technology-discussion

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/ov7GPDuWMa4?si=HbosyEJKEXqkEWpf yea that fits

[late basalt]

https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-flight-5-launch-super-heavy-booster-catch-success-video

Ok, that’s actually pretty impressive

[sly elk]

it's hella friggin impressive o_O

(and I say that as a space software person that has some understanding of GNC stuff lol)

heck yea!!!

shoot i'd think you'd get at least $24/hr working in service/parts/service mgr/whatever though

now i wonder what they pay here lol

[dire viper]

So because of how dealer parts pricing works your margins are piss poor

[sly elk]

you'd think there'd be a premium for being a walking car encyclopedia

[dire viper]

Do you can’t pay nothing to anybody lol

Parts departments always get cut first

Cause to get sales you have to make virtually no margin

Unless you own the local market for parts

ie BMW dealers in Utah

There are only two BMW dealers in the top half of Utah so they get to set the price on parts

So their parts people make a fuck ton compared to any other dealer, I’m actually gonna talk to them on Saturday about seeing if they have any positions open

Cause BMW club car show and dealer out reach thing

[dire viper]

Nah

[hazy frost]

lol if only people cared

[dire viper]

Most shops are bad and don’t care about people’s passion, they just want Joe bob who will work for a penny on the dollar and who can’t tell a steering rack from a sway bar

[hazy frost]

Tbf most jobs u get here it doesn’t matter if u have more knowledge bc u will do the same job as someone else who knows less

So why pay more for someone more qualified

[inland mauve]

man this auto transcribe stuff is taking a while huh

or is it because the video I'm trying to transcribe has only a single audio channel with everything smashed together

[sly elk]

are we talking all shops or just car dealer shops

[dire viper]

All shops

You’ll find a lot of shop owners are bottom of the rung in terms of personality and ethics

The whole fake air filter replacement thing is real

Where they bill you for an air filter and just don’t replace it lol

[sly elk]

yeaa i don't have a ton of experience with shops, the two shops I've dealt with were owned by the dude who fixed the cars and then had a relative working with them

[dire viper]

See that’s fine

[sly elk]

and both cases, they were faster and cheaper than firestone

and don't even get me started about car dealer service shops holy shit

tbh even if it's covered by warranty I sit there and think about it for a moment

[dire viper]

There are reputable shops it’s just lol lmao there are an equal amount of scammers

[sly elk]

i feel like the super high price of rent here is a litmus test for that to some degree lol

[dire viper]

Yea sorta

[inland mauve]

jesus this timer just keeps going up

[dire viper]

Labor in Europe is brutally expensive vs here in the US but parts seem to be a lot cheaper in Europe cause that’s where half of them are made lol

[sly elk]

like out here the sketchy repair people don't have their own shop

in fact

if you call a dude and they're like I'll come fix it in your driveway

that's a huge ass red flag

[dire viper]

Cali is crazy for the mobile repair guys

[dire viper]

Some of them are really fucking good

[sly elk]

yessss

but also even if their yelp reviews are good

[dire viper]

There’s a Porsche master tech that does that out in Cali

[sly elk]

I've damn near been ripped off by people with awesome yelp history

[dire viper]

He will fix ur vintage 911 in ur driveway which is peak

[sly elk]

then again that wasn't a car thing

also goodyear does mobile tire installs, those are neat lol

it'd be funny if they did mobile alignments

[sly elk]

though, there are practical limits on how much you can comfortably do in a driveway

and also some driveways just suck for it

[dire viper]

Yea

I do think as a service it makes a lot of sense tho, you’d just have to make hard yes or no’s on certain brands

And as simple as cars actually are, some cars are just miserable to work on

You’re not doing a Maserati in a drive way cause it’s designed like a Ferrari. Not to be worked on.

[sly elk]

LOL

-buys a ghibli- "Hey it's just like a 300" -famous last words-

[inland mauve]

it is up to an hour now and the progress gauge is still not moving

[sly elk]

i actually used to think ghibli ~= 300, but now I'm not sure that they're even that close

it might be like the stupid "the 300 is just a 1980s mercedes e class with a different body" myth

[dire viper]

It’s a car that for some reason is heavily inspired by a 1980’s Mercedes e class

God what a fucking story

[hazy frost]

Mobile mechanics are super common here but just working on regular traffic isn’t too hard

[sly elk]

because the 1980s mercedes E class rocks

[dire viper]

The 80’s E class was like a holy shit moment for Chrysler engineers, and Tbf that was a pretty substantial deal to have access to all the factory information for one of the best cars to be built pre 2000

[sly elk]

like maybe it's too outdated now but that shit was awesome xD

[dire viper]

Same with the 90’s S class, that car is still the last car to have the rear view mirror to be motorized and attached to the seat memory button

[sly elk]

it scooted and handled way better than the fwd full size sedans gm/ford/chrysler made before

[dire viper]

Three seat memories, they are attached to the seat, side mirrors and rear view mirrors

[sly elk]

daaayum

yea the side mirrors are a common one

[dire viper]

Yuh

[sly elk]

in theory cadillac saves them to your account

and you can log into your cadillac account from a rental cadillac and it'll retrieve your seat/mirror memory

.... I don't think it actually works though

[dire viper]

I mean the 500E does 0-60 in 5.5 seconds

That’s faster than most cars today and as fast as all the entry level sports cars lol

Also the 500E was just a compact S class, hence why they’re still absurdly expensive

Same with the 190E 2.3-16

Tbh the 190E 2.3-16 costs actually the same amount as these lower price 500E’s

Damn I might buy a 500E cause it seems like they’re trending downward in price

That for a next car would be peak

[sly elk]

as badly as things went

i think mercedes+chrysler was a lot better combo than fiat+chrysler

even if management/culture ego clashes ruined it

[dire viper]

Fiat Chrysler was just ran by a guy who was a ruthless penny pincher

Sergio Marchionne

[sly elk]

i think there was even more ego problems though

[dire viper]

He would have made Ferrari make subcompact SUV’s if he could have gotten his hands on them

[dire viper]

Italian bluntness vs American sensibility

[sly elk]

no i mean like

the whole giulia thing

[dire viper]

Wdym

Is it the fact that the Giulia got the best of everything lmao

The designers of one of the best sports cars ever made, leading edge technology (not infotainment) and priority over the US projects

I’ve only ever talked to 4C, 8C and Quadrifolgio owners and they’re better than BMW owners

I think base car owners would be little tyrants tho

[sly elk]

that they completely totally ignored the us market when they designed that entire platform and made something that was completely useless here and/or seemingly delayed any kind of adaption for the us market

i think the wrangler and some ram truck thing are the only things they've done in the us in the past 10 years

and pasting a dodge sticker on the toenail

[dire viper]

I mean the Giulia is just like a 3 series but without the 5 decades of history and existing market share

[sly elk]

i wonder how the 3 series is doing anyway

do people still buy em?

or is it all X3s now

[dire viper]

BMW is doing better than Mercedes rn

So yea

I see them a lot

[sly elk]

i feel like bmw and merc have always excelled at different things though

[dire viper]

Mercedes shit themselves and did the Porsche thing and just kept adding trims for zero reason

[sly elk]

LOL

[dire viper]

And their build quality went down a lot because of this

[sly elk]

like mercedes makes the S class

and at least historically, nothing else competes with the S class in a meaningful sort of way

[dire viper]

Where as BMW options are very limited

[dire viper]

Well not until Mercedes shit the bed in the 90’s

With the whole market recession

[sly elk]

BMW makes the 7 series and Audi makes the A8/S8, which can be better cars at times, especially within their niche

[dire viper]

BMW now has the expertise of building Rolls Royce’s

[sly elk]

idk even more recent S class are highly respected lol

[dire viper]

Which is why the i7 is so wild

It’s just a Rolls Royce with a smaller chassis and not as high end of an interior but still crazy nice

[sly elk]

i want an S class without all the luxury stuff and especially without the air suspension

-gestures this is where chrysler came in so well-

gimme >>

air suspensions are stupid >>

[dire viper]

Yea the S Class has stayed fine. It’s just everything else. The S class is its own thing compared to the lower class cars, same way a Cadillac is its own thing even tho it’s a GMC product

[sly elk]

faaair

[dire viper]

Cadillacs are built so well it’s crazy

[sly elk]

cadillac is such a strange hard sell

i think their sedans are the shit

[dire viper]

Cadillac does alright

[sly elk]

but they are such a specific thing

[dire viper]

The Lyriq had some teething pain but now that the production line is sorted it’s extremely nice

That and lmao the Celestiq

Maybach/Rolls Competitor that doesn’t hide what it is

[sly elk]

it's like an american maserati at this point i guess

[dire viper]

70% of rolls owners drive their own car

[sly elk]

thinking of the ct3/4/5

[dire viper]

Celestiq is designed for those people

[sly elk]

err there is a ct3 right?

[dire viper]

Maybe?

[sly elk]

maybe it was just 4/5/6

nice but expensive and just like a maserati nobody will ever take them seriously outside of the fans of the niche LOL

[dire viper]

Also I love how Cadillac, BMW and Hyundai all do their performance models the same

[sly elk]

I think that

[dire viper]

Same skin but very modified, with about a 30% increase in all performance metrics

[sly elk]

if I brought a ct5-v to work to take my coworkers to lunch

id' get more crap than if I bought a genesis g70 or whatever

[dire viper]

Loud burbly V8 yummy

[sly elk]

same if i brought a maserati lmao

[dire viper]

Yea but they’d think different when you put you’re foot into 100% throttle

[sly elk]

haha

but there's only so much practical use for that

[dire viper]

The car does the Cadillac thing perfectly while also having an unreal V8

[sly elk]

especially if you live where I do LOL

[dire viper]

True

[sly elk]

the only place you could stretch your legs is on the 91 after like 8pm

[dire viper]

Out here I see V’s all the time going full throttle

[sly elk]

or maybe the 405 after 10pm

[dire viper]

On canyon roads

[sly elk]

ya when i lived in the bay area one thing i liked doing in the 300c sometimes

wide open throttle on freeway onramps

and then slow down to merge into traffic LOL

(not the stupid way where you accelerate into braking and cause lift off oversteer)

hmm i wonder if the ct5v still has the v8

oh yes it does

:3 that's a fun way to spend 100k i suppose

[inland mauve]

man I saw a random tweet on my timeline

someone got scammed out of a huge sum of money and is now struggling to pay their bills and begging for help

that sucks

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/GWwiEzkxhOU?si=kyMUvMhqReEXUvLK

[sly elk]

https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z890 Taichi AQUA/

i just found out this is a thing

I love how they stuck the two most useful ports in the most obnoxious spot

[sly elk]

I got matching cables :3

[inland mauve]

god why is the audio transcription 30 seconds off the actual timing

this doesn't make any sense

the transcription is accurate, it just thinks words happen roughly 30 seconds before they actually happen and I don't understand why

[odd sand]

What would those be?

[paper tusk]

guessing the thunderbolt ports

square between a bunch of crap

[sly elk]

Yep!

The ports I’d most want to use if I were going to the back

The 5/10 should be front ports

[odd sand]

Do you even have any peripherals that use thunderbolt4/5?

[inland mauve]

Youtube is such a good and functional website

[sharp star]

https://x.com/tomwarren/status/1846185134275395696

Tom Warren (@tomwarren) on X

Apple just announced a new, faster iPad Mini. It has the A17 Pro chip inside, 128GB base storage, Wi-Fi 6E, and even supports the new Apple Pencil Pro. It also comes in new purple and blue models https://t.co/f36kIzLkeC

Twitter · Oct 15, 2024, 1:43 PM

[hazy frost]

128gb starts at $500

Still seems kind of expensive

The iPad Air M2 isn’t THAT much more

I can’t see the size difference being an issue with those either? Like if u can fit an iPad mini in a bag to take with u, almost definitely can fit an Air instead

[odd sand]

https://tenor.com/view/jjk-jujutsu-kaisen-sukuna-peak-fiction-absolute-cinema-gif-8477083568112127482

[dire viper]

The absolute lack of fundamental understanding of how vehicle safety works makes me want to throw this man into a brazen bull

[odd sand]

Does he not understand the slope needs to begin at like your thigh for you to even have a chance at going over the hood?

I guess he thinks everyone will jump on impact and have a 12ft vertical? heh

[dire viper]

"are the AI active safety features in the room with us right now?"

911 Sport Classic, 718 GT4 RS, 911 GT3 Touring, left to right

[odd sand]

Needs hydraulics that can bounce the truck over pedestrians heads before hitting them /s

[dire viper]

Lmao like the Bose car

[golden stream]

It's quite a big thing for babyhand persons ngl me btw, size and weight tho
Apple pencil pro isn't that worth it, pencil2 is actually plenty unless you need that barrel roll but it's also heckin gimmick

I do think I'd prefer le mini over le air considering the screen estate

[hazy frost]

I mean tablets aren’t meant to be used one handed anyway, they’re not phone sized and that’s not what they’re for

If u can hold a mini u can hold an air without much issue

It’s not like the regular iPad size is big

The large pro is big

[lost python]

https://x.com/AMD/status/1846236984777338948

AMD (@AMD) on X

Today, in partnership with @intel, we announced the creation of the x86 ecosystem advisory group, bringing together technology leaders to shape the future of the world’s most widely used computing architecture.

Learn more: https://t.co/5ZNqDfuK00

Twitter · Oct 15, 2024, 5:09 PM

[dire viper]

Based?

[sly walrus]

there is now one (1) cpu on the market

[odd sand]

Tired of ARM encroaching on their market segments, huh?

[hazy frost]

Isn’t Intel rumoured to be building the Nvidia arm processor tho lmao

If they were that would be funny

[odd sand]

At their fab? Possibly. Although I heard their 3rd party licensing fab plans have been downgraded recently

[hazy frost]

I’ve not seen any updates on it in a while tbh

The news was a few months ago last time I saw it

Bringing arm to windows would be great no matter who does it anyway

And having everything actually be compatible lol

[odd sand]

MS has a whole lineup of Snapdragon Surface tablets now running Windows ARM

Verdict is the battery life is really good and none of the modern standby issues Windows is known for. But the emulation for apps and games is a bit spotty still

Going to be awhile before companies like Adobe are enticed to port the current fat apps to be native on ARM I imagine

Similar to their slow rollout of Adobe apps on Windows after being Mac exclusive for years.

[hazy frost]

Yeah this was a problem with the SD X laptops as well

Good performance awesome battery life but like nothing useful actually worked properly yet last I saw

Any progress towards arm is good tho in the mobile devices anyway

Arm windows laptops that work properly would be my dream come true

[odd sand]

If all you need it for is like typing and youtube and discord etc. then I'm sure they're great

[sly elk]

? Most adobe stuff has run on windows for decades

That for the NAS build?

Oh wait that’s an old board

Rampage extreme wow

Those usually came with a cool panel thingy

[odd sand]

Yes, I was talking about when they rolled out the PC versions in the 00s or w/e

I think the only ones they did originally were PS and Premiere

[sly elk]

Photoshop 2.5, released in November 1992, was the first version available for Windows.

yea idk

illustrator has been available on windows since 1989

[odd sand]

Hmm, I wonder if they were woefully behind in feature parity then or something? Bc I don't remember seeing them around ever until like 2000

But I guess that could be explained by 99% of desktop publishing etc. at the time being on Macs

[sly elk]

meh

[odd sand]

And outside of the image formats, I don't think the save files were interoperable, but I could be wrong.

My dad worked for a print company and they were 95% Mac 5% SGI

All of the schools were Mac as well, etc.

[sly elk]

I think it comes down to where people learn or what tools they use

the hotkeys are similar, but different between the mac and windows versions

i don't like using photoshop on windows for that reason LOL

similar (but worse) reason I HAAAATE programming on windows machines

[odd sand]

created by a PHD student at University of Michigan and his brother who worked at ILM
Interesting. I had seen their names on the credits, but didn't know that.

[sly elk]

but i've met a lot of people over the years who work with tools like premier and photoshop and despise Macs because of the "macs are for art" stereotype

[odd sand]

http://www.fastprint.co.uk/Assets/User/112-adobe-photoshop-063.jpg

I've always hated that font for some reason lol

[sly elk]

HEHE

it's nostalgic

[odd sand]

I mean, Apple did a lot to cultivate that persona, and they largely still do.

[sly elk]

the ipods used a similar font

[odd sand]

Look at that recent ad campaign with the crushing all the music instruments etc.

[odd sand]

Since they couldn't compete with PC/Windows, they leaned into the creative market, which worked quite well for them. They had a virtual monopoly on art, publishing, and education markets in the 90s.

[sly elk]

i liked apple's commitment to unix-nerdyness in the 00s

it was fun while it lasted lol

[odd sand]

The thing I did not see coming were the number of coders who prefer using something like the macbook pro due to it being underpinned by BSD

[sly elk]

yeaa

it's fucking nice :3

[odd sand]

I don't think it really matters at this point with VScode and windows terminal you can customize the shell these days as well, etc.

[sly elk]

honestly

it still matters to me lol

[golden stream]

me, btw

[golden stream]

Iirc the current excuse is mostly "their screen is pwettier than windows machine" and I could say F OFF AAAAAAAAA

And thennnn when you need 3d,

[sly elk]

lol

lemme guess

you're the angry sysadmin that wants everyone to use windows?

[golden stream]

And also the price man

[golden stream]

LOL NAH

[odd sand]

http://www.fastprint.co.uk/Assets/User/106-adobe-photoshop-3.jpg

[golden stream]

I can use windows and linux just fine, but mac is like kryptonite lol

[odd sand]

That's the memberberries pic for me

[sly elk]

it's funny because to me, linux and mac are pretty much the same

windows is just fucking weird

[golden stream]

Windows is weird shit but winXP was widely used, and we didn't have much option in third-world countries, ye

[sly elk]

linux?

[odd sand]

ngl it is annoying af managing macs on an enterprise level

[sly elk]

admittedly

anyone who cared about "games"

there really was no alternative to windows for a long time

valve pushing proton pretty hard or whatever helped wine compatibility a TON lol

[golden stream]

Linux was hella rare at that point, mostly bc the resources for it were in english and yeeee ESL literacy in my place was heckin low

[golden stream]

Ye that dark age

[sly elk]

i feel like if you try a random windows-only thing on linux now it'll probably work when even 5 years ago i s more like 'probably wouldn't work'

[odd sand]

I rode Win2K into the ground until the graphics card drivers no longer supported it lol. Made it so close to Win7 but not quite. Had to use XP for like 6 months.

[sly elk]

i hate managed computers

but

i get it lol

[golden stream]

anyone remember windows vista lol

[golden stream]

Managed computers are
Like, bro, pls don't open sussy shiet

[sly elk]

even programmers with 20 years experience open sus shit and get their computer screwed up

[golden stream]

I only do it w a liveUSB or VM tho

[odd sand]

In hindsight I think the issues with Vista were overstated, because the most bitched about issue was "it ate all my ram!" bc they didn't separate the cached memory from the reserved memory in the task manager.

[sly elk]

tbh though some of the "legit" emails i get from cybersecurity/IT at my company look even worse than the bullshit fake phishing emails that they have knowbe4 send us

[golden stream]

At least some certain sandbox-ish so it won't screw up my system lol

[odd sand]

As to that point, "free memory" was what you had available to use. The concept of holding data in memory in case it was needed again, but allowing it to be overwritten in the moment if something new ran ... that didn't exist in the consumer space before then.

[sly elk]

also I have a little bit of a cynical suspicion about cybersecurity people sometimes

like i feel like

at least 20-30% of them are gullible af and will believe anything a vendor tells them

[odd sand]

That said: Vista at release, much like XP, was still a RAM hog.

[sly elk]

vista was pretty

7 was vista's ugly brother

[golden stream]

Late vista early 7, it was ok

And ye it was pretty

Then w7 was weird, I was like where was my pwetty vista

Same to 10 lmao

[sly elk]

xp was, and still is to me, the UGLIEST OS I HAVE EVER SEEN

[odd sand]

I could boot 2K with networking and anything else critical to normal use at just a tad over 50MB ram used. XP was a whopping 150MB at the time for a default boot.

[golden stream]

11 be like I don't even know u lmao

[golden stream]

Tfw it is lmao, but it does make sense somehow
The flow was okey but could be much better

[odd sand]

Wasn't uncommon for ppl to muck their XP install up with startup utilities and such to the point they were pushing over 200MB on boot with 256mb ram total...

[sly elk]

it really was hideous

[golden stream]

My machine lol

[sly elk]

as I recall, the ugly kinda started with win2000

[golden stream]

Bc I still rmb w97 or w98 and it was okey

[sly elk]

iirc windows 2000 made the grey more tan

so it looked like dirty windows nt/98 lol

[golden stream]

But the gradient ugly, URGHHHHHH

[odd sand]

Win2K was the era where "flat" designs were in vogue. OS8/Copeland was similar

[sly elk]

but maybe that was just xp

[golden stream]

And also n numbers of viruses/malwares

[golden stream]

I mean, fair ngl, the most popular OS at that time

[sly elk]

back in like 99/2000 I remember running something on my machine that did an impressive job at looking like macos

[golden stream]

I think my mom/dad's machine modded be somewhat similar to macos
W98 iirc idk

But nowaday, I'll just modded gnome lol

[sly elk]

honestly I wouldn't be surprised if I was just running rhapsody lmao

i have no idea what it was

[odd sand]

I miss the colorful splash pages for launching Photoshop. With CS they went to the flat colored backgrounds meh

[odd sand]

Was it actually a Windows machine then? I know OS8 was original beOS was it?

[sly elk]

nono, 99/2000 I was running a pentium 3

or a cyrix 266

[odd sand]

Why was Win7 ugly to you compared to Vista? Also I think that was scaled back bc it was taking too much GPU power to render the desktop.
https://blog.thinprint.com/uploads/tp/sites/6/2019/08/3194107102_d37b54d7e0_o-1024x640.jpg

[sly elk]

but in 2000 I got really into macs and was following os x

[golden stream]

There was an edition that they had a colorful feather
Yeahhhh that was the very first PS I saw

[sly elk]

and idid start off with a windows theme that looked like a mac

but i'm pretty sure i switched off to something that was an entirely different OS that looked pretty much identical to mac os 9

except it wasn't, and it didn't run much normal software lol

[odd sand]

Ah yeah the first version of CS. By CS3 is when they went with the "modern" loading screens.
http://www.fastprint.co.uk/Assets/User/115-adobe-photoshop-cs.jpg

[sly elk]

it wasn't BeOS though

I knew about BeOS and never liked it LOL

[odd sand]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS

[sly elk]

in retrospect i like beos

i never used it though

[odd sand]

I never knew they released a version of Rhapsody for x86. Was that in the brief period Apple allowed 3rd party Macs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_(operating_system)

Then you had MS doing IBM and OS/2 dirty.

Co-developed OS/2 with IBM, then dropped out of the partnership and released WinNT like a year later

[sly elk]

i; don't think the intent of rhapsody was 3rd party macs

it was more like the halfway point between openstep and mac os x

openstep ran on x86

[odd sand]

Reminds me of the DivX chucklefucks being part of OpenDivX was it? Then dropping out and releasing DivX5.0 proprietary like 3 months later and saying it didn't have any infringing source code in it...

(Nevermind they took all the experience from that and made barely legally distinct copies of it all)

Which is when the rest of the open source community forked the original project and turned it into Xvid.

(DivX backwards heh)

[sly elk]

open source stuff is fun

like how redhat is owned by ibm now x_X

[odd sand]

Are they? I thought IBM merely contributed to RHEL?

You were talking about cybersec folks before, what do you suspect about them?

That they read your emails or something? lol

[pine thistle]

they got bought a few years ago iirc

[odd sand]

And now IBM sold off Qradar

[sly elk]

that's not what i was saying lol. I was saying some small percentage of them just seem to shill whatever knowbe4 or whoever other vendor they love parrots at them

[odd sand]

ahh

I will say knowbe4 does have the most up to date/relevant/plausible ones I've seen of any of the security trainings I've done over the years

ugh its 3am I better go pass out

[sly elk]

SMISHING

sweet dreams ~~

[uncut raven]

And here's my setup! I did a case swap and i think things look much better.

[hazy frost]

I can almost see it over the RGB

[sharp star]

https://x.com/tomwarren/status/1846559580412592600 Arrow Lake testing apparently

Tom Warren (@tomwarren) on X

it’s that time of the year again 🤓

Twitter · Oct 16, 2024, 2:31 PM

[inland mauve]

is that the 5090?

nah too small

[sharp star]

nah

[inland mauve]

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/industrial-air-conditioning-outdoor-unit-mounted-outer-wall-building-protective-fence-sunlight-summer-162000323.jpg

here found a picture of the 5090

[inland mauve]

the pitch of my audio in DaVinci Resolve keeps going higher and higher and I have no way to reset it, what the fuck is going on

oh god the audio is completely desynced from the video now

lmao I fixed it by setting the clip back to 30 fps and then to 60 fps

[lost python]

it would be quite funny to hear your progressively become more and more nightcore

[inland mauve]

it was very funny but that's not the kind of video I'm trying to make

next time it happens I'll record it

I'm currently going through what I already had edited with a pair of hedge shears, I need to be much stricter on what I leave in

[inland mauve]

DVR just has been behaving really oddly since the version upgrade to 19

nothing show-stopping but

the Dialogue Leveller AI behaves weirdly now unless I disable the removal of background noise

and now there are these audio syncing issues

as if video editing isn't time consuming enough already without having to fight the software itself

[sly elk]

the problem isn't the rgb it's the pitch black room lol

and maybe a dirty camera lens idk

[hazy frost]

Any older phone camera is like this

I had similar issues with mine before lol

No specific night mode on most of them it doesn’t like dark scenes

[odd sand]

spend a bunch of time getting our syslog configs into version control
come back from vacation to find they're making undocumented changes directly on single hosts and everything is out of sync again

Why do I even bother?

[cerulean talon]

Force-push the ones in config management. nods

[dire viper]

Break everything and blame ur supervisor

[inland mauve]

yeah if your company policy is to stay in sync then single systems with undocumented changes are noncompliant

and you are completely in your right to force them back

if you want to be nice you can give them a heads-up

two weeks to document the changes or you will force the systems back, either way they'll be compliant again

[uncut raven]

Here's a light version. Except everything's blue now.

[inland mauve]

oh yeah Twitter is making those fucking stupid changes to the Block function because people keep blocking Elon Musk

https://fixupx.com/shiinareii/status/1846672917582766246

ooooooh THAT is why so many artists I follow are leaving for BlueSky now

[sly elk]

gg

[sly elk]

i thought the policy was the opposite?

that if you block people they can still see your public posts?

which to be completely fair doesn't shock me

if the system allows guests to view people's posts, then blocking blocked people from viewing your posts doesn't actually block them from viewing your PUBLIC posts

it kinda sorta reminds me of people requesting their house to be blurred from google street view lol

[dire viper]

u should go onto threads on reddit involving this and then find the unhinged comments and just see what those people posts its so funny

[sly elk]

idk, i don't use twitter because I never liked twitter

and the change in ownership made me dislike it WAAAY more

[dire viper]

bro saying its a good thing so he can target "activists" (whoever that is) and his most recent comment is in a porn sub

[sly elk]

i'm surprised you'd visit a woke site such as reddit 😉

[dire viper]

I have an account for car stuff and r/THE_PACK and thats it

its a great way to find peoples shitty posts tho

[sly elk]

i find reddit too useful to block it

[dire viper]

someone talk shit to you in cod? find them on reddit

[sly elk]

I can kinda relate to people feeling the same way about twitter

[inland mauve]

ngl the Block stuff made me go "that is stupid" but then I saw the AI ToS stuff

[dire viper]

literally the only reason reddit exists is for the pack

[inland mauve]

Elon trying to one-up himself in a single day

[sly elk]

idk what the pack is o_O

[dire viper]

its probably the funiest sub

its just shit like this

[sly elk]

the thing about elon musk is... well just like another figure that we don't like talking about

people are always surprised about something he says or does

but he's always been that way

[dire viper]

yes

just remember him renaming twitter was a giant grift in of itself

[sly elk]

he's always been this weird conceited little shit that says weird things, does weird things, and treats other people like garbage, including his gfs

[dire viper]

the name X is from his failed banking company that got merged into PayPal

[inland mauve]

btw if you're not logged in, what you can see on Twitter is severely limited, you need a direct link to the post and you can't see any replies to it

[dire viper]

a banking company so bad you could just steal ppls money

cause on the website you could just access random peoples accounts and drain their accounts

[inland mauve]

most of all this whole change is so unnecessary

nobody wanted this except for people who got blocked a lot

like Elon

[dire viper]

Musk was unanimously booted out of PayPal after the merger because he was a "risk to the company"

cause he had insane spending habbits

[inland mauve]

but yeah one two punch

I installed an extension for my browser that lets me search for Bsky accounts of people I follow on Twitter

[dire viper]

thats peak

[inland mauve]

it is called Sky Follower Bridge, if you're interested

it's not perfect of course

so before you follow an account make sure it's actually the same person

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/Ys14ED45YIM?si=1UZMr0GKhJU-xQF-

@sly elk

[cold yacht]

He was more subdued until some years ago when a woman came out about Elon trying to silencer her about his advances on her with a horse

[dire viper]

least rational human elon musk

case study for emotion over rational thought

[cold yacht]

he operates on vibes

mostly bad vibes

and a lot of stock pumping

and weird obsession on trying to get power in the US government

[lime wasp]

Nvidia wants $2000+ for the 5090

$1300 for the 5080

And $600 for the 5070

They have got to be out of their minds

And the 5070 is apparently only on "par" with the 4070 for raw performance and only line 15%-ish better for Raytracing

[inland mauve]

[lime wasp]

OH

And apparently the 5070 class might only have 12GB VRAM, while the 5080 class has 16GM VRAM

Also according to the leak that $2,000 for 5090 is the low end estimate; apparently the source says Nvidia is actually considering going as high as $2,500 for the baseline 5090 price.

At this point AMD doesn't even have to release a new lineup to beat Nvidia; they could literally just keep selling the 7000 series as is and have a better product

[cold yacht]

price out these gamers to make them touch grass /s

[lime wasp]

The sad part is....Nvidia would probably still sell more 5090s at $2,000 then AMD sells 7900XTXs at $1000/$900.....

[dire viper]

if only that were true 😔

maybe in specialized industries

or if you work a job where year over year employment gives you higher wages ie skilled labor union jobs

[paper tusk]

saw that in moores law is dead video.
(which normally isn't a very good source but knowing nvidia's endless greed should be taken as a warning)
with prices like that amd doesn't need flagships for next gen as long as they float around 600 usd (and fix most of the video transcoding issues that makes everyone love NVENC) it'll fly

[dire viper]

Oh yea Canada is functional

The US is not

[potent arrow]

it's still not enough lol

like absolutely not enough

unless you want to share a room with someone for the rest of your life

or live in bumfuck Quebec

[sly elk]

how long ago was that? Because I remember having a bad opinion of him back in like 2012

[cold yacht]

his major turn of going crazy besides the thailand diver thing was 2022

before 2022 there was moments here and there tbf

[sly elk]

the thailand diver thing was in 2018 o_O really?

it feels like it was longer than that LOL

[cold yacht]

i remember the whole submarine thing

[sly elk]

yea back in 2011 or 2012 I was in college and was interested in getting into space stuff, I saw a post from a dude at spacex on hackernews and asked them about it, kinda prodding to see about getting an internship there

and talking to them and like 1 other spacex person

I got the vibe that his companise were incredibly toxic places to work

and those 2 were very positive and in love with their jobs

[cold yacht]

there was talks about how space x and other elon companies usually work you to the bone for less than industry pay

but folks love it cause they think theyre building the future

[sly elk]

to be fair

the stuff they did at spacex is friggin insane

[cold yacht]

oh for sure there is no denying that

its the other aspects of elon that runs counter to what i want to do for work

mostly him being anti public transportation

[sly elk]

i'm more selfish here and would never work for those places both because of the time commitment (talking 60 hour weeks) and I have too much self respect to be treated like that lol

in the space industry you can work on some incredible stuff without having to sacrifice your personal life

[cold yacht]

i would hope most folks will have enough self preservation to not do that

[sly elk]

well, some people don't care

and that's ok i guess, it's their choice

sure, I think there's a time and a place for grinding out a thing especially if you just want to get it done with

but that should be a kinda "please just this once I'll make it up to you" sorta thing not a

"ok thanks for working 18 hour days for the past week, we'll see you monday bright and early 8am1"

yeaaa this is kinda why i've stuck with the same company so long LOL

yea that's not great lol

in california you can usually get >70k usd fresh out of college on salary in a software role

100k+ is possible but a lot rarer than people make it sound

(100k fresh out of college)

yes with 10 years of experience, I think asking 200k is fair

they do, it's called linux

like seriously just build a linux machine and run docker and make an nfs/smb/whatever share out of a volume

I feel conflicted about this because i bought a unifi nvr pro and it runs linux and technically, I can make an nfs share on the volume it stores recordings on lmao

[sly elk]

trunas scale is linux lol

you just want linux with a fancy menu

[sly elk]

vanilla linux probably the easiest lol

[inland mauve]

oh shit there is just a huge 10 minute chunk in the video where the auto transcribe picked up nothing

that's odd

[sharp star]

Bluesky is crashing under the weight of another mass exodus

[lost python]

good

make more people join

[dire viper]

Oh holy moly

Jason Cammisa is going to do an ICONS video on the VW bus next week

Finally an unnecessarily deep look at a funny car

[wraith agate]

Does this mean people go to bluesky or from bluesky?

[dire viper]

Damn

FYI for anybody that uses UPS as like a very important business or otherwise shipping option

They’ve gone full psychotic and are now forcing drivers to use an AI planned route that is so dog shit don’t expect anything to be delivered on time anymore

Like the AI route will say “cross this 6 lane road on foot to drop off one package”

Or it will put places at the end of the day that will be closed

Ignoring operational hours in people’s UPS accounts

[inland mauve]

to bluesky

[hazy frost]

Bluesky is actually a lot better tbh

[inland mauve]

especially artists who don't want their art to be exploited for Grok

[hazy frost]

A lot of artists I followed already moved bc they’re from Brazil

[inland mauve]

BlueSky is better in almost every way, the only problem is the userbase of Twitter is hesitant to change

but with every stupid fucking decision, Elon drives more and more people away

and eventually there will be a tipping point

[hazy frost]

Twitter is a money pit rn it’s a wonder it still exists in its current state

No one wants to buy it for a price the lunatic would accept with how it’s been ruined anyway

[modest moss]

He probably thinks he's added value

[dire viper]

I don’t think he thinks at all

What with all the self medicating and ketamine

Bro probably got EDD and thinks the whole “work till you drop” is completely rational

SpaceX employees when they haven’t worked 5 13’s getting fired

[hazy frost]

I think he knows he hasn’t but atp he can’t get even close to what he paid for it so he has no choice but to keep it lmao

He coped about it doing better than before but it’s value tanked and he overpaid even when it was worth more

[late basalt]

Considering he wanted/tried to sue advertisers for pulling out of twitter, unlikely he even thinks

[dire viper]

Modern 911S/T next to a 911R (1967)

[late basalt]

Whole situation’s probably a self-gratification thing now

[late basalt]

Modern on the right, right?

[dire viper]

No :)

I’ve seen like half of the 911R’s built thankfully

There’s so few left lol

They were all crashed

[late basalt]

I’m waiting for car design to wrap around like phone designs did

[dire viper]

They only made 20

[late basalt]

2030 car designs gonna be friggin station wagons again

[dire viper]

the ID Buzz

Hopefully with the Rivian contract VW can bring back more of the vintage styles with modern stuff

[late basalt]

Oh yea, finally did my brakes today

[dire viper]

They just did a billion dollar consultation contract

[late basalt]

Helene threw a wrench into plans last week

Gonna bleed em another day though, they definitely need a fluid change

[dire viper]

Fair

[dire viper]

Someone sent me this what is this cool creature

It looks cool

[paper tusk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkAo8JNz_NM

or china does it already (yes it meows when you enter it)

[hazy frost]

Isn’t this the weird thing before the corsa

I can’t remember what the Vauxhall one was I think they sold it here

Vauxhalls GSi stuff is actually cool

Cavalier and Carlton are awesome cars actually

I remember a family member had a vectra GSi when I was growing up and I thought it was the coolest shit

[dire viper]

It’s a Kadett E

Idk what the deal is with it

It’s a 16V but it’s from a tuner shop

There are a few like it

Seems to be an ultra rare hopped up one

Wide body and engine tune

[hazy frost]

Yeah I think it was what they made before the corsa and astra

But it’s called smth different I had to look it up

Here

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one irl tbh

People sleep on the Opel and Vauxhall cars from 90s-00s tbh

[dire viper]

Real

[kind rune]

im scared to take my monitors off this mount tomorrow

its always scary

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/p6gUbu9fSYs?si=i3TGkxxdPihWJhUt

[sly elk]

the worst thing about this whole AI push is I don't even think it's being pushed by (most) (rational) programmers

the ai bros are even worse than the crypto bros

wasting copious amounts of time and gpu power to solve things worse than whatever existed before lmao

[cold yacht]

and possibly making stuff worse than what it is

the whole dead internet theory and impersonating people

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/heroines-run-the-show-heroine-tarumono-hiyori-hiyori-suzumi-heroine-anime-gif-25468456

i like it

the err.. car bra look is silly but i like the square headlights and the funky look

the cabin glass kinda reminds me of the ford gt90 concept

i'm glad we're getting away from the headlights stretched back towards the windshield look

that was real old

'i wish i caught a picture of it, but i saw an isetta drive by this morning lol

was green and white i think

like that lol

[golden stream]

Hey I'd take local host chatbot AI any time over idiot AIs schizzo

[sly elk]

the nostalgia lol

i had a laptop just like that back in 96-97-ish except it was a thinkpad

but it was a 486 with a greyscale lcd

and it had the same kinda wonky ghosting effects and you could kinda see the pixels 'dancing' in patterns sometimes

hard to explain that last bit but the grey ghosting pattern you see, sometimes those would kinda look like they were moving moire effect

ah but yea, oldschool microsoft word!

[lost python]

@potent arrow hey wanna hear a funny new update in my fractal saga

they sent me another fan now, this time its really rust free.
they also sent me swedish candy as an apology.
the swedish candy is one year past its expiry date

they are hard as rocks

[potent arrow]

LEGENDARY

[lost python]

its ok multimillion dollar company. at least you tried

[sharp star]

eat it

[lost python]

no, i like my teeth

[hard drift]

Those are always hard as rocks

[dire viper]

U suck on em

All the actual licorice I’ve had has been hard even after a day 😭

[kindred brook]

Man

Pc cases

Are so fancy nowadays

[sharp star]

why does the bottom mid one have a broken fan blade

[devout nexus]

where is that picture taken from? which store

[dire viper]

Lian Li quality

[hazy frost]

Most of them are just rectangles with fans still

Not the fanciest

[sly walrus]

are the fronts of those cases angled, or is the camera just fucking with perspective

[kindred brook]

Microcenter

[kindred brook]

Camera I think

I wanted to see a hyte with lcds

[hazy frost]

The fans with the screens are so stupid lmao

The mirrored ones look better tbh

The O11 vision is cool tho

[kindred brook]

It's so extra

[hazy frost]

They just look bad as well

The screen is too small

They had it good with the mirror on the centre already

These ones

[kindred brook]

This one?

Was broken?

I think it just wasn't on

[hazy frost]

Yeah those fans are nicer

And cheaper

They’re only good if u have a stupid fish tank case tho otherwise you’ll only rly see the exhaust one lol

[dire viper]

https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911-gt3/205781/2025-porsche-911-gt3-revealed-9922-adds-st-and-rs-knowhow

Very extensive updates

Even with extra emissions equipment (two extra converters and two particulate filters) it’s still quicker around a track thanks to an 8% reduction in the length of the gears

[dire viper]

https://www.motorcycle.com/bikes/new-model-preview/the-2025-honda-cb1000-hornet-first-look-no-really-this-time-44609839

How come the EU only gets the cheap super bikes

150hp and 76ft lbs of torque for £8,000

10k USD

You’d need to spend double or triple that for equivalent bikes with the same equipment

[lethal dune]

anyone know the ping to NA?

[sly elk]

wtf

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/adobe-shows-off-3d-rotation-tool-for-flat-drawings/

[pine thistle]

Wdym, ping is your distance to a server, its something only you can check yourself

[lethal dune]

oh I mean the funny number

that you type into the command prompt

the server number

[pine thistle]

!faq checkping

hm

sec

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-gif-19898508

[pine thistle]

here you go #kupo-bot-spam message

called an IP address btw ^^

[lethal dune]

tysm!

[delicate robin]

Holy fucking shit! I have spent the last hour trying to figure out how to install pip so I can even attempt the idea! of potentially programming a discord bot in python

[sly elk]

huh

huh?!

https://tenor.com/view/city-hunter-ryo-saeba-shrug-i-dont-know-i-dont-care-gif-14623021

funny i didn't have pip on here

are you doing it on windows? Does windows' python installer not include it?

sorry to hear it was a pain in the butt though

[delicate robin]

now my current issue is trying to figure out this

TypeError: Client.init() missing 1 required keyword-only argument: 'intents'

oh well. thus is the nature of programming

it finally worked after I went to the microsoft store and installed python 3.13 there. idk why cause im pretty sure I had it before

I have 3.11

[sly elk]

crazy

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/v_vdaTCFHkQ?si=y97m4ejzPGHjbVvD

[pine thistle]

It does, should also be a default option

probably a PATH issue tho

since it doesnt get added there by default, and MS put their own fucking python.exe into the path that opens the MS store to download it

[delicate robin]

im pretty sure that was it lol

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/the-fairly-odd-parents-mr-crocker-crazy-insane-gif-4265161

[odd sand]

On Windows I take it? Did you have WSL2 installed already or no?

[delicate robin]

I had to look up WSL2. I don't think I have that on my system

it was on windows

[odd sand]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62088784/how-to-install-pip-on-windows

As Siti said though, yeah your problem was almost certainly that it wasn't added to env variables by default.

Are you using VS Code then, or some other editor?

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/stillesque-gif-25544255

[odd sand]

Not unique to VS Code of course, but I like the multi-cursor functionality. Works well for doing things like Getters/Setters in C# etc.

[delicate robin]

VS Code

[odd sand]

Okay good. Was going to say if you have the python extension, the Intellisense should give you some hint at what you're doing wrong.
And I find this hilarious as the first hit when I googled python intents:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64399714/what-are-intents-in-python

[delicate robin]

oh lol! I did eventually figure out you have to declare intents. I ended up following the tutorial and The bot didn't work. so now im thinking of programming a website to track relic weapons

just branching out as much as I can. to figure out what I enjoy

[odd sand]

Making it games related isn't a bad idea if it keeps you engaged, yeah.

If you don't have much programming experience, I recommend starting with an existing bot and breaking the code to figure out how it works.

eg: I first learned HTML by doing View Source and hand writing my own notes on what each tag did

Also: Not all the advice is good or even is relevant/works, but generally speaking any problem you run into, there is probably an answer if you google it.

So often I see people lamenting problems and I'm able to find the solution for them or at least several potential solutions with a simple google query. Sometimes all you need is keywords, other times you can literally type your whole question into google and probably someone else has used the same or similar phrasing. It should give relevant results. Especially if you go to the Web tab on Google now. It makes the results more like how they were 15-20 years ago before they filled it up with BS ad content

[delicate robin]

google is amazing lol

[sly elk]

yea my first dance with multi-cursors was in sublime text

afaik you can do them in vim too

and yes i looooove multi cursors, best thing ever

regex search and replace with groups is fun, too

[sly elk]

yea I'm with ya here ^^

[odd sand]

Yeah I use regex replacement in NPP a lot

[sly elk]

tbh I didn't even realize notepad++ had regex replacement

notepad++ feels like going back in time 30 years

but also I never really used it because it's a windows thing lol

[delicate robin]

hahahahahah!

it's alive!!!

[devout nexus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Z4oGN89MU

this is outstanding

[winged fjord]

Speaking of GPUs, I think I'm long overdue for gettting a new one

[sharp star]

wait until the 50 series reviews imo

[winged fjord]

And how long is that going to be? I'm very much behind the times on computer hardware news

[sharp star]

about 3-4 months

[winged fjord]

(I built my desktop a couple years ago in the middle of the GPU price spike, my current GPU is like 8 years old)

[sharp star]

the actual announcement is apparently CES 2025

Which is January

[winged fjord]

Hmmm. I guess if the 50 series turn out to be really good, I can go for them if they're in my budget, and if not a 40 series will be fine? Or if the 50 series are really expensive, maybe 40s will drop in price? Like I said, I'm not well informed on this all

[sharp star]

40 series will be fine too depending on how the used card market turns out

[winged fjord]

Makes sense

My current card is a 1050 Ti, so a well-baked potato might be an improvement at this point

[sharp star]

yeesh

If you can find a decent card like a 6700/6750 XT then you should be set for a while

[winged fjord]

Does my CPU/MoBo matter at all for GPU compatibility? Or does it just work if it fits and I have the drivers?

[sharp star]

A lot of factors will come into play including PCIe slots on your mobo and the rest of your hardware but tl;dr yes

[winged fjord]

Yeah, I held onto the manual for my mobo, so I should have all the deets on stuff like what slots share bandwidth

[sharp star]

for example a 57/5800X3D will be largely good in the foreseeable future and is still the best drop-in upgrade option for AM4

But the 5800X3D is expensive now

If you are still on AM4 and do not want to build a new system on AM5/Arrow Lake sockets then the 5700X3D is the best option right now

[winged fjord]

How do I know if I'm on AM4 or AM5? My CPU is a Ryzen 5 5600X

[sharp star]

That is an AM4 CPU

[winged fjord]

I see. My current system is working just fine aside from the GPU being underpowered (and I need more memory, but sticking a new SSD in shouldn't be too bad, I've got plenty of open SATA ports)

So I don't think I'll build a new PC for a few more years at this point

[sharp star]

Yeah

If you need to upgrade something other than your GPU the CPU might be a good one

Sometimes it drops to as low as $180-something

[winged fjord]

My CPU is still doing fine for now best I can tell, it's just that my card is really bottlenecking the overall performance

[hazy frost]

5700x3d was l ike $120 on aliexpress the other day

its about 130 rn i think

[hazy frost]

how do u know that anyway

what are they

[lost python]

1050ti

[winged fjord]

I was a college student who had to pick and choose what to prioritize because I didn't have that much money, and a friend sold it to me used

[hazy frost]

I’d just buy smth cheap used probably to replace it

5700xt, 1080ti, 2060/super, or a new RX6600 potentially A750 are all fairly cheap and a substantial upgrade from a 1050ti

Prices may vary depending on country but a lot of places atl one of those is $170 or under

[winged fjord]

Yeah, anything made after the pandemic is probably decent enough quality for me at this point

[hazy frost]

The only one I’d avoid out of those is the a750 bc of driver support lol

The RX6600 is the slowest but u can get a new one for like $180

[paper tusk]

insert jojo voice
OHHHHHH NOOOOOO

https://www.shopblt.com/item/amd-100-000001084-ryzen7-9800x3d-8core-processor/amd_100000001084.html

Your Price: $524.62

[hazy frost]

Tbh with current 7800x3d prices that seems pretty good for the expected uplift

[paper tusk]

there's another place with a more reasonable (...) $484

and a 3rd I can't view because logged in only prices

[wraith agate]

Heh

[winged fjord]

You can block a lot of things with a brick thrown at sufficiently high speed

[sharp star]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-has-been-listed-by-first-retailers

[odd sand]

If the SFP+ on the Switch isn't higher than 1gbe then it still won't matter. Can that slot be swapped out?

Why doesn't AMD simply put 3D cache on everything at this point?

Switching Capacity 128 Gbps
Sounds like as long as the NAS is on SFP+ 10gbe to the same on the Switch, that will work. And you could run roughly half of the ports at full at the same time

[odd sand]

Yep. Seems like there's probably a lot more internal switching bandwidth than you will need at the same time, unless you frequently have a dozen devices maxing out their uplink

[cerulean talon]

You need 100gbe switching obviously

[dire viper]

[cerulean talon]

They’re like 400-800 bux on eBay

100gbe got cheeeeap

Psh, time to go optical!

Also, I don’t have a basement right now

We haven’t hit closing on the new house, and the old house is sold

So I’m formally homeless

[dire viper]

I drove past a Dominos Pizza this morning and they’re hiring pizza delivery ppl for full time at 25 an hour rn.

Like wtf

I make 17 an hour running a shipping department

[cerulean talon]

Also still waiting for my wire from the sale, so paranoia is only growing

[dire viper]

Did u sell ur old house for a bajillion

[cerulean talon]

Nah, it was an okay sale price

But the buyers have to deal with all my not-up-to-code modifications

Soooo

[dire viper]

I don’t want to be forced to work 12’s 5 days a week

Cause that’s what’s expected now for below living wage

For “unskilled” labor

Automotive

I run a parts shipping department

My sales guys make close to a 100k a year so idk why they won’t pay me more

I have to pull stock off trucks, put it away, fix every salesman’s problems, ship everything, make sure customers information is correct

[cerulean talon]

I mean, we bolted a garage rack into the ceiling for a reason

It’s designed to be lagged into place

There’s a ton of them, they’re just garage storage racks

I think we got a gladiator one

Yeah

That was the most hilariously expedient way to get it done

Plus addl storage and goodies like tons of wire tie points I never used

[dire viper]

Oh also for this, companies now require an associates in anything to make 18 an hour in a warehouse that doesn’t require anything on an associates, ig a lot of companies are trying to meet a weird education average thing

Probably for investors?

Idk why but all of a sudden having a 2 year degree is required for dumb labor

It’s because the standards of corporate business are not applied to labor

Like corporate is not perfect but the way pay and employee welfare is is generally better

My state is just at will so lol

I like to compare jobs to working at McDonald’s

Average wage at McDonald’s here is now 21 an hour

So I just think “would I rather work at McDonald’s?” When applying to jobs

Most jobs now are a yes after doing an interview

[hazy frost]

21 an hour for McDonald’s is crazy I’d take that too lol

It’s like £11 an hour here still

If ur not management

It’s just minimum here which went up from 10.20 or something to 11

11.44 now

Actually the way we do it is stupid lol

Idk why 18-20 year olds deserve less money but apparently they do

Thank you government

Usually it doesn’t matter and u get paid 11 anyway but it’s still insane

Lmao

If ur all doing the same work u shouldn’t get paid less especially if it’s 18+

I get why 16 year olds don’t need as much money but some people are 18-20 trying to live

Lmao

I didn’t get paid for chores really

I got money occasionally for stuff I wanted to do instead

I had a job when I was 17 that they accidentally agreed to the adult wage at the time lol

[dire viper]

Lmao yea

Also I’ve had a full time job since 16 so going into most jobs I just have more work experience than most people which is… weird as fuck to me

Mfs fresh out of college incapable of logical or rational thought

Yuh

I mean I was a little goblin in the back of a smoke shop that my grandpa owned

My daycare basically

I learned to count with cigarette cartons

Idk I’m just frustrated with jobs atm

I’ve interviewed at places and not gotten jobs, and then found out that they hired 3 massively less capable people that they then fired

I mean if you want to suffer there is always cybersecurity :)

And also I think high paying jobs are saturated

Most entry tech jobs still pay very well in a lot of places

Like you shouldn’t expect over 100k a year out of uni but still making over 65k a year entry is damn good

One of my friends runs an IT department for a power company out in Florida and bro makes so much at only 24

He’s managed to negotiate himself up to I think 40 an hour now

Cause he’s somehow the only one that keeps the company afloat

The previous head of it left after failing to negotiate raises

Cause he wasn’t in charge but making more than the previous manager 😭

this is the same friend that said I was stupid as fuck but he would still prefer to teach me basic IT than have 4 year grads

[sly elk]

I think the original idea was businesses would be less willing to hire people still in school because their availability is going to be limited and they'll only be able to work full time day hours in the summer on break

[cold yacht]

Probably assuming that 18-20 probably still live with family

[hazy frost]

i mean yeah i know what their excuse/reasoning for it is its just not a valid one

[sly elk]

i don't think it's entirely unreasonable but they don't exactly hire people for full proper shifts anymore anyway

right? XD

and $11 vs the normal $18/hr or whatever seems kinda like a giant cut

[cold yacht]

The meta rn is to hire workers for minimum wage and cycle them out by burnout

[celest violet]

^ Pay for jobs is crazy rn

I got an internship at a ce start up and they are still debating on what to pay me

Dog I have bills 😭

I want the engineering to pay off, but signals and systems is not friendly to me at all

[cold yacht]

thinking about how I should’ve locked in on computer science years ago before the layoffs

[celest violet]

The internship will be troubleshooting designs made by engineers on IoT devices. So maybe it'll be fun at least

[cold yacht]

And then I went “computer science is cringe ngl”

[celest violet]

I picked engineering cause I thought hardware would be enjoyable

This is pain

[cold yacht]

I dropped out and changed to civil engineering

[celest violet]

I've got friends in civil and mechanical, and we all have our own deep shit while claiming the others are easier 😂
Truly mechanical would probably be the worst tho

I feel like none of my courses have taught me shit about hardware tho. I'm in a class called comp org which is supposed to teach me hardware stuff, the final project is making a 32 bit processor using vhdl, but she hasn't really covered shit to help with that given I don't know vhdl

[hazy frost]

They do that here tbh, atl for the general minimum wage jobs that are affected

I think having a different one for under 18 is whatever just 18+ should all be the same bc it’s strange with how less people go to university now too and those who do need more money bc of higher prices

[dire viper]

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a61750956/2025-ford-maverick-lobo-revealed/

I didn’t see this

Sort of interesting

[modern iris]

ay i'm kinda confused, my computer got stuck in a loop of trying to repair itself and failing

this is the 2nd time this has happened, and if i turn it off, unplug my 2 hard drives, turn it on then off again, then plug them back in, it works fine

and checkdisk is showing no errors

[cold yacht]

Still want a single cab variant

[dire viper]

I don’t think that’s possible cause it’s a unibody based off of the escape

[cold yacht]

Ye pretty much, plus single cab aren’t popular anymore

[dire viper]

Single cabs ARE popular it’s just with commercial

The F-150 single cab short bed is like peak truck

With a 5.0

Throw on a 10k Shelby package and you have a RWD pickup with 750hp

[cold yacht]

Though a truck is too much for me

[dire viper]

Faster than a Lamborghini

[cold yacht]

Hatch back is good enough for me

[dire viper]

Yuh

[hazy frost]

Hot hatches are still one of my favourite types of car out of all the options tbh

They’re a lot more popular here than in the US tho from what I know

Honestly small I4 turbo engines have gotten really fun now as well for daily drivable hot hatches

[potent arrow]

I'm an electronics engineer, and I say fuck em mechanical engs

[dire viper]

Only issue is that it’s turbocharged so gutless off boost and e turbos defeat the purpose of a performance car having a turbocharger

[potent arrow]

set em all on fire

fr

also Christian deserves to be put in a box and fed to German auto engineers

[dire viper]

Toyota already gave us a 8700Rpm i4 that was supercharged

And still got good mpg

[dire viper]

I’m just goated

[hazy frost]

Still aiming for my 200hp 1.2L that will definitely not have issues

Honestly not sure whether an open air intake is a good idea in weather conditions here

Debating it as something to do later

I just love the turbo I4s because if they’re not shit u can buy a hybrid turbo super cheap and be much faster than a lot of the other stuff at the same price bc of how light they are

For 2000s-2010s cars anyway

[dire viper]

Corolla Compressor

6 speed, 215bhp

More than an Elise with the same engine

And the Elise costs the same now while the compressor costs like less than a quarter of what it did new

[hazy frost]

Idk something fun about managing to have a faster car with £1000 bolt ons to a mid range hatchback than someone in a somewhat sport oriented sedan u see on the road

[hazy frost]

I do wish I’d gotten the 1.4 now because it looks like u can make more than 200 easily compared to the 1.2

[hazy frost]

These are cool

[dire viper]

8000rpm and a supercharger

[hazy frost]

The coolest hot hatch is the clio v6 but it’s not as practical as any other hatchback lol

And expensive

The Mini Cooper S is also a fun supercharged one

They’re dirt cheap here

The sound of a good turbo engine with a proper induction kit and blowoff valve is honestly still just something that my brain likes over the supercharger tho

That requires some level of investment anyway

[potent arrow]

@dire viper

[dire viper]

The gunpla building area that drips directly into ur pc

But ur building a Lamborghini this time

25th Anniversary Countach

I am mentally ill to just know that from the top of a tub and a wing

Tbf Lamborghini did have one of the best V12’s ever made

From Miura to Murcielago

Almost 50 years of the same V12

https://youtu.be/Dihl4A3o9OY?si=vPcTTkIaH2IJ4aWi

https://youtu.be/Etj7XzLHgBU?si=MmtepOdVftcJysLR

[potent arrow]

jfc u knew

my chosen color btw

[cold yacht]

Mechanical engineering are like boring people

[dire viper]

U don’t understand how mentally ill I am

[dire viper]

Oh a light blue?

That’s awesome

As a Canadian tho u have to submit to WOLF

Super early round belly Countach LP400 commissioned by Walter Wolf

This car is why the 25th Anniversary cars came with a wing

And also why Lamborghini is still around

Walter Wolf basically gave Lamborghini tens of millions for one off custom Countach’s

He had around 5 I think?

Most of them are in Japan now with the original members of Mid Night lmao

They race em

Wolf also had the only road legal Porsche Kremer 935

1976 Le Mans built Kremer K3

740 horsepower

[inland mauve]

god Twitch is such a great website, I love how every time I close a Twitch window my entire browser freezes up for a few minutes

[cerulean talon]

Low quality, not an epyc

[dire viper]

@sly elk UTAH ON THE FRONT OF A WIRED ARTICLE WE STAY WINNING

this is an old af pic tho

997

back when it was stilled Miller Motorsports and not Utah Motorsports Campus

https://www.wired.com/story/the-physics-trick-that-makes-these-new-super-cars-so-fast/

it looks like a decent article

talks about how energy actually works, and how acceleration is actually measured

[sly walrus]

is the physics trick "aerodynamics"?

[dire viper]

its always been aero

but u can see it talks about air pressure under the car

https://youtu.be/lTH0OouvdjA?si=BRGqsc_-cBFTgAFg one of two production full race car fan cars, the other being the McMurtry Spierling

can see just how much air the fan is forcing out from underneath the car

https://youtu.be/RLbH80hB9A4?si=E15yGwndOInnmXH3

[sly elk]

ooo

@cerulean talon uses something like that

[cerulean talon]

Not any more xD

The new house is going to be much more reserved in that way, until the workshops are built, then all bets are off

They also have some with built in winches so you can raise and lower them, just saying

[dire viper]

im gonna buy like 100 of these and throw them at apple employees during those cringe as fuck product launch days

[dire viper]

so does enterprise shit just shit the bed in terms of price after a year

boutta have 16 quadros under my bed from a server company close out

I am the one who renders

https://tenor.com/view/walt-walnterwite-walter-stare-staring-breaking-bad-gif-8185929955267525825

[sly elk]

tbh I never feel that way

it's like the "$100/200/500" used herman miller chair posts on reddit

everyone's always like rah rah don't buy x when you can get a practically new one off facebook/craigslist/a random street corner for $x

I have never seen them that cheap

ever

same with the old computers

as far as I can tell, business x goes bust and liquidates their assets really cheap, yea that much happens

but before you even know business x existed, the liquidated crap is on fbm/craigslist/ebay for market price

$400 for a... 20 year old dell poweredge. bargain of the century. yep.

[sly elk]

yopu really have no idea what you want lol

[wide hill]

hell yeah already one step ahead

got ACT pre-installed