technology-discussion

[hot shadow]

yea but people fetishize you anyway

[hazy frost]

Nothing I’ve ever spoken is cute

[hot shadow]

is it reallllllllly so bad

[hazy frost]

Who

[hot shadow]

americans

aka the worst

[hazy frost]

Lmaoo

[sharp star]

Stiffen Pry

[hot shadow]

sorry

[hazy frost]

Japanese people do

To me

[hot shadow]

tfw no German gf

to sound like the one strimmer yelling at me

[wild wyvern]

Actually wooo since i got this new pc it feels better to be able to run XIV on high settings

[hot shadow]

that's good

remember MMOs are always cpu bound so it's not perfect but it does get better with better PC a bit

[sharp star]

Yeah having an American accent got me “locked out” of speaking my country’s native language unless I really try

[hazy frost]

I haven’t found any language my accent doesn’t make unnecessarily hard

For Americans ig it depends which one

Pretty much every British accent is quite strong though

[tepid gulch]

Skill issue

[wild wyvern]

Its not perfect yeah but its better atleast

Even in GW2 doing boss metas dont lag as much anymore

[tepid gulch]

British accents are nice

[wild wyvern]

I just dont have many games that can really push my pc tbh since i dont buy expensive ones

[hot shadow]

ok go buy cyberpunk

[hazy frost]

True

[hot shadow]

death stranding was a nice minor benchmark previously also

runs well rn

[hazy frost]

Cyberpunk is also an amazing game

Regardless

[hot shadow]

yea they improved it a lot

n redid the tree and final boss

[wild wyvern]

rm 76 for the base game

[hazy frost]

It’s my favourite one in the last several years

[sharp star]

it just got FSR4 as well

[hot shadow]

the dlc also good

[hazy frost]

Questionable implementation from what I’ve seen

U can get better results urself from tinkering still lol

[wild wyvern]

That i know

[hazy frost]

I mean expected but still nice ig

[wild wyvern]

Ultimate edition is 140ish myr

[cold yacht]

My gpu still slowing killing self

[hazy frost]

My gpu is slowly dying from lack of vram

And non functioning drivers

Can’t wait to not be able to play anything next year

[wild wyvern]

Huh waffle whats ur gpu?

[hot shadow]

GPU on life support

tubes coming outta it

[hazy frost]

4070ti

[hot shadow]

4070ti is a legendary card

[wild wyvern]

Eh?

[hot shadow]

based

it actually does get the job done

[hazy frost]

I have 0 regrets about the purchase still

[wild wyvern]

I thought 4070ti still has drivers?

[hazy frost]

But lmao it’s annoying

[hazy frost]

No Nvidia drivers work properly still atm

They keep causing issues

[wild wyvern]

WTF

[hazy frost]

It was £720, 7900xt was £850, no one selling a 3090ti would respond to me on eBay

It is what it is

If needs be I’m selling it for the sakura 9070xt for £50 to upgrade

[hot shadow]

good card

good replacement

[sharp star]

probably smells too

[wild wyvern]

Oiiii

[hot shadow]

the 4070ti I passed down to my family still works well

[hazy frost]

I can play everything for now

Things do be getting close to not running right on 12GB tho

Luckily I don’t play most games that already go over 12

[hazy frost]

I agree

I’ve always wanted one for the pink and white pc

[hot shadow]

I still yearn for the double GPU dream

the fantasy

the 120F room

die of heat

[wild wyvern]

[hot shadow]

48.8 Celsius

[hazy frost]

It’s not 2013 anymore

It’s time to move on

My gpu hits a max of 65° still lol

Perks of having the biggest model available

[sharp star]

You could probably just get a 3050 for ye olde PhysX games anyway

That’s still so fucking funny though

[hazy frost]

Lmao

Second gpu for lossless scaling is actually also relevant I guess

Maybe it is 2013 again

[sharp star]

I feel like I could cram an old 3080 in there but I have a 4090 guzzling from an 850w

Oh no wait

I have a 1660

I can use that instead

[hazy frost]

Probably be fine if u don’t have a 13900k in there

With the am5 CPUs ur at like 810w lol

[sharp star]

lol

[hazy frost]

Just about would be usable

[wise jay]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-b1-battle-droid-sings-keane-somewhere-only-we-know-droid-somewhere-only-we-know-somewhere-only-we-know-droid-gif-17345742201222948762

[sharp star]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-wrecker-hey-look-crosshair-this-little-clanker-likes-you-he-likes-you-gif-22786818

[real edge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltgyS8oJC8g

ohh boy

[wraith agate]

wait you can get arrested for just reviewing a GPU

or is it more complicated than that

[sharp star]

Maybe I really can cram a 3080 into my build for Lossless Scaling

Update: I probably can, but that requires removing the two fans feeding air into the 4090

[sharp star]

I found the 1660, but it's pretty filthy

time to give it a deep clean

Kinda forgot how brittle these plastic shrouds can be

[wide hill]

no shot clanker is going to be added to the words of not to use

maybe @opal panther might be hurt

[sharp star]

The day clanker actually does become a slur, I’m gonna shit the pants of whoever decided that

[wide hill]

oh now i know what to call people

if anyone has an ai dating chatbot, imma call that "they are dating a clanker"

[sharp star]

But also people draw porn of B1 battle droids so

[wide hill]

not the same thing

hmm, i could see it be referred to as as such if one is also wearing a robot prostetic?

[sharp star]

I guess we can call AI apologists clankers too

[inland mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/resto-clone-trooper-thumbs-up-starwars-gif-26793303

[hasty harbor]

These 2 are monitors, ips curve, which of these should I get, I’m dumb when it come to monitors

[lost python]

still cant find anything at all about this brand so you can pick whatever and hope for the best

i personally would go for the bigger one though

[hasty harbor]

What about contrasts?

The brand is cepter, it’s a Scandinavia brand

[lost python]

yeah i know, still nobody really talks about them at all and i cant really find any proper tests on them

and i dont believe the 4000:1 is really IPS because highest i ever saw an IPS panel go was 2000:1

[hasty harbor]

Alright fair

[lost python]

if its really 4000:1 then i think its probably a VA panel and those i wouldnt generally recommend because like 99% on the market are super prone to bad ghosting

[hasty harbor]

I have try, never again

Never again am I touching va

[lost python]

aha, according to another site its got a bunch of dimming zones, so thats why they probably cheat the contrast ratio a little

[hasty harbor]

The big screen it is

[lost python]

dunno how much those are worth but on expert DK, the big one has better reviews than the smaller one

[hasty harbor]

I am a Dane so i know that site

Thx rob, I just want to know if the specs was good

[hazy frost]

It’s probably one of the newer mini led IPS ones

Most of them have firmware issues with local dimming which is a problem

Depends whether u can update it or not by model

[hasty harbor]

[sharp star]

so a little birdie told me this is happening

[wraith agate]

There are still dial-up internet users?

[sharp star]

surprisingly, yes

it’s mainly old people sadly

[wraith agate]

Poor grandpa will not going to survive the upgrade from 56kbps to 500mbps

[sharp star]

damn

[tepid gulch]

My Internet turned out to be faster than I thought

I saturated my network card on stream the other day

Steam*

[wraith agate]

I wanna bang my head in a wall

Does anyone know if the aluminum foil on router actually works?

My housemates want to try that

[potent arrow]

well...no but yes?

just get a wifi booster at that point....

[wraith agate]

Maybe short term?

That's what I said too

[potent arrow]

you'll probably do more harm if you use tinfoil these days lmao

[wraith agate]

Contact ISP, see if they have an upgrade package for extenders

[potent arrow]

the wifi extenders arnt that expensive...

I just hate them because they cause issues if not used properly

[hot shadow]

you guys can afford PC parts and games. you can afford a better router and a repeater

[potent arrow]

https://www.amazon.ca/TP-Link-AC1900-Range-Extender-RE550/dp/B08TLT65WM/

[hot shadow]

tinfoil doesn't rly work

[wraith agate]

Yeah but if the ISP can install them free of charge, then do it

[potent arrow]

it's like 50$ CAD

plug it in, use an app

[wraith agate]

I ain't paying any dollaries

[potent arrow]

click your existing thing call it a day

[wraith agate]

Not my house not my problem, I live next to the router, I'm fine

[potent arrow]

Well you'll probably have issues with the tinfoil lol, new routers all use directional attenae

so tinfoil is gonna make it go fucking everywhere lol

[wraith agate]

If the top floor can't get coverage the landlord should resolve the issue. After all they said the rent includes internet services

I'm just sitting here and giving advice to him and the housemates

Mostly don't do tinfoil, use an extender

I was just curious if I was right in my advices and it seems I was

[hot shadow]

I like the wifi repeaters

that's how you get it from one end of the house to the other

or ig some people get two routers of the same make then they do mesh thing

[cold yacht]

That’s fun

Gpu not giving signal to my monitors now

After hitman world of assassin trilogy crash

[real edge]

https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1mksf6f/solved_rtx_gpus_directx_errorout_of_memory_device/ is this the problem you're having?

[cold yacht]

so far resizeable bar everything is in order

[potent arrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXVQVbAFh6I

its happening

[lost python]

i should buy nvidia stocks

because every stock i touch keeps collapsing

[odd talon]

Grab some Microsoft stocks as well

And every real estate stock

[sharp star]

are you secretly Jim Cramer

[lost python]

i wish

[dire viper]

This was a long time coming, as for the whole restructuring thing

In house marketing is insane in this day and age, they grew way faster than they ever needed too and future proofing simply isn’t something you can do for a company that operates at a level where projects take multiple years to complete

Hire all these people you knew would be redundant if R&D didn’t pan out or if the economy shit itself, or both.

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/zJWVu4i75sg?si=vVYcOG3iKKlKBeNv

[kindred brook]

did you buy TSLA yet

[neon shell]

So what would you guys use to clean velour? I want to clean the head cushion but obv I can't take it off like the ear pads

[potent arrow]

I just used the rug cleaner i have LOL

[paper tusk]

probably an alcantara or suede cleaner

[neon shell]

I almost used baby wipes but it’s probably a bad idea

[lost python]

I did in the beginning before the crap

[wraith agate]

I hate this

[sharp star]

Does it... vex you?

[wraith agate]

I will not be part of your House jokes

[dusky magnet]

The House memes will continue until morale improves

[hot shadow]

still thinking about how come my mom-in-law bought her son not only a motorcycle but a WRX on a pitiful salary when he was a suburbie teenager and I didn't get anything cool from my dad with his retirement money

@dire viper did your mom ever buy you anything bigboytoy

why everyone else get a cool bike lmao

man I didn't even get a HORSE

I got like the worst actual bicycle

[hazy frost]

Favouritism goes crazy

I’d know I too have experienced it

Luckily I was the favourite though

The more money people have tho the tighter they seem to get with money especially if they only come into it later in life from my experience

[hot shadow]

maaaan

where's my 2006 Evo girl era

[hazy frost]

Richest people I know are the least generous to me really

[hot shadow]

I was robbed.

ROBBED

[hazy frost]

lol

[hot shadow]

o rite I was living abroad

fuk

we just use public xportation and taxis

[severe flax]

All I got was a potato PC

[dire viper]

Nah

Everything I’ve bought myself

Also u could just buy a cool tuner car Rab smh

Just buy something from RMC Miami

Here’s ur EVO era

Or the yakuza spec E500

Automatic!

[hazy frost]

U should get a 7 tho not an 8

8 ugly as sin

[dire viper]

They didn’t sell the 7 here

[odd talon]

They helped me bought a place for myself

[hazy frost]

Are they not a popular import

[dire viper]

8 is as good as you’ll get without it being completely rusted the fuck out

No

[hazy frost]

Rip

[dire viper]

Because the 8 is equivalent

[hazy frost]

I was going to buy a 7 a while ago for £5000 lol

It was not as nice as the one u sent

[dire viper]

There are imported earlier EVO’s but considering that the fundamental car does not change much in terms of what you get there isn’t a huge incentive

Some EVO demo cars from JP tuners get imported, but typically EVO 4’s are the most common import for whatever reason

Probably the big fog lamp bumper

And also I think the EVO 4 was produced like crazy?

[hazy frost]

The 4 is cool anyway

Didn’t the 4 change the engine config as well

Got rotated

Which was supposedly a big improvement

[dire viper]

Think so

Basically for all intents and purposes tho, for the average person buying a stock EVO, the main deal is that as the years go on the interiors just get better until the 9/10

The 8 is peak

Good interior, good build quality, abundance of shops who can work on them and will do so enthusiastically

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/oTz4MNV0-tA?si=XrvMV7hen2RhPm-_

I love how insane the Ferrari 360 is

its a master class in simplicity

especially with how its chassis is designed

design the entire chassis for the powertrain

[lost python]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/geforce-rtx-5090-fire-bf6-beta

truly safe to upgrade

[sharp star]

masterful engineering, Nvidia

[brave oxide]

surprisingly doesn't seem to be the 12vhpwr

[sharp star]

it isn't, but it's funnier to blame that

actually no it's just the shoddy engineering all around

I think it's easy to blame 12VHPWR but it's also important to remember that lower tier cards from the 5070 Ti and 9070 XT and below have not exhibited these issues

It's primarily just shitty engineering and implementation

[hazy frost]

true though no ones buying any japanese sports car for the interior quality over other options lmao

theyre all very similar

[sharp star]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanker NO FUCKING WAY

[tepid gulch]

I thought I heard clanker before

It was in star wars

Old news

I remember it from clone wars for the most part

Funny how things come around to reality

[sharp star]

I think the fact that it has its own Wikipedia entry is news to me

[wide hill]

if you check it's history you could see that it previously just redirected to star war's battle droid

just now a week ago it was made it's own page

[severe flax]

Anyone has a recommendation for an UPS?

It's supposed to protect my whole ass 2000$ PC so it has to be good, but also I dont wanna break the bank

[tepid gulch]

I use the cyber power 1500va UPS

It was around $200

[severe flax]

looks like this

[tepid gulch]

That's what I have

It'll do 1000w for about 20 to 30 mins

For anything decent you're in the $200 range

I highly recommend people get one

For anything sensitive

Or important

Like I also have my router in one

No Internet cutoff in power surges

I have 2

[severe flax]

so these are the 3 choices

[potent arrow]

Im personally not a fan of cyberpower

but they work

[cerulean talon]

I usually nuke their batteries in 3 months.

[potent arrow]

yep

Eaton treating me well rn

they ship me new cells for cheap too

[cerulean talon]

I can't wait to get the whole-house setup.

soon(tm)

[severe flax]

nuke?

[cerulean talon]

Destroy

[tepid gulch]

How often do you lose power

[cerulean talon]

I live in psuedo-rural america, my power is not the cleanest. xD

Only had I think 3 full outages in the last 9 months, but brownouts every couple of weeks.

And usually only on one phase.

[paper tusk]

ouch (in my part of minneapolis the power usually only departs when something has destroyed infrastructure)

[brave oxide]

full house setups were pretty common in my country back when rolling blackouts were a nearly daily thing, an inverter/charged with 4 deep cycle batteries, usually lasting a few hours of mild use (but no heavy appliances like fridges)

we still have the inverter hooked but turned off, the batteries died and we don't get enough outages to justify buying more

[cerulean talon]

Makes sense, I’m putting in a 30kwh system, it’ll cover my usage for an hour or so, but I have. 26kw generator as well

So I can island myself as long as o have propane, which I’m putting in a sizable tank

Tech nerds, we burn power xD

[hot shadow]

this some rimworld shit

wtf

i built 4 batteries in my base all the time like this

[brave oxide]

it's definitely uncommon in other countries to be implemented like this lol

usually this setup is used for solar in the US

but here it's hooked with the power grid to charge the batteries

[inland mauve]

we have solar panels but I think they're just wired back into the grid

afaik there's no way to switch the house over to solar power if the power goes out

[sharp star]

extremely funny how the Ghibli artstyle ended up being highly poisonous to AI generation models and now they have to live with the eternal piss tint

[wide hill]

future captchas are going to be deciding which of the images doesn't have a piss filter

[solemn geyser]

So I had a thought last night at work. Most printers you buy from the store are complete and utter dogshit. So if you really need a good printer, is it better to shell out the extra for a business/enterprise grade unit that won't quit in two months?

[lost python]

nah, you just need to get a decent model.
like, i bought my canon printer 4 years ago for about 90€ and its still working just fine and doesnt shove app bloatware with mandatory accounts down my throat.
it does depend on how much you actually use it though. if you rarely use one, it might even be better to just go to the copyshop and pay them 50 cents per page or something

[hazy frost]

Yeah there’s good printers for normal money, people just keep buying HP crap that obviously has nothing going for it

£100ish gets u whatever u could need assuming ur not a professional but at that point obviously you would be buying something not from the average corner tech store or whatever

Everyone I know with the mid range canon ones has some great results

[hot shadow]

the answer is no :p just buy any

me who tried canon, epson, hp, brother and all have died

and right now this current one canon one is still alive but the printer head is suddenly misaligned and i cannot fix it

[sharp star]

https://tenor.com/view/office-space-gif-18166316

[radiant dagger]

https://youtu.be/q8zODvOcxj8

[tepid gulch]

Ironically this video will probably work

I already watch videos that are mature anyway

If you wanna bypass the AI just watch a single Reggie video

https://youtu.be/29k3BGVmVc4?si=Je6rQzCPAUAbOEji

This one should do

[neon shell]

soo what's better? GTAO standard or HBAO+ standard?

[tepid gulch]

Gtao

In terms of quality

If you have the resources go quality but honestly it's very close to standard

[neon shell]

so I get between 90 and 130 fps in dt zones but I still get weird choppyness

I can record a vid

[sly walrus]

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/on-his-75th-birthday-apple-legend-steve-wozniak-pops-up-in-a-comment-thread-about-his-bad-decision-to-sell-his-stock-in-the-80s-with-a-devastatingly-zen-reply-i-gave-all-my-apple-wealth-away-because-wealth-and-power-are-not-what-i-live-for/

woz is like the good timeline of pretty much every tech exec

[neon shell]

dt zone

Maybe I’m the only one noticing

[sly walrus]

do ur leves

[neon shell]

lol

Yes I will when I start leveling my botanist again

I run a 4060 with an i7 12700k

[grand burrow]

So I just upgraded my PC. I Got the RX 7800 XT, Ryzen 9 5900X, 48 GB of ram and 2TB SSD. Do ya'll think its enough to run MH: Wilds?

[sharp star]

nothing is enough to run MH Wilds

the game will continue to be an unoptimized piece of shit as long as Capcom does anything but optimize it

I've seen ports from Square Enix more optimized than MH Wilds

[hazy frost]

The 9800x3d isn’t enough for wilds

You’ll probably get 60fps at 1440p high though

More good news is that all upscaling implementations look so awful in this game that u cannot tell the difference between fsr 3 and DLSS 4 lol

[dapper nymph]

since it's a 5900x, you'll be bottlenecked by the cpu

you should hit probably 55fps on avg in 1440p

you'll be at 60 fps if it isn't cpu intensive areas

mostly am5 cpus are needed to consistently have 60+ fps without framegen

[real edge]

you shouldn't have picked the 5900x

either the 5800x3d or 9800x3d or 9700x if you want anything better than that

more cores does not equal better performance above like 8

unless its productivity

and it does not look like this is productivity

[dapper nymph]

it's about 70-85 fps on 1440p maybe for the 9800x3d if that shows how unoptimized mhwilds is without framegen

i hope that 5900x and 48 gb of ram was purchased with a discount

[zinc sluice]

quick

nerds

i need help

i need a "generic consumerism headphone"

sony mx1004s or whatever it is

anything that isnt too expensive but also not total dogshit

i had bose qc iis and it wasnt too bad but the headband is completely worn out

[dapper nymph]

tape

[zinc sluice]

DUDE

[dapper nymph]

i don't use headphones unfortunately

[zinc sluice]

akg n9 hybrid? do i trust akg

wait no nvm it arrives too late

i need it pronto

sennheiser momentum 4?

[potent arrow]

what

what do you want in the headphones

...headphones is my elitist hobby

[zinc sluice]

consumerism sarah

give me something you cringe at

[potent arrow]

do you want ANC

[zinc sluice]

yeah

[potent arrow]

do you want like Bluetooth?

[zinc sluice]

yeah

ok just

think sony mx 1004s 5s or 6 idk

something on that line

[potent arrow]

Bose QC no contest lmfao

[zinc sluice]

god

DAMMIT

[potent arrow]

what

you said you want consumerism

[zinc sluice]

LOOK AT THE3 STATE OF THIS THING

[potent arrow]

yes

consumerism

they don't last long lol

it's synonymous with that term

[zinc sluice]

okay what if i swiveled a slight bit away from consumerism

[potent arrow]

uh

[zinc sluice]

does sennheiser do well with "consumerism"

[potent arrow]

I mean all bt headsets kinda...wear out a lot lol.....

[zinc sluice]

i mean ofc

[potent arrow]

lol if you want the band's to just snap in half

you can get senheiser

[zinc sluice]

bruh

bruh

bruh

i have hd560s how did they fuck that up

[potent arrow]

just get the cheapest gen of Sony you can afford

[zinc sluice]

its the same thing

[potent arrow]

seinneis are nice if you arnt lugging em around lol

[zinc sluice]

aufuhauduahd

[potent arrow]

they are mostly plastic

[zinc sluice]

ok um

[brave oxide]

That looks perfectly fine

Are you using the headband to listen to anything

[zinc sluice]

the headband has solidified from my sweat in the summer usage

1. """consumerism"""
2. bluetooth + anc
3. +wired for discord/ff raids without chopping down the quality because of "hands free" bullshit

also be shipped tomorrow

[potent arrow]

Bose QC lmfao

you really

do not have a choice here I fear

[zinc sluice]

is it actually just buy the same thing again

or somehow just

use this

[potent arrow]

yes

[zinc sluice]

ripped apart thing

i mean

[potent arrow]

or use that

[zinc sluice]

this thing functions

yeah

it does work

[potent arrow]

yep

the QC is pretty uncontested in this bracket lol

I literally have one caked in concrete and grout and it works fine

[zinc sluice]

good thing the charging light sitll turns on

ok

well

guess im gonna use this for next 4 months

!

[potent arrow]

@zinc sluice https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zmMm0IibD8Q

it's

so easy to fix

if that's all that's bothering you

[zinc sluice]

i dont have time to do that

gg

[potent arrow]

it's a 5 minute repair

like

bruh

[zinc sluice]

UTS 20 DOLALRS FOR THE REPALCEMENT??

ook

nvm

my dad

fucking stole it

ok

[potent arrow]

Y'know villy I respect ya but you go into this channel and act pretty rude and I do wanna say something.
We help you and stuff but ya just spam bruh, or I don't have time for that etc
I personally find it a pretty rude lol

[zinc sluice]

ok i understand i aplogize

[potent arrow]

and it's 20$.... you were going to buy brand new headphones....which is like over 10x that...

[zinc sluice]

i took it too lightly im sorry

call me stupid i deserve it

😭

[potent arrow]

Nah just telling ya cuz working in IT I can't tell customers when they are fucking rude lol, at least you can learn from it

[zinc sluice]

nono um

i have

bad habit of getting too comfy sometimes

thanks

[potent arrow]

that being said...I'll argue that bt wireless ANC headphones for the average person has plateau to like...3 real options

airpods max (Imma frow up), Sonys and Bose

[zinc sluice]

ill try to salvage the bose qc that i have

like

[potent arrow]

the earbuds side has evolved alot...

[zinc sluice]

this is too much to js throw it away

or

ryeah

ur right

[potent arrow]

yeah it looks...fine lol

[zinc sluice]

im getting an iems

and being a performative male

[potent arrow]

there's a lot more options on that side

.but then again I use Bose iems rofl

it's just no fuss

[zinc sluice]

i have um

bang and olufsen iems from buying an lg phone from like 200 years ago

but the condition is so deteriorated that the plastic bits have melted

[potent arrow]

yeaaah

if you want like omega abuse 9000 cheap dipshits

[zinc sluice]

yeah this thing

[potent arrow]

the p30i is perfect

[zinc sluice]

bro

i searched p30i and i got

what is this

"pillow mask cushion"

I got so confused

😭

[potent arrow]

but for none wireless side Im not conscious enough to give you a good list

LOL

soundcore p30i

[brave oxide]

I try to avoid anything too soft because of that, idk if it's because my country is hot 9 out of 12 months or i have acidic sweat or what but damn

[potent arrow]

I think I have like a pile of p30is

[brave oxide]

i had a steelseries mouse with a rubber side and that shit was literally melting

[potent arrow]

I just buy them everytime I move to a new job site LOL

[sharp star]

Also the 5700X3D is off the production line

[potent arrow]

the marble wrist rest I use has an indent where my sweat wore away at it

same as my laptop

[zinc sluice]

idk what happened but it sat in like some drawer wrapped up in a cord for years

oh oops

[brave oxide]

i feel its a mix of dust and heat idk

[zinc sluice]

well thats gore

[potent arrow]

lol

[potent arrow]

I just have...really really acidic sweat

[zinc sluice]

i have these https://clarityfidelity.blogspot.com/2015/10/lg-quadbeat-3-tuned-by-akg-iem.html

should be ifne

[potent arrow]

looks fine

[dapper nymph]

today i learned

headphones that cost more if not, the same as a cpu

[zinc sluice]

yeaaaa

[dapper nymph]

one of what villy suggested costed as much as a 7800x3d which is roughly 480-500 usd

[potent arrow]

that's uh

cheap

focal clears

[zinc sluice]

holy

[potent arrow]

look up the price of that

[zinc sluice]

TWO GRAND??

[dapper nymph]

why do these headphones cost so much

[potent arrow]

[dapper nymph]

that's the same price as a rx 9070 xt

[zinc sluice]

and im guessing you have a dac and everything too then

[dapper nymph]

or near identical

[potent arrow]

They sound good to me :3

[brave oxide]

audiophiles

[potent arrow]

yeah lol

what alukah said

this is my second most expensive headphones too....

it's just my new daily...

[brave oxide]

it's one of the most expensive hobbies

sarah

how long ago did I get that 1 in my nickname

I only just noticed it

[potent arrow]

I'm not sure

maybe a week

[brave oxide]

wtf

[potent arrow]

wait how did you know it was me

[brave oxide]

well who else would it be

lmao

[potent arrow]

wtf man

I wanna get out of bed and show y'all the pretty headphones I have on loan rn

LCD-5

sounds amazing but I cannot afford to keep it

on loan to me rn to try out

[brave oxide]

[hazy frost]

people discovering how expensive audiophile stuff gets

[potent arrow]

it's part of the fun waffle

[hazy frost]

true

i got a free AVR-2113 recently i need to set up

[potent arrow]

mm nice

[hazy frost]

its been sitting around for a while bc idk what speakers i want to get

[potent arrow]

I should get myself surround...

[hazy frost]

im mostly going to use it for music really just being able to use wifi for it is nice

[potent arrow]

soooooo I've been on a weird journey with my friends, we've been buying drivers and shoving them in custom printed enclosures

[hazy frost]

lmao

[potent arrow]

concrete and 3D printing

[hazy frost]

is there a reason

[potent arrow]

he's got some nice mics so we can tune it

uhhh audiophile bs I guess lol

They do sounds really nice...it just...it's a lot of work

[hazy frost]

i mean it sounds fun even if it didnt sound great lmao

id probably be messing around with a lot mroe stuff if i had a printer

[potent arrow]

Yeah

I have an x1c

so it just goes bbrrr

here's what I'm considering

[hazy frost]

nice

[potent arrow]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUKhuLa2bi8&t=305s&pp=ygUYbGluZSBhcnJheSBtaW5pIDpEIHByaW50

[hazy frost]

id probably get an A1

if i get something

[potent arrow]

wow

discord send

there we go

[hazy frost]

the censoring

[potent arrow]

feet not free

[hazy frost]

i can respect that

[potent arrow]

the x1C hasn't like

[hazy frost]

interesting

[potent arrow]

stopped printing since it was given to me

it's a slave

[potent arrow]

right?

I'm like yeah I need that

[hazy frost]

crazy how much cool stuff u can do now printers are easily attainable

i mean the x1c isnt the cheapest but its still not even that much for some hobbies

[potent arrow]

it's not even that they are more attainable

it's that there are printers that just... work

[hazy frost]

yeah

[potent arrow]

cr10 and ender 3 days

makerbots and ultimakers

[hazy frost]

but i mean u were paying a huge price even for some of the more crappy ones just a few years ago

[potent arrow]

it's just crazy cuz I've been in that community since repraps

[hazy frost]

the only time i could use one before was when i was at college lol

[potent arrow]

yeah

[potent arrow]

kinda Anets were burning down houses for a long time for relatively cheap

.....sooo many anet fires...

[hazy frost]

lmao

bambu lab stuff seems to always be on sale now

ive never checked their site and seen it at full price

[potent arrow]

basically the printers to get so it's good

[hazy frost]

yeah

x1c is £870 rn

crazy that one that good is that cheap still to me

[potent arrow]

not to say like

the x1C is perfect tho

it's just that when you hit pronlems with it, ya printing as much as I do

I've killed a few parts on it...

[hazy frost]

yeah i imagine ur doing more than most people tho lmao

[potent arrow]

yeaaa

[hazy frost]

so i guess somewhat expected

idk much about anything higher end than that bc ill never buy it

[potent arrow]

like the filament sensor is fubar rn

it just thinks there is no filament 24/7 rn LOL

[hazy frost]

how much are replacements tho

i didnt think theyre that bad

[potent arrow]

uhh

Bambu has sent most of it for free so far lol

just not the bed force sensors

for some reason

[inland mauve]

Twitch has unilaterally reset my notification settings for a bunch of settings and it's really pissing me off

such a good product

[dire viper]

why are people selling 4090's and such with chips and ram removed

is it just a bad scam or are people actually harvesting cards for shit

[grand burrow]

I had that CPU for a while, the parts that were upgraded were the graphics card and ram

[dire viper]

like what 😭

[zinc sluice]

What the.

i saw some brazilian? Youtuber making a frankenstein card

[dire viper]

average idiot who got scalped

[sharp star]

They want buyers to DIY their own 4090s

[cerulean talon]

Aw, look at the little x1c. :3

[potent arrow]

shes still being slaved away LMAOO

[cerulean talon]

H2D crew checking in

[severe flax]

My PC power consumption w the 3 screens

While gaming

[tepid gulch]

That's not bad

[severe flax]

[tepid gulch]

Damn

Better specs than me

I have a 7800x3d and a 4070ti

If i had to build a PC rn I'd go with your specs

[hazy frost]

7900xtx would do that lmao

400w or whatever it manages to use

360 or something

[hazy frost]

Anime girl 9070xt

[tepid gulch]

Down bad

[sharp star]

I still wanna play around with a 9070 XT

Maybe I should buy an ASRock one since the Sapphire Nitro+ is still OoS

[hot shadow]

tfw we're out of the chonky cartridge era and we compensate by switching in new fat gpus

what is life

[severe flax]

First time I've had to put in an anti-sag thingy

What has life come to eh?

[sharp star]

yes

[brave oxide]

i can see them getting even bigger tbh

[brave oxide]

lol

[hard drift]

https://youtu.be/1H3xQaf7BFI the movie is finally here

[sharp star]

https://chaos.social/@boss/115037628860345730

tim (@[e-mail])

If you wanna disable AI-related stuff in firefox here's how you do it

go to about:config

browser.ml.chat.enabled > false
browser.ml.enable > false
extensions.ml.enabled > false

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[wide hill]

not firefox

i read bottom halfways and thought "lol i don't use chrome"

[weak harbor]

Fucking hell I dropped 1/4 of a cup of cola onto my gaming pc (and keyboard)

I rushed to get a towel and cleaned up the exterior and floor

I cleaned myself and removed the power 10min later

Dunno about inside the case but it's a closed case with only the left part open for the fans

I doubt much got inside but tomorrow I'll ask a store I trust to check it

[severe flax]

thats gonna be sticky

I drink coke zero cuz artificial sweetener doesnt gets sticky

[hazy frost]

I drink Coke Zero bc the concept of consuming 35 grams of sugar for one standard size drink is wild to me

[copper monolith]

I've been watching reviews on aio cooler vs air fan

Is aio cooler really worth it?

I live in Asia and most of the time the temp pmuch around 30°C - 33°C

And my cpu can go up to 80°C while gaming

I struggled trying to balance all the 4 air fan screws when I was installing my new cpu last week I wonder if it will be the same with aio cooler

[wild wyvern]

you dont really need AIO unless if you want to overclock your cpu i think?

[real edge]

if you're playing on stock with some overclock/undervolt then an air cooler is ok, no need for an expensive AIO.

[copper monolith]

Ohhhhh

[real edge]

also mentioning that AIO need maintenance

[copper monolith]

Ok so I don't really need it

[real edge]

air coolers are set and forget

which is a big advantage in my book lol

[copper monolith]

Its just very hot in my country 😔

[real edge]

unless you're planning on buying an intel cpu

like a 14900k or something

ull be fine

I am in the balkans

I never had issues with my air coolers

here we get 40c summers

[wild wyvern]

same here but no difference

[copper monolith]

I only have 5600 cpu

[copper monolith]

I'm thinking of getting a curved 34" monitor

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/650933498982432808/1407198378315743353/Screenshot_2025-08-19-11-03-45-403_com.shopee.my.jpg?ex=68a53b1d&is=68a3e99d&hm=06268a62ac3bd810f2d4d00caa68af13fb140d9b7c3225e8e142c1aebd88fb8c&

[real edge]

ultrawide?

[copper monolith]

ye

i think so? xd

[wild wyvern]

mine is an 27 inch acer nitro monitor

[copper monolith]

im dumb when it comes to this im sorry

[wild wyvern]

and its quite good for me already

[real edge]

id generally stay away from cheap ultrawide VA displays

[wild wyvern]

get mine if you want

[real edge]

27 inch 1080p is not advisable

PPI is sub par with that size and resolution combination

[copper monolith]

thta one has good reviews on reddit but idk

[wild wyvern]

utrawide isnt good if ur pc cant even handle it xD

[copper monolith]

ooo

[real edge]

200 bucks for an ultrawide sounds wayyy too cheap

cheap VA is usually always bad

[copper monolith]

thats cus shopee has massive coupons and discounts

but thta could be the normal price for it in the US

hmm

maybe i should put that on hold for now

[real edge]

180$ on ebay

but yeah

generally good motto to go by

if it sounds too good to be true

you know

[copper monolith]

[real edge]

if you're in SEA you might not have much choice tho

[copper monolith]

maybe i hsoudl just go for 27 inches

since i only have rtx 4060

[real edge]

that gpu cannot do ultrawide lol

[copper monolith]

ye i just google

[real edge]

or even 1440p

its very weak

[copper monolith]

does the hz also gpu depending

[real edge]

the monitor I always recommend nowdays is the Gigabyte M27QA

[wild wyvern]

dont think so

[real edge]

you can put as much hz as you want up to the monitors limit

[copper monolith]

none

how about this one

[real edge]

I wouldn't trust those huge discounts

[copper monolith]

theyre fake

[real edge]

ye

dont get a 27 inch 1080p display

either 24 inch 1080p or 27 inch 1440p

[real edge]

AOC Q27G3XMN

[copper monolith]

this?

[real edge]

no

see if the AOC one exists

[copper monolith]

only this one

[real edge]

bruh

uhhhh

[copper monolith]

oh this

i cant afford this

lol

[real edge]

thats not the one I am talking about

[copper monolith]

thats the only result on this site

[real edge]

ASUS ROG Strix XG27ACS

we'll get one that actually exists over there, hopefully

[copper monolith]

i could afford this maybe

[real edge]

thats not the one I was talking about but uhhh

lemme check

[copper monolith]

https://shopee.com.my/search?keyword=asus rog strix xg27acs

if u want the link lmao

i need to drive now

[real edge]

shoppee demands a login from me so I cannot search myself

Dell G2724D

thats the last one I can think of

[copper monolith]

Its okiee thank u regardless

Ill check it later

[weak harbor]

Same here

[wild wyvern]

@real edge im hearing some nvme ssd dying for no reason

[real edge]

huh?

[sharp star]

Windows things

It’s basically standard by now

[wild wyvern]

Windows 24H2 is apparently shitting some drives

[sharp star]

I haven’t experienced the issue but I will keep a lookout

[wild wyvern]

I think mine is an WD Blue SN5000

1TB

Im scared

[real edge]

im on win10

so I get to ignore those issues unless I am forced to upgrade

[wild wyvern]

But

@real edge wait oops no

Mine is an kingston nv3

[hazy frost]

What’s more dangerous lack of updates from support of 10 ending or Microsoft bricking ur pc themselves with 11 updates

Make your choice

[lost python]

linux time

just abandon all games with anti cheat

[hazy frost]

And any software that isn’t related to the IT and tech fields

And-

[paper tusk]

at this rate might as well just jump to 25H2

my tech tea leaves don't have a firm street date yet for OTM image (probably october patch day)

[copper monolith]

I stay on win10 cus I get to put my taskbar on the right side of the screen

[real edge]

did you end up finding that dell?

[copper monolith]

Nope 😔

It okie I'll just settle with that 27" acer 1440p 180hz

Tbf i already have 3 monitors but they're all 1080p 24inches

Just need one 27" one with higher refresh rate

[real edge]

non ultrawide IPS?

im just sad that none of my recommendations actually exist over there

[copper monolith]

Sadly no. Prism, Phillips and Acer are kinda popular brands over here

I heard good things about Prism but I'm not really sure

[hazy frost]

Only other person I’ve ever met who does this

I get made fun of when I post screenshots and people see it lmao

I feel like it’s significantly easier to move my mouse over to but maybe it’s bc i use a very small space on my desk so vertical movement is annoying

[copper monolith]

idk why did i say toolbar but ye

ive been doing that since I first got my first pc

[brave oxide]

i tried to get used to right side taskbar a few times but it felt too weird

but yeah ms can't seem to stop fucking up with win 11, this many years post release

[potent arrow]

https://youtu.be/mlY2QjP_-9s

[brave oxide]

i saw they are offering extended security updates for win 10... if you pay extra for it, or free if you enable a ton of telemetry

[hazy frost]

They can have my telemetry

Idgaf

Just don’t make me use win11

[brave oxide]

a mere 50gb transfer triggers it huh

[potent arrow]

yeaaaaaa

[potent arrow]

beautiful

amazing even

[real edge]

what happened for GPU prices to drop lol

[hazy frost]

People didn’t want to pay 50% markup

Nvidia sales were pretty bad in Europe from what I saw lol

And AMD prices were only hiked bc they could be due to that

[copper monolith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/581479225547161621/1407725631193612378/image.png?ex=68a72628&is=68a5d4a8&hm=c9233b1b9033a34aa326fada41d958478217cd6d59f3442dc96f8f525e73fe90&

win10 is the best

[warped siren]

doesnt the 4090 smoke this card still

[real edge]

ye but the 4090 is 2k-3k usd

[sharp star]

The 4090 is off the production line as well

[dire viper]

Bruh Facebook marketplace hardware is actually reasonable now

Still some scams, I was in a discord call and we were trying to find the worst listings and someone was selling a 5090 as a 4080 which was interesting

They were wholesale boxed presumably from one of the OEM’s, SKU’s on the boxes were 5090 and not 4080 😭

I hope it was just a scam and the boxes were empty instead of somebody genuinely being that stupid

[sly walrus]

update uninstalled

what now

sit on my hands until the patch comes out

[hazy frost]

Have to buy a used one but yes it’s hilarious how bad the 5080 is even at retail now

It’s $1000+ still vs a $650 9070xt or $750 5070ti but only 10% faster with the same amount of vram

Truly awful XX80 tier card possibly the worst one they’ve ever made

[real edge]

I never thought that the 4080super I got for 1100$ would feel like a good purchase

but here we are

[lost python]

I bought an iPad after fondling one at the Apple Store

[hard drift]

new ipad os gonna make it feel great

make it feel like a nice happy medium between a traditional tablet and a laptop

not to mention a great display

[lost python]

I really wanna see how well blender and zbrush will run on it

[hard drift]

which one did you get?

[lost python]

The 13“ pro with the M4

[hard drift]

[lost python]

And 16gb ram

[hard drift]

oh hell yeah

that tandem oled gonna be hella nice

[lost python]

It looks great. I also got the nano glass because it feels nice

[hard drift]

i haven't felt that but i imagine it does

[lost python]

Its like similar to regular graphic tablets?
Very smooth to the touch and even if you got sweaty fingers, its not sticky.
Dulls the screen slightly though

[hard drift]

the trade offs are for sure with it though 🙏

[hazy frost]

same with the 4070ti i bought, making me feel good about £700 on that thing is some incredible work

[lost python]

wow i lucked out

i got a used ipad ofc, because new is ridiculously expensive, and its basically new. 100% battery, only 3 cycles

[tepid gulch]

Damn

That's like charge testing at the factory probably

[lost python]

well i saved 1400€ that way

[tepid gulch]

Gg

[hard drift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZRG7Og61mw my hopes and dreams of new stuff for the fw16 might finally be coming true in a few days

[lost python]

lol and it came with 2 years applecare+

[severe flax]

This is the correct config right? For RAM

[tepid gulch]

Yeah usually you do slots 2 and 4 first

You're good

[paper tusk]

looks good

[neon shell]

Any setting I should turn off to remove stuttering in 14? I have a 4060 and an i7 12700k

the stuttering mild but annoying

nvm I fixed it

nvm it's still there

sigh

[agile sun]

Best e-reader recommendations to replace my Nook (no Kindles) pls and ty.

Here is pic of Nook as tax idk

[sharp star]

https://videocardz.com/newz/first-radeon-rx-9070-xt-user-reports-melted-12v-2x6-adapter
okay new theory: maybe 12VHPWR just sucks

[paper tusk]

[sharp star]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfErpB0ygQU

Yeah

RIP to a legend

[exotic pond]

Probably asked a ton here, but I’m thinking of getting a PS5; I don’t think I’ll shill for a Pro anytime soon, so I wanted to ask, should I get a normal or Slim? I only heard a slim had more storage space, but what about performance, fan and heating?

[sharp star]

Slim has more usable storage space than the launch model

Also performance and cooling are the same as the launch model iirc

[exotic pond]

I just don’t wanna make a big purchase and find out it’s subpar really, was hoping to do that +$50 trade in thing today

[sharp star]

yeaaaaaah I heard about the price increase

but uh launch and slim models are largely identical

the biggest difference is that you can add or remove a disc drive from the slim models

[exotic pond]

Something about needing connection for the disk drive I heard?

Might trade in my dusty WiiU too

[sharp star]

Yeah, though it’s a one-time thing and it’s not necessarily a PS5-only thing

all Blu-ray players do that

[exotic pond]

Well guess I’ll bite the bullet and get it then, thanks :3
actually, anything else I should do before I trade it in? Don’t know if there’s like a data transfer or something I should do

I got ps+ so was wondering if the cloud stuff was enough

[wise hatch]

on consoles stuff like save data and the like is almost always stored online

[sharp star]

you can do a data transfer

I don’t remember if there’s an option to back up an entire console to Sony’s servers though

[neon shell]

I’m assuming this was for me?

[paper tusk]

yes

14 is still pretty bad at vsync

[neon shell]

Cool cool. One more question. Have you been experiencing like sudden frame drops in certain areas in DT zones?

Apparently there’s a forum post about it and stuff

@paper tusk

[paper tusk]

only during hunt trains really

second walk also has chunky frame rate but that's more because my laptop is showing its age (3050)

[neon shell]

Well I don’t get any issues in instances, just certain areas in zones

It’s pretty annoying but I’ll see what I can do to fix it

I did see a post about needing to revert older nvidia drivers so I’ll see about that

[weak harbor]

I changed battery to my UPS it wasn't a big cost (the ups itself is cheap as well). It seems to survive now in Limsa Lominsa

if it can hold power in Limsa, do you think it can do it in high-end content?

[hot shadow]

?? but you're supposed to run on real power

what are you doing on only a ups

you could attempt that but like...

[potent arrow]

that's

[sharp star]

what

Do you understand what a UPS is even for

[potent arrow]

if you are running a UPS that is overloading even with an older battery, it is way too underspec for your PC

[hot shadow]

man is raiding from antarctica

[potent arrow]

this just sounds like an underspec cheap UPS with no passthrough lmao

[hot shadow]

it does

[sharp star]

💀

[hot shadow]

ups fit for a toaster

[potent arrow]

more so one meant for mom and pops Facebook propaganda machine

a machine playing ff14 should not draw that much power 0.0

[hot shadow]

ups fit for mom's makeup fridge so her skincare stays cold

shit maybe I should do that

chilled aloe

[potent arrow]

yooo

omg rab

I have a bunch of those jelly tubes

just sitting into he fridge

Imma eat it all in one sitting

[weak harbor]

Wtf I only said I changed battery to a 2 year old cheap ups

It works now

And I was wondering if raiding consume more power than ffxiv cities

I'll test it myself as it seems this question is ambiguous

[potent arrow]

☠️

[agile sun]

I like the BTS konjac jelly pouches ngl

Their flavors are so good (and it gets funny looks bc people assume I’m obsessed with the band, not the product)

[hot shadow]

i think it was everydaze company anyway

theyre p good ya

[inland mauve]

fucking assholes making Deltarune covers and then putting "melody" claims on every video with the original song in it IE every recording of Deltarune gameplay

of course the melody is going to sound similar, it is THE ORIGINAL THAT YOU COVERED

[real edge]

are the corsair AXi PSUs ever worth considering?

probably not since they cost 500 bucks

lol

https://www.bestprice.gr/item/2160628461/corsair-hx1200i-2025-1200w-trofodotiko-ypologisti-atch-3-1-80-plus-platinum.html?qo=corsair+hxi&from=cat

im thinking of getting this since my PSU problem seems to be getting worse over time

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1akCHL7Vhzk_EhrpIGkz8zTEvYfLDcaSpZRB6Xt6JWkc/edit?gid=1973454078#gid=1973454078

using this tier list to see tiers and quality and such

[lost python]

igors lab tested it and they criticize the OCP and OPP protections and that it isnt very efficient at lower loads

otherwise they say its one of the better PSUs

it is one of the worst of its class for ripple supression though

[real edge]

the alternative is the FSP Hydro TI Pro at 220euro

but thats 1000w

might not be enough for future systems

[lost python]

depends on how that stuff will progress in the near future.
the FSP however is very good

[real edge]

also does not come with 12v 2x6 cables

but rather the standard 12vhwpr of old

[lost python]

well its a psu from 2023 so yeah

[real edge]

idk what else there is tbh

the 1200w area looks like a mess

there does not seem to be any clear winner anywhere

and 1500-1600w is complete overkill

1000w is fine now, 1200 might be needed for the future

[lost python]

Super Flower Leadex VII XP 1200W
Enermax PlatiGemini 1200W
FSP Hydro G Pro 1200W (ATX v3.1)
also rank pretty well it seems

[real edge]

out of those 3 only the second one exists here