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[sly elk]

so I took them back >>

[deep sapphire]

redwing or thorogood

they'll last forever

[sly elk]

dude for that kinda money they have to feel amazing

[deep sapphire]

right

[sly elk]

and the stupid thing is you can do so well for $50 with jeans

there's no reason to pay that much

true religion is supposed to be made in the US though

they used to have a big office right by where I work lol

[deep sapphire]

https://www.redwingshoes.com/work/mens/Traction-Tred-00405.html?cgid=mens-work

EXPENSIVE

[somber solar]

Comfortable?

[deep sapphire]

they are eventually but they have a fairly long break in period because the leather is so thick

thorogood IMO are more comfortable

but arent as durable

thorogood have literally no break in period

they are super comfortable out of the box

the only problem

they are made in Wisconsin and redwing are made in Minnesota

[sly elk]

are those cowboy work boots?

[deep sapphire]

like im gonna support those cheese fucks

😡

[potent arrow]

If I'm gonna spend 10hrs working hard labor I want to be comfy

[sly elk]

oh wow they have some fancy cowboy ones

[potent arrow]

Oh god my shoes costed more the five pants ;-;

[sly elk]

these look slick as hell

[deep sapphire]

I'd wear those

[sly elk]

i like these

and the cowboy ones, ofc

but these have the oldschool motorcycle boot vibe i dig

[somber solar]

Ive had my 2 pairs of cheap justins for like 4-5 years at this point but id like more comfort. They dont seem to be breaking in lmao

[deep sapphire]

redwing boots are some of the most durable boots in the world, they just require a bit of breaking in so you might have some pain for a couple weeks

[sly elk]

those and a nice blue harley sportster style bike

[deep sapphire]

if you dont wanna spend much on work boots but want comfort I would get timberland pros

they are only like 120 bucks I think

[dreamy chasm]

ive been wearing the same running shoes for 10 years

[deep sapphire]

based

[dull garnet]

timbs

[dreamy chasm]

theyve only just started falling apart recently so i might go out to buy some

theres this store that sells new surplus shit that im probably going to look at

[deep sapphire]

https://www.amazon.com/Timberland-PRO-6-inch-Direct-Attach/dp/B07W4MFW71/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=timberland+pro+boots+for+men&qid=1642970540&sprefix=timberland+pro%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-9

[potent arrow]

The boots I wear were custom too, so the boot alone was expensive...then I had to get them certified....

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

obey hat

[dreamy chasm]

certified boots

[sly elk]

lol

[potent arrow]

Yeah

CSA

[sly elk]

i forgot about OBEY

[somber solar]

Appreciated

[sly elk]

that's like gen x Supreme right there

[potent arrow]

CSA certifications is a must

[dull garnet]

i have an obey coat

[sly elk]

(I still don't understand why people like Supreme)

[potent arrow]

CSA and that grounded certification

[dreamy chasm]

supreme is just social hype

leading to demand

[deep sapphire]

they have cheaper ones too if you dont need safety toe

I dunno if you work in trade or not

[dreamy chasm]

w the company banking on it by forcing exhorbitant pricing

[sly elk]

but it's the laziest brand ever

[dreamy chasm]

it is

but people lap that shit up anyway

[somber solar]

Better to get a safety toe than to not have one

[dreamy chasm]

why do u think ppl buy gold-covered food?

[sly elk]

like almost every brand, even if it's bs, has some kinda cool origin story

[dreamy chasm]

yes

[sly elk]

supreme's is literally 'we did this for lols and we wanna rip you off'

[potent arrow]

I find it hilarious that my work gear is so expensive

[dreamy chasm]

also fuck today's wordle is tough

[potent arrow]

But my shirts are all surplus t shirts

[dreamy chasm]

all my shirts cost me below 5 bucks each

[potent arrow]

Yep

[sly elk]

the tough part as a programmer

[potent arrow]

Well except my flannels

[sly elk]

you can get a $300 keyboard and a nice $4k laptop and all that

[modest moss]

same reason these fucking nerds spend hundreds of dollars on useless RGB

[sly elk]

and then someone comes along and they're like

[potent arrow]

I spend too much on my flannels

[sly elk]

"I JUST USE VIM ON A CHROMEBOOK!"

and they push the idea that anyone who needs more is a fraud

imagine working as a mechanic with snap-on kit, and every now and then someone comes along with a $20 tool kit from walmart and says you don't need all that fancy shit

[potent arrow]

kyanche my gf uses a t420 for work....she's technically full stack..............

[dreamy chasm]

i mean, what people spend on is none of my business unless its actively harming me or other ppl

[potent arrow]

Ngl I laugh most of those guys out of my buds shop

[dreamy chasm]

sis wtf

[potent arrow]

Yeah

[sly elk]

to be fair

[potent arrow]

She doesn't use anything else

[dreamy chasm]

ig its enough for development

[sly elk]

the T420 is considered like the best laptop ever by thinkpad enthusiasts

[dreamy chasm]

well

it has to be

[sly elk]

only inferior to the T61p

[dreamy chasm]

then id try to run ffxiv on it and cry

[potent arrow]

Hers is also fucking NEON PINK

[dreamy chasm]

lmao

cute

[potent arrow]

gaqdy MOTHER FUCKER

[potent arrow]

It's like I can't take her anywhere work conference wise

[sly elk]

it's.. ugly

[potent arrow]

It's like oh where is your gf..."THE ONE WITH THE NEON PINK LAPTOP"

[dreamy chasm]

when are they releasing another laptop with a removable battery that isnt expensive or total shit

[deep sapphire]

nice try /g/

[potent arrow]

I'm in the room with a bunch of well dressed engineers and blacked out laptops with no logos

[dreamy chasm]

LMAO

[potent arrow]

And I take my gf for emotional and technical support

[modest moss]

I love this

[potent arrow]

And she whips out this pink ass laptop with a laptop full of league stickers and the word FAT ASS BUSSY on it

[dreamy chasm]

ihjoliushfiuoasehfuis

FAT ASS

BUSSY

[potent arrow]

And I just die a little bit inside

[dreamy chasm]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

SIS

IM SO SORRY

LOL

[modest moss]

I wish my laptop was pink

[dreamy chasm]

get a laptop vinyl skin or smth

[sly elk]

your gf sounds awesome

also I should try vinyl wrapping my work laptop

[potent arrow]

She is

[modest moss]

nah I'm too miserly

[potent arrow]

She's my life but fuck

[sly elk]

preferably in a way that hides the apple logo

[potent arrow]

She's as insane as I am

[sly elk]

since I work at a shop where everyone except the designers has dells, and that's not by choice

[potent arrow]

Atleast she's safer then and acts as my safety officer

Otherwise I'll be dead by now

[sly elk]

I think this is why they say single guys don't live as long as married ones

[potent arrow]

First thing she put on her laptop when I came out as trans unfortunately

[dreamy chasm]

I love her

lmao

[sly elk]

err

p;lease don't get me wrong

[dreamy chasm]

send me a pic when u can ty

[sly elk]

you came out to your gf

wouldn't she have known?

[potent arrow]

I made it official lol

[sly elk]

oh ok

[potent arrow]

When I chose the name sarah

That's all

[sly elk]

"If you suspected anything, it's all true. I'm now 100% faaabulous"

[potent arrow]

Pretty much

[dreamy chasm]

also, sarah

i made a new aether alt

[potent arrow]

Lmfa you know she's a keeper when she didn't blink

Another?

[dreamy chasm]

i need one for savage static

[potent arrow]

SMALL

[dreamy chasm]

she's in her warcrime outfit

[robust vessel]

Do you always play lala?

[dreamy chasm]

Used to almost always

[robust vessel]

Oh

[dreamy chasm]

im a cat now voi

[robust vessel]

😮

[dreamy chasm]

at least, on my main

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/917196409432850465/934892088313651280/unknown-214.png

[robust vessel]

[somber solar]

Theres no soul in the eyes of a lala

[dreamy chasm]

fear her

[robust vessel]

I wish I could have the eye makeup of an bun girl on my Au Ra.

[potent arrow]

When will we get trans socks in FFXIV....

[dreamy chasm]

There's mods for both of that

probably

[robust vessel]

[potent arrow]

But in vanilla so we can have programmer socks in limsa

[dreamy chasm]

fair enough

[potent arrow]

aight

its terraria time

[deep sapphire]

hi welcome to tech

[robust vessel]

hi ive been here. 😛

[deep sapphire]

pog

[dreamy chasm]

[deep sapphire]

now go workout

[sly elk]

hiiiii

[robust vessel]

Sir its sunday

[deep sapphire]

and?

im gonna go to the gym rn

[robust vessel]

day of rest & video games.

[deep sapphire]

you do 5 days a week?

[robust vessel]

Monday - Friday

[deep sapphire]

ah alright

[robust vessel]

Sometimes skip Wednesday because of date night

[deep sapphire]

date night at the gym

[robust vessel]

lol

I mean we both go together sooo yes

[deep sapphire]

pog

[sly elk]

never seen this before lol

[modest moss]

Wordle 218 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

yeah that was hard, couldn't think of a 3rd word for fucking ages, nearly gave up

[dreamy chasm]

youll love 219

[modest moss]

oh shit yeah you're ahead

fucking time travellers

[dreamy chasm]

LMAO

[deep sapphire]

I wish I had a big block

[kindred brook]

is USB-c

going to tbe the USB final form factor

[hard drift]

lmao probably not

[kindred brook]

but

its so good already

what else can they do

[hard drift]

probably going to get usb type D later

[dreamy chasm]

reversible is the future

all things said

gone are the days that we flip a connector 3 times

now are the days where we cuss at ourselves for somehow not being able to plug in a reversible connector

praise be, usb council

[dreamy chasm]

yo wtf

[hard drift]

don't do it

[dreamy chasm]

ig it could be worse

[kindred brook]

https://tenor.com/view/take-my-money-shut-up-and-take-my-money-throwing-money-throw-money-throwing-money-at-screen-gif-18132022

[sly elk]

of course I wouldn't do it

[hard drift]

never know 😔

[sly elk]

there are at least 20 scalped 3080s on ebay for less than that

[hard drift]

regular though probably

that's the 12gb one with no msrp

[sly elk]

and that's not even considering zotac charges like $50 for shipping

oh that's true

[odd sand]

That's some expensive 2gb of vram

[kindred brook]

3080 12gb has no msrp?

[dreamy chasm]

and an extra few cudas

[kindred brook]

wow lol

[dreamy chasm]

yeah

[hard drift]

yeah it literally has no msrp

same with the 3090 ti and another card i believe

[odd sand]

Normally I would say that's sketchy, but seeing as MSRP has been meaningless for 2 years now, it's w/e

[sly elk]

I don't think it matters

[hard drift]

i mean it gives consumers an idea of what they should buy the card at

[umbral moss]

MSRP is a myth, told to the children on the eve of yule to remind them of brighter times

[hard drift]

with the 3080 12gb having none consumers have no idea what to pay for the card (unless they guesstimate aside from current market)

[sly elk]

i do wonder what would happen if the stores adjusted price/demand dynamically lol

like if they jacked up the prices until they stopped running out of stock

[hard drift]

that's basically what this allows i feel no msrp means stores could essentially up the price

[sly elk]

i wonder what the price would be

[boreal surge]

Look no further than the car market I guess

[sly elk]

car companies do have MSRP, though

[odd sand]

That's basically what ebay is atm. Stock will be "caught up" when the scalping price drops to within spitting distance of MSRP

[boreal surge]

Because isn’t that what they do for more enthusiast vehicle

[odd sand]

The bigger fuck-you is that you know companies aren't going to give up a large amount of the MSRP creep

[sly elk]

even for enthusiast vehicles

[boreal surge]

Yea but at the same time I’ve read dealers essentially ignoring it

[sly elk]

but it's still an msrp

[hard drift]

in good news though, they're all in stock

[odd sand]

How much you want to bet the 4080 instead of MSRP 699 is going to be at least 999 even if they're caught up

[sly elk]

I mean, you can buy a corvette for msrp if you call around enough and are willing to wait a year or more for the order to arrive

[hard drift]

probably more than that if it's a MCM design

[sly elk]

then again corvettes aren't all that desirable

[umbral moss]

like the bronco with the $50k "dealer charge"?

[sly elk]

the demand is greater than the supply

but I think the most demanded car atm is the rav4 hybrid

and somewhat amusingly, you can't factory order a toyota

[hard drift]

expect high end cards aka 80-90 class cards to probably be as expensive as now if not more 😔

[boreal surge]

Well you were asking if stores just dynamically adjusted pricing

[hard drift]

given the 2080ti was like 1200 even in a reasonable market

[sly elk]

fair enough shocker XD

[odd sand]

My car was 36 when I bought it last May and that was probably 2-3k higher than it was a few months earlier. Now it's worth like 42 9 months later

[sly elk]

but to the point they don't run out

car dealers do still run out

i guess some never do though

the volkswagen dealer in the town I grew up in was like that hahaha

we tried to buy a passat there. The dude wouldn't budge on msrp at all.

they ended up losing their vw franchise lol

[odd sand]

Sure they lost it and didn't give it up willingly to avoid having to deal with all the warranty repairs?

[sly elk]

I think they did give it up willingly, there was an article that went on about how they decided to focus on service and selling used VWs because they couldn't make enough $$ selling new ones

to be fair, most of the used dealers in town were taking ex-rental cars purchased at auction, throwing 22s on them, and selling them for $10k more

[umbral moss]

I'm actually a bit surprised that car companies haven't started offering this kind of concierge service

I wonder if the made-to-order infrastructure luxury brands like bentley have already implemented is part of why their sales went up this year

while the mass market companies fell flat

[sly elk]

it's kinda illegal in a lot of states in the US

for the companies to sell cars directly to the customer

[umbral moss]

ford said they were considering a pivot to making cars they already had preorders for

rather than making cars nobody has any interest in

[sly elk]

ah, see tha ti'm not sure about

the only cars I'm familiar with ordering are chrysler/jeep cars 😄

[umbral moss]

ford's also clamped down hard on the dealer gouging

[sly elk]

if you order through a dealer it's a 'sold order' and gets priority over 'dealer order's

[umbral moss]

anyone caught trying to jack the price on a lightning will find that all their allocation is mysteriously lost in transit

not for a month, the entire year

[sly elk]

(the sold orders have "Built especially for X" on the window sticker)

[odd sand]

Really? You can't factory order? So if you want a specific color or features you just have to shop around until you hope to find it?

[sly elk]

not sure how ford does it lol

[umbral moss]

yeah, more or less

dealers can request the thing you want and see if anyone has it on the lot

[sly elk]

with toyota the way it works is they break the country into regions

when you request a specific thing, the dealers can kinda earmark it in incoming inventory

but they can't order it specifically from the factory

[umbral moss]

if you wanted something like a TRD tacoma in concrete grey someone somewhere has your thing and the dealer will try to get it shipped

yeah

[sly elk]

that said, toyotas don't have many options

so it's not like you're going to order a vehicle with one of 25 options and find out the factory doesn't make them that way

it's not unusual for chrysler/gm/ford to have a few dozen options you can pick

sometimes this gets really stupid

the current wrangler is (afaik) being built with at least a half dozen engine variations

2.0T, 2.0T with etorque, 2.0T hybrid, 3.6, 3.6 with etorque, 3.0 diesel, 6.4 v8 ... hmm 7 i guess

[umbral moss]

that's because they only use some of the screws in each variant

👌

[sly elk]

etorque using a belt start generator that can push the vehicle forward from a stop but doesn't actually drive it (kinda like moving your car with the starter motor lol)

[umbral moss]

that seems like a great way to kill your poor battery

driving 3000kg of aluminum and truck nuts with a 12V battery

220 cold cranking amps on a good day, when the battery is new and it's 22C out

[sly elk]

lol

they use a large 48v behind the rear axle for those

I would ponder if the constant start/stop of the engine is better than the wear that getting the vehicle moving produces on the engine

afaik it's fantastic in full hybrids

like I recall hearing before that you could pop open a 10 year old prius taxi engine and it'd still look fairly new because the electric side handles all of the stressful aspects of city driving

https://jalopnik.com/check-out-what-a-toyota-prius-engine-looks-like-after-3-1848018980

that one goes against what i said haha

[umbral moss]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[odd sand]

I assume the holes aren't supposed to be wobbly :)

[umbral moss]

hybrids aren't immune to that, and the electric motor still requires the gas engine to come on to recharge the battery or provide additional torque

[lethal dune]

:O

@tame fulcrum is that your gaming settings?

[umbral moss]

subaru steering wheel

wonder if it comes with the sloppy shifter that sticks from first to second

[odd sand]

That's one way to do it I guess

[umbral moss]

of all the things about my car, the shifter is the thing that annoys me the most

maybe toyota will wow me with a 2.0/6M config for 2022

[odd sand]

purses hanging on the window 🤔

[umbral moss]

I mean, if you think the wife is going to let him do that shit without some kind of payment

[odd sand]

You don't like the shifter knob, or you don't like how the shifting feels?

[umbral moss]

"yes, you can blow $40,000 on a high end car sim, but you have to hang my purses in the room"

[umbral moss]

shifter engagement is shit

tends to pop out of gear if you aren't at the golden rpm for synchroless gear engagement

[boreal surge]

Twist: the person who uses the sim and the purses are one and the same

[umbral moss]

it's a real treat going from third to fourth and the shifter is like "haha SYKE" and just kicks out of gear

[odd sand]

With that sudden BEH WHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRR sound as it flings it at lightspeed and you rev in neutral

[umbral moss]

ye

the cool THUNK of the gear teeth mismatching and grinding as the shifter fucks off is great too

[sly elk]

i was thinking that may be the case too, but when I checked their post history they mention their gf in one post. could still be a woman tho xD

[modest moss]

welp, you guys let me down

those headphones I was debating, offer ended at midnight

reporting you all to your managers

[hard drift]

good thing my only manager is myself since unemployed life 😭

will be able to look for a job after this week though

[modest moss]

Hank is your manager

@deep sapphire these guys didn't help me :(

[deep sapphire]

toxic

[hard drift]

tbf i know jack shit about audio, i went based on reviews/research for my use case

[modest moss]

and now I missed a deal where I'd have maybe saved £20

I think bidori should paypal me $30 as compensation

[hard drift]

plus i'm sensitive to certain frequencies and such so not everything i say applies to others

[hard drift]

😔 i don't even have extra money

having no job sucks but i had to 😔

[modest moss]

Hank can take it out of your wages

[hard drift]

hank doesn't pay me...

so i'm -30 for wages???

[modest moss]

it's based on approval rating

[hard drift]

so i get approved for nothing, got it 😭

sounds like my job hunt before i had to stop

[modest moss]

as judge judy would say, collect cans

[hard drift]

what?

[modest moss]

lol she says that to anyone unemployed

collect cans

[hard drift]

i mean they're worth like 8cents or something

so makes sense

[modest moss]

so if you owe me $30, that's only uh

some cans

[hard drift]

375 cans

[modest moss]

ez

[hard drift]

minus the cost of trash bags because i'm not carrying those in my hands lol

can probably pay someone 20 cents for a bag or something

so only like 380 cans, ez

[modest moss]

I'll give you 72hrs or I tag Hank again

[hard drift]

😔 no can do

next few days i'll be too busy 😭

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/unacceptable-adventure-time-lemongrab-freakout-armflail-gif-5515437

[hard drift]

family comes first 😔

[modest moss]

I thought #technology-discussion was your family

[hard drift]

real life family

[modest moss]

we're real too /sob

[hard drift]

you're all fake until seen in person

[dreamy chasm]

yeah im fake

just

a ghost

[hard drift]

[jaunty light]

AIs installed to make you feel less lonely

[umbral moss]

where's my circ AI

I'm proud of you. heck, I'm proud of us

[deep sapphire]

How many drinks tonight

[hard drift]

that doesn't work 😭

[jaunty light]

0

[deep sapphire]

I’m proud of you

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/d4CCg4dYe0A

@modest moss

[modest moss]

I really must rewatch this soon

[potent arrow]

@Hardware_Hank#6731

@deep sapphire

[deep sapphire]

What an idiot

[dreamy chasm]

zen 3 really is obsolete now huh

just checked pricing and there are already reasonable b660 boards for cheap lmao

12400f + b660 for the price of a 5600x

[deep sapphire]

And we won’t get a new zen 4 for awhile

Intel chads we won

[dreamy chasm]

truly

[deep sapphire]

Good thing bidori went to bed

[dreamy chasm]

vrm cooling on these dont look like hot garbage either

[deep sapphire]

[dreamy chasm]

@hard drift zen 3 obsolete

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

[dreamy chasm]

[hard drift]

lol

it was bound to happen

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/that-is-you-point-only-you-jstlbby-justlivinbby-gif-14408495

[dreamy chasm]

Anyways

I hope AMD's zen 4 is good

Competition is nice

[potent arrow]

I'm normally amsafe around table saws

[dreamy chasm]

better performance is always great

[potent arrow]

Those I respect

Almost lost my face to a bandsaw tho

[modest moss]

'normally'

[dreamy chasm]

much better than the situation preceeding coffeelake

[dreamy chasm]

[deep sapphire]

[dreamy chasm]

anyways

6500xt launch truly is copium from amd

the saddest part is that it actually makes sense in the current market

[hard drift]

😔 yeah but still a shit product

[deep sapphire]

[dreamy chasm]

truly

[hard drift]

well anyways, back to art 😭

[dreamy chasm]

[deep sapphire]

Wait

Before you hon

Go

Wow

[hard drift]

what

[deep sapphire]

Okay

Before you go

Nsjhakjdjhwiifbwkakcucukkqjcufuekqkcignkqocivuvkwknviwkqkkrnvjbuqowkfivuvnskkwkxkcivkgkekqkzkxufucuywkntnvusikqnrj sorry my cat was walking on my keyboard

[hard drift]

smh

i paused my stress relief for that

[deep sapphire]

I’m heading to bed

Gn

[hard drift]

sleep well 😔

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/metal-gear-solid4-mgs4-solid-snake-old-snake-becoming-old-gif-24179307

You too

[hard drift]

i won't 😔

[deep sapphire]

Why not

[hard drift]

stressful day tomorrow

like really stressful

[deep sapphire]

Why

[hard drift]

dad's going in for surgery

[deep sapphire]

Sorry to hear that, he’ll be fine

[hard drift]

one can only hope

[deep sapphire]

I’ve gotten surgery before it was fine

[hard drift]

hope for the best expect the worst 😔 the mentality i live by

i have too

and it was awful

[deep sapphire]

Oh mine wasn’t

Just get more pain killers

[modest moss]

he's young, he'll probably be fine

[deep sapphire]

^

[hard drift]

yeah but we'll see

[deep sapphire]

What’s the surgery for

[modest moss]

mind if I ask what it's for?

[hard drift]

back surgery

his spine is fucked up from his work over the years

[deep sapphire]

What’s he do for work

[modest moss]

yeah he'll be fine mate, they're pretty good at that now

[hard drift]

government job

[deep sapphire]

So he sits poorly in his chair?

[hard drift]

but he isn't exactly the most safety focused dude, he's all about getting the job done

[deep sapphire]

Smh take lessons

BIDORI

[modest moss]

obviously no surgery is zero risk, but don't worry too much

[hard drift]

lmfao nah, he lifted barriers and shit by himself all the time and such

[deep sapphire]

The guys at work are like “only pussies wear gloves” and they constantly talk about people they know dying

Like yeah cause they handled shit that was bad for them

[hard drift]

lmfao that's my dad pretty much

[deep sapphire]

My grandpa died of lung failure in his mid 70s from breathing in concrete dust his whole life

Getting old and dying is one thing, dying in pain is another

[modest moss]

Hank do you wear gloves while chugging brake cleaner?

[hard drift]

[deep sapphire]

Yes

Tasty stuff

[modest moss]

good boy

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/xEvJmI7uJ-g when you drink WD 40 instead of brake cleaner

[sly elk]

https://hardforum.com/threads/cooling-solutions-of-the-past-gallery.2016000/

[sly elk]

oh good i dropped that link here

i highly recommend checking it out, there's some amazing shit in there

like this one 😄

using a condenser to cool your cpu 😄

i'm surprised that hasn't caught on again with gpus

ahh I wonder if this means we're in the pentium 4 era with GPUs right now haha

400w gpu sheesh

maybe in 5 years we'll look back at the 30 series and laugh about how much power these things sucked

[manic turret]

Weird :<

Cant purchase the game just yet

It was 5:00PM JPST no?

[potent arrow]

God I hate my alarm

[hard drift]

25th not 24th

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/gpu-prices-are-finally-begining-to-decline soon ™️

[plush wharf]

Hi there, I am trying to renew my sub as I am want to start playing ff14 again and it's not working! I tried to press on renew subscription and it's not working! Can anyone please help me ?

[dreamy chasm]

Ive not dealt with this yet but

[dreamy chasm]

Maybe you just need to attach a payment method beforehand?

[plush wharf]

I found it thank you

It was another button

Credit card/crysta payment

[dreamy chasm]

[modest moss]

Cyan for mentor

[potent arrow]

[dreamy chasm]

nah

also

Does anyone here have experience with migrating boot drives

[potent arrow]

ITS FUCKING NEGATIVE -30

[dreamy chasm]

The SSD just arrived lol

aiosdjfoias

[potent arrow]

KILL ME

[dreamy chasm]

oof

is that

F

or

C

[potent arrow]

C

FUCK

[dreamy chasm]

[potent arrow]

Have fun.

[dreamy chasm]

this is going to be hell isnt it

[potent arrow]

:)

[modest moss]

I've only done it once, I want to say I used Acronis

[potent arrow]

I got u the drive...now figure it out

[dreamy chasm]

wawa

[modest moss]

looks like that's no longer free though

[potent arrow]

[modest moss]

I vote clean install

[potent arrow]

^

[dreamy chasm]

there's macrium reflect

im data rn

i cant afford to reinstall everything

[modest moss]

oof

[potent arrow]

I used macroum before

[dreamy chasm]

how was it

[potent arrow]

It's good

But I do clean installs these days so idk anymore

[modest moss]

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clone-your-pcs-hard-drive-macrium-reflect

that guide makes it sound basically the same as acronis

it won't do anything to your current c: so you might as well try

[dreamy chasm]

hm

true

there's also apparently samsung's drive migration software

i guess ill try that first?

idk

[modest moss]

sounds like macrium is quite highly regarded, apparently something called clonezilla is good too, and free

I'd probably try macrium first

[dull garnet]

That Samsung software worked well for me

[potent arrow]

I'm so fucking tired today

It's a coffeee

And

Freeze my ass off day

[dull garnet]

Nice ||blog||

[potent arrow]

Stfu speed

[modest moss]

get a bagel, I had a ham and brie bagel for lunch and it was tasty af

[potent arrow]

Come to Canada I'll beat yo ass

[dull garnet]

omw

[potent arrow]

Hank and shue can ref

[potent arrow]

I do have a bagel and cheese in my bag

[modest moss]

speedy, if Sarah is as good at hurting other people as she is herself, you're fucked

[potent arrow]

I mean...I'm a 1 striped black belt......

I'm smol tho

[modest moss]

black belt in what, health and safety?

[potent arrow]

Definitely not that

[dreamy chasm]

do i bother repasting

this seems fine

idle temps are high bc i have a silent fan curve on rn

And ambient here is toasty

[potent arrow]

I just have a rule if I'm disassembling my pc for something I just repaste

[dreamy chasm]

fair

I have an extra tube anyway

[potent arrow]

Cuz sff disassembly is pain

[dreamy chasm]

Yeahh

I might have to measure and buy a new reverse riser

bc it causes restarts sometimes

[dull garnet]

I would put money on a repaste doing precisely nothing

[potent arrow]

Same but I'm a fan of doing slowing down the inevitable

And having the peace of mind I'm probably fine for another year

[modest moss]

the only time I have ever repasted a cpu is when replacing a dead mobo or installing a new cooler

[deep sapphire]

Weeb

[dreamy chasm]

shut up weeb

[deep sapphire]

[modest moss]

#weebnology

[hard drift]

Pixiv premium user :p

[deep sapphire]

LIES

[hard drift]

Don’t make me pull up the logs

Even if I’m on mobile I’ll do it

[deep sapphire]

No parse no arse

[modest moss]

did Bidori just record his first ever #technology-discussion victory?

[hard drift]

Nah these are victories

[deep sapphire]

LIES

[dreamy chasm]

[hard drift]

It’s right there

[deep sapphire]

No bulli zone!

[lost python]

[hard drift]

Imagine thinking we can’t bully you here, we bully mods all the time so tech mentor gets bullied too

[modest moss]

pretty sure Rob just condoned it

[hard drift]

True

[modest moss]

this is a mod supported campaign of tough love

[dull garnet]

It's the only way you learn

[potent arrow]

SO COLD

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/its-cold-dogs-pets-hypothermia-freezing-gif-10582145

[dull garnet]

4c isn't so bad

[modest moss]

nah she said earlier it's -30c or something

poor baby

[dull garnet]

Oh Canada

https://tenor.com/view/canadian-riot-push-trash-can-run-run-away-gif-17671810

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/canadian-baywatch-run-snow-swimsuit-gif-15295729

[potent arrow]

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/dont-be-a-wuss-wuss-sissy-signs-dont-gif-5958555

[jaunty light]

Wow he's a real degen!

[deep sapphire]

[deep sapphire]

No u!

[modest moss]

wife beater Hank selfie

https://tenor.com/view/aroused-ryan-tits-gentle-gif-15662742

[jaunty light]

i dont got no pixiv premium account, nerd

[hard drift]

Hank got owned

[modest moss]

Bidori getting cocky, I predict Hank won't stand for this

[deep sapphire]

You still look at it

[deep sapphire]

I’m gonna give him a knuckle sandwich

[jaunty light]

Sometimes i think about doing prem cuz ahem its unusable without it

[modest moss]

I don't even know what pixiv is

some weeb shit?

[deep sapphire]

Yeah

[umbral moss]

https://i.imgur.com/nW2TPZl.png

[rustic jackal]

Hello all.. I need to know if I am going about this the wrong way and/or if there's something I can do better...

I'm trying to get my UI elements to be more clear on the text while scaled smaller. My problem right now is that my character job level gets hard to read with some numbers among other things.. So I want to fix that, but not make the UI itself bigger if possible.. Is this not what the UI Res scale is for or am I mistaken?

[hard drift]

@deep sapphire

That’s you

[potent arrow]

Bidori trying to run away from hank

[sly elk]

Jahy!

[dreamy chasm]

It's in

[hard drift]

So you’re telling me i succeed

[dreamy chasm]

Thank fuck I didn't need to unscrew my mb

fingers crossed.

[potent arrow]

1tb nvme gang

[dreamy chasm]

gonna put all my porn on the shit drive from now on

fuck yeah

[hard drift]

Lmao

[jaunty light]

@dreamy chasm

[potent arrow]

[dreamy chasm]

LMAO

[dull garnet]

based

[modest moss]

480p porn?

do you squint when you wank?

[hard drift]

480p is watchable

[jaunty light]

Not all of us own several petabytes of storage shue

[potent arrow]

It's jav, it's already pixelated

[modest moss]

I don't keep porn

if I wanted to orgasm to the same thing more than once I have a wife

[potent arrow]

[modest moss]

dw Bidori, you'll pop that cherry one day

[jaunty light]

There's so much!

[hard drift]

No I won’t

[modest moss]

you asexual bro?

[jaunty light]

VR kills storage, plus they love their 4 hour runtimes..

[modest moss]

fair enough

[hard drift]

Nah just don’t trust people

[modest moss]

I ain't judging

you could make it purely transactional, ex

ez*

[hard drift]

Lol what

[potent arrow]

This chat sometimes I stg

[hard drift]

Same

[potent arrow]

Brb gonna get high on compressed air

[jaunty light]

Huff huff

[hard drift]

Wtf

[dull garnet]

imagine wasting money on compressed air when you could just have a dusty pc

[sly walrus]

the heat just means it's working

[sly elk]

lol

you can't inhale that stuff

they poison it

[jaunty light]

You totally can!

[dreamy chasm]

YOOOOOOOOOOO

the clone worked

@potent arrow

booting took so much less time holy shit

[potent arrow]

Loooool

Yw

[dreamy chasm]

[potent arrow]

Warning once you go nvme you don't go back

[dreamy chasm]

the one thing im afraid of

[potent arrow]

$$$$$

I feel like someone is gonna ask why u shipped a drive to Philippines, not the weirdest place I've shipped it

[dreamy chasm]

LMAO

what other weird places have you shipped shit to

[potent arrow]

UAE was fucked ngl

Uhhhhhh

Oh

Ecuador

That was fucked

[dreamy chasm]

Oh?

[potent arrow]

El Salvador too

[dreamy chasm]

How bad

[potent arrow]

El Salvador the courier got robbed allegedly

UAE customs took it for being "drugs" even tho it was a gen 1 r5 iirc

Ecuador Newegg told me the region I wanted to ship too was too dangerous

[dreamy chasm]

jesus christ

[hard drift]

[modest moss]

@potent arrow test UK customs by sending me a 3090

not a ti, I don't wanna seem greedy

[hard drift]

It’s just a 3090

[modest moss]

reasonable, right?

[hard drift]

Totally

[dull garnet]

one time I bought a C2D E4400 from Bahrain

guy shipped it 8pm that day, it was on my kitchen table at lunchtime the next

[hard drift]

Heck yeah

[dreamy chasm]

I wonder what i'd need to have a dedicated file storage server

buying a liquidation c2d machine off of refurbishers and using that is probably fine, right?

[modest moss]

you have that much hentai?

[dreamy chasm]

Nah

Figured having a place to store movies would be nice is all

sweet

alright, time to wipe the old disk

[potent arrow]

Throw it in the riveeeer

[dreamy chasm]

but it costs money sarah

[potent arrow]

Drown it

[earnest sedge]

I scanned my pc today and it found a trojan

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/andy-samberg-condoms-lets-get-it-on-sexy-time-prepared-gif-5532797

[earnest sedge]

Sooo which anti virus program is the best to download

Asking because 90% of them are just malware probably

[potent arrow]

I use Malwarebytes free

And scan once every month manually lol

[dreamy chasm]

malwarebytes and bitdefender are ones I know that work

you can keep the free versions of both apps' installers on your system and uninstall after you do deep scans

[dull garnet]

Hank's favourite

[dreamy chasm]

lmao

[dull garnet]

@deep sapphire

yoo this game has eurobeat

[dreamy chasm]

people actually still buy these, tf

[hard drift]

Wtf

[dreamy chasm]

last purchase was in december

well

its 15 bucks

[hard drift]

That’s just awful

Oh

I mean it’s probably way end of life and just getting rid of stock

[dreamy chasm]

i can see people buying these if theyre scrounging around parts for a system

yeah

id be fine w something like this if i was building a system for grandma to use facebook on or smth

[hard drift]

If i had an fm2+ I’d buy it for home theatre i guess

[dreamy chasm]

that too

[sly elk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/sby5qy/please_brown_and_beige_noctua_fans_are_not/?
-dons flame proof suit-

[dreamy chasm]

some masterful copium on display

i can get a used fm2 motherboard for 20

[hard drift]

Fm2 or 2+

[dreamy chasm]

fm2+

ah, nvm

its 40

[hard drift]

Lol

Rip, doubled in price

[dreamy chasm]

was one of those multi item listings lol

yeahh

[hard drift]

Ah

[deep sapphire]

[dull garnet]

pcmr post
tl;dr

[dreamy chasm]

im going to check facebook marketplace for computers

just out of sheer curiosity

[hard drift]

I need to make another facebook 🤢

[dull garnet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O08sdTHNz04 lets gooooo

[hard drift]

I need a place to sell my old tech

[dreamy chasm]

people unfortunately still use it here

lmao

[dull garnet]

i always used ebay

[hard drift]

If they didn’t ban me without a reason i would

[dull garnet]

skill issue

[dreamy chasm]

isnt this the shit that blows up

[hard drift]

Support is jack shit

[hard drift]

Pretty sure it was fixed

[dull garnet]

the funny thing about support these days

is that twitter is easily the best way to get it

[dreamy chasm]

yeah but, how do u know if ur getting a non shit part no

[hard drift]

Support “exists” but it’s fucking bots

[dreamy chasm]

this takes me back

[hard drift]

Damn

[dull garnet]

💩

[hard drift]

My moms old pc had something like that in it

[dull garnet]

can't you get a 2500K for like $30

never obsolete

[dreamy chasm]

yeah

motherboards are 60+ though

oh nvm

some going for 30

neat

ig ill go this route if i ever build an htpc/fileserver

[dull garnet]

H61 should be dirt cheap but you won't get ocing

though even stock it is strong

for $30 anyway

[dreamy chasm]

yeah

not like id be using it for anything other than light processing anyway

[dull garnet]

just watch out when buying, some will support USB 3 and some won't

[dreamy chasm]

i forgot this sku existed

ah, yeah

[dull garnet]

I think some might only be sata-ii also

😬

[dreamy chasm]

yeahh.

hm

i wonder how much haswell shit is

[dull garnet]

can't remember which mine is

[dreamy chasm]

i think you can get 1231 v3s for like

60 bucks

this one's 45

basically just an i7 with lower boost

and no igp?

i think

and a gt 210 is 10 bucks

"1050 ti"

[hard drift]

Man i really want to sell my current gpu lol

[dull garnet]

yeah fuck AMD

[hard drift]

Or even my old ones

[kindred brook]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-prices-plummet-along-with-crypto

OMG

ITS HAPPENING

[dull garnet]

that's down about 10%

[dreamy chasm]

dont get ur hopes up

[hard drift]

Yeah but not enough and prices will still be up even for normal prices

[dull garnet]

still 2x retail

[potent arrow]

HAHAAH

[hard drift]

All that dust

[dreamy chasm]

oh no

half a minute boot times

[dreamy chasm]

oh

cute case

[potent arrow]

She clean now

[dreamy chasm]

i should get a can of air or two for cleaning

[dreamy chasm]

beats using a handheld vacuum

theyre 3 bucks a can around here

i think?

[potent arrow]

Probably

I just get mine with every purchase of a PC case

[dreamy chasm]

how much do those go for in the us

ah

[potent arrow]

So I have a whole box

[dreamy chasm]

[potent arrow]

Why do NONE OF MY FANS WORK

https://c.tenor.com/4iqJFHzJIDsAAAAM/cat-scream.gif

[dreamy chasm]

check the cables?

[dull garnet]

Better to get an electric duster than keep buying canned air

[potent arrow]

They are free.

[potent arrow]

Old fans

[dull garnet]

Free (paid)

[dreamy chasm]

Ah

[odd sand]

Similar idea, I bought like a quadro 285 for $8 for my xeon

Man, VMs and containerization is magic turtles all the way down.

[dreamy chasm]

Yeah

[odd sand]

Want to poke around in Splunk and learn shit? 10 secs to download the image, run it. Go to localhost:

[dreamy chasm]

I've not used vms yet, mostly due to the lack of need for them

Nor do I have much experience in anything remotely close to IT or development

[odd sand]

It's getting to be all automated scripts all the way down.

[dreamy chasm]

Are they making programs that write scripts now

I heard something about that at some point

[odd sand]

You can write a script to automate generating VMs and deploying them locally or in the cloud, along with a kickstart file that preinstalls say, docker and ansible on them. Then run an ansible playbook that installs all the necessary software on that VM, generates all the user accounts, firewall rules, etc. etc.

That's basically what Terraform is.

[manic turret]

Meep :3

[dreamy chasm]

I see

[manic turret]

I get to buy FF tonight wooooo :3!

❤️

[odd sand]

You tell it what the current state is and what the new state is you want it to be, and it generates a plan with all the steps necessary to reach the new state. And then you hit Apply if it looks good or make tweaks as necessary beforehand.

[dreamy chasm]

Nice

And, interesting

[odd sand]

Welcome, new Hikari no Senshi! ;X

[dreamy chasm]

We do less and less shit to do more stuff as time passes, huh

[odd sand]

Yep. It takes a decent amount of work up front to get the stuff setup. But then since it's all building-blocks on top of each other, as long as you follow the same formats it saves insane amounts of time.

[dreamy chasm]

[odd sand]

You can have a list of 3000 endpoints that need some specific software patch on them. Feed that list into an ansible playbook and it will execute on all 3000 of them to deploy the patch for you. Turning what could have been many hours or weeks into 20mins.

[dreamy chasm]

[odd sand]

Just don't let your boss know and you get a week vacation /s

[dreamy chasm]

[odd sand]

Always sucks to hear the stories of ppl that figure out how to automate stuff and then goof off (when their job duties were just maintenance not devops related) then the boss finds out and gets mad and makes them find new work to do

Nevermind someone less smart/motivated could have kept doing it the old way for months or years and the boss would have been none the wiser and happy about it.

[dreamy chasm]

I hate corporate

I kinda really want a movie server now

But I don't think I even watch that much stuff

LMAO

[odd sand]

PLEX is pretty easy to setup

[dreamy chasm]

true

its mostly just

the cost behind it is all

im not exactly in a great spot financially rn

[modest moss]

you don't really need dedicated hardware for plex anyway

[dreamy chasm]

Aye

I'd have to find a bargain on an old system that can take at least sata 3

I think

[hard drift]

If you were here I’d sell you my old one for cheap

[dreamy chasm]

i appreciate it

[modest moss]

I run plex on my 2500k box, it's barely noticeable that it's on

[hard drift]

It’s just in its case under my bed

[dreamy chasm]

if im buying online

going with an 860k or smth might work out, honestly

maybe the 2500k if i can find a cheap sata 3 mb

[modest moss]

should be easy, mine wasn't expensive at the time and has sata3 and usb3

[dreamy chasm]

[modest moss]

only 2 of each, but eh that's fine

[dreamy chasm]

yeah

[hard drift]

Rip

[modest moss]

you'd be fine with sata 2 on a mechanical hdd for media anyway

you're not watching above 1080p I'd imagine, so it'd be fine

[dreamy chasm]

oh

2100 for 10 bucks

vs 40 on the 2500k

[modest moss]

bet that'd be fine for plex and i3 content, as long as it wasn't transcoding multiple things simultaneously

uh 1080p content*

[dreamy chasm]

yeah

It'll be a single stream running at most

Probably

man, these are all sata 2

[hard drift]

Check b chipset maybe?

Or does it not exist for that one

[modest moss]

my 2500k is on a z68 board

[dreamy chasm]

hm

let me check listings

[modest moss]

gigabyte Z68AP-D3

[dreamy chasm]

lmao

80 bucks for this

[hard drift]

So ugly lol but it works

[modest moss]

if it's just you, why not run plex off your current box?

[dreamy chasm]

ig, but its a deprecated platform at this point

oh

true

I'll see what I can do regarding that at some point

[modest moss]

it's easy, and you have some storage

just don't hoard

[hard drift]

Telling tech nerds not to hoard

[dreamy chasm]

very cool

a88 superior high end extreme gaming fm2+ motherboard

[hard drift]

[dreamy chasm]

fm2+ mb available for 25 bucks

sata 3

neat

[hard drift]

Sounds like a steal

[dreamy chasm]

yeah

there's an am3 one for the same cost

[modest moss]

sounds like an obsolete waste of money

[dreamy chasm]

valid

ill see what i can get over fb marketplace

im just shopping out of nostalgia at this point

[modest moss]

buy nothing

just install plex

[dreamy chasm]

true

[modest moss]

buy storage if you buy anything

[dreamy chasm]

mhm

yeah, with a 3700x i should have room to spare

even if i did run this alongside other stuff