technology-discussion

[weak harbor]

gpu is nvidia 1660 super

ram is 16 gb ddr4

[hazy frost]

psu is just smth u need to know before buying a gpu to m ake sure u have enough headroom to increase power draw

[weak harbor]

I can try to find out that

[hazy frost]

because it could be 50-100w more than ur current gpu

[weak harbor]

it's expensive to change psu?

[hazy frost]

not particularly but it will be an added cost if u have a really bad one

u should be fine i imagine its enough for the mid range gpus rn

id recommend either the b580 for like 300 euros or 9060xt 16gb for 420 new rn

[weak harbor]

I don't really play a lot of games throughout a year besides ffxiv

but the gpu is playing tricks recently

like a lag in certain part of the game

I don't have mods and the specs are always the same on the game

[hazy frost]

well if u want to play stuff like ff7 remake it would need to be replaced anyway

[weak harbor]

yeah

indeed

[hazy frost]

but those are the 2 best value options new i think for u

if theyre too expensive there might be some other used options

b580 will easily fun xiv and be just enough to run stuff like ff7 on low settings

[weak harbor]

it's not too much out of my budget

do you imagine prices will go a bit lower between now and 2027?

[hazy frost]

shouldve asked already but do u know what resolution your monitor is

[weak harbor]

hang on a sec

[hazy frost]

hard to tell tbh something could happen to make them go either way

id never bet on it going up or down with the market as it is rn

[weak harbor]

it's 1920x1080

[hazy frost]

it seems like theyre not up in price a lot in italy from what it was a year or two ago from my memory

[weak harbor]

btw the monitor also is crap

[hazy frost]

yeah then either gpu i recommended would be good

the 9060xt u could run stuff at 1440p but i wouldnt recommend the b580 above 1080p really

[weak harbor]

would you advise me to change cpu or ram or am I fine for a bunch of years?

with AI RAM now must be shit to buy

but I often end up close to 16gb of usage

[hazy frost]

yeah ram isnt great to buy rn

if its not causing u issues i wouldnt get more

if u upgrade ur gpu i would maybe look at replacing cpu and ram at some point too but def not high priority at these prices

[weak harbor]

when are generally the specs for the new expansion published?

that way I could know for sure what to expect

[hazy frost]

i wouldnt expect them to differ too heavily from dawntrail tbh

DT only changed noticeably bc of the massive overhaul of graphics at the same time

i would probably recommend getting a better cpu used for ur current motherboard and ram for FF at most but not replacing too much bc that would cost a lot

[weak harbor]

ty 🙂

[hot shadow]

how do you know it's the gpu tho

mmos are cpu-heavy

[worthy tundra]

So I tried to fix my Nintendo Switch 1's microSD card reader, and it seemed successful, until when I tried to put in a microSD card, it doesn't work.

Now I'm paranoid. I can't move videos from Tomodachi Life Living the Dream off of it...

I might have to shell out cash for someone to help repair it for me, which I know is EXPENSIVE for me.

[hot shadow]

? do you have to format the microSD first? it's not that, right?

[worthy tundra]

I didn't have to. But the microSD card isn't reading. It's my first time repairing something and I watched a repair video guide on it.

[hot shadow]

so how did it break in the first place anyway

because if the pins are fucked like this one then it's just fucked, yknow (it would require a REAL repair)

so i hope you didnt drop it and something snapped idk

[hazy frost]

It probably is but spending $400 on big upgrade while u have a 1660 is also dumb I think lol

If u can find a cheap 11700k or something maybe

[hot shadow]

yea

[hazy frost]

Or a 10850/10900

Probably similar price

[hot shadow]

if a pc/laptop is too shit there's no choice but to cut losses and go buy a new one honestly

and sell whatever you want

[hazy frost]

B580 and that is probably best for just 14 but he wants to play ff7 remake and stuff too

[hot shadow]

girls out here selling their body for a new gpu

[hazy frost]

I mean $500 would get a 9060xt and a 11700k which is easily good enough for everything rather than spend $1000 on a new one

[hot shadow]

sometimes i dont go to anime cons around here but when i go out into the city near one, i see cosplayers holding up signs for dono but theyre also sugarbabies, and some meme about it being for a gpu

bitches be hustlin

for dat RAM

[hazy frost]

I will cosplay ram for someone to buy me anime girls instead

[hot shadow]

[hazy frost]

I would cosplay for a new gpu too

I have no shame

At this point it’s probably gonna be for a 500gb ssd instead

[worthy tundra]

Well, my microSD card reader wasn't working, and it pushed out the microSD card as I tried to insert it.

[hot shadow]

scary

i hope the pins are aligned properly when you snapped the new part into place

assuming there was a lil tiny connector

[worthy tundra]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitchHelp/comments/1sdfqq1/microsd_card_wont_stay_in_switch_1s_microsd_card/

Here's a video of the problem I have with my microSD card reader in my Switch 1.

[hot shadow]

if it's this shit ive seen them wiggle out of place and not actually connect

i had to use tweezers to like jam it in and align and flip the lil bar switch latch

[odd talon]

Man I need to work out more. This PC is heavy

[odd talon]

TIL that deleting a game through steam storage deletes all versions on all storage drives

[muted compass]

Considering on upgrading a new phone my current one is starting to both slow down and have battery issues any reccs other than the big two cuz im currently on samsung for a good 7 years now 🤔🤔🤔

[weak harbor]

I'm not sure indeed, but it's the oldest part considered I bought it refurbished and not new

It could be the cpu instead but I've no idea how to figure it out

[hot shadow]

i think most people who had a 1080p pc like this from before liked going to a 4060 because it's not as much power and it was all they could afford, you can't even get a 4070ti or better gpu than that because it wont be able to utilize it properly + your psu is likely not great. i dont know the market rn cause im not looking but you're sorta hardstuck unless you shell out more

but yea like at least if you had a 4060 card you can use ff14's dlss or w/e they got now

if you can find somebody's old 3060 12gb vram card though, that one is fine too cause that's your era of pc ....

you're stuck there cause you have a now-kinda-old budget build with ddr4 ram, and you also dont even have that much ram

or you could go amd cards

from price higher to lower: 7700 xt was like 400ish USD, then 6750 xt and 6700 xt are cheaper + 12gb vram at least too

i hope you got at least a 650 to 750W psu tho for future proofing

cause a 500W is not gonna work anymore trying to give enough energy to the newer stuff you start putting in

[hazy frost]

None of these are available at a good price now tho

[hot shadow]

yea

then theyre hardstuck, right?

[hazy frost]

Which is why I said b580 or 9060xt?

They’re the replacements

[hot shadow]

like if they really wanted to upgrade, theyre gonna have to bite the bullet and save more money for replacing the entire build

[hazy frost]

9060xt is a better 7700xt for $400

[hot shadow]

ya

[hazy frost]

No they do not

[hot shadow]

shit is hard rn

[hazy frost]

The only thing they need is a gpu and cpu most likely

[hot shadow]

idk if the cpu is gonna bottleneck but the 9060xt should be fine

[hazy frost]

They don’t need to replace everything

[hot shadow]

let's say they dont touch the cpu at all cause that's gonna run them more

[hazy frost]

U can buy a cpu on that platform later and they’re capable

That’s a lot cheaper than $400 more to replace it completely

[hot shadow]

i feel like it's easier if i just donate them 3000 dollars and they go buy a new pc LMAO fuck

i hate headache like this

[hazy frost]

It’s not really a headache it’s quite simple

New gpu

Buy a cpu for that socket

There’s a bunch of 11700 and 11900k on eBay for $150

[weak harbor]

I mean boys I can always change the psu

I can upgrade the GPU and the ram later on when prices are more reasonable

[hazy frost]

Gpu prices aren’t going to get much cheaper besides from them being old which will take years

[weak harbor]

I meant to say the GPU now the rest later

As mrxb said I've no idea if the GPU is the actual problem

[hazy frost]

U might not need a new psu still

[weak harbor]

Is there a way to figure out what is making FFXIV lag?

[real edge]

did you post your specs here

[weak harbor]

I just think that GPU is far more old than all the rest of the pc

Yes

[hazy frost]

I mean if it’s lagging in somewhere like limsa bc of population then it’ll be ur cpu

[weak harbor]

Role quests?

That's where is more problematic

[hot shadow]

ya at the very least you need a new gpu, i think that is settled

that thing is a s s

[hazy frost]

Idk why it would happen specifically for role quests

[hot shadow]

if it's only town lag then it's the cpu and gpu together

[real edge]

I scrolled up for the specs

[hot shadow]

if you got more money then replace both

[real edge]

with the 1660super

you can do FSR

im pretty sure

in FF14

[hazy frost]

He wants to play other games besides 14 anyway

Which it won’t do

[hot shadow]

yea

we're assuming general use case

[hazy frost]

For most games the cpu is still fine even tho it’s not amazing

the gpu isn’t even gonna run other stuff tho

[weak harbor]

Jesus I can't send a message

Are games blocked from this channel

[hot shadow]

i like the 9060xt, it's like budget king

[hazy frost]

Not the 8GB one

It makes no sense to buy them

[weak harbor]

I was trying to say I've got no plans to play games that requires me higher specs in the near future but I would like to stop the lag

[hazy frost]

Ur just spending €350 to be bottlenecked in half the games u play in the future and lose a load of resale value

[real edge]

the specific game is

[hazy frost]

U wanted to play FF7 remake

[weak harbor]

Yeah but not rn

[real edge]

im also a medditerenean

[weak harbor]

In the future waffle

[real edge]

so in italy it should be 400euro too

[hazy frost]

It is yeah

[weak harbor]

But might as well change it now after all

[hazy frost]

It’s that or the b580 which would work for ff and newer games but it’s not as good value

[real edge]

the intel arc one? hm

[hot shadow]

do you just want the money in my desk irl cause i'll look the other way

[real edge]

didn't that still have rough edges drivers wise

[hot shadow]

it'll be easier lmao

walk right in and grab

[weak harbor]

Huh?

[hot shadow]

where do euros shop for parts anyway

[hazy frost]

There isn’t a euro shop

[weak harbor]

Amazon eBay private shops

[hazy frost]

There’s country specific places

[weak harbor]

Mostly big stores like Amazon

[hot shadow]

[weak harbor]

But small companies have great deals too

[real edge]

in my country, local small stores have better prices than amazon

[hot shadow]

i wish these prices go down

[weak harbor]

That depends, I search with Google shopping and another search engine anyway

[hot shadow]

we're starting to get to a point where i had to buy 2 people parts or they had to quit gaming forever

and i was sad about it

cause i still wanted to play with them

[hazy frost]

Some people don’t plan that they need to upgrade expect their pc to last forever then suddenly realise they should’ve saved money

[hot shadow]

their jobs pay so shit

[real edge]

awwww

[weak harbor]

Btw besides the annoying lag on FFXIV can I postpone these purchases? I mean I wrote down all the tips I got here and when I've more money and time than now I may do the shopping.

Is the lag bad for the computer or can the GPU fail at some point?

I barely have time to eat lately

[hot shadow]

nah it's fine, just dust your pc

[real edge]

you can use FSR temporarily

its a decent performance booster

[weak harbor]

The GPU getting too old, can it stop working?

[hot shadow]

dont aim the aircan directly into the fan in a way that makes it spin badly tho, just blast it gently from different angles and not in one long stream

[hazy frost]

Any tech can stop working at any time from smth going wrong

If it’s not overheating or causing obvious display issues it’s probably not dying tho

[weak harbor]

Thanks

I'll also figure out what PSU I have in the meantime

[hot shadow]

there's prob a sticker on it

[hot shadow]

the answer is yes

things can die in a span of 6 years

it's pushing it already

[hazy frost]

It could die if it was brand new as well

[hot shadow]

yea...

[real edge]

but my old 1070 was still working even after 7 years of use and it probably still works, I only replaced it because the performance was getting disappointing

[hazy frost]

Things with minimal moving parts and ways to degrade generally last forever tho

[hot shadow]

the only thing people can do to stretch a gpu lifespan is keep it cleaned/dusted, check for fan irregularities of spinning, replace thermal paste (hard)

aka not much

[hazy frost]

Whether gpu dies at any point is just luck

[real edge]

GPUs generally do not die fast

ive never had a GPU fail on me

[hazy frost]

CPUs and GPUs don’t have much that kills them just by passage of time

[hot shadow]

usually we worry about ssd dying before gpu honestly so it's not rly a worry

cause that's worse, at least the pc can run if you yank a gpu out

[real edge]

my old 1070 was 7yrs old and still worked fine

ull be fine

[hot shadow]

ya i had 9 year parts too

but that's lottery

[hazy frost]

Having 3 years old parts out of warranty is also a lottery

It’s always a lottery u just have a warranty for 1-2 years so u don’t get screwed immediately

[hot shadow]

having dirty electricity also lottery no matter what if the place doesnt supply stability

like every single american in a state with blackouts every winter due to storms, o my god

it kills their pc so badly

cause a lot of them dont have a power strip or the lil power boxes

[hazy frost]

Unless it’s really ridiculously bad u should be ok if u have a decent psu now

[hazy frost]

In the UK we just don’t have terrible electrical infrastructure in the first place tbh

[hot shadow]

good

3rd world american moment

[hazy frost]

Best plug in the world still stays winning

Not having switches on sockets is insane idk how the rest of the world lives

[hazy frost]

I think people should just buy them it’s like $20 and ur pc is probably 30x that lol

[hot shadow]

ya

[hazy frost]

Idk why people do that in general they buy a new phone or pc or whatever for 100s but refuse to pay $10 for protective features to stop it exploding

[hot shadow]

natural human optimism

lmao

the same thing that drives us to have children cause it's gonna be fine ok

hahahahaha

[hazy frost]

I advised someone i know to get a new phone last week they spent £600 and then someone else told them to not spend £5 on a screen protector bc u don’t need it

But like why

It’s £5

A screen is gonna be 20 times that lol

[weak harbor]

I agree

Makes perfectly sense to invest a little in care

[hazy frost]

Yeah I don’t rly like things like extended warranty companies try to push on u but there’s often very cheap measures that can save u 100s in case of accidents

[real edge]

I do have my PC on a pricey power strip I bought off of amazon that apparently has good protections

[worthy tundra]

Is there any cheap 1 or 2 TB HDDs that I can get?

[weak harbor]

I just noticed on the pdf of my specs the psu may be 500W

Is it fine for a b580 or a 9060xt ?

If I understood what a psu is I may even have 700W

I misunderstood what a psu was but I remember I asked for an upgrade and not the 500W the IT guy thought of

[hazy frost]

go on ebay and look for offices or businesses shutting down selling old supplies u can buy loads for half what they usually are

[hazy frost]

b580 yes 9060xt probably so long as its a good one

i dont know of many good 500w ones tho most of them are 550

[weak harbor]

I'll have to check if PSU is 500W or 700W

It should be 7. But better be safe than sorry

[worthy tundra]

Alright, so here are the insides of my Switch 1 (2017 model) and the replacement microSD card reader.

Did I mess anything up?

And here's the broken microSD card reader. And I also am organizing my screws like this in the third image.

[pine thistle]

Unless you ram the screw driver into the board it's pretty hard to mess anything up

[worthy tundra]

So all I have to do is line up and connect the socket of the new microSD card reader into it.

[pine thistle]

yep

[hot shadow]

ya now the only issue is why it doesnt read the new one

which may not be your fault and is software side blocking new parts

[white bolt]

anyone know a site for 3d printed pc parts?

need a new power button

[odd talon]

Hmm, bios menu ain't booting

Trying to get this ssd detected

[worthy tundra]

I did it! I successfully replaced the microSD card reader on my Switch 1 and now I can use the microSD card again!

Now all I have left to do is to screw in everything back together!

Uh oh. I got an error that says it's unable to access Switch microSD card.

[worthy tundra]

And I found out that I didn't seat in the new microSD card connector in properly, so now it's skewed, which means that one wrong move to the Switch could disconnect the microSD card.

[hot shadow]

open it back up n correct it i guess

[dire viper]

My Truthear Reds died but for some reason a store local has the Crinacle Zeros in stock so I get those when I go home and see how they are :3

[sly walrus]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-mice/turtle-beach-has-wedged-a-touchscreen-into-the-side-of-its-new-8k-gaming-mouse-and-its-giving-me-the-heebie-jeebies/

A SIN HAS BEEN COMMITTED

[warped siren]

what the fuck is an "8K gaming mouse"

[ashen mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/whotfasked-melookingforwhoasked-lookingforwhoasked-whoaskedyou-gif-22240405

[lime wasp]

I was doing some spring cleaning and have uncovered an ancient Steam Relic

[hot shadow]

wtf...

get this thing outta my sight holy shit hahahaha

[lime wasp]

...how is this better than an MMO or MOBA mouse?

[warped siren]

the mercedes mindset

more screen more better

[sly walrus]

ask turtle beach, they're the freaks that signed off on it

why are you acting like this was my idea

[dire viper]

Make a mouse that you have to read a 50 page manual to use

[spring raven]

It's a mouse that costs $8000 duh

[hazy frost]

bc how much u can truly innovate on a product like this is very minimal u just keep adding random gimmicks that convince peopkle to spend money on it

[random sonnet]

Its a mouse

Just make a good mouse

[hazy frost]

yeah but u cant sell more mouse when its just a mouse bc everyone already has just a mouse

u need to make weird useless mouse with new thing so someone buys it

[random sonnet]

Mouse that makes your coffee

[sly walrus]

we’ve got a real problem if one of these starts storing browser information

because you know what happens when you give a mouse a cookie

[potent arrow]

I've been enjoying the superstrike

definitely a gimmick more mice manufacturers should get into imo

[lost python]

im really curious about how it feels but not at that pricepoint

hoping some other brand makes it but without brand tax

but my EGG OP1 8k has been surprisingly good to me so far too

[potent arrow]

https://youtu.be/p2fYTXZhwtc

yeah price is def a prohibitive thing

definitely something made for me, given how much I loved my gen 1 and gen 2

perfect upgrade gimmick

I think something people do miss is how silent it is

very nice benefit for when I'm on call, that mouse has no audible clicks

[hot shadow]

you're supposed to configure your mic

:p

[potent arrow]

I don't always use a good mix lmfao

like I have my portable one when I'm traveling

[dire viper]

why these shits colorshift

this is awesome

[muted compass]

Real it did give me some trouble getting used to the clicks but after a few weeks now i've adapted and it feels so snappy

[dire viper]

Just using them holy moly

The lows are right there but they don’t get in the way of everything else

Better than the reds imo

Dual driver IEM’s are so peak

[hot shadow]

o ya ive heard good shit about those

[severe flax]

https://www.vxreddit.com/r/technology/comments/1sya6jy/gone_in_9_seconds_claudepowered_ai_agent_deletes/

[ashen mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/flipperzero-flipper-zero-animations-gif-27534190

[hot shadow]

it's a shame that dolphin fiddly lil thing was so useless

bros literally bought it to be trendy and then cast it aside, dusty

waste of money

was it cool though? sure

[ashen mirage]

Yeah I was really tempted to get it, but unless you actually pentest as a hobby, are an engineer and/or go to things like def con it's just kind of a fancy dongle

[odd talon]

I was gonna get it for amiibo stuff

[ashen mirage]

True it does help with that

[cerulean talon]

The flipper had a ton of uses, but you had to be willing to get it far enough, and get enough firmware for it, which took awhile off the bat, otherwise, it was really lacking in its base form

[dire viper]

A piece of hardware considered useless by a lot of people but very very effective for the deranged power user

[cerulean talon]

Hey! We’re not deranged!

[dire viper]

When you sit in bed at night thinking about how to effectively pen test using a funny little doo dad with a dolphin on it I think you become deranged tier at what you do

[cerulean talon]

IMO, the base product would have been more of a global product if it had gone a bit more educational

It would have been an excellent tool to reveal more of the em spectrum to people who kinda know it’s there but not how to look at it

[potent arrow]

schools here actually stock hack RFS for that

[cerulean talon]

You kids and your fancy schools, BACK IN MY DAY WE DIDN'T GET FANCY THINGS LIKE THAT!

We had paper charts and we liked them!

[severe flax]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/technology/comments/1syv6qi/the_cost_of_compute_is_far_beyond_the_costs_of/ eat the rich

[torn matrix]

Anyone have recommendations for headphones? Mostly for music listening. Budget no more than 400USD.

totally not asking because I'm salty that my IEMs broke again no sir

[hot shadow]

what kinda sound was your iems

did you want cans or more iems

[peak pollen]

github copilot also moving towards credit per token usage instead of per request due to how expensvie it is now

[torn matrix]

Bright treble, and cans
For reference the IEMs that broke on me was the Dita Project M

I've been a longtime IEM user and wanna try cans for a change

[hot shadow]

i just like neutral listening profile so i can play sweaty games with it + use for music + i like open-back and dont live in a noisy place, so i have audiotechnica ath-r50x

it's excellent for its price honestly

i assume you have a DAC? itll go right in but you need to check that you can "drive" it aka need enough juice

small portable DAC handles iem because small

i have a fiio k3 which was considered the smallest legend budget one that can handle cans and iem

[torn matrix]

I've never used a DAC so far

[hot shadow]

you prob should

we dont use sound cards anymore in 2026

and itll just give you a nice area to plug into + you could even try balanced smaller plug one day for fun

the minimal DAC you can use is a plug-in dongle type

[cerulean talon]

Technically. A sound card is a dac, juuuust saying, but if you’re dropping money on cans, get a nice external dac

They matter far more when you start moving up in the world of audio at all past the basic 8 ohm jobbies

[hot shadow]

yea a soundcard is a dac, its just that nobody under the age of 30 has one

because they didnt grow up during gamerflex years

[cerulean talon]

Every motherboard does xD

[hot shadow]

hahahahaha

[torn matrix]

I'd be using it either at home or at the office, basically anywhere I'd be staying extended amounts of time without moving

[hot shadow]

no a dedi one

[torn matrix]

An entry level one would be nice

[cerulean talon]

Technically, they’re just shitty usb ones xD

[hot shadow]

youd have to make sure your mobo has a good internal DAC

yes

thats the issue

[cerulean talon]

They’re dedicated, just bad

[hot shadow]

yup

[cerulean talon]

xD

[hot shadow]

lmao

even the apple dongle is actually a better dac than a lot of the default mobo one

sad

[cerulean talon]

Just summon Sarah, she’s usually got decent suggestions

[hot shadow]

one day we will summon her and shes like "oh i dont use those anymore, i just beam music into my brain using radiowaves"

[cerulean talon]

Technically….

[torn matrix]

I would need to use it with my phone though, using USB-C or something

[cerulean talon]

Most dacs offer usb-c so that’s not a huge problem

[hot shadow]

mine is p entry lvl + considered good for that

yea

[cerulean talon]

Realistically, decide on your headphones, then look for a dac that can drive em

[torn matrix]

I made a shortlist of headphones I'm interested in, going to the shop to try them out later

[cerulean talon]

Head-fi is where I usually go poking around at, they’ve usually got enough nerd out about the response curves

I should unpack my cans at some point, they’re still packed up next to one of the beanbags I use for listening xD

[hot shadow]

anyway my cans are 50ohms only

when you look for dac sometimes youre gonna see that unit to understand if it can drive it just fine

[cerulean talon]

Yeh, 50s are pretty easy to drive, it’s the 600s that suck

[hot shadow]

like between iem to cans, from small to big dac

yup

mine is easy to drive

[cerulean talon]

Though man, if you want it punchy, 600s are gold

[torn matrix]

I'm not too savvy about this, I was more broadly looking for things that might be similar to my IEMs

[hot shadow]

thats really why people buy expensive dac, because their cans are power hungry

my husb spent like 3 hours researching my headset for me lmfao

[cerulean talon]

If you look up your iems, look for the response curve, that will tell you what to look for

[hot shadow]

cause he had a whole setup in mind

[cerulean talon]

Head-fi likely will have them, its head-if

*fi

[hot shadow]

a lot of us also use equalizer apo anyway to tweak EQ per game and music time

on pc

[cerulean talon]

Essentially, given a sweep of audible frequencies, a response curve tells you how well the sweep is reproduced, which is what gives each can its “unique” sound

[torn matrix]

I see

[cerulean talon]

So if you like how your iems sound, look for its curve, then you can look for other headphones that have similar curves

A true “monitor” pair of cans has a near flat response, a lot of headphones tend towards bass heavy because people like the punch, etc

Iems tend to be weighted more towards higher frequencies just because they don’t have the mass to do punchy bass

[torn matrix]

That makes sense, I definitely won't be finding a 1:1 recreation with a different form factor

[cerulean talon]

You can

That’s the point of understanding the curves :). What iems did you have?

[torn matrix]

Dita Project M

Rather treble-oriented from what I'm seeing on head-fi

[hot shadow]

im reading hifiman ananda nano is bright like your iem

[cerulean talon]

Closed back?

And yeah, treble heavy makes sense, iem memes xD

[torn matrix]

That's one on my shortlist, yeah

I'm leaning towards open back but I'm fine with closed as well

[hot shadow]

hmmmm i think its open

[cerulean talon]

Closed back will give you more of an iem-like experience just because it’ll knock out more background noise like properly sealed iems

If you’re gonna try in person, see if you can find two similar response sets of cans, open and closed and try em both out, just to see what you like

[hot shadow]

wow its only 14ohms

crazy

[cerulean talon]

Personally, I can’t stand open-backed cans myself, but there’s too much background noise around me

[hot shadow]

yeah

open back is for quiet homes

[cerulean talon]

My servers absolutely are too loud xD

[hot shadow]

or people who feel ear muffled easily

which is me

i feel so deaf talking in closed back that i got open back and i shelled out money for a additional ADC just to get fucking zero latency mic monitoring

i couldnt stand it

i start sounding like an actual deaf seal

[cerulean talon]

Hahahah, then you’ve got me, with anc running on closed back boses

[hot shadow]

kek

[cerulean talon]

Tbh, I can still mostly hear even with anc cranked up

So it’s not a huge problem for me

I need to find my spare pair and leave them at my cutting desk, because cripes, stone grinding is high pitched hell xD

[hazy frost]

i cant tell how loud i am which is sometimes a problem

but i cant justify owning 2 pairs so i have one when i need to be on a call lol

[lost python]

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/g2U8IJHmQH

[pine thistle]

It's a shame that no company can resist enshittification

[rich schooner]

Hey!
Is anyone else got this notification?
I was scared as fuck, but looking on internet, there's several post appearing on reddit that people received it this morning several times this morning

Well, it seems that Windows broke everything again lmao

[somber robin]

I assume windows 11 update broke shit

[hot shadow]

no but you should open cmd as admin and type sfc /scannow to uncorrupt your shit if that's what caused it

close all games

and do a scan after

though i think that event was tied to faulty certs from a revoking of 60 certs a while ago? it was linked to malware

[paper tusk]

yeah really. now QIDI is really getting my birthday money later this month

[lost python]

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-Edge-Passwords-end-up-in-memory-as-plaintext-11281576.html

10/10 microsoft

[pine thistle]

to be fair, if something malicious can read process memory you have bigger problems

I'd ask who tf even used edge, but I'm afraid most people probably do

I know my mother does >.>

[tranquil iron]

I have a i7 11800H, 3050ti, 16 gb ram. Can that run ff14 generally smoothly?

[random sonnet]

Believe so

I'm on a weaker system and only have some stutters in big field changes during Trials

[hazy frost]

dependso n power limits of the 3050ti bc laptops can range in performance even with the 'same' gpu

if its one of the higher power ones yeah itll run it reasonably well

[hazy frost]

how does one have a worse gpu than a 3050ti

if its a desktop u have to have like a gtx960

[random sonnet]

1650

[hazy frost]

not very dissimilar

but if its a lower power 3050ti iirc theyre worse than that

if its the 75w one its a bit better

[tranquil iron]

By power do be the vram or actual power?

[hazy frost]

actual power limits

varies by model

im not sure a lot of manufacturers have one below 75w tho so its probably fine

u can just try the free trial and see if it runs anyway tho

[tranquil iron]

I mean I have played the game before and bought all the xpacs but took a long break and didn’t know if the system requirements have been upped

It’s the 4gb model I believe

[odd talon]

It's a standard for office work

[pine thistle]

I'm glad most of my work stuff works on FF

thankfully only had to use edge once, altough I'm guessing chrome wouldve worked too

[odd talon]

Chrome is getting ass, especially since it forces Gemini on it now

[hazy frost]

if u didnt play since before d awntrail then yeah requirements went up

ur now closer to minimum required for a playable experience but should be ok

can always make a new acc and test the performance before paying for ur sub again

[tranquil iron]

Ah I was also thinking about waiting for the switch 2 port or just migrating to the Xbox.

[random sonnet]

I'm using Waterfox, AI free

[pine thistle]

try the dawntrail benchmark

quickest way to check without making a new account

[tranquil iron]

Thanks. I will try it out

Does it pop out results and best settings?

[pine thistle]

Results yes, best settings I dont think so

You'll get like your average fps and a varying amount of people cheering for you depending on the performance

dunno how comparable it is but the game runs fine on gtx1080 and a i7 4790k

[tranquil iron]

It gave me a high rating at the desktop level so I think I’m good. I will probably run it in medium tho.

[pine thistle]

got a uptime warning due to a resolve error for my only monitored .de domain

got scared and thought I'd forgot to renew it or something, but it eventually resolved again and doesn't expire until next year

Apparently someone at DENIC (which manages .de) fucked up some DNSSEC config which made the entire .de TLD unresolvable

I still don't understand what DNSSEC is even for, but the consequences of misconfiguring it sure seem nasty

[latent plank]

tfw spof

[peak pollen]

to prevent MITM DNS where if the middleman dns forcefully changed an ip-address instead of the registrar, a browser would deny that request.

[dire viper]

Who up updating their knife firmware

Seattle Ultrasonics is cool but they be doing too much

[spring raven]

[dire viper]

Type of shit Raiden was doing

[warped siren]

your job is to gyrate at a high speed what do you need firmware for

[dire viper]

Fairly certain it has modes and stuff

But yea it’s kinda dumb

Still in development product

[cerulean talon]

I get to update my cooktop's firmware every 2 weeks or so. xD

[dire viper]

Whaaaat

I just have gas

I don’t like the brain damage but I like the cooking

[hazy frost]

i have induction and never update anything

way easier to clean than gas if nothing else

[dire viper]

True

[hot shadow]

i like gas but one of the fucking dumbasses here (see: men) left the gas on

i got so fucking angry i replaced the entire kitchen side of gas shit and now it's induction and electricity everywhere

fuck em

you dont get your wok privileges anymore either

[peak pollen]

House goes kaboom

[cerulean talon]

Just gotta get the nice induction wok rings. nods

[compact pine]

One thing I hate about gas stoves is If fireplaces can have ignition safety why the hell of all things do stoves not. They get bumped easily. Sad I be going from gas to electric

[warped siren]

i accidentally left the electric burner at my first apartment on overnight once

woke up wondering why my kitchen was glowing

[hot shadow]

😭

yea im glad the induction stove here doesnt really turn on at all if it senses there's no pot

so even if somebody leaves it on accidentally, it's still off

fuckin himboes

[hazy frost]

induction is just the best option for at home cooking tbh

its electric if it was good

and none of the dangers or cleaning hassle of gas

[warped siren]

god yeah our electric stove at my moms is fucked up, 3 of the burners take a million years to boil water and then the 4th goes to the hottest setting regardless

[hot shadow]

i like danger and fire for oldfashioned wok

that's the only downside really

cause im fucking tossing it and shit

[warped siren]

ive considered getting a propane camping stove but my mom hates the idea

[cerulean talon]

I keep a small propane stove around for when I want to do things like kbbq or the like, where it's just not the same on electric. Or hotpot >.>

[dire viper]

Gas stove great if you do a lot of griddle stuff

Or love cooking with giant cast iron pans

Or wok

[sly walrus]

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license

[cold yacht]

Is there any windows laptop brand I should avoid ?

[sly walrus]

uhhhhhhhhh

dell

alienware

[warped siren]

MSI

[hazy frost]

ASUS everything bc warranty and customer service

Otherwise there isn’t any brand to avoid just specific models that suck or don’t

[random sonnet]

can confirm

Asus straight up sucks

[hazy frost]

Buying any tech stuff off brand is crazy bc they all have good and bad

[pine thistle]

sick, Google is pushing web attestation again

maybe I'll just move into the mountains and abandon all technology

[hot shadow]

you cant if the govt owns the mountains

which they do

[tepid gulch]

I don't think there is a single piece of land that is unowned that you can't die on that is

[random sonnet]

Probably a random island

[kindred brook]

9850 x3d or 9900x3d same price?

https://slickdeals.net/f/19460895-449-99-amd-ryzen-9-9900x3d-4-4-ghz-12-core-am5-desktop-processor-at-amazon?src=rcm_category

https://slickdeals.net/f/19496190-amd-ryzen-7-9850x3d-desktop-processor-459-free-shipping?src=frontpage

ok 10 bucks more

[hazy frost]

for gaming always the 9850x3d

[kindred brook]

oooo thanks

[sinful ruin]

I want to make a cyberdeck so much but I don't have anything to make one with

[random sonnet]

The keyboard is dope

[warped siren]

chat how bad is this

[sly walrus]

might as well have deleted system32

[random sonnet]

I did that on a windows surface a couple years ago

I didn't have a mouse connected to it and the keyboard it came with was just a keyboard, so I was dragging some files to the bin and the PC folder went along with it

[warped siren]

https://tenor.com/view/my-computer-computer-grandpa-old-man-trash-can-gif-17817021

[random sonnet]

Yup, that summs it up

luckily only thing I actually lost was a paper that was due in a month

[pine thistle]

Does...winrar actually delete the original folder when you zip it?

[potent arrow]

it does not

that meme has been bugging me since everyone has been posting it

it's none destructive lmfao

[pine thistle]

figured

[potent arrow]

this is more funny to me

especially with how many times he's probably done it

[hot shadow]

free fireworks

[dire viper]

what did u do...

[hot shadow]

😭

[dire viper]

we are sending that 120V straight to the board

[pine thistle]

good god

[wraith agate]

Not bad but I'd rather replace that screen with one that's more rectangular and fits inside the box

[sinful ruin]

I mean the thing about a cyberdeck is that it's made out of parts you have lying around so that might have been their only screen

[hot shadow]

unnecessary but necessary girly eAPO/peace GUI

[sinful ruin]

What about war gui

[hot shadow]

idk

doesnt exist

i mean if you want a violent color scheme i could prob do one but it's gonna be tweaky tweaky again

[sly walrus]

i mean i already have to fiddle with this because my headphones are too damn loud by default

maybe i should tweak the eqs a bit

[hot shadow]

yea you might have to

but i mean if it's just too LOUD you can turn down overall volume... no? or is it like loud despite that?

if you're desperate just go at the top there and turn it down to like -10 and see how you feel

im using -2.5 only because it gives headroom for me adjusting some of the EQ upward by +2

that's basically the rule if you're evening things out but you can just turn it down

[sly walrus]

i can hear it when the phones are on the rack

at 13

[hot shadow]

my friend's boomer 2012 sound card has an optical port looser than a limsa catgirl, fuck

optical cable keeps escaping, no click whatsoever 😭

nice card though

[hazy frost]

Sound card in 2026

[pine thistle]

I have that one too :D

from back when I built my pc

no linux support which sucks

[wraith agate]

That's one description for sure

[paper tusk]

https://gamersnexus.net/fk-you-bambu-lab

[lost python]

https://youtu.be/dcyEkfIu1w0

[random sonnet]

fuck you mean 3 ads in under 5 mins?

[hazy frost]

people who bought an 8gb gpu for 1440p saying everyone was wrong that its not enough lol

[lost python]

well atleast 7000 series ppl will finally get something
https://youtu.be/fN8bFc1_LEo

oh. and its coming for 6000 series

but like... so late

[random sonnet]

Hmmmmm

Might really be time to go for the switch

[glossy ravine]

Better late than never, I guess?

[hazy frost]

it wasnt going to be that easy to get it working to a degree thats ready for official release so atl it happened

[random sonnet]

what's the difference between the 9070 and the XT?

[sly walrus]

an x and a t

[lost python]

xt is slightly faster

[random sonnet]

9070xt paired with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a solid purchase?

[lost python]

very much

best gaming cpu on the market paired with a solid gpu

unless you somehow have terrible local pricing on AMD cards

[random sonnet]

around 700€ for the GPU

[lost python]

for reference, mine is soon a year old and i bought it for 630€

damn which card are you looking at and in which country?

[random sonnet]

Portugal, and the XT

AMD is not exactly... uh, a seller here

[lost python]

yeah but which model exactly because they vary a lot in price

[random sonnet]

https://www.xfxforce.com/shop/xfx-swift-amd-radeon-rx-9070xt-triple-fan-gaming-edition

[lost python]

does whatever store you are looking at also have the XFX mercury?

[random sonnet]

yeah

760

[lost python]

damn thats quite the price increase

[random sonnet]

tho there's a few at 530

[lost python]

530 must be the non-xt then

do they have sapphire too?

[random sonnet]

but it's the 9060

[lost python]

or send me the link to your stores and i can look lmao

[random sonnet]

800

https://www.pcdiga.com/

it's this one

and this is the pre-built I saw https://www.pcdiga.com/computadores-e-software/computadores-desktop/computadores-pcdiga-gaming/computador-desktop-pcdiga-gaming-gml-dr79um5w11p-powered-by-amd-gml-dr79um5w11p

Mostly just to check the prices

[hazy frost]

id get the sapphire one for 750 instead of the asus prime

[lost python]

damn those prices are crazy but probably still the best you can get, considering the 5070ti is 1000€

[random sonnet]

Yeah...

best prices you can find are all from Ebay or some re-sellers

[hazy frost]

expensive

[random sonnet]

And they tend to be second hand so it's like playing Gacha

So it's either pay full price, or wait for a sale

In my case, waiting for a sale

[lost python]

sapphire for 750 or xfx mercury for 759 tbh
i dont see the swift for 700 you mentioned though, its 759 too in that store

[random sonnet]

I already have some money on the side just for this, and I only plan on going for it sometime next year

[hazy frost]

the prebuilt is a few hundred more than it should cost

[lost python]

its alright for portuguese prices i guess... i wonder how expensive shipping is from another country

[random sonnet]

last I checked, depending on the company they hire for it

it can be somewhere upward of 150

from spain, literally next door, it would cost me close to 100

[lost python]

hmm

soo alternate ships to portugal and its 19€

[hazy frost]

id just get the cheaper 9070

its not worth 200 more for an xt

[random sonnet]

From where?

[lost python]

alternate.de

they also have a spanish shop but my spanish isnt good enough to figure out how they ship from there

[random sonnet]

Prices do be cheaper there

[lost python]

hmm i am not sure if it would really be a better option. looking at other shops and while they do have, for example, the 9800x3d for 396€ instead of 449€, they also want 35€ shipping

and then there is a higher tax in your country that would add to it too

because it seems like you guys have a 23% tax while we just have 19%

[random sonnet]

Yeah...

Shit just pricey here

[green dune]

idk if this is the right place to ask but

does factory resetting a computer remove viruses from it?

i got this old desktop that i wanna give away but i think its loaded with the stuff, or maybe its just slow

[severe stream]

Depends on virus

If its some hardware type..then good luck

[dapper nymph]

it's more likely it's going slow from hardware age

[pine thistle]

usually, if you wipe the hard drives too

Only exception would be some firmware level rootkit which is less likely to be the case

[kindred brook]

anyone do the reverse motherbord

no cable stuff

do you lose any performance?

[kindred brook]

wait wait wait

Memory has different specs

for Intel/AMD?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNGK6TLB?th=1

I can't run this on an AMD mobo?

[random sonnet]

same with CPUs iirc

[kindred brook]

damn lol

I thought I could use my DDR5 with a 9850X3D

[random sonnet]

You probably can but maybe you'd need a new motherboard

Or just different ram?

[wide juniper]

Oh no..... My laptop can't detect my dgpu again

this isn't good.....

Ah i see I was using the wrong EXE

If I want this shit to work I need it to be the FULL install

[hazy frost]

officially but it doesnt really matter

it works basicallty the same and u can change trhe timings to be the same if u have to

its just their own overclocking profile name which is gonna do the same thing in practice for both

[kindred brook]

I see

Thanks

[dusky berry]

Hi folks,I got a question,what laptop would y'all recommend with the specs my school is telling me to have?(and if it could handle light gaming on the side that'd be cool too but not strictly necessary lol)

[dapper nymph]

a modern laptop in this day and age would have a mobile 8000g cpu and maybe even cheaper unsold 4000g cpus for the amd, probably don't go for the 4000g if they still somehow exists to be sold

dont know what naming scheme has intel gone for

i forgot, it's not that it's 8000g but just cpus with g attached at the end for amd

the requirements seem low so i'd assume it'd be basic stuff like microsoft word and such to the point modern phones can meet the requirements in performance easily

[hazy frost]

It’s not just CPUs with g attached they’re not as good as the new Intel ultra or AMD ryzen AI processors for laptops

[hazy frost]

Depends what light gaming is, there’s not rly a single laptop to recommend without knowing how much u want to spend or where ur buying it

[severe stream]

Its igpu

But can offer around mid range gpu or so performance

[lost python]

tfw you spend 20min writing and formatting a review on steam, but upon selecting the "do not recommend" button, it switches to a new window to ask you about getting support first and it deleted all your text

thanks gaben

[real edge]

[random sonnet]

What game was it for?

[lost python]

forza

also idk why i wrote this here

also unrelated but TIL the weeb version of crystal disk info will talk to you if you click the anime girls

[random sonnet]

Forza 6? How come? :o

[lost python]

overall disappointment with how every big thing they talked about just ended up being an irrelevant wet fart and how they still cant do proper ultrawide support

[pine thistle]

Did that the other day filling out a contact form on my phone, scrolled up too far and pulled to refresh

had to write it all over again

[solemn geyser]

So you can uninstall Copilot apparently.

[hot shadow]

i used to have Lazarus addon to save textbox contents and form contents but that was pc browser only

[dusky berry]

Nothing crazy,prolly just something like mc if possible

[hot shadow]

what is your budget though

mc and ffxiv and stuff like league is no problem for lots of laptops

more worried about how much cash you got to blow on it

mc is low requirements

[dusky berry]

Not sure yet but I'd assume something reasonable due to it being aid funds

I'm just tryna get a baseline of what's good with the specs listed

[hot shadow]

well i hope you have like 1000 dollars at least for a good enough all-purpose gaming laptop for school

or like 700 bux if we're gonna start chopping game perf

[dusky berry]

It would seem around 1000 is the reasonable amount they give but ight

[hot shadow]

ye

[dusky berry]

I'd assume they don't wanna overpay for every student but they also don't wanna cheap out on a laptop that's supposed to last a few years lol

[hazy frost]

Still depends what country ur from what u have available

[dusky berry]

I'm in the us if you're referring to me

[hot shadow]

hmm husb made an experiment cart for the situation of somebody who doesnt have a PC, looked at ddr4 and american prices would see you spend about 1300 dollars, not bad

[hazy frost]

1300 dollars for what

[hot shadow]

like a yesteryear ddr4 pc, 9060xt 16gb vram, vengeance corsair sticks 32gb, 1tb space from crucial, a whatever case from nzxt on sale, ryzen7 5800xt, whatever 1000w psu that was on sale

is it the greatest idea? no. but that's what prices are, it was more of a market research at what avg americans have to look at currently today

[hazy frost]

thats just a bad selection of parts for $1300

[hot shadow]

msi b550m mobo

that's by using amazon entirely

that's how some people will do it otherwise they gotta go around a lot elsewhere

:p

[hazy frost]

i mean thats just stupid tho

u can just have it all delivered

[hot shadow]

the point is also not to pick cheapest ever and it will still run a lot of shit just fine

cause americans are yknow, they have a lifestyle creep that is expected of them

8gb vram is ew, 16gb ram is ew, can't go ddr5 so they go 4 if theyre stuck

that is why it's an experiment cart

the constraint is absolutely "they will shop on amazon"

is it shaveable for price? yea

[hazy frost]

its still bad

[hot shadow]

people pay their 99 to 130 dollars sub to amazon prime already. ofc the constraint is naturally that 😛

[hazy frost]

u can do ddr5 for $1300 or get a 9070

[hot shadow]

they will -not- go elsewhere

[hazy frost]

even on amazon u can do this https://pcpartpicker.com/list/J3GW3R

[hot shadow]

some of the ddr5 components are sold out or priced up

but ya

yes it's stupid

[hazy frost]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cJQF8Z

or this

[hot shadow]

but it starts being necessary when people start giving their lil brother the ddr4 parts so you start to shop for what is missing

[hazy frost]

9060xt and ddr4 platform for $1300 is still terrible in the current market

just on amazon u can get those for the same price and if u buy like 2 things elsewhere it would be cheaper

[hot shadow]

it's kinda sad regardless

people need 1300 in general

[hazy frost]

i mean u dont need 1300

u can get a pc that will run games for under 1000 still easily

[hot shadow]

i think the other point is that their cpu had a 8-core in that build list

but these ones you posted are 6 only idk

[hazy frost]

8 cores does nothing for gaming

the 5800x does nothing different to a 5600x really and its slower than a 7600x

theres very few titles actually utilising 8 instead of 4-6

u just buy a b580 instead of a 9060xt and its l ike $950

[hot shadow]

that's what i said to him too

good thanks for sanity check

[hazy frost]

the only one i think i remember using 8 was the cyberpunk dlc

which was still fine with 6

[hot shadow]

i think if you are a civ-aut type of gamer with massive sim interest, dont they need more cores tho typically

cause it eats up 6 like crazy

[hazy frost]

how much l3 cache and single core performance is important whic his why the 3600 is better than the 5500 still

[hot shadow]

normal gaming i would agree 6 is fine

[hazy frost]

yeah but the 5800x wouldnt be enough either

[hot shadow]

idk if 8 prevents stuttering

[hazy frost]

if ur rly into sim games

6 is still fine for most of them

[hot shadow]

i know bg3 ran better on a 8core

cause it was chugging typically

it ate up all 6

ok i guess this means if somebody really had the spare cash they could just shell out for an 8 anyway w/e

[hazy frost]

it ran better on the ones with more cache

[hot shadow]

and prob say "i wont buy 20 more gundams" to justify it lmao

[hazy frost]

6 core cpus are at the top

[hot shadow]

ok good

powerhouse 6

[hazy frost]

the best ones for gaming are still any of the x3d ones

more cores sometimes more better but generally not if u have to buy an old am4 cpu vs getting a new 7600x

[hot shadow]

im glad people dont have to pay the inflated 2000 dollar prices anymore at least, it really rose that much before

deflated a bit

[hazy frost]

u can still buy the 7500x3d i think

[hot shadow]

ya those are like 230 dollars here

[hazy frost]

thats the best o ne for gaming under like $400

until u can afford a 7800 or 9800

[hot shadow]

ah shit it used to be but 7500x3d on amz is like inflated

RIP

7600x3d was cheaper

cause people hunted it down

[hazy frost]

u can still buy the 5700x3d on aliexpress too but its like $300 now not $200

[hot shadow]

ohhh

yea but people fken hate using aliexpress

that's a pretty normal behavior too unfortunately

[hazy frost]

americans

[hot shadow]

yup

[hazy frost]

just buy it and dont tell them where it came from

[potent arrow]

real

[hot shadow]

hehehe

[potent arrow]

I love AliExpress

[hazy frost]

i buy a lot of stuff off there

its like 5x as expensive to buy it here so often

[hot shadow]

i think americans have a lot of discomfort with the return policy elsewhere cause

amz is like very clear, very easy

so in a way i guess they pay for ease of that too and the fact the customer service is actually on your side most of the time. not everything on AliEx is gonna be friendly to you when you want to return something, historically

also it turns out if you have the chase card off them + prime (which a lot of people do as their first or second cc), you get better deals + cashback rewards at end of month which is going to be a big deal post-buy almost fat rebate level (you would be shaving off nearly 80-120 dollars)

[pine thistle]

I like it less now that it requires age verification for some things >.>

might have to try a vpn

tried using a xiv character but sadly it won't accept it

[potent arrow]

never has asked me lol

[pine thistle]

Maybe they're just blanket requiring it for EU then -.-

stoopid

[kindred brook]

HALP

got ultimate first world problems

my monitor 3 is plugged in

it shows up on display at BIOS

but when I get to windows I can't do anything about it

[hot shadow]

change to extend

[kindred brook]

I tried lol

[hot shadow]

weird

[kindred brook]

rying to reinstall drivers

[hot shadow]

is your monitor properly powered? like by extra plug or what

[kindred brook]

other 2 monitors are 4k

last one is 1080p

did I cap in bandwidth?

other 2 are 4k 240hz

[hot shadow]

0_0

to test that you would have to lower hz of the other two

or just one of them

why do you need 2 monitors running at max 240hz.... what are you doing........

[hot shadow]

if your gpu can't do it then you'll just have to plug third monitor into the shitty mobo slot

but like, that's cursed mang

[kindred brook]

MAXING OUT LIFE OK

[hot shadow]

wtf

man buys a house and instantly becomes a 3 monitor demon

[kindred brook]

hahahha

I got them at a steal

400 bucks for a 4k QD OLED

240Hz

[hot shadow]

wtf

wao

[kindred brook]

although they were floor display models

[hot shadow]

what is the response on them

[kindred brook]

yeah

[hot shadow]

still 1ms or less?

[kindred brook]

yeah

[hot shadow]

ok good

[kindred brook]

like .03 ms

or something

[hot shadow]

damn wtf

i think your card might really not be able to handle that third monitor then unless you lower one of the other beast monitors

most people do not run into this problem cause they barely have room for 2 good beast monitor

[kindred brook]

hmmm I'll try running HDMI

\

or its the Display cable

[hot shadow]

hdmi wont bypass it

is your dp cable not new?

[kindred brook]

the long one is not new

its extra long

so it might be dogshit lol

[hot shadow]

i think you need 1.4 or 2.1 now ya? but idk if that would fix this

[kindred brook]

like 6 feet

[hot shadow]

cause if it's still a 'gpu doesnt have the brain left' then it still wont

The 4080 Super uses NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace architecture. It has a hard internal architecture limit of 4 display heads. ....ohhhh

yea i guess you're out .........

RIP

i dont think a new cable is gonna work

only lowering one of the beast monitors down to 120hz might work

[kindred brook]

its funny

becaused this monitor

is just suppoed tgo be my discord

and reddit monitor now

hirozontal

[hot shadow]

you need to decide which one is your main gaming monitor

[kindred brook]

er vertidcal

[hot shadow]

i think this is why people dont do this tho, they just get like a ultra widescreen to replace 2 monitor and have the 'third one' be w/e

or they only stick to 2 beast monitor

well i guess last resort if you're crazy is buy a 2nd cheaper budget gpu, the kind that doesnt even use a psu connex, and that's your brain for third monitor but who tf is doin that lmao. same result is HDMI into mobo which is still cursed. Neither of these are a good solution at all

[kindred brook]

dangit lol rebooting again

argh still nothning

going to try and reseat my GPU

[hot shadow]

i think a 5080 or something could do your setup

but you probably dont wanna hear that

people have had to do other shit like if they play VR they need to shut off one monitor lol, esp on your card

[kindred brook]

I have a 4080 super

daaaaaaaaaaarm

the side monitor does work

when I have it unplugged lol

one of the big ones unplujgged

I'm cookeed lol

[hot shadow]

yeah..

are you gonna return the third monitor then?

or maybe just accept you should lower one of the 240hz down

[kindred brook]

I tried running it at 60hz

and it still won't work lol

[hot shadow]

F

[kindred brook]

wait

going to try and manually adjust the 25" to 60hz

apparently its a super high refresh rate monitor

[hot shadow]

i thought it should tho if its like 240hz, 60hz, and whatever you want for the third cause its baby

maybe part of this is windows being windows 😭

i found a cute 13inch monitor and mounted it, it sooo cuteee

cutest lil info screen

[kindred brook]

lol

yeah

I guess I got to return one

[kindred brook]

noooooo

my old 30 inch

is too eay

for my monitor arm lol

[kindred brook]

@hot shadow

had to use my p;d shit 30 inhc

going to return the other new onwe

[pine thistle]

well thats a problem

I wonder how bad of an idea it would be to hardlink appdata somewhere else

[cerulean talon]

It's usually not too awful. You can shove around your entire userdir if it's linked properly.

Windows does support remote mounting of homedirs afterall.

[pine thistle]

I decided to not risk it for now and just junctioned some of the bigger offenders separately

[drowsy star]

https://bsky.app/profile/wario64.bsky.social/post/3mm7pvzj66s2h

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[potent arrow]

JELLYFINNNNNNNNNNN

https://tenor.com/view/miku-hatsune-hatsune-miku-banging-banging-shield-skeleton-meme-gif-5244726597641463765

https://tenor.com/view/stonks-up-stongs-meme-stocks-gif-15715298

[hot shadow]

i love my jellyfin

it's so unassuming and just works

[grizzled hamlet]

I've considered plex because of the additional live services as an added bonus, but I think I've hit locked in status with jellyfin

Books
Movies
Shows
music

Its all just there

I do think I need to start setting up other services tho. I'm only putting ripped movies and shows on there

[hot shadow]

jellyfin was the easiest lock-in loyalty in the last few years

[sly walrus]

https://bsky.app/profile/papapishu.bsky.social/post/3mlc5dli5d22q

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Ploopy has launched the bean. Repeat. Ploopy has launched the bean. ploopy.co/bean/

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THE BEAN

[random sonnet]

The what now

[sly walrus]

did i stutter

[spring raven]

https://xkcd.com/243/ something something relevant xkcd

xkcd: Appropriate Term

I know a lot of people hate these, but I prefer them to touchpads.

[hot shadow]

THE CLITMOUSE

[odd talon]

The nipple

[hazy frost]

There’s nothing between nub and nipple mouse

[dapper nymph]

thing

[lost python]

https://youtu.be/IBNwDg9WkT8

same as before

some games being more extreme, others less so. 5070ti gets most of its lead in RT enabled games, with some exceptions

not a big lead though given that its 200€+ more expensive over here

[hazy frost]

It’s atl £140 more expensive here as well for that 2% difference

[severe stream]

Nvidia if you go for emulation

Otherwise..9070xt is better value

[brave oxide]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/SteamController/comments/1tjhiyv/psa_watch_out_for_the_exposed_contacts_of_the/

i always thought these things had like, some sort of negotiation before sending power

[sly walrus]

wouldn't the fcc make sure that they have that

[brave oxide]

one comment says FCC doesn't cover that

[dire viper]

https://youtu.be/5zduXt1UQ8Y?si=y5o23XHUUbRJFfiq

the ibm voice thing is so dumb

[warped siren]

wait hes a tech youtuber now?

[dire viper]

he is a doing whatever he wants tuber now

he does tech and cars and interior design and fashion and philosophy

[warped siren]

good for him honestly if its workin out

[hot shadow]

variety enjoyoooor

[warped siren]

better than sinking with the Donut ship

[pine thistle]

oh that's why he was familiar

[warped siren]

yeah they all split off into like 3 different channels lmao

the first time ive seen private equity enshittify a youtube channel in real time

at least of a channel that ive personally watched

RT mightve been too but i think the hole that sank that ship came from inside the hull

[warped siren]

yayyy new diy weapon tutorial from james

[glossy ravine]

As cool as this is. I dont think I could justify spending this kind of money

My pc could use a better, more spacious case though.

[hazy frost]

I mean that case is more spacious but it’s pretty trash as a pc case

[hot shadow]

yea the only reason you should have that one is if somebody gifted it

i dont like any of these hype cases

[warped siren]

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/lenovo-g02-retro-handheld-allegedly-comes-preloaded-with-thousands-of-copyrighted-games-including-nintendo-roms-company-confirms-that-its-an-officially-white-labeled-device-meant-for-the-chinese-market uh oh

well if lenovo does it then its fine right

[sly walrus]

chinese market

they can't touch it

[warped siren]

yeaaah

[hot shadow]

based lenovo

[waxen relic]

Does anyone when troubleshooting PC's use the term Power Cycle?

At work with industrial Ironers and washers we do

Wondered if that term is used in the PC world as well.

[hot shadow]

???? that just means reboot

like fully draining type

[waxen relic]

Removing all components that can have residual power

[hot shadow]

for pc building we typically just unplug it and then drain it with the power button for a while then thats basically it