technology-discussion

[deep sapphire]

Remember pigeon

[sly elk]

it bothers me even more than the mass migration from IRC to discord, though

discord is heavily flawed, I will agree

[deep sapphire]

That app that let you use all of the messengers in one

[modest moss]

pidgin wasn't it?

[sly elk]

yea I remember pidgin and trillian

[deep sapphire]

While discord is flawed I think it’s done a fairly good job

[sly elk]

I used both

[deep sapphire]

Oh was that it

[modest moss]

also trillian

[deep sapphire]

Trillian yeah I remember that one too

[sly elk]

I miss them.

[modest moss]

we should all still just be on irc

discord is just irc with extra useless shit that fools pay stan for

looking at anyone with nitro

[deep sapphire]

yeah what IDIOT would pay for nitro

[sly elk]

nah, as a platform it's really much worse

because discord is centralized and corporate and proprietary

if you piss off the right person you can be banned from discord forever

[deep sapphire]

yeah but when things arent centralized you end up with problems specified above

[modest moss]

my guy goes from an FFXI villain stealing LS banks and botting endgame shit to running a dogshit chat company worth billions

madness

[sly elk]

yea, there's lots of downsides to IRC as well

[deep sapphire]

I miss when they made guildworks

that was really handy in XIV

[sly elk]

for one, large companies are unlikely to tolerate highly illegal stuff going on behind the scenes

[modest moss]

never used it

[sly elk]

so you're not going to have the FBI come one day and take all your electronics just because you happened to be in a discord lol

[deep sapphire]

plus all the dumb voip programs that existed and were all equally terrible and the servers were always full of boomers

[sly elk]

(then again I've never seen that happen with an entire IRC server before)

[modest moss]

FBI ain't taking my shit

[deep sapphire]

anytime I think of TS3

I just think of late 30s early 40s boomers

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/viva-la-dirt-league-vldl-gif-19768360

[deep sapphire]

that discord shit is for yuppies lemme tell ya

back in nam we used TS3

[sly elk]

i'm almost a mid 30s boomer

-_-

[deep sapphire]

I know you own a jeep

[sly elk]

or late 30s, depending on how you look at it.

[deep sapphire]

wtf am I even talking I own a 30 year old fuckin vehicle

[modest moss]

peak of chat for me was Virtual Places

[sly elk]

my 35th birthday is in a couple of weeks lol

someone in another discord keeps calling me middle aged so

[deep sapphire]

hey happy birthday

[sly elk]

I suppose I should buy a corvette

and golf clubs

[deep sapphire]

playstation home

[sly elk]

and maybe get into boxed wine

[odd sand]

There's an open source discord clone I've seen that looks pretty decent. Hopeful it keeps improving, bc running your own daemon for friends or MMO raiding or something would be nice

[deep sapphire]

PS Home was a really cool idea that was poorly executed

[modest moss]

35 isn't middle aged by the way, only millenials think that

merriam webster says 45-64

it keeps getting older as life expectancy increases

[sly elk]

oh

good!

[modest moss]

so uh

I'm 47

[sly elk]

-gives a cookie-

[modest moss]

fetch my fucking pipe and slippers

[sly elk]

i'm sorry lol

not because of your age but because I just did the same thing that gets me sometimes XD

[modest moss]

respect your elders, boy

[sly elk]

when some 26 year old is in a discord going "I'M SO OLD HAHA"

[odd sand]

https://tenor.com/view/eustace-hunchback-courage-the-cowardly-dog-bald-look-up-gif-16762329

Shue IRL

[sly elk]

yea back pain is a bitch

that's part of why i have a 1400 dollar chair >>

[modest moss]

I'd place Shinon around Hank's age

[odd sand]

Do more working out, most back pain is lack of upper body support bc ppl dont use the proper muscle groups anymore sitting in a chair

[deep sapphire]

shue looks good for his age, its all that tea and lack of sunshine

[sly elk]

yea I'm aware 🙂

the chair doesn't really do shit for me

if anything it actually makes things worse

if I exercise 3 days a week my muscles and back stay happy and fantastic feeling

[deep sapphire]

you know what they say, them sun rays make you look like a chain smoking slot machine playin retired teacherin granny

[sly elk]

ha it's true though

[odd sand]

I'm doing great! Never been younger! /s

[sly elk]

sunlight, especially if you don't use sun lotion, will fuck your skin up

[odd sand]

We've all never been as young as we are right now

[deep sapphire]

I've started using body lotion after showering its helped quite a bit

gets so damn dry in the winter time

[sly elk]

ECZEMA

especially when skin cracks on the joints of my fingers right where the nerve is

and then I have to put a bandage on it or it'll keep cracking and hurting like hell

[deep sapphire]

its a good idea to carry around a bottle of lotion

after you wash your hands

dab a little on

and then close the stall door and have some fun

I mean what

I wash my hands a lot at work cause they're always getting dirty and they're too cheap to buy good gloves

so I bring a decent bottle of lotion to work

[sly elk]

hank's work bathroom:

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

that label

looks like someone from the office printed that out as a request from you

[sly elk]

at my internship I initially felt guilty because I went to pee about once an hour and then I realized every time I went there, one of the founders was in the bathroom in the last stall

poor dude must've had the worst stomach ever

[deep sapphire]

IBS

[sly elk]

I am cursed to remember silly details. I might forget someone's face, but remember their car's license plate or the shoes they always seem to wear

so when I walk in the bathroom at work, if one ofthe like 50 people I see all the time is in there, I'll know because I'll recognize their shoes

[deep sapphire]

you recognize the sound of their farts

[sly elk]

LOL

no but when you spend enough time in a clean room, you can recognize your coworkers by the way they stand or walk

[deep sapphire]

eughhhh brrraaaapppp kaaplooooosh uuuuuuuuuh fuck much better

reminds me of those old intel commercials

with the dancing clean suites

[sly elk]

the license plate thing applies to numbers too. if I call the same phone number a couple times I'll usually remember it

or my credit card numbers >>

[deep sapphire]

oh really? can you give me an example

with the last 3

[sly elk]

no.

[deep sapphire]

[jaunty light]

oh my god, I'm so old.

26 is old if you play FPS games I can't keep up with these 20 year olds

[umbral moss]

🤔

not really

[sly elk]

I dunno what to say

on a good day I can wreck them youngins in overwatch haha

[umbral moss]

I'm bad because I play too aggressively and I end up in 3v1s

[sly elk]

I am out of training though. I need to get out quake live and play some instagib railgun maps

[umbral moss]

not because I can't aim

[jaunty light]

my reaction time is still 150ms but I have a hard limit on the amount of bullshit going on screen that I can keep track of

[umbral moss]

just click heads faster 5head

you have less bullshit to deal with the more enemies you kill

[jaunty light]

not in apex they just keep coming

siege is exceptionally easy because lol 1 hit headshot

[modest moss]

I can still get victories in fortnite, I must be young

[jaunty light]

harnessed your inner tomato town murder-erer

[umbral moss]

same...?

I just want to click on enemies

[jaunty light]

I like apex, but other BRs have been boring and run like shit, tho I guess so does apex hitreg

Overwatch too much spam on screen for me

I'll go click on red balls in kovaaks if im tired of a game

[zealous wolf]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/789238792753905684/930663334682951690/271663482_10159315601446628_6108056953844919104_n.png

posting this here for uh comfort...

[potent arrow]

Is that the phillipines

[boreal surge]

On one hand fuck that miner

On the other hand the ewaste...

[sly elk]

if the power was off by the time it flooded, they might be salvageable

but it's probably too gross

[sly walrus]

all i see is a mountain of silicon

[sly elk]

more than anything, I see a ton of psu cables

[boreal surge]

Going with the too gross bit

Do you know what’s in that water mate

[sly elk]

POOP.

[boreal surge]

Oh good you do

[zealous wolf]

i have 0 clue where the post originated from

[odd sand]

This is me. I'm a treasure trove of stupid random facts and misc info, but names and faces are hard.

I can remember them, but often not both at the same time heh

My gaze wanders while in places and just memorizes the most random stuff

[sly elk]

oh yea that pisses my mom off sometimes lol

like when I get a delivery and my mom's like

"so what'd they look like?"

and I'm like "Hmm I forgot"

and she's like "HOW DO YOU NOT REMEMBER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE?!"

when I was in elementary school I had a hard time making friends because i'd forget XD

my best friend from like 1st grade to 5th grade was a girl with bright red hair

[odd sand]

I think in some cases it's bc I'm thinking about conversation way ahead of the current moment, so it degrades visual acuity in that moment heh

[sly elk]

till she moved far away 😦

[umbral moss]

https://imgur.com/gallery/4au16sC

so that's where all the 10mm sockets went

[warm mesa]

https://www.igorslab.de/en/alder-lakes-cooling-problem-bend-again-around-5c-ilm-mod-for-intel-lga1700-socket/

Bendgate is back baby

[umbral moss]

imagine being intel and designing a socket that isn't installed correctly by any AIB partner

wew

[dull garnet]

imagine being intel

[real edge]

this is the cheapest 3080 we've got

and its still bloody expensive

[sly elk]

If that means the 3080 stops selling out instantly then they’ve done what they need to I suppose

[odd sand]

That's some expensive 2GB of VRAM innit

[odd sand]

AMD GPU...

[blazing summit]

whats the difference in performance of the 6900xt to the 3080ti? or does it just depend entirely on the game

[dreamy chasm]

Any game with dlss, 3080ti knocks the 6900 out of the water

game dependant past that iirc

[lost python]

Without dlss the 6900xt is even faster or on par with the 3090 in some games.
I just still hope FSR will become a bigger thing because I love it in horizon zero dawn already

[dull garnet]

*when the drivers work

[hard drift]

It’s going to be with the new one that works via drivers

[hard drift]

They’re a lot better these days

[dull garnet]

[deep sapphire]

Any game**

That’s it

No more words

puts finger on lips

[hard drift]

not true 😔

[deep sapphire]

I swear you have notifications set for whenever I shit on AMD

[hard drift]

i was just barely in here

[deep sapphire]

Mmhmmm

[hard drift]

also this is where i normally am because #general-discussion is too active for me 9 times out of 10 lol

[deep sapphire]

True

[hard drift]

i'm waiting for the 2022 drivers from amd to see how it is

[deep sapphire]

USPS is finally retiring the old Grumman vehicles

[hard drift]

[deep sapphire]

We’ll never get cool logos like this again

[hard drift]

time to redesign logos 😔

[deep sapphire]

Gotta make everything flat and simple to copy apple

[hard drift]

apple logo is trash

[deep sapphire]

Though I do kinda like the new Intel logo

It’s a nice throwback

[deep sapphire]

It’s iconic smh

[hard drift]

iconic doesn't make it less trash

[deep sapphire]

#soul

@hard drift

[hard drift]

what

[deep sapphire]

Apple invented the personal computer

That’s how based they are

steps in your path

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/asrock-releases-first-official-x370-bios-with-ryzen-5000-vermeer-support it begins

[deep sapphire]

Don’t ignore the truth bidori

You can’t run forever

[hard drift]

what truth?

[deep sapphire]

That apple is the best

[hard drift]

lmao

they'll be the best when they get better price to performance/user servicing vs windows laptops

[deep sapphire]

Desktop class performance in a notebook with 20 hour battery life

[hard drift]

the only thing they have going for them is battery life

and their laptop display

but that's it

[deep sapphire]

A comparable windows notebook with similar specs would get at best 2 hours

too bad it can’t run anything

[hard drift]

yeah but when plugged in still outperforms especially gpu wise since buying a same price class as max tier mac gives you a gpu atleast

get a fucking quadro laptop for productivity and run circles around it

[deep sapphire]

Bias aside I still think apple has the best engineers in the world

The performance it delivers at the power consumption is insane

[hard drift]

they do have really good ones too bad that the products are overpriced in laptops/desktops

[deep sapphire]

Ehh debatable

[hard drift]

the only thing i would even consider from them is a display

[deep sapphire]

They’re on par with high end PC notebooks

The only drawback is really software

Which it’s always been that way

[hard drift]

yeah except you get an igpu essentially rather than a dedicated gpu to offload productivity to

[deep sapphire]

I wish more games took advantage of the metal API as it would really show the capabilities of the GPU

[hard drift]

they'd have to make more budget friendly laptops for a chance at that

[deep sapphire]

Well that’s by design

It has a unified memory architecture

The M1 MacBook Air is regularly on sale for 800 dollars

And would smoke any PC at that price point

[hard drift]

yeah but that's without a gpu

[deep sapphire]

It has a GPU

[hard drift]

"gpu" that only performs well in certain instances

[deep sapphire]

It can play WoW at 60 FPS which my own PC only got 80 in shadowlands

[hard drift]

nobody is playing wow

[deep sapphire]

Ignoring the facts

[hard drift]

lmao

i mean if they really want to sell people on it, needs to get something like csgo running better

[deep sapphire]

It’s up to devs to make native apps. Rosetta emulation is pretty impressive but at the end of the day it’s still emulation

[hard drift]

yeah

i mean sure it's up to the devs but apple could easily pay them to support it and it'd help them more

[deep sapphire]

Mac just doesn’t have a big enough market share to justify it

Just like Linux gaming

[hard drift]

linux was always more user orientated though

you're on your own for support

[deep sapphire]

Which is why I don’t get when people cry about Linux gaming

Linux is for work

[hard drift]

because they want to just plug and play

[deep sapphire]

Everything else just use fuckin windows

Linux people are also cheap

They won’t pay for anything lol

[hard drift]

lmao true

[deep sapphire]

Another annoyance is the gazillion distros

[hard drift]

you don't love a distro for literally everything?

[deep sapphire]

With most of them on their own kernel backend

Debian/Ubuntu is probably the most popular

[hard drift]

yeah i've looked at going ubuntu but given what i play and the support linux has.... no

[deep sapphire]

To me it’s just silly like everyone complains about some distro and then makes another one to supposedly fix the other distro

[modest moss]

Hank do you actually own a mac?

[deep sapphire]

No

[modest moss]

lol

[deep sapphire]

Only an iPhone

[modest moss]

my work here is done

[hard drift]

lmao

[deep sapphire]

I don’t have a need for a Mac

[hard drift]

because you game

[deep sapphire]

It’d be a waste of money

Debatable

[hard drift]

and macs can't game

[deep sapphire]

If my game you mean sit in limsa

[hard drift]

hank, you couldn't watch your catgirls in limsa on a mac

[deep sapphire]

They make a Mac version

[hard drift]

even literally sitting in limsa wouldn't run

it'd be like 10 fps

[deep sapphire]

Tbf that isn’t the Mac to blame that’s SE being cheap and using wine lol

[modest moss]

tHeY cAn pLaY wOw aT 6o fPs

[hard drift]

why would SE support mac

a majority of their playerbase is windows pc/ps

[deep sapphire]

Shadowlands is pretty demanding and an entry level notebook being able to run it at 60 FPS with full quality detail is impressive

[hard drift]

no reason to support mac and the fact that it even exists at all people should be happy

[deep sapphire]

I dunno what’s to argue against apple silicon is very impressive technology

I never said macs were better

Windows can do anything

So I’ll use windows

[modest moss]

macs are so good you won't even buy one

[hard drift]

sure it's impressive but they don't have the huge gaming community to get support like windows

[deep sapphire]

Yeah because it can’t run shit lmao, it has mostly prosumer software support and that’s about it

If you did video or audio editing the Mac is the way to go

[modest moss]

my work here is really done

[deep sapphire]

If you do anything else

[hard drift]

besides most of the time people who are able to afford macs have a windows pc to game

[deep sapphire]

Stick with a PC

[modest moss]

Hank is triggered

[deep sapphire]

Not at all

[modest moss]

nOt aT aLL

lmao

[deep sapphire]

[modest moss]

ilu Hank

[deep sapphire]

Smh toxic relationship

[hard drift]

lol

[deep sapphire]

I’m buying a molar Mac

[modest moss]

you wouldn't change it

buy a flasher mac

[deep sapphire]

[hard drift]

hank buy me a mac display

[deep sapphire]

Spooky

[modest moss]

shit gif

you get my drift anyway

[hard drift]

shue is a shady drug dealer

that's his drift

[deep sapphire]

pays the bills

[modest moss]

if I were a drug dealer would I be running a 4690k?

[hard drift]

🤷‍♂️ you tell me

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/jim-carey-dumb-and-dumber-lloyd-christmas-silly-face-gif-5623684

[dull garnet]

Yes

[autumn epoch]

Yes

[lost gust]

i have a question to the player who have the directx error. Do you even try on windows https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases ?

[autumn epoch]

Thats how you got money for one

[potent arrow]

Just sell your limbs

[lost gust]

nobody tried it?

[modest moss]

it's unclear what you're asking

are you asking if windows users have tried a linux fix for directx?

[lost gust]

windows using directx but maybe dxvk can fix the Fatal DirectX Error 11000002

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/259612/ffxiv-fatal-directx-error-11000002/

[modest moss]

pretty sure that would only run under linux

[potent arrow]

A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11 which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine.

[modest moss]

I mean, you could install linux and run wine and see

your windows XIV license would work

[lost gust]

https://rk.edu.pl/en/using-dxvk-on-windows-to-improve-final-fantasy-xiv-performance/ on this site told u can use dxvk on windows too

[modest moss]

go for it, let us know if it works

[lost gust]

do you know how i can check out if i use the windows directx or the dxvk?

[modest moss]

it says in the thing you linked, if you use msi afterburner it'll say

"If you use monitoring/benchmarking app like MSI Afterburner or CapFrameX you should see that instead of DX11 it's reporting Vulkan as the API used."

[lost gust]

ahh thanks didnt see that

[narrow juniper]

Did the Intel graphics card become available?

I just saw a deal on a acer swift

Equipped with a Intel iris xe graphics

I hope it's good I didn't see any benchmarks

[modest moss]

iris has been on some 11th gen laptops for a while, it's just an igpu afaik

[narrow juniper]

Really? Man I must have been blind

Yeah but is it an usable igpu

That's the question

Can it run crysis

[modest moss]

lol no

https://www.storagereview.com/review/intel-iris-xe-good-enough-for-gaming

dude can't even run fortnite

[narrow juniper]

Damn

I was expecting to be able to run most games in low without a big issue

I guess maybe next generation

[modest moss]

eh, just get a laptop with a 3050 in if you want to game on one

[potent arrow]

We've been saying this as long as Intel has had igpu

[hard drift]

wait for next gen cpus for usable igpus

aka later this year

[narrow juniper]

well i havent lol i just got my expectations up with the xe ones thats all

[narrow juniper]

yeah i just wanna see igpus become a thing

would be great

[hard drift]

lol, amd is pretty good for igpus vs intel atleast until recently, the new navi igpus will hopefully be better but idk. also will be nice if intel does arc igpu although we don't know arc capabilities yet

[potent arrow]

Intel can get better all they want with igpus but don't forget game requirements are constantly scaling

[hard drift]

yeah but intel igpus have been shit up until they released iris

most of the time gaming on an igpu people are playing things like fortnite/csgo

if somebody is playing on an igpu i highly doubt they expect to play AAA games on it

well yeah expecting more is just stupid lol

igpus are geared towards very budget orientated gaming

[lost gust]

allright time to play ffxiv with dxvk on windows

[sly elk]

mmmm dumb question, have you ever heard noise from your computer's sound output?

saw a comment on reddit instructing someone that they must buy a DAC because their computer output will be too noisy for use with a receiver & good speakers

[hard drift]

noise from like the speaker itself?

[sly elk]

apparently they think all computers produce sound output that is too noisy.

so just interference from power stuff on the motherboard

[hard drift]

i guess it really depends, only output that has noise like that is my soundbar but there's nothing i can do for that

[sly elk]

my hot take of the day is I think those DACs are kinda snake oil

[hard drift]

otherwise i've had no issues with excessive noise

[sly elk]

like, if you're buying a $3000 speaker system and a $1000 receiver, sure what's another $100

[hard drift]

[lost gust]

so my opinion is that fps is fine like directx but sometime i have fps drops and changing programm is annoying too

[hard drift]

yeah that's normal for vulkan

the changing programs on it in every implementation has been shit from my experience

[lost gust]

well i use very often TAB and ALT to switch programs and everytime it flickering

thats horrible

[hard drift]

Yeah that’s normal

[lost gust]

but hey it works to play ffxiv in vulkan

on windows

[modest moss]

yeah it can be a thing

[hard drift]

No, that is a lie

It’s normal for vulkan

[lost gust]

i think i never activate xmp on bios

[hard drift]

Yeah and so are you

[modest moss]

brb I need to find a ball of string

[lost gust]

Josef Stalin T.T joke

[dull garnet]

ty

[jaunty light]

From TRS? More than possible, wouldn't use anything sensitive over analog

Knowing audiophiles though, because the motherboard doesn't have a rare earth crystal demuxifying optical laser beam its not suitable for use, buy this $4000 thing instead

[dull garnet]

audiophiles would buy a usb dac

[hard drift]

Up to you

Go based off of your wants/needs

[jaunty light]

It needs a uh, oscillating rare earth crystal with dual solid state power supply tube amps fed by a $2500 ethernet switch to make sure the packets are cleaned

[dull garnet]

ew streaming

[jaunty light]

Internal streaming only!

https://www.synergisticresearch.com/accessories/ethernet-switch-uef/

[potent arrow]

[dull garnet]

finally

some good headphones

[potent arrow]

I mean these will replace my dt990s

[dull garnet]

did you break them?

[sly elk]

naw, Beyers are "mid fi"

Sennheiser is the true promised brand

[dull garnet]

you're going from bass cannons to slightly coloured balanced sound

[hard drift]

Beyers are nice 😔

[dull garnet]

beyers are nice if you like headaches

[sly elk]

I have never had the privilege to try sennheisers but I expect that means you get bombarded with a giant wall of mids

[hard drift]

Idk i turn down bass

[sly elk]

with no treble or bass to speak of

[potent arrow]

Does being accidentally dropped into a bucket of evapo rust count

[dull garnet]

only shitty headphones need EQing

[sly elk]

which is fine because most audiophiles are just guitar obsessed anyway

[hard drift]

I don’t like bass in general

[sly elk]

I don't like mids in general

[dull garnet]

i listen to happy hardcore on my 6xx and it is acceptable

[jaunty light]

Noodles? Noodling!

[dull garnet]

🅱️ass

[jaunty light]

Ass?

[dull garnet]

n-no

[jaunty light]

[dull garnet]

sounds about right. what they were doing in proximity of that is another discussion

[potent arrow]

Uh

I don't want to elaborate

Shue is listening probably lol and I'll get scolded

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/palpatine-star-wars-emperor-do-it-go-for-it-gif-17446081

[hard drift]

Oh that’s sarah lol

Of course it’s sarah

[potent arrow]

How do you guys always forget who I am ;-;

[dull garnet]

bc like

i don't see dt990 being outside headphones, so was the bucket near your desk

the mind races

[hard drift]

You always change your name to something completely different

[dull garnet]

if they're talking about something they broke it is sarah

[hard drift]

Lmao

That or hurting themselves

[potent arrow]

Listen

I can be smart

[hard drift]

Keyword “can”

[jaunty light]

Accidentally dissolved some stuff in unknown liquid

[dull garnet]

lewd

[jaunty light]

Username: fjsiwifbskajdowna94743🥧 🐈 👑

Who could it be

[potent arrow]

I mean I also had a solo cup of mercury and still have half a liter of hydraulic oil under my chair

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/dwight-schrute-the-office-smh-gif-5093797

[potent arrow]

Also the proper answer to why I had evoporust in my room was because I was trying to open a seized hydraulic rotary bearing thing

It's cold in the garage

So I just did it on my desk

What

[dull garnet]

what

[potent arrow]

...

That's a bearing puller on something

[jaunty light]

She stole a helicopter

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/giles-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-do-you-want-me-to-answer-that-gif-15289905

[jaunty light]

An s27? They fix color banding?

[potent arrow]

Shhhhhh

[jaunty light]

Good color space and contrast is uhh, not really, especially not on high refresh.

[dull garnet]

sup

[hard drift]

Weren’t you just saying you wanted 600-800+?

…

There’s other options

You do you

[dull garnet]

pcpartpicker isn't that comprehensive

[hard drift]

^

[modest moss]

if your work are paying who cares how much it costs

[hard drift]

Always better to look at etailers/retailer sites

[hard drift]

This as well ^

You were talking about 3090s and crap and don’t want to cough up like 100ish????

[sly elk]

ah yea, dell's Dont Give Fuck models 😄

[hard drift]

Id pay 100 dollars for another monitor if i had to

[jaunty light]

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1425544-REG/eizo_cg319x_4k_bk_31_1_dci_4k_wide_screen.html

[hard drift]

Lmfao

[jaunty light]

Dont forget about the https://www.eizoglobal.com/products/coloredge/cg3146/&ved=2ahUKEwj_rrCB9Kz1AhV6FjQIHbrjCWEQFnoECBQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1gd2I-1VWu_uJWPN7LL6T6

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/its-over9000-vegeta-crush-glasses-dragon-ball-meme-gif-17218859

[sly elk]

oh yea

[deep sapphire]

not using a ratcheting wrench

[sly elk]

those funky eizos that have a little sensor on an arm that pops out to calibrate

and the baffle so that everyone can see you're doing important color critical stuff

[deep sapphire]

I’m gonna have more metric sockets that I never use cause all the equipment at work is SAE

I hate SAE too

15/16ths of an inch wtf kinda measurement is that

Standard is imperial

Sorta

Metric is more widely adopted though

All automobiles made in the last 20 years use metric

[sly elk]

this is one reason I can't take the pro display XDR seriously, it doesn't have a glare shield!!!

[deep sapphire]

My truck loves to piss you off by using both

What sadistic bastard thought you should use both

[sly elk]

and every serious business monitor has a glare shield

[jaunty light]

Now get out your 8mm and 1-3/4-5/16th wrench

[deep sapphire]

Lmao

15/16 in particular pisses me off because they have 1 inch too

Like why even bother just use 1 inch

And 15/16 is close to 7/8

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/hahabusiness-habusiness-gif-5120285

[deep sapphire]

So you can’t really glance at it and tell

[sly elk]

lol

[jaunty light]

[deep sapphire]

Well sure but you wouldn’t be using a bolt that large for a tight clearance

[sly elk]

that's when you get star sockets

and round all the bolt heads off

[potent arrow]

Imagine not using a Milwaukee fuel socket wrench

[sly elk]

nah, for me there's only one quality brand

[dull garnet]

pathetic

[sly elk]

PITTSBURGH

made out of the finest chinesium money can buy

I need to find a wall clock or whatever plaque or whatever that looks like a Snap On one, and just put a pittsburgh sticker on it,

and then hang it on the wall i my garage

(for those not in the US, pittsburgh is harbor freight tools' house brand, which is a store that sells really cheap tools)

[modest moss]

I don't need any more tools, there are plenty of you in this channel

[dull garnet]

damn

[hard drift]

[dull garnet]

i want a hot air station

i should just buy one

[modest moss]

invite Bidori over

[hard drift]

😔

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/deez-ha-got-heem-got-em-got-him-gif-4824899

[dull garnet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCX8d8WSOg cute

i mean

[hard drift]

no

the quality control on samsung monitors

[jaunty light]

Cant have bad QC if you have no QC

[hard drift]

[jaunty light]

[sly elk]

[sly elk]

isn't Linus.. married....

[hard drift]

yes lmao

[sly elk]

I'd expect a married guy to spend a lot of time in some woman's bedroom

[hard drift]

but this is how he clickbaits and he normally upgrades staff rigs and such

[dull garnet]

hey all you gotta do is deal with umpteen returns

[jaunty light]

Wrong

[hard drift]

only if they pay for it like asrock did

[sly elk]

separate bedrooms doesn't sound like a good marriage

[hard drift]

still not doing asrock again lol

[hard drift]

he shares the bedroom even stated in the video

[sly elk]

[dull garnet]

amazon

[hard drift]

amazon only does like 30-90 days unless you buy their warranty

[potent arrow]

Seperate bedroom with married couples arnt uncommon lol

Some people just like to keep their private spaces

[hard drift]

man cave 😎

[dull garnet]

right but that would be enough

surely

[hard drift]

you would think that

[modest moss]

Bidori's waifu pillow recently told him that she wants her own room

[jaunty light]

[hard drift]

i don't have a waifu pillow 😔 i do have a body pillow though for how i sleep otherwise i wake up in pain lol

[potent arrow]

I actually get very annoyed if I don't have my own personal space lol

[modest moss]

yes you like to hurt yourself in private

[jaunty light]

That sounds like the commie way!

[potent arrow]

:(

I don't mean too .-.

[modest moss]

wilful negligence

[dull garnet]

i like to snuggle up to my gf but she likes space ;o;

[modest moss]

needylolita

[dull garnet]

that's me

[potent arrow]

I'm being bullied

[potent arrow]

Lol my relationship with my gf is like that but opposite

[modest moss]

tbf I'm bullying everyone equally

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/you-deserve-i-it-worth-win-thanks-welcome-gif-10692456

[hard drift]

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/dies-from-cringe-pink-skull-cgi-render-gif-23154103

[sly elk]

kya doesn't wanna sleep alone

[modest moss]

speedy will spoon with you

[jaunty light]

Thats what waifu bodypillows are for

No catgirls allowed

[dull garnet]

only catgirls allowed

i prefer no lightning

[hard drift]

1500???

what one were you looking at

ah that one is actually pretty decent if you want hdr rather than some of the other stuff you've linked lol

384 zones for hdr

plus it is quantum dot so colors should be good 👌 and gsync ultimate if you care about that

that monitor pretty much ticks every box i imagine for you except of course you'll have to run display port since hdmi 2.0....

[blazing summit]

https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-27gp850-b would this be considered a budget monitor?

since i just viewed that monitors can go into the thousands

[hard drift]

it's a pretty good monitor from what i've heard as for budget it really depends on who you ask, that would be more mid classish

budget typically would be like 200ish range

and hopefully you aren't getting that monitor for hdr

[blazing summit]

nah just 1440p high fps

[hard drift]

okay

[blazing summit]

hdr i dont really care about

[hard drift]

i mean good but also good for that because it can't do true hdr lol

someone was talking about it doing hdr in #general-discussion

[blazing summit]

colour accuracy on the other hand is a different story but hdr isnt something i'm particularly fussed about

other than that i just focus on the hz and resolution

[hard drift]

seems pretty color accurate so should be fine plus reviews have said it's good

i hate monitors with those

i break them off when possible

[blazing summit]

never seen a monitor with wings before

some have those?

[hard drift]

yes

it's not super common but they do it usually for color i believe

[blazing summit]

seems like a cheap extra people get from like amazon and just stick it on

[hard drift]

5 products a year pfft

[blazing summit]

damn thats a big discount

EU boi crying rn since i was looking for an LG oled panel

[hard drift]

oled

[blazing summit]

oled isnt that bad at the moment, apparently burn in is less of an issue

[hard drift]

i'm waiting for mini led

[blazing summit]

from what it used to be

[hard drift]

i mean yeah but still not at a point i would use it yet

going to be like 1-2 years before i look at another monitor anyways

i just barely upgraded from a tn 1080p 60 hz to a 144 4k ips

[blazing summit]

this isnt for a monitor, this is just for watching content

[hard drift]

yeah

[blazing summit]

also out of curiosity do you know computer parts well?

like ram

[hard drift]

In what regard

[blazing summit]

why is dominator so much more expensive compared to vengeance ram for the same speed, or is it purely for the looks of the leds?

corsair ram

[dull garnet]

same speeds?

[hard drift]

only thing i can think of is the fact that the rgb works with icue and maybe different die type

other than that the dominator is usually their higher end ram

[dull garnet]

ye

[hard drift]

but i couldn't find any information on die type so i can't verify that

[wintry jacinth]

It's just more premium looking, I don't think it matters as far as their speeds, those are about the same.
The dominators are just aesthetically better.

[dull garnet]

a scam then

[wintry jacinth]

I could be wrong though so don't quote me.

I say get what's affordable and you need.

[sly elk]

also if you buy vengeance ram, it's more likely you'll get hynix or uh whatever that shit brand was they gave me

Nanya Technology 😄

[hard drift]

yeah there's no difference really aside from the look since i can't find die type 🤷‍♂️

[dull garnet]

don't let the door hit you on your way out

[hard drift]

yeah that's the die but i didn't find anything so can't confirm that dominator doesn't have that although you'd assume it doesn't

[dull garnet]

i had someone asking about a ram upgrade, they'd already bought ram

okay i guess

it was some Taiwanese brand called Gigastone

apparently walmart sells this shit

it is more expensive than reputable brands

[sly elk]

lol, good point

either way, next time I'm just going to buy something like crucial ballistix since I know I'll actually get micron ram if I do that

[wintry jacinth]

I recently upgraded to 32gb of 3200mhz vengeance pros, but they aren't rgb so ;v;

[dull garnet]

i have ballistixxx

gotta go fast

[wintry jacinth]

Ehh, depends on your cpu

2667 isnt that fast for amd

since amd benefits off faster speeds, Intel doesnt much

[blazing summit]

i got corsair at the moment and it says samsung for me

[wintry jacinth]

Ohhh

[blazing summit]

was just curious if it would be worth getting better ram

[wintry jacinth]

I was looking at wrong part

Myb

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-we-one-gif-18212100

[dull garnet]

probably not, 3200 CL16 is decent

[blazing summit]

doesnt clock to 3200 though

[hard drift]

😔 i have 4 sticks and the 4th slot can't even be read lmao

[blazing summit]

highest i could get was 3000

[hard drift]

oh well though, my ram gets the job done

[dull garnet]

you're supposed to set the xmp profile and forget about it

[blazing summit]

since when i set it to that profile it just boot loops

[dull garnet]

oh

that's not good

what chipset?

[blazing summit]

x570

[dull garnet]

lol

[hard drift]

it depends on motherboard

[dull garnet]

what the fuck

[hard drift]

some motherboards have trouble

[dull garnet]

my chad B450 runs 3600 CL16 just fine

[blazing summit]

this one

[hard drift]

lmfao

[blazing summit]

crosshair

[wintry jacinth]

x570 is kind of up there tho, idk why it wouldn't allow it

[hard drift]

it should be able to just fine, i'd bitch at asus

[dull garnet]

updated the bios?

[wintry jacinth]

That thing is suppose to handle upwards of 5k mhz

[blazing summit]

up to date

[modest moss]

is @wintry jacinth the impostor or am I?

[hard drift]

what cpu

[wintry jacinth]

@modest moss we meet again?

[blazing summit]

i just presumed it was the ram kit

[dull garnet]

potentially I guess

[blazing summit]

5600x but upgrading to the improved 5800 or 5900x3d cpu whenever that gets released

[hard drift]

[hard drift]

5900x3d sadly probably isn't coming lol

[blazing summit]

oh sad

well 5800x3d then

[hard drift]

just the 5800x3d

[dull garnet]

i can't see myself upgrading from my 5600X in some time

[hard drift]

yeah, no real reason to unless you need 2 more cores

[blazing summit]

i just do it for the incentive of having something to mess around with

i like messing with and improving parts

[hard drift]

[dull garnet]

makes sense

[wintry jacinth]

I have the r5 3600 atm but I'd like a 5600x in the future

[hard drift]

i just want to upgrade to the new thing so that this build is dead lol

[dull garnet]

i didn't need to upgrade my 2600

but I did

didn't need to upgrade my 1070 Ti either

[blazing summit]

i'm probs going to stay on am4 for a few years until either something breaks or it becomes like how bulldozer is nowadays

which wont be for quite some time

[dull garnet]

zen+ ipc was pretty suck so

5600X felt like a nice jump

[hard drift]

it won't be like bulldozer

bulldozer was DOA

[blazing summit]

exactly

so until it breaks

[hard drift]

am4 is a proven performer atleast lol

[wintry jacinth]

My GPU is the weakest thing in my PC atm I think

[hard drift]

[blazing summit]

i'm unsure what my weakest part is

i think the hard drive?

[wintry jacinth]

I have a 1660 Super, but a r5 3600

[hard drift]

the 1600 series 🤢

[dull garnet]

those seem about on par

[blazing summit]

thats decent wat?

[hard drift]

yeah it's pretty on par with each other

[blazing summit]

1660 super if your just at 1080p seems pretty good

or are you

[wintry jacinth]

Everything 1080p unless I'm on ffxiv, I do 1440p on ff and usually have 50-60fps

[blazing summit]

still pretty good

at least its no slideshow

[wintry jacinth]

I'm maxed out too btw

with shaders

so

[blazing summit]

[hard drift]

that's good atleast

although if you listen to jensen why would you ever buy a gpu without rtx

[wintry jacinth]

I don't need to upgrade my GPU or CPU anytime soon if I'm just playing ffxiv mostly atm

[hard drift]

i hate the nvidia ceo lmao

fucking moron

[potent arrow]

In gonna buy a 3090ti just for ffxiv

[hard drift]

okay icehunter

[potent arrow]

Sorry I'm not rich and flaunt my wealth on a discord server

[blazing summit]

i'm going to buy 2 even though there's hardly any games with SLI capability

[dull garnet]

ff14 is the most intensive thing i play

[wintry jacinth]

I think my setup itself is more expensive or just as expensive as my Pc

[potent arrow]

That would be your mom

[hard drift]

sli is dead

that's fine and all except when you are buying it for little to no gain

[blazing summit]

i think forza horizon 5 is mine, i exceed the vram amount and end up with glitchiness and artifacting on bushes when i max out at 1440p

its why i want a 3080 with the vram

[potent arrow]

You wouldn't need too if you didn't buy unnecessary high end stuff, so no rights to complain

[hard drift]

says the one that was running sli

[wintry jacinth]

Oh yeah and obv I'm on an m.2 ssd, I'd be sad if I had a hard drive

[hard drift]

i finally convinced my brother to get off an hdd and he said it was life changing lmao

[wintry jacinth]

IT IS THO

[hard drift]

he played literally everything off it

[wintry jacinth]

I came from consoles

[sly elk]

mmmm yes a 3090ti

AGREED

-buys 4 of them for quad SLI--

[hard drift]

[sly elk]

[blazing summit]

i recently bought a gen 4 nvme a few days ago, can anyone guess which one of these drives is a gen 4 ssd

[dull garnet]

gen 5 is out pleb

[hard drift]

totally not the new volume

[blazing summit]

[potent arrow]

I need to build another keyboard tho so rip 400$ ig

[hard drift]

get more storage peasant /s

[dull garnet]

you can have mine sarah!

i'll include the crumbs for free

[blazing summit]

if ff isnt on gen4 games ima riot

[sly elk]

so much for flaunting your wealth

[hard drift]

i have two gen 4 and yes it is

[potent arrow]

This one is for my gf not me lol

[sly elk]

do you have your butler assemble the keyboard for you?

[dull garnet]

😔

[potent arrow]

Pretty much

[jaunty light]

WEAK

[blazing summit]

but yea i dont need more storage than this, i'm sorted until they at least start breaking from large read and write amounts

but thats for the future

[wintry jacinth]

When building my PC, I wanted no hdd at all.
I could've got a 2TB on the side for extra, but I hate slowness so much I just got a 500gb ssd as the 2ndary.

[hard drift]

don't make me hook up my at home cloud

[jaunty light]

Its clearly blue.

[sly elk]

this meeting is making me wanna fall asleep at my desk

[hard drift]

[sly elk]

hey having a whole ssd for your porn stash. classy.

[dull garnet]

bc i went of my way to get wd reds i made sure people on the internet know when i share a ss

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/bye-wanker-middle-finger-dirty-finger-fuck-you-gif-15115573

[dull garnet]

talking about wealth
has a puny 1080 ti

[latent grotto]

do i have enough storage yet

[modest moss]

no seriously, your bragging is getting old pretty fast

[hard drift]

more

[sly elk]

who's bragging?

[dull garnet]

why do you guys have NOTHING ON YOUR DRIVES

lmao

[wintry jacinth]

Where's the bragger

[sly elk]

i thougt everyone here had strix cards

[modest moss]

bless

[blazing summit]

oh god, just forgot that i'll need to do some work for my pc for lighting, at the moment its dark asf inside my case because i havent plugged my leds in, since i got a modular psu i need to plug in another sata connector for my node pro

[deep sapphire]

Imagine not buying that 3/8th ratchet deal from Home Depot smh

[hard drift]

hell no, i wouldn't buy asus if my life depended on it

[dull garnet]

strix is overcompensating

chads go FE

[blazing summit]

you dont like asus?

[sly elk]

mmmm lighting

what kinda lighting did you get?

[jaunty light]

Athuth

[hard drift]

nah asrock/asus are on my blacklist :p

[sly elk]

collecting pointless RGB is one of my hobbies

[jaunty light]

He blacklisted 2 good brands

[blazing summit]

is it because of a particular product or did they do something bad that i've not seen

[hard drift]

asrock is shit i fucking swear, their QC is non existent

[sly elk]

become a zotac enthusiast

[hard drift]

i had to RMA their board 3 times

[jaunty light]

He more of a zotac/biostar

[sly elk]

had to dig it up

[wintry jacinth]

Has an asrock motherboard

[sly elk]

when I was looking for a gpu, one of the discords I joined had this strange zotac fetish

that was over a year ago and afaik they STILL have a weird zotac fetish

[hard drift]

not to mention couldn't handle my ram at 3600mhz

despite specs saying it can

[dull garnet]

my $100 MSI B450 board can

https://tenor.com/view/gigachad-chad-gif-20773266

[wintry jacinth]

I have the B450 Steel legend

[sly elk]

so if you buy evga, you're most likely to need their excellent customer service that may be less excellent than rumored, especially if you live outside the US

if you buy asus, you will likely not need to RMA, but if you do, good luck?

if you buy gigabyte well

there's a hierarchy of RMAs

[blazing summit]

[potent arrow]

Gigabyte losing their entire ticketing system was fan fucking tastic ngl

[blazing summit]

just dont

[sly elk]

good > bad > I hope you video taped yourself pulling it out of the computer and sealing the box because they're goonna claim it was damaged

[hard drift]

sadly gigabyte/msi has been my best luck for motherboards

[modest moss]

gigabyte have always been very reliable for me, never needed an RMA and have bought lots of their products

[potent arrow]

Smh smh im broke

[deep sapphire]

Smh my heck

[blazing summit]

i hate the gigabyte bios imo, especially for updating the bios

[jaunty light]

Gigabyte asrock and asus have never let me down for mainboard

[hard drift]

[sly elk]

the most problematic GPUs I've purchased so far were from evga and asus >>

[potent arrow]

Gigabyte has been the best for me

[blazing summit]

wouldnt read my freaking drives when the file was right there

FA

god i hate it

[potent arrow]

The worst manufacturer hands down is msi

[sly elk]

the only gpu I've purchased and had zero issues with was a zotac, oddly enough

[potent arrow]

I don't care if anyone has luck

Msi Canada laptops

Ass

All of them

[hard drift]

msi laptops

[sly elk]

i thought the worst laptop brand was acer

[dull garnet]

i had gigabytes all my life and after this msi i definitely wouldn't buy one again

[blazing summit]

i've only gone with gigabyte and asus

[sly elk]

but maybe not

[blazing summit]

for motherboards

[potent arrow]

Every single fucking one that I've had worked on broke within a year or had esoteric issues

[sly elk]

Acer's whole thing is they'll give you the most specs for the $$

[hard drift]

all laptops are bad

[sly elk]

they'll give you an i9 laptop for what other vendors would sell an i5 laptop for

[potent arrow]

Acer makes good high end laptops and decent business machines

[dreamy chasm]

Gaming laptops are shit in general

Nitro line has shit hinges

[potent arrow]

They are but hp, Acer and Lenovo kinda just rule the space now

[sly elk]

but afaik acer laptop keyboards are about as durable as their packaging

[potent arrow]

MSI is just

Fucked

Absolutely

Fucked

[sly elk]

hmmm

[potent arrow]

Asus is catching up this generation for gaming mobile tho

[sly elk]

if I had to give up my macbook pro for work, I'd want a framework laptop

failing that, I guess I'd want a thinkpad...

if they still make a good model

[wintry jacinth]

On about the PC specs but what about the setup tho???
What's on the desk tho???

[sly elk]

I just never wanna use a dell laptop for work again

[jaunty light]

Mega Shitty.. Institute!

[sly elk]

fwiw, msi makes a lot of alienware things

so keep that in mind if you ever buy from them lol

[blazing summit]

my biggest relief though with my gpu though is that mine didnt come with red clown lips on the side at least, just saw that there's a black and red side model

[sly elk]

they don't do red anymore

[blazing summit]

looks so goofy

[dreamy chasm]

My rig has an msi board

it works, it's ok

[sly elk]

after all the complaining they ditched the red

[dull garnet]

based

[sly elk]

and they also offered to send out black shrouds for free to anyone who asked

[hard drift]

😔 not my fault it's true

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-mouth-firing-my-lazer-cell-dragon-ball-z-dbz-gif-17318792

[sly elk]

i use asus and was kinda hoping to get an evga board next time hahaha

[dull garnet]

(i'm sorry)

[jaunty light]

Just dont open the laptop, ever.

[sly elk]

but evga motherboards are a ripoff

and the reviews don't seem to match the price

[blazing summit]

i was just hoping that it was in black since i saw models online with ones that had black and ones with red

[wintry jacinth]

I'd show my setup but idk if it would count as tech

[sly elk]

please show us

[jaunty light]

Organic workstation

[hard drift]

shows geforce now screen

[sly elk]

i really like my evga card though

[blazing summit]

ima show my unfinished build as well but hate how dark it is

[potent arrow]

Your pc is soooo cute

[wintry jacinth]

Also idk what's wrong with the leds in the lower part of my PC case

[sly elk]

plus evga is usually the 2nd cheapest. ,FE is cheaper. 😄

[hard drift]

have a picture of my old 5700xt build

[jaunty light]

Gfuel gamer

[sly elk]

it is pretty

[potent arrow]

I'll be frank, fuck the bitching Thinkpad reddit users lol

[blazing summit]

all that gfuel for savage prog

[sly elk]

i like the rgb ram ❤️

[wintry jacinth]

Thanks

[hard drift]

dang it fucking windows

[potent arrow]

Alot of the higher end tps are still good

So much better then elitebooks or latitudes

[sly elk]

I dunno, I honestly have not owned a thinkpad in over 20 years

[blazing summit]

its just chonk

[potent arrow]

My t480 has survived me, and you should understand that's an accomplishment

[sly elk]

when I was a kid my dad bought me an oold thinkpad laptop from a coworker's son

[dreamy chasm]

Thanks @potent arrow @sly elk

[sly elk]

it was a black and white screen 486

and fell apart really fast

[dreamy chasm]

itx systems are a pain in the ass to build in

but the size is worth it

[potent arrow]

Look at miinnneee

[sly elk]

niiice

[potent arrow]

I have alllllooooot of experience with sff/itx because I specialize in that form factor

[dreamy chasm]

[potent arrow]

I love it over full or mid

[dull garnet]

all this and a 1660 Super smh

[sly elk]

i kinda want an itx build sometimes

[blazing summit]

at some point i'm hoping to make an ITX build of sorts as well as try and make a watercooling loop for cpu and gpu but i'm terrified of losing components to liquid

[dull garnet]

we posting PCs again?!

[blazing summit]

founders boi

[potent arrow]

Speed what's with the umbilical 🤐

[blazing summit]

which gpu is that?

[dull garnet]

3060 Ti

[potent arrow]

Pull it behind the tray LOL

[dull garnet]

that's the

i can't be bothered to take off the other side panel

GPU installation

[potent arrow]

Death stranding shit

[sly elk]

oh oh

[potent arrow]

ok fair ig xD

[sly elk]

should i share pic too? XD

[blazing summit]

if it works dont change it

umbilical pc

[sly elk]

wow look at that pretty and rare FE card

[dull garnet]

pretty, rare and inexpensive

[sly elk]

yes!

it looks great though ^^

[blazing summit]

[dull garnet]

i paid msrp so

#winning

it genuinely does feel premium, really happy with it

[blazing summit]

i paid close to msrp for mine but couldnt get my hands on a founders

no vhs tape for me

[dreamy chasm]

gpu on life support 💀

[blazing summit]

HOLY STRIMMER

i want to get some strimmer cables now

xD

[dull garnet]

the xmas tree adds 20 fps

[potent arrow]

Ok now can you change the rgb to purple just for me?

[blazing summit]

it makes me nervous to see its on a glass table but i'm sure its strong enough

looks awesome though

[hard drift]

it's probably tempered glass which should be fine