technology-discussion

[deep sapphire]

all the specialty tools they would have anyway

[dire viper]

I also dont wanna do it as a job cause it makes it less fun when im working on my own stuff

feels like im still working and not having fun

[deep sapphire]

@modest moss you guys call wrenches, spanners right

cause we have a special wrench called a spanner wrench

thats very confusing

[modest moss]

a wrench is different to a spanner, I think

[deep sapphire]

oh okay

[modest moss]

I'm just a tool casual though

[deep sapphire]

thats okay thanks anyway babe

[dire viper]

spanner is the slang

[modest moss]

but I think we call fixed width spanners and adjustable wrenches

wrench

[deep sapphire]

these are used on like locking collars for large equipment and some large industrial valves

[deep sapphire]

we call these pipe wrenches

ive heard the term monkey wrench too

[sly walrus]

that’s the shiner factory

[deep sapphire]

but then when I look up monkey wrench it looks different

[modest moss]

spanner

[deep sapphire]

why is this so confusing

oooh okay

[dire viper]

its all spanners down here

[deep sapphire]

we just call those double sided open end wrench which arent very common

[modest moss]

BUT

[dire viper]

even a open end and then a closed end is a spanner

[modest moss]

we call this an adjustable spanner

so idk

[deep sapphire]

I see

[dire viper]

line wrench? spanner.

[deep sapphire]

these are the most common wrench

called a combination wrench

[dire viper]

spanner is a german word anyways

[deep sapphire]

ive honestly never heard anyone call them spanners here unless it was the spanner wrench I showed above lmao

[modest moss]

we call that a combination spanner I think

[deep sapphire]

oh well there you go

[sly walrus]

i’m at the pizza hut

[deep sapphire]

get the stuffed crust

wait are you eating INSIDE of pizza hut

[dire viper]

for some reason the name spanner has stuck

[dire viper]

maybe cause of war

[deep sapphire]

this place was soul

with the red cups

[dire viper]

cause the OG spanners were used for the wheel lock on guns

[deep sapphire]

yeah, thats what a spanner wrench here is for

rofl

[dire viper]

yup

also cool gun that is mentioned under that

Sigismund III's of Poland's personal wheel lock rifle

[deep sapphire]

thats a fancy gun

I like it

[sly walrus]

naked snake would tell you the effort on that gun went in the wrong place

[dire viper]

that level of engraving would have taken months

[deep sapphire]

BOOOOOB

DO SOMETHING!

[sly walrus]

boob is busy

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/overwatch-game-ashe-been-a-while-gif-15518484

[inland mauve]

it's funny how things change yet stay the same, when you compare this to weapon skins in Counter-Strike

[dire viper]

crazy how this is by hand

[dire viper]

yes

[deep sapphire]

thats a mouthful

FROGLET WRENCH

[sly walrus]

🐸

[deep sapphire]

this is just the battle of inventors here

everyone calls them vise grips lol

[modest moss]

mole grips is common here

[deep sapphire]

I bought these ones called eagle grips and they got some big teeth on them

almost too strong they ruin the surface on whatever you use them on lol

[sly elk]

the project farm dude had a comparison with it against a few others, and there were a couple that were very similar to the snap on creeper

i think daytona made a similar one

[dire viper]

the issue is how low it rides

I have the daytona one

its ass

[sly elk]

aw 😦

[dire viper]

it fell apart after two weeks

[sly elk]

i don't get under my cars enough to need a creeper

so I use the DIY creeper. large piece of cardboard.

[deep sapphire]

yeah just go to harbor freight and buy some 3 inch casters

[cold yacht]

Ain’t those for like industrial sized bolts and stuff ?

[odd sand]

$300 for one of the rolling things you sit on your back to work on cars? Wut?

I got mine for like $30 or something...

[sly elk]

https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-alerts-more-customers-to-email-theft-in-expanding-midnight-blizzard-hack/

[odd sand]

Oh good.

Aren't we glad we decided to store everything in AWS and Azure now?

[sly elk]

Sounds like you've got some other kind of issue. This breach involves company tenants.
^ from reddit

yea what I really need to do is move my shit off onedrive

in an ideal world i'd switch to using local backups and periodically uploading an encrypted disk image backup somewhere

[golden stream]

ideal world tho

I'm planning setting up a small NAS soon enough, unsure should be raid or nawn

[inland mauve]

fucking Microsoft

how did this happen

[lost python]

shit happens when you lay off 50% of the security guys

[wraith agate]

this is why I don't use Onedrive

huh

props to my bank, I just got a notification in my bank app that they refunded all money that was stolen in the false charges made through Apple's security exploit

[hazy frost]

How much did that cost

That’s pretty good

I was thinking of getting car ceramic coated, I have the ceramic car shampoo atm but it’s not the same lol

Nice

Is 300 a normal rate or bc ur friends

I need to find someone to do it here

Expected to pay like £1000 probably

I’ll see if the body shop next to my old garage will give me a discount lol

Is that the new model S

Ah

Nice

That’s not that bad for what it is

How often do u have to change them on that

EV and heavy at that

I’m still putting off nice tyres until I get new wheels lmao

I’ve got the same ones I had since I bought it

How it felt replacing my springs recently

Crazy how the small stuff makes a big difference but people don’t do it

And cheap out on stuff like tyres

I know someone who tracks their car with like the cheapest tyres they can buy bc they think they’ll ruin them

[golden stream]

https://youtu.be/rV8v40MKFik

FRACTAL I WANT DAT

Tiny gud
Until u have a cat which I'll defo get one

[hazy frost]

Idk what’s good rn tbh

I have the pace tyres

Cheap as hell

They’re like £65

Sure is a tyre

[dire viper]

falken tires are good

usually grip is only as good as the car

you can have good tires on a shitbox and still not grip

usually I pick mid end tires

[hazy frost]

Yeah I’m gonna go from 14” to 16” wheels and buy some mid range ones this time

[flat wind]

anyone else getting random frame drops since the update?

[deep sapphire]

That’s so bad

A good tire should last 75,000 miles with no problem

https://youtu.be/YGT1EvmDJh4?si=YDZZZOyPIINrfopk

[deep sapphire]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tools/comments/1dswyom/how_safe_is_this_setup/

@potent arrow

is that a fuckin angle grinder on a long stick

im in tears

[potent arrow]

omfg

it is

could you imagine that kickback

also wouldnt the metal bristles get into your pizza

[deep sapphire]

and they wanna use it to clean a pizza oven

god damn I thought this was a shitpost at first

[potent arrow]

fuck

how the hell do you control that

@deep sapphire @dire viper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jxIfygLl64

[deep sapphire]

thats a lot of views for something uploaded after an hour

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/n1_N26EOCfs?t=219

we can fix what you tried to fix

😂

[lime wasp]

I got my new widescreen monitor today; its nice

But a little sad I can only get 80-100 FPS on Starfield and 120-180 FPS on Infinite as it's a 240HZ monitor

[hazy frost]

Ur not missing much between the 120 and 240 really

Unless u play more competitively u would never miss out

[sly elk]

when you say widescreen you mean like 1920x1080 widescreen?

or ultrawide

were you one of the last holdouts on a dell 19" square monitor

I love that they still sell that LOL

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-19-monitor-p1917s/apd/210-aiij/monitors-monitor-accessories

[jaunty nacelle]

what else would schools use?

[sly elk]

those, but they'd pay $499 a pop because they have the executive onsite 24/7 support warranty from a local vendor owned by the guy who slept with the school superintendent's daughter

[jaunty nacelle]

No actually they wouldn't

They'd be paying that for chromebooks

[sly elk]

lol when i was school a lot of computers were old junk donated by bank of america

[jaunty nacelle]

Google truly did something with the Chromebook (nothing)

[sly elk]

lol imagine if everyone was getting locked down dell laptops

[jaunty nacelle]

That's basically what chromebooks are

[odd sand]

I'm swapping out my parents 4:3 dell LCD from like 2004 next time I visit. Mainboard is getting finnicky on it, making it not want to wake from sleep and once you turn it on it takes like 15mins to "warm up" or something where the buttons on it don't work then lol

Friend just bought a new monitor, so he cycled his current one to his WFH desk, so I'm taking his old one to give to my parents then. 24" 1440p.

[pine thistle]

being able to turn it 90° seems quite pointless

[wraith agate]

It serves one purpose, troll your peers

[sly elk]

nice

[sly elk]

imagine doing it with a 1:1 monitor lol

https://www.eizo.com/products/flexscan/ev2730q/

the lg dualup was almost square but it's not quite square

[lime wasp]

I got a 21:9 3440x1440 monitor

[odd sand]

It's probably for some very specific purpose, like viewing Xrays or something where being able to turn it sideways is useful

[wide hill]

i hate youtube clickbait

i thought the topic would have first be about some kind of some weird ROM firmware on the mb that would "last forever".
but nah ofc you can just update it to remove the vulnerability

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/yyfYaF9Vabk?si=cJzsLn9DYZdllAGH they actually let Ford Performance design the dark horse so its actually good!

[deep sapphire]

Costs way too much though

[dire viper]

its only like what

54k?

compared to the BMW's its fighting its cheaper by 10k

for roughly the same performance

M240i etc

but the M240i xDrive is a beast of a car for its price as well

faster than every single previous BMW M model and its not even a full on M car, its what the M2 should have been but the M2 got fat with just the American philosophy of throwing more hp at the problem

oh actually nvm

the dark horse is 58k and the M240i is 49k with just RWD

I would pick the M240i over the dark horse any day

I would buy a M240i xDrive and just get the default flash tune that gives you an extra 60hp with zero modifications cause BMW left insane amounts of overhead with the engine tuning

[hazy frost]

Doesn’t the rs3 start at a similar price too

[dire viper]

60k like the dark horse

I wouldnt buy an Audi tho

new audis suck to drive

[hazy frost]

RS3 is pretty good

In terms of value

[dire viper]

they actually did the german stereotype thing and engineer all the fun out of the car

a car should never be perfect

thats what makes them forgettable ie the NSX

[hazy frost]

I mean I’d still take the new RS3 over either the m240i or dark horse

I think it looks better than both, and it’s probably one of the only cars Audi make that is fun

The real answer is buy a used car for the same price from 4 years ago

[dire viper]

well the issue with modern performance cars, except for the ones that are worth actual money, is that they are selling to people who just buy the car cause its expensive or for the badge

so everybody is at fault for zero steering feel, zero pedal feel etc

when you can buy a cheaper car from 15 years ago with the same performance that gives everything you'd want if you actually cared about how the car drove

if you only care about the badge and if it has heated/ventilated seats then the new car is for you

I hate to be a hard ass about it but from driving newer sporty cars (the RS3 is not a sports car, its on a commuter car chassis that is shared between two brands) they just all feel numb

funnily enough I havent drove a Giulia but the Giulia was designed from the ground up to drive well and everybody says it does

the chassis of the base car is identical to the Quadrifoglio

[hazy frost]

I wouldn’t buy any of those cars to track tho which is why the rs3 is the best one

It’s a sporty daily driver which is what most of them are actually going for

But bc it’s not trying to be both things it does it better

[dire viper]

car companies are ran by cowards now 😔

[hazy frost]

If u want an actual track car u wouldn’t buy smth new anyway

[dire viper]

they wont spend the measly half a billion to develop a full on sports chassis

[hazy frost]

Unless it’s like an actual track car but ur talking over 100k

[dire viper]

RIP first gen AMG GT

[hazy frost]

Lol

[dire viper]

it was half of an SLS chassis

so the GT drove insanely well

now its a completely different car built on a normal sedan chassis but it goes fast cause AWD so it can keep the numbers up

what happened to shame

whats crazy is how quick the Miata has remained

[hazy frost]

Toyota still make great cars for people who want a track/sports car still

[dire viper]

a brand new 5.0 mustang thats only .6 seconds faster in the 0-60 than a Miata, put a small supercharger kit on your miata that only costs 1500~3k depending on what you do and its just as fast as a 5.0 mustang 😭

[hazy frost]

GR Corolla would be a nice daily tbh but i dislike the Yaris

[dire viper]

unfortunately you need to mod the shit out of a GR to get it to an acceptable level

[hazy frost]

It’s cheap fun lol

It’s not the same price as other cars for a reason

[dire viper]

and all the upgrade stuff on the Yaris/Corolla is not actually allowed to be on the car from factory

[hazy frost]

GR86 is like 3k more than a new mx5

So

[dire viper]

so to get the actual vents n all that give better intercooler cooling and brake cooling you have to spend the extra money with toyota and do it yourself cause apparently dealers arent allowed to install it either

[hazy frost]

Still good

[dire viper]

the GR86 doesnt make sense anymore

[hazy frost]

The pricing to start with is reasonable so it’s not bad

[dire viper]

its slower and drives not as well as a Miata

and it has issues cause of the boxer engine

and cause its a subaru engine it just has random ass issues that make zero sense, there is some rumblings about a lawsuit against subaru for the new updated flat engines cause lots of cars, including the 86, are being classed as lemons in the US

[hazy frost]

Not sure it’s slower round a track

And is a nicer daily if u have only one car

[dire viper]

its slower in the quarter and 0-60

which doesnt mean much but shrug

[hazy frost]

Yes we’re talking track cars so

That means 0

[dire viper]

but the miata still does drive better imo, and also its a Mazda so it has a much nicer interior

I think in a world where Mazda exists, Toyota and Honda cant really compete cause of the traction that Mazda is picking up, similarly priced cars with much better quality and interiors

I was just talking normal sports cars tho

very few people even track there AMG GT Black Series or 911 GT3RS unless they truly have a stupid amount of money and can afford to just take lots of time off to track them

like I do be redlining my M3 on the freeway n shit and I do be taking it to the canyons cause canyons are free while track costs 125 bucks

[hazy frost]

I think Toyota easily competes with some of their cars but Honda hasn’t made anything good in a long time

Except the Honda jazz

Still a cool little car

Though the old one is better

[dire viper]

idk for the price of an equivalently nice toyota you pay like 65-70k for the biggest SUV ever made

meanwhile the CX-9/90 are not overly big and are just nice base

and somehow they are cheaper while still being made in Japan

[hazy frost]

all SUVs are abominations and dont deserve to be taken into account

SUVs just have no place to exist tbh they're just status symbols for idiots that cause more problems for everyone else

if only the US would be normal and accept estate cars as the real solution

[dire viper]

I was saying that the CX-9/90 are cheaper than a base Toyota SUV that they consider there luxury offering despite you needing to option even more money in it to get it to be nice

[hazy frost]

yeah but all SUVs suck

so doesnt matter

[dire viper]

all markets want SUV's tho

[hazy frost]

anyone who wants an SUV is dead to me

this is acceptable

and it starts at like £25k new

everything else is just bad

im glad i see more of these than range rovers in the UK now

nature is healing

[deep sapphire]

Compact SUVs have good daily utility and they usually get 30+ MPGs plus old people enjoy not dying trying to get out of them

[hazy frost]

Yes

Full size SUVs suck tho

Compact SUVs aren’t rly much bigger than some other cars so it’s not that bad

[sly elk]

dude that's basically an suv

at least the way they sell them in the US

I guess it's more of an "MPV" but nobody calls them that, they sometimes call them "crossover" but even that term has been misused to hell by now

I think the real bona fide differentiator is if the floor is flat when you fold down the back seats

iirc that was how plymouth/chrysler sold the PT Cruiser as a "truck"

[sly elk]

ignoring everything else, I don't really understand people who hate SUVs but love wagons

aesthetically they're pretty much identical these days

[hazy frost]

bc its not about aesthetics lol

[sly elk]

I mean there are cases where I think the wagon looked better than the suv

like xc90 vs v90 volvos

[hazy frost]

its about how obnoxiously large they are and more dangerous

i dont care about how it looks

[sly elk]

or the dodge magnum vs the dodge durango

hmm

a lot of people switched from camrys to rav4s

technically a rav4 is a smaller vehicle

[hazy frost]

?how lol

[sly elk]

see that's the part I find most interesting

I point that out and everyone is surprised lol

[hazy frost]

bc ur wrong

[sly elk]

especially the dude that bought a rav4 because they wanted to 'upgrade to a bigger vehicle'

the camry also weighs 80lbs more

[hazy frost]

its taller, heavier by like 3-400kg and more square, and will injure pedestrians more severely in accidents

[sly elk]

taller and uglier and more likely to injure pedestrians, yes

[hazy frost]

it also is heavier

they do not weigh the same

[sly elk]

it's not

TO BE FAIR

totally fair

this isn't apples-to-apples

I just realized the camry is a hybrid and the rav4 isn't

you were right @hazy frost it is heavier if i compare a hybrid rav4, sorry

[hazy frost]

yeah

the base model is

light

it depends if u get the camry of highest trim as well

the XSE gets rly heavy for no reason

even at the same weight ones much more dangerous anyway

and yet it offers no benefits for all these downsides

its also sad 7 seat cars have been taken over by SUVs instead of mini vans

or mpvs

[sly elk]

i can say, having driven both a 2023-2024 camry and a rav4 at some point in recent history

i'd take the camry any day lol

[odd sand]

Compact SUVs are a meme bc they basically are a coupe or hatchback but with like 3" more ground clearance. Charge 35% more bc SUV

I think my Stinger is technically classified as a 4dr hatchback bc the trunk has a removable cover instead of a fixed one

[hazy frost]

its just good if u need smth taller bc other options are too low down

i still think 99% of people just need an estate car

[sly elk]

which is a bit of a tradeoff in its own right because a good car that sits down low drives a lot better lol

but cars made in the last 20 years also started getting weird because of the whole "people like sitting high" thing

some cars feel more like you're sitting on top of them instead of inside them

[odd sand]

Got a lotta old fat ppl in Murrica now /s

[sly elk]

i wonder how the ride height compares to american cars from the 50s/60s

[odd sand]

Also CAFE standards etc. have made automakers game the system by doing just enough to classify everything as an SUV

Probably pretty high if for no other reason than the seats back then were really substantial with the springs in them

[sly elk]

idk a modern sedan doesn't really have a lower seating position than a 57 chevy

I still think it's funny how cars from that era have a reputation for being heavy, but they really weren't

not unless it was a lincoln or cadillac anyway lol

[hazy frost]

They’re heavy relative to what they are

Power to weight and pretty bare interiors compared to what u get today so they do weigh quite a lot

The 57 Chevy is probably what like 1500-1700kg

But that interior has like nothing in it

[deep sapphire]

I miss bench seats oh wait my truck has one

[sly elk]

lol I say, if I had to have a pickup, that custom order f150 long bed with a bench seat sounded pretty good

too bad it's a ford

LOL

i might have to go buy that sticker :3

i'm amazed at the wide variety of options the silverado work truck has

[deep sapphire]

Look at that fine rusty ve-HEH-cle

[deep sapphire]

Lmao

[sly elk]

heck yea nice truck

[sly elk]

https://jalopnik.com/fan-boy-finally-criticizes-tesla-after-2-broken-tesla-c-1851573471

sheesh

[deep sapphire]

LMAOO

[sly elk]

i do feel like people make irrational decisions with cars often enough

like it's not unusual on the jeep forum to see a lemon law saga thread and then at the end the person with the lemon jeep buys another jeep

[royal forge]

I cant wait for a tesla truck to show up here

Gonna be fucking hilarious

[cold yacht]

The only irrational decision I made to my car was just buy a strut bar

Makes driving more fun a bit

[lost python]

https://fixupx.com/hkepcmedia/status/1807985977375481968?t=CHn1c02u6qWv0Ev8-hNncQ&s=19

[real edge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXgvP84g2BU

might be something I can recommend

but it seems pricey

[hazy frost]

its another mediocre colour, subpar contrast IPS display

but coming in same price/more expensive than like the mag 274qrf/275cqrf or g2724d

[real edge]

mhm

[hazy frost]

theres rly nothing good between like decent cheap LCD and overly expensive mini led or OLED

the best LCD panels are still like $<300 and anything else is upwards of $500

[gusty valley]

soo i just posted this in tech support but dose anyone know why the 3080 gpu is only giving me half the fps on the game i've tried everything and ic ant find the answer

[hazy frost]

half the fps compared to what

[gusty valley]

https://discord.com/channels/100463940835762176/1258071210940432464 this should explain it

shue did his best to assit me but wasnt sure aswell

[sharp star]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heriTDWIU2g

[odd sand]

Why you calling my dad out like that. He was residing the house and the back of the house was bare Tyvek for like 2-3 years...

[deep sapphire]

Lmao

I didn’t have any RTV let’s see if this silicone bathtub caulk will hold up

[inland mauve]

just got a scam email

from a... circuit printing company in Shenzhen

I think that they got confused because I played SHENZHEN I/O

[wraith agate]

lmao

SHENZHEN I/O IRL

if you beat the game you get to apply the real job

[deep sapphire]

THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY PCBWAY

[hollow beacon]

Attached system test
Weapon script in
Wood, metal, gems , coal, eraser
Switch, power on/off
<bank>, D=tm4, which card , hologram

[hollow beacon]

Advance Wood Technology.

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/bobawooyo-dog-confused-dog-huh-dog-meme-shocked-dog-gif-16713203299056947073

[deep sapphire]

What lmao

[potent arrow]

this is their most unhinged post yet

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/qKRmYW1D0S0?si=TqbfW5oxaPEKz7-H

[burnt swallow]

My mouse cursor keeps randomly freezing for a second and not working and then it teleports to wherever I moved it to

[kind rune]

is ur cpu usage spiking to 100%

[burnt swallow]

I didn't check that

[oak granite]

question:
so to my understanding there are 2 vatients of RCA cables. theres one with 5 cables, 2 for audio and 3 for video- and one with 3 cables, 2 for audio and one for video. so if i have this 5 cable varient but a tv that only takes the 3 cable varient, what would happen if i tried hooking it up?

[deep sapphire]

There are component and composite RCA cables and no they will not work right Composite (3 connectors) had the full video signal going down the yellow cable while the 5 one has a video signal for each of the 3 primary color spectrums.

If you attempt to plug in one of the component cables it will either not display a picture at all or it will be entire black and white

[oak granite]

i see. so depending on what plug i use it will only output a certain color?

[oak granite]

ah, alright

well i suppose black and white is better than nothing..?

thanks!

[deep sapphire]

Is this an old game system or something?

You should be able to find a pair of composite video cables for dirt cheap

[oak granite]

its a ps3, yeah. not a bad idea but you may underestimate how broke i am currently lmao

[deep sapphire]

Ah fair enough, I recall you having to hold the power button to enable/disable HD output or something it’s been awhile

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m6h5nfmZ6g

[sly elk]

You can use component cables to carry composite signals, they're just cables

[deep sapphire]

the RGB is split up if you only have a composite input how would that work

I guess you could buy an adapter but that defeats the point just go buy a pair of 5 dollar composite cables

[sly elk]

no i mean

the cables are physically the same

the signal is the only thing that differs. blue/green/red/yellow/white are all physically the same cable

i've used the red/white audio cables to carry component video before lmao 😄

[deep sapphire]

while you are technically correct you have to rememeber this is a game system with its only dedicated interface on the console side

if it was like some bog standard AV equipment yeah you could use 2 male RCA jacks

I attempted this when I was like 17 on a PS2 and it didnt work out very well

[hollow beacon]

No.

[deep sapphire]

no what

[hollow beacon]

My arm Juct fine

I heard dairy before.

Like caramel

Girls drink soothe ice cream

[hazy frost]

?

What

[sly elk]

ohhh yes you're right lol I wasn't reading that sorry

[modest moss]

This is not the place for random, it's unsettling

[autumn epoch]

so my logitech g600 is about starting to see old age and it double clicks on occasion now. i typically am able to relieve the problem by mashing at the mouse button for like 30s to a minute and it solves it for like a couple weeks. i've looked online and people have suggested things like desoldering it myself to clean out the contacts of the mouse buttons/ replace switches but im not comfy doing that

what alternative mouse is out there too

[deep sapphire]

Another g600

They are 50 bucks

[autumn epoch]

i thought they were discontinued

[deep sapphire]

Are they?

Holy shit

What the fuck happened

[autumn epoch]

yeah

that

[deep sapphire]

I bought mine 5 years ago for 35 bucks

Why would they discontinue it

It was a great mmo mouse

[autumn epoch]

that was when i bought mine too

50 bucks cad roughly

[deep sapphire]

I’m mad now

CHANNY LETS REVOLT

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE

[autumn epoch]

half my static swears by it too

and they have extras

but they're using them for themselves

[deep sapphire]

I love mine the 3 clickers is so nice

And the naga broke after a year

[autumn epoch]

the third click just feels

so comfy

[hazy frost]

Naga is decent and my friend likes theirs considering it’s basically the cheapest one u can get

Besides the Corsair one

Everything else is like $100+

U can probably find a used g600 for like $60

[autumn epoch]

i searched

they

real nasty looking

[hazy frost]

Just clean them

Stuff for cleaning is like $15 and you can use it again later anyway bc you’ll clean it again one day

[autumn epoch]

i also saw one where the cable was

chewed off

idk how you'd expect anyone to clean that

[hazy frost]

Don’t buy that one then?

It’s not like there’s just one used g600

I mean I think the cheaper naga is worth it as well

[sly elk]

maybe just replace the switches then

[autumn epoch]

im saying that thats generally the state of the g600 i saw

[sly elk]

it might be cheaper to hire someone to do that lol

[potent arrow]

you want me to take it apart and fix it?

if it's one of the main buttons it's just Omron mouse switches

[deep sapphire]

You just splice the wire

[potent arrow]

and I live near by so

[deep sapphire]

Also holy shit these 3M die grinder brushes are insane

[modest moss]

Canadia connection

[deep sapphire]

Stripped the paint on my truck like nothing

GLORIOUS 3M PRODUCTS

[potent arrow]

ALL HAIL 3M

3M abrasives

[deep sapphire]

GLORIOUS 3M SCOTCH ROLOC DISCS

These are so good for polishing metal

[potent arrow]

yarrr

good shit

[autumn epoch]

i might try to do it my self first because i have a friend who i live super close to that has a solder and desoldering station

close to is relative i suppose

[potent arrow]

lmfao

[autumn epoch]

he's like 1/4 the distance to sarah's

[sly walrus]

tampon manuel
no

[potent arrow]

my lab is there so if you need me let me know

[deep sapphire]

yes

my tail is made of scotch brite

GLORIOUS 3M

[autumn epoch]

i got some 3m command strips to attach my powerbar to the bottom of my new standing desk and it has been super wroth

pity im dogshit at cable management though

[fervent field]

LOL

https://fxtwitter.com/ipsusu/status/1191059958701395969

i bought 4 of them lol

[deep sapphire]

im so mad I should have bought another one for backup

WHY WOULD THEY FUCKIN DISCONTINUE IT

thankfully I can repair mine if need be but thats so stupid

[golden stream]

I think imma mod it, logitech silent mouse switch spoiled me

[fervent field]

i modded mine with a paracord cable but left the stock switches in em

i'll prob put some kalih switch in once they die

[golden stream]

but holy s that's steep sale for G600

speaking of Razor, Warframe back in the day had bugs that was only recreated with Razor driver which is funny

[dire viper]

I found my old iPhone 7 I only had for like a year cause I had to swap carriers cause verizon rates got so awful and ive been using it as an ipod basically this is peak

i got like 10 gigs worth of music on it now

https://youtu.be/cEO6mVqo8K8?si=ovWsMGvK2KjA-V9r

[deep sapphire]

maybe they should bring back old top gear too

[dire viper]

maybe

https://youtu.be/UmU5GAKy5is?si=OU09wpqFnDDYIouM

such a lovely car ❤️

I can barely fit in them lol

we had a customer that was 6 foot 2 and we had to cut out the floor pan and the foot pan and reposition them to allow them to drive comfortably

this car is immaculate tho, whoever restored it did it PERFECTLY

even the white painted covers arouund the pop up headlights, thats a detail most shops overlook

fantastically simple, Porsche really did design these cars to be world beating race cars from the start

too bad it was so good it made the 911 look not worth the money

[royal forge]

How hard is moddin logi mice? My MX518's switch is givin me grief but I refuse to move on

[potent arrow]

it's like a few solder joints

not very hard

[sly elk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1dvjms4/imac_g3_still_with_the_box/

🤤

[dreamy chasm]

huano switches are pretty good

pink dot blue shells have a pretty distinct click

[royal forge]

Anywhere to recommend reading up on it first?

[potent arrow]

same process

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ZFqZbTnL4&pp=ygUSb3B0aW11bSB0ZWNnIG1vdXNl

[lost python]

price leak. not clear if true or not

no x3d so i dont care either way

also apparently just a refresh so i double not care

though 309€ for a 9600x is insanely expensive

[sharp star]

https://tenor.com/view/quagsire-blink-blinking-gif-25635243

[hazy frost]

seems the same as what the 7600x was

[deep sapphire]

https://youtube.com/shorts/FTIyZHzxkh0?si=1iw80F7JSjIMU_yt

[wraith agate]

So here's a weird that keeps happening, for some reason Opera GX keeps opening a brand new window just on its own

it doesn't do anything, just opens it

[deep sapphire]

its because you are just a big gamer

cause opera gx is 4 THE GAMERS

[wraith agate]

yeah well it keeps up with shit like this and I switch to Firefox

[deep sapphire]

you havent kept up with your sleep schedule

[wraith agate]

I just woke up

[deep sapphire]

its like

7PM there

[wraith agate]

well yes

[deep sapphire]

[royal forge]

ah. gotcha

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/wT6Vf3PCx6Y?si=ztv1Ny_FOdf9yms6

kinda wack that the old twin charged detroit diesels are two stroke

[sharp star]

https://x.com/GamersNexus/status/1809305260705382521 UH OH

GamersNexus (@GamersNexus) on X

With the help of a viewer, we have discovered a major breach of privacy at a hardware vendor whereupon GN was able to download customer personal information, addresses, phone numbers, and also business-to-business invoices & orders. The company has not replied to GN. We have 1/3

Twitter · Jul 5, 2024, 7:16 PM

https://x.com/GamersNexus/status/1809305261816844562
https://x.com/GamersNexus/status/1809305262789960165

GamersNexus (@GamersNexus) on X

notified some of the company's largest partners in effort to back-channel a fix for the issue prior to publishing, as it affects consumer privacy and we'd like it fixed before running it. The issue could seemingly be rapidly fixed with a permissions change to a web folder. 2/3

Twitter · Jul 5, 2024, 7:16 PM

GamersNexus (@GamersNexus) on X

We're sending this tweet in attempt to get the company's attention, as they should know who they are, and get them to treat this seriously & also minimize viability of a cover-up by getting in front of us. Just getting it on record. In a holding pattern pending a fix or inaction

Twitter · Jul 5, 2024, 7:16 PM

[deep sapphire]

god I hate cloud storage

this wouldnt happen if we used the futurama tunnel system

[sharp star]

this has to be Asus

pretty sure

https://x.com/GamersNexus/status/1809308260996116513

GamersNexus (@GamersNexus) on X

General PSA: Multiple hardware companies have had vulnerabilities in the way they store their RMA files. This particular one doesn't require 'hacking,' just knowledge of Google search. Please take this as a public service announcement to never upload files for RMA purposes

Twitter · Jul 5, 2024, 7:27 PM

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/eSJSim717zg?si=BryEUlH5QKyz6ARi

kind of cool

the new WRX RS (the canadian version of the TR) is only 41k Canadian while its 42k US

so the canadian market car is much cheaper than the US counterpart

42k US is about 57k canadian

so the canadians get a fantastic deal

@potent arrow

it should be noted that the cars are perfectly identical

actually I think the canadian cars get heated seats and steering wheels standard so they actually have more features for less money

[potent arrow]

ok but

that requires me to drive a WRX

[dire viper]

get a vape

youll fit in

take a smackington of the penjamin

cheers my friends

[sly elk]

im about ready to throw my samsung monitor through a fucking window

[sly elk]

Ok so the solution to the bios menu not showing up is to keep hitting OSD menu buttons so the screen doesn’t go to sleep

https://tenor.com/view/anime-headesk-bang-headbang-dessert-gif-17584997

[burnt swallow]

I require

Suggestions

For mice

I'm about to throw mine out the window

[potent arrow]

I mean what was your old one

there's a ton of different shapes and stuff

I personally use a g pro superlight

some people here use a razer mouse

model o is pretty popular

[sharp star]

https://youtu.be/UHxQC95syc0 LMAO IT WAS ZOTAC

[modest moss]

smaller Chinese company, probably not terminally online enough to watch GN

[deep sapphire]

no but djura is

[modest moss]

I just can't do tech videos that take an hour to say what I could read in five minutes in an article

[hazy frost]

Steve is good at making everything boring in a video

I actually read more of the stuff on their website than I watch their videos now lol

[dire viper]

ZOTAC is aware

They aren’t super tiny

Actually I think they’re rather large

As they make all sorts of versions of the lowest end cards

They made like 10 different versions of the 2060

And are starting to do the same with the 4060

Albeit they aren’t really selling them in the US anymore

[lost python]

<@&100464652139368448>

[opal panther]

Ban Issued for liza086005

@inland bough has been banned by djurastakedriver for the following reason:

no soliciting invites

Banned from Final Fantasy XIV

Ban Issued for liza086005

@inland bough has been banned by dihn for the following reason:

Spammer

Banned from Final Fantasy XIV

[sharp star]

ok

[lost python]

nice double kill

[dawn cave]

i literally just got to my PC lol

[mortal condor]

[deep sapphire]

that pfp

the most AI generated shit ive ever seen

[sharp star]

that bio explains all too

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/NE-dTzCwKh8?si=DzMtyuhERBz4KxQE

These were great

Bring em back

[hallow scaffold]

I did notice I hardly see the xB anymore🤔

[paper tusk]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/954117037741965424/1259313537311051848/449928912_891981036287301_1872382214260650947_n.jpg?ex=668be360&is=668a91e0&hm=28638d4df063141340c888e306f0222af4273b87bc4556f2ce1e4980de3984c4&

[deep sapphire]

So I tell Milwaukee my middle drawer won’t stay open they said they won’t send anyone out but they’ll give me replacement rails so I’m like whatever so I replace them after drilling the fuckers out and lord and behold it didn’t fix the problem

It looks like the holes aren’t level but I level my torpedo at work

[sly elk]

yea for reals lol

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGMS1cMVGS4

I owned one of these and yes it was pretty bad lol

[sly elk]

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

[hazy frost]

This happened then they got better then they ruined their reputation with the 5000 series cards again

[tame tartan]

common amd L

[deep sapphire]

HD 5000 or the RX ones. Aside from my terrible experience with the HD 5970 they seemed fairly competitive for the time

[sly elk]

the only amd card that was truly successful in recent history was the RX480/RX580

i think the problem with the rx 6xxx and rx 7xxx might just be too many skus and not enough compelling differentiation

there's like, 7600, 7800, 7900 GRE, 7900XT, 7900XTX

and more XTs

and then there's still a bunch of 6000 series stuff still for sale

like why the fuck

[deep sapphire]

I just think it’s initial pricing and nvidia just has way more hype behind it

[sly elk]

not just hype but literal domination with stuff like CUDA

[deep sapphire]

AMD knew it wasn’t gonna compete with Nvidia in volume yet priced the XTX like it was lmao

[sly elk]

I'll stand for that a little because the XTX is what I think the damn things should be priced for

the 4090 is way too expensive for a high end gaming card

but it sells like hotcakes anyway right?

why? because whales

[deep sapphire]

Right no cuda, worse ray tracing and at the time worse DLSS/FSR

[sly elk]

idk i must ask

you have a 4090

[deep sapphire]

And was priced the same as the 4080 with only marginal performance benefit in raster

[sly elk]

how much time do you spend playing games where a $1800-2000 GPU felt like a solid investment lol

[sly elk]

meaning the 7900xtx was priced too high

[deep sapphire]

Barely at all rofl I was playing a Dreamcast game earlier 🤣

[sly elk]

and I would have preferred it to be cheaper

ahh was it just your "I want the best nvidia card" moment?

[deep sapphire]

I had a 1070 before this and I wanted to spoil myself

[sly elk]

i picked a 3080ti for that reason and thought the 3090 was just a level of crazy I couldn't commit to lol

[deep sapphire]

That PC was 6 years old

[sly elk]

like the "fuck it i want high end this time"

it was a mistake

[deep sapphire]

I had the money and wanted to enjoy 4K ultra settings

[sly elk]

it's ok. I've spent similar kinds of money on worse mistakes

like theme park tickets this year ;_;

[deep sapphire]

I don’t regret it seeing RE4 remake on this thing maxed out was incredible

Disney land?

[sly elk]

disney and knotts

the knotts tickets didn't even get used yet because my bro changed his mind when we were almost to the gate lmao

[deep sapphire]

I heard Disney land is pretty expensive not sure about knotts

[sly elk]

hey how noisy is your computer with the 4090 running a game at full tilt?

the noise was kind of a turn off for me

not enough to rebuild in a mesh case

[deep sapphire]

Not that loud the 4090 is overbuilt on the cooler front

[sly elk]

but enough that I don't really want to play games anymore

[deep sapphire]

I’ve never seen it go above 74c

[sly elk]

that's interesting

problem here is it just.. my fans run at like 80% on a full tilt load but there's a LOT of heat to push out

[deep sapphire]

It use to be annoying cause of the Intel shit my fans would go ape shit for random periods of time but that was an Intel issue

[sly elk]

after all, at that point the computer is outputting like 700w of heat

that's basically a space heater on the low power setting

[deep sapphire]

Like loading a battlefield map omg my fans went to like 400 percent felt like my god damn PC was about to take off for flight

[sly elk]

LOL

[deep sapphire]

My job tires me out so I don’t game much during the week plus general lack of caring rather work on the truck and other projects

Getting old syndrome

https://tenor.com/view/misato-evangelion-monster-energy-drink-gif-18562011

[royal forge]

Mood

[hazy frost]

rx

hd was fine afaik

all the amd driver issues things spouted mostly comes from like the rx5000 cards

i think they had some hardware issues as well but not that many

[deep sapphire]

Mmmm glowy retro gauges

[lost python]

im fighting with myself, trying to justify if i really should spend all that money for a herman miller aeron

[inland mauve]

have you tried it out?

[lost python]

no because nobody that would allow test sitting has them in stock

[sharp star]

I own one, it takes a while to get used to

[lost python]

do you like it though?
i am interested in the aeron specifically because during the warmer months i always get swampass and sweaty legs with regular chairs plus HM gives you 12 years of warranty

[inland mauve]

I appreciate that their chairs don't have that problem with filling that wears down over time

[lost python]

ah crap the one company that had HM chairs here closed down during covid and now only has a showroom at the other side of the country

ye

[inland mauve]

I dunno how reachable the Netherlands are for you but you could look up stores here as well

we have a few major cities right against the border

like Nijmegen

and Venlo

[lost python]

apparently only amsterdam has a shop that has them

[sharp star]

I like it, I didn’t consider it life-changing when I first got it though. I still don’t (yet) but it’s helped with my sitting posture considerably

[lost python]

well i dont need a life changing chair anyway. just a sturdy one that will last me and doesnt fuck up my back when i sit for 10+ hours

[sharp star]

the mesh helps

my last chairs gave me Dagobah swamp ass

[lost python]

i hate that barely any manufacturer ever considers the swamps

steelcase is super popular in the offices i have worked at but they have such a thick foam bottom, your pants are wet by the time you reach noon

[sharp star]

“yeah I like Steelcase”, but then completely forgets to mention that they look like they peed themselves

[deep sapphire]

The mesh is a game changer

Specially if you sweat a lot

I use to get horrible swamp ass and it’d ruin the leather after a year

[inland mauve]

could also look into getting a second hand HM embody

[sharp star]

if the material can’t breathe and if you sweat a lot, then don’t bother imo

[lost python]

second hand prices have become so fucked lately

[sharp star]

oh no

[inland mauve]

HM embody is a really good chair but damn that price point

[lost python]

cheapest i can find are really banged up old chairs for like 600-700€
most other second hands in good condition go for like 800-900 and at that point i might as well spend 300 more and get the 12 year warranty tbh

[inland mauve]

true

[hazy frost]

ive had an aeron for a few years now and easily best chair ive ever used

only downside is no headrest but thats not a bad thing for ur posture, u can also buy one to add on from other companies anyway

can sit all day with no issues for sweat or comfort, and in summer it gets to like 35c 70-80% humidity with my PC on all day as well

though here they are quite a bit cheaper used, if i had the money and didnt already own one id probably buy a new one ngl

[dire viper]

is the tech job sector actually real currently or is it also getting shit canned

I wanted to get an associates in UX but the market kinda seems like its gonna be BAD for the next few years unless you are already mega deep in a company and are not in a disposable position

[wise jay]

front end roles have the most saturation because of boot camps

[dire viper]

hmmm

[deep sapphire]

Job that bad eh 🤣

I feel ya this job is bullshit too

[dire viper]

well I had a breakdown and have a therapist now so lol

basically I worked three 13 hour shifts and then quit

cause I also had to drive to work 45 minutes one way

[deep sapphire]

I had to do that to I get it, fuckin sucks especially if they treat you like some bullshit apprentice

They wonder why nobody wants to do this shit

[dire viper]

yea they just acted like I was incapable of learning anything

[deep sapphire]

“I had to do it too”

[dire viper]

and I dont got no money

so im gonna sell my car and buy a cheaper car :C

[deep sapphire]

Probably for the best

[dire viper]

just gonna buy a cheaper BMW

[deep sapphire]

I feel like doing something like forklift mechanic would be a pretty chill job

Nobody busting your balls

Constant work

[dire viper]

the one guy on youtube shorts

the old guy

hes the one who reviews all the funny asian knock off tool ads

[deep sapphire]

Oh yeah

Yeah he does that

Think he’s a self employed contractor

[dire viper]

yea hes a toyota forklift tech lmao

that would be chill but also you have to have money for all the tools

and on a job like that you never know what you're gonna see so you have to well kitted with tools

[deep sapphire]

I miss my old job at Seneca foods sure the hours sucked ass in the summer but I had some really good mentors

This old guy named George worked there 50 years he was always showing me cool tricks and shit

[dire viper]

its hard to find people like that

at my previous previous job we had a guy named Wayne like that

he was one of the few NSX certified Honda techs in the country

well, OG NSX not the new one

[hazy frost]

the easiest job here is just doing MOT tests once ur certified its the same thing all day for 50k a year

u dont even have to do that many a day to meet expectations of most garages

well its probably more like high 30s to mid 40k for most places btu still

for the UK its relatively high

[deep sapphire]

Seems like a sweet job

[hazy frost]

It is, but it’s kind of boring as well

Definitely preferable to being a full time mechanic tho imo

[deep sapphire]

My last job was pretty nice but in the summer you worked a lot because it was a plant that produced peas and corn so only operated during the harvest season

[hazy frost]

Both get boring but one doesn’t leave u with no energy every day

[deep sapphire]

Yeah better to be bored than worked to death lmao

[hazy frost]

I haven’t had any actual jobs bc I haven’t decided what degree to do

I keep just doing whatever to make money

I can’t move out anyway bc of prices where I live until I have a proper career path

[deep sapphire]

No shame in staying at home

Do it as long as you can

[hazy frost]

Yeah I’m not bothered

Way better than trying to pay to move out on an average job salary here

[deep sapphire]

Unless you have a long term partner to share the bills it’s really difficult to live alone

That or a roommate but they can be flakey

[hazy frost]

I’ll maybe move out when I go get my degree but could try and go closer to save money

It’s like 1k+ a month for a studio here just on rent

So I said nope

My last ‘job’ was at a garage mostly servicing and then helping on larger jobs lol

I was out 11 hours a day tho

Got offered it part time like 3 days a week but man idk how anyone’s doing that

[deep sapphire]

I do 4 10s rn the 3 day weekend helps a lot

But if you’re constantly working it does suck

[hazy frost]

Yeah but I wasn’t getting paid a proper wage bc it was mostly servicing

[deep sapphire]

Yeah fuck that

[hazy frost]

I would be tempted to do the 3 days if I could learn more and get the actual wage for being a mechanic

But wasn’t gonna do that

[deep sapphire]

It’s that apprentice bullshit I was talking about earlier

[hazy frost]

Would rather stick to working on cars for fun and not hate it

[deep sapphire]

They don’t actually teach you anything they just give you the work they don’t wanna do

[hazy frost]

Apprenticeships are cool when they’re done well

Some companies take advantage

Some are actually decent

[deep sapphire]

If it’s a union shop usually it’s worth it but otherwise yeah it’s mostly bullshit but that’s just what I’ve seen

[hazy frost]

There’s some for like software development here that are 30k a year and get u a degree at the same time

I was tempted to do that a while ago

[deep sapphire]

You should look into industrial maintenance mechanic it’s honestly not bad

[hazy frost]

I’m not huge on manual labour

[deep sapphire]

That’s fair

[hazy frost]

I struggle with energy without adding that

[deep sapphire]

I take adderall so that helps rofl

[hazy frost]

Lmao

I take stuff for anxiety but I think when I relax it makes me more tired so

[deep sapphire]

Yeah that makes sense

Well if you like tinkering with stuff without the grunt work maybe electrical engineer or a network tech

Networking pays really well

And it’s usually not that horrible. Only shitty part is you’ll be on call

[hazy frost]

I was thinking about doing like computer engineering or computer science related degrees

Not sure which part I’d prefer more

Engineering is probably more interesting but more specific

[deep sapphire]

I highly recommend you get a specific degree in IT because general comp sci is so over saturated it’s nearly impossible to get a good job

[hazy frost]

Yeah

Although to do that it’s easier to do 4 years and get a masters in the specific thing here

If I’m going to specify

[deep sapphire]

Ah fair

[hazy frost]

Most specified courses are 3 year comp sci degree with a 1 year masters on specifics on top

[deep sapphire]

That’s not bad

Sounds like a solid plan

[hazy frost]

There’s a few bachelors like networking and cybersec as well

But u could get an apprenticeship for both as well

Artificial intelligence or anything to do with data is normally a masters instead

[deep sapphire]

I really enjoyed networking it’s interesting and not that many people can grasp it so it’s a job skill that will always be in demand

[hazy frost]

Networking is interesting, I’d have to spend some time working out if I want to spend 3-4 years on it tho lol

[deep sapphire]

Yeah that’s fair

[hazy frost]

That’s what I’m doing while I’m not working anyway looking into trying courses related to them

[deep sapphire]

You guys have free university don’t you

[hazy frost]

Nope

£9250 a year tuition at all universities

I can get a full loan for tuition but I can’t get a loan for living expenses because the government thinks my parents earn too much and I live with them

It’s weird

[deep sapphire]

They do that shit here too lmao

You can get a private loan but the interest will kill you

I got free college for being in the army but I was an idiot and went to a for profit school which did me nothing

[hazy frost]

Yeah I wouldn’t be doing that lol

It’s like £9250 a year and most unis give u a room for £180-250 a week

Plus food as an expense

[deep sapphire]

I guess that isn’t too horrible

[hazy frost]

It’s alright but like when average salary is under 30k it’s like

U have to be going to get a degree that’s worth it lmao

[deep sapphire]

I’ve heard people go into like 200,000 dollars in debt for schooling it’s like fuck how do you expect to pay that off on top of all your other shit

[hazy frost]

I only hear that for medical or law schools

Which they then promptly go and earn and pay off within like 5 years

[deep sapphire]

Yeah that’s true

[hazy frost]

Even with bad interest rates

[deep sapphire]

Medical school is probably brutal

[hazy frost]

Some people do also just make bad financial decisions

[hazy frost]

I have some friends doing it in Europe

[deep sapphire]

Doctors are crazy too they have some insane work ethic

[hazy frost]

It’s a lot of work but like it doesn’t seem too bad either

It probably depends on what exactly ur studying to do

[deep sapphire]

Just become a general practitioner so you can gas light patients on all their symptoms

“Yeah I feel like I’m dying”

“It’s just anxiety”

[hazy frost]

My closest half decent university is Oxford I think which is hilarious bc I’m never going there

[hazy frost]

Real

I haven’t seen a doctor in like 6 years

It’s basically impossible lol

[deep sapphire]

I need to get a physical it’s been awhile and I’m getting old

[hazy frost]

I don’t think people rly do regular checkups here

[deep sapphire]

I’m healthy enough but you never know. Need to get the blood work done

[hazy frost]

U only go when something is wrong

Or once u get old u go regularly

Probably has smth to do with how long it takes to see anyone

[deep sapphire]

Yeah I remember during covid appointments were all 2 months out

[hazy frost]

The waiting lists for a lot of stuff are months or years here

[deep sapphire]

Jesus

[hazy frost]

I tried to get therapy for free and it was like

2 years before I heard back

And by then I’d been trying to find people privately

[deep sapphire]

Yeah gotta love that, they preach about mental health awareness but getting a therapist is damn near impossible

[hazy frost]

Yeah

I mean here atl it’s bc they’re all private since the NHS doesn’t pay well

Same story as good nurses

[deep sapphire]

Makes sense

[hazy frost]

Atl it’s free

[deep sapphire]

I think Canada has the same problem

[hazy frost]

Tbf if ur like actively having serious health issues I’d rather atl have free care but like for everyone else it’s ASS

[deep sapphire]

My state has really good universal healthcare if you don’t have a job or low income you can get on it

[hazy frost]

Nice

[deep sapphire]

I was on it once and they covered everything

[hazy frost]

I have health insurance bc my mum works at a pharma company

[deep sapphire]

Had to get my wisdom teeth pulled and didn’t have to pay a dime

[hazy frost]

Whole family gets coverage up to a certain value

[deep sapphire]

Oh nice

[hazy frost]

That’s the only reason I can actually get stuff done

[hazy frost]

I’m hoping I don’t have to have that done

I’m alright so far lol

Unrelated but I just saw there’s a 20% discount on Samsung monitors for students here and technically I still am one somehow

Tempting

My monitor is slowly dying

I can’t find any reviews on their new OLED ones tho annoyingly

[sly elk]

ymmv in the US with that. If you have HMO insurance you can end up in a town that the insurance network only has 1 orthopedic surgeon, and their wait list is looooong

[deep sapphire]

[late basalt]

Complaining about the lack of heat protections hank?

[deep sapphire]

A lot worse than that

Though we haven’t gotten hit with the same heat wave as the rest of the country it’s only been around mid 80s

[late basalt]

Oh goodie. Did a coworker FAFO or was it management?

[deep sapphire]

Management

Really toxic workplace with absolutely zero regard for safety

They wanted me to fill voids in old asbestos tile with bondo and then sand it

You don’t fuckin sand asbestos tile

[late basalt]

Um… you dont fuck with asbestos period

[deep sapphire]

As long as the tile is sealed it’s typically safe but they really should have it professionally removed

[late basalt]

I’d almost say CC the complaint to the EPA because it is asbestos

[deep sapphire]

But sanding asbestos like lol

OSHA is pretty good about taking reports so should be fine but I’m not gonna work here anymore

That’s just one of many issues

They wanted me to use a ladder to fix something on the ceiling 30ft up without a harness because the lift was down

That’s also illegal

Lmao

[late basalt]

I mean, if you’re on the way out the door, you might as well leave behind as many hand grenades for management as possible

[deep sapphire]

ikr

[late basalt]

Especially since if they’ve been asking you to do stupid shit like that means they’ve had someone desperate/stupid enough to actually DO it

[deep sapphire]

I told him no and he got combative with me and then said he was just joking but his tone of voice was obviously not lmao

[late basalt]

And there aren’t many giant grenades you can leave behind like a visit/fine from the EPA

Other than leaving raw shrimp in a very very hard to access but commonly passed location

That smell’s going to drive them insane until they find it

[sly elk]

jfc lol

[odd sand]

The issue is there literally aren't enough therapists. Not enough ppl getting into the field, and of those that do, many drum out after a few years bc it can be exhausting work.

(Belated response sorry)

[odd sand]

Friend bought an OLED ultrawide monitor and now has me looking for a new monitor as well lol

Although I don't want a 45" like his. Was thinking 34" was more reasonable

[lost python]

oled or what

[odd sand]

Yeah, seems there are like 2-3 gens of OLEDs all bunched up around the same price atm, making it difficult. Might have to see if they have any of them on display at Best Buy or something

Samsung G8 is 0.03ms but 175hz, LG has their 240hz 0.03ms, then Gigabyte and Asus have more recent ones probably using those same panels. Then some ppl bitching about if it comes in matte or glossy

Funniest was the PC Gamer article giving cons of "blurry text" in their Best OLED article... it's like. yeah. It's an OLED. They never play nice with ClearType

Or the one review on Amazon of some idiot blaming the monitor for what was clearly a shit quality cable that wasn't up to spec

Saw he had another review giving 1star for some noname chinese hdmi cables made by "akjsdgiouashdi" faceroll brand heh

[lost python]

what gpu do you have?

[odd sand]

3080 10gb

[lost python]

ah okay good

because keep in mind, because of the ridiculously short response times, a lot of lower-fps content will look especially bad

[royal forge]

I have an extension cord of 1 plug to 4 outlets. I'm planning to daisy chain em again, for an additional 2 more. Think it'll be able to support 2 1440p monitors?

I only have 1 outlet in my room

[lost python]

never daisy chain them if you can. better to just buy a bigger one

[royal forge]

Hrm... i guess so. I'm on the fence on gettin a second monitor mainly due to space limitations on my table

I dunoe how comfortable i'd be with a monitor suspended in mid air

[lost python]

investing into a monitor arm would help

[royal forge]

Yea. I suppose so

[lost python]

gets rid of the massive stands they come with, freeing up the space below.
just make sure your table is sturdy enough for one. an ikea table wouldnt be

[royal forge]

Mine is cheaper than an ikea one

So

[lost python]

is it actual wood at least? and is it at least 2cm thick?

[royal forge]

Well, it FEELS solid

Uhhhhh

1.5cm, or so wooden ?mdf board

Metal legs tho

[lost python]

hmm could become tricky but you might get away with it if you can also get a little slab of wood

[royal forge]

Lemme think of it

My friend suggested a magnet

I told him i trust magnets even less

[lost python]

magnet?

a magnet to hold the monitor? yeah that aint gonna work

[royal forge]

I think he found one of em china made contraptions

[lost python]

but some people do it loke this for example

[royal forge]

Magnet monitor arm

[lost python]

though that one in particular would be very unstable

[royal forge]

Whats the extra slab of wood for

Extra block i guess is the better term

[lost python]

thickness. and if you have an actual flat space and not like this, it would help distribute the weight more evenly

amazon even sells slabs of metal for tzhis purpose

[royal forge]

I see

My table is actually kinda like that

Sorta MDF with that "fake board" cover

I cant remember the term

Not laminate, right?

[lost python]

not sure either

[royal forge]

Imma wait for Cyber monday i guess

Is it cyber monday? The day with cheap shit

Its not TOO far from now, ye?

[lost python]

end of november

[pine thistle]

ye

but yeah it's also far away lol

[wraith agate]

Almost half a year

[royal forge]

Ohh

[royal forge]

Eh. I can wait. Not too bad i guess

[hazy frost]

Last gen WOLED panels seem like the cheapest and none of the older QD OLED ones are getting super cheap except the Alienware one

I was looking at either the new G60SD or the AOC AG276QZD but tough choice

People seem to complain about the matte QD OLED ones but not the matte woled ones I’m not sure if it’s a legitimate complaint or people just not being used to it bc it’s usually glossy

Also if ur looking at buying from Samsung apparently their warranty either doesn’t cover burn in or only covers it for one year compared to the 3 that other companies give u so that’s worth considering

[deep sapphire]

Grain of salt too Samsung quality control has gone down a lot in the last few years too so if anything get an aftermarket warranty if you do go that route

My LG C2 has no burn in after roughly 15 months of ownership so I think modern OLEDs do a good job mitigating it

[hazy frost]

yeah the only reason to consider is their sales put them very cheap compared to others

their new G6 here is £640 and the other monitors using the panel are around £850

[hazy frost]

we have a G2 and has no burn in after about a year as well

unless ur gonna only do office work on ur monitor its not an issue

just use dark themes and everything

ig i dont mind so much bc i already turn my monitor off whenever im not in the room by habit

also WOLED in general is less prone to burn in than QD so LGs panels are better if thats the main concern