technology-discussion

[glossy timber]

you'll never guess

[dull garnet]

didn't someone make a command for the quicklauncher

[glossy timber]

i mean the link is right there

but yes

!faq quicklauncher

[dull garnet]

what if their desktop resolution is 800x600

[opal panther]

Official Launcher Giving you Trouble on Updates?

Try this alternative 3rd party launcher

[glossy timber]

skill issue really

[dull garnet]

[sly elk]

wouldn't the dragon have put those plans off? XD

[hard drift]

don't refresh too often

you will get blocked from the sites for a bit

[sly elk]

'murica

lol the $45 wraith prism

[hard drift]

it went up in price

it was 30 like a week ago lol

it's a cooler not a case

[sly elk]

why would anyone pay that much

it costs more than a hyper 212

[hard drift]

rgb 😎 quite literally some pay for the rgb lol

[dull garnet]

you have the 1.0 tat then?

my ex used to play 1.0, wasn't really interested in MMOs back then

[sly elk]

for just $5 more

then again I'm not sure if the wraith prism can cool better

spiky ponytail 😄

NH-D15 eat your heart out

I know of some noctua cultists

and they make a valid point

[hard drift]

the prism isn't bad for a stock cooler but the 212 is better by a decent margin

[sly elk]

but I couldn't be fucked to stick something like that in my computer

but it's cheaper than a reputable AIO and it'll last forever, maybe need new fans, but that's it

I wouldn't trust an AIO beyond like 5 years

also they look ok with black fans

get better arms?

or like 3 separate ones

i spy a treams screenshare

of teams and a chrome console

edge**

and vscodfe

i can't read anything haha you're fine 😛

but seeing teams through a screenshare on remote desktop

that sounds painful

you work on teams?

is the backend of that stuff as bad as I think it is?

why does each message have like 5,000 elements

lol in recent history

the company i work for migrated to a different host

and they gave us like 3 days warning that our chat history would get blasted away

[dull garnet]

nice

[sly elk]

so I made a little script in chrome to export my convos

and half of that was discarding as much of the css as I could because geez there were a lot of things

haha let's forget I ever mentioned this

it's giving me bad flashbacks 😄

XD

yea I like being able to work from home and it plays a role

i found using 16bit color and a solid color background helps a bit

err but yea remote desktop sucks 😄

[untold onyx]

They cut corners to be inexpensive but they're generally reliable.

[jaunty light]

They are the most expensive AIB now actually

On a tierlist I'd probably say asus=galax>evga>FE>msi>gigabyte>pny=zotac if you are askin about NV

[dull garnet]

FE are sexiest

[jaunty light]

Having to repad FEs is a big negative

[jaunty light]

[modest moss]

did you know that noctua is an acronym of overpriced trash?

it's a versatile acronym

[jaunty light]

Do not be mad you cannot afford our creamy fans, peasant

[modest moss]

I got some cream for you

https://tenor.com/view/cream-ice-cream-eating-ice-cream-lick-gif-15733535

[jaunty light]

Ya I have chromax with thr white corners

[dull garnet]

that does sound annoying, I don't think my 3060 ti needs that at least. mainly 3080/3090 right?

[jaunty light]

Very common for the 3090, probably 3080 ti

Not sure if the other models need it

Ya I have that for the d15, just in black

Thats it

You get ONE ram.

Aye

Dem models always like $400 more

There's cool stuff about the new intel arch and scheduling but not enough for me to spend 2k upgrading to it

Specially since 4 dimms run like ass roght now and I'd sant 64GB

Ya I have 4 dimm of coveted b die that run 3600 no problem with 5900x

Bought them specifically because they were single rank b dies and paid out the arse

It was years ago that I was reading 4 SRs were fastest on coffee lake but dunno if that holds true still

Woah some of those perf metrics are wild

Just skipped to hitman2

[deep sapphire]

Stop upgrading so frequently

[jaunty light]

He needs the LGA1700.. NOW!

[deep sapphire]

I really should get a new CPU

But

[jaunty light]

Buy my 5900x so I can buy a 5950x!

[deep sapphire]

I just don’t care about gaming anymore

[hard drift]

you and me both

[deep sapphire]

I had a 990X

Classic American muscle

[hard drift]

5950x is pointless.... it's worse for gaming

[deep sapphire]

[jaunty light]

Old extremes were just cooler

[deep sapphire]

X58 was amazing

The only thing that sucked was no native sata 6gbps controller

[jaunty light]

Now it's I have the intel core i9 492940029400X-KF

[deep sapphire]

Based

Gulftown was based

[jaunty light]

I need bigger numbers

[hard drift]

wait for the refresh

[deep sapphire]

Sure sell it to me for 300 with a board

[jaunty light]

Best I can do is $12000 boss@

[deep sapphire]

I had the Rampage III extreme

What if I post this cute duck

[jaunty light]

Gotta buy those japanese 3090s on amazon!

[deep sapphire]

What’s different about them

Oh it probably has waifus on the box

[jaunty light]

They cost as much as a car

SUPER DRAGON

[deep sapphire]

I’m trying to get the new tundra trd pro can’t wait for them to quote me 65,000

God truck prices are out of hand

[jaunty light]

I wouldve bought it but those suckers are going for like 3600

65k

[hard drift]

strix and gundam tax

[jaunty light]

I was looking at a 1500 rebel and they were easily breaking 62k even 3 yrs ago

[deep sapphire]

Plus it’s a dodge

[jaunty light]

Lovely interiors!

[deep sapphire]

They are nice

[sly elk]

❤️

[deep sapphire]

Can’t say the same for Chevy

[sly elk]

the worst part about toy yoda is they don't do factory orders

[jaunty light]

Chevy is still pretty good compared to ford

[sly elk]

and somehow

I dunno why or how

[deep sapphire]

Ford interiors are actually super nice

Chevy is by far the worst lmao

[jaunty light]

$80k ford, its all plastic

[sly elk]

but somehow, I've had less problems with chrysler vehicles than my friends have with gm/ford

[deep sapphire]

Chevy literally made an all new truck and then put the previous generation interior in it

[sly elk]

or even I've had with gm 😄

[jaunty light]

Idk i sat in a kingranch 2019 and it was not goos for the price

[deep sapphire]

Like wtf were they thinking

[sly elk]

ford makes comfy seats sometimes

their engine bays are sometimes scary

[jaunty light]

I like my 02 f150

Hard single injection molded plastic everywhere

[deep sapphire]

Is that a 3 valve or 2 valve

[sly elk]

GM has very strange design traits that GM has had since at least the 80s

like, GM almost never does chrome-trim-on-metal

[deep sapphire]

I still say the best truck ever made was the GMT800

[sly elk]

for GM, chrome trim must always sit on top of black trim

and they always do this weird combo of angular curves

[deep sapphire]

The only issue was the brake lines which tbf that is pretty bad

They would rot out lmao

But Atleast it’s an easy fix

Other than that literally bulletproof

[jaunty light]

Uh i think its 2

[sly elk]

and GMs usually have awkwardly small mirrors

[deep sapphire]

2 valve motors were good

[jaunty light]

3 is gen11+

[deep sapphire]

The 3 valves were dog shit

[sly elk]

like look at the mirrors on that camaro

[deep sapphire]

I didn’t like that Camaro

[sly elk]

that said

[deep sapphire]

The one that came after though

SEXY

[sly elk]

ford had a headrest problem

[deep sapphire]

Great looking car

[sly elk]

yea and the one that came after is awful

[jaunty light]

Bring back the r32!

[deep sapphire]

It’s okay I don’t hate it but not as good as this

Atleast they gave in to the feedback

[dull garnet]

looks like modern murican mooscle

[deep sapphire]

Remember the 2019 model

[dull garnet]

👎

[sly elk]

i found a picture of the weird ford headrests

[deep sapphire]

It was so ugly they literally redesigned it for the next year

[jaunty light]

Those seats Hahahaa

[deep sapphire]

So it only lasted a year

[deep sapphire]

Wtf

[sly elk]

the mustang has them too

ah that's only in the lower trim continental

[jaunty light]

19 way adjustable weirdass seats

[sly elk]

the higher trim has a pretty seatback

[deep sapphire]

The mustang just sucks, the 6 speeds in them are super unreliable and Ford has never issued a recall

[deep sapphire]

Like what’s with Ford and bad transmissions

[jaunty light]

Bro but they released a bullitt version

[sly elk]

they started the weird headrests in the fusion at some point

like they were stealing an old volvo design or something

[deep sapphire]

Or the GT350 how the 5.2 voodoo engine would blow up

[deep sapphire]

Like it wasn’t a question of it but when

[sly elk]

one of my friends at work has a 4cyl mustang

[deep sapphire]

That’s the kinda quality you can expect from Ford

[jaunty light]

Why :OmegaLUL:

[sly elk]

it's in the shop waiting for engine #3, I think

[jaunty light]

Thats like getting the 4banger supra

[deep sapphire]

The 2.7?

[sly elk]

#1 destroyed itself in warranty

[deep sapphire]

Lmao based

[sly elk]

#2 was defective out of the crate

[jaunty light]

Damn look at this baller

[sly elk]

fingers crossed #3 works

icehunter appears to be really photogenic

what car though?

RWD?!

oh ok

[jaunty light]

I sat in my coworkers 99 miata and i actually dont fit

[sly elk]

geez

I haven't seen one of those in ages

lol

AM how tall are you o_O

[deep sapphire]

I’m trying to get on the waiting list for this

[jaunty light]

Legitimately couldnt steer unless I had the door open and legs spread eagle, cept then i couldnt shift

[sly elk]

I thought it was law that when you reach 6'5, agents in black suits arrive at your house and deliver you a miata

[jaunty light]

Ya 6'3

[deep sapphire]

Haha

[sly elk]

because except for one girl at work

everyone I know that drives a miata is tall AF

[deep sapphire]

I miss the mazdaspeed 3

[sly elk]

it's a bit of a meme

[deep sapphire]

Thing was a total death trap

[sly elk]

like you know how a lifted duramax 3500HD is almost always someone shorter than 5'8

[jaunty light]

All cars are too small for me I am a truck man

[deep sapphire]

They hadn’t quite figured out how to manage torque steer back then

[sly elk]

unless it's the company work truck

but if it's someone's personal rig

[deep sapphire]

Based

[sly elk]

they're short

[deep sapphire]

[sly elk]

miatas are the opposite

[deep sapphire]

Once you drive a truck

You’ll never go back

[jaunty light]

I saw a lifed f450 once and thr guy that got out cpuldnt look over the bed i almost pissed myself laughing

[deep sapphire]

Like holy shit I can actually see over people

[sly elk]

I THINK THAT HANK

that's why

that's exactly why

somebody who can't see over anyone in a crowd

then they get in a pickup and finally they know what it feels like to be tall

[deep sapphire]

It’s gotten so bad in America that driving a normal car is so frustrating

[jaunty light]

And when I roll up on a dropped ricer car i turn on my highbeams and lightbar

[sly elk]

o_O

i like sitting closer to the ground

but I agree about low car frustration

[deep sapphire]

We have turn on yield traffic lights I had to use a small Saturn ion for a loaner while my rust bucket was in the shop and I didn’t even bother going cause I couldn’t see over the SUV in the other turn lane

[sly elk]

it's kinda unnerving when you're sitting in a regular car and look over and all you see is bumper

[deep sapphire]

By the time you can even see the traffic you’re in the lane

[jaunty light]

Driving peppy cars is definitrly fun, but in my truck i dont care about speedbumps or dips or curbs

[sly elk]

yep

[deep sapphire]

Modern trucks are pretty quick now

[sly elk]

also trucks have a shape advantage

[deep sapphire]

Fuck that TRD Pro has almost 600 lbs ft of torque

[sly elk]

since they don't care as much about mpg

[deep sapphire]

That’s just nuts to me

[sly elk]

they have upright windshields far away from you

[jaunty light]

Buy me a trx hank

[sly elk]

i've rented cars before where it felt like the windshield went above my head

I hated that

apparently I wouldn't like driving a tesla

[deep sapphire]

Well I mean if I get into an accident I’m dead regardless but yeah true

Airbags? What’s that

[sly elk]

any pickup before 2010 or so has zero rollover protection

[deep sapphire]

Head restraints? What’s that

[sly elk]

but it comes at a cost

[deep sapphire]

Seats that hold you in place? What’s that

[deep sapphire]

The one nice thing about older vehicles is you can actually see out of them

[jaunty light]

[deep sapphire]

So as long as you are a decent defensive driver

You can be sorta safe

[sly elk]

my mom pointed this out one day

and now every truck looks like brian griffin

[deep sapphire]

God the new Silverado HD is so ugly

[deep sapphire]

The previous model is literally the best looking truck ever made and they said fuck it

[sly elk]

i like how they added the lip spoiler every crossover has

[deep sapphire]

LMAO holy shit

It does look like him

What year was this

The baggy jeans yeah fitting for the era

[sly elk]

but jeep did the same thing with the wrangler that stupid lip spoiler thing

[deep sapphire]

Got your big CD book in the passenger seat

[sly elk]

apparently it keeps the back window clean

i miss the baggy jeans

[dull garnet]

lol

[sly elk]

though

I still wear baggy jeans

[deep sapphire]

WHY WOULD THEY MOVE AWAY FROM THIS

ITS SO GOOD LOOKING

[sly elk]

trawk

needs bigger mirrors

[jaunty light]

Ya i dont like the chonky truck aesthetic.

[deep sapphire]

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING

[sly elk]

they were thinking

PROTEIN SHAKE

[jaunty light]

Fuckin ford and their 150s that are as big as 250s or even 350s

[sly elk]

also

if your head goes aboe the hood

you aren't allowed to buy it

[jaunty light]

Yo bro i cant buy anything then!

[sly elk]

me neither

[jaunty light]

[jaunty light]

Jokes on you i prefer bikes anyways

Thats way cooler

[sly elk]

honestly

what needs to happen next is they need to figure out how to cut costs

make one of those big ass trucks in china

but continue to market it as the most american truck ever

THE NEW RAM 2500HD. THE MACHO AMERICAN MAN TRUCK ICON

made in china

[umbral moss]

easy, people want bigger trucks because "it's safer"

even though these new trucks are high enough to instagib someone who's shorter than 5'6

and they have a 15 foot blind radius because of the height and the hood length

[modest moss]

best thing I ever bought in GTA Online

[jaunty light]

Shouldnt have been born short

[umbral moss]

gottem

[sly elk]

the thing I wonder is how safe it is if everyone drives a big vehicle

like how well does a silverado do if it's hit by another silverado

i mean I guess some crash tests are setup so that you're effectively testing the car against itself?

but not all of them

[odd sand]

Gotta blame that 90s Dodge Ram for the upsizing rite

Everyone had this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/98-04_Chevrolet_S-10.jpg

[umbral moss]

the IIHS uses a big fixed barrier to simulate front/rear end and corner collisions

so it's effectively infinite mass, I guess

[odd sand]

Then Dodge made this

https://tenor.com/view/checking-out-hot-girls-gif-5916350

And everyone did that.

"My penis would grow... like 3 sizes larger if I bought that truck."

[sly elk]

lol

[potent arrow]

Al donesy

[sly elk]

pretty!

[potent arrow]

I need to get better stabilizers but this will do in time for savage raiding

[umbral moss]

TAKKA TAKKA TAKKA

[potent arrow]

Click

OHHHHH OK

[jaunty light]

Moon runes? On a keyboard?!

[potent arrow]

are you calling hiragana moon runes LMFAO

[jaunty light]

ムーヌルネズ？？

[potent arrow]

I have no idea what that is trying to say besides moon something

[jaunty light]

日本語が上手

[potent arrow]

Yes very

I can barely read kanji and I like the look of japanese characters on my board

[odd sand]

His moonrunes are very jouzu desu ne

Erai erai

[latent grotto]

日本語がわかりません

[dull garnet]

beautiful

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

[deep sapphire]

They were pretty good looking trucks but they all rusted to shit up here haha

Best gauge cluster tbh

[modest moss]

you wanna be careful, Hank will get a mancrush and try and recruit you as a tech mentor

[deep sapphire]

True

!me

[deep sapphire]

No sorry you have to shill Chevy trucks

https://tenor.com/view/nothing-like-a-chevy-chevrolet-car-truck-car-brand-gif-15140536

Based

That V8 tho

[hard drift]

what is that buzzing sound

[deep sapphire]

My blower fan LMAO

[hard drift]

...

[deep sapphire]

Like a leaf stuck in it or something it’s been like that for awhile I just don’t bother

[hard drift]

😔

[umbral moss]

reminds me of my old saturn, it would buzz like that at 1760 rpm

and nowhere else

[deep sapphire]

Okay there

I turned it down

[umbral moss]

good old GM engineering

[hard drift]

better

[deep sapphire]

Old cars for whatever reason the intake is at the top and shit gets trapped down there haha

I should clean it out but I am JUST too lazy

[umbral moss]

because they didn't have a way to keep the engine from hydrolocking

so they put a downpipe with a passive water filter at the bottom of the turn

[deep sapphire]

Well I didn’t mean the intake for the engine just the cabin air intake, for all I know they still do it that way but they have cabin filters now

[burnt swallow]

@deep sapphire help

[deep sapphire]

This shit doesn’t have any cabin filter

Hi what’s up

[burnt swallow]

So

Razer Naga Trinity

MMO side is on

My LEDs shut off and the buttons aren't responding

Mouse itself and the two generic buttons on top that control its DPI are still working

Switching what ports it's plugged into does nothing

[deep sapphire]

Is synapse open

[burnt swallow]

It is now

[odd sand]

My 99 SC1 had some weird stutter at a specific RPM, was very strange. Was fine before or after that point, so you just had to make sure you didn't drive that exact RPM heh.

[deep sapphire]

Still doing it?

[umbral moss]

maybe they just secured the cabin intake better since users can see it when they replace the filter now

[burnt swallow]

Yeah

[deep sapphire]

Try restarting your PC

[deep sapphire]

Yeah probably lol

[burnt swallow]

And deal with login queues again?

[umbral moss]

same

[odd sand]

Beat it on the desk a few times and try re-seating the side button panel ;)

[deep sapphire]

Sadly 😔

Well

Could try unplugging the mouse

And plug it in a different USB port

[umbral moss]

it's a razer, so it's well within the realm of possibility that the solder on the side buttons broke off and the little PCB is just floating in the mouse body

[deep sapphire]

See if that does anything

Yo no joke I had an old deathadder fry itself to death for no reason

It was BF3 launch night

[dull garnet]

the RGB reached the melting point of the solder and it began to dissemble itself

[deep sapphire]

I was at a LAN party

Plugged the mouse in

It blipped and then died

I was like bro are you serious

[dull garnet]

shoulda rocked the mx518

[umbral moss]

I had a sabertooth controller that literally vibrated itself to death

[deep sapphire]

Nah I don’t learn my lesson so I bought another one and now I have the deathadder V2

[umbral moss]

broke all the solder for the joystick interconnects and the triggers

[deep sapphire]

The V2 has been reliable so far

Had it about a year now

[umbral moss]

razer's QA department is the end user

[dull garnet]

my VIPER 8000 HURTS is not dead yet, good job rzr

[deep sapphire]

Pretty muc

[umbral moss]

it's aight though, RGB KN95 mask doe

[deep sapphire]

I feel like Razer has gotten better lately but not gonna jynx it

[dull garnet]

my zoomer friend convinced me to get a rzr mouse

thought i'd give them a second chance

[deep sapphire]

Design wise I think they are one of the better ones but that reliability factor certainly sours your relationship

[dull garnet]

they actually recommended the viper mini

[deep sapphire]

I had a naga chroma and never again

[hard drift]

Razer can’t get better when their name carries them to this day

[dull garnet]

but I was like HELL NAW 8000 HURTS BABY

ironically the 8k mode is useless with most games

[deep sapphire]

True

[burnt swallow]

WHAT THE FUCK MOUSE

[dull garnet]

so it is at 1k

[deep sapphire]

I’ve heard the stealth is a flaming pile of dog shit

[burnt swallow]

YOU TURN ON AS IM ABOUT TO DISASSEMBLE YOU???????????????????

[deep sapphire]

Sounds like you might have a short

[hard drift]

Also the razer mamba just not responding at times

[deep sapphire]

But who knows play with it for awhile

Haha

[dull garnet]

here's your mouse bro

[deep sapphire]

God I had some shit keyboard from them back in 2008 it had a Touch Bar for media controls and would glitch out constantly

[hard drift]

My buddy had a mamba and it would always stop responding at the worst times

[deep sapphire]

One time it locked up my PC because it kept playing and pausing a song I had on so fast

[dull garnet]

i had a frikken, saitek eclipse. what a piece of shit

[deep sapphire]

But it was AMD so that’s probably what ultimately caused it to lock up

[hard drift]

Listen here you

[umbral moss]

that's why I stopped playing pixel peeper with the Perfect Calculations for edpi

[deep sapphire]

Phenomly shit amirite

[deep sapphire]

Can’t believe I fell for the Phenom 64 meme

[dull garnet]

[umbral moss]

technically having 12k dpi and an in-game sens of like, 2 is "correct"

[hard drift]

Imma beat you with a brick that has amd etched on it just so you know an amd thing gets the job done

[umbral moss]

but realistically it makes using the mouse in any other application besides playing an FPS fucking miserable

[dull garnet]

some mouse nerd was like

[deep sapphire]

Oh your PC bricked on you?

[umbral moss]

so I just leave it at 1200 native and crank the sensitivity

[deep sapphire]

[dull garnet]

8k creates micro stutter

[hard drift]

I’ll beat you with the amd bike

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

[umbral moss]

r0ach from overclockers.net?

[dull garnet]

so its at 1000Hz, 1600 dpi

[deep sapphire]

did you know Japan has Chevrolet branded bikes

I want one

[dull garnet]

nah rocket jump ninja or something

[umbral moss]

there's a dude on OCN who makes threads every so often ranting about how every motherboard and mouse made after 1997 is shit and prone to "clown cursor" because it's not using PS/2 with an ultra low overhead OS

[deep sapphire]

Does it have a V8

[dull garnet]

based

CPU interrupt LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO

[umbral moss]

yeah, really

[deep sapphire]

Renault turbo II? Based

[umbral moss]

I loved the PS/2 port for that

but like, USB is where we're at

[burnt swallow]

Next time my mouse halfway dies I'm gonna throw it at the wall and see if that fixes it

[dull garnet]

its like with modern emulation

[umbral moss]

the guy goes through and meticulously documents stuff like USB poll latency and is like "this is why you can't have True Precision in 2021"

[dull garnet]

you have display latency, usb latency, emulation latency

bad

[deep sapphire]

Sounds like the correct course of action for a naga

[umbral moss]

meanwhile, he's talking about nanoseconds worth of latency lmao

[deep sapphire]

Next time just get a G600

[umbral moss]

who cares

[deep sapphire]

They’re like 40 bucks on Amazon

And mine has lasted 4 years now

Still works great

[dull garnet]

don't use mouse keybinds

[burnt swallow]

I only have the default mouse keybinds

[deep sapphire]

Why am I still sitting in my truck

[burnt swallow]

1 through =

[dull garnet]

you just love discussing absolutely nothing

[deep sapphire]

True

[dull garnet]

i logged in to a queue of 25 earlier

[jaunty light]

Nice pantaloons

[dull garnet]

that was refreshing

[deep sapphire]

Plus listening to that Chevy small block 350

[odd sand]

I never understood the point of the insane DPI bc you end up setting it to like 1800 or something regardless

[deep sapphire]

Mmmm ohh yeah 12 MPG

[jaunty light]

12?

[odd sand]

When gas is 25 cents a gallon who cares about the MPG /s

[jaunty light]

I get.. 9 or 10

[umbral moss]

it's the way mouse counts are mapped on your screen space

if you use the software to interpolate a low resolution DPI it starts to do janky things at very high resolutions

[deep sapphire]

Damn showing me up

Don’t tell shue

[umbral moss]

but realistically pixel skipping isn't a problem because the difference between pixel 1,456 and 1,465 are pretty close to non-existent when you have 300 PPI

[deep sapphire]

He gets upset that we drive vehicles that kill a dolphin everytime we hit the throttle

[jaunty light]

[umbral moss]

if you're routinely losing 1v1s it's probably not pixel skipping that's to blame

[deep sapphire]

I probably get about 10 on the city but most of my commute is highway

I have to drive 50 minutes to some bum fuck town for work

Sexy

[umbral moss]

I want to get an EV

[odd sand]

Aren't you done with that job soon you said?

[deep sapphire]

I’d rather have a PHEV

[umbral moss]

the only EV that's like, reasonably affordable and looks cool is the polestar

[odd sand]

I might get an EV6 once I've had the Stinger for a couple years.

[deep sapphire]

I think an EV while cool aren’t practical unless you can charge it every night

But the rivian R1T is badass

[umbral moss]

I mean, just get the lightning in that case

[deep sapphire]

And I hope they are successful

[umbral moss]

at least ford can deliver them

[deep sapphire]

Ford

Nah

I’m good

[odd sand]

It's definitely a change in driving practices. If you own a house it's really easy to charge ... at the same time more ppl than ever have to rent bc you can't buy shit anymore

My friend has to sell his current house to have cash-in-hand to buy a new one

[umbral moss]

the real problem is that there's no fuckin infrastructure to charge the things at end-points

[odd sand]

Bc nobody even wants to deal with mortgages anymore. Every single one they've tried for has gone for cash over market value

[umbral moss]

like "oh wow we have one charging station in the county"

just put the charging stations in the fuckin wal-mart parking lots you idiots

[odd sand]

There are plenty around places, but I rarely ever seen them being used. Probably bc the ppl that can afford an EV until now charge at home

[umbral moss]

why are you trying to build new stations

there's only a handful of EV charging stations in my area

then you have dumbass tesla with their proprietary network and connector

[odd sand]

Both of the malls have EV areas, my apartment complex has 4 or 6 chargers

[umbral moss]

6 chargers

300 tenants

🤔

[odd sand]

Probably not far from the truth, but at the same time not many ppl in the complex have EVs yet so it's always going to go step in step with adoption

[umbral moss]

yeah, but the chargers have to come before the cars

nobody's going to buy an EV if the thing is just going to slowly die over three days like a phone you lost the charger for

[odd sand]

I see them in use maybe 5% of the time. In part bc ppl here generally work in town, so they aren't using more than 20mi of range a day

[umbral moss]

if I was using an EV I'd probably end up using the full range per day 😔

[odd sand]

You have to drive like 250mi a day?

[umbral moss]

my girlfriend lives about 60 miles away from where I work

if I didn't take the train it would cost me a fucking fortune in gas because the subie only takes 93 octane

[odd sand]

Well then you just don't have a standard driving profile, that doesn't mean EVs are bad.

[umbral moss]

I didn't say they are

I said EV infrastructure is shit

[deep sapphire]

another issue is cold weather eats the shit out of that range

[umbral moss]

I literally started the conversation with "I want an EV"

[deep sapphire]

I've read its up to 30 percent

[odd sand]

Yeah, I have to fill my Stinger with 91. They don't actually offer 93 around here.

[deep sapphire]

like fuck that

[umbral moss]

that's because lithium chemistry is very temperature sensitive

[odd sand]

I've always found that odd how certain states are 87/89/91, others are 87/89/93

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/giga-chad-gif-23143840

[deep sapphire]

from what I read, it mostly has to do with elevation

[odd sand]

Norway I think it is, has very high EV adoption

[deep sapphire]

oh its insane

[umbral moss]

it's also why the Super High Performance modes on these dumb ubercars have a 40 second pre-flight sequence

[deep sapphire]

one of the mods here is from norway I talk to him daily he just got a model 3

I think they have a 90 percent adoption rate

[umbral moss]

it's the BMS priming the battery and optimizing the temperature of the cells for maximum current draw

[deep sapphire]

also for whatever reason Minnesota has both 91 and 93

we also have E15 and E85

[odd sand]

In CO and the high plains they actually sell 85

[deep sapphire]

frankly I like the idea of E85, really high octane rating, super clean burning and its usually 1 dollar or more less a gallon than 87

[odd sand]

It's not cheaper tho bc you get like 40% less MPG...

[umbral moss]

I don't dislike e85 but it is part of the problem with tax subsidies

[deep sapphire]

nah its not that much

its like 20 percent

and when you factor that it is 108+ octane

[umbral moss]

e85 is 30% less efficient per kg than boring ass gasoline

[deep sapphire]

and premium is probably almost 2 dollars more a gallon

[umbral moss]

it's higher octane but less energy dense

[deep sapphire]

like yeah you'll get worse MPG but in the end you probably save money

[umbral moss]

you can absolutely tune a car to run like a turbine engine off e85 but it will burn fuel at a horrifying rate

[deep sapphire]

you just have to fill up more frequently

[umbral moss]

just use vodka

[odd sand]

I think whether E85 is cheaper or slightly more expensive fluctuates with ppb

Whatever happened to diesel prices? I remember it used to be significantly cheaper than regular before the first price spike in 2009 or whenever. Then it just never went down

[deep sapphire]

it certainly depends on the area, I've seen E85 barely being cheaper than 87 but lately its been pretty cheap

last I saw it was like 2.19 a gallon

where as 91/93 is about 3.89

[umbral moss]

oh, what happened is that oil companies jacked up the price of diesel after euro companies started importing their diesel engines to the US

and used it as a deterrent to keep turbodiesel, high efficiency engines out of the US

muh profit margin

[deep sapphire]

I guess ultimately as said above, if you have a tune to utilize E85's benefits

you'd get more ponies but if you just had a bone stock flex fuel vehicle

it'd be pretty pointless

[jaunty light]

87 here is about $5 now

[hard drift]

hank, make my phone case ship faster 😔

[deep sapphire]

okay

5 bucks jesus

california?

[umbral moss]

the advantage of a "flex fuel" vehicle is using e85 with a tiny bit of water mixed in to run the engine mad lean

[hard drift]

atleast it isn't NY

[umbral moss]

very high combustion efficiency from the higher octane

[deep sapphire]

I just filled up after work was 3.14 for 87

[jaunty light]

Yap

[umbral moss]

I paid $3.92 for 93 tonight

every time I see $35 go in my gas tank I'm like "time to buy a fuckin EV"

but I have nowhere to charge it REEEEE

[deep sapphire]

this is why I have to give ford credit, can run an ecoboost engine on 87

35?

shiiiiit

full tank for me is like 80

😭

[hard drift]

but it'll die on you before you get your moneys worth

[umbral moss]

it used to cost me $14 to put half a tank in the subie

[deep sapphire]

based

[jaunty light]

Chevron 91 is prolly like 5.30

Diesel 5

[deep sapphire]

god damn

[jaunty light]

[umbral moss]

same

[hard drift]

not my fault it's true 😔

[deep sapphire]

ford SUCKS

[umbral moss]

subie tank is like 20 gallons so a dry tank is like $75-80

[hard drift]

sounds like my parents

[jaunty light]

Like 120 if i fill from E

[deep sapphire]

I have a 24 gallon tank

a subaru tank is really 20 gallons?

SUV?

[hard drift]

idk how many gallons my parents tank is

[deep sapphire]

no way an impreza has a 20 gallon tank lol

never heard of a car having a 20 gallon tank that'd be too big

most are like 12-14

[umbral moss]

2022 Subaru Legacy · Fuel tank capacity
18.5 gal

the legacy shares a platform with the forester, so it's just a sedan version of the SUV

[deep sapphire]

well fuck me sideways

oh okay

that makes more sense

my old camry only had a 12 gallon tank

[umbral moss]

my saturn had a 12 gallon too

but it was a tiny boy

2+2 subcompact

[jaunty light]

I need that lifted 2500 with a 40gal tank

Carli kit.. mm

4mpg.. yeah baby

[umbral moss]

it also ran like a champion with like, no oil in the crank case and whatever bullshit somewhat combustible liquid I put in the cylinder

[deep sapphire]

I always see pics of california and its literally all old chevys lmao

[umbral moss]

that engine took so much abuse

[deep sapphire]

how do you afford gas

[jaunty light]

We don't

[umbral moss]

you don't, you sell the car to pay rent for 20 minutes

and then live on the street

[deep sapphire]

but the small block sound is worth it

😔

[jaunty light]

I siphon people's gas

[hard drift]

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXtePW4v8zs

"diesel tastes pretty good"

[hard drift]

why do you just have these videos hank

[deep sapphire]

I've seen so much TPB I could pull up clips for anything

funniest show ever made

[hard drift]

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/trailer-park-boys-go-away-gif-11550952

[deep sapphire]

lmao

"RICKY SHUT UP"

https://youtu.be/5J8uivKB6bs?t=56

so fuckin funny when he gets out and he's holding his drink

[jaunty light]

Antigravity rum n coke

[modest moss]

Hank wwyd if ford made a dope ev truck?

[deep sapphire]

I wouldnt buy it

plus I think the lightning is ugly

I dunno what it is but ford really sucks at designing

like the mustang is decent looking

the new bronco is alright

but other than that like wtf

[burnt swallow]

Hank

Why the fuck is there a server whose emotes I can't use on my laptop but I can use them on my phone

[deep sapphire]

infact a great example of this is when they introduced the fusion and they literally stole the design from aston martin lmao

[burnt swallow]

The opposite too where some emotes I can't see on my phone but I can use them on my laptop

[deep sapphire]

tried restarting the desktop client?

even though discord is essentially just a web app they might be updating at different rates

[burnt swallow]

Hank

It's constant

[deep sapphire]

also check the server maybe it needs you to agree to some rules

though I've never had that stopping the use of emotes

[burnt swallow]

For example I can do this on my laptop:

:Blobsweat:

[modest moss]

F in the chat for my rested xp being gone

[burnt swallow]

But it's not on my phone

[deep sapphire]

go erp in limsa to regenerate that

[jaunty light]

Do you have dupe emote names

The phone client cant parse them

[burnt swallow]

:Blobsweat:

As far as I can tell no

[jaunty light]

I can only use here

[burnt swallow]

Actually

I just found that emote in the server's emote list

And as you can see it doesn't send the emote on mobile

[jaunty light]

:OmegaLUL:

[modest moss]

Just gonna throw this out there: Discord is a dogshit app made by a dude who stole his LS bank in FFXI

[deep sapphire]

everyone from XI was toxic

including you

[modest moss]

Factually accurate

[hard drift]

another time you've called me toxic

[modest moss]

Eanae too

[deep sapphire]

did you play XI

[hard drift]

yes

[modest moss]

dude you're far too young to have played XI

[deep sapphire]

well then it all makes sense

[hard drift]

no i'm not 😔

[modest moss]

unless you followed fucking ninja into it from fortnite

[deep sapphire]

I never played XI but my current roomie had a bad addiction to it back in the day lmao

[hard drift]

no, my dad got me into it

[modest moss]

yes, I did

tell mum to lube up

[hard drift]

you're not my dad

[burnt swallow]

So Hank

[deep sapphire]

hey hi howdy

[burnt swallow]

You know how on PC you can click the emote button and have a list of all the servers you're in and their emotes?

[deep sapphire]

yeah

[burnt swallow]

I have an entire server that's not on this list

At all

Straight up doesn't appear

[deep sapphire]

cant you force discord to refresh itself

[burnt swallow]

If I go to that server and click the emote button it shows the emotes and I can use them in the server but the server still doesn't show up in my emote list

And I can't use them anywhere outside of that server

[dreamy chasm]

Discord mobile probably has some function where they cache the emotes you have client side, except it's fucky

[burnt swallow]

But I have Nitro (Not classic, the option that lets me boost two servers for free) so that makes no sense

[deep sapphire]

lets check the googles

see if other people have same issue

[dreamy chasm]

I have it sometimes

[burnt swallow]

[dreamy chasm]

But

[burnt swallow]

Oh it's back

[dreamy chasm]

It's not a huge issue

It goes away after a while, yeah.

[burnt swallow]

What the fuck

[dreamy chasm]

Discord mobile just fucky

No other explanation

[deep sapphire]

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/209099387--Windows-Installer-Errors supposedly this fixes it

[modest moss]

like I said, Discord is dogshit

[burnt swallow]

Any ideas then as to why I can't use an emote from a server on mobile discord even if I can see the emote

[deep sapphire]

well its a web app so either the app had old cache and hadnt updated like it was supposed too

or

OR

now get this

hear me out

you know what it was?

||Ford...|

FUCK

[burnt swallow]

LMAO

[deep sapphire]

[burnt swallow]

[modest moss]

I wonder if this is a generational thing

or if I'm just a miser

I'd never pay for nitro

[dreamy chasm]

I spend a lot of time on this platform, so

[deep sapphire]

lets go back to msn messenger

[dreamy chasm]

Might as well be able to express myself better

Nah, irc

[deep sapphire]

irc? I shower thank you

[dreamy chasm]

[hard drift]

i only pay for it so i don't delete my account

[modest moss]

irc was fine

[hard drift]

https://www.ffxiah.com/player/Valefor/Blazingson btw here's proof i played it 😔 this was my account

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xer32BmkORk

shit winds are a comin

[hard drift]

weak sauce, where's your rema

just buy a lu shangs :p

but why

[deep sapphire]

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

wait what

[hard drift]

you want true pain get it +1

[deep sapphire]

radio shack is now a brand for crypto currency? what the fuck lmao

[dreamy chasm]

nft shack

[hard drift]

rip, i plan to go back for the 20th depending what the "big thing" they do is

[deep sapphire]

radio shack is a sad company, I miss when they were just a small hobby electronics store

you could go there for the most mundane random parts

and they were everywhere

[dreamy chasm]

They were replaced by amazon having the same parts, I guess

[deep sapphire]

they kinda did it to themselves, they became a glorified sprint store

[dreamy chasm]

Why go looking for an obscure part when you can look up the part number and get it delivered to your door

[deep sapphire]

and scared everyone away

but im sure that also had something to do with it

[dreamy chasm]

Sold out to sprint?

[deep sapphire]

sprint wireless

[dreamy chasm]

Ah.

[deep sapphire]

mobile provider

they became notorious for trying to get you to buy a phone at any cost, they were ruthless

what better way to stay in business by scaring customers

[dreamy chasm]

Yikes

[deep sapphire]

https://www.ax-man.com/ kinda reminds me of this place

I use to go here a lot when I was younger lmao, just abunch of random shit

get some capacitors and police tape with one stop shopping

[dreamy chasm]

[modest moss]

imagine playing FFXI after ToAU

sad

[hard drift]

🤷‍♂️ i love puppetmaster and it was one of my first mmos

[deep sapphire]

https://www.ax-man.com/collections/toys-trinkets-1/products/terrifying-toilet-decals

oh fuck yeah

buying this RIGHT NOW

[hard drift]

wtf

[deep sapphire]

[dull garnet]

Hey I can talk again

Muted for bants

[deep sapphire]

https://i.imgur.com/l2cOpa1.png

what'd you say to get muted

[dull garnet]

C word

[deep sapphire]

what c word

[sly elk]

lol

[deep sapphire]

[hard drift]

c``t?

[dull garnet]

Ye

[sly elk]

was radio shack a victim of the demand for growth

[deep sapphire]

reported for evading filter

[sly elk]

or were they having trouble staying afloat with the business they had

[dull garnet]

Owned

[deep sapphire]

yeah probably

[hard drift]

i was talking about female anatomy

[dull garnet]

Get peed on bidort

[sly elk]

I was under the impression they switched to phones because they were making money, but not growing

[deep sapphire]

but stores like microcenter prove you can stay to your roots and still be successful

[sly elk]

and they wanted to reward their shareholders with growth!

[deep sapphire]

just dont pull a fuckin subway

[sly elk]

what'd subway do?

[deep sapphire]

at one point subway was the largest fast food chain

[sly elk]

oh

oh I know what you';re talking about

[deep sapphire]

but because of that massive growth they became so subpar and overpriced literally nobody cares to eat there anymore

[sly elk]

they didn't guarantee a franchisee a zone

[deep sapphire]

yeah pretty much

they had a very low buy in

it was like 5000 dollars hahaha

[sly elk]

so you;d open a store and there was no guarantee another one wouldn't open nearby and steal half your customers or more

[deep sapphire]

"you got 5 grand? you can open a subway!"

[sly elk]

i used to hear it described as "buying yourself a job"

because they don't make enough money to hire someone to run it for you

[deep sapphire]

haha

[sly elk]

which as bad as it sounds

[deep sapphire]

like subway isnt bad

[sly elk]

it's still better than what happened with quiznos

[deep sapphire]

but its just so mediocre

specially for the price

when they had the 5 dollar footlong

subway was worth getting

but now its like 10-11 bucks for a sub

11 bucks can get you better food

[sly elk]

quiznos did all that AND they would rob the franchisees on overcharging for food and equipment

[deep sapphire]

quiznos just flat out sucked I dont care what anyone says

god the food was bad

[sly elk]

so the business owners would try everything to stay afloat

but even when they did that, they still failed

[deep sapphire]

lol morons

[sly elk]

https://consumerist.com/2007/03/11/how-a-quiznos-owner-shot-himself-3-times-in-the-chest/

[deep sapphire]

holy shit

I need to read this

[sly elk]

I recall a quiznos in the town I went to college mysteriously burned down one day

[deep sapphire]

Bhupinder Baber

thats quite the name

[sly elk]

what I recall was when they first started opening everywhere

their sandwiches were fantastic

but when the owners started to realize what a mess they got themselves in

they started getting really cheap with the ingredients lol

[deep sapphire]

yeah I believe it

this is fucked up

is quiznos even in business still

I cant even recall the last time I've seen one

The publications Restaurant Business and Mashed.com reported in mid-2018 that Quiznos had only 400 locations remaining by 2017 after a high of 4,700 locations in 2007 just a decade earlier,[6][7] while Money reported in May 2018 that Quiznos had 1,500 locations across the U.S.[8]

well which one is it

supposedly they only have 300 locations as of 2020

so im sure thats now 200

like legit I cant recall the last time I saw a quiznos lol

https://ownaquiznos.com/

they have a fuckin website called own a quiznos

[fallen iron]

ok, maybe I'll have better luck asking here, anyone who uses a gamepad have a solution to my inputs being randomly eaten by FFXIV? every so often it'll be as if my controller disconnects for two seconds at a time, and then "reconnect" itself as if nothing happened

[deep sapphire]

what controller are you using

[fallen iron]

this has actually happened with two different controllers, an elite series 2, and a duke re-release

I've also tested both wireless and wired, same issue

[deep sapphire]

does it only happen with ffxiv?

[fallen iron]

as far as I can tell. I can play Dark Souls just fine with both

and even before now, FFXIV always seemed to be the "problem child" when it came to my gamepads, but this was the breaking point

[deep sapphire]

yeah it does have some strange issues at times that seem like there is no resolution lol

I've read a lot of people who get hit with a weird issue where the controller just flat out isnt recognized anymore and then randomly starts working again

[modest moss]

what hardware are you running? could be XIV is eating all your CPU

[deep sapphire]

when I tried to research it I couldnt find any common denominator

I also wonder if a process is sporadically taking priority briefly

[fallen iron]

uh... one sec, i'll paste the specs

[deep sapphire]

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/controller/update-xbox-wireless-controller have you tried updating you controller

we can also check event viewer and see if there are any logs being generated

so doing some research

I came across this

https://i.imgur.com/Gz4gQ0t.png

if you go into device manager

they said to disable that Root Enumerator

and that should fix your issue

[modest moss]

I had a weird thing where I was getting occasional random momentary blackscreens when gaming

solution turned out to be xbox controller firmware update

computers are weird

[deep sapphire]

[dull garnet]

Controllers needing firmware updates

[modest moss]

I had assumed it was video driver crashing but nope

[dull garnet]

We're already here

The nightmare future

[deep sapphire]

MICROSOFT

https://tenor.com/view/xbox-microsoft-first-xbox-xbox-startup-startup-gif-18130483

[odd sand]

They're still like $6-7, what are you talking about? In CA even

[dull garnet]

Now that was a boot animation

[deep sapphire]

I got a steak n cheese footlong and it was 10 bucks

if you get ham or something I guess

but they give you 5 slices of thin ham

well its probably more like 8

[odd sand]

We have a really good chain here called Togos

[sly elk]

ya know

i wonder if my gpu is just acting weird when I unplug a monitor

[deep sapphire]

See I’m not crazy

[sly elk]

because now my main screen's randomly flickering after unplugging one of my side ones

[deep sapphire]

The shit is overpriced lol

wtf is a footlong PRO

whats next, the footlong pro max?

[deep sapphire]

what GPU do you have

[sly elk]

evga 3080ti ftw3 😄

[deep sapphire]

damn was hoping you'd say Radeon

😔

[sly elk]

also yes 13.99 is a lot for a sandwich

but not surprising

[deep sapphire]

and only 860 calories

14 bucks for that little amount of food

go to chipotle and get a big ass bowl for 3 bucks less

[sly elk]

man i hate chipotle

[deep sapphire]

[dull garnet]

Whatever amd charge for video cards is also a lot considering the level of driver support

[deep sapphire]

thats what happens when you trust canadians to make drivers

erm I mean

hey ice how ya doing

[dull garnet]

Not good then

Uhhhh 100 years ago I had to reinstall playonline to cancel my xi sub

[odd sand]

3090 just isn't worth it. Double the price for like 5% better

[sly elk]

yea and there's no way in hell you'll ever get a $699 3080

yea it's like winning the lottery to get one of those

[deep sapphire]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/suvs-trucks-killing-pedestrians-cyclists/621102/

alright, shitting on ford

my kinda article!

[dreamy chasm]

Escape modern car

return to model b

[modest moss]

that car looks cool, convert it to an ev

[umbral moss]

convert a 300zx to an ev 😌

[modest moss]

sounds like a project for you, hire Hank and Sarah as safety consultants

[sly elk]

na what I'll do

is get a vintage 911

and then convert that to an ev

i'd make sure it's a perfect numbers matching, pristine with the dealer license plate frames from that one obscure dealer

and then yank the engine out

[deep sapphire]

https://youtube.com/shorts/EhDy-TRUVwM?feature=share ignoring the cringe music lmao

[potent arrow]

@deep sapphire my gas is frozen wth LMFAO

I've never had it go jelly on me ever

And here I am

[deep sapphire]

They make products that will remove water/ice from gas but you’ll probably still have to put it in a garage or something to thaw it a bit