technology-discussion

[deep sapphire]

but I bet most people will just put cheap shit on instead

[dire viper]

yea

[deep sapphire]

they probably use 6 piston brembos im guessing

[dire viper]

its actual brembo discs and pads

yep

brembo stuff is actually fairly good

[deep sapphire]

"well these dorman 2 pistons are only 60 bucks can you put those on"

[dire viper]

lmao

[deep sapphire]

brembos are great, just expensive yeah

[dire viper]

when I swap my brakes im gonna upgrade to an aftermarket kit cause I know the brand is good from experience and its like 400 dollars cheaper than OEM so

[deep sapphire]

thats just the cost you have to pay if you want performance shit

finely machined slotted brake rotors, 6 piston brake calipers and probably some crazy brake pads yeah

shit aint gonna be cheap

plus your tires go to mush after 20,000 miles

[dire viper]

the E46 M3 just has really weird sizing so its just cheaper to get a power stop kit for 550 for full front and rear instead of paying 350 for one axle

[deep sapphire]

and lets be real the average hellcat owner which they were approved for at the age of 22 probably doesnt care about spending the money to keep those in spec

550 is cheap

[dire viper]

plus you get drilled and slotted rotors for 550

which is pog

when I get to that point im probably just gonna buy rebuild kits for the brakes and pull them apart and have them zinced

get crazy yellow zinc so they look cool for the 3 months they will be shiny yellow

[dire viper]

true

same with audi and bmw buyers

if you actually dig for parts you can get stuff for cheap

ECS tuning is surprisingly very reasonable for parts

probably cause of the volume they do

[deep sapphire]

brakes is one of those things nobody cares about and its like

well thats what is gonna kill you lmao

stop cheaping out on safety people

[dire viper]

yep

[deep sapphire]

even in my old shitbox I put heavy duty brakes on and upgraded the terrible factory master cylinder with the newer GMT800 one

[dire viper]

turner motorsport has a kit for my car that is Bilstein B12's and Eibach springs for 1k which the individual struts and springs cost 1600 by themselves

[deep sapphire]

and it saved my ass cause 3 weeks ago someone slammed on their brakes on the highway and I was able to stop in time

even with no ABS

[dire viper]

B12's are the most aggressive road dampers they make

[deep sapphire]

[dire viper]

real

[deep sapphire]

bilsteins are always the best way to go if you got the money

nobody makes a better shock

[dire viper]

my ABS hasnt kicked on once even under super hard braking, like you have to be basically breaking the brake pedal for it to kick on cause it has stability control which is very aggressive

BMW M Dynamic Stability Control which was the same shit they used in the actual race cars at the time, E46 based

[deep sapphire]

https://qa1.net/ these guys out of minnesota make some really good shocks for older vehicles but pretty expensive

[dire viper]

I mean

you can get a kit from them for a Cuda that makes it drive like a brand new AMG

which is awesome

[deep sapphire]

yeah

im surprised nobody has attempted to make an aftermarket kit/controller for magneride

[dire viper]

probably cause its not worth it

[deep sapphire]

magnetic dampers for a classic car would be pretty sick

Aftermarket :

Tesla Model 3 (AWD,RWD)
Tesla Model y (AWD,RWD)
GWM TANK 300
Mercedes Benz W447 V class & Vito
In the aftermarket, Cosmarto[20] is the only supplier of intelligent suspension systems with a complete MRF+MRD+ECU+SW technology chain, and produces a small number of models, supported by several professors.

Cosmarto is also becoming well known in the global tuning market, especially for its Tesla Model 3/Y comfort and handling, and its sales representative, N2003 Auto Parts, has gained a good reputation for its good service attitude.

oh there is an aftermarket solution

probably stupid expensive

[dire viper]

I want an S class

Maybach S550 🧎‍♂️

[hazy frost]

I swear everyone over the age of like 35 who’s into cars that I know wants one

[deep sapphire]

that is a sexy hammer

but it costs 300 bucks

[cold yacht]

Imagine having abs

[deep sapphire]

True who needs it

[cold yacht]

It is funny a bit when I drive other peoples cars and they have a lot of safety features

Meanwhile the fancy thing in my car is cruise control

Back up camera do sound nice though

[deep sapphire]

you can buy aftermarket head units with them but you gotta wire it yourself obviously

[dire viper]

why

[deep sapphire]

forged in titanium with a steel head

[dire viper]

but y

[deep sapphire]

because people want nice tools

[dire viper]

yea but its titanium

when you are mar it or destroy it is just junk

[deep sapphire]

yes nice and light

[dire viper]

plus less mass to do the hammering thing

[deep sapphire]

its a finishing hammer

its not meant for hard striking

for that you would use a deadblow anyway

[dire viper]

then get brass hammer

[sly elk]

yea it's funny how with those cars, literally the same car, entirely different brakes, suspension.. well pretty much everything except the body and the dashboard is entirely different from the lowest to the highest model lol

[modern iris]

So anyone who uses a Wacom- how do you get your nibs to last longer?

[pine thistle]

tf

[wide hill]

chatgpt on nvidia overlay, whilst having microsoft copilot chatgpt

every app needs their own chatgpt client now

[golden stream]

Depend on your model and your preference
Some third party nibs may be more durable (i.e metal nibs, only use WITH surface protected film)
If you have a screen tablet and don't mind the slippery, just yoink the screen protector film out, better color and nib will never wear down (down side is absolutely no ring no bracelet in avoid screen scratching, as glass should withstand plastic well, not metals)

[wraith agate]

I do not need this

I don't need any of your AI garbo, corps

piss off

[golden stream]

The thing is
IT SPOILS THE GAME
LIKE BRO GIMME BY ABILITY TO HAVE MY ASS KICKED LIKE IN FROMSOFT GAMES

[potent arrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7NxRFT6FiI

Fuck that

[sly elk]

gaaaaaaahhh!!!!!!!

I've been using windows again on my pc the last week or two because an update broke linux in a way and combined with my stupid samsung monitor i can't see what the fuck is going on XD

and uhhhh

I HATE THIS AND NEED TO GO BACK lol

maybe i can get a small screen to fit under my big one

also finger sliding on my guitar doesn't feel right

[sly elk]

GoldenSound discusses the legal threats received from DAC manufacturer dCS over his review of the dCS Bartok.
Of course, it has to be an audiophile piece of equipment lmao

[potent arrow]

[sly elk]

I can't even find a dealer that names a price, but they go used/mint for $8000+

FOR A DAC

yhea no shit this is bored rich people with good lawyer territory

[modern iris]

I use a Wacom Intuos. And it's currently being tasked in an unconventional manner- as a substitute touch screen for a Nintendo DS emulator. But I'm finding that Trauma Center is destroying my nibs.

[sly elk]

i hesitate to buy another monitor though. I already have... a lot of monitors

if i could turn my surface pro into a monitor it'd be perfect

[sly elk]

https://www.amazon.com/Hagibis-Temperature-Electronic-Floating-960x640/dp/B0D3CW311P

that is friggin adorable

[sharp star]

https://x.com/tomwarren/status/1814991375269609948

Tom Warren (@tomwarren) on X

Microsoft has released a recovery tool to help IT admins repair Windows machines hit by CrowdStrike's botched update. The USB tool does all the work, speeding up the manual recovery steps. Full details below 👇 https://t.co/0HwUkJWhJY

Twitter · Jul 21, 2024, 11:50 AM

[pine thistle]

yes you do! the corporations know better than you /s

[wraith agate]

the corporations can eat my ass

[glossy ravine]

How often should thermal paste on cpus be replaced

[hazy frost]

Whenever thermals are becoming an issue

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

[signal fable]

i changed mine after 6 year of using my pc

but like waffle said when you see that you are having thermals problem change it

[dire viper]

Cars and coffee is kinda awesome today

[hazy frost]

Nice

Wish smaller local car shows were still a thing in the UK

[dire viper]

280SE slammed. This one is mint so it’s probably worth 130~160 range

It has the original paint

[potent arrow]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Feny5bs2JCg

oh fuck

[modern iris]

So are the eSports people about to start banning Razer peripherals?

that sounds kinda broken

[cold yacht]

Orrrrrrrrrrrrrr make it standard

Need bit more chaos in esports

[golden stream]

I FOUND THIS BLACK MAGIC FIX
https://www.reddit.com/r/wacom/s/LOGJ92r6yr

[pine thistle]

For the intuos pro I think you can also change the surface to a softer one

[golden stream]

I just heard the news of Samsung Fold6 release
Me look at le features: EZ SKIP
Ngl if you have Fold5 or not like AI schizzo, ez skip

[hazy frost]

Have they even fixed the bad glass creasing on the fold yet

As far as I was aware it still happened too quickly

Upgrading every gen is stupid for phones

There’s a difference between each generation but usually unless ur 2 or more behind then it’s not worth the upgrade

[golden stream]

Fold5 not yet

Drawing experience on fold5 is eh

Itz ok not too bad but better not draw on the crease

[hazy frost]

i always found them cool but the creasing means id never buy one

is it covered under a multiple year warranty or anything

phone market rn for me is just in general super disappointing

[golden stream]

Dunno tho

Eh imo this gen is meh, ez skip all

[hazy frost]

i always buy last gen anyway lol

i just ordered a new phone after 8 years

[golden stream]

I'll see when iphone gets a stylus I may consider switch

[hazy frost]

choices are mediocre

iphones are the only ones with the premium camera on the 6.1" phone

the android options all require the 7" phone for the high end camera

[golden stream]

Oh I got my 1TB fold5 for 250GB price in last black friday HEHEH

I'm ok w eh camera as far as there is stylus

[hazy frost]

i got the iphone 14 pro for £800

256gb

[golden stream]

Me handwriting note a lot

[hazy frost]

yeah

i mostly care about camera and battery

[golden stream]

And I just hate Apple Pencil and ipad is sometime a bit too big for my liking

[hazy frost]

and can only deal with the standard phone size

so apple still my go to

my favourite phone would be the pixel 8 pro if it was smaller

but it isnt

[golden stream]

My note10+ is still stonk, hyper power saving can last me for days

[hazy frost]

lol

i mean the camera on the 14 pro/s23u/pixel 7 pro is insane

so i wanted one of those

and apple certified refurbished is a good deal

[golden stream]

But ye I don't like too big screen, but I do like some screen estate for handwriting tho

[hazy frost]

google and samsung dont rly do that

[golden stream]

It IS always a good idea

[hazy frost]

i just cant use it one handed and the modern ones are too heavy

[hazy frost]

yeah £800 instead of £1050 or whatever

[golden stream]

The fold is like wat 250g

Not count the case

And my fold5 + case + accessories would hit 300+g

But from last gen/current gen to next gen, I don't see any point for it atm

[hazy frost]

out of what i can afford brand new the 14 pro had the best camera

so went with it

cant afford a s24 or pixel 8 anyway

[golden stream]

Ye.....

also the exynos

BRUH

Luckily my phones are all snapdragon so at least still ok battery

[hazy frost]

damn pixel 8 pro is £700 new rn

too bad its huge

[golden stream]

Like, I don't want too huge phone if they not have stylus

Tfw am considering getting a smol iphone just for vtubing and some light footage taking LOL
Not like my android couldn't tho

[hazy frost]

lol

idk why no one makes 6.1" phones with the nice camera

seems crazy to me

[golden stream]

the other reasons are GarageBand and parental control LMAO

[hazy frost]

i mean apple mostly does

but no one else

[golden stream]

NICHE MARKET DETECTED

[hazy frost]

idk WHY its niche tho

seems crazy that everyone is ok with 7" phones

[golden stream]

U know wat
Smol phone, decent camera, gud shite DAC for audiophile
I want that

[golden stream]

Me baby hand, but then again I use stylus a lot so a bit hard to argue w anything smaller than 7"

[hazy frost]

yeah

i want good camera with a decent battery in a size i can use one handed

also somehow even google with arguably the least bloated version of android manages to get terrible battery life

have to hand it to iOS for being efficient mostly

what i do not like is having like 0 file management in 2024

[golden stream]

Another reason why I don't go to apple's stuff

Their file management SUCC

[hazy frost]

yeahh

but like apple having better battery life with a significantly smaller battery is always funny

[golden stream]

I mean android has their share of sucky but hey they let you to copy your stuff to PC with ease

[hazy frost]

and better performance with half the ram

[golden stream]

Ngl if compared to my fold5 usage on my note10+, it drains p fast but then again I listened a hella lot vchuba streams/vods

[hazy frost]

lol

my iphone X gets between 1.5 and 4 hours of screen on time depending on what i do

mostly used at 50% brightness

[golden stream]

I use somewhat between 0 to 100%, mostly at uh, 20-40%??

[hazy frost]

yeah new phones ill sit at 50% all the time

dont need 1200 nits my phone maxes out at like 800 lol

i can have same experience at like 80% on a new phone

[golden stream]

The sun begs differ
But ye I don't have need for 100% bright at all unless going outside in noon

[hazy frost]

oh yeah i mean ill appreciate the 2000 nits outside

but i also live in england so thats like 2 weeks of the year

[golden stream]

SEA here, it's like Hell's Lid during summer

[hazy frost]

yeah its pretty bad in summer these days here

[sly elk]

i heard the fold 6 still has the same cameras as the fold 4 o_O

[hazy frost]

I mean I don’t expect it from the fold atl bc it’s a different use case

But like the s24 doesn’t have a great camera compared to the s24u

Even the plus doesn’t have the best camera which is a bigger one

Please SOMEONE make a smaller phone

The fact apple is my only actual option is insane

[sly elk]

https://old.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/1e8m7g7/i_dont_do_much_battling_here_but_i_do_enjoy/

[deft radish]

hola

I came here to see if the tech support could help me with the benchmark

since figured out that i could get a better help here probably

[modest moss]

what kind of help do you need?

[deft radish]

hmmm, I think the word im trying to say is... optimizing, to see if there's a way to make the make run smoothly when i really get to dawntrail and back to ffxiv

[modest moss]

what hardware do you have?

[deft radish]

AMD

wait...

AMD Ryzen 3 3200 G

with also vega

Yeah, I think that's it

[modest moss]

I'm not sure that even meets minimum requirements now

nope, you'll be lucky if it runs at all

[deft radish]

hmmm, I knew the light not working properly wasn't a good sign : (

And I had good hopes with apex actually running smoothly in here too

guess i'll have to get another one if i want to play the game then

[modest moss]

like, you can try it on minimum specs, but I wouldn't expect much

[sly elk]

vega's better than an rx480

[modest moss]

kyanche thinks your hardware meets minimum specs, give it a try

[deft radish]

Ok, I did it, here's my score in High Settings:

There was a bit lag, and just some lighting stuff as I said

[modest moss]

try medium

[sly elk]

ok I think the reason the latest fedora 40 broke my pc is... the nvidia driver... it just has to be lol

what else is gonna cause a black screen at boot?

[deft radish]

Yep, it changed nicely!

There was just some small lag in the more flashy parts but now the lighting problem was gone

[sly elk]

yea it's like
rx 7/65xx+ > rx 5600/5700 > radeon 7 > vega 64 > vega 56 > rx480/580

the rx480 was a $200 budget card that came out in 2017 lol

[modest moss]

to be fair, that screenshot looks awful

[deft radish]

Oh, its because of the standard graphics really looks like that lol

[sly elk]

time to get a new gpu?

3200g is rough though

[deft radish]

Yeah, when I have the chance

But for now i don't know if it is necessary since the only game showing this sort of issue is ffxiv

mostly cuz I don't have lots of games that have high resolution or high graphics : P

[pine thistle]

tbh it's not like ffxiv has super crazy graphics either

it's still a 2013 game

[deft radish]

yeah, ffxiv is not even close to being a Elden Ring for sure XD

so yeah, for now it is fine

[modest moss]

it's not really a 2013 game now

more like a 2018 game after the update

[deft radish]

true, true

[sly elk]

yay fixed linux, just needed to update myu stupid nvidia driver and then it booted fine again

woot

[inland mauve]

Linux didn't boot because of a bad driver?

[sly elk]

sounds familiar doesn't it? XD

in this case I believe it DID in fact boot, I never tried sshing into it lol

but the driver was hosed so all I saw was a black screen

[lethal dune]

I need help

With PC build

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/Lynsan/saved/KQy2rH

I found out that the RAM I got is for Intel

And I have an AMD card

[royal forge]

i'm surprised PC part picker didnt throw up an error

@lethal dune Yea, the case you can take ur time tbh

its not TOO big an issue

[lethal dune]

My friends said that the RAM is fine

[royal forge]

another thing to take note

is that ur using a microatx

mobo

and an ATX case

unless ur plan is to use a microatx case

in which case, ur GPU might be a cause of headache

im not knocking on microatx mobos

but having built a microatx in an ATX case before

it DOES look empty

which annoys me

but im an idiot that way

[lethal dune]

I was thinking like

Buying a PC case where I cannot see it

I ummm

Sensitive to lights

[royal forge]

oh

hmm

i think.. most cases nowadays has a glass side?

[lethal dune]

I might ask Mr store man when I go and get my mobo

[royal forge]

and u gotta make sure u have case fans too

as in, the case COMES with case fans

and how many

sometimes they give just one

which i nearly fell for

fucking slapped that bitch

Theres also the matter of usage

gaming

3d

video editing

4070 is good either way

but, for example, since I like to do 3D rendering as a hobby

i got a 3090

[lethal dune]

I was thinking of getting 4070 super cause I heard good things from it

And is the best one so far

[golden stream]

Well it's ok card though

[royal forge]

ye ye, not knocking it

just, ya know

OPTIMIZATION

[golden stream]

Ngl I would get the Ti if I could but can depend on your wallet

[royal forge]

Just get a 4090

[golden stream]

for hobby 3d rendering, 3xxx is nice

[golden stream]

well, $

[royal forge]

Lets me render 3D nicely

And i can smack large scenes nicely

But i DO wish i could have afforded a 4090

But...

Ya know

[golden stream]

I mean also the price as well

[royal forge]

THAT SHIT IS EXPENSIVE

That and the cable burning bollocks

[potent arrow]

connector

not cable

[royal forge]

Yea. That.

[golden stream]

at least the 3xxx is still cheaper if you don't need too much bell and whistle

[royal forge]

And if u pick up a few from exmining rigs

Its not hard to setup render farms

I wont, cuz

Ya know

[golden stream]

yeah that infamous connector

[royal forge]

Im not THAT crazy

Viy, buy me 2 4090s

Thanks

[golden stream]

nyeh

[royal forge]

I'll take that as a yes

[golden stream]

me $ for simping

[royal forge]

LMAO

Vtuber simp 👏

[golden stream]

Oy HYTE vtuber collab cases are nice

[royal forge]

It is...

[sly elk]

That's valid. I just roll my eyes when I see a setup where they stuff the pc in a dark room and run their monitor at 100% brightness

[royal forge]

The ame one

But its too flashy for me

[golden stream]

the 60 lineup is gud

[royal forge]

Fuck. That reminds me

Ame pop up

I already PO-ed Ina's but no stock yet

[golden stream]

And apparently HYTE has at least a few Vtuber simps in their corpo which is based

I plan to get a HYTE system for streaming (w11) while my main is linux gaming and stuff

[sly elk]

heh

mmm

[golden stream]

Ngl I don't understand why lol unless color correcting

[sly elk]

color correcting in a dark room doesn't make much sense either

hnng fedora 40 feels so much faster than win11 on my machine

[golden stream]

it's fine somewhat

[sly elk]

it's kinda funny because this is a 7800x3d with 64gb ram

[golden stream]

always has been

[sly elk]

and win11 is on a pcie4 ssd while fedora is on a pcie3 ssd

[golden stream]

mine are on all pcie3 iirc? Intel mobile 12th or 13th I think, 40GB DDR4 memory

still fedora much faster

[lethal dune]

About to return my RAM in a few days

Because I was lied about the package

I thought it was for AMD

It was for intel

[sly walrus]

… ram is ram

[lethal dune]

It’s a Corsair RAM

[sly walrus]

it’s not “for” anything

[sly walrus]

… and?

[lethal dune]

I’m more worried it ain’t fit the AMD CPU

Because it’s an intel one

[sly walrus]

ram doesn’t care about what cpu you’re using

different cpu doesn’t change the ram slot

[sly elk]

This isn't a problem if you're talking about XMP vs EXPO

[lost python]

all this means is that they got money from intel

[sly elk]

yeeeup

you can safely use and overclock xmp ram on an amd machine, and use/overclock expo ram on an intel machine.

idk if the pre-cooked profiles will show up in the uefi settings though

-shrug-

like if it doesn't cost anything to switch, go right ahead. but if you get a better deal on one vs the other

[golden stream]

In nutshell, memory/ ram doesn't care much about cpu at all for basic stuff

[hazy frost]

Afaik neither company will cover u if it breaks something anyway bc it’s still just considered OC to them

So it doesn’t even matter if it’s branded for the ‘right’ cpu

[golden stream]

Tfw I have 40GB memory and still work fine

[hazy frost]

I had my first 32gb Corsair kit just stop working within 4 weeks for ddr5

[golden stream]

also if no need of overclock, stock is totally fine

me undervolt team

[hazy frost]

I don’t even bother touching ram or cpu on am5 anyway

Enable PBO and forget about it

UV if anything

[golden stream]

Aight, that bad? I'm still on DDR4

cheaper btw

[hazy frost]

I just don’t trust Corsair ram for ddr4 or 5

Anecdotally it’s the one I’ve had way too many issues with

As have people I know

[hazy frost]

7700x doesn’t run with ddr4 unfortunately

[golden stream]

low height ram man

[golden stream]

yeah ofc, DDR4 stops at 5xxx of AMD

[hazy frost]

It’s not expensive to buy ddr5 either anymore

32gb kits are like £80

[golden stream]

SFF build has limited choice of ram if want short height ram tho

[hazy frost]

Which is in line with the price of current gen CPUs using it

[hazy frost]

Yeah I wish I had low profile ram as well bc it’s in the way of my cpu cooler

[golden stream]

eh mostly I just don't want more e-waste

[hazy frost]

I hadn’t upgraded since like 2017 so

I needed a new platform anyway

[golden stream]

planning in converting my stuff to either NAS or minecraft machine for my cousins

Should I get DDR5 or wait for DDR6?

[hazy frost]

DDR6 is close so if u don’t need to upgrade soon I’d just wait bc worst case ddr5 will be cheaper even if ddr6 is too expensive

[golden stream]

yeah I don't really need to upgrade right now, even OG LCD steam deck is plenty

[inland mauve]

crazy that DDR6 is close

my current build is DDR5 and the one before that was DDR4

[hazy frost]

DDR6 is coming much faster than DDR5 did

It’s a few years sooner

It’s like ddr4 is still viable now tho so anyone with a ddr5 build shouldn’t rly care

Unless u have a lot of money and need it for work to stay at top performance

But that’s 1% of people

[inland mauve]

oh no I'm good for years with this rig

[lost python]

ddr6 is planned for 2026

[golden stream]

I'm ok with my current setup, even my DDR4 laptop is hella plenty

[inland mauve]

I don't think I'll need to consider upgrading until like 2028 or so, depending on how tech advances in the next few years

what kinda speeds are we looking at with DDR6?

[golden stream]

or bug fix peep

[lost python]

initially planned to start with 8800-12800 with room to grow

[golden stream]

ngl I'm not that hype for DDR6 but kinda interesting in Intel ARC

[hazy frost]

DDR5 will probably get stable at faster speeds on the CPUs coming out rn as well

Hopefully

Bc there’s already kits well above 6000 and some CPUs u can OC well on way above that

[inland mauve]

damn that's a big step

[lost python]

highest possible is allegedly 21000

but lets see how it will be in reality. its still far from done yet

[inland mauve]

21000

if they can pull that one off the gens of CPUs that support DDR6 are going to be insane

I hope they won't also be insanely unstable

[lost python]

it likely will be

[sly elk]

if you didn't return it, you can rma it

corsair will replace it

I had xmp ram die on me before and they replaced it

(that implies, yes, I did use the xmp settings and oc it)

corsair replaced a 4.5 year old AIO cooler for me too, when I complained that a few of the RGB LEDs were burned out and it wasn't displaying colors correctly anymore

admittedly they made me pay for shipping to FRIGGIN GEORGIA from california on that one >< it cost like $35 iirc 😦

it was worth it i guess, they gave me a new unit to replace the old one

[hazy frost]

I didn’t bother bc I was in a rush to just have it working as I got rid of my other laptop I could’ve used at the time

So I just replaced it and got on with what I had to do at the time

[royal forge]

I am an exceptionally stupid boi who doesn't know how to compile shit

Is there anyone who does programming, mind helping me compile a github zip

[royal forge]

Never mind

[inland mauve]

oh man

a colleague linked me to a Twitter thread explaining what went wrong with the CrowdStrike update

basically it was a null pointer caused by the driver trying to read a memory address that Windows has strict access control on

[lost python]

is it the nonsense one or is it the real one

oh it was the nonsense one

[inland mauve]

I thought the thread was a bit weird and the writer kind of up his own ass

but I didn't think a whole lot of it until I got to the tweet that started off with "If you are looking for conspiracy theories..."

and then went into how the replacement language for C++ is Rust, and it is compromised by woke

[inland mauve]

is the whole thread nonsense?

honestly with how up his own ass this guy is, it wouldn't surprise me

[lost python]

full os mistakes and assumptions that others pointed out but the OP is basically "im right because i am a professional"

here is an example of one of the many people who pointed out whats wrong with this guys analysis
https://x.com/taviso/status/1814762302337654829

Tavis Ormandy (@taviso) on X

This strange tweet got >25k retweets. The author sounds confident, and he uses lots of hex and jargon. There are red flags though... like what's up with the DEI stuff, and who says "stack trace dump"? Let's take a closer look... 🧵1/n

Twitter · Jul 20, 2024, 8:40 PM

[inland mauve]

oh boy

[sharp star]

did it mention a certain Malaysian

[inland mauve]

who?

Aoi?

[sharp star]

No

The American LARPer

[inland mauve]

no

[sharp star]

lmao because I found another thread that brought him up

[inland mauve]

conspiracy Twitter in full power on this one huh

[lost python]

its just so tiring

[sharp star]

https://x.com/kitten_beloved/status/1814461894901805283 this is the thread

Kitten 💖🐈 (@kitten_beloved) on X

Hi, professional c++ programmer here, this is an arcane error known as a null pointer exception understood only by myself and six other experts

Malaysian guy jumps in "do you think DEI caused the null pointer exception"

Never leaving this site

Twitter · Jul 20, 2024, 12:46 AM

[inland mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/it's-all-so-tiresome-tiresome-nian-arknights-nian-arknights-gif-1297473812411213853

is the person who posted that nonsense thread a Malaysian LARPing as an American?

[sharp star]

No, he replied to the screenshotted tweet Rob linked

[royal forge]

MALAYSIA MENTIONED

Wow. No meme malaysia gifs

[inland mauve]

that's your job

my job is to remind everyone that the Netherlands exist

https://tenor.com/view/king-koning-nederland-netherlands-footba-gif-21948610

[royal forge]

Smh

American being out radicalized by malaysian

Smh

[lethal dune]

What's the difference between ATX and Micro ATX

Like the mobo

[hazy frost]

Size

And sometimes the smaller one will have like one less m.2 slot or something bc of size

Otherwise not much

[lost python]

or less pcie slots etc, which isnt a problem anyway unless you specifically need one extra outside of gpu

[royal forge]

SLI 4090

Maaaan

I wish SLI was still a thing cuz people would spend big bucks and it'll still be jank

[hazy frost]

4090 doesn’t support nvlink

[lost python]

does SLI even still exist

[hazy frost]

We had nvlink last gen

[royal forge]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-the-joke-ranier-wolfcastle-mc-bain-the-simpsons-stand-up-comedy-gif-4372917

[hazy frost]

U can have 2 3090s

But not two 4090s

[lost python]

and just like that i stumble upon some korean tech channel that slapped 4x 4090 with a 5995WX in one case

https://youtu.be/nutcswn81RU

that right there is enough money to pay off my remaining student loan and build me an entire new rig

[potent arrow]

REAL

[inland mauve]

holy shit

it is my dream to one day build something like that

even though there is no practical use case for it

[lost python]

honestly, all this watercooling and cablemanagement sounds like a huge pain to me

[inland mauve]

except for maybe if you want to render a Pixar movie at 1 frame per second

yeah cable management is a pain

and I am not good at it

my biggest mistake with my current rig was to not buy a PSU that had a direct 12VHPWR connector

just an oopsie-woopsie on my part there

when I say "I want to build something like this" I mainly mean the aesthetic aspect of it

if a game like PC Builder Simulator let you build something like this

[frail nebula]

I feel bad for anyone running a 13th or 14th gen Intel CPU right now.

[sharp star]

Yeah

[lost python]

id love to build a super minimalistic and sleek SFF build for that purpose

[sharp star]

An i5-13600K(F) and above is not fine, locked multiplier 13th gen i5s and below are fine (because rebranded Alder Lake), Alder Lake is completely fine, Raptor Lake Refresh is not fine (even the i3s and i5s)

that's the the tl;dr for Raptor Lake

Yeah I'm considering making a more in-depth pinned post on Raptor Lake

[lost python]

do it

[potent arrow]

I would just wait for Intel's statement and official coverage

at least beyond, don't buy 13th/14th

[sharp star]

Yeah

[potent arrow]

I wouldn't buy 13/14th anything tbh, even stuff below the i5 just because it's probably gonna have issues down the line many years in the second hand market lmfao

I don't trust it

[sharp star]

Same

I can't comfortably recommend Raptor Lake chips, nor do I have optimism for any sort of long-term fix

[potent arrow]

there is no optimism

it has to be a physical flaw

I doubht anything beyond RMA will fix this garbage

[sharp star]

Zen 5 coming up in nine days is also bad for Intel

[potent arrow]

my worry is that next Gen Intel is going to have the same issue

[sharp star]

god if Arrow Lake shits the bed

[potent arrow]

you don't just spin up a new chip design in a day, idk how long they knew this was an issue

so if it's a manufacturing defect lmao.

from an integrator standpoint you can't convince me to buy Arrow lake out of the bat

I'll wait a year or so before I do

and I won't be alone on this

so Intel is probably going to lose a good chunk of early adopters to this

[sharp star]

When does Arrow Lake arrive? October?

[inland mauve]

how worried should I be

[potent arrow]

~~idk if you don't want downtime due to instability maybe save a lil money ~~

[inland mauve]

this is the CPU in my machine right now

[lost python]

time for that 7800x3d sidegrade

[potent arrow]

I meant save money for a new cpu and motherboard

[potent arrow]

REAL

[inland mauve]

the only way I've really experienced CPU problems so far are with the sound buffer stuff when capturing app-specific audio

and I was able to mitigate that by routing audio to two separate DACs to split it across separate tracks without having to capture app-specific audio

[potent arrow]

you mean by migrating it off your cpu?

[inland mauve]

ye

[potent arrow]

I'm just saying, maybe be ready before it starts crashing

lmao

[inland mauve]

I have a backup system at least

[modest moss]

my decision to build 12th gen i7 3 months before 13th gen came out has never looked better

[sharp star]

lmao that was a bullet dodged

I hope I can recommend Intel after Arrow Lake launches but for now my answer is gonna be a hard no

[hazy frost]

Both the product and pricing needs to improve

Hopefully at a minimum the product improves with next gen

[sharp star]

Pricing is probably the least of their worries right now

[hazy frost]

It’s still a negative reason I wouldn’t recommend it

Mostly the lower end CPUs are priced pretty badly

Especially compared to AMD

[sharp star]

If I were to recommend Intel, they'd be Alder Lake chips or the buyer is my worst enemy

[hazy frost]

The only one I’ve recommended recently is the 12400f or 12600kf in the US when on sale lol

[odd sand]

cmon it's only a 10-25% chance /s

I guess the next question is: Will the supposed corrosion issues be present in the 15th gen chips they've been making preparing for the fall?

Or is it only an issue bc they were ekeing out every last drop from the monolithic arch before they were ready for the switch at 15th gen? Kinda like how they were stuck on 14nm for 8 years or w/e due to the issues with 10nm

[paper tusk]

if it's going to be through TSMC for first batch no

if manufacturing returns in house all bets are off

[potent arrow]

Im really hoping that we wont have memes in 15th gen

[hazy frost]

a tempting purchase

this car is beautiful, 2000s UK car culture unmatched

no one puts playstations in their cars these days

[paper tusk]

mood

[compact pine]

So this is just any 13-14 gen ?

I have a the i7 13700k but have had zero issues since I got last last year I think

[deep sapphire]

13600 and up yes

I have a 13700K that has the problem

[compact pine]

Ffs got damn

I got it in September. So it's a high chance or.luck of the draw really?

[deep sapphire]

If you have no issues I wouldn’t worry about it yet

Nobody knows exactly what’s going on

[potent arrow]

Yeah I'm not trying to fear monger or anything

just be aware there is a weird looming problem with these two gens

[wide hill]

why tf does windows clock have a SIGN IN for a goddamn clock.
and the login expires, so you have to enter your microsoft password to login

[sly elk]

yessss

[wide hill]

basically this pops up immidiately if the login expires

[hazy frost]

It’s selling like a few miles from me lol

It’s well over what I’d pay for it now tho

Richard Hammond sat in it and from a decen sized car YT channel so

It’s gonna sell for too much

[sly elk]

heheh

[glossy ravine]

So I have this really bad ghosting/grainy look effect when I move the camera in ffxiv with my new montior? I'm not sure how to fix it. It's totally fine in my other montior.

[muted spoke]

Intel finally said something... https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/July-2024-Update-on-Instability-Reports-on-Intel-Core-13th-and/m-p/1617113#M74792

[deep sapphire]

now we need to know if the voltage caused permanent damage because I have no doubts it did

[deep sapphire]

whats the refresh rate set at

[glossy ravine]

I had it set to 60. Tried the 59.number and it didnt fix it

Tried taking a screenshot but. Doesn't capture the blur and whatnot

[deep sapphire]

whats the highest refresh rate you can select

was it that spectre monitor you listed a few days ago?

[glossy ravine]

correct

[deep sapphire]

I thought that was much higher like 144hz

you should have it set to the highest available option

[glossy ravine]

It would be out of sync with my other montior. Wouldn't that be an issue?

[deep sapphire]

only if you were playing with surround, it shouldnt matter otherwise

I use to have a 60hz monitor and 144hz monitor attached to my PC and never had an issue

can you post the monitor you bought again

[glossy ravine]

Updated. Fixed the ghosting issue

[deep sapphire]

alright

yeah 60hz seems way too low for a gaming monitor in 2024

[glossy ravine]

The colors dont match between each monitor though

[deep sapphire]

monitors use different panel technologies that can display colors differently, either that or you have the color bit rate set differently

https://i.imgur.com/psmVgYn.png

where it shows output color bit rate

unless its really bad I wouldnt worry about it

it should by default select 8-10 bit which is more than high enough

[glossy ravine]

Kinda hard to tell with the photos but.

[deep sapphire]

thats simply just how each monitor displays colors differently

[glossy ravine]

(I used an AMD graphics card.)

[deep sapphire]

the one on the right has a higher RGB value

you can adjust it in your graphics card software

I dunno what AMD calls it now, im so use to calling it catalyst lol

[glossy ravine]

I assume that's Adrenalin?

[deep sapphire]

yeah that

[glossy ravine]

God that's so weird having a 244hz monitor

[deep sapphire]

you should see similar settings

[glossy ravine]

It's almost too smooth.

[deep sapphire]

look for vibrance or contrast settings

tune them to your liking

[glossy ravine]

Thank you Hank 🙏

[deep sapphire]

np

[glossy ravine]

You're a blessing ❤️

[deep sapphire]

😄

glad to help

[sharp star]

Holy shit we can finally close this chapter for now at least

[glossy ravine]

Turns out I prefer cooler temperatures on my lights. Neat

[deep sapphire]

Most displays will have a built in menu where you can adjust color temperature as well, some will even have a mode to reduce eye strain using warmer hue

It’s beneficial to use that at night before bed they’ve shown white/blue light really messes with your sleep quality

[hazy frost]

Yeah using night mode on my phone was a good decision I made somewhat recently lol

I think most people use their phone closer to the time they sleep than their monitor

[deep sapphire]

yeah I've been using Night Shift (thats what iOS calls it) before bed and I have noticed a big difference

[hazy frost]

Yeah I have it come on at 10pm now bc don’t have to sleep as early

Before I had it for 9

So I got atl an hour of it before sleeping

It definitely made a difference

[potent arrow]

@deep sapphire https://fxtwitter.com/shitpost_2049/status/1815391347639251372?s=46

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

Okay I have a question how the fuck do you get VSR to work on non web content I’m getting sick of this shit VLC doesn’t work, MPC only works with HDR

[hollow hamlet]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/nvidias-third-party-rtx-40-series-gpus-are-losing-performance-over-time-thanks-to-rubbish-factory-installed-thermal-paste/

[inland mauve]

[sly elk]

ugh but taking aparta gpu to swap out thermal paste is a pain

[glossy ravine]

I have my blue light filter to go on at 9 pm

[pine thistle]

wasn't the blue light thing disproven

[golden stream]

Somewhat ye
But night light mode does make the eyes more comfy

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/3dJsCHYo_zc?si=YUZIyD0NLH-dJRUM

the maserati refuses to be fixed lmao

does a whole engine out service with replacing half the engine, engine then decides to explode

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/jNZHoo2D_WI?si=yOjIQSY7bIEKdEGo oh cool an actual in depth video on the Valour

[sharp star]

tl;dr learn to disassemble your card and replace the thermal paste

but yeah it’s pain

[sly elk]

I wonder if a 392 would fit under the hood

a used 392 would probably cost more than the car is worth LMAO

[dire viper]

eh

392's are cheap

cause not that great of an engine ngl

[sly elk]

so are used maseratis especially with broken engines

[dire viper]

yea but I wouldnt 392 swap

its a fat engine

[sly elk]

it's a use case where you want a fancier/more unique car than a 300c/charger but don't wanna deal with a maserati engine

[dire viper]

compared to the skinny one in that Maserati

[sly elk]

then again

[dire viper]

thats still a ferrari era Maserati engine

so its based off of an actual lightweight V8

[sly elk]

it'd be easier/cheaper to just buy something else that doesn't require an engine swap, like a used 7 series with a b58

[dire viper]

yea but wheres the fun in that

[deep sapphire]

Thermal paste should last the life of the GPU

[sly elk]

my thought was

unlke an LS swap

[deep sapphire]

having it degrade after 2 years is pathetic

[sly elk]

a hemi swap might actually just bolt right in

[deep sapphire]

My 1070 lasted me 7 years and I never once had to repaste it

[dire viper]

no

afaik Maserati actually uses the engines as stressed members

where as I can count on one hand how many US designed cars have done that and they start with Saleen and Hennessey

so the engine sits on plastic pucks isolated but still taking the stress of the chassis flexing, rather than the engine being giving a lot of leeway in its movement

392's flex the hell out of their motor mounts

[sly elk]

ahh ok XD

[dire viper]

most of Maserati's design team was from Ferrari prior to their split

the Ferrari California was originally going to be a Maserati

then they split and so Ferrari had to make molds for aluminum body panels instead of steel ones for the Maserati design

its why the early Calfornias are ugly lmao

they had to make do with like 3 months worth of engineering time to make it work

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSmKiws-4NU

[lost python]

i am so confused man

i redid my wiring when i moved my desk around and since then i didnt have the issue anymore where my pc would just shut down by itself or not turn on.
since then i had my charger not work anymore at some random point though, however it worked on other outlets so i assumed one outlet of my power strip is broken.
but today again, pc wouldnt turn on.
so i was like "ok this surely means the PSU is dying", but at the same time, my mobo still gets power and has its RGBs on and everything that is connected to the PC gets power, including one of my charging cables... so maybe its the mobo after all?? or what kinda psu problem gives power to everything else but doesnt turn the PC on until i disconnect power from it and reconnect it

[potent arrow]

Uh wtf lol sounds like your mobo

wonder if its not grounded properly

or even worse its shorted to the case

[lost python]

definitely not shorting to the case

but i wouldnt be surprised if asus had some issue. this board has been nothing but a piece of shit so far anyway

i did contact the bequiet support now though, becuase in all honesty i am more likely to get help with my mobo even from them than from asus

[potent arrow]

Im almost certain its a grounding issue either way

or something ont he board is shorted

[lost python]

then why does it only appear every 4-6 businessmonths

primarily when the pc is turned off

[potent arrow]

well thats why I suspect grounding issues, it would have many different random things that can cause it to act up. Weather, static, capacitors charge state when its powered down etc

Maybe the board idle state is fucky too

Grounding is like, the wildcard of issues

[odd sand]

Sounds like a Ground Fault to me IMHO. If you want to put some time into it, try unscrewing the mobo and pulling it up and make sure all the standoffs are firmly in place and the screw spots on the top of the mobo aren't scraped or something to where they could contact other layers of the board and cause a ground

Then make sure all the connectors are firmly connected to the board. If your PSU has one of those 20+4 split connectors, the +4 might be not down all the way, etc.

[lost python]

i did those things already

[odd sand]

Or if it has one of those 110/230v switches, make sure it's firmly in the correct mode

I'd say borrow a PSU from a friend to test, but if it's as random as you say, it might not show up in a day of testing.

I had a PSU that the Caps started going on it, so I had a hard reset every once in a blue moon. Eventually 2 of them popped in spectacular fashion, and that was it for that PSU lol

Made 2 high-pitched whines followed by PYOOOOOOOOOOOoooo popping sounds back to back so yeah...

Had that PSU for like 8-10 years tho, so can't complain.

Which is ironic bc reading the reviews on them, they appeared to have a 50% failure rate in the first year. So I guess I got the golden sample

[lost python]

mine is 2 years old by now but i have a 10 year warranty on it so that shouldnt be an issue. i did contact the manufacturer already and asked them if they have encountered this issue before. maybe they will send me a new one to try

[odd sand]

I had this magnificent chinesium beast. Tagan 700W from like 2008. Basically nothing else on the market had LEDs on the PSUs yet and very few case fans even.

[lost python]

oof

[odd sand]

Unsurprisingly, they went out of business in like 2012 or so I think? lol

[pine thistle]

guess they were too early

[odd sand]

On the LEDs? Not really. Hard to stay in business if you have a reputation for failing within 1-2 years is more likely

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/tagan-a-plus-diablo-advance/5.html

Haha wow, I didn't even realize they made cases and then sold the PSU with the case. Not a bad idea I suppose

In that period when 180-200-220mm fans were all the rage

Holy shit... is that like a 250mm even? That side fan is enormous...

Found the specs:

330mm side fan

https://tenor.com/view/wheeze-wheeze-laugh-nikkal-kundhal-nikkalkundhal-gif-23223780

[inland mauve]

turns to look at Intel

[odd sand]

Oh please. It's like 10-15% can develop issues in a handful of the higher end skus, and also seems to be linked to using 700 series chipsets/DDR5. It's a big fuckup sure, but you can hardly say they have a widespread "reputation" for failure over many years.

That said, they better suck it up and offer people stress-tested replacements.

[inland mauve]

depends on if the failure continues into the 15th generation

[odd sand]

Indeed. I have to imagine they have their asses puckered doing validation testing on their current samples

Big question mark on that since 15th gen is their first non-monolithic design. And is it a die shrink at the same time as well?

Based on extensive analysis of Intel Core 13th/14th Gen desktop processors returned to us due to instability issues, we have determined that elevated operating voltage is causing instability issues in some 13th/14th Gen desktop processors. Our analysis of returned processors confirms that the elevated operating voltage is stemming from a microcode algorithm resulting in incorrect voltage requests to the processor.

Intel is delivering a microcode patch which addresses the root cause of exposure to elevated voltages. We are continuing validation to ensure that scenarios of instability reported to Intel regarding its Core 13th/14th Gen desktop processors are addressed. Intel is currently targeting mid-August for patch release to partners following full validation.

The article felt like astroturf, but we'll see eh

[inland mauve]

if that fixes the problem

then that's grand

[odd sand]

If the microcode patch causes reduced perf, that will still be a bit shit for those ppl

[inland mauve]

sigh so be it

is this the new operating model?

[odd sand]

But taking them at face value, that it was "incorrect voltage requests" then theoretically it should have minimal impact

[inland mauve]

release a new CPU that is faster than anything but unstable, then patch it later which will cut performance but that's okay because you already got your money?

I'll need to try out the patch to see if it really affects me in a noticeable way

probably not tbh

[odd sand]

I'm more surprised it was also happening in 13th gen bc while those were kinda hot, they ran fine. 14th gen was them basically taking mostly the same thing as 13th and trying to crank another 2-300mhz out of them to the point even 360mm AIOs are borderline for the 14900K

Reminds me of AMD's FX9950 was it? With the 230W TDP when the rest of their CPUs were half that

Was a last gasp with piledriver or sledgehammer or w/e

[deep sapphire]

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

[dire viper]

@deep sapphire the urge to buy this, straight pipe it and delete the waste gates on both turbos

It’s a S550 with every box ticked minus a fully custom interior

Non limo but not short wheel base

[sly elk]

those modular psus were cool looking af

never touched one but i loved the use of circular connectors

the shitty molex ones suck

idk what it is about the molex but they have a tendency to cut my fingers

[sharp star]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byZHIoqi8oo

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/stfPUaFWXts?si=xckG9S4MsKCufqdi

ok this thing looks awesome

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIWNnzsRQ-E @potent arrow

"no yeah"

[potent arrow]

This is gold

[sly elk]

yea and no, I think a lot of places crowdstrike was being used were dumb places to use it X_X
But I also think crowdstrike's architecture sucks (armchair system engineer here) and I think their quality assurance AND deployment process was awful given the customers they were selling this to lmao

like wow

in mission critical software one of the reasons we do code reviews and have multiple people sign off on code, not that it's ever happened, is if you have a bad actor involved who decides to throw something malicious in, right?

[potent arrow]

@sharp star https://youtu.be/OVdmK1UGzGs?si=Fx9Y07PkiZs1IBi3

fuck

actually fuck. lmfao

13/14th gen is kill

[sly elk]

I don't do the team amd/team intel crap but

https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1eao77t/unreal_engine_supervisor_at_modelfarm_blasts_50/

https://tenor.com/view/key-and-peele-messed-up-aaron-gif-9848731

https://tenor.com/view/cpu-smoke-amd-toms-hardware-overheat-gif-21739686

and it's funny because when I bought my 7800x3d I was joking around so hard about "I shoulda bought a 13900k but I decided to be dumb this time"

WTF INTEL lol

[sharp star]

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

[sharp star]

oh yeah for sure I don’t display any real brand loyalty towards one or the other, I just choose whichever’s best for my needs

[sly walrus]

brand loyalty is bullshit

[sly elk]

idk about brand loyalty but I do sometimes exercise brand favoritism xD

which is pretty much the same thing

but i guess in a different way

brand favoritism when you buy a lot of that brand's crap because you like that crap :3

brand loyalty when you walk into a store and buy brand x because you always trust brand x to make something good

[odd sand]

I guess if ppl still want to buy them it's best to go with Microcenter or some other PC shop that will do a stress test of the CPU for you to make sure it's worth buying.

[golden stream]

Ok ngl I don't like samsung as a brand, but I still like any phone of em that with stylus
That's favoritism
The apple stuff is a mix of loyalty and favoritism tho

[sly elk]

hehehe

I understand perfectly

apple should add 'pencil' support to the iphone pros >>

give me a reason to spend that kind amoney

to be fair, it's not as fun drawing on a phone-sized phone

i don't mind drawing on my fold4 when its unfolded though :3

[golden stream]

The notetaking is hella helping tho
I do draw a lot on phone, just not as much as notetaking
Tfw apple misses a hella huge niche there

[sly elk]

funny you should mention that

when I was in college i had a note 2, but getting a surface pro was like a huge change in note taking lol

at that point I had classes that were formula heavy though

would've loved to have that all along!

except the surface pro gen 1 battery life was AWFUL

anything less than like 4-5 hours on a portable is just awful

[golden stream]

If not accounting weak ass hardware, unable to expand, weird pen, it works well

[sly elk]

and I think i usually got 2 on a good day, 1.5 otherwise

but it was such a neat little machine to play with in 2013 lol

when apple was like THOU SHALT USE A TABLET WITH A SINGLE LIGHTNING PORT

[golden stream]

Iirc surface lineup still has meh battery life tho

[sly elk]

and the surface pro was just a regular ass windows laptop crammed into the general shape of an ipad lmao

[golden stream]

SEE

[sly elk]

the experience was so bad but it was so good

I ran code warrior on it and used it to program stuff in my embedded class rofl

mostly with a bluetooth keyboard ofc

[golden stream]

That's so flip flop like Nomura Tetsuya

It's both so bad (battery and stuff) yet so good (le pen)

[sly elk]

yea it was a very flawed product and that's why i loved it

the pen was nice, the performance was decent, and you could do anything with it that you could do with a computer

just awful battery life

honestly I still have a soft spot for that sorta mindset

[golden stream]

There is still weird interaction w Windows Ink tho but eh should be fine I guess

[sly elk]

like

[golden stream]

Intel ARC arc when

[sly elk]

me personally i'd never use a roku for my own TVs

it's probably always going to be a random old computer

cuz I can make it do anything i want it to

mmm maybe i should do a carputer in my jeep LOL

[golden stream]

LOL do et

[sly elk]

there's just a level of control and fuck-it when you do that hahahaha

[golden stream]

I once put my rigs onto a shelf
Someone made a PC in a frickin toaster and even toilet

the real deal btw, can game

[sly elk]

but yea i do like my lil folding phone

it also feels like a brick

[golden stream]

It is like brick + my case = real brick yesyes

[sly elk]

holy brick batman

[golden stream]

Third party case btw, when it opens the crease will fold at the back, creates a nice flat

[sly elk]

i don't carry mine in a case at all lol

my 3 dailies: the fold4, the iphone 13, and an iphone 8 for work

work did send me an iphone 12 that I couldn't get activated

[golden stream]

How le case works

[sly elk]

one of these days i'll give enough fucks to go to el segundo and get their IT people to give me a token so I can use it

lal lalalla

[golden stream]

Mine atm is fold5 note10+ and an a like android for work

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/redd-foxx-fred-sanford-and-son-nope-not-today-no-way-gif-14052366

hate driving to el segundo

[golden stream]

LOL

[sly elk]

why both a fold5 and a note10

company does give us choices of like, 2 year old iphones or new-ish low end samsungs

[golden stream]

Got note10 for years, but only got fold5 recently, still in transitioning data but then I use note10 as well for some shenanigans as the account on le note10 isn't mine

[golden stream]

Ngl 2 years old iphone is still good as new, should be a problem only like 3+ gens differents

[hazy frost]

Yeah I agree I got 4 years from my last one before I even considered an upgrade

I don’t think android flagships age as well except Samsung and maybe oneplus but still not as good

They may be better value at the price you buy them initially tho so there’s that

[golden stream]

Kinda depend?
Like I don't see many having much much stronger hardware setup than Note10+but then the limited android edition does hammering the phone itself
Then again apple must calc support like 3 generations of devices each update while android is like, so many phones of diff brand already plus the jankiness between updates or w/e

[hazy frost]

I just don’t think the hardware will age as well on most phones as iPhones

Especially pixel phones

They’re an amazing deal new but the tensor processors are already only like 60% of the SD and bionic chips are

And the battery life is already mediocre at best

So I don’t see them lasting the 7 years Google promises updates for

That being said they’re probably the android phone I’d go for rn anyway lol they’re just so cheap initially

[lost python]

ah fuck yes my embody is coming tomorrow

[inland mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/bear-sits-down-chair-gif-23521936

[hazy frost]

Enjoy

I had to sit at home waiting for my phone all day yesterday lmao

I really should pay for a specific window for my deliveries

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-yay-gif-22117749

[golden stream]

I'd give most android phone maximum usability of 5 years, include Samsung, 7 years if me be cheapo
My Note10+ iirc is ~4 years, I have an A8 (2018), barely usable but still ok if for light tasks

Like, my Note10+ is indeed showing its age a bit but for light/common task it's still just fine

[hazy frost]

My iPhone X did 6-7 years before it needed to go

It was 8 years this year and def not usable

My friends who get android flagships last like 4-5 before upgrading

[inland mauve]

[torpid kayak]

friend wanna buy a 27 inch 1440p monitor for digital art making. Anyone recommends anything? :3

[lost python]

budget?

[sharp star]

https://fxtwitter.com/BleepinComputer/status/1816060896541606063

[torpid kayak]

let's say $300

[torpid kayak]

^

[sharp star]

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/s2721dgf personally like this one

[lost python]

problem about the dell is that the color accuracy is ass before you calibrate it

[sharp star]

Yeah

It's still solid if you can live with manual color calibration

[hazy frost]

Not for art

Even then the g2724d is miles ahead and is basically a replacement

I have the s2721dgfa and contrast sucks and colours are poor unless u play with them in the menu

I’d look for an ASUS proart for digital art they’re on sale at the most reasonable price for that kind of thing normally

[sharp star]

oh yeah that's probably better

[hazy frost]

Everyone else who has a good one has it for a lot more money usually

[deep sapphire]

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/crowdstrike-ubereats-voucher-gift-card.png?resize=1200,996

[sly walrus]

"i'm gonna give you a cup of coffee to fuck off"

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/j18-yfOSJ_M?si=2NmQ3okp30dcV6J0

Lmao the comments

[wide hill]

https://x.com/TechCrunch/status/1816144611074548015

TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) on X

CrowdStrike is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology.

When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.” https://t.co/4UshB92ntP

Twitter · Jul 24, 2024, 4:13 PM

uuh

[wraith agate]

What

For all they did

$10 ubereats card and has been canceled too?

Are they itching to get sued?

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXRxWm9y3QQ

UUUUH AMD BROS!? INTEL AND AMD BOTH HAVING SHIT PROCESSORS ITS OVER

[sharp star]

oh no

[tame tartan]

honestly? just sue them tbh, they basically kneecapped the entire world for a few days because of bad quality control

[hazy frost]

Atl they delayed it and didn’t just give everyone issues ig

Intels next gen might not be terrible anyway

9950x is quite a lot better than the 14900k but I’d expect a similar uplift from Intel as well

If there isn’t that’s just disappointing

[deep sapphire]

the thing I find ridiculous is they totally scapgoated the corrosion issue lmao "it was already fixed" okay? well whats the fuckin date range cause just saying "2023" is pretty vague

guess who bought an intel processor in 2023

[hazy frost]

Lmao

[deep sapphire]

guess im gonna have to RMA it and use my old 6700K

ol reliable

[hazy frost]

The goat

I had a uhh

[deep sapphire]

slaps roof of... uuuh car or something

I remember when intel sold processors that were well under their full capacity and were reliable as shit

guess they forgot about that

[hazy frost]

I can’t remember which laptop i7-6 I had

But was OCd to like 4.4GHz boost

Was funny and hot as hell

Good times

[deep sapphire]

I dont think intel will ever achieve the lightning in the bottle like they did with sandybridge

[sharp star]

the play is still gonna be “wait for X3D” though

[deep sapphire]

the 2600K was legendary

[sharp star]

yeah

[hazy frost]

I’m sure it was like a 6870hk

I forgot the name

Naming for the laptop ones sucks

[deep sapphire]

a 3.0 Ghz processor able to achieve up to 4.7 GHz stable

thats just fuckin insane

1700 MHz OC stable

[deep sapphire]

ikr

[hazy frost]

Back before Intel sucked

[deep sapphire]

oh I just realized windows turned my desktop wallpaper black again even though I have a licensed copy of windows

how did I just notice that

I shouldve taken my ADHD meds

[hazy frost]

lol

[deep sapphire]

honestly its not the first time intel pushed things a little too hard

they made a I think 1.13 GHz Pentium III

and they all fried themselves after a couple months

they had to do a recall lmao

[hazy frost]

lol

I mean AMD sucked for a long time anyway

[deep sapphire]

A 1.13 GHz version (S-Spec SL4HH) was released in mid-2000 but famously recalled after a collaboration between HardOCP and Tom's Hardware[8] discovered various instabilities with the operation of the new CPU speed grade. The Coppermine core was unable to reliably reach the 1.13 GHz speed without various tweaks to the processor's microcode, effective cooling, higher voltage (1.75 V vs. 1.65 V), and specifically validated platforms.[8] Intel only officially supported the processor on its own VC820 i820-based motherboard, but even this motherboard displayed instability in the independent tests of the hardware review sites. In benchmarks that were stable, performance was shown to be sub-par, with the 1.13 GHz CPU equalling a 1.0 GHz model. Tom's Hardware attributed this performance deficit to relaxed tuning of the CPU and motherboard to improve stability.[9] Intel needed at least six months to resolve the problems using a new cD0 stepping and re-released 1.1 GHz and 1.13 GHz versions in 2001.

[hazy frost]

So whatever Intel did was still better than that

[deep sapphire]

yeah, AMD always had stability problems even back when they were considered good

I had weird issues all the time on my Athlon 64 and X2

same with my Phenom II

I doubt it was the actual processor but their chipsets were hot garbage

nvidia wasnt much better

I dunno if you remember nForce

[hazy frost]

I am not old enough to have owned those

lol

[deep sapphire]

ah, yeah nvidia use to make chipsets for AMD and Intel

and then Intel kinda fucked them over so they only made chipsets for AMD for a couple years

and they were hot garbage

[hazy frost]

Most of my knowledge is from the more recent part of the 2010s since like 2014 I think

[deep sapphire]

so they just stopped making them

and AMD's chipsets came from tons of random brands until they bought ATI and then used their Xpress line which were also hot garbage but seems like AMD has figured out how to make a decent chipset again

nvidia was also kinda weird in that if you wanted to use SLI the board had to have some special nvidia co processor on it

I do not recall crossfire X requiring anything like that, im also trying to remember I think when they stopped making chipsets only intel boards could use SLI until the FX series AMD chips

but CFX worked on both intel and AMD

well "worked"

ATI drivers were awful

[hazy frost]

Was that always a thing

I didn’t remember that being a thing with all of them

[deep sapphire]

Nah they stopped doing that after I think X58

So like 2009-2010

[hazy frost]

Ah

Yeah ok

That’s basically where what I know starts

I haven’t experienced anything before that first hand and have no reason to go back and learn it rn lol

[deep sapphire]

Intel had a cool but pointless chipset called skulltrail that allowed you to use 2 Core2 series processors

[sharp star]

Oh man Skulltrail

[deep sapphire]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Skulltrail?wprov=sfti1

[hazy frost]

Lmao

Enthusiast gaming platform

Is this like people who actually had workstation processors and used SLI for gaming

[deep sapphire]

Biggest issue was Intel’s front side bus was rather slow compared to AMD so it didn’t work very well

Yeah pretty much

EVGA also had a cool board called the SR-2 that let you use 2 first gen i7s

[hazy frost]

EVGA had a lot of cool stuff

[deep sapphire]

Thing was a beast was a full E-ATX sized board

[sly elk]

interesting

[hazy frost]

didn’t EVGA make a lot of weird EATX boards over the years

[sly elk]

i thought nvidia chipsets were supposed to be good

[sly elk]

and yes

evga sure did make some weird shit