technology-discussion

[potent arrow]

Literally what the fffyuuuuck

[modest moss]

girl you ARE fire

https://tenor.com/view/nicky-ricky-dicky-dawn-nicky-ricky-dicky-dawn-gifs-nickelodeon-eyebrows-smooth-gif-8983861

[umbral moss]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-katz-concern-thinking-worried-gif-10484425

[kindred brook]

Raw Data set

presentable data set

now that I made this worksheet

I can automate all my work

and be lazy till the end of time

I can go back to being pepe raz

[hard drift]

please no

[kindred brook]

what

I used enough brain cells today

I can only activate nuerons for

1-2 hours

[hard drift]

Shame

[kindred brook]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-monke-neuron-activation-neuron-activation-gif-20850506

@modest moss dad can I borrow some more nuerons for today

[modest moss]

I'm out of brain activity, soz

[kindred brook]

NOOOO

I USED ALL MY BRAIN POWER THIS MORNING

I woke up at 3 am

X.X

its only 7 AM

[hard drift]

Shame

[potent arrow]

https://c.tenor.com/xIB9riSVygEAAAAM/alicia-keys-girl-on-fire.gif

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/diHIQE8mP7M

Damn that’s sexy

[hard drift]

That logo is ugly

[deep sapphire]

True

Unlike a nice Chevy logo

[hard drift]

Lol

[deep sapphire]

Ford has the worst logo

And the worst looking vehicles

Except the Ford GT and Mustang

Those are sexy

[dull garnet]

Name one good lotus I'll wait

The answer was esprit

[deep sapphire]

British cars smh

[outer sand]

I thought Lotus Elise was cool, lol

[deep sapphire]

Lotus has some great engineers

True story, GM owned Lotus in the late 80s early 90s and asked them to make a V8 for their Corvette ZR1 which was a DOHC design, it pissed off their engineers that they went with an outside design so they created a new engine which is still used today rofl

[dull garnet]

Hairdresser car

My brother got an E86 Z4 M recently

[deep sapphire]

The roadster?

[dull garnet]

Yeah

No wait

Coupe

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/steven-steve-steve1989mre-info-steve1989-mre-info-gif-22620379

[dull garnet]

343 hp, like 1.5 tons

Nyoom

[deep sapphire]

Nice little zippy car

[dull garnet]

He had a non M coupe before

[deep sapphire]

Weight plays a huge part of a car’s handling

[dull garnet]

This M basically has the same engine as his old 3 series

[deep sapphire]

Probably why everyone loves old Hondas

Even though driving an old Honda is a death trap

The early 90s Hondas only weighed like 1300lbs

Rofl

[outer sand]

oh really I thought 90ish Honda was built like a panzer ._.

[deep sapphire]

They are well made they are just too light

You get into an accident you’re fucked

[outer sand]

isn't it always like that for older car, except volvo probably

not all have safety rating yet

[deep sapphire]

Sorta

Weight is always a factor in how well a vehicle can protect you and a heavier vehicle will always protect you better than a lighter car even of its era

Crash tests are done on a fixed solid barrier, in the real world a vehicle on vehicle accident isn’t like that so if you got into an accident with a more modern vehicle that’s weights 3500+ lbs you will be crushed badly

[dull garnet]

My uncle has enjoyed miatas lately

Someone has an S2000 down my road

Pog

[outer sand]

yeah not many JDM cars in EU, but when you see one they are like this https://youtu.be/34uxHjDLtQg?t=1029 👀

[dull garnet]

I think when I finally get my license I'll just get some bone stock Accord or something

[outer sand]

totally misread

[kindred brook]

@deep sapphire please give me additional neurons

[deep sapphire]

Okay

[kindred brook]

NEURON ACTIVATED

[umbral moss]

isn't a solid barrier functionally infinite weight though

the disadvantage of a small/light car is that the tankzilla truck designs have an attack angle that treats anything smaller than a dodge caravan as a speedbump

[deep sapphire]

Weight is still weight, in a high speed collision at the same speed a vehicle with more weight will crumple less than a lighter one

[umbral moss]

don't the crash test barriers have zero recoil because they're reinforced specifically to arrest a car smashing into it at highway speed?

the tendency of larger (and usually heavier) vehicles to ride up on a smaller vehicle in an inelastic collision is where the danger comes in

that's why haulers have the mansfield bar now

[odd sand]

You rebel

[dull garnet]

ltt did a "sleeper" build with rads mounted to the underside of the desk

why do i waste my time watching this crap

[deep sapphire]

Jersey barriers are yeah

It makes the front left wheel pivot straight and slows the vehicle down from the vehicle rubbing against it

[odd sand]

Why do you feel so strongly about LTT stuff

[dull garnet]

[deft iris]

Sounds like I should get an old-timey car that’s made completely from steel. /s

[deep sapphire]

THEY DONT MAKE EM LIKE THEY USE TOO

[hard drift]

Boomer

[deft iris]

“Why don’t they make cars like they used to?”
becomes entombed in car after a crash

[deep sapphire]

That’s my truck

No airbags

Crumple zones? Maybe who knows probably not

No head restraints either, so if I get rear ended my skull is going right through the rear glass

But hey it runs

Buying a new vehicle is going to bankrupt anyone at this point

And with interest rates going up

Get ready for 6-8 percent financing baby

Yes

[odd sand]

Oh crap, I didn't consider that. I should talk to them about refi of my car loan asap then. I'm at 3.99 and the credit union was like 2.99 or lower

[deep sapphire]

Might as well

[odd sand]

Oh wow, it went down since last year. Now 1.99 for 48mos and supposed 0.25% reduction for autopay so 1.74% then

Variable rate 😬 I would only ever get a fixed rate for that reason

Bc then you can always refi to get it lower, but you don't get screwed by it going higher

Maybe see if you can refi to a fixed rate now

geezus

honestly, variable rate loans should be illegal bc it just kicks ppl out of their homes

Maybe you should call them up and have them explain :0

[odd sand]

I thought it was Kyle. My friend's name is Kyle so we always tease him about why you gotta be such a Kyle

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/a6zvvlrd-jw

[austere socket]

ʕ^ᴥ^ʔつ εїз

closest I could get with the eyes

oh wait here we go

ʕᵔᴥᵔʔつ εїз

man, you really gotta trawl kaomoji sites to find some of these symbols

[odd sand]

It do be like that sometimes

[zealous wolf]

that truck looks like a grifter scam or something...

[kindred brook]

https://slickdeals.net/share/android_app/fp/709039

What's the msrp

For a 3090

[hard drift]

1500

That thing is worth it

[sly elk]

yea the FE is still 1499.99 from best buy

good luck finding one

[hard drift]

1500+ like 550 and ram+ storage

[sly elk]

technically worth it but

but it's an r10 :

if you're going to get an alienware I'd rather get the one with the side window and the more logical layout and ventillation

unfortunately that's the r13

[hard drift]

I’d just buy the thing and move it into a better case

It’s ugly either way imo

[sly elk]

the problem with that is they use a nonstandard mobo

oh maybe i'm wrong

i thought they did

[hard drift]

It’s micro itx should be okay

Just use an atx case and bam, good to go

[sly elk]

yea guess it's only the xps that uses a stupid board

that's good news lol

[kindred brook]

25% cut though in April right

Right???

[hard drift]

The one thing i liked by them was the radiator pcie card

[hard drift]

Up to

[kindred brook]

F

[hard drift]

Meaning around normal prices for partner cards

Partner cards especially strix and such were always more expensive than msrp atleast by a bit

[sly elk]

Haha and never worth it 😄

[boreal surge]

In normal conditions ( re not everyone and their minerbros and their great grandmoms and everyone else realizing they'd die without electronic devices), would it better for me to buy prebuilt or actually build one myself

[hard drift]

i mean personally i would build it because it helps you fix things if shit happens and you don't have to rely on others

plus it's an overall fun experience and you can say "i'm proud of what i've accomplished" and such

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/wWwp3vVtElw

Based Dell chads

[sly elk]

I dunno if I'd say better exactly either way

if you have to ask the question, prebuilt is probably not going to leave you feeling like you're missing anything, so just shop for the best deal

you know how people talk shit about alienware like "You're paying for the brand"

every single damn DIY PC part is like that

you can buy some basic 32gb DDR4 3600mhz ram kit for $117, or buy the corsair dominator platinum for $252

you can buy a more basic geforce 3070ti for i dunno, $750? or get the asus strix OC for like $950

it's even crazier with motherboards

[random geyser]

you buy for the warranty, in terms of offerings and fulfilling

that may or may not align with branding

[sly elk]

you can get a $150-200 board that does everything perfectly fine or you can buy the $900 one

warranty, aesthetics, some minor performance things - but often just in an extreme form of diminishing returns

[boreal surge]

Well I’m the type to get the perfectly fine one that won’t break on a whim

[sly elk]

that should be any of them

and yea that price thing happens with fans, psus, cases, everything

but the nice thing about DIY is you can choose to spend an extra $500 because you want an all-white build, or fans with a fancy RGB pattern, or whatever

[random geyser]

there's price points where below that you're risking a dud and beyond which it's not cost value, just gotta find out what those points are

the market is pretty efficient though, so generally it's around the thing that's getting the most review/popular

[sly elk]

aye, but 'risking a dud' from any major brand shouldn't even be a thing

[boreal surge]

Well barring a motherboard with decent sound processing, I just wanna make sure I get good value without risking a dud.

Even with gaming laptop shopping it annoys me how much hurr durr gamerbro shit is on it

[random geyser]

god, sound, i swear it's a crapshoot with mobo

i've had cheapo mobo from 400 prebuilt handle sounds better than an actual $400 mobo

[sly elk]

that makes no sense

but it's not enormously surprising

[random geyser]

sound is a mess of drivers and incompatibility

[sly elk]

ah you mean that

it's also not as straight forward as I thought it would be? I suppose?

[boreal surge]

Isn’t it all realtek?

[sly elk]

like if you buy an asus board with a realtek chipset it might still have an ESS DAC, for example

[boreal surge]

Or getting the Windows driver if you hate it?

[sly elk]

amusingly the ones that use the ESS dac are the same model number but without the "C" at the end or something stupid like that

and ultimately it seems that they still don't isolate the sound well enough from the cpu power control stuff

I admit I can't tell the difference.

[random geyser]

i have a speaker setup that worked great with my old computer, but have the worst static noise when plugged in my new setup

[sly elk]

O_O

whaaaa

[random geyser]

it was so bad i basically had to use usb to get it working

[sly elk]

how does that happen lol

[random geyser]

so it definitely was how they had the sound routed, probably not enough shielding in the new desktop

[potent arrow]

MMM GOOD OLE GROUND LOOP INTERFERENCE

[sly elk]

yea, maybe things aren't grounded correctly?

[sly elk]

geeez

the power supply is split in 2 boards like that to keep ti thin

and they cut holes so they could mount the capacitors like that XD

talk about through hole mountign lmao

oh lmao they cut holes for the inductor coils as well

ehehehhe

https://youtu.be/pm33KB2Th9M?t=985

90s voice automation in the end of this video 😄

[trail flame]

i like to buy like

prebuilt

cause then i know it works

and i dont have to fuck with it myself

could i?

yes

but i have enough crap to deal with in other aspects in my life i dont wanna spend time dealing with what's supposed to be relaxing

[sly elk]

my desktop is diy but I have other computers 🙂

[potent arrow]

Lol I build my own computer for my own peace of mind some whacko didn't fuck up sonewhere

[jaunty light]

we just know that sarah fucked it up

accidentally spills entire bottle of unknown chemicals on it woops

[dull garnet]

sarah likes to destroy her own work

[jaunty light]

[potent arrow]

[royal forge]

[potent arrow]

They ain't wrong

Unfortunately

I've had to stop prof sessions because my computer decided to leak a few times now

[jaunty light]

leaking wat

[trail flame]

cooling fluid probably

[vestal crane]

When I had someone build my PC for me, they forgot to plug in the fans

[inland mauve]

[solemn steeple]

love juice

[jaunty light]

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/stupid-technology-jonah-rashid-tanner-the-squad-annoyed-gif-17564116

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/Fc1P-AEaEp8

[umbral moss]

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/fiat-500-ev-first-drive-review/

too bad EU only

[modest moss]

imagine trying to sell that to Hank

[umbral moss]

hank would want four of them to put on the axles of his truck

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

[dull garnet]

is hank okay

how is the no smoking going

[deep sapphire]

death

Atleast I figured out why my digestive health has been so bad

Literally all because I have a habit of sucking my core in all day

Which I guess compresses your intestines

[potent arrow]

breaking news....smoking is bad for your health

[deep sapphire]

Which in turn made me constipated like no tomorrow, which in turn gave me silent reflux, … which in turn caused me bad nasal drip and a feeling of a lump in my throat

Like holy fuck that one thing caused all that

[dull garnet]

so you're healthier now?

[deep sapphire]

I have to train myself to do diaphragm breathing and relax my gut, that helps a lot

Yeah been feeling better

It’s a catch 22 cause all that gave me horrible anxiety which just made me tense up even more rofl

The human body is ridiculous

200 doctors would tell you something different too

[sly elk]

gg lol

hope ya feel better soon

[deep sapphire]

ty

I tried my best to do it yesterday at work and I could feel my intestines doing stuff and I was like RELIEF

[hard drift]

wait i do that

[deep sapphire]

Well if you have all the above then try and fix that

[hard drift]

i don't lol

[deep sapphire]

It’s very common for people to also not do diaphragm breathing most people only breathe with their upper chest

Or “belly breathing” is another term for it

[hard drift]

i do both

[deep sapphire]

It helps expand your core out and relax your intestines

Plus helps a lot with anxiety

[boreal surge]

Something something singers do it

[deep sapphire]

That’s true they do

[hard drift]

gotten deepen your voice

[paper tusk]

finally got an email from evga about 3060 ti (order queue)

kinda late though X|

[dull garnet]

woo

[potent arrow]

I'll take it uwu

[ebon cedar]

anyone got any recommendations for a mouse? looking for a wireless one with 10+ buttons, that uses usb-c to charge

[paper tusk]

not sure how would gib my place in queue other than order and reship it (and that's sus from the general rule of random people on the net)

[deep sapphire]

Other than the Naga I don’t think you can find another wireless MMO mouse

Guess I’d google and see

Razer has stepped up their QC lately but I had 2 Nagas and both had double clicking issues

[sly elk]

i have a viper ultimate and so far, really dig it!

but I suppose I'd agree that the design isn't quite as polished as a logitech design

[deep sapphire]

Yeah I got a deathadder V2 and it’s been reliable so far, the old ones had double clicking issues

[sly elk]

i just ordered my mom a razer chair lol

one of those quartz pink enki chairs 😄

[deep sapphire]

I kinda wish I got the viper instead deathadder is a tad too big

Oh nice

[sly elk]

amusingly, the enki is one of the most reasonably priced gaming chairs from a reputable brand lmao

[deep sapphire]

How much did it cost?

[sly elk]

350 which for a gaming chair, really is pretty good lol

for a larger one anyway >>

most of the pink ones are like 12-14" wide, this is a bit wider apparently

[jaunty light]

Small hand hank

[dull garnet]

i like my viper

8000Hz baybee

[jaunty light]

Ur hand cant even see 8000hz

[dull garnet]

||I run it at 1000||

cus some youtuber said 8000 isn't supported by most games

[jaunty light]

Listening to a chuuba.. you fool

[sly elk]

lol admittedly the viper is about as big as I can go

[dull garnet]

oo-er!

the viper mini is supposed to be good

[jaunty light]

I have bear mitts and use tiny mice

[dull garnet]

but it wasn't in stock on the exact day that I was buying a mouse

so I paid about double for the 8k

[jaunty light]

[potent arrow]

°~° shit

[sly elk]

yea I would've tried a viper mini but the regular viper ultimate fits fine

[deep sapphire]

Bulli zone not here

https://reddit.com/r/Tools/comments/tt2k88/pulled_out_of_the_gym_this_morning_and_saw_what/

@potent arrow

LMAO

[jaunty light]

WHERE HAS THE 10MM GONE

Its always the 8 10 and 11 for me

Tho i tend to never lose the wratchet ones only wrenches

[ebon cedar]

anyone here use the mx master 3 mouse?

[potent arrow]

I would've too lmfao

[late basalt]

Fake. I've never seen someone have a 10mm that's older than the job it's required for, finding one is just absurd.

[odd sand]

@deep sapphire Oh baby

[deep sapphire]

You staying in st paul?

[odd sand]

Yeah, a few blocks from xcel center

[deep sapphire]

Visit Tom Reid’s hockey city pub after

Just a couple blocks away from the X

[kindred brook]

Hank Hank Hank

https://tenor.com/view/bobsburgers-candycanetruck-lick-gene-christmas-gif-3533099

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/Razer/status/1509621680221700108

R Λ Z Ξ R (@Razer)

The future is already here. With the Razer HyperSense Suit, transport your senses to an alternate reality that’s as immersive, and interactive. Want to try it for yourself? Sign up to be our beta-tester at https://t.co/viH76p3Ngl and stand a chance to win some sweet loot from us!

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Twitter · Mar 31, 2022, 8:00 PM

[inland mauve]

good joke, brand

[dull garnet]

silence, brand

[kindred brook]

man

why april fools

so early

[dull garnet]

stralia

[eager sandal]

is that jerma

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/jerma-jerma985-burger-eating-tucker-carson-gif-22054018

[deep sapphire]

Lmao god damn

Big fuckin wrench

[modest moss]

polish your big shiny tool for us, stud

[deep sapphire]

The box it came in weighed like 28 pounds

[sly elk]

it looks like a tron suit

[deep sapphire]

Damn all the way up in the nose bleeds eh

The X is awesome though

[odd sand]

Sorta. Front row 2nd level

[deep sapphire]

Ah alright not bad

Enjoy a 13 dollar beer for me

[odd sand]

Only 11 sir. Or 10 for the swill

[deep sapphire]

LOL a bargain I tell ya!

Damn those are good seats

Good view of the rink

Also I guess Wiha’s US branch is in Minnesota so that explains why it came in a day. I was expecting a week

[sly elk]

it's funny how wiha sounds like yeehaw

[deep sapphire]

Haha

Lmao no fucks given over at Wiha USA

“Yeah just give us the cheapest commercial property you can find”

[hard drift]

okay hank, for april fools you have to hate chevy and love ford

[deep sapphire]

Absolutely not

[hard drift]

you must

[deep sapphire]

I don’t fool around with my true love

[hard drift]

your true love is mary palmer and her 5 sisters smh

[deep sapphire]

Who

[hard drift]

[deep sapphire]

WHO

[hard drift]

you'll get it eventually

[deep sapphire]

ARNOLD PALMER!?

[hard drift]

i mean if you're into that lol

[deep sapphire]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Palmer

Bidori busting out the 1700s memes

[hard drift]

i hate you hank

[deep sapphire]

WTF DID I DO

[hard drift]

do you actually not get it

[deep sapphire]

Oooooh a masturbation joke

[hard drift]

[deep sapphire]

I see I see

Samhandtha

[hard drift]

you weren't supposed to say it 😭

[deep sapphire]

Look I’m too busy getting off to this wrench set

I can’t believe I scored such a deal

1300 bucks in tools for 160

[late basalt]

must be why he ordered the closed loop set

[deep sapphire]

Like 1 3/16 I didn’t even know such a fastener existed but the important thing is I have quality material to look at night (I’m afraid to say any masturbation references for fear of tripping the bot)

[deep sapphire]

Isn’t it weird watching live hockey where it feels 5x slower than it does on TV

@hard drift just look at it

[potent arrow]

aaaaaaaaa

[deep sapphire]

Admire it

Take it in

[potent arrow]

https://c.tenor.com/HMPL-ZhAuYUAAAAM/xqc-slam.gif

[hard drift]

1-3/8 looking like it needs polished

[deep sapphire]

xQc how nice these wrenches are

I touched it with my greasy hands and ruined it I’m sorry

[potent arrow]

I CANNOT GET THE WILL TO DO ANYTHING

[hard drift]

😔 how could you

[deep sapphire]

Go to be Sarah

Bed

[potent arrow]

I've been in bed for 5 hrs

I have so much work to do

[sly elk]

wiha

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/BWKaaQT6WIk

[hard drift]

wtf is this hank

[deep sapphire]

A great movie

You’ve never seen kung pow?

[hard drift]

never heard of it

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/941z56i7QJE

It’s a parody of some old Chinese movie

It’s hilarious

Wow it cuts out too soon

https://youtu.be/C7zmSavFgwY

Lmao “it was like one clean chunk”

God is every Ask Reddit thread just some fuckin horny topic now

It’s pretty obvious it’s probably some bot so shitty click bait sites can reference it

[odd sand]

Bad puck handling by the pens tonight

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/I-4hm3DNJhg @modest moss

[modest moss]

"and which can tastes best"

[deep sapphire]

Haha

[modest moss]

fuck you Hank I actually just watched that, skimmed it anyway

get to walmart bruh

[potent arrow]

i needed this

[deep sapphire]

no joke they really do have good quality automotive products for dirt cheap lmao, I buy their oil all the time

project farm did a test on it and it was one of the best reviewed oils

the car batteries are great too

[sly elk]

in my jeep, I tried royal purple, i was curious if it was actually purple

when I checked the oil level a few days later the purple was gone 😦

it is really dark to begin with though

[deep sapphire]

haha

IT WAS ALL A LIE

[sly elk]

so the next time (last time) i did it with mobil 1 instead

the mobil 1 0w20 only costs $5 more than the super tech 0w20 lol

if walmart has the 5qt jug ins tock, anyway

that sounds like a $6950 mistake

there's something about the honda element

it's like japan saw the PT cruiser and decided they had to make their own ugly car

if they tossed a ford badge on there, everyone would have hated it

[odd sand]

Oh yeah!

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/AustraliaMSI/status/1509683279284551681

MSI Australia (@AustraliaMSI)

Extreme performance—with a jaw-dropping 48GB of GDDR7. Enjoy incredible real-time anti-aliasing and stunning DirectX. We're proud to introduce the past, present and future of graphics with the new #MSI Voodoo5 7000 Series Graphics Cards. 🔥

Pre-order: https://t.co/JqSxos1aZb

Twitter · Apr 1, 2022, 12:05 AM

[sly elk]

YAS

gimme more good april fools jokes

[deep sapphire]

wtf you could buy some giant wrenches for that price

in standard units

which is useless for most people

ironically I've never touched a single metric tool once at this job

THAT BOLT IS A FRACTION OF A FOOTBALL FIELD

[sly elk]

-shrug-

wow what happened to lambo

[deep sapphire]

nice C8

/s

[boreal surge]

Front bumper looks nice, but jt looks like they tried to become a ferrari enzo otherwize

[sly elk]

idk my memory is failing me

the old ones don't look all that much better lol

[deep sapphire]

I bet you love the Diablo though

because it was designed by Chrysler

[sly elk]

i liked the gallardo and murcielago too though

lol the diablo was probably as much chrysler as the ford gt40 was american

[deep sapphire]

In need of a suitable successor to the Countach, Lamborghini conjured up a devil of a replacement in 1990—the Diablo. With the brand under Chrysler’s ownership at the time, the car’s original design by Marcello Gandini was reshaped by the parent company’s own Tom Gale. Not as angularly aggressive as the Countach, the Diablo more than made up in performance. Powered by a 492 hp, 5-liter V-12 (with 428 ft lbs of torque), the wicked road warrior could race from zero to 62 mph in 4.5 seconds and was the first model from the marque to break the 200 mph barrier (204 mph to be exact).

Tom Gale was a badass

when he came back to GM

[sly elk]

it is a sick car

[deep sapphire]

he made every car they sold have an SS model

[sly elk]

lmao he was responsible for that, too?!

[deep sapphire]

oh that silly tom gale

yup

[sly elk]

kinda amazing lol

honestly the HHR is exactly what I'd expect

it's a PT Cruiser ruined by GM design

[boreal surge]

True the old ones gallardo and murcie are pretty bland

[deep sapphire]

another interesting piece of history

[boreal surge]

Never caught on to me when I saw them in videogames

[deep sapphire]

tom gale was going to be the CEO of Chrysler when Iaccoa retired

but because they had a bitter dispute

[sly elk]

ha ya know what else I see in the HHR though

[deep sapphire]

Iaccoa hired Eaton

who we all know basically killed the company

[sly elk]

doesn't the HHR look a lot like a durango?

[deep sapphire]

Gale was all but given the CEO position but all because of a silly argument he wasnt

you dont see a lot of those on the road anymore

if at all

[sly elk]

HAHAHHA wtf why'd they put the crossover spoiler on it

oh god they ruined the back of it with that

[deep sapphire]

[potent arrow]

@deep sapphire April fools; you are the father!!!!

[deep sapphire]

I knew it

I birthed the HHR

[potent arrow]

[sly elk]

lol we had a durango on a road trip once, hired someone to take us on it because i didn't have my license at the time

[deep sapphire]

I think Gale also lead the development of the Sky/Solstace because he wanted a small roadster

[sly elk]

the design grew on me lol

[deep sapphire]

those were underrated cars

[sly elk]

honestly i thought the durango looked better than the tahoe of that era

but it may have been a numbers game

for every 1 durango I saw at least 100 tahoes

[deep sapphire]

the Dakota based Durango (first gen) was pretty cool

pretty sure you could also get the 5.9 Magnum in it

[sly elk]

like before the 2008 economy crash

[deep sapphire]

I dont recall the Dakota of that era getting the 5.9

maybe the R/T did

I dont remember

[sly elk]

it felt like every other car in my town was a 2000s tahoe

[deep sapphire]

I know it got the 5.2

[sly elk]

i got sick of hearing that chevy v8

[deep sapphire]

HEY

YOU RESPECT THE SMALL BLOCK

I agree Ford's V8 sounds better

[sly elk]

yea but you hear it aall day every day

i think the hemi sounded best xD

[deep sapphire]

of course you did

[sly elk]

but the next most characteristic sound I can recognize is the ford v8 in a crown vic

[deep sapphire]

its not bad

[sly elk]

and that

[deep sapphire]

has a nice roar

[sly elk]

verr whooooop noise they make when they take off

[deep sapphire]

parking lot at work has a lot of rams

[sly elk]

and shift into 2nd gear

it's almost as iconic as chryslers 80s/90s crcrhhechcrhchrchrc transmission noise when they pull to a stop

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/_JzZD1KEZWk?t=870

god that sounds so fucking cool

[sly elk]

that sounds so ford

tbh i think it'd sound better without the supercharger whine

ruins a perfectly good v8

[deep sapphire]

its a nice sounding motor

specially the Voodoo

even if its an engine that grenades itself guaranteed

[sly elk]

sadness

[deep sapphire]

they could never fix it so they did the next best thing

stop making the GT350

[sly elk]

it does sound great though

[deep sapphire]

probably my favorite sounding V8 of all time

[sly elk]

i wonder if this is related

https://youtu.be/fF6nosZiCeI?t=28

[deep sapphire]

I think that was another Yamaha engine

they also had uuuuh

fuck what was that midsized car called

Contour

they had an SHO of that as well I think lol

oh it was an SVT

[sly elk]

ahahahaha

"With the new SHO V8 that came out for 1996, the engine was still co-developed with Yamaha and manufactured both by Ford and its Japanese partner. The SHO V8 was based on an existing Ford engine, but it wasn’t a V8. It was a modified version of the Duratec 25 V6 with two cylinders added and several elements of earlier SHO V6 engines incorporated. A few of these features include aluminum cylinder heads and a 4-valve-per-cylinder DOHC design."

[deep sapphire]

lol typical ford

those duratecs were dog shit too

[sly elk]

yea I bet the contour was a hoot to drive lol

i got to drive my dad's old mercury mystique a handful of times before we sold it to someone to fix for their teenager lol

those cars deserved better lol

[deep sapphire]

as ugly as the Taurus was in that era

those things are tanks

hell Taurus' in general

we owned a Mercury Sable, my dad loved that thing

had a fuckin phone built in

TECHNOLOGY

[sly elk]

i think the taurus and the contour were pretty extremely different cars though

like the taurus sho was a straight line 0-60 kinda car

[deep sapphire]

Yeah contour was their midsized sedan Taurus was full size

[sly elk]

the contour was more of an autocross kinda car

[deep sapphire]

Oh you meant the performance ones

[sly elk]

yea lol

[deep sapphire]

Yeah my bad I got SVT and SHO mixed up

[sly elk]

-shrug- it kinda doesn't matter now

those cars were fwd and had <200hp

[deep sapphire]

The SHO had a crazy story in its own

[sly elk]

maybe the taurus had >200 i forgo tlol

AFAIK the reason the contour/mystique failed so hard in the US was they cost more than the taurus/sable but were smaller

[deep sapphire]

If I recall Ford hired Yamaha to make a transverse engine they were gonna use in the concept FWD Mustang

But when people learned the next mustang was gonna be FWD they flipped out

[sly elk]

ahhahaha

understandable

[deep sapphire]

So they had this engine and no car for it so they just slapped it into the Taurus

[sly elk]

also the contour had very comfy seats

i bet the recaros in the svt were the most comfy seat in a car like that ever XD

[deep sapphire]

Did they contour to you

[sly elk]

well they had large bolsters but they were soft

also i'm amazed they made the mustang mach e

aand survived

[deep sapphire]

Yeah that pissed a lot of people off but I think it was the right call if it was branded a ford I don’t think it would’ve sold well

Oh another funny story about the SHO

They supposedly had to detune it because the original motor revved so high it would cause the alternator to fry the electronics

They detuned it significantly again when the automatic was available because it couldn’t handle the power output

[sly elk]

lol

[deep sapphire]

It’s like the coolest wtf car ever

[sly elk]

the thing inever understood in cars

was why they never attempted to make an SRT minivan

[deep sapphire]

I think the manual gearbox was designed by Mazda which was owned by Ford at the time

Lmao that would’ve been hilarious

[sly elk]

some people teased the idea a few times

[deep sapphire]

Caravan SRT 10

[sly elk]

more recently someone played with the idea hahahaha

[deep sapphire]

Honestly doesn’t look that bad

Ridiculous

But handsome

If anything

Dodge should’ve made a turbo V6 of the era

The 3.5 HO was a pretty stout engine for the time

They used it in the Intrepid R/T

[sly elk]

iirc the HO was 250hp?

[deep sapphire]

Yeah

Those were good motors too

Very reliable

[sly elk]

didn't they have oil sludge issues?

i always thought it was funny seeing those

[deep sapphire]

Nah only the 2.7 did

[sly elk]

the 2.7 looked hilarious in there

[deep sapphire]

The 2.7 was DOHC the 3.5 was SOHC

The 2.7 had good specs for its time but had a lot of boneheaded engineering flaws

I find it ridiculous how long they made it too

They even put them in the LX cars

Imagine buying a Charger with the 2.7

[sly elk]

look at all the space between the radiator and the engine lol

yes, I've been in a 2.7 300 twice

the engine sound had no bearing whatsoever on the car's movement, if that makes any sense

[deep sapphire]

[sly elk]

I have no idea what kinda crack they were snorting in the board room when they stuck the 2.7 in the LXes

it must've been good stuff

can you imagine how many people saw a 300/charger and thought "wow that looks nice, I'll rent one!"

and they received a 2.7 base model rental with no nothing

like they were savage at cost cutting

the 2.7 had tiny brakes, a much cheaper suspension, and they even took bits of silver trim out of the interior lmao

[deep sapphire]

Haha they were like 180hp, in a heavy ass car

I’m sure the 2.7 would’ve been a fine motor if the owner followed the maintenance schedule but companies need to stop putting “engineering marvels” in vehicles designed for people who don’t give a fuck

Like ford using that power shift DCT

[sly elk]

like among other things

[deep sapphire]

in a performance car it probably would’ve been okay but they stuck them in their cheapest econoboxes

[sly elk]

this is the 2.7 base 300's interior

iirc you couldn't buy those unless you were a fleet customer

[deep sapphire]

And who buys econoboxes… people who give zero fucks about the car

Haha American car interiors in that era were so bad

Look at the Impala

[sly elk]

this one's a (admittedly dirty) v8 300c interior

notice the base didn't even have chrome rings around the gauges

and it used a cheaper screen lmao

they were relentless about the cost cutting

OH the dodge magnum was the one where they took the silver trim off the wheel in the cheap model xD

[deep sapphire]

Both GM and Chrysler were basically penniless rofl

True story when they were designing the GMT900 truck platform their were internal memos that essentially said this vehicle will make or break the company

[sly elk]

ierno

[deep sapphire]

God that’s so bad

[sly elk]

tbh I still don't think that looked bad for a 22k car lol

[deep sapphire]

It’s so plain

[sly elk]

idk I think I liked the shape of that dashboard more than the current one

the current one looks all shiny and overstyled and the center stack doesn't fit with the dashboard top half

the challenger redesign was fantastic thouhg

the original looked like it was stolen out of an 80s datsun

meanwhile ford's was a sea of hard plastic but it looked more interesting i think

i can't believe i'm saying this

but i think the camaro interior was the most.. normal looking?

[deep sapphire]

The only thing I don’t like about the current dodge interiors is the infotainment doesn’t really blend in well

[sly elk]

except for that nasty looking cluster XD

but the giant sharky looking squares were a retro throwback that I can respect

hehe the worst fitting radio I have ever seen was in the current explorer

the interior itself looks like it came straight out of the mid 1990s

if you ripped the tablet out and put one of those double din things ford used at that time

and one of those analog clusters

that interior would totally pass for 1990s ford

i think they were trying to make a throwback to the 90s dashboard hahaha

[sly elk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/tt8rvt/mine_and_wifes_gaming_rigs_on_custom_built_desk/

that is one durable looking table

[dull garnet]

imagine not putting your PC on carpet

[sly elk]

https://system7.app/

i like how it has marathon

[outer sand]

looks unsafe 👀

[jaunty light]

fkn battlestations the place where people have setups spanning a football field then decide they need a 40% keyboard

[sly elk]

Lol

[torpid kayak]

my main is Z96X Gaming 3, which supports DDR3 1600
I have two of these: Corsair CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 Vengeance 4GB DDR3 1600 MHz. The official site said its Tested Speed is 1600
but it defaults speed on my PC to 1333

I can access bios and set it to 1600, but I wonder if it will cause problems

I just bought two more sticks of 1600, so the 1333 Crossair drags down the whole speed to 1333

[kindred brook]

12gb models

now the same price as 10gb models yesterday

[potent arrow]

Eat shit NVDIA

[modest moss]

I was just in my DMs tab and I was like who the actual fuck is Dan Smith

[hard drift]

lmfao... sarah is going a different route

[kindred brook]

WHO DA FUCK IS DAN SMITH

I am confused dad

[modest moss]

EXACTLY RAZ EXACTLY

[potent arrow]

[deep sapphire]

Um wrong choice of WORDS

Wow my ratcheting screw drive was made in Minnesota I’m helping my local economy

[hard drift]

Right choice of words smh

[deep sapphire]

[deep sapphire]

Weeb

[hard drift]

Weeb

[real edge]

ye very close to the 10gb

10gb is 960 euro

to give you an idea

[kindred brook]

that wink is so cute

https://slickdeals.net/f/15702916-31-5-gigabyte-m32u-4k-144hz-ips-gaming-monitor-600-free-s-h-at-b-h-photo?src=frontpage

should I buy this

Its a gaming monitor that has hdmi 2.1

so supports VRR

for consoles

or I can get a TV for my bedroom

[kindred brook]

oh shit

where you at

[latent grotto]

Is that

Microcenter

[sly elk]

hehe gundam routers

the only gundam gear you'll still find in the store huh

surprisingly, amazon does have the zaku cases and monitors

so i guess at some point someone made a tablet keyboard that has those rounded chicklet keys lol

yuck rounded keys

[paper tusk]

[sly elk]

huehue

[odd sand]

Yeah microcenter

[deep sapphire]

It’s a nice fuckin day too

[jaunty light]

ur a nice fuckin day

[jaunty light]

Our Amazon ZenCamera™️ has detected that your stress level seems high. Visit an Amazon ZenBooth™️ now or you will be killed and/or fired immediately!

[deep sapphire]

[jaunty light]

[sly elk]

Amazon has a kinda creepy corporate culture

They have like their version of the 10 commandments

And you have to memorize it

https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us/leadership-principles

I think it’s that

It’s so big a thing for them it’s on everyone’s badge

[jaunty light]

gotta make people believe in corporation religion

that way they work 1023943284x harder

[boreal surge]

Isn’t this an ASUS trademark violation?

[umbral moss]

without enforcing the gospel according to jeff, the wageslaves won't be able to work for 15 hours with less than 3 microseconds time off task

breathing is inefficient for productivity, so we have docked your pay for breathing too many times in a shift

you are now hereby notified that a second infraction will result in immediate extermination

[jaunty light]

[umbral moss]

here at amazon, we're all part of a big family working towards lord jeff's dream of going to space

any family members who fall behind will be baked, and there will be cake

[zealous wolf]

red flags...

[sly elk]

Amazon ain’t using asus stuff, that’s too fancy

It’s going to be some aliexprews ripoff

[umbral moss]

megacorps don't care, what are you going to do, try to sue them?

https://tenor.com/view/goodfellas-henry-hill-ray-liotta-laughing-laugh-gif-17070279

[zealous wolf]

r/maliciouscompliance comes to mind...

[glossy timber]

Is this some American joke I'm too British to understand

[late basalt]

@deep sapphire found hank's truck https://ifunny.co/picture/wait-hold-up-Nta0LPPN9

oh ffs discord, embed it would you?

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

Fuckin party cups

[late basalt]

christ i felt this so much looking back at old projects i had made years ago

[sweet atlas]

@deep sapphire im picking up a 13 pro max today

I dont got the accessories for it now i gotta sell my kidney

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/gZ0Cz3gRglo LMAO

[sweet atlas]

Loool

[deep sapphire]

That’s alright you don’t need any

[sweet atlas]

I do

Im a musician

I need the stupeed

Dongle or the airpods dont I

Im a virgin apple product user yk

Idk this shit

[sly elk]

i mean anything bluetooth will work

and yea, dongles. I have a dongle for using my dt880s 😄

[sweet atlas]

Got a fiio adapter?

I love beyerdynamics

[sly elk]

I've been meaning to try an amp on them to see what I'm missing out on

but honestly, I have the 250 ohm version of the dt880s, they've always sounded great plugged into most things

my old monitor has a very powerful amp built into it hahaha

my newer one isn't quite as strong

[odd sand]

Going to visit friends next week and realized it will suck not having a PC for 2 weeks. Considering biting the bullet and getting myself a laptop or a surface. Just wish the surface laptop studio could detach the keyboard like a 2-in-1. Anything like that seems to only have Intel-Xe graphics

Although for the price difference I could literally buy a Tab S and a laptop with a 3060

[sly elk]

ahhhhhh

the surface book was sweet for that reason

i've been holding off any more tech purchases because I have a feeling I'll want to buy a new laptop this year lol

[jaunty light]

new bernie mack book ultra m1

[sly elk]

as far as I can tell, the max is more than good enough lol

[jaunty light]

how you supposed to flex on the poors if you dont get an ultra omega m1^2 69

[sly elk]

they all look the same

i'm a novelty kinda person though

[jaunty light]

seasoned apple users will tell the difference

[sly elk]

if ms still made the surface book 15" I'd probably get one

the idea of having a 15" tablet sounds nice

[jaunty light]

they can detect the better operating frequencies and smell higher quality silicon

[sly elk]

liek that was why i wanted a surface book

to draw on its massive 15" screen

[jaunty light]

I still considering slapping anime stickers all over my work laptop considering I might leave soon

i dont go to conferences so i have no vendor partner stickers

[sly elk]

i don't want to sticker my laptop

but i have some stickers

[jaunty light]

I can always tell who is the "that one person that goes to all the conferences" based on the laptop

[sly elk]

i never get to go to conferences

sometimes i kinda roll my eyes at that

when it's; in the company newsletter

[jaunty light]

especially if they have another couple cm just from stickers ontop of their lid lol

[sly elk]

they friggin sent people to SXSW

they're always sending people. they never ask me to go. not that I want to go to a conference right now xD

[jaunty light]

[sly elk]

they never ask anyone in the software group

it's always PMs and system engineers and the upper management

mostly directors and stuff

understandable, i guess

[jaunty light]

I'd only go to training but haha they will never pay for it. conferences can't because I can't interface with vendors as a contractor anyways

[sly elk]

i can but it's tricky

i interface with vendors but usually after the contract has been signed

[jaunty light]

the awkward thing is that I still just do my job like I'm a federal employee, I just put fed names on it instead of my own

[sly elk]

ah

yea I think the fun meetings with swag are when you're a potential customer

not an already customer xD

[jaunty light]

yea

[sly elk]

tbh not really interested in that anyway

[jaunty light]

we sent some guys to a rubrik training online and they still got a bunch of stuff, pretty nice backpack too lol

[sly elk]

nice lol

[jaunty light]

i just like stickers except i never put them on anything

[sly elk]

same

exactly same xD

one of my favorite swag things i got from work was socks with a satellite i worked on printed on them 😄 but I don't wear them because they're kinda thin and small and annoying to wear. but they look cool!

[jaunty light]

[sly elk]

i have a pocket flask lol

ooo ad a small leatherman knife thingy

[jaunty light]

gimmie that

wtf fancy

[sly elk]

that wa sa pretty cool one

i have a couple lego satellite models too >> but the one on the socks they didn't give us mere peons

I think the program people got those

[jaunty light]

😔

they don't really give anything cool to longstanding feds here, I think at one point they sculpted some hornet f18s out of wood for 10yr+ employees of the software team but u dont get to keep them iirc

they usually just give out those glass things with an etching on em

or a piece of paper about how you're cool

[sly elk]

oooooo

that's neat

i don't think my company has a tradition of doing any fo that haha

our parent company does the glass etchy brick thing

dunno if they do it for years of service though

there are a few challenge coins

the coins are annoying because you only get those if you happen to be at your desk when somebody who is giving them out happens to remember you should get one

a handful of my coworkers have this neat 20 year anniversary card holder XD but nobody knows how/why they got it and nobody else did

[jaunty light]

we also get coins but i think its just years or something, or if you get nominated so you can exchange for company merch

which i dont do because contractor companies are trash 🙂

[sly elk]

:S yea parent company I think only sells merch they don't give it out

those companies are amusingly cheap

I recall hearing stories about one of our competitors

[jaunty light]

idr the number but my contractor manager told me and on average for my billet we cost around 250 grand

[sly elk]

that they don't even have free coffee

[jaunty light]

as in the government pays my company 250 grand for me and then I get like 1/4 of that

[sly elk]

that doesn't surprise me

[jaunty light]

I have a very bad relationship with my company because of that the tension is always high if I talk to managers it's hilarious

not really a secret figure, but guess it depends on how you approach salary convos with it

never 4get when a manager told me that I make more than he did at his age (implying i should be happy where im at), then I asked him if he was filling a journeyman-senior IT role and he didnt respond

[sly elk]

ahahaha sonofabitch linkedin dude got me with this one ahhahahaa

"dyson bladeless jet engine"

ahahhahahaa

i was looking at it going 'but wait how the fuck does that even work'

[jaunty light]

Dyson finally achieved the impossible

then in the future the landing gears will just be dyson balls

[sly elk]

i do like this picture

[jaunty light]

dank side of the moon

[sly elk]

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

[jaunty light]

Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) nasa keeping alive the acronym culture..

shameful that they didnt include acronyms within acronyms within acronyms

[lost python]

i got a thing

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/707164440562237463/959792107315425331/IMG_20220402_143011.jpg

didnt expect it to be that huge and heavy

[dull garnet]

That's what she said

[potent arrow]

Bro ur wrist is fucking toothpick

[lost python]

It isn't. It just looks that tiny compared to the gpu

It's a normal chonky arm

[potent arrow]

I feel emasculated by your arm

D:

[lost python]

I'm a little hairy ok

[latent grotto]

https://youtu.be/6P1p5k7npok

Wat

Wait it came out yesterday

Nvm

[hard drift]

came out march 31st

but it is a joke 😔

[latent grotto]

Unless...?

[real edge]

[lost python]

Man

AMDs driver UI is so nice compared to GeForce experience.

Also when i plug my powered USB C cable for my pen display into my usb3 extension card, all the lights in my PC turn on

[potent arrow]

It is, I wish Geforce wasnt so shit

[lost python]

Fuck it. I am tired. This is as best as it's gonna get

[potent arrow]

Naisu

[umbral moss]

I think the dyson design could be scaled to that much thrust, but I wonder how much ancillary air assist you need to provide to get there

I've seen hubless bicycles that look like black magic

[late basalt]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jbXJa8osys0

[sly elk]

ahahahahaa

I have experienced something similar to this

[jaunty light]

Dear junior, when I tried to solve this only god and I knew! Now only god.. Hours wasted: 9999

[sly elk]

lol

there's a similar version that goes something like "junior approached me asking for help to make a thing, but I already made that thing a year ago and never finished it"

[jaunty light]

I swear I've seen scripts that were copy pasted from SO and even had the website formatting in them commented out

[sly elk]

and the director sent the junior to me because he vaguely remembers me talking about that something 😄

[boreal surge]

As a junior engineer, I have never done this. Except for template metaprogramming which is something they never cover in college

[sly elk]

oh the stack overflow thing?

I've never seen a junior do exactly that?

copy/paste solutions off stack overflow? yea sure everyone does that lol

[boreal surge]

No the ask something about stack overflow only to find out your manager has abs no clue either

[kindred brook]

wow your arm is bigger than my arm

[jaunty light]

Sarah be pumpin 70s

[potent arrow]

I got bobbbaa

[tropic trail]

I've had a shower thought about amputing my arms and having cool prosthetic tools instead

Like, imagine a milwauke drill hand

[boreal surge]

Mmmm question on mice. G502 or Basilisk v3?

[sly elk]

mmm I like my g502 but I also like my viper ultimate

[potent arrow]

@deep sapphire

[jaunty light]

[jaunty light]

Gprox superlight

[sly elk]

errr

i'm having doubts about how much weight those skinny pieces of wood can hold

like the first half looks pretty sound

but the top half the parts sticking out look completely unspported, just some cantilever

[boreal surge]

Also I should really check what weights I put in my g502, so far as I’m concerned I prefer a weightier mouse

[next tundra]

What is this malicious design

[sly elk]

wait whaaaat

[jaunty light]

:OmegaLUL:

[modest moss]

a grand for delivery, the fuck

[jaunty light]

Overnight shipping from japan

[modest moss]

I mean, that's nearly half of kyanche's RGB budget for the week gone

[sly elk]

hey I haven't bought any new RGB since i bought my gpu

i guess my mouse counts

oh and the alarm clock

[jaunty light]

Install rgb on the washer

[sly elk]

I love that idea

i really do

[deep sapphire]

Slinging parts for harry

[sly elk]

i doubt it uses a regular lightbulb though

if it did, I could probably replace it with an rgb light bulb lol

[jaunty light]

Wire up a board that interprets what mode its in and address rgb

[sly elk]

but that still wouldn't be what I want

yea I want it to do rgb while washing

[jaunty light]

Spin cycle? Rgb spinny

[sly elk]

YES!

IT WOULD BE SO COOL!

[jaunty light]

[sly elk]

people already like wathcing washing machines

imagine with a light show

[deep sapphire]

What do you think

LMAO I’m no where near that big

That dude has to be 7ft tall

LMAO true

[wintry drift]

7'2"

it's this guy:

name escapes me atm

dutch body builder

[jaunty light]

@deep sapphire

Noticed today i got a lil bit of traps now

Too bad i put on a big coat of fat beer2delicious

[deep sapphire]

Fatass ford driver

[jaunty light]

Chubby chevy chaser @deep sapphire

[zealous wolf]

even in bad times, appliance sales are STONKS...