technology-discussion

[hot shadow]

spyder if you're data sci and came from rstudio (or beginner)

pycharm all else

vs code if you dont wanna pay 250-300 bucks sub + you're gonna hunt for a million plugins + you dont like that pycharm is resource hog on bad pc

[potent arrow]

I do everything in code

Code has my babies

[hot shadow]

nano if you're trying to give birth to raw code with your legs up

[potent arrow]

I have an extension that has my babies

[hot shadow]

legs up right on the table

leaning back

[potent arrow]

peak that 400MB Json file I edit for work

[sly walrus]

assembly, got it

[pine thistle]

pycharm has a community edition that's free tho

pro also isn't that expensive unless you buy their entire suite

[sly walrus]

what does pro get you

[potent arrow]

most of my asseembly is written in microvision by keil

its so ass

[sly walrus]

can't spell assembly without ass

[potent arrow]

True

its so ass

[pine thistle]

Jupyter support, some extra support for Django, flask and co., JS, TS, React, Angular, etc. support and a database thingy that lets you connect to various databases (let's you see all the tables, schemas, functions, whatnot, also let's you execute queries and gives you auto complete for table names in your python code)

[inland mauve]

bro is there a development job that doesn't require you to engage with AI

I'd rather not work a job where my task is to make myself obsolete

[glossy ravine]

Why is compiling shaders so cpu intensive. Because like. The heat 90-100% utilization while doing so. Generates a ton of heat.

Thinking about it now, i wonder if pc cases/fans have shot up 1000% or something in price

Compiling is more intensive than running FF16 itself.

Even during the Eikon fights

[hot shadow]

cause it has to do da mathz

[lost python]

Lmao no

[odd talon]

Even reception work requires us to engage with AI

[lost python]

Its a lot to compile and its using up all the cpu to make it as quick as possible

[pine thistle]

no because it makes investors feel all warm and fuzzy inside

[buoyant wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/ha-ha-the-simpsons-nelson-muntz-lol-funny-gif-20386320

[sly walrus]

@sharp star get your pins ready

[severe stream]

To no one surprise

[sharp star]

do you have any idea how annoying it is to run a debloat script every few days

[solemn geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/kunleinho-kunleinhogifs-family-guy-beating-assault-gif-20722188

[wraith agate]

At work we are forced to use teams and it keeps asking to add copilot and I just say "no" every time

[ashen mirage]

that price is for like 0.5gb of ram now

[sharp star]

Man who here doesn't want to punch Sam Altman

[hazy frost]

Me because the things I want to happen to him I am not allowed to say

[brave oxide]

https://www.techpowerup.com/343969/nintendo-switch-2-hardware-hit-by-41-price-jump-in-dram-nand-up-8

[inland mauve]

sigh

time to add the Switch 2 to the list of things ruined by AI

[hazy frost]

Anythjng that uses memory is ruined

[wraith agate]

fellas, it is with great regret I must inform y'all... my mouse is double clicking

[tepid gulch]

I already said that

[tepid gulch]

Where 9+10

That would be funnier

[wide hill]

??

[wraith agate]

no wonder nobody wants to use copilot

[wide hill]

my work pays for it, might aswell use it to ask silly questions

[hot shadow]

clean it

[wraith agate]

how

[hot shadow]

do you know how to take it apart or is it really a fucked switch cause if you love your mouse you can still re-solder a new switch

can also alternatively buy a pcb with the lil wires to get hotswappable switches

i did this

[wraith agate]

I do not have the funds nor the equipment to resolder atm

[hot shadow]

RIP

rip mouse

[wraith agate]

I hope it just goes away on its own

[hot shadow]

blow on it at least

get your duster out and psssshhhhhhh

[wraith agate]

I got nothing Rab

nothing

well I can blow on it

[sly walrus]

u got lungs

[wraith agate]

fair

[hot shadow]

what mouse anyway

cause if you have omron switches and it's doubleclicking already then it's RIP

a lot do

some of us hotswapped kailh ones in

[wraith agate]

uhh it's logitech the one with the funny wheel unlock

g560 I think?

[severe flax]

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/109338/return-of-4gb-ram-in-smartphones-by-2026-amidst-dram-crisis-microsd-slots-make-a-comeback/index.html

toasted arent we?

[hazy frost]

lol

[severe flax]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/No-stock-Samsung-raises-DDR5-contract-price-by-over-100.1185970.0.html so, so toasted

[hazy frost]

Good luck to anyone that wanted to buy new stuff

Got a new laptop phone and pc in the last couple years

[pine thistle]

g502?

[tepid gulch]

This is so based

[sharp star]

So desktop Discord decided to be shit for some fucking reason

Gonna see what the damage is now

I'm gonna be so livid if it's a DRAM issue

[hot shadow]

I finally found a use for 3d printing but nobody has the STL for it fuck

[potent arrow]

Watcha need

[wraith agate]

That one

[hot shadow]

I'd have to model the dang thing lmao

I need like basically half a 120mm fan shelf, with the M4 screw hole, but it needs a lil loop to be a mount for whatever. Basically a fan mounted loop

but in a such a way you can easily screw it in

so it probably looks like a lil tab with a loop

[sharp star]

Okay I just had to delete my fucking Discord folder in %AppData%

It really was that easy

But it's not clear either

[hot shadow]

and then I can hang a fuckin chandelier

that's the use case

man even if it's just a fan shelf but without the fken shelf part that works but I need 2 loops. you can see why I'd need to custom it

[pine thistle]

yeah mine did the same, they're super known for getting that issue

it eventually just went away

[sharp star]

Christ the Lancool 207 really does push a lot of air

[wraith agate]

That's a good news

[hot shadow]

are we doin this

I feel like it's neato but not gonna make a real diff tho

maybe a bit easier to clean and the gunk doesn't go all over the old frame at least

[hazy frost]

for 13/14th gen intel it definitely matters

which is what that is

anything else not rly

am5 is fine without it

[sharp star]

Yeah I only have a frame because it looks nicer with it

[wide hill]

i think my pc is cooked

only 25% gpu usage, and 10% cpu, and i get 50fps

[sharp star]

oof

[wide hill]

i went from 35 to 50 fps after killing firefox

[tepid gulch]

What is using the other 43% of your CPU if it's not the game

Game using 8% something else 43

That is concerning

[wide hill]

idk why teamviewer is up there randomly

i think it was just peak 50%

[narrow jetty]

Anyone got any good non chrome (no Adblock) or Firefox (AI injection) web browsers?

[hazy frost]

Literally nothing else is actually enjoyable to use

The AI on Firefox should be the least of ur concerns with browsers

[narrow jetty]

Genuinely what should I be looking for besides the typical data scraping shit and cpu usage

[hazy frost]

If u use anything else you’ll get sick of it very quickly most likely and go back to one of the others

Firefox is the only non chromium one that doesn’t suck

Everything else is kind of just bad

Librewolf is the only other one people actually use which is Firefox with extra privacy and features baked in

But it has its own issues that can become annoying depending on what sites u go to

[potent arrow]

I'm just using Firefox untill it's bad lol

[hazy frost]

Yea

[potent arrow]

every other browser kinda just sucks dick

[hazy frost]

Firefox is nowhere near bad enough to switch rn

[sly walrus]

where's floorp at rn

[hazy frost]

Librewolf is still Firefox but breaks some sites bc of how privacy focused it is lol

And everything else is straight up unusable

[narrow jetty]

Im planning long term I guess and the only other one I could think of quick was Opera and I heard that shit is like a straight data miner

[potent arrow]

privacy focused and browsing the internet, gl if you want true privacy just stay off the net...

Opera may as well give them your ssn

[hazy frost]

Yeah I do find it funny people care but have every Facebook platform etc

[narrow jetty]

But I’m more than happy going the route I did with chrome and just use it until as blockers fully disabled

[hazy frost]

Like privacy to a degree but if u have any other accounts online ur already losing ur data no point trying to lock it down on one aspect

Just use Firefox then

It has ad blockers

[potent arrow]

ad blockers are probably never going away in firefox

[narrow jetty]

I’m very aware of the irony, but I hate AI and Ads and I’m not going to fall over myself to use a product with known security issues

[potent arrow]

my only alternative usually is edge with Adblock lol, but that's kinda just shit still

[hazy frost]

But ur happy using chrome with ad blockers..?

Also if u hate AI and ads just disable them on Firefox

[narrow jetty]

Sunk cost fallacy kept me using Chrome for as long as I did, plus as you said it’s one of the easier ones to use

[hazy frost]

Idk if ur looking for something that doesn’t exist atp

There’s no browser that works and has no security issues no AI by default no ads no collecting ur data

[narrow jetty]

Security wasn’t even something big to me, you just took an indirect shot at people who use social media and I responded to that

[hazy frost]

?

[narrow jetty]

I agreed with your original statement to just use chrome or Firefox for the time

[hazy frost]

U mentioned security before me

Hence I put it in there

And I am telling u the browsers with no issues don’t exist and Firefox is the best option still rn

[narrow jetty]

About opera gx, but I didn’t want to use it cause it was supposedly the most blatant data stealing browser from what I heard, and I just don’t want to dive in to a product with a reputation like that

[hazy frost]

So yes security is important to u

[narrow jetty]

In the way that if I had to choose between a hanging out with a guy who had shit his pants and a guy who hadn’t.

I would never consider it right away but it is disqualifying if you’re a known pants shitter

Cause if you’re a well known company you assume that there’s a base level of data scraping going on

My face gets recorded everytime I open my phone

What can I do

[latent plank]

W3M /s

[ashen mirage]

The only independent non-Gecko/Blink engines that seem to be around now are NetSurf (minimalistic) and Ladybird (released next year). There is Flow but that is mostly for RasPi
https://www.netsurf-browser.org/
https://ladybird.org/#about
and neither for windows

otherwise, like others said you're mostly looking at librewolf or straight garbage. When I was younger I really wanted to like Sleipnir. But it's just not functional for me in today's internet

[tepid gulch]

[tepid gulch]

But unlike the other hammered dick browsers you can turn off all the shitty features

Or alternatively there's other Firefox forks that have them removed by default

For chromium based stuff you gotta go to something like Brave

Which is nothing like chrome which people are "used to"

[hot shadow]

when the browser wars fizzle out because everyone hammered their dicks together

[tepid gulch]

I'm still gonna use Firefox

[hazy frost]

Bc everything else is even worse

[tepid gulch]

Thanks Firefox for being uhh

Good enough

Good with a few complaints compared to trash

Choose your fighter

[lost python]

I found a fork of firefox that i like and i will probably stick with it

[tepid gulch]

There's a lot of good forks

I'm too lazy to use anything but base Firefox

[dire viper]

Firefox has the AI and other settings that get reset every update 😔

But it is just the most meh browser ever so forced to use it

[tepid gulch]

I just turn it off

Firefox mobile is the best browser

Extensions on mobile

Infinite upvotes

[hazy frost]

not on ios

only safari does

[ashen mirage]

I haven't seen any AI settings get reset, the core ones are in about:config and changing most "browser.ml" settings to false stops it. Sometimes they add new stuff but it's inaccessible since the main interface is disabled when false

just be careful as some settings should be true instead like "extensions.ui.mlmodel.hidden"

Still agree you shouldn't have to delve into about config to disable all this, but at least there's an option to unlike the others

[dire viper]

Yea it’s dumb it’s under .ml

[tepid gulch]

App store restrictions

[pine thistle]

^ apple's fault

[tepid gulch]

One of my only issues with apple

[paper tusk]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/289234242289008643/1450847403597893714/image.png?ex=69440670&is=6942b4f0&hm=c1e5a99475e86d5edd5d06d9551cd824423833e0750412de3cbb62c1f8e511df&

[opal smelt]

Yeah, guess now. Nvidia is dropping there. Customer graphics cards by 40% next year. Because micron is not making their chips. So it's gonna be harder for nvidia to make graphics cards

and yeah, they're shifting over to AI. So until? A new company replaces micron storage is gonna be more expensive. Ram is going to be more expensive and now. Graphics cards are going to be more expensive.

For the next 3 or 4 years, probably 5 ram, storage and graphics cards are going to be ridiculously expensive. Fortunately, I just upgraded my computer so I should be fine by the time I need to upgrade again. Hopefully, the prices go back down, but good luck to everyone else.

[hazy frost]

No one rly needs to replace micron because they’re only 1/3 of the companies that make it tho

It’s not going to be 5 years of this

The AI bubble is probably not going to even last 5 years but the problem will be trying to find money to buy stuff instead of the pricing of memory anyway

Samsung and SK Hynix still make it anyway

[pine thistle]

by money that barely exists too I suppose

weird ass circular deals

[sharp star]

just recognize that money has no inherent value and it’s a symbolic, mutually-shared illusion

[wraith agate]

I will maintain that money is a tool

We shouldn't have let it define ourselves

So I say we go back to the Roman republic era and return to the good ol dignitas

[sharp star]

for me that tool is being a poison

[echo citrus]

https://tenor.com/view/certainly-not-jean-luc-picard-star-trek-the-next-generation-definitely-no-gif-23575178

Definitely think there is a better way

[wraith agate]

That's not a very honorable thing to say

[echo citrus]

The Captain disagrees lol

[sharp star]

https://videocardz.com/newz/g-skill-releases-short-statement-on-dram-price-increase-blame-ai

[tepid gulch]

Let's blow up the non existent data centers

Let's blow up the land

[dire viper]

Those are super illegal

When the AI bubble pops it’ll be a second bubble for lawyers to just sue people to oblivion for well logged cases of illegal trading

Round tripping is pretty illegal but historically US is lenient on it

You can’t just say your gonna give someone 100 billion and then the person you gave it too says they’re gonna give you 100 billion, or do a chain of companies in a circle that all say they’re gonna give each other a 100 billion

[tepid gulch]

That's AI right now

[dire viper]

Yea ik

[tepid gulch]

Money circle let's go

[dire viper]

The money circle not allowed cause the money doesn’t exist and misleads investors, if any investment firms are stupid enough to bank on AI right now and then it goes belly up, lots of people will lose lots of money which the firms have liability for

But even in 2007/2008 only one person got jail time for financial fraud so it’s probably gonna be lots of settlements and stuff

[tepid gulch]

That's why Nvidia is buying into political.parties

[dire viper]

Well they’ve always done that, it’s in their interest

[tepid gulch]

Actually they just started doing it in the past 5 years

[dire viper]

FTC is who steps in for this kind of stuff but they can’t really do a lot when tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people are impacted

[dire viper]

Publicly

[tepid gulch]

They just gotta get in with presidents of various countries and get bailed out

Easy

Legal bribery

[dire viper]

They’ve always been involved in politics since they’ve had a very hard hand in the processing world cause you need sway for getting permits for factories

Most cities won’t allow large constructions unless you can prove that it’d be an economic boon

[tepid gulch]

I'm waiting for the nationwide Nvidia powered AI driven surveillance system that's planned

I think gamers Nexus video on it got taken down

[dire viper]

Idk there’s lots of push back from normal people on a lot of stuff now like data centers and corporate offices for specific companies

Cities can ignore people but when you have the top 1% of your tax payers showing up to town halls and complaining it looks bad on you when you ignore them

[tepid gulch]

Poor new York having their top 1% tax payers fleeing the state

As shitty as it is, neglecting the rich just makes the poor pay more. If you have all the biggest tax payers leaving states then they gotta charge normal people even more to keep things afloat

Are any of the historical shilling companies like blackrock investing in anything AI related?

[pine thistle]

I'd assume everyone is no? Otherwise your Investors will probably be very upset that you're clearly not going with the times or some dumb shit

[tepid gulch]

That's what blackrock does

If anything they'll bet against AI

Like how they bet against the housing market in 2008

And took control of millions of properties

They don't need investors they already own everything

[weak harbor]

after 6 years I realised discord has got a settings for desktop notification I turned off way back in time

I was only receiving notification in games and considering that normal

I'm a legend

[sharp star]

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34 (paywalled)
lol
lmao even

AI bought a live fish, holy shit what extraordinary times we live in

[tepid gulch]

I found out what happens when you hit over 100 tabs on firefox mobile

Your tab number becomes the infinity symbol

[modest helm]

on chromium based browsers its just :D

[tepid gulch]

That's equally based

[molten grove]

powerful ddr3

[pine thistle]

If you do it with incognito tabs it becomes ;)

[lost python]

https://www.igorslab.de/en/geforce-graphics-cards-rumors-about-significant-reduction-of-nvidia-gpu-production/

fun days ahead

they want to turn down production of consumer gpus massively.

[sharp star]

hey so when can we start dunking Jensen in tar and making him scream loud as fuck

[lost python]

i wish

[dire viper]

No ram wafers yippeeeeee!

Just don’t make the cards

I saw someone say “this’ll only affect the 50 series” do they even make the 40 series at all anymore lmao

[ashen mirage]

"nature is healing, techies touch grass in massive numbers following widespread home technology phase-out"

[wide hill]

i can't wait for the new 4gb rtx 6080

[severe stream]

1 gb rtx 6050

with 11 gb ai vram

[hot shadow]

I like a good horse quartering after

pull em apart

maybe put em in that Chinese iron bull too and heat it up

[dire viper]

Oooooo my electrons ooooo my electrons ooooooo

[spring raven]

god fucking damn it

[wraith agate]

dude doesn't fucking understand how it works

[glossy ravine]

I want to throw altman into the sun.

[odd talon]

Altman must die by paper cuts from a billion dollar notes

[sly walrus]

cut his heart out with a stick of ram

[sharp star]

https://videocardz.com/newz/system-integrator-starts-offering-prebuilt-pcs-without-ram

[neon shell]

Apple has joined the party of plastic screens https://youtu.be/_sAPqqhmw48?si=MB64a5fF_BRZHAfW

There’s still a lot of speculations though

It will likely cost $2,400.00 usd

[pine thistle]

they should make it 4k$ just to see how far people are willing to go

[paper tusk]

https://www.gsmarena.com/iphone_fold_cadbased_render_leaks_revealing_very_unusual_dimensions-news-70784.php

side fingerprint reader

it seems barely bigger than my pixel (6.7 inch). bet the screen breaks on this breaks if you look at it funny like every other folding device

[neon shell]

Oh are you referring to the iconic crease? Presumably, they’re gonna use Liquid Metal to remove the crease

[pine thistle]

this looks so dumb god

[wraith agate]

that looks like a pen

[pine thistle]

no thats the hinge, but I meant the screen having a radius like that

should've just made the corner 90° angles so it fits the body

[wraith agate]

I dunno, that hinge looks smaller than the hole

[neon shell]

Apple would never include a pen without it being a separate purchase

[neon shell]

Never forget the Apple Vision Pro

I think that was like 5k

[pine thistle]

the clips of people walking around with those in public were definitely entertaining

[neon shell]

lol

Wanna know something funny, but not at all surprising? When they released the second version of the product, they did not fix basically any of the complaints given on the first version

Lukewarm iq at Apple

[pine thistle]

...

there was a second version?

[neon shell]

Yes

[pine thistle]

didnt even hear about that

[hazy frost]

Idk that’s not rly a problem for the back screen bc it’s not connected to anything else

It’s to fit the same aesthetic as regular phones when it’s not folded out

No one ever should buy a folding phone from anyone

[pine thistle]

well it stills looks bad :D

[hazy frost]

Disagree

I hate the square ones that go right to the edge

Rounded corners mean I don’t stab myself on the corner of the phone that’s in my hand, rounded edges are way more ergonomic

[pine thistle]

It doesnt have to be that rounded to not stab yourself

nor is that really a concern in the folded phones case

The body is there regardless, now instead of getting more screen space you just get less while still having a bit of phone there

[hazy frost]

U realise the big screen is on the other side

[pine thistle]

yes?

I'm just saying that having this looks ugly

[hazy frost]

Also what did u want them to make it a right angle on the side near the hinge and curved on the outside? That would look awful

[hazy frost]

Having a screen that’s not shaped the same on both sides would look so much worse

[pine thistle]

make the radius less big, just wastes space when its that big anyway since you now need to squish UI elements to the middle

[hazy frost]

Ur looking for problems with that it’s actually one of the few good design choices for a folding phone lol

Just wasted space except it makes it actually comfortable to use

The radius isn’t that big

It would basically be square if it was smaller which is horribly uncomfortable especially when it’s that big

[neon shell]

Would you guys say it’s worth it to get a screen protector for the steam deck? I’m torn

[sharp star]

I think a better question to ask is “when is it not worth getting a screen protector”

[neon shell]

Hmm fair enough lol

I’ll probably get a Jsaux branded one. Yeah dbrand is better, but it’s its like 30 bucks after taxes

Also Jsaux has an applicator which is nice

[potent arrow]

I never bother with screen protectors

I see bubbles and it pisses me off😭

[sharp star]

I have it applied for me like a lazy bastard

[warped siren]

i usually get one with an applicator built for the device but idk if they make those for not phones and tablets

[modest helm]

same

[hazy frost]

Good ones come with smth to apply it so that doesn’t happen now

Not had a bubble on anything I own in years

I got a switch and phone one most recently both had the applicator

[neon shell]

lol I just mentioned in my message that I got it for the steam deck

[sharp star]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/windows-11-rockets-ssd-performance-to-new-heights-with-hacked-native-nvme-driver-up-to-85-percent-higher-random-workload-performance-in-some-tests

lmaooooooo

[hot shadow]

wh-

does it kill your drive D:

you can't just jack up performance like that and not be worried!!!!

The NVMe driver finally recognizes NVMe drives for what they are—instead of forcing them to act like legacy SCSI devices. By removing unnecessary command conversions from NVMe to SCSI, Microsoft was able to reduce processing overhead and latency, resulting in higher storage performance. ok it sounds good when we getting 2 more to shove in there

[tepid gulch]

Wait

Wait wait wait

Windows was using an scsi to Nvme conversion protocol

You're fucking with me

They haven't had kernel level support they just used a translation layer

[sharp star]

yep

[sharp star]

I made the registry entries on my PC

If my PC goes up in flames then it's been an honor

[cerulean talon]

Just a lil interfacing fun

[sharp star]

I'm crying this is the first time I heard about this translation layer

And the last time I'm gonna have it on Windows even

[tepid gulch]

I swear windows

You.pain me

[real edge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwB3FmbcC88 the legend is back

[wide hill]

apparently someone has collected data trough different vpn providers to see if NA DDOS can be circumvented.

[tepid gulch]

Interesting

I like mullvad

[sly walrus]

honey's still a thing?

[tepid gulch]

It's renamed now

To something else

[dire viper]

That’s not how that works

[buoyant wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-gif-24177057

[wide hill]

newest shitter drama was about someone rewriting a curl/api-client in c++ with vibe coding

and it was horrible

[wraith agate]

it's truly time to switch off windows

[inland mauve]

oh no

gonna have to hard block Windows updates while that fire burns

[hazy frost]

I’m just going to continue staying on 10 and not dealing with their bs

[tepid gulch]

Inb4 windows just forces an update on you

Or just disables all devices using windows 10

I can see them doing that

[latent plank]

Technically 10 LTSC is still supported for a bit longer.

At least for another... 6 years at this point? Security updates included ofc

[tepid gulch]

Yeah

[wide hill]

new update

[glossy ravine]

Wouldn't that like. Make PC ports even worse than they are now for optimization.

For apps and especially games

[sharp star]

That would make many things worse

[muted spoke]

no? games don't care what language the operating kernel is coded in. they just call an API and then whatever happens is a black box

the AI hallucinations won't help, but just going c++ -> rust isn't going to change things all by itself

[glossy ravine]

I was thinking of APIs.

[sharp star]

Either way it seems very ill-advised

[copper monolith]

Found a legit 27" inches 180hz 1440p monitor for just 100 usd

[hot shadow]

cute tbh

HonkHONKhonkHONKhHONK

[odd talon]

The honkdra

[sharp star]

Jesus Christ my purchase options have been severely limited due to the ongoing Apocalypse

[wraith agate]

There's an apocalypse?

[odd talon]

The AI

[potent arrow]

I neeed to print this holy

[hot shadow]

https://www.printables.com/model/65437-goose-hydra

idk how easy or hard this would be

you could even paint it yo

[sharp star]

update: my PC hasn’t burst into flames yet

[zinc sluice]

at one point i wonder if its the game? like my game is always stuck at 55 fps in raids regardless of pc or laptop

idk just seems strange

doesnt affect the gameplay so thats good though

[sharp star]

FF14? Uh

Is it capped at 55FPS via external software?

[zinc sluice]

idts

oh.

it was set to 60

[sharp star]

dawg

[zinc sluice]

mb.

ok well this wasnt the case for my laptop though

LOL

[sharp star]

I think the best thing you can do is uncap the framerate ingame, and cap it via external software

[zinc sluice]

hooooly smooth

i have chillframes for it ima cap it at like 75

[sharp star]

works

but yeah tl;dr the in-game frame limiter sucks

you should be using external software or ChillFrames to cap it instead

[zinc sluice]

am dum

[sharp star]

no worries that's why we're here

to help clean up after your fuckups

[zinc sluice]

LOL

[wild wyvern]

Lol

[wide hill]

tried testing this ping visualising tool thingy, toward an NA server

wtf is this thing thinking it is in UK

false positive?

[wide hill]

the dns looks to be set to us. so it might just be false reporting

[latent plank]

snjsca

I've never actually bothered to confirm if snjsca is... actually in snjsca

would explain a lot if that's what it's reporting lmao

most people get +~30ms due to that node too

[brave oxide]

considering the small difference between it and sacramento it should be in san jose

[latent plank]

was just a jest but thanks for running the traceroute for me c:

[compact pine]

Ok gamers. Looking into a 1440p monitor 27" . Any brands ppl do NOT suggest? Hz isn't a big thing on choice 144-240? 2-300$ moneys

[random sonnet]

Asus monitors...

I've had a few and for some reason they bring a lot of issues and some of them don't even last that long

Same with almost anything Asus related

From personal experience, I can't in clear conscious recommend their products to anyone.

[velvet flint]

should I switch to Opera GX

heard it helps with performance but I'm kind of tired with everything lately

like Firefox chose to shoot itself in the foot

[random sonnet]

I've been using Helium Browser

https://helium.computer/

Chromium, no AI bs, fast, no bloat that I've noticed

[compact pine]

Wonder if there was a change..I've had lots of Asus stuff from my old monitor I use from my MOBOs and they've been perfectly fine

[hot shadow]

sounds like whatever warehouse near you is dropping these bitches

or leaving it out in the sun and shit

[tepid gulch]

It's still the best imo

Also you can just download a fork of it that has all the shit removed if it bothers you

Or you can wait till they implement the permanent opt out button sometime early next year

[random sonnet]

In the past few years I've had nothing but issues with Asus products. I've had to change my laptop's monitor 3 times, keyboard once and fix the fans once.
My dad had to buy a new monitor after two months of using a 1440p one because the backlights went to shit.

Just... It's bs

[sharp star]

Yeah no one has anything good to say about Asus for many reasons

Somehow Gigabyte is just “fine” for me at best

[hazy frost]

ASUS is mediocre except if it breaks u don’t get customer service lmao

[random sonnet]

They did fix the monitor once but the laptop came back scratched lol

And even that monitor started dying after half a year

I ended up replacing it with one from another Asus model and it's been pretty much stable for the past year

Fans are dying tho

[inland mauve]

lmao the muskrat really said "holy shit 2025 is almost over and we haven't reminded artists yet how hard we want to fuck them over"

or maybe they're trying to push the numbers of how many people use that garbage before the end of the year so it won't look like a colossal waste of time and energy

[random sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/both-is-good-disney-el-dorado-both-is-good-gif-4375131127046251648

I saw a lot of edits making fun of him

The only good thing coming out of that update

[random sonnet]

So on the butterfly app there's a list of OpenAI/GenAI users you can block

Pity there's still people I follow on the cursed site that don't use the other one

[hazy frost]

While they’re still missing basic features they should’ve had months ago no ones gonna move especially having lost momentum now

Should’ve fixed everything back when people were trying to move like a year ago now people already tried it and moved on

[random sonnet]

Makes you wonder what's taking so long to implement the necessary features

[lost python]

I cant think of a feature i am still missing

[hazy frost]

There’s a lot missing if u post on it, less missing if u only consume other people’s content on it

That’s why there’s a lot of creators who won’t move

[lost python]

Like what?

[hazy frost]

No drafts, no scheduled posts unless they added it recently, harder to manage who can see ur account or not- including not being able to remove a follower by blocking them for ur numbers

U also can’t make poll posts

[lost python]

Drafts and schedules are a fair point. The latter is already included though

And the privacy settings let you lock your account and only have it visible for your followera

[hazy frost]

It’s got half of what Twitter has and not a whole lot of people who only use Bluesky so the advantages of using it are minimal

I don’t like Twitter but Bluesky just isn’t at the same point for competition rn STILL

Also no bookmarks officially still even tho it’s in the works

[lost python]

Bookmarks are out already

[hazy frost]

That’s good

That’s one of the last things people need for consuming stuff then

Still need them to add the rest of the stuff for posting to actually have people on the platform

[random sonnet]

andd

Twitter account GONE

[muted compass]

Just found out that Valve discontinued the LCD steam deck

[glossy ravine]

Man. People really got excited at the rumor that Asus was going to manufacter RAM.

It was wrong of course.

I still want to punt Altman into the sun.

[glossy ravine]

Yeah, they havent said why. But its not hard to guess why.

Back when the deck released, Gabe mentioned that the price was the hardest thing to get down. With the RAM prices shooting through the stratosphere. It just doesnt make finanical sense to keep manufactering LCD Decks.

Hell, they are probably just barely breaking even with the OLEDs.

They still have refurbs that come in and out of stock

[hazy frost]

I doubt they’re breaking even on any of them

The LCD is just one no one rly wants rn anyway

One of the only things the deck has over competition is being OLED now, there’s way better lcd ones around the price

[muted compass]

To be honest I bought LCD bc my eyes have trouble discerning the dark its kinda a bummer too cuz it is a good budget price compared to the switch 2

But again with the market and it being a niche product for enthusiasts more than casuals it'd really be hard to get into them

[waxen relic]

Just bought a new phone

With 24GB of RAM and 1T of storage lmao

[sharp star]

overkill

[waxen relic]

It is. Idk why the Chinese made a phone with 24GB of RAM

OnePlus 13

[sharp star]

something DRAM Apocalypse

[waxen relic]

I'll never buy Samsung or Apple after what happened to this phone and lived

It involved 5,000lbs and 386°F

[sharp star]

so an IED in the making then

[waxen relic]

Lol

Only the back has hairline cracks, the screen has grid-like none deep scratches, similar to scratching leather and leaving a mark, and the phone screen display colour is yellow for some reason, with patches of normal colours.

A Samsung and Apple would've been melted and be in pieces

[sharp star]

Samsung I feel is slightly more likely to be an IED

Wonder why

https://tenor.com/view/note7-newgenerationweapon-gif-6184978

[waxen relic]

I'm glad I moved from Samsung

Phone wise anyways

I have a Samsung S90D TV

It was the cheaper alternative to the Sony version which was like a few hundred dollars more lol

The only difference was a better UI on the Sony which idc about

I just need settings, connected devices, Ps5 lol

[hazy frost]

Samsung haven’t made anything good in years still

How they convinced most people they’re better value than other Android and Apple phones while charging more i do not know

[hot shadow]

they kinda have to because their country is gonna fucking collapse

lmfao

at this point it's weird cause it's like ... having their phones is like you're prolonging the existence of koreans

it's so weird

because outside of korea they really are not doing well, they dont spawn everywhere like the cantons do

[odd talon]

I have been getting ads wanting me to live in Korea

[hazy frost]

Samsung is propping up Korean economy by selling u a fridge that will die in a year

[sharp star]

Gonna use the fridge while pulling for Kitasan

[pine thistle]

It's funny, LATAM Airlines still explicitly lists the Note 7 as being forbidden to carry on a plane, right next to guns and explosives

[sharp star]

no fucking way they still have those rules even though those phones are long-bricked by now, that’s actually funny

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/researchers-found-a-way-to-store-memory-in-mushrooms we are saved from the ram crisis

[sly walrus]

mushRAM

[dire viper]

thats pretty cool

honestly we're like a decade away from serious use of biological components in computational stuff

all these unis wanna make he unholy abomination first

[sly walrus]

from the moment i realized the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me

[wraith agate]

biocomputers recently got pushed under the radar by Quantum computers but I don't think the two are mutually exclusive, in fact they may serve different purposes

after all, the average joe doesn't need nigh infinite computation power to run the latest cod.... not for now at least.

[hot shadow]

might need it to mod Skyrim n spawn infinite sweetroll

[dire viper]

I mean yea quantum computing is just a way of computing

engineering and hardware via biological things is its own thing

[wraith agate]

Though considering how the average person fails to dust their computers I wouldn't be surprised if I saw a few people complain online that their PCs died because they forgot to water the biobrain processor

Reminds me that one episode in Voyager where they had to vaccinate the ship because it caught some space virus. Hmm is the Voyager a living ship? I mean it has a synthetic nervous system but not really a heart or anything else.

[hot shadow]

did you guys dust this month

you gotta dust before the new year y'know or you lose all your new years luck

same with showering before nye

[hazy frost]

NYE is yearly shower day yes

[random sonnet]

You should shower before NYE and after NYE

Otherwise you didn't shower for a whole year

https://tenor.com/view/teambestb-gif-20183486

[odd talon]

Jfc I've been getting these klarna verification codes

Either someone keeps mistyping their number or this is a phishing attempt

[lost python]

https://youtu.be/DsWTz8NrXOY

happy to see him back building stuff in china

[wraith agate]

but why in china specifically?

[random sonnet]

cheaper tech stuff?

[hot shadow]

because you can get all those parts there

because it's common knowledge you can do that

[sharp star]

something something Chinese point in our lives

but yes

China has an abundance of spare parts

[lost python]

Shenzhen has like a thousand little markets for tech stuff that sell just about anything you could need, including the most random parts of popular phones and stuff

[sharp star]

I haven't seen personally but it's actually very cool how it's basically DIY heaven

[lost python]

i should finish shenzhen I/O someday

[wraith agate]

I will finish it when I get to print out the damn manual

[sly walrus]

just get a second monitor and put the pdf on that

[lost python]

i got it printed and put in a folder like they recommended. its neat

even made notes and stuff

[glossy ravine]

Windows has become like. The best advertisement for linux ever.

With all the AI bullshit being forced into W11, I'm seriously considering moving over to SteamOS/Bazzite

[sharp star]

I mean

My main rig is on an Nvidia card so I cannot get off Windows 11 yet but only strip it of its AI “features”

[glossy ravine]

Me, on AMD:

[sharp star]

removing the AI stuff is great but the problem is that it ends up being a game of Whac-A-Mole

[random sonnet]

Oh?

[hot shadow]

changing one headache for a different type of headache still seems dumb tho

https://tenor.com/view/linux-trash-linuxbad-gif-18671901

just do it if you have a good use case for it beyond gaming

[hazy frost]

windows being so ass and people still using it over linux is a sign of what it has missing tho too lol

i just didnt go to 11

[sharp star]

lmao

the Linux rig is only a test platform fortunately

[hazy frost]

if i even did use linux id still have to dual boot windows for other stuff

so its completely pointless for now

[sharp star]

I might end up going to Linux unironically or I may end up running a stripped-down version of 11

[hazy frost]

ive been a hater of 11 since day 1 its just awful

people still will tell u in such bad faith that linux has 'alternatives' that are missing features and awful to use

[sharp star]

yeah uh

I might run the stripped-down version of 11

[hazy frost]

thats the best it gets for now

(or using 10)

[sharp star]

yep

[hazy frost]

not even having good pdf editing software or like an alternatuive for most of adobe suite on there is pain

[latent plank]

https://tenor.com/view/hacker-linux-windows-windows-users-linux-users-gif-12903519492484692166

[random sonnet]

I uninstalled it with two clicks lol

[latent plank]

EU privilege.

[compact pine]

i have always used edge.....

[dire viper]

U just uninstall edge in the settings it takes like 30 seconds

[random sonnet]

Either that or the fact my windows 11 is stuck on an older version, I don't have copilot either

[hot shadow]

could just leave it alone

i dont really find it offensive that it's just there

[random sonnet]

I did it cause I saw we could do it

that's bout it

[cold yacht]

Linux would be cool if I can just use the programs I use on windows

[sly walrus]

i've fiddled with wine for long enough to know that if i had to fiddle with it for every program on my computer, bad things would happen

[hazy frost]

If u remove stuff from 11 it probably breaks everything anyway

[random sonnet]

Only big issue I had with Windows 11 was when the search bar broke completely for a few days

Oh and windows defender keeps locking apps from changing files in OneDrive so my saves where messed up for a bit

Actually I have more issues with OneDrive than with Windows itself

(but I still stand with #fuckmicrosoft)

[low fiber]

We really need to nuke Microsoft's headquarters if we want to improve as a society

I wanted to build a test rig and try my hand with linux but these price hikes really made me put the project on hold

[grizzled hamlet]

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know of a good bluray disk drive

I don't mind if its a sata drive or usb

The one I have now is finicky when I try to rip or even play my blurays. Rn I'm only able to rip 2 blurays at a time before it decides to freak out and not want to talk to my server

[tepid gulch]

That's not Microsoft's fault at least

They aren't using shit compared to openai and Nvidia

They are still part of the problem but not as much as you'd think

[cerulean talon]

Microsoft has been munching on memory for years for their ai chips

Aws, azure, gcp all have dedicated ai hardware unrelated to nvidia

Just need more fab capacity (as if that’ll happen fast enough)

[low fiber]

I meant it more as in a way to avoid Windows/Microsoft that I now have to put on hold for reasons "unrelated"

[tepid gulch]

You can't avoid them tbh, you'll always be using something they have their hands in

[tepid gulch]

That is true but they aren't the direct cause of the memory shortage that sprung up in the past couple months

[cerulean talon]

Anyone burning fab time is responsible in my books

[paper tusk]

I've had little issue after deleting edge/WebView2 Runtime (other than vanilla xiv launcher and shit ai clients that are glorified local browsers. they both share dependency on WebView2 Runtime)

[tepid gulch]

I mean by that logic the consumers are also responsible

[cerulean talon]

Also true

[tepid gulch]

[cerulean talon]

Tbh, I didn’t have a memory shortage on my todo list this year, so I’m kinda impressed in general

[paper tusk]

(DIY) consumers aren't responsible for fab being basically bought in advance for the next year, so that micron can see number go up

[tepid gulch]

I'm seeing prebuilts at Costco with memory kits that you'd probably profit off of buying and stripping the PCs

[low fiber]

Hey, every little bit counts. Do I still have to use google for browsing and emails? Sure. Do I make sure to disable each and every function that sends them data and replace all of their apps on mobile, while praying every day for the entire company to crumble into dust? Absolutely.

[tepid gulch]

I gave up

They already know everything about me

They probably know things I don't

[low fiber]

It doesn't matter, it's just out of spite at this point

for what they've done to youtube

It's about the message

[grizzled hamlet]

You could also poison the well

just sayin'

https://tenor.com/view/parks-and-rec-april-ludgate-sips-tea-tea-tea-time-gif-21816989

[low fiber]

I mean, there is no need when they themselves already progressively make their services worse as the years go by

[hot shadow]

I'm canceling your prayers out

still need muh Drive, dawg

also they pay my bro the big buck and then he buys me steam games

[low fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/sacrifice-im-willing-to-make-sacrifice-sheen-shrek-gif-17126341379442708860

[hot shadow]

I went to their lil google cafe in mountain view and it's v nice also

yummy

I'm glad he took me

[grizzled hamlet]

I need to invest in a NAS next year and pull all of my stuff off google drive. The only really big important things are there are from like my dnd sessions and my bg3 digital extras

Might as well make that my new year's goal

[low fiber]

Do you already have one in particular in mind?

[grizzled hamlet]

Potentially something from ugreen

Could also create a raspberry pi 5 raid server since I just converted that physical server to a vm recently

While I'd like to have a lot of disks, I don't want a full ATX machine with unraid, but I also don't want anything super small

[hazy frost]

Putting all my media on CDs this year

Other Storage got too expensive

[grizzled hamlet]

I'm actually ripping all my media currently and putting it on my jellyfin server

[hazy frost]

It’s actually funny that now buying like 2TB worth of CD storage is significantly less expensive than an ssd tho

[hot shadow]

funny that my sister's 40tb NAS works like dogshit

I will pray for your experience to be flawless

[grizzled hamlet]

rn my main two nfs servers are just on my proxmox cluster lol

The important one that needs to be put on a nas is just a fresh 2tb ssd that I'm passing the entire disk through

It doesn't really need to be fast. Just consistent.

[hot shadow]

damn

lil foilbox dish

we directTV strat

[tepid gulch]

This unironically works

[low fiber]

That one Matrix pills meme but it's either "ridiculously long ethernet cable" or "cover your entire house in tinfoil"

[turbid brook]

soooo I'm considering a prebuilt PC, but I'm stupid and I really dunno what I need to look for and where I should start lookin

[sharp star]

DRAM Apocalypse or

You just can’t build one yourself?

[turbid brook]

is it more expensive to do that?

[sharp star]

Generally no, and you also have more control over the specs

Unfortunately there is an ongoing DRAM apocalypse so this will hurt your budget more than it should

Anyway

@turbid brook the usual stuff, target resolution, use cases (gaming I know is one of them), the whole nine yards

also upper limit for budget

[turbid brook]

I suppose i want something that's lower end but like... still pretty good

[sharp star]

Hmmmmmmmm

okay

what country are you based in

[turbid brook]

like not to the point of performance mode, but like... medium settings for games?

NA

[sharp star]

okay

[turbid brook]

an unfortunate place for PC prices

[sharp star]

it's not Southeast Asia

[turbid brook]

But hmm

[sharp star]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/RGpWMC I cooked up something, but quick disclaimer: this excludes RAM for current events reasons

this should hold for 1080p stuff

@turbid brook I would recommend 32GB DRAM if you can find cheap/used stuff

otherwise you may have to make do with 16

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/M94wMC updated with RAM to illustrate how dire

A few things to note:

• The CPU is identical to the 7600(X), only it lacks an integrated GPU. If you can find either of those for a lower price then do that
• The PSU is for long-term stuff. I know an 850W may be overkill but if a stronger CPU or GPU is more of your liking later then that's there for a reason

[wraith agate]

Three hundred extra dollarinos with RAM

[sharp star]

hey I'm trying

[hot shadow]

850W not overkill it feels mandatory if you want to be future facing

it'll be fine

[sharp star]

actually you know what

sure

[hot shadow]

1000W 3.1 atx beyond gold standard is overkill but it's not much more expensive even if somebody wanted one

too bad ram is scuffed rn

if they think the CPU heatsink/fans aesthetic is fugly as hell though... understandable if they want a aio instead

cause it is a chonker

[sharp star]

So I found a USB-C cable that splits off into ethernet and USB-PD

Maybe I can use one without USB-PD because Windows keeps updating my onboard ethernet

[hazy frost]

by the time u need to the standard of the psu will probably be outdated anyway l ol

u can run basically the highest end not insane pc on a 650w psu bc the best gaming cpu uses like 60w and higher end gpus use like 300w

[hazy frost]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/fDZHVF u could get a 9070 for like $60 more tho

and when its $4 u might as well get the 7600x

i wouldnt call it mid range tho

[sharp star]

yeah those prices are in spitting distance

[hazy frost]

u can buy a cheaper psu and gpu and ssd still but $300 ram makes even what was cheap not cheap anyway

[sharp star]

💀

[hazy frost]

also storage being 2x what it was

so an $800 pc is now like $1100-1200

might as well get the better gpu at this point lol

[sharp star]

How's the SN7100?

[hazy frost]

the best value one is probably the UD90

bc its like $190 still i think

[hot shadow]

you guys need to come to my house and just rob my desk cause I'll look the other way

[sharp star]

Inch resting

[hot shadow]

I seriously cannot be bothered to go to the bank to deposit all these fuckin bills people keep giving me

crazy ass old people giving me a 100 dollar bill and I can't even spend it in a shop cause they refuse to take it

[hazy frost]

UD90 $180, VP4300 lite $200, sn770 $220 probably the 3 id get

for 2tb ones

still crazy that theyre double what they were

[hazy frost]

i can just go to the p ost office like a 5 min walk from my house

pay cheques and cash in there

alsos there are literally 0 banks in my town so i have no choice

all closed

[hot shadow]

tru

[glossy ravine]

Ive decided that im moving to bazzite. The only problem is not losing my like. 2 tb of files across all my drives

(Fuck windows.)

If only Windows and Linux shared a file system that they could both read.

[pine thistle]

well Linux can read ntfs at least, but if you're permanently moving probably not the best idea

[grizzled hamlet]

Linux can read ntfs, but if you're wanting to transfer to linux from windows, there's Paragon

Before I yanked windows out of my system, I mounted my C:\ on linux and pulled the important bits

[wide hill]

testing out pingplotter

randomly one moment packet loss of all NTT nodes climbed to 6% out of nowhere

ill see what results i get when the next dc happens

though that i wonder if it might be just the long connection between twelve99 to ntt

[tepid gulch]

Winrar the goat

[wide hill]

91% packet loss on the end there
can't even tell which node is breaking cuz they are partially blocking icmp

for only 30 seconds

compared to normal operation

and randomly idk, sometimes it looks like it changes to a different hop?

maybe a network balancer is trying to navigate 204.2.29.241 and then fallsback to 129.250.2.55?

[latent plank]

I've given up trying to figure out NTTs infrastructure.... they're doing the wrong kind of networking black magic.

[lament pine]

Hi tech discussion

What is there to consider with ultrawides? Are they all built the same?

[hazy frost]

There’s more than one aspect ratio considered ultrawide, a lot of them are crappy VA panels and whether they’re curved or not still

And also just the same things u have to think about on any monitor

[tepid gulch]

All the same stuff as a normal monitor

Panel, refresh rate, aspect ratio, resolution etc

[sharp star]

yeah the same stuff that comes into choosing any other monitor comes into play

mainly how crappy (or not) the brand and even the panel provider is relative to the rest of the market

you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone here who unironically suggests Samsung monitors

or any Samsung consumer product for that matter

[tepid gulch]

If you buy one that costs as much as a used car they're pretty good

[hazy frost]

Samsung still don’t offer any burn in protection under warranty for OLED pretty sure

Literally everyone else has 3 years

Pay $1500 for a monitor and if it breaks fuck u

[tepid gulch]

Samsung is dumb

[lament pine]

Any recommendations for a medium term ultrawide display?

[sharp star]

in this house we hate Samsung

[lament pine]

Willing to invest in a thing that lasts long time

[hazy frost]

What’re u using it for

Why do u want an ultrawide specifically anyway

[sharp star]

Yoshi-P approved zoomhack stuff

[tepid gulch]

I'd assume for multitasking

[hazy frost]

Second vertical 16:9 monitor is superior to UW

[tepid gulch]

So true

I have one of the original Asus ultrawide ips's and it's lasted me a long long

[lament pine]

Just yoshi p zoomhacking

that is all

[sharp star]

I knew it

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think some Alienware models are year-end picks

[hazy frost]

Alienware OLED one is good

Tbh any of the OLED ones that aren’t Samsung are good

They all use one of like 3 panels

MSI, AOC, LG, AW, and Philips do those

I don’t think any non OLED ultrawide is actually worth buying bc they’re all overpriced anyway

[sharp star]

lmao

[sharp star]

I bought an LCD ultrawide before the pandemic went into full swing :’)

[hazy frost]

I bought a dell lcd years ago and it’s now haunting me bc the only things worth upgrading to are like £350+

Like there’s a few better IPS ones but it’s like 1200:1 contrast instead of 980:1 or smth

[lament pine]

so i would want to get an oled display around cyber monday?

[hot shadow]

when can i just become oled

i will walk around as a windows xp wallpaper

[potent arrow]

I have an Alienware ultra wide , is pretty

[hazy frost]

If u wanna wait.. 11 months sure

But they’re already pretty good prices rn

[lament pine]

im not in a hurry

but upgrading is on my radar

[hazy frost]

If u want one they’re decent prices rn they might get cheaper they might not

[lament pine]

what does decent mean

[hazy frost]

People who wait for just a slightly better deal all the time (me) end up never buying anything

[hazy frost]

As well priced as they’ve ever been

Not extortionately expensive anymore

[lament pine]

in terms of like

price range

i usually way overestimate

thinking a good display is 3-4k usd

[hazy frost]

Like $450

[lament pine]

wait

huh?

[hazy frost]

Or $450-650 depending on which one

[lament pine]

oh thats way cheaper than i imagined

😂

[hazy frost]

A good display has basically never been 3-4K usd unless u need it for specific professional work

[lament pine]

after buying my 3080 ti during covid 19

[hazy frost]

The best ones u can buy rn are only like $1200 for gaming ones

[lament pine]

my perspective has probably been forever warped

[hazy frost]

3-4K is like the monitors for high end creative work stuff that needs to be perfect

Gaming stuff cheap

[sharp star]

I might pull the trigger on this one LG monitor I'm looking at

34GS95QE-B

Looks like a good pick, apparently glare is an issue but that's mostly a non-issue for me

Before anyone asks, no, Alienware monitors are not an option on my side of the pond

[hazy frost]

I’m not buying any OLED bc VRR flicker is hell

The only ones with actual no VRR issues as upsetting as it is would be asus

And Alienware ones have the best results out of all of them that do have it still

Having to set low caps on frame rate sucks

[odd talon]

Welp, ordered a gigabyte aorus 5090 master

[hazy frost]

Before its $7000

[hot shadow]

what a CHONKER you got

with cute lil rgb rings

that you wont be able to see because you probably didn't get the vertical gpu setup and that shit is all gonna be on the bottom btw

;p

[odd talon]

I paid $5300 AUD.

[hot shadow]

holy

[hazy frost]

But why

[odd talon]

The white card was the only one available at that price

[hot shadow]

dude the other day i saw a couple fight because the girl seriously thought the bf was buying her an engagement ring but it was just a 5070

awk

girl was in the wrong

[odd talon]

Tfw no gf buying a 5090 for me

[hazy frost]

I’d be pissed if someone spent money on a 5070 too

[hot shadow]

xdddddddddd

[hazy frost]

At least have the sense to get me a 9070

Come on

[hot shadow]

she doesnt game

THEREFORE

SHES IN THE WRONG

[hazy frost]

I just gave my gf my old pc instead

Or what was left of it

[sharp star]

on second thought my monitor is perfectly fine

[hazy frost]

The 280hz OLED Alienware monitor is £380 rn it’s tempting me

Knowing I don’t need it tho

[paper tusk]

rip my evga capture device (it's crashing at 1080 res so I bought a new usb c cable. didn't fix it. hooked up a ssd and did a speed test to test the port. it's fine)

[pine thistle]

Pretty old HDD (~10 years), how worried should I be between "keep watching it" and "buy a new drive now"

[wide hill]

once you notice data corruption

[muted spoke]

then it's too late

[wide hill]

at least you know that the disk is bad

[hot shadow]

why haven't you upgraded

too old

I would be worried

really hope you don't have anything important there

[pine thistle]

I kinda have, most stuff is on my new hdd since its bigger anyway

[hazy frost]

New HDD in 2025

[hot shadow]

new HDD???

sis it's 2025 we all have like 4 ssds now

oh shit

[hazy frost]

Unless it’s for like 16tb of media storage it’s crazy

[hot shadow]

2026 lmfao

[pine thistle]

"new", its from 2018 lol

but ye its 6TB

[hazy frost]

No

[hot shadow]

6tb... that thing gonna fail before you can fill it

I hope not tho

[pine thistle]

eh

[wide hill]

i barely use my HDD anymore

[hot shadow]

oh did you jam like every single thing on it damn

[hazy frost]

Loading my game off my HDD see u guys in 2027

[wide hill]

my force mp600 has 204tb writes

[hot shadow]

hahahaa

77% health

we pray

[hazy frost]

I have one ssd in my pc now my laptop ate the others

I might move it back one day

[wide hill]

funny how the HDD reports as 100% health

i don't trust it

[pine thistle]

it has various things on there

Wouldn't have gotten it if I wasn't gonna make use of it

altough I do eventually need to build a new pc

once prices stop being stupid

[hot shadow]

I like how these prices made everyone fomo once more

then I'm gonna watch these prices fall and they'll procrastinate once more

I look forward to everyone paying me to build their PC again later

[hazy frost]

2035 maybe

[pine thistle]

Currently using 7.3TB out of 10TB in my PC...I should get a NAS some time

[hazy frost]

See the prices will go back but we are going to experience the economic fallout from the bubble and no one will be able to buy a pc still

[pine thistle]

true

[hazy frost]

Everyone will be miserable bc someone wanted to generate bad videos of movie characters doing nothing

[pine thistle]

Hell yeah

should probably replace this ssd eventually too

[compact pine]

im still waiting for the day for my hdds to die, ones 10 years old i think hahah ones 5

[tepid gulch]

134tb

I'd do a drive health scan

[hot shadow]

damn that's a lot of stepmania

[tepid gulch]

Dead

[sharp star]

I managed to fix all of my stuttering and crackling issues, as well as various other hardware issues affecting my PC

All it took was a new motherboard

[hot shadow]

ono

that's unfortunate it needed to be a wholeass mobo

[sharp star]

at least it’s a component that does not have DRAM

otherwise I have sold my fat potato Corgi

[hot shadow]

nooooo but he so cuteeee

[sharp star]

I think I solved my GPU issues

it was the same one I had where it just stops sending a signal to the monitors

I think it was the physical connection between the GPU and the board

[sharp star]

I think I definitively fixed the issue

It's so fucking annoying holy shit

why yes I want to keep taking my GPU out and inserting it back into the PCI-E slot repeatedly just to see if it won't fail

[tepid gulch]

Where

Where's the corgi

[buoyant wasp]

https://insider-gaming.com/microsoft-ceo-ai-slop/

No

[hazy frost]

he just threw a bunch of words together that really mean nothing to say its not slop

lmao

did he AI generate his interview answers

[buoyant wasp]

I'm convinced he is AI

[tepid gulch]

I bet he did

I would be riding ai dick too if my companies future rides on it

They're in too deep now

[hot shadow]

a person riding ai dick would be far happier and honest

if it were literal dick

unfortunately these people are all fuckin liars

[potent arrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bbpjlYo14k

what the hell

[glossy ravine]

The more I see of the tech news, the more I want to Eject sam Altman into the sun.

https://www.techpowerup.com/344578/leaks-predict-usd-5000-rtx-5090-gpus-in-2026-thanks-to-ai-industry-demand

[paper tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/cope-namazu-ffxiv-gif-21795593

meanwhile some of the most meme windows bugs have been direct result of AI slop

there hasn't been a january preview so we won't know what's broken until patch tuesday

[pine thistle]

[...] how we diffuse this technology in the world as a solution to the challenges of people and planet
huh

[hazy frost]

AI is the challenge of people and planet

His responses actually sound like they generated them bc no normal human being talks like this they so desperately need to pretend that we need AI for.. something

[pine thistle]

The responses probably went through ten PR teams

[buoyant wasp]

And those teams are just robots

[hazy frost]

AI PR team

They fired all the real people

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-claims-misaligned-rog-matrix-rtx-5090-power-connector-is-part-of-the-original-product-design it's okay it's poorly designed

[tepid gulch]

I swear

I hope graphics card manufactures explode

[odd talon]

Chinese GPU market

[brave oxide]

https://steamdeckhq.com/news/asus-announces-price-hikes-jan-2026/

[hot shadow]

wtf the least they could do is fucking honor it

jesus

[hazy frost]

Pretty sure u can sue for the Corsair one lol

[odd talon]

Kill AI

[sharp star]

@potent arrow

[pine thistle]

I think I also saw posts about people RMA'ing defective RAM and just getting refunds for the original purchase price instead of a replacement

kinda scummy altough I guess it makes sense from a business perspective

[wide hill]

bring out the saw

[hard drift]

but then you void any potential rma

unless you mean sawing the already lethal connector

[wide hill]

a connector at least you can easily replace

[sharp star]

https://tenor.com/view/kleomenis-tool-gif-14328067

[hot shadow]

i was gonna go get a all-glass front panel for my case but then i read it shattered easily for people

n-nevermind

[glossy ravine]

AI was a mistake

[cold yacht]

Praying for bubble to pop

500 billion non existent money for 40% of global ram

Bubble popping will suck for everyone but better happen sooner

[paper tusk]

go to the it

[brave oxide]

That brings me back lol

Early on WhatsApp had a $1 annual fee

[sharp star]

Also I nuked my Windows install while trying to find out what the problem was

Not like I lost much

[hazy frost]

Isn’t it like 1.5 trillion now

[sharp star]

also wiped my Steam Deck

I think I should have a semi-fresh start

[compact pine]

Wouldn't a fresh install/keeping files still have been sufficient?

[sharp star]

yes

I kept my files