technology-discussion

[rapid hollow]

Because it’s always the audio processing stuff and the microphone itself

They’re always different

[sly elk]

hmmm

maybe it's because I was watching youtube videos, but when I was shopping for a mic there wasn't really a huge variation

[rapid hollow]

If there wasn’t people wouldn’t buy a yeti over a snowball

[sly elk]

there are some mics though

[rapid hollow]

Or that quadcast over a bm800 USB

[sly elk]

that seem to make people's voices sound deeper

-has to look up what a bm800 usb even is-

[rapid hollow]

Lowest denominator for a dedicated microphone

[sly elk]

oh, like how the yeti and quadcast have a mic array where you can switch between sensors?

while the bm800 and snowball are just a single thing?

actually not sure if the snowball is a single element or not

[rapid hollow]

It’s like comparing very similarly priced headphones or IEM’s

[sly elk]

tbh for a long time, when people were like "I should get a better mic!" they'd just hop over to best buy and buy a blue yeti lol

[rapid hollow]

They’ll always have accentuations one the deep or high end

[sly elk]

like going back 10 years

[deep yarrow]

so there isn't a good usb microphone?

[rapid hollow]

And it always depends on how your voice sounds in it

[rapid hollow]

There is

Just that there’s no difference between them is not true

[sly elk]

yea this isn't reddit lol

i over-exaggerated by a lot but what I meant was "most usb mics are probably fine"

[rapid hollow]

Anything blue or AT is good

[sly elk]

but it does really depend on what you want

[deep yarrow]

maybe i'm just modifying my sound with applications all wrong

[rapid hollow]

For a usb plug and play mic

[sly elk]

if you have a big deep voice and want people to ASMR your voice

and you care a lot about how it sounds

[deep yarrow]

nah i just want to be clear and coherent cx

[sly elk]

like you want your listener to don some $300 sennheisers and be like

[deep yarrow]

so i can talk to folks while streaming

[sly elk]

wow I can hear the saliva in this dude's mouth

[rapid hollow]

If you want anything a blue snowball is very clear and has somewhat a neutral response on its range

[deep yarrow]

is it usb?

[rapid hollow]

Yes

[sly elk]

but if you just wanna sound better than a $40 gaming headset mic

or worse, a laptop/webcam mic

[rapid hollow]

I think it has some high end accentuation

But it’s pretty flat

[sly elk]

almost anything will sound better?

maybe i've gotten a bit cynical about this but the vast majority of people I voice chat with use their laptop mic X_X

[deep yarrow]

hmmm

my desk is pretty smol

i wonder if i can fit in

because my desk is lower than me i feel like with that kind of microphone i have to put it in front and hunch down

[sly elk]

perhaps you should consider a lapel mic?

like the kind that clips onto your shirt?

I mean you can also use a microphone arm

if you have the room for it

those are the preferred way to have a mic, not sitting on your desk

[rapid hollow]

The one that comes by default is good enough for a budget start

[sly elk]

if you're using a condenser (I think the yeti does by default, and the snowball is only condenser, yea?) then it'll pick up your voice without much discrimination, you don't have to have the mic in your face

the downside to that, is if someone else is near you talking, well that will probably be picked up too 😄

[strong ember]

For some reason when I launch borderless mode game goes to 1600x1000 despite my native resolution being 1920x1080, any idea why and how to fix it?
@ me when answering please!

[potent arrow]

God awful

[sly elk]

dare I say it

I know a person or two who sound great over their laptop mic

but there are certain people I've been tempted to buy a mic out of my own $$ because I'm sick of hearing them through their laptop/headphones

my boss sits next to a very loud coworker so I always overhear him in every voice call

I've been tempted to get my boss a dynamic mic which might help ahhaha

and bully the company into buying some omnidirectional condensers for the conference rooms

cuz what they do right now is use a conference phone to call into the meeting

one of these damn things

[potent arrow]

No

I hate thise

Fuck those

I spend too much of my day trying to get DHCP to play with those

[deep sapphire]

Borderless window uses your native resolution, the options in game are confusing but that’s only for windowed mode only

[still cypress]

Geez

Just switched to PC gaming on Siege 3.0.. PC fan is so loud compared to XSX

[boreal surge]

You could also bully your company into getting meeting cubicles

*single person meeting cubicles

[zealous wolf]

that thing looks really stupid for some reason...tbh i feel like something is wrong with it..

[still cypress]

Don't know how you PC gamers do it. Fan on XSX is inaudible

[zealous wolf]

[hard drift]

Change your fan profile or get better fans?

Also wearing headphones helps to minimize the little noise that is there

[zealous wolf]

esp noise cancelling ones too...

[sly elk]

I don't like them either

[still cypress]

It's not horrible, but I can hear it. XSX has spoiled me

[hard drift]

Lol how close are you to the X?

The X makes some decent noise

[still cypress]

Series X?

[hard drift]

Yeah

[still cypress]

I sleep like 3 feet from mine. I left it on the entire night and didn't hear a sound

[hard drift]

…

[still cypress]

Maybe you got a bad one

[hard drift]

How far are you from the pc?

[still cypress]

Like 5 feet

[hard drift]

Nah I notice noise easily

[still cypress]

My XSX literally doesn't make a sound except for start up

[hard drift]

And what are your fans running at?

[modest moss]

I mean you've gone from a console to a high end gaming pc

[hard drift]

Not to mention the X has one fan vs your pc

[still cypress]

True

[modest moss]

CPU Cooler:

120mm AIO Cooler
Fans:

3x 120mm RGB LED Fans, 1x Rear Fan

plus the cooling on the GPU

[hard drift]

Yeah that’ll do it lol

[sly elk]

mmmm noise management

are you using a DIY or a prebuilt?

[still cypress]

Prebuilt

[modest moss]

https://skytechgaming.com/product/siege-3-0-intel-core-i7-10700k-nvidia-geforce-rtx-10gb-1tb-nvme-ssd-16gb-ram/

[hard drift]

Also depending on the case, if it’s open it’s louder

[still cypress]

Yup that's mine, the one Shue linked

[paper tusk]

that case looks awful for intake air

[hard drift]

Oh no…

[modest moss]

it's that, or a variant of that

[sly elk]

which processor and gpu?

sorry for asking so much but

[hard drift]

No front intake 😭

[sly elk]

aren't the 3 fans installed on the front?

[still cypress]

Yea

[sly elk]

it'll just be sucking in the air from the sides

[still cypress]

It's 3080 gpu

[sly elk]

also looks like there's vents on top

[zealous wolf]

tbh, i would prob take everything out of that case and throw it into 1 with airflow on the front...

[paper tusk]

^

[still cypress]

Ryzen 7

[sly elk]

oh I'm dumb and I'd do the opposite

[zealous wolf]

and this is coming from me who owns a front intake based case...

[sly elk]

i'd put the 3 fans on top if there were room

[zealous wolf]

[hard drift]

Does the front panel come off?

[zealous wolf]

mine..?

[hard drift]

No, theirs

[still cypress]

Nope

[hard drift]

Rip

[zealous wolf]

oof...

[sly elk]

https://www.thermaltakeusa.com/s300-tg-mid-tower.html?___store=us

[modest moss]

I'd just accept there's going to be a little noise and have fun gaming on the pc and turn it off when you sleep because it's using excessive electricity

[sly elk]

it can do 3x120mm on top and there's open mesh there

[zealous wolf]

also that PSU is looking a little sussy to me...

[paper tusk]

I have a "silent" case (just sound deadning material on non window side) and I'm temped to take a multitool to the front ventlation to get idle temp down (52c gpu watching twitch, 63c in xiv)

[sly elk]

like if there were enough room

i'd replace the 120mm with a 360mm and just exhaust there and not bother with intake at all. but... again, I'm dumb 😄

oh wait

what's this?

[hard drift]

52 isn’t awful considering a lot of gpus have a zero rpm mode for lower temps

[still cypress]

Yea prob best advice

[sly elk]

that's interesting

it looks like that space on the right side panel is meant for radiators

-shrug-

[paper tusk]

or an alternate intake (2 fan. exhaust on top)

[sly elk]

all this said

[paper tusk]

no clue I dont have experience with in/out on right side of case

[sly elk]

you can probably alleviate the noise issues in your computer if it bothers you, definitely without changing the case

but I agree that you probably shouldn't worry about it unless it really bothers you

[still cypress]

It's not horrible, I just had the expectations that it would be as quiet as the XsX

[sly elk]

chasing quietness is like when audiophiles chase sound quality

oh lol

[hard drift]

Lmao nah, it’s more powerful than your X

By a decent margin

[sly elk]

MS has a team of engineers and they designed the hardware from top to bottom

they chose the processor, gpu, fans, power control, fan control, and had thermal engineers involved with designing the case

[hard drift]

Not to mention there’s more power to cool in your pc than the X

[sly elk]

all in one company

[zealous wolf]

https://www.thermaltake.com/core-g21-tempered-glass-edition.html this is the case that i use, its strange how amazon doesnt offer it anymore...

[sly elk]

your PC was built by a company that slapped a bunch of random parts together from different companies that were each designed to work with their own parameters

[zealous wolf]

[sly elk]

that is the tradeoff we make

[still cypress]

Prebuilt issues*

[sly elk]

oh no

people screw this up real good in DIY builds all the time 😄

[hard drift]

I mean partially yes but in general pcs make more noise especially more powerful ones

[sly elk]

my favorite are when people buy low-noise everything and fry their components

but it's quiet

[zealous wolf]

only noise that comes from this pc is when the 1070 is triggered it has to run FF14 or pso2 ngs etc...

[hard drift]

[sly elk]

and most fan control stuff (motherboard, gpu, cpu coolers, etc) will default towards too loud but keep your cpu/gpu cool

[hard drift]

Got to love gaming lol

[sly elk]

like by default corsair's icue will run your fans at like 70% at 35c or something

[still cypress]

Speaking of ff14, that's one thing I'm glad I can finally do again. Play that game lol

Had it when I games on PS4 and joined the server, but have been missing it when I switched from PS4 to xbox

[strong ember]

Turns out all I had to do was switch to windowed more, then set windowed more resolution to 1920x1080 and once I went borderless it became 1920x1080. While not exactly what you meant, your comment was helpful, thanks haha

[potent arrow]

Who needs fans

[jaunty light]

Me

[potent arrow]

Literally who needs em

[jaunty light]

Fans to blow me all night long

[potent arrow]

Mine don't even spin properly

[jaunty light]

You got weird fans

[potent arrow]

Pc is fine at 100C

[jaunty light]

In alaska just throw pc out window

[potent arrow]

I'm in Canada

Same thing

[jaunty light]

Silly canadian

[paper tusk]

I want another fan but i dont have enough space (unless i get an aoi cooler that i can't afford)

thought of going 140mm (x2) in front but the specs weren't as good as 120's unless i pissed away money

[sly elk]

lol

i pissed away money because i like 140mm fans

[rapid hollow]

140m based

[rapid hollow]

Rak has amd Radeon drivers installed on their body @modest moss

[modest moss]

I'm just trying hard to say nothing

[odd sand]

https://www.theverge.com/22960060/kia-ev6-review-electric-specs-price

[sly elk]

there's no volume knob for the radio?

at least it has hvac dials tho

[rapid hollow]

Radeon is spewing out a yellow ! over a game
"cpu meets minimum requirement"
r5 2600
the recommended cpu ?
1600x

[deep sapphire]

"Accelerations off the line at a standstill are fine with a 0–60 of 7.2 seconds. Once you get going, though, it’s blast-off every time you hit that pedal."

[odd sand]

https://tenor.com/view/jimmy-neutron-gotta-blast-gif-23029741

[deep sapphire]

I wouldnt consider that fast, its fast enough for daily driving though

good looking vehicle though I'll give it props for that

[odd sand]

Well the 7.2 was the 225hp I think

Which I think is fine given the vehicle size

There is a little cargo area in the "engine cover" under the hood. No idea what it's for

Looks big enough for maybe a set of gloves and jumper cables or tire patch kit?

[deep sapphire]

where's the big block

[odd sand]

Battery pack is on the frame /s

[deep sapphire]

I saw this old guy driving a square body C/10 thing looked like swiss cheese lol

just large rust holes all over the panels

[odd sand]

Dropping weight for that 0-60

[modest moss]

$47k is a lot for the cheapest RWD though

[deep sapphire]

I guess for all the tech and comfort options its an acceptable price

I agree its a bit expensive but its comparable to other vehicles in that segment

[modest moss]

I guess they're aiming at bmw or audi types with it

[deep sapphire]

as of now your only really affordable EV options are the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Bolt

one is a Nissan and the other explodes

[odd sand]

It's in the same grouping as the stinger gt and genesis

[deep sapphire]

I'd still rather take the car that explodes

[modest moss]

Renault Zoe isn't super expensive

[deep sapphire]

we dont get Renault here

they left the US in the 80s I think

[rapid hollow]

free compensation if it explodes

[modest moss]

looks like it's still £30k ish, so idk $40k?

[rapid hollow]

buy a car and get one free

[deep sapphire]

thats not too bad

did GM ever resolve that or is it still in recall limbo

[modest moss]

it's tiny though

[deep sapphire]

trusting LG for anything

smh when will people learn

wait I have an LG monitor

SHIT

[rapid hollow]

lg phone haver

[modest moss]

hey my LG tv is pretty decent

[rapid hollow]

my ultra wide is lg

[deep sapphire]

my mom bought an LG 4K TV and it has some of the worst dimming zones I've ever seen

its like

14 vertical bars

thats it

[rapid hollow]

well

she probably bought the cheapest one

[deep sapphire]

so when you're watching a movie that is in letterbox (like fuckin every movie almost) you see bright ass spots on the top and bottom

[sly elk]

mmm mcdonalds cookies are so good

[deep sapphire]

they are pretty melty

[sly elk]

my tv is so basic llmao

[rapid hollow]

the LG tvs i had that were 4k and all, and the ones i have seen on clients homes like the LG G1

they have been pretty great

[sly elk]

my living room tv is a 40" panasonic dumb tv

[rapid hollow]

but for like cheap smart tvs i just get a samme sung or throw a xbox one on it

[deep sapphire]

LG and to a lesser extent Samsung have some serious quality control disparity issues

they make some excellent stuff

and then they make some absolute dog shit

[sly elk]

i got my brother this insignia 32" dumb tv because uh he... breaks tvs sometimes

[rapid hollow]

its

[sly elk]

it's AWESOME

[rapid hollow]

funny considering they make their own panels

[sly elk]

but the craziest thing is it only has a power button

[rapid hollow]

like my brother in christ you are fucking up your own products

[sly elk]

no joystick

[deep sapphire]

and its frustrating because when you look at a brand you just wanna think that "oh hey I had an LG TV before and it was great this one should be great too"

[sly elk]

there's a very minimal menu that shows up if you tap the power button while the tv is on lmao

[rapid hollow]

my Samsung 7 series doesn't have a joystick either

its just a button

but my 6 series has the nipple

yes im calling it the nipple

[sly elk]

i think it's hilarious

but seriously the tv is perfectly fine for $100

really if I were gonna buy an 85" 4k thingy

i want a dumb af tv

[deep sapphire]

get a prison TV

RCA

[rapid hollow]

they're trying to build a prison

[sly elk]

it seems 65" is as big as you can go for a dumb tv

[rapid hollow]

(for you and me)

[sly elk]

nah to me it's a speed thing

[deep sapphire]

but does your TV have a chevy big block

[rapid hollow]

idk does yours

[deep sapphire]

I dont even own a TV

[rapid hollow]

your monitor is a lobotomized tv

[sly elk]

ye

i thought about getting one of those 48" OLED thingies

but i don't wanna wait for my monitor to boot

[deep sapphire]

https://www.prestigemoto.com/images/internal-page-headers/chevy-big-block.jpg

nice TV

[deep sapphire]

[sly elk]

chuggga chugga

fuck

[sly elk]

it'd be nice to take my jeep to find out why the engine has a noticeable vibration at idle

[deep sapphire]

using a V6 for a table

[sly elk]

it's done it since the day i got it and I don't think it shou;d

[deep sapphire]

about all its good for tbh

[sly elk]

but I have a feeling if i took iot to the dealer they'd be like

"I don't see anything wrong"

cuz they always do that

[deep sapphire]

put an OBD2 scanner in it

take that shit to autozone, can do it right in the parking lot

[sly elk]

i have a pretty good bluetooth one

[rapid hollow]

imagine not having a v18

[sly elk]

think it would have a code even if it has no cel?

[deep sapphire]

its probably some sensor, and not always

[sly elk]

I think it's probably a defective accessory or something

could be

[deep sapphire]

sometimes you have to look at values

[sly elk]

but if it was a defective sensor I feel like it would be more obvious and throw a code?

[deep sapphire]

I'd look at crankshaft position sensor or MAF

sounds like its throwing timing off at idle causing it to surge briefly

in theory you are correct it should throw a code

but they dont always

sometimes you just have to go into the actual sensor readouts

and look at its values

if it operates off the 14v main line and then randomly dips and goes back up for example

[sly elk]

going off battery voltage on anything newer won't necessarily tell the story unfortunately

[deep sapphire]

well sure but you can look at readouts of the actual sensor off a scan tool is all im saying

[sly elk]

smart battery charging thingies yay

-nod-

i get what you're saying

[deep sapphire]

crankshaft sensor is pretty common for causing idle issues, if it goes away when you accelerate in particular

[sly elk]

i do assume it's a defective sensor of some sort

[deep sapphire]

if its been like that since the factory it might not be inserted correctly or something

or they didnt test it

though frankly it shouldnt even be your responsibility to deal with it, its under warranty so if the dealer is too stupid to diagnose it I'd just go to another one

every dealer is obligated to service a vehicle under manufacture warranty regardless of where you bought it

(obviously only applies to the actual brand)

[rapid hollow]

@deep sapphire https://twitter.com/punished_cait/status/1501715127145742337?s=21

cait (@punished_cait)

peace and love on the planet earth https://t.co/FZDBfKbyR7

Likes

34023

Retweets

3522

Twitter · Mar 10, 2022, 12:22 AM

[deep sapphire]

LMAO I've seen this before

hilarious

[deep sapphire]

https://i.imgur.com/EvvyHWe.png the new 2022 model refresh configurator is finally live

for an affordable price of 62,000 dollars

[sly elk]

smh I've seen cars with longer trunks than that bed

[deep sapphire]

yeah modern trucks have pathetic beds

[sly elk]

gonna buy it?

[deep sapphire]

you can get a 6.5 ft bed

but at that point you're basically driving a train

have fun parking that fucker

[sly elk]

lol

yea idk

[deep sapphire]

I'll see if toyota decides to gouge me with a mark up on the tundra first

im not a huge fan of the current engine offerings from GM

the 6.2 V8 is kinda underwhelming and it requires premium fuel

[sly elk]

I don't think you should pay a dime over MSRP on a tundra

it's not because I don't think it's any good or not worth the $$

[deep sapphire]

even the MSRP is kinda a joke, I thought 60 grand at the most for the TRD Pro but Toyota thinks its worth 68 MSRP

like wtf lmao

it doesnt even beat the power boost and that costs less

[sly elk]

I don't think the tundra is normally in high demand

sure it's a trd pro but it's not like, a hybrid rav4 in california with these gas prices lmao

[deep sapphire]

thats what I thought too so I figured they would price it more reasonable

[sly elk]

in fact, gas prices

did you try reaching out to a whole bunch of dealers and checking true car and maybe seeing if there were any dealers on some kinda toyota truck forum that give better deals?

[deep sapphire]

so I might just keep my shitbox around longer until all this shit stabilizes a bit and hopefully prices come down

[sly elk]

not trying to patronize but just making sure

[deep sapphire]

I had to put a 500 dollar deposit down so sadly im kinda fucked

[rapid hollow]

hey hank

[sly elk]

cuz if I went to the local jeep dealer and just asked for a jeep i'd get my ass ripped a new one xD

[rapid hollow]

i have a riddle for you

[deep sapphire]

I suck at riddles

[sly elk]

when i bought mine i got it at 5% under invoice and the local dealer wanted msrp

[rapid hollow]

how fast do you think my internet is to fill a 2tb hard drive with 3.6 tb of data of a single fucking game thats meant to be 20gb in under 10 minutes

[sly elk]

lol

[deep sapphire]

if anything I might just settle for the Limited trim if I can get it around 50 grand but we'll see

[deep sapphire]

MW?

[rapid hollow]

nope

Valorant

[sly elk]

48gbps?

but that's not considering overhead, and at that speed it will be harsh unless you have jumbo frames and even then

so like 60gbps at least lol

[eager sandal]

should i lower my 720p res a bit more

[sly elk]

but a 10gbps ethernet line is $$$$$$$

so what the hell are you doing

[eager sandal]

20-30fps ffxiv is death

[rapid hollow]

Kyanche

How do I fill a 2tb hard drive with 3.6tb of data

[sly elk]

you find out it's actually a 4tb drive

and you were high when you built your rig

[rapid hollow]

Funny enough i did find this hard drive outside doing nothing

Just thrown

[deep sapphire]

are you still using that ||turd||

[rapid hollow]

And it works since like 3 years ago

[eager sandal]

yes

i am

and the ram i ordered was faulty

so im still stuck with 4 gigs

3.2 usable

[deep sapphire]

disgusting

[eager sandal]

:(

[dreamy chasm]

I wish I had a dimm that I could send to you

[potent arrow]

[old jetty]

Btw how is windows 11? I know on release it had some problems

[potent arrow]

ew

[paper tusk]

its better now bugs wise but user experience wise it's still awful since no option to disable the shitty "features"

have to use ui mods to revert to win 7 style start menu

at least the fucking taskbar clock bug was fixed

i think

    Users running Windows 10 who try to upgrade directly to build 22563 or higher in the Dev Channel may encounter an install failure with error code 0x8007007f. To bypass, please join the Beta Channel, install the offered Windows 11 build there, and then switch to the Dev Channel to receive the current Dev Channel update. This issue is understood and will be fixed in an upcoming build.

why

[dull garnet]

I went back to 10

I think I'll stay with it as long as I can

I think the ltsc ver is supported until 2031

[potent arrow]

Same lol

Unless there is a massive security vurn, I ain't switchin

[kindred brook]

Saraaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

I tried to get a RTX 3080 FE yesterday

but they didn't have any

https://tenor.com/view/baby-crying-baby-crying-gif-5943733

[potent arrow]

AARGDHDHABXBXN

Send help it took an hour to get out of bed

[mortal condor]

Zero and I mean zero reason to switch to 11

[potent arrow]

There is actually one good reason

That is, if you hate having a decent user experience

[mortal condor]

Jan 2029

[dusty needle]

Hello all. Brand new player and seriously struggling to download the blooming game!!!!! ‘Unable to download patch files’.

Internet suggests using VPN. That’s £10 per month for Nord VPN. Before I commit - can anyone confirm if this is the site proof way to fix it?

Or does using a wired connection work? I’m on Mac book pro and can’t even connect Ethernet to it without buying a USB-C adaptor. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[modest moss]

try this

oh wait mac

idk if it'll work

[dusty needle]

Yes MAC

[modest moss]

the usual answer is https://github.com/goatcorp/FFXIVQuickLauncher/releases

[dusty needle]

I don’t think that works on MAC

I’m trying now and downloading setup.exe doesn’t work

Cos it’s a Microsoft application 😭

[modest moss]

you don't necessarily need to pay for a VPN though, I've seen people use free ones

@deep sapphire your apple bro needs help

[dusty needle]

Please any help 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[modest moss]

Hank is a good dude, he'll help if he can when he's around

you shouldn't be having issues from a UK ISP though really

which ISP are you with?

[dusty needle]

Someone said maybe it’s my internet connection speed?

It was ranging from 5-20MB/s

[dusty needle]

Sorry what’s ISP?

Oh I’m with Three

It’s usually quite good

For my area

Do you think an enternet cable will help…?

It’s £15 on Amazon for an adaptor that’s my only reservation

[modest moss]

three is mobile internet though

[dusty needle]

Nah I’ve got the Wi-Fi 5G option

[modest moss]

yeah, it's not a wired connection to your home

[dusty needle]

I can use a wired connection but I need to buy the Ethernet adaptor - do you think I should?

[modest moss]

so I can't see an ethernet cable from laptop to router making much difference

[dusty needle]

Oh I see

😦

I feel like I might never be able to play this game lol

Do you think NORD VPN will work?

[modest moss]

it might, but try a free vpn, or a trial

nord has a trial

[dusty needle]

I’m might be going crazy but I definitely can’t see the trial 😦

Searching everywhere and all ‘trials’ lead to this

I’m prepared to try £9 but just hoping it actually works to download the game 😦

[modest moss]

oh they're scummy and make you subscribe and cancel to get it 'free'

https://www.techradar.com/uk/vpn/best-free-vpn

that recommends Proton

worth a try

[dusty needle]

Right thanks I’ve download Proton and will try again.

What a faff?

Appreciate your help thus far.

[modest moss]

probably three tbh

good luck with it

[dusty needle]

Thank you Shue.

Does it overly matter if my VPN is Netherlands but I’m UK?

[modest moss]

shouldn't think so

[dusty needle]

Fucking hell - unable to download patch files with VPN 🤦🏻‍♀️

Give up

[royal forge]

Im no expert on apple products

But i assume you've already made an exception for the firewall?

[dusty needle]

Apple doesn’t have a firewall

So you can’t disable it

I’m close to giving up and just thinking I’ll never play this game 😂

[potent arrow]

Bootcamp.

[dusty needle]

What’s boot camp?

[latent grotto]

Windows partition

Basically

[modest moss]

pretty sure this is incorrect

[kindred brook]

Shue's shoe changed again

[modest moss]

you're just going from phone to desktop and using a different client and os that shows emojis differently Raz

[modest moss]

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/seca0e83763f/web

[dusty needle]

Just checked - all off

[latent grotto]

Ngl I'd expect Apple to have like 3 redundant firewalls which you dont have access to

[kindred brook]

oh

thats probably it

[modest moss]

you'll need to check settings on your three router

[modest moss]

I've never seen this tbh

[kindred brook]

THATS WHY

I WAS FREAKIN OUT

and I swear

you were gaslighting me

but the emoji thing

makes more sense

[dusty needle]

Do you think if I buy an Ethernet it will solve it?

[latent grotto]

inb4 you are being gaslighted

[modest moss]

no

[dusty needle]

Ok

[modest moss]

your three connection is wifi, a wire from that router to your laptop is unlikely to make a difference

[dusty needle]

Ok

In which case maybe I need to accept this game won’t download for me

Do lots of people have difficulties with this?

Or is it just me

[latent grotto]

Mostly with macs

[dusty needle]

Ah fair!

[latent grotto]

And the other times are just firewall settings

[modest moss]

Raz this is what I see on my phone

[dusty needle]

Yeah of course

[modest moss]

go in your three router settings, there are probably firewall settings in there

[dusty needle]

Ok

I’ll have a look

[modest moss]

try setting it to DMZ temporarily or something

@kindred brook #technology-discussion message see here, different shoes, different device/os

[kindred brook]

man

[latent grotto]

I guess shue just looks different depending on your perspective

[modest moss]

I dunno

[potent arrow]

Basically running windows on a Mac machine, I had to use it because emulation is a pain in the fucking balls

[dusty needle]

Goodness yeah that sounds quite intense

[rapid hollow]

https://twitter.com/gamersnexus/status/1501817156849356800?s=21

https://twitter.com/shyphlosion/status/1501857181922115584?s=21

https://twitter.com/gamersnexus/status/1502100159345344516?s=21

[odd sand]

Wtf is this "neural engine" crap Apple keeps touting that are separate "cores" from the CPU?

[rapid hollow]

Embed not working unbased

[rapid hollow]

It’s a NPU

[potent arrow]

But yeah, if you really want to play FFXIV bootcamp will be pretty easy to set up and should let you play

Unless you have a newer m1 device

Which I do not think has bootcamp

[rapid hollow]

It has wine compatible stuff

[odd sand]

So that one event caused the entire company to implode instantly? I thought the youtube thumbnails were exaggerating talking about RIP Artesian

[rapid hollow]

Domino effect

[odd sand]

Never heard of an NPU before. Sounds like marketing snakeoil

[potent arrow]

I am not going to teach or recommend someone to do wine lol

[potent arrow]

Nah they were spiralling before, it's just accelerating it

[rapid hollow]

Them clowning on a streamer for their follow size ended up attracting bad PR and the government of Califórnia to suspend their licenses because they weren’t paying taxes

[potent arrow]

They had like fraud charges and unpaid business's liscences and all sorts of legal troubles before

[rapid hollow]

It’s for Mac it’s easy

[rapid hollow]

Same way tensor cores are snake oil

[odd sand]

I was just looking up wiki stuff. So it's just another name for DLP like tensor cores, gotcha.

[potent arrow]

For you maybe, I don't think this user would be willing or have the technical know how. I know the casual user wouldn't

It's just easier to watch youtube guide on bootcamp and just do the windows install

Just trying to make the solution easy as possible

[rapid hollow]

Parallels 17 is easy to set up

[potent arrow]

Alright w/e that was me just trying to make it easy for people

[rapid hollow]

Or crossover

Crossover uses Rosetta natively to do it with programs so

But it’s paid

[rapid hollow]

I don’t even know how to do sudo stuff without copy and pasting it’s easy to follow a tutorial, especially for stuff easily digested as parallel and crossover are

[rapid hollow]

Well I did call it a NPU, it’s not really snake oil because it works on predictive machine based algorithm stuff

[odd sand]

Why does a general consumer device need deep learning though?

That seems like added cost for few benefits to the end consumer

[hard drift]

it's to help with DLSS

[rapid hollow]

Well, nvidia throws deep learning cores too

[potent arrow]

Probably for more efficient use of resources and better battery usage

[rapid hollow]

^

Deep learning ia always useful when it comes to calculating the most efficient way to use your resources

[odd sand]

It just seems weird to list GPU cores and the neural engine cores when there is no field of comparison outside of their own products

[potent arrow]

Like I fucking hate apple, but I do believe it is the correct way to go in smart resource management. From what I read, the ANE actually has a huge performance increase

[odd sand]

Bc "16 neural engine cores" doesn't mean anything in of itself

[rapid hollow]

You do realize that apple’s neural engine has been here since like the iPhone X/XS and they always compare to itself

[odd sand]

Ditto with the GPU cores when apple isn't known for good graphics, so pushing cores and not mentioning frequencies for the chips or the memory speed/bandwidth seems odd

But I suppose when you use combined memory for everything, you actually need DLP for the thing to not run like shit

[potent arrow]

If you were to have my educated opinion on this, it's more so that eventually when apple goes to a unified system, the ANE will let the processor handle the actual hardware better. So like if the M1 is in an ipad it adapts to the iPad for max perf and if it's in a laptop it adapts for Mac perf on that hardware.

[rapid hollow]

Oh no they act like a unified unit

[potent arrow]

It's all about efficiency with the given hardware

[rapid hollow]

They’re not like “Sli’ed” or whatever

[potent arrow]

Which is great for designing future hardware imo

[rapid hollow]

Also NPU can be used for stuff like Offline OCR and dictation (Siri or text messaging)

[odd sand]

Normally system memory would be slower than GDDR, so you would see a lot lower GPU performance

[rapid hollow]

It also does some tasks related to the camera

Like color balance

Also helps with photo editing so it ain’t that bad

[potent arrow]

That's what I would take away from them using it from a system resource management perspective

[odd sand]

The one interesting thing I could see coming out of this is pushing Intel to finally abandon x86, or at least do a massive overhaul of their future motherboard chipsets

[rapid hollow]

Also tbf the ram on the m1 is the closest to the cpu/gpu it can be due to being a SoC

[potent arrow]

I mean, I really do see a future in arm processors. biased because this is the field I'm studying in

[odd sand]

Since much like a console with bespoke design performs better with less resources in graphics than a general computer, Apple doing a bespoke design should outperform a general CPU as well

[rapid hollow]

It does use LPDDR4

[potent arrow]

Arm is super resource efficient and it's basically infinitely scalable

[odd sand]

Is that why you have to spec the ram you want at ordering and can't add any later?

[potent arrow]

Nobody has used it because it's super undeveloped and the world is based around x86

Can't

Good luck

I'm serious

Government bodies will block it, arm is neutral tech

[odd sand]

Maybe if they spun off Radeon

[potent arrow]

Nvdia tried and failed

[rapid hollow]

One thing that doesn’t help arm is optimization but in its core it’s efficient and faster than most x86 counterparts

[odd sand]

I think Nvidia failed more-so because they own 90% of the GPU market

[potent arrow]

Anyone owning arm is a net negative, they would own the rights to EVERYTHING

[still cypress]

That seems like a reason for them to succeed

[odd sand]

I agree from a consumer standpoint, but from current anti-trust sentiments from governments, I think it would have a good chance of passing

Since AMD is only like 20% of the CPU market or less, and like 10-15% of GPUs

[potent arrow]

I really don't see any governing tech bodies to allow it to pass

Like I really don't

[rapid hollow]

Thats giving amd the power to block Intel and nvidia from using anything arm related if they feel like it

[potent arrow]

And if they do they will have to keep it neutral

[odd sand]

They allowed Disney to buy Fox, for example

[rapid hollow]

No tech company should own arm

Arm isn’t really just a company it’s legitimately one of the essential pillars to even getting what we get today

It needs to be neutral

[potent arrow]

I do see Intel and AMD doing an intermediary thing between x86 and Arm by putting them in as co-processord tho

AMD more so FPGA because they own Xillinx

[odd sand]

How would an x86/arm hybrid even work?

[rapid hollow]

Built in arm and x86 cores with integration with firmware and software

[potent arrow]

Just using arm as a floating point operator or something

Just offload things from the main processor, implementing it in ways to alleviate basic operations to improve efficiency

[odd sand]

Does ARM have licensing fees?

[rapid hollow]

It wouldn’t work if the program didn’t know where it should go but leaving secondary tasks for the ARM processor would be a benefit since you’d get more efficiency out of it instead of dumping it all on the x86

[potent arrow]

Yes

[odd sand]

Bc I can't see Intel being willing to pay licensing fees for their main offerings

[rapid hollow]

They already do

[potent arrow]

If it gives them an upper edge they would, I would think

[rapid hollow]

They had to pay 1 billion towards nvidia on licensing fees circa 2011

[potent arrow]

Like if AMD does it, they wouldn't have much a choice either

[rapid hollow]

Licensing fees don’t matter much if your product ends up being the best

And actually innovates

[potent arrow]

Theyll be stubborn but they'll do it

Intel do seem to be allergic to innovation tho

[odd sand]

We'll see now that they restructured mgmt a bit and the engineering ppl are leading

[potent arrow]

Yep

Only reason we got the newest arch.

[rapid hollow]

At least they’re trying to do something with efficiency and perfomance

[potent arrow]

Like shinon said, only because engineers are leading not the bean counters

[odd sand]

I think regardless of engineers being at the head or not, they would have gone to chiplets simply bc they have to

They were blocked at 14nm for how many years bc of that? 5? 6?

[potent arrow]

Yeah but they kept going at it

I would personally hedge that they would still be at the 14nm stall game if it weren't for the new lead

[rapid hollow]

Tbf being stuck at 14 wasn’t really like a problem that they couldn’t solve

[potent arrow]

Yeah they could solve it in a million fucking years

[rapid hollow]

They just stalled at 14 because they were perfomance lead since god knows when

[odd sand]

It kinda is: You're always going to get some defects on a wafer and the larger your chip is, the more defects there will be in each one

[rapid hollow]

And could juice out every perfomance metrics they could get

[odd sand]

They were stuck at 14nm bc they couldn't get the yields necessary at 10nm with non-chiplet designs

[rapid hollow]

Most tech companies were out already cranking out 14nm or lower processing units while Intel just decided to squeeze all they could from 14

[potent arrow]

What

No Intel literally had yield issues

Like you don't get it, Intel's 10nm is denser

Then any other tech companies 10nm

Intel literally could not get good yields because of their density

[odd sand]

I think you have it backwards: They were squeezing 14nm because they weren't getting 10nm yields. Low yields of 10nm is something they admitted to themselves several years ago

[rapid hollow]

Nope

[hard drift]

yes

[potent arrow]

What

Yes

[hard drift]

you have to be trolling

[potent arrow]

This is official

[odd sand]

Yeah I'm done

[potent arrow]

:) I had them blocked for the past week lmfao

[potent arrow]

But going back to this shinon, they stated multiple times that chiplet design was silly. I think the bean counters thought they could stall it out with 14nm till they figured out 10nm

One of those corporate executive stupid shit

Also Shinon, not the best source

But you can do some reading into it

When I mentioned before on x86/arm hybrid possibility

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/intel-amd-arm-google-and-others-set-up-universal-chiplet-interconnect-express-consortium/

[modest moss]

you blocked someone? did I miss drama?

[potent arrow]

Chiplet design would allow for this and they've been working on "infinity fabric" kinda tech

So I wouldn't be suprised if we did see a hybrid eventually

[hard drift]

tom cruise just being wrong and trying to say they aren't

[potent arrow]

Nah just another user floating through tech that's obnoxious

the usual ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/sigh-sad-cat-gif-5687809

[hard drift]

who says sarah hasn't

[potent arrow]

As annoying as you can be, I havnt yet. You do have some good educated opinions

[modest moss]

Ice does at least provide some comedy value

[odd sand]

Even if they think chiplet is "silly" it stands to reason you can't continue increasing the size of the die indefinitely given the nature of wafer production

Also it just makes business sense to not waste a lot of wafers on defects

[potent arrow]

Oh 100% they knew this too, I was just thinking internally that they were thinking 10nm would be possible

It must've been in reasonable rate of waste that they still believed so

Well untill the waste got bad enough that they had to change lead

[odd sand]

I think they knew they would have to change, but thought they could still make 10nm work, but guessed wrong lol

[potent arrow]

Lmfao yeah, that's what I'm trying to say. Apologies, I'm shit at getting my point across

[odd sand]

Then it would take years to make a chiplet design, so they had to keep polishing the turd. Which mostly worked out for them since AMD was still a no-show until the very tail end of 14nm

[potent arrow]

But yeah they'll hit a limit on chiplet design too

Because of how x86 is, eventually they can't make the interconnect between them faster enough

That's where arm comes in, their scaling is insane due to their instruction sets and what not

[odd sand]

And to their credit: The 10th gen only being like 3-5% behind in single core IPC despite being like 14nm++++++ or w/e is pretty impressive

[potent arrow]

Hell we are seeing that scaling power in M1 Ultra(?). Apple basically put two m1 cores together and because their interconnect is so fast, it acts like one core

But double everything

[odd sand]

Double the power, Quadruple the price /s

[potent arrow]

It's so cool to see, even though I hate apple lmfao

Oh probably more then that 🤣

[odd sand]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/327655457432928257/951704882249875466/unknown.png

[potent arrow]

I would love to graduate and work for apple and be on the front of this

This is the cutting edge tech that I live for

[odd sand]

Yeah, as much as I don't care for Apple anymore bc they're still anti-consumer in a lot of ways, I do appreciate them putting Intel and Nvidia on their heels

[potent arrow]

Yep, cannot deny innovation when I see it

[odd sand]

The one thing is including the 10Gb ethernet

After I'm settled in the apartment, I want to overhaul my network stack and get 10gbe for my desktop, or at least 2.5gbe

[potent arrow]

I want too do that, atleast from my main pc to my NAS

[odd sand]

Although maybe I can just wait for the new Intel stuff in the fall and just find a motherboard that comes with 2.5 onboard

[potent arrow]

But I'm not sure where to start on it yet

Because my dad and mom might want 10gb access too

...and my nuc at the tv that acts as a plexbox

So I have to plan that out

Like cat6 is 40m? Max? For 10gb?

[odd sand]

I think something like this should work https://www.amazon.com/QNAP-QSW-308-1C-Switch-Gigabit-Unmanaged/dp/B07VC9T3WQ?th=1

[potent arrow]

I purposely avoided mesh ice

[odd sand]

I don't fully understand what SFP+ is, but I think it's a port that can support multiple network types

[potent arrow]

I have a standard business AP set up

[potent arrow]

It's that weird gumstick thing you shove into the rectangle hole

[odd sand]

Cat6 is like 40ft I thought not 40m

But there is a guide out there

[potent arrow]

You can make it fiber or cat

[odd sand]

If you have Cat6e, you should be fine

[potent arrow]

Huh?

[odd sand]

Okay yeah that sounds right

[potent arrow]

I just have one AP per floor

Yeah

Multiple aps

It's the floors you have to worry about

[odd sand]

Do you have more than one AP?

[potent arrow]

Wall penetration with most aps are not an issue

[odd sand]

Use a wifi analyzer on a tablet or phone and find where the signal drops off and try to reposition

[potent arrow]

Tplink Omada is good

Yeah

So

That's why I avoid mesh

:)

[odd sand]

Get Ruckus APs then or something I dunno lol

[potent arrow]

I personally use tplink Omada

Because it's none cloud based

[odd sand]

ALL THE WIFI https://www.amazon.com/Ruckus-R750-Wireless-Access-Point/dp/B07Y8P3Q8X/

[potent arrow]

My controller is a raspberry pi

LOL

Ruckus used cloud so I didn't chose them

Like fuck having my devices all cloud based :(

[odd sand]

Must depend on the type, bc I think our Ruckus was hosted locally when we needed to log in for mgmt

[potent arrow]

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0781YXFBT

@tame fulcrum

Throw the omada controller on the pi

[potent arrow]

Irc it's a newer thing

Idk, I never messed with ruckus

My main router is ubuiquiti, but I can't afford their shit so the aps are tplink

[odd sand]

My friend's new condo is nice. The junction box is in the closet wall, which is basically centrally located to the entire unit

So 5ghz coverage is decent in all rooms

Granted, it's only an 1100ft condo so

[potent arrow]

Ah

Oh talking about networking, I forgot look what I got yesterday

Procurve

It has four sftp, I think it can do 10gb

[kindred brook]

Sorry 3080

I can't buy you at MSRP

so I buy a bicycle instead

pepe cry

[hard drift]

Lol

[kindred brook]

https://www.costco.com/northrock-xc27-mountain-bike.product.100706259.html

anyone know anything

about bikes

fat tire?

streets

mostly

90%

there are trails

[dusty needle]

Omg closest I’ve ever got 🤞🏼

[odd sand]

Never heard of Northrock

[kindred brook]

I think its exclusive to Costco

its a brand of giant

Costco is kind of nice

because you canbring it back

[odd sand]

Are the trails paved or gravel? It's going to be easier to pedal on streets with a gravel bike than a mountain bike bc it's lighter and less knobby tires

[kindred brook]

its kind of half and half

the road here

is kind of shit

arizona is known

for shitty roads/streets

[odd sand]

If it's made by Giant it should be okay I guess? You get what you pay for though, of course

Otherwise it's a bit more, but there is probably a comparable one from Trek

[kindred brook]

oh nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1VaHktQbNg

waswatching that

[odd sand]

Or this:

Made in China

What you're gonna worry about is the frame snapping with the cheap chinese welds then I guess heh

[kindred brook]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/lm7xia/anyone_have_experience_with_this_northrock_xc27/

oh shit

if I can find it for 350

thats not too bad

costco has a good return policy

[odd sand]

But if all you want is "One Bike, Please." then sure go for it

You could even buy more road-friendly tires if you wanted to

[kindred brook]

lol

one bike plz

[odd sand]

Something like this https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/equipment/cycling-components/bike-tires/hybrid-bike-tires/bontrager-h2-comp-hybrid-tire/p/31551/?colorCode=black

Something with less aggressively knobby tread if you'll mostly be doing roads and small gravel

[kindred brook]

Damn Shinon

you know bikes huh

do you ride 50 miles a week

[odd sand]

I aspire to bike 50 miles a week, but usually it was more like 10-20/week ;p

[kindred brook]

lol

still alot!!

[odd sand]

Think of it like car tires: Trucks with giant knobby tires are loud and get bad MPG

Bad MPG in the sense of biking = it's harder to pedal

So you want to balance the tread with the surfaces you will be on

Unfortunately you can't shave weight on the low end bikes, so that will always be a thing

[kindred brook]

OOOOOOO

Arizona

is going to be pretty hot

in the summer

I wonder if those tires will be better

biking in 100 degree weather

KEK

[modest moss]

Raz stop buying shit you'll never use

Find some kid selling a used (stolen) bike on craigslist, pay him $50, then if you actually use it spend more

[odd sand]

.

[kindred brook]

NO

I AM GOING TO USE A BIKE

TO GO TO TEH GYM

gas is expensive

I rather bike

I like bikes

[umbral moss]

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/11/22972631/microsoft-windows-11-surface-duo-dual-boot-experiment

[kindred brook]

damn

[umbral moss]

I could see microsoft turning around and using their android wrapper as the "mobile app store" for a new windows phone

rip windows phone, you died alone and unloved

[deep sapphire]

@potent arrowlmao seems DeWalt's new power stack battery flopped, Lowes is giving you a free tool if you buy a 179 dollar kit that comes with 2 of the batteries or HD if you buy a 99 dollar battery/charger you get a free tool

maybe 1.7 watt hours wasnt a genius idea when it barely lasts 15 minutes

[odd sand]

1.7 isn't too much smaller than the base Milwaukee battery which is 2.0

[umbral moss]

isn't the power stack thing for bursts of power?

[odd sand]

But those are only used for dinky things like the lights and other small tools

[umbral moss]

I remember project farm was testing it a few weeks ago

what I recall is that power stack performed better in applications where you need more current for instant power draw, but the batteries obviously don't last as long

since most people are using regular drills and not battery powered impact drills, there's not much demand for it

[deep sapphire]

they have more power out of the gate but it doesnt last long and the 4.0 amp hour battery not only keeps pace with it, it lasts 3x longer lmao

and its the same price

wtf was dewalt thinking

oh right, they dont

their atomic impact drivers are having high failure rates

[umbral moss]

that they had a bunch of leftover low density lithium cells and they could sell them at a premium

[deep sapphire]

where's bidori

WHY IS TAGGING PEOPLE SO HARD IN DISCORD NOW

@hard drift

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-rog-zephyrus-15-6-qhd-gaming-laptop-amd-ryzen-9-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-1tb-ssd-eclipse-grey-eclipse-grey/6448848.p?ref=8575135&loc=e5706ad2a16911ec86f15a783dfab57c0INT&acampID=e5706ad2a16911ec86f15a783dfab57c0INT&skuId=6448848

so AMD's brand new state of the art mobile platform is doing well huh

https://i.imgur.com/9NQxUbP.png

[umbral moss]

🤔

is AMD responsible for asus using inadequate cooling?

must make laptop thiiiiiiiiiiin

has no cooling

[deep sapphire]

I was more talking about the drivers

[umbral moss]

I mean, yeah, that's typical AMD lmao

[latent grotto]

hotter=faster

i see nothing wrong with this

[umbral moss]

just means you got more boost

[latent grotto]

/s

[umbral moss]

[hard drift]

More than likely BS it’s a vega igpu and they don’t have many problems compared to navi plus it doesn’t specify igpu so that’s on nvidia lmao

Now back to the void i go

[deep sapphire]

300 dollars off

just came out

oh no no no

[hard drift]

Yeah nvidia about to refresh

And 6000 mobile about to be out and it uses the way better igpu

[deep sapphire]

im ready for a 4080

[umbral moss]

same

[hard drift]

I said refresh not next gen

[deep sapphire]

im ready for a 4080

[umbral moss]

I'm also ready for it to be out of stock for two years and scalped to the moon

[deep sapphire]

gonna buy an i3 now so im ready for it

[hard drift]

Okay bye now

[deep sapphire]

wait

come back

@hard drift

probably didnt even leave

he's looking at his phone rn

addicted to discord

[potent arrow]

LOL

[deep sapphire]

https://i.imgur.com/0d1kwi3.png reminds me of that classic gold color they use to offer

[potent arrow]

I had one fail on me hank

[deep sapphire]

I legit dont understand DeWalt

I think they make the best cutting tools and their drills are pretty decent but other than that its total dog shit

[potent arrow]

Hank, my friend gave me one to use with my sazall

And it like

Shit itself after two deck posts

.-.

I've never seen a battery die so fast

[deep sapphire]

BUT DEWALT SAID ITS THE FUTURE!

fuckin 4 amp hour battery lasts 3x longer and it has maybe 3 percent less power output

[potent arrow]

I think they also didn't account for the fact that people work in shit conditions like -25C

[modest moss]

yo buy me one, ship it with my iphone k?

[deep sapphire]

you want that ZR2 chevy as well?

I gotchu babe

[modest moss]

do they do a right hand drive version?

[deep sapphire]

actually yes they do, they sell them in Australia now

[modest moss]

awesome, thanks

feet pics are in the mail

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abdR5t4pMsM

god I want this tool but Makita never has any fuckin sales on their 40v line

[odd sand]

40V? Geez

[potent arrow]

Millfuckee team

[hard drift]

Nah my mom wanted me to pay for lunch because she forgot her wallet

Now stop bullying me 😭

[deep sapphire]

damn, mom has a gambling problem huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_pCeGmQU8w

[hard drift]

😒 that’d be my dad

Jk, he is just lucky and makes money doing it lol

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/steve-mre-steve-steve1989-mre-mre-info-gif-22620456

[hard drift]

Ewww smoking indoors

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/m-re-mre-steve-steve-steve1989-mre-info-gif-19251482

[deep sapphire]

ur incredibly smooth

[modest moss]

lads are we bullying bidori again?

[deep sapphire]

always

[modest moss]

imagine not @ing me

[deep sapphire]

anytime I type someone's name in the search it doesnt even find them

[modest moss]

@hard drift

[deep sapphire]

I never had this problem before

[modest moss]

I find him with @"idor"

[deep sapphire]

that guy has a nice handle bar stache

https://youtu.be/52SpfF1yvA0?t=827

just smokes some cigs from 1943

[hard drift]

Smh

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/toddlers-and-tiaras-reality-smile-creepy-evil-gif-3502066

[deep sapphire]

you helping your old man at the black jack table?

[modest moss]

helping him count to 21?

[hard drift]

lmao no, he's at work

[deep sapphire]

"dad double down on this hand he's got 14 he has to stay"

[modest moss]

"dad you have 17 with 3 cards, you can easily get a 5 card trick, my extensive experience in the gold saucer says it's on"

[deep sapphire]

hahaha

[hard drift]

[deep sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfX35o7v6XY

"thats 30"

LMAO!

[hard drift]

that was dumb

and angers me since i love blackjack 😭

[dull garnet]

Early family guy is pretty good

[old jetty]

btw I asked this before, but got no proper answer

is windows 11 still "bad"?

performance whise I mean

[modest moss]

you got as good an answer as you'll get tbh, people are staying on 10 or have reverted back to 10

so unless 11 has an essential feature you need

if you want specific performance metrics you'll need to google an in-depth comparison

[old jetty]

uhm... I see

I'm just gathering opinions from different places

[deep sapphire]

Windows is fairly buggy within a "window of time" of about a year, but not always

people shit on Windows 8 but performance and stability wise I had zero issues with it at launch

Windows 10 was a different story

If you are fine with Windows 10 then just stay you arent gaining any major benefit from switching, but if you want the free upgrade you will have to do it fairly soon and just live with any minor issues

most of the major issues have been resolved

[hard drift]

you have atleast until oct 5th so take your time on 10

[potent arrow]

Bro I just set my shirt on fire with a plasma torch

;-;

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/pretend-shocked-gif-14008068

are you ok though?

[potent arrow]

Mildly singed!

Soaked in fire extinguisher

But I'm fineeee

HALF MY SLEEVE IS GONE THO

[jaunty light]

Sarah what the fuck

Do it again!

[potent arrow]

Well this sheet metal won't cut itself

So I gotta go back to it after I find a new shirt

[latent grotto]

Sarah just committing every OSHA violation imaginable

[boreal surge]

Since you’re alive and well, we get to call you a lucky idiot right?

Also who blasted the extinguisher at you?

[kindred brook]

Where does she work

so I can file a report

[sly elk]

i'm not seeing vw microbus at all

front clip is pretty sweet

i think i like everything except the back haha

i like how the memory module heatsinks match the cpu waterblock

[modest moss]

@potent arrow make sure to tell your gf we're v.disappointed with you

[boreal surge]

I’m guessing the rear overhang spoiler is what’s screwing up the minibus design

[sly elk]

just the shape of the back door in general is kinda yuck

looking back at the 21 year old concept

I think what's missing are the curved front/rear windows

it's remarkable how similar the designs are, honestly

rounded front windows were not unusual in the 2000s but I think they killed that because rounded glass is harder to make and more expensive

and in order to make a fancier car interior while not increasing costs, you cheap out on everything else!

cheap out on electronics, cheap out on engine components, cheap out on trim pieces, cheap out on physical controls by just installing touchscreens

[paper tusk]

in the case of the id buzz/cargo, the battery seems cheapened out (77kw)