technology-discussion

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

[tough idol]

Now it's an xmas leaf

[royal forge]

im glad the french included asterix and obelix

that was a nice call back

[tough idol]

France just keeps getting fancier

Someone put a single black pixel in the middle of the US flag

OCD people are gonna flip out

Oh crap, I'm in the wrong tab

I should just go to bed

This is awkward

[sly elk]

that thing is annoying af

i keep seeing screenshots of it lol

[jaunty light]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRjYkAlJW5o who wants some roland ADS

bussin

[jaunty light]

@deep sapphire

they're so extra now

yoooo i want one of these

[odd sand]

🤔

[royal forge]

nice

[sly elk]

hahahaha
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1648829114

[odd sand]

This is why I want my TV in a VLAN ... they try to pull something like that, and I just IP block their ad network

Also: You get what you pay for. Buy a cheap TV and you are the product.

[torpid kayak]

if I play like next to my pc, bluetooth connected controllers works responsively enough?

cabled would be better choice but I tend to step on it so I opt for wireless

[sly elk]

ERROR COULD NOT CONNECT TO SERVER. FOR SECURITY REASONS, YOUR TV MUST BE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET

[sly elk]

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/tlc84k

[jaunty light]

how else can we update your tv to include even more ads? for security of course

[austere socket]

OOOUGH that's inspiring me to buy a nicer couch

[sly elk]

milk crate case

4:3 monitor

[jaunty light]

aint nothin keepin this man from gamin

[sly elk]

nuh

🙂

[dull garnet]

Soul

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/mine-you-are-soul-eater-gif-12056228

[modest moss]

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

[deep sapphire]

Not a Chevy

https://tenor.com/view/days-of-thunder-gif-11968950

I wish codemasters would remaster the first GRID

Such a good game

I loved the garage, how they did the menu was so cool

[boreal surge]

Codemasters now EA tho

[deep sapphire]

Did you know sega watched days of thunder 30 times to make Daytona USA

[sweet atlas]

@deep sapphire i still cant use my iphone

Cos i cant make an apple ID

Cos my sim aint done being activated by my phone company

Also nice discord banner

[modest moss]

COLE TRICKLE

[deep sapphire]

[deep sapphire]

DROPPIN THE HAMMER

[modest moss]

WARM DRIBBLE

[boreal surge]

Y u no wifi

[sweet atlas]

i need a mobile number

otherwise i cant make an apple ID

[boreal surge]

Wha? When was that a thing?

[sweet atlas]

cos I applied for a phone plan on a new line

and the sim aint like setup on their system yet

idk man

just switched to apple

the other day

till now i still havent set my phone up

[boreal surge]

Huh. 2FA bullshittery it seems.

[sweet atlas]

yeah something like that

[boreal surge]

Cause I definitely do not recall having to put in a mobile number when I created mine ages ago

[sweet atlas]

yeah im a new apple user

[boreal surge]

Huh I guess it did pull up my number somehow

[odd sand]

Decided to bite the bullet and get myself a new laptop before my 2 week trip

Got the Surface Laptop Studio bc the screen folds down on top of the keyboard instead of the usual 2-in-1s that only fold over and have the keyboard facing into your lap

Then I can use it like a tablet as well for mobile shit or drawing. Guess I should sell my Cintiq then, should be able to get 400-500 for it

[sly elk]

I think that makes more sense than the old surface book I guess

But it was still neat pulling the screen off lol

[mortal condor]

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/tv977d/windows_11_may_not_be_as_popular_as_microsoft_had/?sort=old

Microsoft with the

https://tenor.com/view/surprised-pikachu-surprised-pikachu-face-face-gif-15329743

[sly elk]

why would anyone willingly use windows 11

[mortal condor]

Well

Most PC's now ship with Win 11

And unless you're at least somewhat tech savvy (which a majority of PC users aren't) you won't know how to rollback to Win 10

[odd sand]

Speaking of which, my new laptop has Win11 on it.

Honestly, I'm rather particular about that sort of thing, but I didn't see anything egregiously wrong with 11 in the VM I tried out during beta

There certainly isn't any compelling reason for most users to go to 11 if they're on 10 already, but I don't have any outrage towards it like how shit Win8, Vista, early XP and ME were.

Moving the taskbar back to the left is a simple setting you can switch, the quick menu is a major improvement over the menu soup that was the Start Menu, and the regular explorer window is still there.

[outer sand]

my entertainment PC is still windows 10 ._.

games and media players usually lagged behind in terms of using the newest OS

so I'll just wait till It stabilise before I update

for work, I just follow what the colleague are doing lol

[odd sand]

OHBOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUw5tR0BdEc

(Pretty sure that original Razer mouse was reviewed semi-recently somewhere else)

[outer sand]

wheel mouse, dam

[sly elk]

i like the color, kinda reminds me of my old jeep. i still like metallic more 😄

[sly elk]

the heck?!

that costs almost the same as the ge washer does by itself ><

but i'm kinda afraid to buy a washer from a company known for making things that explode

[robust jacinth]

Are those samsung?

[sly elk]

mhmm

hmm company has a ge deal i guess too let's see

ahhahaha

[robust jacinth]

Stay away from Samsung

when it comes to washer and dryers LG, Bosch and I believe it's maytag are you best options.

[sly elk]

I am never touching anything made by whirlpool again

i was thinking about bosch though

[robust jacinth]

bosch are good, put you pay throught he nose for them

LG is going to be the more budget friendly and easier to find depending on where you are at

[deft iris]

Lmao

[sly elk]

Ge's $100 cheaper buying direct from them but they won't deliver until the 16th 😦

my busted whirlpool still works but it randomly makes scary noises

[deep sapphire]

LG you pay for it by it being a piece of shit

LG appliances are horrible

do not buy

[jaunty light]

LG is the best get outta here

[deep sapphire]

LG is the Ford of everything else

[jaunty light]

hank prolly buys everything samsung

[deep sapphire]

maybe

this server is weeb trash

just like you

[sly elk]

GM used to make refrigerators, ya know

[deep sapphire]

GM is the best

[hard drift]

GM simp

[deep sapphire]

why are you awake

also bros not good, I think I finally figured out whats wrong when I shift out of gear and it snags up for a second

tail house bushing on the transmission is shot

[hard drift]

what do you mean? i've been awake i just didn't feel like speaking in the discord

[deep sapphire]

need to readjust the stator and put a new bushing and seal

do you know what that means bidori

HUH

DO YOU

it means I have to readjust the stator and put a new bushing and seal in

[hard drift]

yay? idk wtf you are talking about

[deep sapphire]

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71I88REhEWL._AC_SY355_.jpg

smh an intel fan would know what this is

[hard drift]

🤷‍♂️ oh well

[deep sapphire]

@hard drift

come back

you want pizza?

[hard drift]

no, not really also why should i come back?

[deep sapphire]

the gasket on the tail house is wet, which means its leaking transmission fluid

which makes me thing the stator shaft is pivoted down on the bushing

which then caused the bushing to get destroyed

and put too much pressure on the housing

separating the tail house from the bell house

god calm down bidori I was only joking

well not about my issue thats real

but no I dont expect you to know this

I thought it was a u joint, but that didnt fix it

[hard drift]

i wasn't raising my tone or anything though

[hard drift]

also is this actually hard? from the sound of it, it seems simple

[deep sapphire]

it requires working on the transmission

so it can get hard quickly if you arent careful

[hard drift]

i know nothing about that just be careful i guess

[deep sapphire]

have fun!

[hard drift]

i don't own a car nor do i have a license, not a chance i'm following that

[deep sapphire]

99.99 percent of people who drive probably have zero clue how a transmission works

and I dont blame them

the concept of it is actually pretty simple, but how they achieve that is not

[hard drift]

also that picture is pointless when it just counts parts essentially and doesn't tell me anything

[deep sapphire]

if you know what a planetary gear is

then you'll know how a transmission works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_y1S8C0Hmc

okay here you go

wow why 😔

this video is simple to follow

[hard drift]

because 😔

[sly elk]

i can get a cheap top loader or one of these two i think xd
https://www.lowes.com/pd/GE-4-8-cu-ft-Stackable-Steam-Cycle-Front-Load-Washer-White-ENERGY-STAR/1001839490
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Electrolux-4-5-Cu-Ft-Front-Load-Washer/5005381569

[deep sapphire]

all a transmission does is couple the driveshaft/wheels to the engine and keeps the engine RPMs in a nice happy zone

[sly elk]

too bad the samsung washer dryer set costs the same as either oen of those washers haha

[deep sapphire]

by using gear ratios

1:1 means for every rotation of 1 gear, it is the same on the other gear

so each "gear" in a transmission operates at a certain gear ratio

so that the engine only has to operate at a certain speed to transfer the power to the drive wheels

if it was 1:1 the engine would have to operate at exploding levels to achieve the speeds most people drive at

that was a horrible explanation nvm this is why im not a teacher

you've rode a mountain bike before right

[hard drift]

ish

[deep sapphire]

you remember how it had that dial on the handle with the numbers

[hard drift]

yeah

[deep sapphire]

when you had it on 1, the peddle was very easy to move

when it was on a higher number

it was very hard to move

[hard drift]

yeah?

[deep sapphire]

the purpose of that is when you are starting out, you have it at 1, then as you build speed, you move the numbers up to maintain speed

thats how a transmission works

if you kept peddling at 1, and had decent speed on the bike, you would be basically peddling really fast for no reason and you wouldnt notice and force being applied

[hard drift]

yeah

[modest moss]

we have a samsung washing machine, it's been reliable, didn't pay those prices for it either

[deep sapphire]

A smaller gear has to move more rotations to achieve the same rotational power of a large gear, so 1 on a mountain bike is the smallest gear on the bike, as you move the number up the chain goes to the larger gears

It requires more force to move a larger gear than a smaller gear

That’s what a gear ratio means

[hard drift]

Okay, makes sense

[deep sapphire]

In a vehicle you have something called the fly wheel, that’s the 1:1 gear that’s directly connected to the engine, the transmission then selects smaller gears when you first accelerate and then as you gain speed it shifts into more gears or “larger gears” until it can maintain that 1:1 ratio

1:1 is typically called “overdrive” and that’s when you are coasting at highway speeds, the transmission will essentially lock itself with the flywheel in unison which reduces the friction and power loss

[hard drift]

Power loss being speed?

[deep sapphire]

It makes it so the engine doesn’t have to operate at a high RPMs to achieve speed, the more revs your engine has to do the more fuel it consumes

Keeping everything 1:1 means low power use and thus less fuel consumption

An EV doesn’t have to worry about this

As the engine essentially directly connects to the wheels

[hard drift]

Oh okay

[deep sapphire]

That’s why EVs in comparison are much more efficient

[jaunty light]

EVs are for nerds

if yer not rollin coal yer not a real american

[deep sapphire]

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/coal-coal-mining-burning-coal-borann-boys-elite-dangerous-gif-25231674

[hard drift]

But current EVs are trash lol

[deep sapphire]

That’s entirely on the power source being the battery

An electric motor is significantly more efficient than a petrol engine

Gasoline by itself is extremely energy dense, but a combustion cycle is not

The most efficient gasoline engines are only about 70 percent

The biggest drawback of an EV is the battery and our lack of infrastructure to support mass adoption of them

But it’s getting better

In 10 years you’d be dumb not to own an EV

[hard drift]

Maybe, probably. We’ll see

[deep sapphire]

The battery has come a long way, the Nissan Leaf when it came out in the late 2000s only had like 100 mile range, now you can get EVs with 400 mile range or more

In 10 years who knows what they’ll achieve

And now that there is a market for them

Companies will invest much more into it

[hard drift]

Yeah, maybe I’ll get my first car then 🙃

[jaunty light]

only if you live in cities

or dont live in an apartment.. or don't live where it's cold as fucc

mass adoption of electric motorcycles, you can just park it inside

[sly elk]

yea the samsungs are really cheap

like that fancycolor champagne set is like $1190, that's not much more than buying a ge by itself lmao

[modest moss]

why don't you get one then?

do you have Beko over there?

I saw a consumer report show on brands like these and Beko were the only brand contacted who were transparent about the parts they used and provided service manuals etc so you could get the cheapest repairs

we had a cheap af Beko before we moved here, super reliable

[jaunty light]

whirlpool gang

https://www.wayfair.com/appliances/pdp/unity-laundry-systems-unity-laundry-55-cu-ft-high-efficiency-front-load-washer-in-silver-bity1000.html @deep sapphire

[sly elk]

nope nope not buying whirlpool again

when i was in college my landlord had a whirlpool, it was always breaking

then when i moved out of that house we had to buy new ones, and whirlpool was way cheaper, so I went with those. machine lasted 6 years. i was ok with that

replaced it with another whirlpool and that ate the bearings and stuff after 2 years

[jaunty light]

instead of a washer buy this

[sly elk]

the only store that seems to have a website I can order off of

claims that beko and bosch have like 12 week order times

[modest moss]

don't places like walmart or bestbuy sell them? costco?

[sly elk]

BB doesn't have beko machines

i wonder what costco charges because i don't have a membership

[modest moss]

someone here must have a membership

[jaunty light]

buy me membership and ill check

[modest moss]

ask mRab in #not-ffxiv-discussion

[sly elk]

beko washers are so tiny hehe

1.94cu ft

[odd sand]

Funny you mention Bosch: The sales rep in laptops at Best Buy today was telling me about having to wait 2.5 months to get his Bosch dishwasher in stock but was glad to wait to get a nice model

Whether EVs work for you depends on your area, house vs apartment, and how much driving you do

(Doing a belated necro response)

If you don't drive much, topping off at the grocery store weekly could work even if you were in an apartment. Some apartment complexes offer EV charging as well.

Probably in the long-run there will be govt incentives for landlords to install 240V chargers and businesses will install trickle-chargers for their parking lots... can be charging all day at work then, etc.

Homeowners you just plug in when you get home from work and it will turn on whenever your off-peak power kicks in and stop charging at 80% usually for best conditioning

[paper tusk]

short of a speedqueen for 1800 usd this is probably on the good enough side https://www.appliancesconnection.com/electrolux-efls527uiw.html

[lost python]

Ok so

I spent an entire weekend with a 6900xt and so far i am surprised

In a good way

The driver software is fucking s-tier compared to Nvidia, at least UI wise.
I also really like having an fps lock that i can toggle via hotkey.

So far i also had no issues at all and I can run my card with a slight overclock and undervolt just fine but with like 100w less consumption

I do hope it stays that way

Also God damn the reference model is quiet

There is a performance tab where you can enable advanced settings to manage the clocks, voltages Powerlimit etc

Also good point: I don't need third party Software for OC

[river belfry]

finally, an MMO mouse for me

Only 459.99

Okay wait that's a different product that's that price

this is the 460 dollar mouse

[odd sand]

Isn't that one of those specialized drafting tools?

[jaunty light]

i need it

imagine how good of a gamer i could be

[sly elk]

iiiiinteresting

GE does the same shit everyone else does with warranties: the 10 year warranty is actually only for the motor and drum. Everything else is only covered for 1 year. But then some of the machines have a "Good housekeeping seal" and it seems those have a 2 year "if it's defective we refund the purchase price" warranty.

[jaunty light]

[sly elk]

i'm gonna sell the old one on craigslist for $20 or something

[royal forge]

Greetings

https://youtu.be/y2cdfuRQPxk

Goodbye

[jaunty light]

is that iut

"handcrafted tubes" dont try and imply u did anything but heat gun and bend some premades

[royal forge]

Im more titled about the boba

I think its just fake

But you never know

[jaunty light]

prolly just dyed coolant with some fake tapioca in the res id guess

guess u could do it with the tea anyways but that stuff is sugary .. lines would get nasty af

[royal forge]

Imagine using real ones but you dont change it

[sweet atlas]

@deep sapphire got my iPhone set up

Kinda hard to get used to things ahahaha coming from android

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/business/status/1510924741904941057 WELP

Bloomberg (@business)

BREAKING: Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter, Bloomberg News reports https://t.co/qcG7Sq4fGT

▶ Play video

Twitter · Apr 4, 2022, 10:18 AM

[inland mauve]

does the value of twitter go up when he shitposts about bitcoin or something?

[umbral moss]

it will now

[umbral moss]

as long as you don't let it get too evaporated it's not dramatically different than using dye in your coolant

the fact it's warm will probably help keep it in solution anyway, since that's how you make the damn stuff in the first place

[deep sapphire]

Don’t worry you’ll adjust to it quickly

The only thing IMO that’s unintuitive is the settings menu

It’s a fuckin mess

[umbral moss]

the iphone SE 3 or whatever looks mighty tempting but I want a little more screen real estate out of that chassis size 😔

[modest moss]

Jack was already a massive cryptobro wanker anyway, so this isn't a big deal

[dull garnet]

Elon buys some shit
Wait a year
Doomp

ez

[lost python]

[potent arrow]

[sweet atlas]

Its prettu fucking bad

[sweet atlas]

Ahahaha it haaaard

Littl ebit

[sharp star]

Apple make an intuitive settings menu challenge (impossible)

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

[umbral moss]

it just works, as long as you don't need to change anything

[deep sapphire]

Thankfully that is mostly true and each app has its own settings so if you have to mess with something in safari you just go to safari

My biggest issue is the “general” tab has way too much shit under it

They need to categorize it better

[umbral moss]

safari

https://tenor.com/view/disgusting-disdain-ewww-gif-12010068

[dull garnet]

appel
good
xd

[kindred brook]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHa3rxmSi1c

[zealous wolf]

to be honest, an SUV of a ferrari or lamborghini is a shitty idea, esp a 4 door sedan type...

[sly elk]

considering how important twitter is to his relevance, basically a marketing machine lol

[sly elk]

honestly at this point, an SUV is the only thing Ferrari should be making if they want to be relevant

2 seater sports cars just aren't relevant anymore 😄

they never really were relevant in the US in the first place though

this $<cost of 2 nice houses> supercar can do 0-200 in 10 seconds and carve corners out of these famous mountains in Italy!

BUY IT, PERSON THAT SPENDS ALL THEIR TIME STUCK IN TRAFFIC IN LOS ANGELES!

-rolls eyes and falls over-

[zealous wolf]

least 1 good thing is rising gas prices is doing hits against SUVs...

[deep sapphire]

Not really, most SUVs are crossovers and are very fuel efficient

Maybe large SUVs like Tahoe and Suburban (if you can even call that an SUV)

[zealous wolf]

ahhh right, most are Tahoes and dodge caravans etc...

[deep sapphire]

Most average buyers will buy smaller crossover style SUVs like CX-30 or RAV4

Tahoe is if you need a truck but still need a family hauler but still want something shorter wheelbase

I don’t see truck sales going down much though, they are great vehicles that do it all and that’s why they are popular

[zealous wolf]

Regardless of car companies having an SUV hard on fetish, at least 2 door's will always be a love for eternity...

[deep sapphire]

I mostly feel like people can’t afford multiple vehicles anymore and having a dedicated sports car with a family isn’t realistic and a Supra is out of most younger buyers

[zealous wolf]

the traditional Supra is akin to having a Bugattie these days in the car community, esp the one everyone knows of...

[deep sapphire]

I meant the new one haha yeah the Mk IV is basically a god car

The SC300 is hard to find too

It’s funny that the SC400 is worth nothing all because it doesn’t have a 2JZ

The 1UZ is a great engine

Of course you could always make a cheap sports car with a junkyard Chevy truck LS based engine

They handle insane power with very little modifications

[zealous wolf]

sometimes i used to think of folks building their own supercars...

like from scratch, chassies, engine etc...

[sly elk]

it depends on your definition of fuel efficient

most promise around 25-30mpg

some even get as far as 35mpg

it still aint touching a 45mpg prius

shit everything on this page maxes at 28mpg

https://www.motortrend.com/features/crossovers-with-the-best-gas-mileage/

[zealous wolf]

28mpg is stupidly low to me honestly...

i remember taking a vacation to Laughlin with family in a Prius from cali, and the mpg shits over Crossovers...

[sly elk]

yea that's what I mean, I wouldn't call 28mpg "high"

lol I only use my jeep for in-town things and honestly I drive it like 3 times a week to mcdonalds drive thru and that's abuout it hahahhahha

that poor thing gets 11.8mpg because most of its time the engine is idle hahaha

to someone with a like 15mpg car/truck/suv, sure 28mpg sounds high

in europe where they drive VW Ups and whatever other tiny thing, 28mpg probably sounds atrocious, especially in the UK where their gallon is like 15% bigger than a US gallon

[modest moss]

this is the same car just in 6 different colours right?

[sly elk]

i think these get like 55mpg and

they really should

probably a 3cyl with 80hp

The three-door bodywork is inspired by the 2007 concept Up, the engine range is 1.0 L three-cylinder gasoline 60 hp (45 kW) and 75 hp (56 kW).

hahahahahahahaha

[zealous wolf]

55mpg is Prius territory, even i would use it for long trips...

sure the room inside would be smol but least overtime i would pay less for fuel...

[sly elk]

hehe

[jaunty light]

Laughs in 9mpg

[deep sapphire]

30 MPG is bad?

I get like 12 at best

LMAO

[jaunty light]

Maybe if u got rid of that yeeyee ass beer belly you'd get some more mpg on your truck

[sly elk]

what i was saying is it's not really all that great

[deep sapphire]

Ur the fat

[deep sapphire]

[jaunty light]

[odd sand]

My 99 Saturn SC1 (SOHC) got over 40mpg highway. My best was 44mpg with all highway miles bc the max powerband on it was right at like 65-70mpg

I had an SC2 (DOHC) after that and I think that was more like 35-36MPG highway when new and sunk to about 32-33 when it was older

If you really want to talk fuel economy you go with TDi stuff like the Golf/Jetta. Those were like 55-70mpg afaik

https://www.motortrend.com/news/a-volkswagen-golf-tdi-drove-through-48-states-and-averaged-81-mpg/

[deep sapphire]

Yes

[deep sapphire]

Which is why I laughed when they got hit so hard over the diesel gate shit

Hot

[sly elk]

yea....

https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/tw81za/i_dont_know_how_he_finds_the_tool_hes_looking_for/

[deep sapphire]

I hate people like this

Clean your tools off at the end of the night and put them where they belong smh

Very clean

I organize all my sockets and wrenches

Who wants to spend 10 minutes finding a tool

[sly elk]

i don't have enough tools to need that sorta organization

i just have them in a plastic box

I eventually would like to get a small rolling box but even a small one would likely be overkill

[austere socket]

isn't that how duty finder works?

[sly elk]

prolly something like this
https://www.harborfreight.com/tool-storage-organization/u-s-general-tool-storage/tool-carts/30-in-5-drawer-mechanics-cart-green-64721.html

yea? 😄

i think a flat top one would be better https://www.harborfreight.com/tool-storage-organization/u-s-general-tool-storage/roller-cabinets/26-in-x-22-in-single-bank-roller-cabinet-blue-64434.html

[deep sapphire]

Lmao

[deep sapphire]

Yeah I have this cart

It’s on sale rn if you’re in the insider program

[sly elk]

noice

[deep sapphire]

The cart is a bargain IMO, they’re well made and for 200 bucks you aren’t gonna find something cheaper

[austere socket]

I like the cats who hang out behind your monitor and attacc your keystrokes

[deep sapphire]

Or sit on your tower and get dust inside

[austere socket]

AWW

yeah cats are fur generators fr

[deep sapphire]

FLOOF

[odd sand]

GIVE ME WARMTH, HUMAN SPACE HEATER.

[royal forge]

https://youtu.be/jGyHT0t-mtw

P neat

[inland mauve]

if you think your mute was unjustified, you can open a #discord-modmail, though automutes last only for an hour

[royal forge]

Wut

[inland mauve]

the person who got muted

they changed their username

[sly elk]

man

I think at this point i refuse to watch LTT just because every damn video has him going 😮

https://jalopnik.com/driver-buys-ferrari-then-crashes-it-in-less-than-two-mi-1848740057

Nah, look at the scratches on the hood and bumper, they’re all lateral, not longitudinal, implying there was sideways motion during the crash. If you look closely you can also see the guard rail next to the car is scarred, as is the curb. My money is on giving it the beans with traction control off, and a resulting introduction to snap oversteer when they slammed on the brakes after the rear broke loose.

I met the head mechanic at Ferrari of Toronto (the largest Ferrari dealer in North America at the time) back in 2005. He said the first piece of advice he gave every new owner was something to the effect of: “Never turn the traction control mode to Race. I don’t care how much talent you think you have. It’s not enough.”

[royal forge]

Tbh, the video itself usually has substance so.. its still ok, to me.

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/5nzGnqBGAtE oh no Milwaukee bros…

[wintry drift]

look at the the proles fighting amongst themselves knowing they'll never be jp makita quality

https://tenor.com/baX3D.gif

[deep sapphire]

Pfft Milwaukee tools last forever

[wintry drift]

you can see the asterisk on that sentence from space

[deep sapphire]

Makita makes good shit but they’re full of themselves so they never have any sales

[wintry drift]

sales are how you devalue the perceived brand image and quality

unfortunately

¯_(ツ)_/¯

also the real problem is the us market gets flooded with the third party makita badged stuff instead of the madeinjapan stuff supposedly

[odd sand]

The DeWalt looks longer aka larger motor, so it makes sense.

Also it was undoubtedly engineered to beat the existing Milwaukee tool 🤷‍♀️

[wintry drift]

like the old racecar engineering

[deep sapphire]

Milwaukee hasn’t released their gen 3 mid torque yet and hasn’t said much so hopefully soonish

Granted the gen 2 is more than plenty powerful

[wintry drift]

everyone knows the most important part is which color scheme looks better in clothes for when you make your corporate allegiances your whole identity

and yellow aint it

[deep sapphire]

True

DeWalt also has a habit of making a confusing product lineup with cheap garbage and then contractor grade tools

[wintry drift]

they devalue their own perception on purpose

for reasons

used to be you could tell because their own stuff looked off-brand yellow

[deep sapphire]

Makita BTFO

40v tool gets bested by 18v

[wintry drift]

https://tenor.com/view/homicide-detective-gif-21674784

[deep sapphire]

The XGT line is the dumbest shit ever, everyone else has figured out how to make a hybrid battery that works on both platforms but Makita be like no you only get 40v and it’s 500 dollars for a kit

Oh and never goes on sale

[wintry drift]

neither do apple products

[deep sapphire]

Yeah but everyone and their mother can get interest free financing, power tools you’re paying that up front bae bee

Makita is more popular in Oceania regions

[wintry drift]

yeah, you get the primo stuff from jp

[deep sapphire]

But out here I don’t know a soul who has Makita tools

[wintry drift]

is there a third tool manufacturer or is it all dewalt v unpronounceable red

in the us

[deep sapphire]

In the professional scene not really, but for DIY Ryobi One+ is easily the best bang for your buck

I like Milwaukee because they’re usually the leader in technology and have a solid reputation for reliability

DeWalt not so much and their warranty sucks

[sly elk]

to me, contractor grade is like military grade 😄

it means cheap shit 😄

[deep sapphire]

Donut media tested a Milwaukee impact and literally submerged it in water while using the tool and it never failed

[sly elk]

contractor grade fixtures = the cheapest ones home depot sells

ah that sounds like a far cry from ryobi with their power scrubber that fails if you use it in the shower to clean the shower without the water running

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

[umbral moss]

isn't that basically an electric toothbrush though?

[sly elk]

a huge one

i think the idea in theory is amazing for like, scrubbing a shower or windows or something

[umbral moss]

I thought you were talking about the teeny 4V one

[sly elk]

idk about washing a car hahaha

[umbral moss]

it's like, literally an electric toothbrush

[sly elk]

this thing!

[umbral moss]

yeah lmao

[umbral moss]

nah, that's way too much resistance on the buffing wheel for that tiny ass motor

you need a router motor for something like that

[sly elk]

I hear where you're coming from

[umbral moss]

yeah bwoi

that's a proper cleaning tool

[jaunty light]

alright, time to clean your face

[odd sand]

That's a great way to grind grime into your paintjob \o/

[sly elk]

definitely not approving it for washing a car

unless you want that freshly dealer washed car look

[odd sand]

Good to know this still isn't fixed 5 months later https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/report-an-issue/windows-11-bug-windows-remain-displayed-on-screen-when-closed/m-p/3010238

[jaunty light]

terraform users be like

[odd sand]

I'm supposed to learn that, but have been given no more guidance for it beyond the first 2 hour tutorial

[jaunty light]

i read the formatting and decided i didnt like it

if anything I'll go play in ansible land

[odd sand]

Unfortunately terraform and ansible are complements not replacements

You would have ansible run a command to execute a terraform script and create a new VM, etc.

[jaunty light]

cue the "you're going to brazil" meme but instead "you're learning terraform"

[odd sand]

And yes, Terraform being space-sensitive formatting like python is annoying

[jaunty light]

We also have been asked to implement jenkins

[lost python]

Man for a moment i thought that's stellaris

[boreal surge]

Why is it all spicy

[modern iris]

Hey guys, does anybody know a workaround for this? So apparently Post Shadowbringers and Endwalker album is already out on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ImwbW0MzliZjgtFc1dhGB?si=9ecd0a67b36640c5

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7fciLc1v61Dbuy2SzWTPdV?si=ea45255ef4fa4ca3

But I'm unable to play it, does anybody who uses Spotify know a workaround for this? Cause region locking is lame as shit.

[umbral moss]

https://imgur.com/gallery/PinhSJ9

[torn matrix]

VPN to Japan is the quick option

as for yoinking it from spoopify, I know at least one app that can do so

I yarr'd both DuD and EW anyway

@modern iris

[modern iris]

Was this the app you were referring to?

[torn matrix]

nah I was referring to grabbing the track from spotify itself

Not the game files

[modern iris]

Oh how do I do that?

Cause I'd much rather just yoink it and make my own playlist to download and listen to offline 😄

[torn matrix]

The one I use is called spytify

It has to pull from your PC audio output stream or something, so everything but Spotify has to be muted

and it has to pull while the thing is streaming, so you gotta wait for it to record one by one

[modern iris]

Oh, but my thingy is greyed out

Won't let me play it to do that :c

[torn matrix]

which is why I said

VPN to Japan first

get around the region lock is the first thing

[modern iris]

Oh okay tysm!

I've yet to try the vpn thing and Spytify, messing around with this for fun first :3

[royal forge]

https://tenor.com/view/nordvpn-nordvpn-man-gif-25157669

[inland mauve]

you should read Rule 3 of the server rules

especially this part:

Sharing datamined music will result in an immediate ban.

[modern iris]

Oh wow didn't even know that was a thing, thank you for that

[void dove]

yeah datamined, well anything, would be owned by SE, they technically could flag it with Discord and cause issues for this server
but music especially, as they sell the soundtracks

[umbral moss]

soken has been very public about asking people not to rip the game files and post them

if you like the music, buy the soundtrack

especially since the man was literally composing music for you while he was being treated for cancer

[void dove]

you can find a lot of the older music on Spotify to listen to for free, newer stuff takes a while though from what ive heard

hmm, unless im blind, i think only a couple of the albums are on Spotify, but i dunno how to use it 😛

[umbral moss]

as far as I know all the XIV soundtracks are on spotify, except maybe endwalker since that's not out yet?

[modern iris]

Death Unto Dawn (post SHB) still isn't, base SHB took 2 years after release to come to Spotify.

[sweet atlas]

Eggs

Wheres the egg guy

[sly elk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/twlxk4/my_1990s_battle_station/

i gotta appreciate the early-mid-90s setup

i'd say that pic was taken in like 1996 maybe

oof we had a very similar magnavox back then XD

also that dude's speakers put everyone's stupid little studio monitors to shame hahahahaha

geez i thought those were shelves

[modern iris]

Those box tvs always hit me with a tsunami of nostalgia <3, and when they'd break down slam the back of it to try get it working right again

[sly elk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/twm2u0/my_completed_gaming_setup/
i am amused with the carpet ahhaha

[sly elk]

I like the carpet lol

It totally doesn’t match the happy go lucky pink

I suppose they could summon rias with it

[modern iris]

Have u watched lazy game reviews on YouTube? Dude is pure 80s/90s nostalgia trip

[outer sand]

pink power over 9000

[robust vessel]

Tech wizards, I have a dumb question.

[lost python]

i may have a dumb answer for you

[robust vessel]

Cat6 or Cat6a for my home internet. I have fiber. 1 gb up. Will I notice a difference with 6a?

[lost python]

id say you will probably not notice any differences unless you are trying to run a 50m long cable or something

[robust vessel]

Gotcha, figured

Thanks

[potent arrow]

Isn't a more expensive

[sly elk]

Yea that's my favorite youtube channel lol

I especially like the oddware

[potent arrow]

Like cat6a is better signal integrity

But they are the same speeds

[sly elk]

gigabit can be done on 5e, though

[potent arrow]

Yeah

But 6 has less crosstalk

I think.

[deep sapphire]

TECHNOLOGY

Yeah CAT6a is just better made essentially

In a home network you wouldn’t notice the difference

@modest moss my arms hurt from polishing this shaft

Been at this shit for hours

I hate cast iron

METAL 2 STRONG

[potent arrow]

Better be using a angle grinder

Also Hank be proud of me, I managed to replace the gas door on my civic with a sawzall

[deep sapphire]

Lmao

Nah I have to use a file and emery cloth

And touch it up with a scotch brite pad

[robust vessel]

Yeah I already have 6, just making sure

[sly elk]

you might. If you have an (electrically? like lots of wifi networks or radio interference or something?) noisier environment at home and the fancier cable shields it better lol

and if you are one of those nerds with a 4k kodi streaming system and a homelab

[deep sapphire]

“Yeah I got a 5 port hub… some say I’m a network engineer master”

[sly elk]

in an office i think you'd just run fiber at that point lol

[deep sapphire]

Samba server

[sly elk]

shared drive for all the employees

[deep sapphire]

“Pay me 120 a year”

[sly elk]

powered by an old dell precision desktop with a bunch of USB drives plugged in

and windows server 2008

[deep sapphire]

Hey

It’s R2 atleast

Oh that’s 2012 I’m thinking

[sly elk]

and every dept has that excel spreadsheet

in a folder with R1, R2, R3

R5.4

[deep sapphire]

Lmao

[sly elk]

R7 is in sharepoint with a dynamics frontend thingy

[deep sapphire]

Years ago I worked for children’s hospital and they were migrating all their XP systems to windows 7

[sly elk]

but for some reason people keep using R5.4

[deep sapphire]

We were using Symantec alteris

And holy shit a lot of them were still using office 2000

[sly elk]

lol the optometrist I usually use

STILL USES WINDOWS XP

[deep sapphire]

“I HAVE A PHD BUT EUGH THIS NEW TASK BAR GIVE ME BACK MY OLD COMPUTER I CANT FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT”

[sly elk]

nah it's like a rule with those kinda offices

I dont'; think the computer is connected to the network or anything, just used for old equipment

they always have a super outdated computer in the room where they do stuff

and then the front desk has a like, 5 year old HP all-in-one

ya know, like the ones that mall kiosks always have

[deep sapphire]

If you can believe this

[sly elk]

it's always the HP all-in-one lmao

[deep sapphire]

My first job in IT was PC tech

And this dude came in

With a fuckin IBM PC/2

It was their hvac controller

And we had to clone the hard drive as it was failing

[sly elk]

i fucking love IBM PS/2s

[deep sapphire]

I was amazed the thing even was recognized

[sly elk]

I've heard of crazier things

like a school using commodore 64s for their hvac control

[deep sapphire]

Haha

[sly elk]

I'm surprised there isn't an industry to update those using python and raspberry pis

or labview and a labview box, if you want to trade developer time and have more durable HW that can handle just about any control voltage

[deep sapphire]

RANDOMLY SMACK KEYS

[jaunty light]

Craft a needle out of gourmet carrots to track their plasma

[sly elk]

nooooooooooooo

i suppose there is a safety argument to be made for using a yoke - keeps people from putting their hands at the top of the wheel

[jaunty light]

Yea homie yokes 4 life

[sly elk]

my prediction: apple RGB keyboard backlighting 😮

[potent arrow]

That's a safety thing???

I am taught to hold it at the top???

[sly elk]

i think bottom is ideal, sides are ok, top is bad

[boreal surge]

Downside of a yoke though is that it’s rather unintuitive for car driving though

[potent arrow]

How do you hold a wheel on the bottom??

[potent arrow]

HUH

[kindred brook]

@deep sapphire

10 years ago

baby

[sly elk]

basically hands on your lap lol

[boreal surge]

Isn’t it hold at sides is ideal, the further away the worse?

[potent arrow]

Oh my GOD

YOUR POOR SHOULDERS

[boreal surge]

Yeah like that.

Also no I’m pretty sure any person with car expertise will tell you that’s a shitty position for reacting

[sly elk]

whatever you do, you have to avoid this

don't do that

[potent arrow]

LOL

[boreal surge]

Actually no wait the reason for it is the so called feeding the wheel technique no?

[potent arrow]

My teacher taught me this

[sly elk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRYu3V2AfV4

[potent arrow]

I refuse

[sly elk]

she says they're pretty much all ok

[potent arrow]

On the highway I have both hands...but 50km and under I one hand

[sly elk]

my own personal anecdote is that 8 and 4 is a little harder to start turns by pulling the wheel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWV6DIokD1Y
this one's interesting lol

yea the most common style I see out here

is left arm on the window sill

and right arm at 12 o'clock

[potent arrow]

That's where I'm weird

My hands are swapped

[sly elk]

not weird at all

stick shift, right?

or maybe in the uk haha

[modest moss]

UK teach 10 & 2

and never cross

[potent arrow]

Ding ding

My automatic is my daily

But I drive alot of manuals

[modest moss]

Sarah be safe

grasp my stick firmly

[potent arrow]

https://c.tenor.com/Dt3v_quwQDMAAAAM/firmly-grasp-it-patrick-star.gif

[sly elk]

^ most american drivers

also

[potent arrow]

That's a yikes

[modest moss]

I bet even Sarah doesn't use her phone while driving

[sly elk]

am i the only person that doesn't put my hand on the passenger seat when reversing?

i recall hearing this is the sexiest thing evre on reddit

[modest moss]

maybe you're an owl

[sly elk]

maybe

[modest moss]

I would struggle reversing like that

[sly elk]

or maybe my neck is more flexible

[modest moss]

right hand drive car, basically blind in my left eye

[potent arrow]

No because I have a reverse mirror on my wing mirrors

[modest moss]

I'd have to turn so far

Sarah come teach me to drive

my wife refuses

[modest moss]

because I'm a dickhead

[potent arrow]

I mean it's not thaaaaat hard

Spin around the parking lot for a bit, feel the car and eventually you'll learn

[modest moss]

I'm playing the long game

she can teach my 13yo when she's 17

then when kid reaches 21, SHE can teach me

[deep sapphire]

I always eat and drive

Saves time

Time efficiency

[boreal surge]

You guys should drive in asia. I swear I feel less safe as a pedestrian here than back in Indonesia

[odd sand]

Gotta do it with style and do the palm-360 :)

When I'm driving long distance I like to hold it at 6, but most steering wheels these days seem to be designed to only let you hold it at like 5 and 7

[odd sand]

Nerd.

[dull garnet]

a potato?

psch

[boreal surge]

No but that is very tempting, where did you get it

I’d love one of my own WoL

How many watts is a gas burner anyway.

[zealous wolf]

reminds me of this thing...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxG3tON-dZU

[boreal surge]

No I literally was referring to an actual gas stove

[dull garnet]

atx 3.0

[latent grotto]

the drivers in vietnam are crazy

good fucking luck driving over there where everyone cuts you off and dips into incoming traffic 24/7

[boreal surge]

Huh. 20kW.

[sly elk]

ah the 360 one hand wheel spin is fun

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-shrug-不造-i-dont-know-gif-5094560

it's what they teach

[quaint spear]

https://puu.sh/IT33i/6b002c865f.png

is this a bad PC?

https://puu.sh/IT33L/3022b368be.png

[vestal crane]

Its not bad but its getting to the point where it won't be able to play new games

The biggest things would probably be the ram and CPU

[modest moss]

I mean, GT 720

I probably wouldn't spend a penny trying to upgrade it

it'd probably run XIV on low settings

[quaint spear]

I would be more into trying out as a dev machine. games just evolve too much;

[vestal crane]

Like game dev?

[quaint spear]

kinda

[vestal crane]

You'd probably be fine with coding or 2d art

[modest moss]

it's an 8 year old cpu and 8 year old gpu, it's going to be pretty limited, not a high end gpu either

[vestal crane]

But if you wanted to get into video rendering or 3d model rendering, you'll hit bottlenecks

[quaint spear]

I've got Hero Engine up and running. I have trouble seeing what is what because i'm using an old Sharp tv for a monitor

[modest moss]

basically in 2022 it's bad, but you can probably get some use out of it if your expectations aren't too high

[quaint spear]

hehe

[modest moss]

just don't bother spending on it

[quaint spear]

my wallet is too light

[modest moss]

!faq benchmark

[opal panther]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker Official Benchmark

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/download/

[modest moss]

run that and see how it does

go like 1080p medium

maybe 720p

[quaint spear]

uninstaling crap

[deep sapphire]

That PC is quite frankly terrible

You need something new

Like that’s office PC tier at best

[quaint spear]

I don'tr need.

it has a HDD with 1tb of storage. my gaming laptop has a SSD of 250gb

still farting around getting rid of some pay for Zip software, replaced with 7zip

starting benchmark

[deep sapphire]

The GT 720 is like a 9600GT in performance tier

It’s bad

[quaint spear]

https://puu.sh/IT3EU/02a03d388c.png

for now it's good. for what I need which is to run and keep my files in place til I find a good backup solution.

[odd sand]

That's an understatement. It was almost bottom basement when it was new even...

The only thing worse is the GT 710 heh

[modest moss]

it's a facebook machine

[deep sapphire]

The only logical reason it exists is for dual monitor support

But ONLY for basic applications

[outer sand]

Is it usually have a lower result if you are like having so many background program going on

try to turn off everything, then run the benchmark again

[boreal surge]

It’s indeed bad for a 2022 desktop used for gaming, but imo could care less if only used for non intensive tasks.

Also note that you ran it on high desktop settings, you can lower what settings the benchmark runs on

[quaint spear]

I have the PC for Shenmue 1n2, the older Final Fantasy games on Steam.... some old Sierra games on GOG

[boreal surge]

Older games will have lower requirements by virtue of well... the tech not being there back then

[quaint spear]

my one friend sold it to me for sixty bucks. His parents got it for him at $2K new

[boreal surge]

Anyway, whatever floats your boat for your uses though

Ok yeah that sounds like a steal.

[quaint spear]

nah. he told me he wanted me to hold onto it and he'd visit whenever he wanted to use it.

too bad I moved...

oh... I thought that emoji was a grimace of great discomfort.

[boreal surge]

Does nvidia even produce GPUs below GTX these days? Or are iGPUs just that powerful already?

Yeah that was me going haha rip friend.

He’d better get a new computer either way, no way in hell you’ll survive these days without one.

[quaint spear]

so..... no good putting a SSD in it to run faster?

[boreal surge]

SSD won’t help if the thing trying to process the data from it is slow in the first place.

[umbral moss]

putting a SSD in a computer from 10 years ago is like putting a giant spoiler on a geo prism

you're adding a high performance part, but you'll never go fast enough to use it 😔

[boreal surge]

Think about it like this. With an SSD FFXIV will start up quickly, but without a sufficently fast CPU/GPU you’ll still be running at 5fps.

[umbral moss]

I mean, I have a SSD and XIV is still slow to load 😔

[quaint spear]

booting takes like seven or ten mins

[boreal surge]

Well theoretically. I’m patient unlike every other goddamn pc builder. I can wait a few seconds.

[umbral moss]

I mean, the thing is that other games load pretty fast off SSD

[boreal surge]

Well we don’t really know what’s slowing down your boot time from here tho.

[deep sapphire]

10 minutes

[umbral moss]

XIV is just slow to load because of all the handshaking with the lobby services

[boreal surge]

Yeah that’s a century in modern terms.

[umbral moss]

10 minutes was slow in 2001

[deep sapphire]

I haven’t seen boot times that bad since my friend’s sempron

[boreal surge]

I think they’re running win 10 or 11 on that 8 year old thing.

Admittedly saying that it’s more likely your CPU is what’s slowing you down.

[boreal surge]

Btw what is your definition of slow?

[umbral moss]

30-40 seconds

[outer sand]

He might have an SSD, but not installing XIV on the SSD...

[umbral moss]

the only other game as slow as XIV is battlefield

[outer sand]

what? 30 secs???

[boreal surge]

Don’t be such an impatient prick

But shitting on you aside that sounds like my HDD loading times.

*worst case loading times

[modest moss]

30-40s to load xiv?

seems slow

[quaint spear]

now it's on standard play

[boreal surge]

Well I can time it later.

[quaint spear]

got rid of the extras

[modest moss]

I need to test mine, I'm on a 4690k

[boreal surge]

9750H, with a seagate firecuda. I should time mine as well.

[modest moss]

15s from double clicking launcher > hitting login button and loading to 'Start' menu, then another 15s to load into the queue

[quaint spear]

https://puu.sh/IT3W4/e2415c5023.png

[modest moss]

try 720p

[boreal surge]

Well if you can live with it /shrug

[outer sand]

hmm weird, I'm using standard SSD, i3(10th gen?) takes 10 secs ._.

I'm pretty sure you are not installing XIV on your SSD

if it takes 30-40 secs..

[quaint spear]

no

just thinking of the OS

[modest moss]

yeah ed is doing something weird unless he means he's getting into the actual game in that time

[boreal surge]

Right so 6 ish s to start up the launcher, 3 ish s to load up play button

Actual game bootup and load into queue are both instantaneous

And.... the time to type that sentence was fast enough for a 30 person queue and loading into rhalgr’s XD

Actually... @umbral moss

How many mods.

[quaint spear]

I have a blood test in the morning.

those always suck

[boreal surge]

Eh don’t stare at the needle and you’ll be fine.

[quaint spear]

why not?

[boreal surge]

Makes you more anxious about it.

[umbral moss]

what mods

[quaint spear]

one time it was just.... I find it fascinating how slow it fills the little bottle or how many times I'm stabbed by the nurse.

[boreal surge]

FFXIV mods, and how many of em

[umbral moss]

I don't use mods

[boreal surge]

Cause my FFXIV load times are basically: fast enough to literally miss the loading if I take my eyes of it.

[jaunty light]

At least 69 mods

Must look fab

[modest moss]

weeb

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/ace-attorney-fried-rice-shrimp-gif-23245585

[boreal surge]

What sucks is how GPU tech has moved fast over the past few years. Like I bought laptops at 2016 and 2019 cause of how fast they were moving...

And now even the entry level gaming laptops have stupid performance

[buoyant falcon]

Never was able to solve the mystery of why the two USB 3.0 ports on the front of my tower stopped working after installing my 2080 Super, but it still annoys the shit outta me.

I do still have a slot open on my tower to install a USB 3.0 hub...

But I feel like that would be admitting defeat. :x

[outer sand]

huh weird

so like when you change gpu it suddenly stop working? 🤔

[still cypress]

Scary

[boreal surge]

What motherboard?

[buoyant falcon]

It was almost two years ago now, yeah never could get it to work since then.

Also, I recently bought a Bluetooth keyboard only to find that it can't work at any range greater than 3 feet.

And I see nothing about this in either the Amazon description or the reviews.

And what's more frustrating is that I can't seem to get any reliable info on Bluetooth-only reliable keyboards with a decent range on them.

Google lumps Bluetooth in with "wireless" so it gives me keyboard with wireless dangles as well, which I do not want.

[boreal surge]

You sure it ain’t your pc bluetooth receiver limiting range?

Also not sure why the avg person needs to use their computer 1 m away.

[sly elk]

idk but the bluetooth antenna on my pc has incredible range lol

[buoyant falcon]

Oh wait...

I DID forget to put up the antenna didn't I? Lol!

Just moved. Lemme see...

Yep that did it!

[boreal surge]

[outer sand]

I do it quite often..

I have wireless keyboard (With dangle), just turn on my comp, use my tablet with remote desktop and just play on controller far away from my comp (usually while lying on my bed)

I don't quite like sitting in front of my comp to game, feels like I'm in the office ._.

[boreal surge]

Fair enough.

[royal forge]

ok, in continuation of my janky ass laptop adventure

so

the screen turning black has been ruled out as not just purely GPU failure

because when it freezes and the screen turns black, even audio goes out

joy

[outer sand]

nice, cause laptop GPU is like very expensive in terms of price/performance

[royal forge]

yes. so the failure is probably everything

sigh

[modest moss]

back it up, send it off

[royal forge]

EXAM

ONE WEEK

ONLINE

NO OTHER PC

Soon.jpg

I also have the hradachr of figuring out how the fuck to backup everything

Headache

[modest moss]

buy external hdd, put all files there

then do a fresh install of windows to test it

then if still fucked, send it off

[royal forge]

Im sending it off either way

Shits under warranty

[jolly thunder]

is my PC potato or Dohn Mheg is just too demanding? my FPS dips below 60 trying to w2w there

[modest moss]

what hardware are you running? dohn mheg is kinda heavy in places though

[jolly thunder]

R5 3600 and RX 580

[jolly thunder]

Ah, found the solution from reddit post. putting tesselation to "Normal" from high solves my problem.

[odd sand]

Belated reply, but maybe it's something to do with available PCIe lanes? Sorta like oldschool irq conflicts

[odd sand]

Do you have onboard bluetooth or are you using an adapter? The cheaper adapters have shit performance. The little fingernail sized ones that go in the USB are worthless beyond a few feet

[sly elk]

tney mentioned they forgot the antenna 🙂

[sly elk]

american truck vs european sensibility

[odd sand]

Ugh. I gave my old 3770 system to friends but after 2 years now apparently the motherboard is giving out. First the USB has been glitchy, now he says the onboard sound is failed too. I've still got a USB 3.0 hub I never installed, so I wonder if that would work even if the USB is glitched. Also I should still have my PCI sound card that was in it to give them (I could have sworn I put it in to begin with) but I may have actually recycled that before moving rip

Ideally he holds out until 13th gen in Sept, but I dunno when the board will totally fail. I see some refurbed boards for $100, but that could be throwing good money after bad just to get a few more months out of it

[dull garnet]

Get a H61

Should be way less than 100 usd

Also, today the Radeon video driver crashed and just didn't restart

Had to do a hard shutdown

[odd sand]

On a different note: I found out I'm not crazy and my ethernet really is capping itself at 200mbps.

It's a persistent issue with Intel onboard ethernet chipsets

So maybe I move up my idea of getting a 10gbe card for my PC

[dull garnet]

Nani the fuck

[deft iris]

And the one on the left will never be used for carrying stuff

[potent arrow]

The hub should have an external USB controller

Should

So it won't be effected by the glitchy onboard one

[lost python]

Infront of me is a 17", 4k€ Dell precision notebook and God damn is it overpriced

But to dells credit, it does feel nice and is very quick and responsive

[mortal condor]

A $4,372 laptop?

No wait

You meant 4K resolution

[lost python]

Around 4k

Nah

4k res too yes

[mortal condor]

Then that's....what are the specs

[lost python]

64gb ram, some 8core i9, rtx A4000 or something gpu, 2tb ssd

Nvm apparently the usual price is 5800

[royal forge]

lul

isnt the A4000 quite expensive?

[mortal condor]

5800 euros? @lost python

[lost python]

Ye

[mortal condor]

That's a $6,337 laptop

Wtf

[lost python]

Dell prices

[potent arrow]

Hey! I just provisioned a bunch of those at work!

Do you fucking work for the same company???

[lost python]

[potent arrow]

Also were you the user who broke theirs in the first FUCKING DAY

[mortal condor]

Have to assume it's for business use

[lost python]

We have one of them and they did break on the first fucking day

[potent arrow]

[mortal condor]

Struggling to see why anyone would spend that much on a laptop for anything other than work

[potent arrow]

https://c.tenor.com/ov5p3PT4f7AAAAAM/robert-deniro-meet-the-fockers.gif

[lost python]

It took almost 2 months to get dell to fix it and after 2 Technicians failed, they now just sent a new one

[lost python]

Yeah

[potent arrow]

Yeaaah

[potent arrow]

My laptop bought new for school was 4.3k lmfao

It was a brand spanking new t480 maxed out in spec

~2018

[mortal condor]

A laptop that's even more expensive than a decent used car

[potent arrow]

It's probably worth dirt now

[potent arrow]

We had a technician who came in and passed out....

[mortal condor]

Laptop I bought for gaming/school cost 1K

Got it last year

[lost python]

[mortal condor]

[royal forge]

lul

well

[potent arrow]

I overpay for laptops because I want it to survive my idiocy

I paid the Thinkpad tax and it paid off

[lost python]

I hate dell

[potent arrow]

Everyone hates dell

[mortal condor]

I have the warranty on my Legion 5

The ultimate tier

Because why not

[potent arrow]

Dell is fine because ProSupport Plus covers their idiocy tho

[mortal condor]

^

Still wouldn't buy dell but

[royal forge]

i don't like dell and asus because the quality of their support is atrocious

laptop was taken from me for 2 months

all they did was a reformat

[potent arrow]

Dell Support is amazing for business tho

[royal forge]

yea.. they're business focused

[potent arrow]

They get it fixed eventually

[modest moss]

[potent arrow]

.... eventually

[lost python]

Pro support plus that the company pays thousands for and it still takes months to exchange a single device

[mortal condor]

Dell is very business focused yeah

[potent arrow]

Listen, all it takes is a call and it's off my hand....who are we to complain

[royal forge]

my dell took 2 months to repair. i say repair. They reformatted it and gave it back. It was sent in for a battery replacement

my asus took 1 month

[lost python]

Also the second precision i have here was "fixed" by the second technician in a way that broke it directly after boot, it's missing screws and the bottom cover doesn't fully close anymore

[royal forge]

came back with some extra dents

[potent arrow]

Tbf Aoi you are absolutely cursed when it comes to tech

[royal forge]

i think it's just laptops

[mortal condor]

Imagine getting a whole reformat when all you needed was a new battery

[royal forge]

my desktop was amazing

[lost python]

It's on our hand for another fucking 2 months until they finally send someone

[potent arrow]

A tech did that and we got them fired

[royal forge]

maybe it's cuz i built it myself

[potent arrow]

How tf xD the longest time was two days for us

[lost python]

Dell is wild