technology-discussion

[deep sapphire]

You don’t even pay the power bill what do you care

[hard drift]

yeah i do

power isn't that bad here, it's more gas lmao

[deep sapphire]

I pay mine too but that’s okay because I like things to work

[hard drift]

the gas here has so many fucking airpockets

[hard drift]

mine works now

it was windows fucking it up

it's 11.08cents/kWh here roughly

[modest moss]

going to be paying like 4* that from next month

good times

[hard drift]

damn

[kindred brook]

what are we looking at

[dull garnet]

LED pwn

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/bart-simpson-screams-knife-goes-in-guts-come-out-gif-18798741

[sick edge]

9s there an outlet addnon or plug extensionbthat keeps tracknof the amountnof power you use?

Ideally nothing fancy and expensive.

[potent arrow]

I just use Kill a watts

https://www.amazon.ca/P3-P3IP4400-Electricity-Usage-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU/

[sly elk]

why do you want to strip rgb leds off a thing ;_;

I like my RGB

[potent arrow]

Nerd

[sick edge]

Them suggestions though... XD

Sarah mines bitcoin huh?...

[sly elk]

they forgot the extra

[potent arrow]

Eheheh etherkillers

I have one that goes from mains to rs232

[sick edge]

I also dont want rgb on computer but its a lot more difficult to find non rgb parts....

Oooh European charger?

Or wait no. Thats asian

Deleted cause electronic nudity?...

[sly elk]

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

i deleted it because i thought it was a 240v to ethernet

but it was just a 240v to microusb

which probably just means a phone charger

[dull garnet]

for some reason the default setting is static red

you can install some doggers software to configure them but they'll still be on until windows loads so fuck it

[sick edge]

Is it safe to plug multi plugs into THOSE? or they're meant to only monitor one device?

[potent arrow]

I wouldn't recommend against it

But just don't exceed it's load cap

[modest moss]

yes, take safety advice from Sarah

what could go wrong

[sick edge]

Ibjave nonidea how to calculate if I do...

they saybthey know electronics at the very least.

[modest moss]

it's a #technology-discussion joke

Sarah is smart and knowledgeable, she knows what she's talking about

BUT

[sly elk]

speaking of safety

[modest moss]

when Sarah is doing her own personal projects she ignores all the things she knows and goes ham

[sly elk]

it's worth commenting that the 240v etherkiller video, dude plugs it into mains first

[sick edge]

To be fair, thats how a lot of makers be.

Pseudo calculated risks.

[modest moss]

basically do what Sarah tells you, don't do what Sarah does

@potent arrow ilu

[sick edge]

But wouldnt sarah tell you to do what sarah does?

[modest moss]

no, highly unlikely

Sarah would tell other people the safe and smart way to do things

[sick edge]

Ah like stuntmen going "dont do this at home, Im a professional "

[modest moss]

yes

I would trust her advice but I would very rarely copy her

she has set herself on fire at least twice in the last month

[sick edge]

And SURVIVED. That's good odds.

9ncrease fire resistance

like how chefs get asbestos hands

[sly elk]

lol

[potent arrow]

My boss says this to every client that walks into my office >_>

[modest moss]

your boss is smart

[potent arrow]

I mean he's still reeling from when I filled a trash can full of acid lol

[modest moss]

is your adult supervision home yet?

[sly elk]

i think my boss might be telling my coworkers the same thing about me lmao

[potent arrow]

I gotta pick her up tmmrw

[modest moss]

@sick edge THIS. This is what I'm talking about.

[sick edge]

That could mean orange juoce!

[sly elk]

O_O

[modest moss]

just be good one more night

[potent arrow]

Like the problem is I didn't have a big enough container to dispose of it

[sick edge]

Learn to coom in one night

cook*

[potent arrow]

Like carry it to the waste bin

[sly elk]

what was it

[potent arrow]

Idk something to clean surgaces

[modest moss]

don't tell her to cook ffs

[potent arrow]

And it said it doesn react with stainless steel in the SDS

[sick edge]

Needs to level that skill

[modest moss]

ORDER DELIVERY TONIGHT

[potent arrow]

So I just found a large stainless steel bin

[sick edge]

Ill level with her

i need to also learn

[potent arrow]

And filled it with the waste acid

Otherwise I would've used a plastic tub or something

[sick edge]

... arent there plastic tubs that are meant for acid disposal?

[potent arrow]

Always follow the SDS or MSDS

Always

[sick edge]

Alwyas be prepared to dispose hazardous substances in general....

My laptop is next to my window ready to be yeeted at a moments notice should my battery finally explode on fire

[potent arrow]

I have a bucket of sand for lithium fires lol

[sick edge]

(It's very very puffy)

I dont have a bucket of sand so out the window it must go

Ill figure out today i fI can power my laptop up without a battery

and javebto fogure out where the hell to dispose elctronics safely

ewaste disposal is kind of a pain.. like recycling

i blame the governemnt AND the corporations

Corporations for not funding waste disposal. And gov for not legislating the requirement of post consumer managemebt

I DO toss batteries in the trash can. <-<

And Im only half to blame!

though I always absent mondedly glug oil down the sink thoigh I shouldnt....

Huh wonder if anyone answered my mobo question hours ago...

[sly elk]

remember add acid

Here are some easy mnemonic devices to help you remember to add acid to water:

AA: Add Acid
Acid to Water, like A&W Root Beer
Drop acid, not water
If you think your life’s too placid, add the water to the acid
First the water, then the acid, otherwise it won’t be placid

[sick edge]

Wait is this sarcasm and I should add water to acid?

[sly elk]

don't do that

[boreal surge]

Why are you going on about chemistry again?

[sly elk]

pv=nrt

[boreal surge]

Also remind me why water to acid and not the other way around? Is it cause violent reaction or smth?

I recognize that equation

I forgot what it.... it’s related to concentration is it

[sly elk]

n=6.022x10^23?

oof i was off by 1 order of magnitude

[boreal surge]

Oh ideal gases

Why are you going on about physics?

[sly elk]

idk

something about pushing around a stainless steel garbage can full of acid

[potent arrow]

:|

[boreal surge]

It’s being snarky but definitely not sarcasm, I do remember reading something on definitely not adding water to acid

[potent arrow]

Don't try that at home btw

Worse idea

[boreal surge]

Step 1: level ast
Step 2: cast earthly star

[sick edge]

More air freshener cans

[jaunty light]

Like uh, 500 TNT worth!

[sick edge]

Air freshener factory duh

[sly elk]

daaang this topic is scary

[sick edge]

eeeh but thats the easy and flaggable stuff

air fresheners though!

[hard drift]

can we not 😐

[sick edge]

Okee. XP

[modest moss]

the fuck guys

[hard drift]

literally discussing illegal things smh

[sick edge]

Would havento double check but I think mine was fine.

[hard drift]

none of this is fine

[modest moss]

I will fucking mute a bitch, I swear

@jaunty light don't instigate dumb shit

[modest moss]

eveyone else don't be instigated

fucking nerds

[hard drift]

😔

came here to escape and it's just even worse 😭

[modest moss]

I will tell Hank

[dull garnet]

most words will earn you an hour mute tbf

[modest moss]

I expect the blues would have handed out warnings for that at least

[sly elk]

i did say it was scary but I probably should have said nooooo staaaahp

[quaint spear]

uhg

I can't install Malwarebytee

I can' t get past a warning that says "you dind't get that software from the MS sctore"

[dull garnet]

😔

[sly elk]

they want you to spend more money and they're acting shady?

[zealous wolf]

i used malware bytes prem, and tbh it slows my pc down somewhat...

[quaint spear]

i'm rying to get rid of a ransom ware

ok. how do you get windoes defender to get rid of a virus?

[zealous wolf]

ah those nasty ones...you have to enable it and scan your pc with it...

same with installnig malwarebytes and run a full scan...

[sly elk]

cylance!

bwahhaha

[quaint spear]

it wil not let me installl

[zealous wolf]

wait really...?

[quaint spear]

i open the setup file and it just goes to the screen i described

I hve defender

I don't see a button to push to scan for virus

oh now itaays riru protection

I hate laptopp kbs

[latent grotto]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-your-app-recommendation-settings-in-windows-f21b5c60-e996-4ee4-c2cf-b4a90c0bef9b

If you get a pop up about how the software you're trying to install is from an unknown publisher you can click on more info and install anyway

But yea you could just run a scan with windows defender

🤷

[quaint spear]

that shojld work

defedner i downloadoing virus defiithniosn

[deep sapphire]

Windows defender isn’t gonna work against ransomware but you would know if you had ransomware your screen would be locked

If you have access to your computer and it isn’t locked you can try a program called rkill that disabled viruses from blocking you from using other programs

[latent grotto]

Hank help i think they put ransomware on my house

[deep sapphire]

Give me 2 bitcoin and a Twix bar

[latent grotto]

I dont have bit coin

How about 2 twix bars

[quaint spear]

some stuppdi warning about call tech upport to unlock PC

opend twsk maknger and turned offf the wwarning

[zealous wolf]

ah, its that stupid indian scam ransomware thing...

[hard drift]

Hank it’s doing it again 😭

[dull garnet]

amd drivers be like

[hard drift]

Nah it’s the browser service lol

Looked it up, tried fixes and nada

[zealous wolf]

the last time i had a ransomware on my pc was way before several years ago, had to basiclly nuke it and reinstall Win7...

[hard drift]

At this point I’m about to uninstall browser services smh

Literally 40k new events lmao

[dull garnet]

40k events to run edge

[quaint spear]

godamitt

sorry

i'll buy a USB flash drive in a couple days and put some virus protection on it.

i'm on my desktop now

any good open source virus protection I can boot into?

[zealous wolf]

for me uhh, not that i know of.. x.x

[deep sapphire]

Do you get a BSOD or anything

[deep sapphire]

https://www.kaspersky.com/downloads/free-rescue-disk

[dull garnet]

how do you get a virus in current year

[zealous wolf]

let alnoe a ransomware..

[hard drift]

Not really there is an occasional stutter every now and then but not enough that it would impact me it’s just still odd that even after system file checker and everything it still does it

[kindred brook]

3050

now at MSRP

😮

https://tenor.com/view/oh-my-god-its-happening-ok-stay-calm-the-office-gif-6091046

[odd sand]

Is that MSRP? I thought the desktop 3050 was pretty shit

But I guess that's about the price of the 1660 super/TI so its definitely in the ballpark I suppose

[modest moss]

yeah buy that and send me your shitty busted 3070ti

[kindred brook]

lol

k

[modest moss]

@deep sapphire did you see I had to discipline these pricks and delete a bunch of posts?

[deep sapphire]

No what happened lmao

[modest moss]

Honk started it

[deep sapphire]

[modest moss]

"Sarah teach me how to make a bomb" and it escalated

genius mode activated

[deep sapphire]

Lmao nice

[dull garnet]

to the bomb making subreddit

[odd sand]

First disney, next furries... beware!

https://tenor.com/view/funny-animals-dog-shook-scared-eyes-gif-12642716

[dull garnet]

i love how many worthless things we can do with ai

[modest moss]

you took Hank's pic and ran it through AI to make him a disney character?

yikes

[dull garnet]

just a random pic I keep of hank on my desktop

tehe

don't read into it please!

[kindred brook]

another one

at MSRP

[dull garnet]

yeah that's cus the msrp is dogshit

nearly twice that of the 3080

😔

[odd sand]

Yeah that may be MSRP, but the 3080Ti is a shit deal

50% higher cost for 2gb vram and like 50mhz clock lol

So if the Ti is down to $1200, then what are they charging for the 3080 12GB? Those were being sold for 1200 before too

[dull garnet]

I swear they only made those to create a new SKU with adjusted MSRP

lmao

[kindred brook]

lol

[odd sand]

Dingdingdingding

Set no MSRP so they can claim the scalping money instead of the actual scalpers

Which... I get it? If ppl are willing to pay that much, you might as well be getting at least part of that cake instead of scalping twats

[dull garnet]

like, a 3080 at MSRP is basically the best deal by far

should have tried harder to get one

[odd sand]

I just hope now that the gravy train is over, they price the 3080 12gb more sensibly around say, 899 or something

[hard drift]

3080 and 6800xt are the best deals from each side

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/okily-dokily-okie-dokie-ok-kay-nerd-gif-11941985

[odd sand]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-thesimpsons-flanders-stupidsexyflanders-gif-5439362

[hard drift]

awful deal

300ish extra for 2gb of vram

still shit 🤢

it's not worth an extra 300 😐

no matter what it has

that's just apple tax

not even 🤢 it has no msrp therefore it's valued at whatever we want to pay

and i doubt most people want to pay 300 extra for 2gb

when you can spend 650 for a 6800xt with 16gb

you and many others

[dull garnet]

bro a 6800xt straight up don't work

[hard drift]

😒

yes it does 😭

[dull garnet]

I will carry forth early 5700 XT drivers as my impression of amd video cards forever

also like

[hard drift]

i mean if i wasn't willing to give a brand a second chance i would too

[dull garnet]

I swear amd card prices are fucked in the UK

[hard drift]

but if i also went based on that, i'd never go nvidia again since the 1060 i had was so shit and would always crash

[dull garnet]

skill issue

ew

[hard drift]

nah, it was a gift from my uncle, he lent me the card while i saved up so i could get my own

[hard drift]

bruh ewww

that price is disgusting

[dull garnet]

I mean

friend paid uhhhhh

[hard drift]

that's so close to the 6900xt msrp in terms of usd

[modest moss]

ice what's the latest on evga

[dull garnet]

£750 for a 3070 Ti the other week

[hard drift]

[dull garnet]

I could have bought one for MSRP but figured it is too small an upgrade to bother

on the plus side of the rad eon you get the many video memories

[hard drift]

i mean i like my card but i won't hesitate to switch sides if the need arises or their gpu is just that good

brand allegiance is awful 🤢

[dull garnet]

https://www.ebuyer.com/1262543-zotac-geforce-rtx-3080-10gb-trinity-oc-lhr-ampere-graphics-card-zt-a30800j-10plhr

[hard drift]

crossfire not supported

crossfire is dead the only way to do it would be vulkan/dx12

[dull garnet]

that's like, December 2020 pricing with OverclockersUK!

£180 over MSRP

getting there though

[hard drift]

i mean that's not awful, slowly getting back to normal

don't even

[dull garnet]

record scratch

4080 reveal next month

[hard drift]

lmao

i am ready to see next gen

[dull garnet]

kinda happened in 2017

except the 20 series cards were dogshit

[hard drift]

upgrade myself so my buddy gets this card taking out two birds with one stone

[dull garnet]

[hard drift]

20 series was a guinea pig generation 😭 just to be first on the market for raytracing

also was stupid they did one architecture rather than two

so i'm expecting 4000 series to be another 1000 style gain

[dull garnet]

not the best test scenario but my 1070 ti benched the same as my friend's 2070 in the FFXIV benchmark with the same cpu

[hard drift]

lmao

[dull garnet]

20 cards are too weak for rtx too

just awful

[hard drift]

yeah

the only crutch they have is dlss

[dull garnet]

here's your 12GB 2060 bro

💀

[hard drift]

awful card

[odd sand]

Never fully completed my current build and I'll probably refresh this fall heh

Maybe I'll be inspired to do a custom watercooling this time

Still been holding out with my old H100i from my 2012 build, but at 10 years old maaaybe I could part ways with it

[hard drift]

i wanna do watercooling for just my gpu but alphacool doesn't have an eisenwolf aio for it this time 😔

what?

[odd sand]

Isn't that the definition of custom? You measure what you need and buy the proper lengths or cut them to size

[hard drift]

pretty much

[odd sand]

the rubber/vinyl/whatever tubing is easier to work with, but the glass looks cooler

[hard drift]

i like the aesthetic of rubber so i'd go with it personally plus it's cheaper/easier to work with

that's an amd block...

and it's ugly 🤢

6900xt

but yeah, i don't like that block lol

i don't like EK either

i like alphacool

[dull garnet]

heatkiller

walletkiller

[hard drift]

that's ugly 🤢

but that is one

i know

[dull garnet]

that looks like a prepubescent girl designed it

the fuck is happening there

a second block for the heat spot?

[deep sapphire]

That just means more vacuum

[hard drift]

it's for the active backplate

[deep sapphire]

[dull garnet]

backplates are such a meme

back in my day

[hard drift]

it's because of the chips on the back lol

[dull garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/girl-sure-jan-sarcastic-brady-bunch-gif-11590179

that's what they want you to think

[hard drift]

how else will you cool the memory chips on the back

[odd sand]

Now your 3u GPU is 5u

[dull garnet]

what's the problem kiddo

you use a sound card? LOL

[odd sand]

I did in my 2012 build, but the card was PCI, so I couldn't use it in the 2019 build. Been meaning to buy myself a schiit stack, but moving was expensive

[dull garnet]

oh no i was only trying to shitpost

[odd sand]

Yeah I know. I will probably need one card though bc 10gbe requires at least a x4 slot

[hard drift]

called them out for a shitpost

[dull garnet]

I guess pcie expansion these days is more likely to be storage or fast jiggabytes

[hard drift]

i hate it

[dull garnet]

yep, that's a computer

[odd sand]

ALLTHETUBES

[hard drift]

that computer is clearly something that they intend to use rgb with 🤢

[dull garnet]

Mine after my mod earlier

[odd sand]

Darkness... no LED-rents...

[dull garnet]

Your fans cost more than my whole pc

I hope they're quiet

You know as well as I that fan noise isn't especially tied to their rotation speed

:p

[deep sapphire]

you can still win the 25 grand right

[sick edge]

I like it

Also I got the 3080. Ill be mad at wasted money in a couple months. recommendations for cpu?

[dull garnet]

5800X3D

[deep sapphire]

[hard drift]

if you are on am4 already 5800x3d

[deep sapphire]

[hard drift]

fine, or the intel alternative of 12900ks for 800 usd or whatever the fuck lmao

[deep sapphire]

the KS is a binned sku, dont buy it

the 12900K is the same shit

intel jumped on the bangwagon and realized people will pay top dollar for a binned CPU so they took out the middle man

[hard drift]

still a lot more expensive

and way more power

[deep sapphire]

which is ridiculous to me as overclocking now days is essentially pointless

well yeah its overclocked from the factory

[hard drift]

i mean even without it overclocked

[deep sapphire]

dont you know what a binned CPU is

nerd

[hard drift]

yeah :p

[deep sapphire]

thats what AMD CPUs are

thrown in the TRASH BIN

HA GOTTEM

im sorry that was mean

[hard drift]

i mean you're free to like whatever you want just make sure you put facts before personal bias tech mentor

[deep sapphire]

hey hows your unstable PC going

[hard drift]

it's not unstable ty very much

[deep sapphire]

"i-its the ram"

[hard drift]

it's just that error popping up 100 times per seconds lmao

[deep sapphire]

go back to an earlier point

[hard drift]

but only in event viewer

nah, earlier had the ram issue lmao

i'll keep this version

[deep sapphire]

ngl I dont think I've ever had system restore work once lmao

[hard drift]

yeah lmfao

[deep sapphire]

but I gave up trying to use it from back history

[hard drift]

back history

hank is old and his back is breaking

[deep sapphire]

when it comes to like, service and stuff windows is so laughably bad

all these built in "troubleshooters" do absolutely jack shit

[hard drift]

lmao yeah

[deep sapphire]

gotta love not being able to get into the pre boot menu now too

[hard drift]

"oh let me reinstall the driver" waits 10 seconds "is your issue fixed? (no) oh sorry we couldn't help"

[deep sapphire]

maybe if you're lucky

I think I got in once in Windows 8 but its no different from 8 to 11

oh your PC failed to boot 3 times? wanna continue to windows norma- JUST FUCKIN WITH YA WE'RE DOJNG A SCAN YOU CANT LEAVE

[hard drift]

you mean the one with uefi and system restore as options?

[deep sapphire]

yeah

EFI boot makes the F5 menu nearly impossible to access because your system posts too fast

[hard drift]

ah yeah, mine has an option for it but it's not the easiest to figure out for noobs

[hard drift]

turn off fast boot

still posts quickly just gives me time to do shit

[deep sapphire]

supposedly if you hold alt or window key down, restart your PC while holding it and then press F5 it'll work

but I've never gotten it to work

[hard drift]

you don't press f5

just click restart holding the key

[deep sapphire]

F5 has always been the key, it worked for me once in windows 8 so I know it works

oh okay

but what if

you cant get into windows

in the first place

[hard drift]

mine still works for the f5 or whatever option

but i keep fast boot off

[deep sapphire]

well its AMD so it usually boots slower

[hard drift]

that shit makes it impossible to get into the bios

[hard drift]

😒

[deep sapphire]

the real kicker though is the 3 strikes bullshit

when I was overclocking my 990X when that old bastard still worked

sometimes I would have to reset my cmos or w/e but I knew why it wouldnt post

did MS give me the option like they did in windows 7? no why the fuck would they that would be too generous

PLEASE WAIT WHILE WE SCAN YOUR PC FOR 5 MINUTES

OH SORRY WE DIDNT FIND ANYTHING, RESTARTING YOUR COMPUTER

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[hard drift]

you can cancel the scan hank...

[deep sapphire]

not in windows 8

[hard drift]

just have to click the key at the beginning before it starts

[deep sapphire]

the cancel box was always greyed out

[hard drift]

even in windows 8

[deep sapphire]

I am positive of that

[hard drift]

idk, i was able to

windows 8 was still shit though

[deep sapphire]

stability wise I liked it, metro was pretty dumb but 5 bucks solved that problem

start 8 or w/e the shit was called

just made it windows 7

[hard drift]

idk, i kept it the way it was

i adapt quickly so it was just whatever 🤷‍♂️

[deep sapphire]

hey remember when you went to all programs and you could like

see all the programs

at once

hey remember that

REMEMBER THAT

[hard drift]

lmao

you mean you don't like scrolling hank?

[deep sapphire]

oh yeah remember when Windows 8 also forced you to update if you ignored them for too long

even if you were working on something

it didnt care at all

[hard drift]

lmao yeah

that was fucking awful

"now restarting your computer" noooo i didn't save my paper 😭

[sick edge]

like ive said..m i have a laptop. I dont have an existing mother board. XD

[hard drift]

then don't get anything yet

[sick edge]

... bruh

i already got the 3080 specifically cause I didnt feel like waiting. again. XP already waited like 2 and ahalf years. X=X

I KNOW new stuff is coming out. Later this year. And Im not confident Ill get them first either

[hard drift]

then go intel this time because then you'll get access to 13th gen rather than no upgrade path

i5/i7 area is where you'd want to go more than likely

[sick edge]

whichnone is still good pverall performance without being a powerhog? i hear the 12900 suucccs energy hard

[deep sapphire]

@jaunty light

[sick edge]

so probaly 12700?

[deep sapphire]

TDPs are overblown

just get intel trust me, AMD you will have a ton of problems like bidori

[hard drift]

no they aren't intel literally put their own

[deep sapphire]

see, he's biased

[hard drift]

and they even said 200+ w

[modest moss]

Honk hasn't said a word since I yelled at him

[deep sapphire]

waow

[sly elk]

What kinda shit software doesn’t save a draft automatically

[sick edge]

it made me scared

[hard drift]

i turn that off a lot of the time

[modest moss]

notepad.exe

[deep sapphire]

I was driving home from work

I still need to replace that u joint

[sick edge]

XD yeah notepad

[hard drift]

i'd rather save manually

[sly elk]

Heh

[deep sapphire]

that death wobble going 70 MPH

too much fun

[modest moss]

🥧

[sly elk]

Hank fix your truck

[deep sapphire]

🥧

[sly elk]

Please

We like you

[deep sapphire]

I am this weekend

last weekend was cold

[sly elk]

Ok lol

[sick edge]

microsoft docs if you dont set it

[hard drift]

nvidia going to go for 600w

[deep sapphire]

thats what AMD consumed 10 years ago

7970 1GHz edition

[sick edge]

XD holy power

[hard drift]

we don't want that now anyways

[deep sapphire]

that shit could heat a retirement home

[sick edge]

Unless you have a big house and piwer your pc woth solar. =P

[deep sapphire]

well I dont have a big house but what I can do is close my eyes and sleep the depression away

[hard drift]

doesn't work for me 😭

gimme that skill hank

[deep sapphire]

start working out

[sick edge]

Oof...

exercise

[hard drift]

i have been

[sick edge]

Never again

[deep sapphire]

im about to go now

im proud of you bidori

are you hittin the weights

[sick edge]

I tried two squats last monday. I felt them till fridag

Never again

[hard drift]

no, i'm doing your least favorite hank, cardio

[deep sapphire]

yeah leg day is awful, specially if you havent gone in awhile

I wont do legs on a weekday, coming into work the day after like fuckin kill me

[deep sapphire]

oh god

OH JEEZE

[hard drift]

it works atleast 😭 i've also been cutting back on carbs

[deep sapphire]

if you can do the stair master at level 10 for 30 minutes

I will buy an AMD setup

[hard drift]

just trying to be healthier

[hard drift]

what even is that

[deep sapphire]

the worst thing ever invented

[hard drift]

lmao

[deep sapphire]

its just a cardio machine that simulates walking up stairs

and endless supply of them

[hard drift]

lmao i've seen these things

they're hell

[deep sapphire]

my heart rate is whatever my heart is deciding it is rn

[hard drift]

what a chad piece of tech

[deep sapphire]

the thing that makes me laugh and cry too is the calorie meter barely goes up compared to something much easier so it makes it feel entirely pointless

[sly elk]

I like the kind where it has pedals

[deep sapphire]

and yes I know those arent accurate

[sly elk]

And the pedals are like walking on sand

[deep sapphire]

but stairmasters work your ass way harder than anything I've ever used

[sly elk]

Those are also stair master afaik

[hard drift]

trying to impress someone with an ass?

[sly elk]

Yeah I like them because they make me sweat hahahaha

[deep sapphire]

no I say "um ladies my eyes are up here" and then point at my biceps

[hard drift]

🤢

[deep sapphire]

no we only see PCs in here

maybe a mac or 2

a lot of trucks

and hatred of ford

[hard drift]

Someone say pc?

[deep sapphire]

I mean I hate Minneapolis so im okay with that

look at that dirty ass carpet, go rent a rug doctor

HELP YOURSELF

nah jk

[hard drift]

It’s not a rug 😭 it’s the carpet

And before you ask, my pc isn’t on the carpet

[sick edge]

Someone said pc?

[odd sand]

Resting heart rate of 58? wtf....

[sick edge]

dont die

[odd sand]

58 is super low, even for women. For a guy thats even more insanely low

I forget what mine was last time. My cholesterol shot up a ton last year, so I need to see what its at after I hit my target weight. if its still high then I might have to take a statin or something bc supposedly my family has a history of high chol

It was at like 130 or something then suddenly next blood test they said t was like 250 or something

The only thing that really changed it seemed like was that I gained some weight. Normally was in the 170s and was in the 190s now. So with warmer weather (theoretically) happening soon, I should be able to get back to 170s by the end of summer

My doctor was like your cholesterol is terrible but my glucose was totally normal lol

[hard drift]

170 gang

i'm almost 160s again

[odd sand]

I need to stop going out to eat so much. I keep going on vacation and stuff and then it shoots back up

Rode 190-198 ladder like 3x in the last 2 months bc of that lol

[hard drift]

i'm about healthy for once i used to be like 120-130 and not for lack of trying

[odd sand]

Yeah that's the funny thing when I was in hs I was like 130 and for a while in college I tried taking the calorie shakes to get my weight up just a bit and was constantly stuck at like 135.

Bc I would drink the shakes then be too full for any other food lol

I don't have another trip planned for like 2 months, so it should work out. At my normal eating cadence which is like 1 main meal a day and a light snack for breakfast and in the late evening, I lose about half a pound a day

[deep sapphire]

Mine is

[hard drift]

ewww

[odd sand]

That's cheating tho, look at that external radiator lol

[hard drift]

[deep sapphire]

It’s a full tower where else am I gonna put it

[hard drift]

on a plank of wood like me lol

.... that's awful

[jaunty light]

[jaunty light]

[odd sand]

I watched it in the theaters, I thought the new batman was good. Certainly better than any of the Batman movies since dark knight trilogy

[deep sapphire]

Why is she blushing

[odd sand]

I liked it focusing more on the detective work for once

[jaunty light]

[deep sapphire]

[jaunty light]

[sick edge]

I stand with you. Ideally on opposite sides so it doesn't fall over. XD

[sick edge]

Terrible how?

[hard drift]

things on the outside

[sick edge]

but it's the radiator so isnt that good?...

[modest moss]

mine too

[sick edge]

the tower needed for that radiator.. sheesh....

if you wanted full unit

[modest moss]

🤫

[jaunty light]

[deep sapphire]

And would you look at that we’re the only tech mentors

COINCIDENCE

!?

[hard drift]

😔

it's by choice that i don't even want it tbf lol

[deep sapphire]

[modest moss]

Maybe we're just not scared of the minute chance of static damage? idk

[jaunty light]

[deep sapphire]

Just don’t even look inside of it, problem solved

Dust? Not my problem

[modest moss]

yep, just enjoy pc

[jaunty light]

Cant enjoy without 20,000 individually addressable LEDs

[deep sapphire]

Just turn that OSD off, all it does is give you OCD

Temps? Don’t care

CPU usage? Not my problem

You hear that bidori

It’s healthy for you

[jaunty light]

@deep sapphire https://www.ulta.com/p/crystal-noir-eau-de-toilette-VP11936?sku=2137638

Buy me this

[modest moss]

How much free ram do I have?

Don't know, don't care

[jaunty light]

I have 2TB of wam, im sure its fine

[modest moss]

Shit is working, ignore stats

[jaunty light]

[modest moss]

2TB is a lot of ram

[jaunty light]

Oh wait it has sandalwood i probably get a rash if I used it

[modest moss]

Ice is already googling how to buy that much

[sick edge]

allergic to wood?

2tb ram is scary

[odd sand]

Did they let you keep the ram? Or you "have" that only at work in that VM cluster? heh

[jaunty light]

I am allergic to all the things

[deep sapphire]

Why

[jaunty light]

[jaunty light]

Women go crazy for crystal noir

[sick edge]

https://tenor.com/view/sneezing-lisa-simpson-seasonal-allergies-the-simpsons-little-chipmunk-friend-im-allergic-to-everything-gif-20593552

[deep sapphire]

I don’t like crazy people

[jaunty light]

Dont wear it!

[odd sand]

That was my friend when visiting him. They just bought the house a few months ago in SC and apparently he's super allergic to the pollen out there

So they have the house shut tight and air purifiers in like 4 rooms atm and hepa filters for the furnace lol

[jaunty light]

I also want vanilla fatale but that shit is like $300

[deep sapphire]

Why are you wearing perfume

Wear axe

[modest moss]

and old spice

fun fact: axe is not called axe in the UK

it's lynx

[jaunty light]

You dont wear perfume?

[deep sapphire]

You are correct

God nothing gets me a fatter pump in the gym than tears for fears

Great music bois

[odd sand]

Please tell me someone has made an AMV of Everybody Wants to Rule the World with Code Geass /s

[jaunty light]

We have the technology

[deep sapphire]

Such a great song

Repeat material tbh I’d listen to it 76 times in a row

[hard drift]

based

[hard drift]

that's me and whiskey lullaby

[deep sapphire]

[sick edge]

Why?

also operstion success. now how do I make this go whoosh?

[jaunty light]

Stab it

[modest moss]

I am not responsible for deodorant naming

[jaunty light]

Eau de shue

[sick edge]

well what was bad about axe?....

[modest moss]

why are we telling people to to stab batteries?

how the fuck would I know why a brand chooses a name

[jaunty light]

What does a lynx smell like

[sick edge]

A sharp smell probably.. almost like.. an axe.. <-<

Any thermal paste is ok right?

[modest moss]

pretty much any branded one yeah

arctic silver used to be good but these overspending nerds probably like fancier shit

[jaunty light]

Grizzly

[sick edge]

I mean I paid 1K for a 3080 and will probably regret it, so.... Fancy doesn't sound terrible

No but really, how do I deal with puffy lithium cells? XP

[modest moss]

grizzly is twice the price, but really unless you're doing a big OC it's all fine

[sick edge]

I do wanna see it burn though...

So arctic then?

Time to accidentally put thermal paste in the cpu slot. 😎 Build PC, no guide. =P

[modest moss]

Honk says grizzly

[sick edge]

So trust hink?

honk?

[jaunty light]

Grizzly kryonaut is bougie

[modest moss]

I mean, it's all just thermal paste, but I'm a cheap bastard

@hard drift help this guy overspend

[sick edge]

Apparently they perform differently but I'm lazy to do proper research so I'm asking strangers online without being on reddit. So.. =P

;~;

[modest moss]

[sick edge]

I know I overspent.

I'm weak and I'm not sure when the proper prices will go down and really after 2 years I jsut wanna make a system that I can have and use BEFORE summer as opposed to during summer....

I'd hate to make that microcenter drive IN summer...

[deep sapphire]

No A/C either? Hell yeah brother

[jaunty light]

Who needs AC

[sick edge]

When you open the window, it's not cooler, that's called convection heating. XD

[jaunty light]

Cook a pizza on your way there

[hard drift]

😐

i'm not helping anything, you're the tech mentor

[modest moss]

he just wants paste bidori don't be unhelpful

I said arctic, honk said grizzly

[hard drift]

i don't use paste

both are good lol

i use a thermal pad

because i'm cheap

[sick edge]

You DON'T use paste?...

Oh... are those good?

[modest moss]

yikes

[sick edge]

I thought paste was my only option

[hard drift]

they're okay but not good lol

[sick edge]

Oh okee.

[jaunty light]

Kryonaut extreme, kryonaut, NT-H2

[hard drift]

it works for what i need to but paste is 100% better

[jaunty light]

Nth2 being least bougie

Of the list..

[sick edge]

What is the least bougie and most effective?

I DUNNO PHYSICS! Thermaltransference escapes me

[jaunty light]

What cooler are you gonna buy

[sick edge]

I just know LTT did a thermal pad that you could cut ice with. That was neat.

Uuuuh dunno yet

[modest moss]

decide that first

what cpu are you buying

[hard drift]

graphene sucks

[sick edge]

Everything is undecided other than the fact I have a 3080. XP

[hard drift]

but it should work better in theory

[jaunty light]

If you buy a noctua it comes with NTH1 or NTH2. Most AIOs already have paste applied

[sick edge]

O I C... so look at noctua. Got it

[modest moss]

pick your cpu, then your mobo, then your cooler

[sick edge]

I'm trying to limit myself to 1500 for the rest of parts.

Steep, but I've had literally 2 years of terrible part time work to save. XP

[modest moss]

should be fine assuming that doesn't include display

[sick edge]

Including display... XD

[modest moss]

🧹

[sick edge]

I was looking aaaaat...

https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntk=all&sortby=match&N=4294966896+4294819462&myStore=true

4K would probably be what my card is rated for, but. O~O Dats extra expensive too

[deep sapphire]

Bring back vent windows

[sick edge]

You mean moon roofs?

[jaunty light]

You mean sun dials?

[sick edge]

No I think you're thinking of phone dials

[deep sapphire]

No these

You could swivel it towards you

Better pic

[sick edge]

Oh... gross, that's too 70s, it's why we have that little car switch that lets outside air flow in though.. XD

[deep sapphire]

That doesn’t work nearly as well

This felt like A/C

[sick edge]

Unless the air is also. You know.. hot

Which tends to be the case here...

[jaunty light]

Dont u live where the summer high is like 70f

[sick edge]

Our summer min is 88.. ;~:

[deep sapphire]

Summers here are pretty brutal

July gets to high 90s regularly with a lot of humidity. Obviously not Arizona bad but it’s sucks we get the extremes of both lmao

[jaunty light]

[deep sapphire]

Pfft come talk to me when it’s -20 everyday in January

[jaunty light]

Gets to 40

[sick edge]

Groo

ss..

90s humidity..

[jaunty light]

Sticky 🥥 🥥

[deep sapphire]

Sticky coconuts???

[hard drift]

...

hank please

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/jojo-bucciarati-vento-aureo-punch-gif-14218655

[deep sapphire]

THATS WHAT HE SAID

[hard drift]

i hate you

[deep sapphire]

Toxic

I’m just trying to relax from a hard workout and he brings up sweaty coconuts okay

[modest moss]

Bidori please don't use that aggressive tone in our wholesome tech haven

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/hate-starwars-sith-gif-5419831

[hard drift]

😔 you're right, i'll see myself out

[modest moss]

@hard drift

[hard drift]

[deep sapphire]

🥥

[odd sand]

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/u82rac/someones_hacked_our_apartment_door_its_on_a/

[deep sapphire]

Haha

[sick edge]

Disappointed it's not the whole video

[odd sand]

Internet of Totalshit

That's why if I get a house I'm just installing something local like Ubiquiti

[jaunty light]

Ha ubiquiti

What are you poor

[deep sapphire]

Yeah I am why

[jaunty light]

You must implement cutting edge™️ cisco umbrella next generation firewall ISE zero trust router cloud native firewall switch

[deep sapphire]

Damn busted out the TM

[jaunty light]

Didnt you downpay for a 70k truck

[sick edge]

Bruh, y'all too rich, I'm drilling holes and jsut extending HP webcams out there

[deep sapphire]

No I only put a 500 dollar deposit

[modest moss]

he's repairing his classic ride instead

[deep sapphire]

Yeah

My classic wheels brah

WRENCHIN AT WORK, WRENCHIN AT HOME ALL I CAN DO IS WRENCH

[jaunty light]

$20,000 later. New motor, new transmission, new tires and spinnaz, new glass, new body panels, new differential, new suspension

[deep sapphire]

AHHHH IM GONNA WRENCH

[jaunty light]

[deep sapphire]

10,000**

[modest moss]

Hank how old is your truck?

[deep sapphire]

32 years

[modest moss]

"The Antique Automobile Club of America notes classics must be older than 25 years (with cars over 45 years old known as antiques)"

CLASSIC

[deep sapphire]

[jaunty light]

For 10k you could buy a tenere 700

[modest moss]

Honk is just jealous because all he has is a puny anime truck

[jaunty light]

[modest moss]

Ford F-1weeby

[jaunty light]

I parked next to a 90s ranger today

Lil ass truck that thing is

[deep sapphire]

[deep sapphire]

Oh they let people ride in the vehicle while it’s being put on a flatbed headed to the junkyard?

[jaunty light]

:OmegaLUL:

Buy me a ram trx hank

Then i can wrap it

[modest moss]

with princess robot bubblegum?

[odd sand]

The thing is, with how insane the used market is for truck prices, even sinking 10k into that is probably better than buying new/newer

[deep sapphire]

8 MPG

[odd sand]

Ppl shit on putting money into older cars "its not worth anything" but they fail to see that its equally stupid to say dont spend 10k fixing ... then spend 25k buying some used truck and it depreciates how many thousands a year... then still has maintenance costs

[odd sand]

So like for my Saturn, I did a lot of maintenance to it, but those costs were well under what a car payment would have been and I knew the maintenance schedule of the car so I never had shit randomly break on me

[modest moss]

I mean

[jaunty light]

Yea 16 highway at best

[modest moss]

Hank buys 70k truck on credit, so he pays what, 90k? 100k total?

drives truck off the lot and bam it's worth 50k tops immediately

fuck that

[odd sand]

Sell working car for 1k that had $500-1000/yr in repairs and buy a new car for 30k that depreciates 2-3k/yr for the first 5 years... 💩

Not in the current market

Atm you buy the 70k truck, drive it off the lot and its worth 80k

[jaunty light]

Yap

[odd sand]

I bought my Stinger for 37k last year. Now it's worth 44k

[modest moss]

so buy 10 70k trucks, sell them all for 80k, get 100k free

gg ez

[jaunty light]

Ppl post 2010 dodges here with 100k mi for 30-40k

[odd sand]

You could do that if you had enough credit to roll

[jaunty light]

I could still get 10k+ for my f150, 2002 140k

[odd sand]

140k isnt even a lot of miles for a truck

[jaunty light]

It is for a trans

[deep sapphire]

Yeah but age plays a role too

[odd sand]

In Minnesota I suppose

[deep sapphire]

My truck only has 154,000 but it’s 32 years old haha

[modest moss]

one careful lady owner

[deep sapphire]

Some people only drive short trips too which is hard on the engine

[odd sand]

Sandblast and rustoleum that bish underneath

[jaunty light]

I gotta diagnose my ruff idle but ill probably be due for a trans soon

[odd sand]

Sold my Saturn for $250 @ 240k. Was probably on its last 5-10k miles without a new clutch, engine mounts, and head gasket, but the check engine light wasn't on still :)

[jaunty light]

Only 700 bucks to buy one

[deep sapphire]

About what your shitbox is worth

[odd sand]

And honestly, if I didnt have the water leaking problems into the cabin for years I would have considered putting in the work

I could never figure out where the water was getting in from, so over the years I had rust in areas I could have avoided and there were a lot of water stains on the ceiling

A crate motor for those saturns was like $1800

[deep sapphire]

Sunroof?

[jaunty light]

I have that, so i sprayed clear waterproofing into where it leaked and let it seal

[odd sand]

I had the sunroof completely taped off

[jaunty light]

[odd sand]

I was never able to diagnose it properly. The only thing I didnt check was some ppl said there were drains in 4 spots leading away from the sunroof down the body and the bottom could get clogged with dust particles over time.

But you'd think since I completely sealed off the sunroof, it would prevent that right?

[deep sapphire]

Yeah they can, plus GM and seals don’t go together

[odd sand]

But yeah, I would have needed new engine mounts and the crate motor and a clutch at the very least. At 240k I assume the transmission wasn't far behind but who knows

[deep sapphire]

Why not just pull one from a junkyard

Ecotec?

[odd sand]

When I say crate motor I mean ones that are already rebuilt

Its like a starter core, you trade them in your motor and you get a rebuilt one from them. I think.

[deep sapphire]

That’d be a waste of money for a 4 banger could just grab one out of a cobalt for 500 bucks

[odd sand]

Well at anyrate, all that work would have been like $3k tops and then it would have been good for another 100k+ miles

vs gambling on buying something for $3k with like 80-100k miles and hoping its not a lemon

[deep sapphire]

And then you hear some rattles and then some squeaks and you say oh right I drive a GM

[odd sand]

My only major complaint with that car was it ate wheel bearings

I had all original exhaust on it until 190k miles

[deep sapphire]

That is impressive for a northern car

The 2nd gen cavalier is an underrated small car, people say Americans can’t build small cars for shit and they’re mostly right but that fucker never dies

[odd sand]

240k miles and it was still getting like 32mpg highway out of an original rated like 34mpg

[deep sapphire]

Must’ve kept up on the oil changes well

[odd sand]

err they claimed 38mpg, thats bullshit. they never got that even at low miles lol

[deep sapphire]

I’d figure by that point it’d be burning some oil

[odd sand]

Oh, it was going thru oil like mad at that point lmao, hence needing the head gasket

[deep sapphire]

The transmission in my truck is a pile of shit, 700R4/4L80

[odd sand]

By the end I needed to add 1qt every 500 miles

[deep sapphire]

If you don’t watch that trans fluid like a hawk it’ll overheat and eat the clutch packs

[odd sand]

240k and had an original clutch I think. Unless they changed it when I bought it at 75k miles...

Was 90% gone by that point though.

[deep sapphire]

Lmao I bet

[odd sand]

The engage point for shifting was suuuuuuuper late

[deep sapphire]

240K is a good run

[odd sand]

It honestly wasn't that bad until like 220k

That's when I started really noticing the engagement point for the clutch was super slow

[jaunty light]

Shouldve just rewinded the odometer

[buoyant falcon]

Whelp, one of my speakers won't stop making scratching noises ever since I've unpacked it after my move.

Tried messing around with the wires and everything.

[odd sand]

RIP in pieces. Maybe the wire inside the housing got loose

[modest moss]

@tame fulcrum point @tranquil breach in the direction of how you got a sweet job with no degree in Canada when you're on

[tranquil breach]

Oh god

I mean it sounds really interesting for sure

Most times I hear about someone getting a high-end job without a specific degree usually involves grinding certifications on their own

Or having a good deal of passion in the area enough to build an impressive portfolio

Oh? That sounds pretty cool actually

No worries man, that's actually pretty cool. I'm just working and learning random stuff on the side and Shue mentioned you did something similar and found a lot of success in it

Thanks for the advice! Definitely something I might look into if my current job doesn't pan out

Been looking to get more into programming and software development but I keep putting it off because from a distance it kind of looks like a mountain

I can't really fault you for that because even my own bosses working in IT might not be able to answer something basic despite being well above my paygrade

[boreal surge]

Which bits, might be able to help with those

[deep sapphire]

TECHNOLOGY

@modest moss if I get banned just remember the good times buddy

[modest moss]

same babe

[tranquil breach]

Those are all really good points, and I definitely see #6 a lot

Thanks for taking the time to type that out, definitely makes me feel a little better about my own job searches and trying to move up

[sly elk]

i think with experience what you start bringing to the table isn't just your ability to produce, but your ability to solve complex problems when they arrive

like being able to solve a nasty bug that somehow happened

or guess hours on a new project's tasks, or architecture fun

lol

[odd sand]

Every mountain summitted began with a single step /s

[odd sand]

Don't be afraid to include any sort of leadership or mgmt skills you might have gained even tangentially.

For example, I referenced my time doing panel programming for Anime Central

[sly elk]

yea though I will admit

[odd sand]

I called it by their nonprofit name (MAPS) not Anime Central, but I was able to reference doing programming scheduling and mgmt for a convention with over 200 events and 30k attendance etc. for 10 years

[tranquil breach]

Oh dang

[sly elk]

i never thought anything bad about including not-quite-related experience to resumes

but apparently some of my coworkers think it's ridiculous to say, list any kinda pre-college work (like working at mcdonalds)

i got in a kinda nasty clash about that

I was saying that when I review a candidate I'm looking for reasons to hire them

[tranquil breach]

Really depends where you're working I guess, or if you've had a lot of other relevant experience

[sly elk]

they were looking for reasons not to hire them

[odd sand]

It's honestly not very relevant. Maybe for a very first job out of college, but honestly if you're just out of college they know that and arent expecting much bc its entry level

[sly elk]

yea lol

[odd sand]

They want to know what your personality is like and if you will fit in with the team and be a good learner, and if you have any portfolio stuff that shows initiative

[sly elk]

but if they haven't even got a page of stuff to say, i'm not going to hold it against them lol

hehe

there's also the dudes that have like 4 pages

like a 20 year career and they did 2 year contract stints at every other company

otoh twice now

I've thumbs up'd a candidate

and then my boss assigned them to my project XD

i can't complain 😄

but i'm not a manager so whatever

my team does. and I can't blame them. but it's because they're looking for a few things

yea it's more like

[tranquil breach]

Syntax can be taught for different coding languages but the thought process for solving problems is something you need to kind of know, I suppose?

Or have a good grasp on how to arrive at the solution

[odd sand]

My friend was just telling me about an interview he had for a data manager position and the guy supposedly had 8 years of experience but couldn't remember how to explain information governance at all >.>

yeah learning coding is all about learning how to think through things logically and methodically

APIs and Syntaxes can be learned easy enough

[sly elk]

information governance?

-fails interview-

[tranquil breach]

Information governance? Isn't that literally just like "Don't let people access restricted information and keep track of who has access"?

[odd sand]

Data crossing certain network boundaries etc. yes

[sly elk]

is that another term for access control?

[odd sand]

CIA - Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability

[sly elk]

oh kay

[torn matrix]

I'm in a funny position where I've been doing entry-level stuff for years now

And I've been given opportunities to advance but I didn't take them

partly because I also do university while having a day job, but also because in my industry (and city) certifications actually matter

I'm deathly afraid of written tests

They only allow a limited number of attempts per year

I already did

(specifically a level 2+3 test, I did fine on the level 2 portions but not 3)

Now I would be fine with going slower but literally everyone else in the company taking this certification did 2+3 out the gate

I don't know if they have prior experience, but still

[odd sand]

What Ice said on salary: The way HR works these days, they have very little to no leeway in raises, but some amount of latitude during hiring negotiations

It's the reason why he said earlier about jumping jobs every 2 years if you want to keep at market rates

[torn matrix]

I'm at level 1 which is very basic, doing 2+3 shoots you up to 3 but failing means staying at 1

[odd sand]

I've heard of ppl getting let go bc they wouldn't match an offer for say a 10% raise, the person left for 2 years then hired back at the first company for 40% more

[torn matrix]

Not to mention the university stuff also taking up space and attention

(this semester is lighter than others, but only because I mega-failed the previous sems)

I could try the level 2 certification only

[odd sand]

Better to have something than nothing, even if you think you should be further. Build some confidence

[torn matrix]

buuut if I do it and fail, it's no more attempts until next year

three per year

The cert is from an external authority

nah

passed level 1, failed 2+3

[sly elk]

HAHAHAHA

Context: wasn’t me who took the pic, it was a colleague of mine. Dealer says client installed it “just for the feel of the old trucks”. The knob on the dash is not connected to anything

I'm puzzled that it works

that's the layout from the old mercedes 5 speed transmission

but I don't think that shifter handle matches with that shift pattern

use a powered usb hub?

with your regular usb kvm*

I guess your kvm doesn't have a usb hub? just a single port?

that's good actually

otherwise you get the pain of having nested usb hubs 😄