technology-discussion

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-animals-cute-cats-cuddle-blankets-gif-12700263

Hank and Sarah being cold together

[deep sapphire]

COLD

[hard drift]

6800/6800xt is the sweetspot 6900xt is not worth the price over 6800xt

that's normal right now

[sly elk]

lol I dunno that the FE offers anything the AIBs don't

i guess better ram cooling in some cases

[hard drift]

better power delivery, the FE card is only dual 8 pin

meaning better overclocks/performance capabilities

[sly elk]

definitely not worth it lol

[odd sand]

Belated reply but yeah... somethingsomething flat front-ends instead of sloped means people pancake instead of rolling off.

[potent arrow]

so very

[potent arrow]

hank is the asleep old one

[dull garnet]

Didn't aibs say that they can't come close to Nvidia's msrp

[jaunty light]

they were selling them pretty close before weren't they

it makes sense the highend cards dont because the components are better, but they trying to tell me the FE is too cheap for a bottom bin zotac build?

[sly elk]

I feel the opposite

Nvidia can afford way better engineers

But that again might be why

For NV designing those cards is probably a side project

[jaunty light]

hm.. titanium 1000 or platinum 1300w?

[sly elk]

They already have those engineers

Zotac is a much smaller firm with a way smaller audience so they probably have to spread the cost over a smaller amount of cards. Plus they have to pay nvidia more $$

AM … there’s always that dark power pro 12 😄

[jaunty light]

I have sleeved cables already

[sly elk]

Which are ya interested in?

[jaunty light]

they cost the same and these efficiency figures are kinda laughable, i'd get like 2% more at any given load compared to the 1300

would be a seasonic prime

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-infinity-war-gamora-marvel-what-did-it-cost-gif-17159322

[teal fable]

Haha indeed

[jaunty light]

look at this gamer

except I see you, mr. strimer cables for the gpu and 24pin, but basic cables for the rest of the mobo

[teal fable]

It was horrible to get the gpu cables looking nice

[jaunty light]

ya I gotta redo mine when I get the card, thankfully the old cablemod kits came with 3 8pins not just 2 like the new ones

got more combs as well

cables are stiffer than a MFer though

[teal fable]

That’s the issue I had with my psu cables they were squished right against the glass and looked horrific

[jaunty light]

I'll take flat cables any day over those kinds

[potent arrow]

Too much rgb 😫

[teal fable]

Yeah yeah

Well at least it posted right away lol I was worried something was wrong

[shut lava]

Real quick, why is the vc locked for me?

[modest moss]

it's locked for everyone

[teal fable]

Rgb is hard got everything but the strimers the colour I wanted it

[blazing summit]

honestly that looks like a dream build

love the lian li fans/case with the cables

[teal fable]

Yeah I think I need to get out the instructions for the strimer cables

[hard drift]

worth depends on you, from an outside perspective no but everyone is different and desires certain things

[deep sapphire]

IT WAS 1:40 WHEN YOU SAID THIS

[hard drift]

🤷‍♂️ not unusual

[jaunty light]

We talked trash bout chevy and praised ford

[hard drift]

@deep sapphire how can you let that happen smh

you're supposed to appear whenever someone praises ford just like i do when someone says amd

[jaunty light]

[deep sapphire]

IM AT A TOYOTA DEALERSHIP RIGHT NOW

I just put a 500 dollar deposit on the tundra TRD Pro

Up to 1 year long waiting list

😭

OL CHEVY RUSTY TRUSTY GOTTA MAKE IT A LITTLE LONGER

[hard drift]

rip

[dull garnet]

strip club pc

[sly elk]

TURD PRO!

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/cant-believe-youve-done-this-punch-ouch-gif-9605268

[fallen iron]

so update on this: it worked yesterday, but now I'm having the same issues all over again.
the thing that frustrates me the most about this is I don't even know how to describe it other than "micro-disconnects"

[sly elk]

I wanna try driving a turd pro

wait which TRD Pro did you get?

the 4runner or the tundra?

[umbral moss]

🤔

[sly elk]

nvm he said tundra hehe

aren't those small inside though?

[umbral moss]

it's a pickup so not really

[deep sapphire]

[deep sapphire]

The controller? Did you disable that driver?

[fallen iron]

yep

The only thing I can think of at this point is to maybe open a ticket and see if someone on the QA team can help? I mean, that probably should’ve been my FIRST course of action, but I wanted to see if there was a common solution that worked first

[sly elk]

i imagine it'll be like driving a space ship! congrats hank, hope you get it asap! 🙂

[deep sapphire]

Exact truck I’m gonna get

I love the paint color

[fallen iron]

Orange is always a nice color. Feels cozy and safe

[sly elk]

i like the color

i thought you were gonna get bright blue though xD

[jaunty light]

Dis boi buying a turd when he could buy a tea wrex!

[sly elk]

lol

[potent arrow]

Safety orrraaangee

[sly elk]

with that orange you'll never have to worry about someone not seeing you

[late basalt]

He’d need to turn off his headlights first

[deep sapphire]

[deep sapphire]

I would never buy a dodge lol

[jaunty light]

Join the dark side

[sly elk]

yea what would the neighbors think?!

I've already owned a couple of Chryslers and a couple of Jeeps, so that bridge has already been burned. I don't have to worry about what they think.

[copper yew]

Anyone else crashing all the time after EW?

[sly elk]

but an old chevy truck? Nah he could still buy a Toyota. It's not too late to fix his reputation

if he adds a Forester to the driveway everyone will think he's upper middle class

[jaunty light]

SubUwU

[sly elk]

hehe I get some of this snark from the attitude my coworkers have about cars

I love them but

they say real offroader/overlanding requires a toyota and jeeps are too crappy and unreliable

my best friend bought a subaru forester and told me he wouldn't take a jeep if they paid him

[jaunty light]

I have zero interest in cars! I just like putting anime girls on cars that cost hundreds of grand

[sly elk]

everyone's all

SUPERIOR ENGINEERING FROM THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN!

and i'm like

i bought it because i liked how it looked?

[jaunty light]

Superior nippon metals

[sly elk]

"what's over landing?"

-gets ridiculed for mall crawling-

[jaunty light]

Overlanding is where you drive 20 miles offroad in gohr $140k tacoma that had to be regeared and now gets 7mpg

[sly elk]

camping in the desert in the wild, not even a campground? sounds miserable

hahahah

man last time I rented a van from u-haul they gave me the old express again

[jaunty light]

Personally i hate offroading in cars, it sucks

[sly elk]

I thought they got rid of those

[jaunty light]

Load down a bike and have at it

[sly elk]

I think the Transit drives better, but anything beats an E350

E350s are the worst

I'm not even saying that in hank's honor of chevy > ford

the e350 is the nastiest vehicle I've ever had the displeasure of driving

I'm not sure why anyone would ever buy one

[sly elk]

don't forget the mud tires that are so noisy they would wake the dead

[jaunty light]

Honky tonk!

My tires are very quiet thankfully

Not that aggressive though

[sly elk]

the KO2s my jeep came with are the noisiest thing about it 😦 and I don't think they're that noisy in terms of off road tires

[jaunty light]

Falken at3w baby

[sly elk]

hehe nice

I will probably have to go with something different when I change them

it's not the noise specifically but

[jaunty light]

The last I had were the old BFG pattern, name I cant remember, whined like a mfer

[sly elk]

so for whatever dumb reason, the ko2s on the rubicon interfere with the plastic wheel well liners

which causes a buffeting around 58-63mph

[jaunty light]

Delete your liners

And fenders

At3w btw

Join tha gang

Or if you are bougie toyo open country

[sly elk]

267 a tire

or 296 if I want whiter letters 😄

oh the white letter ones can hold 400lbs more

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/rich-man-homer-king-laugh-gif-15726252

[sly elk]

the cheapest tires are still $220

[jaunty light]

Think i paid about uh

[sly elk]

the oem ones are 264?

[jaunty light]

300.. a tire yea math works out

300 plus like 1 something for wheels, close to 2 grand for 4

[sly elk]

lmao the 1000 g6 power supply went down another $1

i guess miners don't like it

[jaunty light]

Y not

[sly elk]

cuz all the other power supply prices went up

but the evga ones continue to go down lol. right now they have a 1000w p2 / p3 for 169 (the p2 is super flower, p3 is.. hec?! but the p2 is huuuge)

[jaunty light]

I am a simple man

I see the seasonic, i buy the seasonic

[deep sapphire]

LOL

[deep sapphire]

Fuck Subaru I would never buy one lol

Dog shit vehicles they’re like jeep built like shit and overrated

Oh wait you have a jeep my bad

Also I hate the styling on the new rams

Super ugly

The out going one looked nicer

[jaunty light]

I like the new body style

The 2018 and earlier uggo

[deep sapphire]

Dodge ugly

The second gen ram was sexy

Nice 96 cummins

[jaunty light]

Ford ugly!

New chevy.. very ugly!

Toyota, ultimate ugly

[dull garnet]

hank do this

[jaunty light]

Fuck <BRAND> all me and my homies hate <BRAND>

[sly elk]

the evga 1000 G6 is a customized seasonic focus gx-1000 😄

[deep sapphire]

S-shut up

Dodge is poop!

[deep sapphire]

Okay

Be like toy story

[sly elk]

they mustache

[dull garnet]

toyodge

[sly elk]

some models have a worse mustache than others

base model 1500 with a pentastar v6 though? 😄

[deep sapphire]

Yuck

[jaunty light]

Not rly a fan of the rebel grill

[sly elk]

ooo yes they do have the v6 on the lowest model

[jaunty light]

Just gimmie rebel with normal onr

[deep sapphire]

No dodge in my garage

[jaunty light]

I guess you could say

You dodge dodge

[deep sapphire]

[sly elk]

lol

[jaunty light]

[sly elk]

the normal ones don't have that

i think they'd look better if they went back to the old crosshair grille

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/D8vJrzLrwz0

Here you go

[jaunty light]

Just spend $2k on a billet grille with builtin llightbar

[sly elk]

i;'m not into pickup trucks

but if somebody said you MUST have a pickup truck, I'd get a jeep gladiator

it's probably the worst pickup ever for so many reasons

[deep sapphire]

Well it’s a Chrysler product

So makes sense

[sly elk]

right

[deep sapphire]

[sly elk]

but, forward of the bed, it looks like my jeep

[modest moss]

Hank did you really order a non-EV vehicle?

[sly elk]

and I am fine with that

[deep sapphire]

It’s a hybrid

[modest moss]

save half the planet

[sly elk]

it doesn't look angry

[deep sapphire]

I have no practical way to own an EV I live in an apartment, live in a state that’s winter half the year and drive a lot

[sly elk]

it doesn't look like it wants to run people over

it just looks like a jeep lol

[jaunty light]

So ugly and not practical but jeep bros got what they wanted i guess

:OmegaLUL:

[sly elk]

they didn't

for reals

[odd sand]

Run a charging cord out your window 💩

[sly elk]

everyone on the jeep forum complains it's too big

and that they wanted a new commanche

[jaunty light]

The gladiator is so small though

[sly elk]

i could see something like this being more appealing

[jaunty light]

Holy god i need to cleanse my eyes

[sly elk]

lol 😄

[jaunty light]

Thr bronco at least looks nice

[sly elk]

here, your HOA approved monster truck

[jaunty light]

[sly elk]

it may look like ass, but it was consumer report's 2013 best buy

[deep sapphire]

Right

[jaunty light]

Those things r crazy expensine now

[sly elk]

yea it's funny

those things were a giant flop when they came out

even the regular car reviews dude shit on it really hard

[jaunty light]

Still no 2022 africa twin for USA

[sly elk]

at least it had a proper rwd/4wd setup

but i thought it looked like a hummer H2 minivan edition

with a little bit of porto potty added in for good measure

[odd sand]

Did they chop an fc cruiser to make it? Or whatever they're called

[sly elk]

you mean that pickup one? oh yea

[deep sapphire]

Those things were cool

[sly elk]

eurobeat music intensifies

[jaunty light]

GAS GAS GAS

[odd sand]

You can get a 3090 if you're okay paying 3k lol

[dull garnet]

whoever put those rims on should be arrested

[jaunty light]

[odd sand]

The random 60 dollar processing fee really is the cherry on top

[jaunty light]

Yup

[odd sand]

Here's a fee fee

[dull garnet]

bruh

[jaunty light]

Its time to get a hazmat suit with PAPR

Altho at that cost youd just order online at scalp price

Cad?

Thats not bad for a 3090

Rip

[odd sand]

Not bad when msrp was 1499? Also 3090 isn't worth even the msrp

[jaunty light]

Only reason I went 3090 is because its non LHR. Maybe I tease resell out of it but itll also be good for almost-quadro-workloads too.

[odd sand]

Bundle them in a snowsuit with goggles and a scarf and if they complain about heatstroke, tell them to quit whining

[jaunty light]

I dunno if this site is legit, "powerstripe"

Selling preorders for strix 3090 at like 2400?

Probably not an option for you tho, I know somr canucks and duty fees are... a lot

[odd sand]

Once again grateful I bought mine last year before the market fell out completely

Got my 3080 for 850 ordering thru a local shop

[jaunty light]

I passed up an FE at BB in feb

So here is me putting my clown face on

[dreamy chasm]

I'm happy with my older card, all I really do is play ff on a depreciated 1080p monitor anyhow

[jaunty light]

I have a 2080 Ti and at the time I was replacing a dying 8700k by trying to find a damn 5900x

[odd sand]

I mean, that's not too clown face then. That's still a good card

[dreamy chasm]

Dying, as in you pumped enough voltage to make it unstable at stock?

And, that cards still fine lol

[jaunty light]

Yes

[dreamy chasm]

[jaunty light]

But no, the entire system would lock up for 30s at a time. Even undervolted and underclocked

[dreamy chasm]

tfw all ryzen 3 needs to clock higher is better temps on pbo

[odd sand]

My friend is on an 8700k still. Told him to hold off for either 13th gen Intel or new amds

[dreamy chasm]

I've seen smth similar before

Guy pumped enough volts into their 4690k that it wouldn't run past 2 ghz after enough time

Or smth like that

[odd sand]

The ddr5 and pcie5 should be more mature then.

[jaunty light]

I'd still have it tbh if not for that. Never diagnosed what the issue was, dying MB, CPU degraded, who knoed

[dreamy chasm]

Could be either

[jaunty light]

Never ran it that high anyways. Iirc maybe like 1.375v

[odd sand]

Apparently ppl are trying to scalp ddr5 now. Good luck with that.

[dreamy chasm]

Ddr4 is still fine as it is anyway

[jaunty light]

Ram manufacturers already do that!

[odd sand]

Yeah I wouldn't buy a ddr5 board atm. Waste of money

[dreamy chasm]

Where's those ddr4/5 boards when you need em

[odd sand]

The memory controllers and such and immature, so even buying better ram later probably wouldn't run at rated speeds

[dreamy chasm]

We'll see, I guess

Are the mem controllers for ddr5 on the motherboard for 12th gen?

[odd sand]

I dunno but even if they're in the cpu it would still hold true

[dreamy chasm]

I suppose

[deep sapphire]

[dreamy chasm]

[dull garnet]

⛄

[dreamy chasm]

With the weather here in southeast Asia, I'm probably just getting a motorbike if I ever need smth for commuting

Fuels cheaper

[jaunty light]

Left work and like a good 32oz of water poured into my backseat

Therefore I busted out my gorilla seal and sprayed my liner and roof with it, problem solved

[sly elk]

i'm surprised asus doesn't make ROG memory

[glossy timber]

who's out here buying ddr5 memory without a use for it

[sly elk]

it looks like that ddr4 adapter works with a specific firmware on the asus motherboard

so they're still using ddr4 signalling

but with some weird hacks to make ddr5 power work for the ddr4 memory

(probably not weird at all)

[potent arrow]

Could you imagine four sticks with four adapters literally flapping about in your case

Shit would sound like a wind chime I stg

[sly elk]

ahahaa

[potent arrow]

Like no way that's mechanically stable

[sly elk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/rsbq8p/human_error/
-cackles-

[potent arrow]

It's a fat ass heatsink ontop of a flimsy pcb with the smallest attachment to the socket

[sly elk]

i wonder why it's so tall

it looks like all they did was add a socket on top of a ddr5 pcb

but why do that? they'd have to reroute the traces to make that socket right?

[potent arrow]

I have no idea why they would tbh, plus making long trace runs isn't exactly the best idea

[hard drift]

it looks terrible for airflow

no thanks

[dull garnet]

I think I should post that weird am2 asrock add-on board again

[dreamy chasm]

Airport WiFi has gone a long way, as I've found out today

[dreamy chasm]

What does it add on

[dull garnet]

It is a slot in AM2 slot on a 939 board lmao

Brave image search sucks

But yeah, that

[dreamy chasm]

God

That's fuckin wild

Doesn't the interface you plug it into just cause bottlenecks though

I've forgotten what port that even is

[dull garnet]

[dreamy chasm]

This is why I never multicard anymore

[dreamy chasm]

Got a 3700x and a 1660 in an itx rig, I'm happy

I've seen wilder things, tbh

[dull garnet]

I assume it is a proprietary slot

Asrock lol

[dreamy chasm]

I remember seeing their boards back when I was shopping for a rig during the Haswell days

Budget lines were fine, but their high end was dreadful

Shit multi phase vrms that did worse than traditional 4+2

lmao

as-rock with a fast s, I guess

[dull garnet]

They did a 775 board that had agp+pcie and ddr+ddr2

[dreamy chasm]

pretty sure ddr+ddr+1 has been a thing almost every generation until now on some niche boards

[dreamy chasm]

I remember seeing a couple ddr3/4 boards during the shift

[dull garnet]

That atx power connector placement

[dreamy chasm]

I didn't notice until now

God, I'd had that board with a passion if I had to work with that

Also, remember when psus were mounted back when modular ones were expensive as shit?

Pocket pc?

Haven't toyed with stuff that old, unfortunately

[dull garnet]

Those look like turbografx games

[dreamy chasm]

Try to ask on those vintage pc reddits, maybe

There's bound to be one or two people

[dull garnet]

Even older than me

just

[dreamy chasm]

That's a decade older than me

💀

Truly vintage

I don't judge, honestly

[dreamy chasm]

Just run it at stock and unlock boost tbh

Unless you can get lower voltages on a manual oc

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/JenMsft/status/1476693871732035589

Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft)

Kids of the future won't understand the struggle

Retweets

372

Likes

1885

Twitter · Dec 30, 2021, 11:17 PM

[late basalt]

https://tenor.com/view/off-size-off-wacky-face-pouty-lips-gif-16675463

[potent arrow]

https://youtu.be/58a2VLXZd6A

time to go to work and sort through motherboards .-.

[sly elk]

no no no no. One screw is hard to remove, and the other is even harder because when you went to unscrew it, the jack screw from the motherboard/gpu came with it

I dunno why, but that happened to me more times than I care to admit

and then it gets to the point where you're like "forget that nonsense" and you just toss the jack screw standoff thing

and then the vga plug only is held on by one side hahah

[untold onyx]

Hell, that has happened to me several times in one day!

[sly elk]

so when I had a 8088, I somehow ended up with 2 mono monitors

one was amber and one was green

I can't remember exactly how, but the amber one was forcibly unplugged from the computer

I think my brother wanted to use the green one, but he has autism and didn't know any better, so he just yanked the cable until it came off

so I came home and found the cable dangling with just the pins and no connector at the end

i was annoyed because the green monitor was ugly

[untold onyx]

In my case my job deals with installation and removal of hardware. A number of sites when I started had VGA monitors and a number of Serial devices plugged into the workstation.

And never cleaned since installed...

Needless to say, it was not uncommon to have that threaded nut unscrewed occur several times per machine.

[sly elk]

POS terminals?

[untold onyx]

Those, plus bank workstations and tellers.

[sly elk]

I always thought it was funny how nobody ever cleans shared computers

I scolded people about this at work

someone brought a really gross keyboard into the clean room >>

I was like "wtf is this doing here?!" and someone was like "IT gave it to me"

the fact they tried to recycle a gross keyboard was concerning on its own lol

[untold onyx]

Ah the stupid things that are done to save the budget.

[sly elk]

nah in this case it was like an innocent brain fart. or a set of them

dude that asked for the keyboard didn't tell them it was going in a clean room

dude that gave it, wasn't thinking they should throw it out

[potent arrow]

Can you come and remove some parralel connectors for me?

[sly elk]

I was surprised because the company usually does have a pretty good supply of new keyboards and mice, even if they're the cheapest junk dell sells

[potent arrow]

They locktight the fucking screws in

[sly elk]

though, if you ask, you can also get a microsoft natural and/or microsoft sculpt keyboard

kinda depends on what they have in stock

[untold onyx]

Wha- for the love of God WHY?!

[sly elk]

I brought my own stuff when i worked in the office lol

[potent arrow]

WELCOME TO HELL

[sly elk]

hehe

my favorite thing I've seen IT do

is put those black tamper seal stickers on the laptops

[potent arrow]

You know what I hate the most

Connector wise?

these

[sly elk]

those are evil

samtec connectors

[void dove]

ye want some IT nightmare fuel?

[potent arrow]

why does it exist

[sly elk]

I'm sadly familiar with those connectors but I've never had to use them

[void dove]

it was working before, honest

[potent arrow]

I mean

Honestly that's nothing

Working in school IT

[sly elk]

but a lot of the dev boards I use have them

[potent arrow]

Has shown me great evils

[sly elk]

the funny thing is I can't remember if I've ever needed to remove/attach a daughtercard with that connector lmao

the boards I use always seem to have it if I need it

[void dove]

bulging blackberry battery

[potent arrow]

I've seen Chromebooks with pencil crayons stabbed through them

[potent arrow]

I hate to say it but there are cable versions of this connector

[sly elk]

I'm also aware of that

[potent arrow]

And if people jam it in

At the wrong

Angle

[sly elk]

HEHEHE

[potent arrow]

All the weird contacts

[void dove]

ripped out USB port

[potent arrow]

Just fuck off into oblivion

[void dove]

, like how do you do this

[sly elk]

one of my newer coworkers insisted we use the cables instead of having daughtercards made

[potent arrow]

Literally who made this connector

[sly elk]

after we ordered like 20 daughtercards

to be custom made

[potent arrow]

Fuck that lol

You know I had a similar issue where I couldn't get custom ribbon cables

[sly elk]

i was like fine, it's your problem not mine 😄

[potent arrow]

So I kinda did this

Red is the connectors lol

[sly elk]

what made me laugh

was we spent a lot of money on some dev boards

[potent arrow]

I'm using a blank pcb daughter board between top and bottom

[sly elk]

like enough to buy a car

and they came in with bridged solder and crooked pins lmao

[potent arrow]

💩

[sly elk]

I can kinda understand the bridged solder but the crooked pins were too much haha

[potent arrow]

Refund that shit real q

[sly elk]

couldn't

[void dove]

client site rack
i had so many questions
like, why is there a Dell desktop PC in the ack
why are there 2 UPS units, one which has a dead battery the other which isn't plugged in
why does the bottom of the rack look like someone bashed it in

[sly elk]

I mean we could, but it'd take half a year to get replacements

[untold onyx]

Either it was the wrong plug or someone jammed it in upside down.

[sly elk]

geez

[potent arrow]

This is why I have my PCBs fabbed only an hour away

[tough idol]

[untold onyx]

The Dell machine would have been the server. Ive seen it before.

[sly elk]

I hate optiflex minis

I dunno what it is about them, but I hate them

[void dove]

nah, it was the security system lol

used it to make swipe cards

no backups of it either

[sly elk]

there's just something about that form factor that I find irritating

[untold onyx]

Eh, also seen that before as well. No backup is stupid though.

[sly elk]

and the design

[void dove]

just an exposed wiring panel on the back wall next to the kitchen, nothing unusal there , lol

[untold onyx]

The fact that you can't go inside it without the risk of severing an artery?

[sly elk]

that's true of the regular optiflex tower as well because of the fucking swing arm

[potent arrow]

That's just optiolexes

God I hate optiplexes lol

[sly elk]

and the alienware that uses the same case

actually the alienware is even worse

[potent arrow]

Kyanche PRESS THIS BLUE TAB IT DEFINITELY WONT SWING OUT AND TAKE A FINGER

[void dove]

oh and i can't show this, they had 5 switches, of 4 different models, all daisy chained
soo if the main one died, the entire network stopped working

[sly elk]

don't you just love it?

[untold onyx]

That a communication board. Extremely low voltage. It's fine.

[sly elk]

it's the same fucking awful optiflex case

except WITH A TON OF PLASTIC

[tough idol]

What the hell is that thing

[potent arrow]

Press the blueeeeeeetaaaaab

[void dove]

not in an office with idiots, jsut cover it up

[untold onyx]

Garbage

[tough idol]

Compact gives me a headache

[sly elk]

nah -throws it in trash-

[potent arrow]

You could splash a cup of coffee and piss on it and it'll be fine

[potent arrow]

Telecom shit is stupid robust and safe

[tough idol]

Is that the CPU cooler blowing through the PSU?

Oh dear god

[untold onyx]

nah, I see those all over the place. In a lot worse states as well. As long as no one touches it it'll be fine.

[potent arrow]

Kyanche I'm literally going to beat you if you are trying to give me nightmares

[sly elk]

exactly what I thought the first time I opened the optiflex version ahaha

[void dove]

i also can't show this, i have a picture, of the security PC's instructions
including the login username and password, which was just sitting on top of the computer
the rack had no key either, soo anyone who walked past the kitchen, could just grab it

[sly elk]

no lemme tell ya my favorite thing about the optiflex version

[tough idol]

[sly elk]

I installed linux on it

[untold onyx]

Been there as well.

[sly elk]

one day I was building stuff and noticed in one of my terminal windows

[void dove]

at least their front room had a pingpong table and a TV 😄

[sly elk]

that every time the fpga build I was playing with got to a cpu intensive part

the computer would throw a ton of thermal throttle overheat warnings

before the fans kicked up

[potent arrow]

💩

[sly elk]

like the thermal management is too slow

[potent arrow]

Iirc I have an optiplex case I use as a firepit

[sly elk]

so every time you peg the cpu it thermal throttles for a second or so

[untold onyx]

always fun.

[potent arrow]

It's somewhere in my yard

[sly elk]

xD

I approve of this idea

[untold onyx]

about the only thing it's good for.

[sly elk]

also the dumbest thing I've ever seen at work hmm

it's pretty mundane actually

[potent arrow]

Kyanche you know the weird like

[sly elk]

one time I went in one of the labs and heard beeping

[potent arrow]

Intake plastic thing in optiplexes?

[sly elk]

upon further investigation I found one of the test racks was inadvertently unplugged

[potent arrow]

We like glued them together with hot glue to make a massive hot wheels ramp lmfao

[sly elk]

these dudes were doing a like 3 hour test they would've had to repeat haha

the other beef I have is when people smell something burning and don't go to find out what it is >>

oh I think I know what you're talking about

I haven't had the displeasure of pulling those apart regularly lol, luckily i've only ever been inside one

maybe two

[dreamy chasm]

I wonder if you can design a heatsink that lets you cook eggs on your computer case

[potent arrow]

AH YES YOU SEND ME A TICKET THAT YOU SMELL BURNING LECTRONICS

[dreamy chasm]

Just have it vent out passive on the top

[potent arrow]

and ya DONT GO AND FIND IT

[untold onyx]

It's possible. Won't last for very long but it's possible.

[sly elk]

yea if I smell burning electronics i investigate

[potent arrow]

Turns out ole STEVE WAS SMOKING AND WAS PUTTING OUT HIS CIGAR BUTTS IN THE FUCKING CD TRAY AGAIN

[dreamy chasm]

Use an overclocked am3+ octacore

[sly elk]

lol

[potent arrow]

Sorry got personal lol

[untold onyx]

Won't work with anything more modern than a P4 or an Athlon processor though.

[sly elk]

that's pretty crazy

[dreamy chasm]

Fuckin Steve

[sly elk]

nah for us it's usually like

somebody messed up making a harness

or someone's soldering something

or an actual device blew up 😄

[dreamy chasm]

Don't eggs cook at a pretty low temp

[sly elk]

i'm glad to say that I've never done that personally

[dreamy chasm]

Hm

I've forgotten

[sly elk]

my software has been used to break something by accident before

[untold onyx]

true, but modern processors have a thermal cutoff at 100C. P4 or Athlon compatible boards don't have those.

[dreamy chasm]

Ah

[sly elk]

I only know of one case in particular that this happened

but I have a feeling it's happened more times than I would want to know

[dreamy chasm]

What software did you write

[sly elk]

in this case

the stuff used to talk to the stuff being tested

like my software wasn't at fault there XD

[potent arrow]

Man now I feel like taking a few old laptops to a band saw

I'm excited for all the laptops I'll have to inevitably decommission after covid

The amount of shit laptops I bought for people is alot, and I don't expect them to last more then three years....

So post covid I'm gonna have a stack of dead laptops

[sly elk]

lol

gg

i wonder how much ewaste was produced

like, I imagine lots of defective hardware was pushed out

[late basalt]

send it to nilered to harvest the precious metals out of

[potent arrow]

I don't think he wants biohazard laptops

[untold onyx]

biohaz- nope, you know what, I don't even want to know what your users are doing with them.

[potent arrow]

I mean rn is covid and god knows how gross a daily laptop belonging to middle to old age people gets

[dreamy chasm]

Food, body matter

[potent arrow]

It's gonna be full of food and snot by the time I get em back

[dreamy chasm]

People who don't wash their hands

If you want to refurbish any of it you'll have to go at it with a hazmat suit

[modest moss]

just dunk them in brake cleaner to decontam

[potent arrow]

ez clap

[dreamy chasm]

I didn't realize you were Sara until now, wh

[modest moss]

She likes to hide in plain sight

[potent arrow]

how the fuck cyan lol

[modest moss]

Well shit, let's complete the circle, I didn't realise you were Cyan

[potent arrow]

LOL

we are blind motherfuckers here

[modest moss]

name changing bitches

[potent arrow]

My name has always been the same

[modest moss]

username changing bitches*

Server specific nickname changing bitches*

[sly elk]

i believe it

one time we rented our place out for a few years when I was in college and we moved and like

[dreamy chasm]

[sly elk]

when they moved out

the light switches were like dark grey

THEY WERE WHITE

WHAT WERE THEY DOING?!

washing their hands with charcoal?!

[dreamy chasm]

Dirt, idk

[sly elk]

the worst part was we said no pets

in reality they had multiple cats and dogs

[dreamy chasm]

Yikes

Did they clean up at least?

[sly elk]

i think it cost us more to fix everything than we collected in rent

[dreamy chasm]

Christ

[sly elk]

dude they didn't even clean the lint trap in the dryer

i opened it and there were like, floor mats and stuff

and the tray was just 100% full of lint

so I took apart the dryer

and it was just full of lint

[dreamy chasm]

I'd just start lowering the voltage if the performance is good enough , honestly

What stable voltage do other people get at that speed?

I see

You could probably keep pushing if you wanted to, I'm personally just not a fan of pushing more voltage into chips if it isn't necessary

So I probably am not much help

Fair

I do that a lot too

Nah, I get it lol

[sly elk]

i shall play

hmm interesting

coulda swore I had it set to auto OC

[dreamy chasm]

I kind of wish undervolting was practical on Zen 2

What's the top Intel score

[fallen iron]

Sigh… I give up. I don’t know what’s wrong, and I feel like I’ve tried everything.

I’m glad this isn’t affecting more people, but dang it, this is annoying to deal with as a gamepad player.

I don’t even know how to describe it in a support ticket
“Controller experiences micro disconnections for 2 seconds at a time?”

Or where to put said ticket in

Nope, Xbox elite series 2

And the Duke re-release for that matter

But… it IS connected through Bluetooth? I thought?

[dreamy chasm]

I'm lucky I'm a keyboard player and don't have to deal w these issues

[fallen iron]

It also happens with the Duke which is wired only

[dreamy chasm]

My setups fine, I can reach all the skills without strain

I might transfer over to using an old ortho keyboard I have if I can get it working

Meh

Footpedals at most, maybe

I'd also get a vertical mouse but I'm concerned over it being a little too heavy

Fair

I use a somewhat small 30 dollar mouse rn

It's not bad, but I'm just worried abt longterm strain issues

We'll see I guess

I've aaalso considered ball mice but

There's a bunch of issues that come w that

[modest moss]

just go with a finger mouse

I bought one of those years ago, put it in a drawer and never plugged it in

[sly elk]

i use a mouse and a trackpad 😄

[modest moss]

I only remember it in conversations like these and I'll forget it again by tomorrow lol

[sly elk]

it's especially weird because I can't even tell when I use each, except that i really miss the trackpad when I remove it

[deep sapphire]

based

[dreamy chasm]

I could maybe see it being useful if it was attached to your thumb , and you clicked with switches on your index and middle

[potent arrow]

you need god

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/bruce-almighty-morgan-freeman-i-am-god-hello-hey-gif-4743445

[fallen iron]

So basically, there’s… nothing I can do

Well, uh… hopefully it gets fixed soon in that case

In the meantime I guess I’ll just play something else?

Dang… was really wanting to catch up on MSQ too, but this issue is actually causing me to lose my patience and is impacting my enjoyment

[modest moss]

you could try a non-xbox controller, like a DS4

or mouse/kb

I would also try using the steam controller settings, I remember on my laptop for some reason rumble wouldn't work unless I launched XIV and managed the controller via steam even though I don't own the steam version

[potent arrow]

i mean if you arnt using steams controller config shit you are just asking for trouble

[modest moss]

not really, I use an xbox one controller and windows native support is perfect (once I updated the firmware)

[dreamy chasm]

There's an overlay that let's you use steam config for third party games

Iirc

[modest moss]

@potent arrow seeing as you're the resident safety guru, should I trust an unbranded usb charger like this? it's cheap af https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175084858805

[dreamy chasm]

@fallen iron one workaround you could try is using glossi/glosc

https://github.com/Alia5/GlosSI

[potent arrow]

That looks like a knockoff anker so its probally fine

[dreamy chasm]

Idk if it'd exactly fix things but it's worth a shot

[deep sapphire]

just play with a gravis gamepad

[dreamy chasm]

Play with an arduino

Hook up some probes to bananas

[fallen iron]

I’ll try the steam option first, but honestly I’m a bit tired. And… stressed. So it’ll have to wait until tomorrow

Still, thanks for the help everyone, this was quite the conundrum

[deep sapphire]

TECHNOLOGY

[fallen iron]

And now I’m thinking of that Cox n Crendor bit where they mess with soundboards

Dang it, Hank

[dreamy chasm]

Lmao

Take care, nerd

[warm mesa]

How fucked am I https://www.reddit.com/r/playstation/comments/rs7msi/how_fucked_am_i/

Doesnt get dumber than this

Ripped the solderpads off

[dreamy chasm]

Never pull on the connector

[sly elk]

wth happened to the board

like, the first time I clicked that Iwas thinking yea solder it back on

but it looks like

it looks like they took a dremel to it

doesn't it?!

it doesn't even look like the top layer was ripped off. it looks like the whole thing was cut off

[dreamy chasm]

There's some retention bits that you have to pry apart

[sly elk]

lol

[dreamy chasm]

Before you should even consider pulling it out

Idk tbh

Huge waste either way

It isn't hard to solder back on though

If you have an iron

I know you're joking but, that's a terrible idea lmao

Haven't seen it

I've not watched an actual show in... 5 or so years

I'm pretty sure

[potent arrow]

this is actually really common, the legs just ripped the traces out

itll be a pain in the ass to fix because now it wont have a physical spot to solder too

youll have to scrape the masking off and bridge the legs

[sly elk]

yea 😦

i wonder if it even needs the fan plugged in

they could always just power the fan off something else

[potent arrow]

probally not

almost garanteed not

because fans fail often and they wont wanta bricked fan to brick a console lol

[sly elk]

it only has 3 wires

[potent arrow]

I mean

pwm hot and ground

if you run it off another rail itll be maxed at all times

[sly elk]

but it'd be easier/cheaper than patching the board

[wide hill]

what i could guess, is if sony was "smart" that it would check the pins for the fan, and not start up the system

like apple

[potent arrow]

I would just scrape traces and solder it to the legs

then super glue the connector socket to the board

call it a day

[warm mesa]

No

Im not that stupid

[dreamy chasm]

I'd rather patch the board

[teal fable]

that was scary but i think it worked, updated bios ;/

[potent arrow]

I MEAAAAn /s

[sly elk]

[potent arrow]

You know

Suspensions are spring loaded

Remember that people

[teal fable]

boing

[modest moss]

did you injure yourself again?

[dreamy chasm]

I'll spring load u

[potent arrow]

Just broke my glasses because the control arm slapped my face

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/johnny-english-rowan-atkinson-secret-agent-comedy-spy-workingtitlefilms-gif-14976926

[dreamy chasm]

Oof

[hard drift]

fuck intel 😔 can't use a blu ray player i got for christmas because of stupid SGX

[modest moss]

why would sgx stop you using a blu ray player? that's weird

[hard drift]

because of drms

and without a dedicated blu ray player it won't work 😭

[idle helm]

Hey guys I have a PS5 question if anyone has one - does anyone know if a simple mouse with 2 side buttons would be keybindable in games? Specifically in FFXIV? This is a basic mouse, nothing fancy from Razer or any other company.

[modest moss]

Cyan were you always on Cactuar?

[dreamy chasm]

Nah, I transferred

!me

[modest moss]

and didn't tell me

[modest moss]

WHAT YOU'RE NOT LALA

[dreamy chasm]

Sorry

Yeah

Change happens sometimes

[modest moss]

I have no words

[dreamy chasm]

lmao

She'll be back eventually

[modest moss]

I will emote angrily at you if I see you

[dreamy chasm]

Can't deny that my cats hot, though

[boreal surge]

I like hot cats and I cannot lie

[jaunty light]

[mental obsidian]

Is there a fix for the amd cpu sound stuttering yet?

[lost python]

the what?

[deep sapphire]

fix for AMD?

oh right yeah

int- hey chat whats up

disable HDMI drivers if you arent using that sound

that should fix it

[thorn lake]

Has anyone gotten this error before does anyone know how to fix it ;;
I've tried changing full screen size at start up and updating all my drivers + laptop but it still gives this error and just crashes the game at startup

[mental obsidian]

Alright I'll give that a go thanks

[deep sapphire]

go into dxdiag, save the log and send it to me in a PM

I'll check out your specs and also see if it generated any error reports

[thorn lake]

My laptop suddenly crashed and now the game loaded???????

Thank you though if it happens again I'll let you know

[deep sapphire]

sounds good 🙂

[hard drift]

😒

[deep sapphire]

😒

[hard drift]

😔

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/captain-falcon-anime-yo-salute-whats-up-gif-6103455

[mental obsidian]

Sadly didn't fix it

[dull garnet]

I got this error about half an hour ago during a cutscene lol

logged in again and now it is okay? thanks ff14

[jaunty light]

That rtx 3090 calls your name

[dull garnet]

[dreamy chasm]

[deep sapphire]

[prime hare]

Is anyone able to help me w the ps5 download

It won’t work

[jaunty light]

it's kinda wack that buying 3 pcie cables and a 24pin costs as much or more than the cable kit with a 24/2x 8/2x eps (i think anyways)/molex/sata etc

[sly elk]

i find it's even worse haha. $12 for an 8 pin when I paid $29 for the kit

[dull garnet]

kinda wack paying for cables that came with the psu

[sly elk]

ohh I wasn't thinking about that

it's kinda wack that the high end PSUs come with shitty cables

[jaunty light]

i mean they're nice cables, they just ain't fancy looking

[jaunty light]

[dull garnet]

bc of power delivery n shit i'm not sure i trust third party cabling but its probably fine

[sly elk]

corsair sells first party fancy cables lol

the asus thor PSUs also come with fancy cabling, and so do the be quiet dark power pros

evga also sells first party cables

[jaunty light]

we need da wireless PSUs

it's 2022

the future is now

I think my current ones are compatible with thor

but that's because it's a seasonic

but also, i'm not paying $400 for an RGB PSU with the same efficiency and less rating than a plain ol seasonic

[modest moss]

fuck RGB

I want a computer, not an art installation

[jaunty light]

computer need BLINKY LIGHTS

how does know computer work without thousands blinky RGB?

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/lights-party-hard-blinking-lights-escape-so-cal-escape-halloween-gif-12251562

zoomers gaming ^

[kindred brook]

https://tenor.com/view/smash-bros-falcon-punch-captain-falcon-nintendo-sprite-gif-18215072

[deep sapphire]

Based

https://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/cto/d/poughkeepsie-1994-chevy-c1500-short-bed/7426503473.html

Here you go @modest moss found you a nice truck

Affordable too!

Look at that wood trim didn’t even know it came with that

[modest moss]

it's kinda cool

but $5k max

also but, and big but, only 17mpg

so I'll pass

[sly elk]

i like how it only has 1200 miles

I doubt that wood was factory

[jaunty light]

that's a lot of mpg!

[sly elk]

no way man

externally, it's so clean!

[modest moss]

I'd rather have unicorn puke rgb in my pc than drive that thing

[sly elk]

what's wrong with unicorn rgb?

[modest moss]

I don't like it

[sly elk]

I like it 😄

although I got bored of it and changed mine to do other things

if rgb LEDs weren't an option I'd do something like chromax fans with blue trim

[jaunty light]

though tbh i would probably build in an O11 if i did this

[sly elk]

i like colorful PSU cables for this kinda reason too

good accessorizing

i think chromax fans come with an assortment of cables (great way to produce ewaste haha)

maybe they just sell the cables separate. either way, yea, I think this could use a comeback

[jaunty light]

they don't

they come with corners in different colors, although not enough for both sides

in one color

[sly elk]

wtf 😦

i guess because it'd be installed facing something

[jaunty light]

true gamer: installs anti-vibration pads where they do nothing except look aesthetic

[sly elk]

that means their pictures are false advertising

[jaunty light]

maybe I'm misremembering, but I didn't buy 2 boxes of white corners for nothing

[sly elk]

I dunno

i'd almost rather they didn't come with the corners and you bought them separate haha

[jaunty light]

they're apparently releasing purewhite fans

[sly elk]

white and blue would look sick

[jaunty light]

this would be sweet just sans the RGbizzle

why do I keep seeing custom loops with just CPU cooling

what is the point of wasting all that time and money lmao

keep only the top rad and I'd be sold on this

someone makes a little frosted RGB box to put in the bottom of the o11 that I'd probably shove in there because I hate shue

[sly elk]

I agree

wait what

i like shue

but I like top mounted radiators

[jaunty light]

every extra RGB component I can add kills shue slightly more!!

[sly elk]

wasn't the O11 designed to have the radiator on the side?

oh I see

eh in a setup like that I doubt it matters

[jaunty light]

bottom, top, side, any option works in the o11

[sly elk]

fuck it. o11 with top/side/bottom rads 😄

why would there be air in the rad?

[sly elk]

that only happens with AIOs

in that loop setup with the top+bottom

the air would end up in the top radiator probably

or maybe in the reservoir?

I don't really know much about custom loops 😦

[jaunty light]

bro I'm boutta do it, imagine all the anime waifus I could plaster on this shit

[sly elk]

but if you wanna talk hardware in general, i'd be happy to 😄

that's an interesting o11

wait there's an ROG o11?

[jaunty light]

there's an rog o11 yeah but that's a separate panel

[sly elk]

isn't it hilarious that asus makes an rog case

[jaunty light]

it comes from aliexpress, so you know it's going to 100% match that photo and be of the highest quality

[sly elk]

the o11 case is sexy

[modest moss]

I don't give a shit what other people do with their computers

[jaunty light]

there's no builds that match what I'd do rip

this is too busy and ugly

[sly elk]

I kinda want to have a metal shop change my tower a little

xD

[jaunty light]

distroplate + pump on the side, one 360 rad up top, that'd be ideal for me

[sly elk]

i'm not sure how i feel about distro plates

they do make one for my funky case

[jaunty light]

i like horizontal hardlines

nice and clean

[sly elk]

but it's $250!

i think that's a lot :\

apparently it comes with the pump

[jaunty light]

I mean custom loops are already a luxury so might as well send it

but they almost always have a pump if it's case specific

[sly elk]

ahh

to me, the non negotiable part if I ever do a custom loop

is that orb thing

[jaunty light]

I wonder if EKWB would send me pre molded tubes

seeing as the kit is already for the case, if they knew which blocks I was gonna use

take all the fun out of DIY!

[sly elk]

That would be nice

Lol

[jaunty light]

damn now I actually wanna do it

but then I think 'bout all the work of bending tubes, maintenance, eventually replacing tubes, if I ever switch out components ...

although living in a hot climate it would be nice to play a game without my fans ramping to datacenter

https://tenor.com/view/fail-riscord-discord-eminem-rap-gif-22846615

[sly elk]

mmm

o11, unifans, white everything

it's almost a meme pc 😄

the only thing it's missing is the white strix 3080

mhm

[dull garnet]

how about a Gundam 3090

only double the msrp of an FE

[sly elk]

i want the whole gundam rig

https://www.newegg.com/abs-ali599/p/N82E16883360234
they still have em lol

[dull garnet]

jeez

[sly elk]

the only thing i don't like are the fans

and ofc, that it's an 11th gen intel build

yep

and really, fuck them for doing that

supposedly a 'limited' edition lol

not sure how true that is

but they certainly sell less white ones than black ones

for $800 more you get the whole computer

which is entirely too much hahaha

oh ok

that's still awful

the sad thing is microcenter did have these

[deep sapphire]

thats generous

[modest moss]

I just went off this; https://www.google.com/search?q=1994+chevy+c1500+mpg "17 combined city/highway MPG 15 city 20 highway 5.9 gals/100 miles"

[sly elk]

yea but that's 1994 mpg testing

17mpg highway when doing 55mph going down tehachapi pass in a heavy downdraft

[jaunty light]

I shoulda got the white strix or gundam

but not for $3600+

[sly elk]

i'mma happy with my 3080ti ftw3 😄

but it's fun to think about what coulda been 😄

[deep sapphire]

weeb

||but cute give me the sauce||

[latent grotto]

pso2

[modest moss]

Happy New Year from the UK tech nerds

[sly elk]

@deep sapphire phantasy star online 2: episode oracle

hehe

not bad

but it doesn't appear to be in stock

so those monitors adn the alienware monitors I have, are pretty much the only monitor designs I like lol

hmm

I guess the galaxy g9 looks cool

and I really like apple's pro display xdr even if it costs like 5 good enough monitors

I've never seen one up close and in person, but I bet 6k res on a 32" is orgasmic for reading text

or writing code, or staring at pretty pictures

yea

i think people do that because they want people to hate them

me too

especially the limited /special edition GPUs

it's so unfair lol

but seriously

I wouldn't be surprised if some jackass made a videfo where they bought 10 gundam GPUs

and then shucked the shroud off "for better performance"

just to piss people off

it's like when people buy a new phone and smash it in front of the store

or a new playstation or whatever

when there's a big line of people waiting outside haha

dude

I bet some of them are happily married