted it before

[dire viper]

yea

ive seen one in person

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/I9KIxKP0Wlw?t=523

[dire viper]

YEA

those guys are nuts

ive seen a few LS7 motorcycles

[deep sapphire]

lmao I bet you can only ride it for 10-20 miles before the gas tank runs low

[dire viper]

ppl here are wild

[dire viper]

all you need for a top speed run

the british really love motorcycles

the rotary motorcycles are also built by a british engineer

also wtf

[sly elk]

v8s in road cars are nice

[dire viper]

I think the 2nd gen viper is faster than any mustang that had a ford badge

things like the GT500 have been comparable or faster but

not a factory built ford

💀

[deep sapphire]

I find it funny that ford fucked over early adopters not once but twice

[dire viper]

how can a company not make something better than a chicken farmer smh

Carroll Shelby was the goat

[deep sapphire]

when they came out with the 92-93 mustang the modular engine was so pathetic it made less power than the windsor it replaced

[dire viper]

yup

[deep sapphire]

and then when they launched the successor the coyote wasnt ready yet so you couldnt get it in the first year GT but you could the next

like wtf

[dire viper]

real

idk Mustangs just kinda seem wack

I wish Shelby's werent so goddamn expensive but they really are special

oh yea I was having brunch at some place and outside was just a bunch of mini coopers and in the middle of them was a Shelby GT500 SE

it was very funny

the only good ford is a ford not built by ford

[cold yacht]

I just like the way mustangs look and feel to drive

[dire viper]

oh wtf

I didnt know the SE was that rare