technology-discussion

[sick edge]

Cause they do say significant cost, but also, that thing costs how much? And what is the comparison of that cost to elongate its lifespan of operating time I suppose?

My ongoing theoretical rebuttal to that post? They also knew they had a deadline and couldn't think of a proper solution for this in development and prelaunch.

I understand minimizing points of failure, but at that point, it's the idea that maintenance won't run you forever, but will create a padding to wearing over time.

Well.. strike that, if I"M to believe the InSight is in the same line as what kyan posted, then these thigns are designed to last a certain amount of operating time in the first place?.. alright.

Sure, toss precious rare metals up there as space litter I guess. O~O

[sly elk]

lol usually they're made to last a lot longer than the mission life

also, yes there are varying grades of 'disposable'

truth is, idk exactly why they didn't try some sort of mitigation system, but they probably did research that extensively at some point and decide it wasn't worth it

there are other things you need to consider when it comes to space vehicle lifetime - one of the bigger ones is radiation

the other, in the case of mars, is probably environmental damage from wind storms, direct sunlight, etc

i would not be surprised if they made analysis guessing how long the solar panels would work until they were caked in dust and then decided the computer won't last much longer and it wasn't worth installing cleaning equipment

[jaunty light]

Weaklings

Time to deploy cleaning drones

Then the cleaning drones need cleaning drones of their own

[sick edge]

Actually You ever really need2 or 3. =P

One that cleans and one that cleans who cleans and they sitch off

[jaunty light]

No no, we are keeping nasa and government tradition

Propose solution and purposely leave out some problems.
Secure funding.
Use funding.
Bring up totally new problems, need more funding!
Profit

[sick edge]

Now SpaceX can do that as a contractor for Nasa

Also Nasa funding has only ever been getting lower though...

[umbral moss]

if they funded nasa like it was part of the military we'd have dyson spheres

[outer sand]

how to diagnose what's wrong with my monitor? It won't turn on for like 30 secs after I turned on my Comp now for some reason, whenever I press the monitor power button, It turned on, but It turned off again till things stabilise

[sly elk]

making any kinda mechanism to clean the solar panels introduces more weight, more things to test, more things to develop. it increases costs and again, they probably already did a pretty intense amount of analysis showing that the solar panels would generate power about as long as the rest of the vehicle would function acceptably anyway

[umbral moss]

yeah, even if they did some weird ultrasonic cleaning thing like a camera sensor, the dust is still contaminating all the other mechanical joints and interfaces

so even if the panels maintained 90% capacity after 2x mission time, the rest of the thing is probably clogged to shit with dust

[sly elk]

when I was looking at a stack overflow thing, or a reddit thing, about this subject earlier, there were 2 nasa studies mentioned about various things they've tried in experiments

that subject comes up a lot 🙂

admittedly, if they care enough, they just use an RTG

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

[umbral moss]

RTG will help with power generation, but not with physical degradation

you're not worried about the panels at some point, just the fact the thing is accumulating dust and getting scoured by windstorms

[sly elk]

yep ^^

and the computers getting fried from radiation, harnesses getting fried by uv exposure, wind, dust, etc screwing up sensors

[deep sapphire]

How old is it

[outer sand]

bought it 2012, it's 23 inch LCD @deep sapphire

strangely It starting to act weirdly after I installed that USB3 PCI card

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/genshin-impact-genshin-meme-yoimiya-yoimyiagenshin-gif-24007637

[outer sand]

I can still use it though, but I have to wait till the startup process completed, I have quite a bit of programs I setup to be turned on on my startup using my task scheduler

[modest moss]

I feel like this is a direct attack on @potent arrow

[potent arrow]

stfu

[deep sapphire]

backlight is probably going bad

[modest moss]

You don't mean that sarah

[deep sapphire]

take a flash light up to it closely when you think it isnt turning on and see if you can see a picture

[outer sand]

I'll do that next startup, ty ty

[deep sapphire]

np

[potent arrow]

Hank

I bought new tool

[deep sapphire]

Klein

good choice

https://tenor.com/view/thumbs-up-good-great-excellent-like-gif-4987000

Home Depot lied to me, they said they had 29 of the new milwaukee tumblers in stock, I ordered for pick up and they cancelled it saying they had none in stock

[potent arrow]

wth

[deep sapphire]

right, like wtf

[potent arrow]

I wouldve asked them for compensation xD

[deep sapphire]

"we got some Yeti's in stock"

"ITS NOT GOOD ENOUGH"

[modest moss]

Go full karen

[potent arrow]

Hanken

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/saw-makita-reciprocating-gif-22359009

[potent arrow]

is that a double battery sawzall

[deep sapphire]

yeah Makita has a 36v platform where you can use 2 18v batteries in some tools

[potent arrow]

what the fuck

that would be so heavy

[deep sapphire]

[deep sapphire]

https://www.makitatools.com/lxtx2/metalworking

9" angle grinder with 2 batteries

LOL fuck that

[potent arrow]

OK

See I would understand that

but a sawzall???

What are you cutting? sewer line??

[deep sapphire]

sawzall is a 2 handed tool so probably isnt too bad

get a diablo recip blade on there

gg

https://www.diablotools.com/products/DS0908CFA

probably costs 30 dollars a blade

rofl

[potent arrow]

Diablo is so good

[deep sapphire]

20 dollars I was close!

[potent arrow]

I persoanlly use defuck contractor blades on my sawzall

cuz its cheap as shit

[deep sapphire]

DeWalt blades are kinda meh, they make good drill bits though

hard to beat Diablo when it comes to blades for sure

pretty much the gold standard

[hard drift]

Hey hank, look who’s possibly releasing new ewaste https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-preparing-geforce-gtx-1630-graphics-card-its-first-gtx-x30-model

[potent arrow]

Yeah but dewalt contractor blades cost me 20$ CAD per pack of 5

which is a fucking steal

[deep sapphire]

whats with that presumably expensive OEM shroud

[hard drift]

That’s not oem hank

[deep sapphire]

speaking of terrible blades

Milwaukee knife blades suck

they are sharp as fuck the first 2 times you use them

and then they cant cut a fuckin thing

[hard drift]

That’s 2000 series founders shroud

[potent arrow]

Imagien not carrying a real knife

[deep sapphire]

why when I have the GOAT fastback

[deep sapphire]

yeah but its still made of aluminum

for a basically sub 100 dollar card

whats the point

I dont even know anymore

I refuse to buy new PC parts until prices come down

[hard drift]

Probably leftovers from the shit generation

Given how bad 2000 series was and fucked up new gen for pricing lol

[deep sapphire]

it wasnt bad it was just underwhelming for general raster rendering performance

[hard drift]

I mean it was bad given pricing lol

[deep sapphire]

I think nvidia expected ray tracing to be a bigger thing than it was

I'll agree with that, it was poor value

specially when compared to the 10 series

the 1080Ti was a fuckin legendary bargain

[hard drift]

The 2080ti was basically 3080ti/3090 pricing

[deep sapphire]

649.99 USD for something that went neck and neck with the 2080 lmao

[hard drift]

Yeah, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they have leftover founders shrouds

And that’s why the 1630 looks like that

[modest moss]

If a 1630 is actually worse than a 1650 just get a fucking 5600g or something

Pointless

[hard drift]

Yeah, i really hope it just is a rumor

Otherwise it’s ewaste smh

[umbral moss]

oh nah, raytracing is absolutely going to be The Future, but it's so computationally expensive it's just going to take a while for GPUs to catch up

I would expect the 40 series to be the first time you could reasonably think to turn raytracing on

[outer sand]

so the upcoming ge force 4000 series will requires more watt compared to the 3000?

wondering if i should just wait till came out till I choose the parts I want to upgrade including the PSU

[hard drift]

What class gpu are you looking at

Most people unless going for super high end could do just fine with 750-850w psu

[outer sand]

something that can play the upcoming SF6 and play 60-100 FPS 1080p FFXIV with the upcoming updated graphic probably

so it's not that high?

[hard drift]

650-750w

That’s anything really from current stuff included

[deep sapphire]

FFXIV is forever handicapped by a CPU overhead issue

So if your processor sucks I would look at that first

[hard drift]

It takes almost nothing to run ffxiv at that framerate for 1080 and sf6 won’t be much more than likely since it’s capped at 60 anyways (most likely)

[umbral moss]

yeah, XIV is pretty much CPU onry

isn't it still only one thread after all these years?

[modest moss]

Shit I get 75 fps most places in xiv with a 4690k and gtx 1080 at 1080p

Could get more but I just cap it at 75 because 75hz monitor

[outer sand]

yeah currently, this is what I'm aiming for, but I probably wait till the new increased official spec req for XIV

ignore the scuffed price 😹

prefer nvidia, so probably looking for it's equivalent

[hard drift]

A 3060 will still be fine more than likely

Also I’d avoid the h510 unless it’s the flow model because airflow sucks for the nzxt cases

[outer sand]

ah no, I probably won't change case

unless it's needed?

any old mid tower should be ok right?

I thought all mid tower is like one size fits all

[hard drift]

Yes but airflow

[outer sand]

I use this old one https://youtu.be/FhJ0LSaaD_4

[hard drift]

Still more airflow than an h510

[outer sand]

have no idea about airflow, I just put more smaller fan in 😹

[hard drift]

Won’t matter when it’s a solid panel

[outer sand]

oh I get what you mean now https://youtu.be/YWmp9pX2zy8

yeah that looks suffocating

[hard drift]

The flow is a lot better

[sharp star]

oof NZXT

they fell off for me

[sly elk]

yea the Lian Li O11D was the death of NZXT lol

[umbral moss]

furmark

[lost python]

10 Year wtf

[umbral moss]

back when evga used to make good products and honor warranties

[sly elk]

I can think of natural and dumb ways

for example, put it in an nzxt case and overclock it aggressively

preferably with a PSU that is not quite up to the job

[umbral moss]

furmark is a good way to go

it's just designed to blow the VRMs up

[sly elk]

idk

[umbral moss]

if the vrms eat shit from being pushed past their thermal design envelope?

yeah, probably

[sly elk]

I would say

in a cold room

run furmark for like 30 mins

then turn the computer off all the way

then once it's cooled off, fire it up again

furmark for 30 mins, then turn it off again

i mean

it's an evga gpu

[umbral moss]

evga gpus tend not to die, their motherboards...

poggin

can't wait for a card to finally dethrone my titan

[lost python]

With only triple the power consumption

[umbral moss]

based

my next PC has a dedicated two-row 3x140 rad set aside just for the GPU though

so I'm not worried about heat dissipation

I have a bunch of extra rads and pumps

I bought them two years ago when I thought I was going to use the coronacation time to build a new computer case

until I found out that my job didn't end when covid hit

[umbral moss]

https://imgur.com/gallery/DfD6RF4

wish I had this kind of time and resources

[sick edge]

I feel like having a house is all the resources you need

time is on you really

[sick edge]

you think anykne would trade their 3080 noctua for an evga 3080?

[sharp star]

do people even like Noctua brown

[wide hill]

https://twitter.com/GloriousEggroll/status/1526770003084775425

GloriousEggroll (@GloriousEggroll)

latest proton bleeding edge patches seems to fix the ffxiv launcher 🥳

Twitter · May 18, 2022, 3:41 AM

[modern iris]

Has anyone here dipped their hands into AutoEQ?

[sharp star]

laughs in XIVLauncher

[wide hill]

third party tool

[sharp star]

shhh

[serene radish]

What is the process "Desktop Window Manager" exactly and why does it take up so much memory (more than 2GB on my laptop)? Can I just end the process or at least refresh it somewhat so it wouldn't take up so much?

[wide hill]

reboot your computer is a good way to end the process

apparently, most "fixes" to this is doing windows updates

and when you end the process, it does start up automatically again

[serene radish]

Okay so I can terminate the process and I won't crash or something, I rather do that than restart

thanks

[wide hill]

try checking windows updates for permanent solutions

[potent arrow]

Restarting your computer is the better idea : P

It's good to do that often anyways

[serene radish]

I update usually twice a week and updated yesterday and it's been like this for a while

[wide hill]

yeah, that's weird

mine only takes like 60mb

https://img.thaun.dev/sht9f.png

[potent arrow]

Windows updates, and chipset driver updates would be what I would do

DWM is Intel's way of hardware accelrating windows explorer

Iirc

So performing updates would remedy the issue, if they've patched it

Reading up on it, it's exactly that.

Common memory leak that was never patched

[wide hill]

if you use lenovo, check vantage, i think they also do add updates that windows updates don't

[potent arrow]

Going back a year

Vantage or Lenovo update assist

Lenovo Update assist utility is better iirc

https://support.lenovo.com/ca/en/solutions/ht003029-lenovo-system-update-update-drivers-bios-and-applications

Sorry thaun if it seems like I'm trying to undermine you @_@

[wide hill]

i mean, as long as it is a better tool, i only knew of vantage other than that

[potent arrow]

I have a love and hate relationship with vantage

Also updating twice a week is not enough imo, but that's because working in IT I've gotten annoyed at how many problems are solved by our users more frequently shutting down their computers

[wide hill]

oh god, you made me check vantage now. and i already got 2 updates

https://img.thaun.dev/6j3ik.png

reboot required

[potent arrow]

School is making me learn webdev and I've managed to brick my t480 with bootstrap

So I've been redownloading updates

[wide hill]

wtf

how

[potent arrow]

Yeah

[wide hill]

i mean, you shouldn't be able to brick bootstrap

[potent arrow]

I'm just gonna say it now

[wide hill]

its only javascript and css

[potent arrow]

Don't

Use bootstrap to make a firmware flasher

It's boostrap as the ui

But i

Did

A massive fuck up on the backend

[wide hill]

don't tell me you flashed your own /dev/sda

[potent arrow]

Well

You know

I can be smart, but I was writing directly into the folder that was supposed to be a database but really it was just the LFS folder

[wide hill]

uhuh

[potent arrow]

[wide hill]

you know what the worst part about webdev, teachers learning people to use putty to ssh into servers and write the site directly trough putty

oh, and i think they were writing php

[potent arrow]

Why write though putty

Why not just shove it to git

And clone

[wide hill]

too much to learn at the same time i would assume, it was supposed to be a small course of creating a LAMP server

it was probably also a class that has never touched linux

so you know what that means?

its nano learning time

when i tried to help someone on issues, it would be so bad, cause you could only use your arrows to navigate, and i had to point to where they should put their cursor on, and write what it had to write

[potent arrow]

HOW HARD IS IT TO LEARN NANO

BDJSAJSN

TB3 is always broken wdym

They've never fixed it 🤣

Yep

My dock doesnt initialize it's USB ports on start

[wide hill]

thank god the teacher didn't tell them that they had to learn vim

[potent arrow]

T480

[wide hill]

i have T14s

i don't want it

[potent arrow]

Idk why people lack brains sometimes, this shit should be easy for any computer minded person

My t480 is on a KVM, I have a seperate computer for gaming

That's what that top thing is

I'm a student, I move often

Hence the sff

[wide hill]

assume this, "any computer minded person" class was a group of people that did electronics but mostly joined cause they played video games alot. It's not a class where you choose that one specific topic, but a field of topics, so it was within one of them.

[potent arrow]

Fits in my backpack

[wide hill]

idk what school type you call it, secondary school?

vocational school?

tbh, since i work a bit, i wish i got a rather "beefier" workstation, rather than the laptop

no, more like

"i want more fans on it, so it doesn't go up in flames"

T14s has an overheating problem, and when you need to use the powers, it shits itself

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/ ?

🤷

[potent arrow]

That's why I am in embedded engineering

My goal is ultimately work on something like that

[potent arrow]

Unfortunately this is too true. I've known so many with this mentality and dropped out

Now try bit twiddling all your life

[wide hill]

My toasty laptop

sadly with the dock i have i can't put a fan under it

dart?

[potent arrow]

Dart and Go are massive wdym

Dart let's me look smart because it's basically C

[wide hill]

i hate C, unironically, but not beacuse it's bad, but beacuse i am bad at it

[potent arrow]

lol

C is all I know

Yes

C is my favorite language

Bar none

You can do anything with it, and it's super light

Nothing better for machine level

Well besides assembly

[wide hill]

any c# gangs?

[potent arrow]

I don't do OOP

[wide hill]

[potent arrow]

Thaum I'm guessing you are a webdev?

[wide hill]

fullstack

[potent arrow]

@_@ I am in the presence of a god

[wide hill]

not that special, it just means our company doesn't have enough people to seperate work to just one person to front and other for backend

well, atm, the project i am working on now is just frontend

[potent arrow]

Fullstack would be more then two people

[wide hill]

with flutter

and the one i am working with, that is on a seperate firm, does the api.

[potent arrow]

Seems like API outsourcing is a common theme these days

Brb gotta commute

[wide hill]

nah, not outsourcing, the api is buildt by someone who works there directly, the frontend that i am making is for their same firm.

but i could work on the backend, but python isn't my thing

[royal forge]

Anyone know which microsoft office ver that isn't the 365 shit?

[wide hill]

not 365?

not sure which one is the good one you are talking about

[royal forge]

something that isnt 365

365 needs a yearly purchase/license, no?

[wide hill]

well, if you mean you want to have word just without the subscription, you can buy it https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/word/cfq7ttc0hlkm

which is for 1 device

otherwise, the subscription for personal is https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/microsoft-365-personal/cfq7ttc0k5bf

7 dollar a month

or 70 dollar a year

or if you want a package that is one-time-purchase https://www.microsoft.com/nb-no/microsoft-365/p/office-home-business-2021/cfq7ttc0hpn4

[deep sapphire]

The nice thing with office 365 sub is the inclusion of one drive

[misty pawn]

is my ram in single or dual channel???

it doesnt say

[umbral moss]

poggin

think of all the porn you can download

[deep sapphire]

https://www.acmetools.com/m18-redlithium-high-output-xc-60ah-battery-pack-2pk-48-11-1862/045242533114.html

Good fuckin deal

[deep sapphire]

[kindred brook]

https://tenor.com/view/andy-kr-gif-8201885

[wintry drift]

wasnt this website purchased encouraged to change their performance criteria to make intel processors look less terrible with the advent of ryzen

or am I thinking of a different, but strikingly similar looking website

[deep sapphire]

Supposedly yeah lmao

[dull garnet]

Ew

[sly elk]

I mean, isn't that how mobile phone benchmarks work? 😄

"This phone is 50% faster at peak performance!" (in a mode that would burn a hole in the chassis if you used it for more than 2 seconds at a time)

[odd sand]

Yeah the benchmarks for the Snapdragon 888 claim its like 45% better than my 845 from 2019, but I didn't think the mobile chips were still getting gains like that. The 895 in the current flagships presumably being even higher than that. Presumably like 60% better in 3 years in 2022 seems... unlikely.

[sick edge]

I'd like the nonpresence of rgb. XD

The quiet is cool and all, but I'd want the benefits of cooling without RGB plox

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-13th-gen-core-raptor-lake-desktop-cpu-to-feature-up-to-68mb-of-l2-l3-cache more cache

[umbral moss]

at what point is it just a small brick of SRAM

[potent arrow]

@deep sapphire

Immaculate

Now to go fuck with a carb

[modest moss]

Lol I thought the reflection of the lights was part of the thing and I was so confused

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/crab-rave-dancing-dancing-crab-gif-16543314

[odd sand]

Still gonna lose the 10mm in a week

[sly elk]

lol I love that crab video

[boreal surge]

sanity checking I did my unittests right and trying to repro issue: 1 day
fixing said issue: 1 copy paste

I smart SWE

[late basalt]

I mean.... that’s software in a nutshell isn’t it?

[kindred brook]

https://slickdeals.net/share/android_app/t/15794746

Refurb 3090 1199

[sly elk]

there's another version of this: When people were trained to debug software strictly by stepping it in the debugger

instead of looking at the entire issue first before digging in

https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/uslxvb/rawlings_baseball_leather_seats_in_a_tundra/

it's funny how they missed the baseball stitching

there was a car where audi did that

It’s an ‘08 but it still smells like you put a new baseball glove over your face when you get in it.

[boreal surge]

Ftr I did my unit tests right.

And tbh I haven’t had to step through using a debugger that often, either I knew the code well enough or stack trace.

[jaunty light]

disgusting

torch that abomination

[lost python]

Stick? I can feel them being fried

[sly elk]

ya know for all the great car design hyundai does

I can't believe they phoned this bullshit in

[lost python]

That looks terrible

[sly elk]

I just love how they could've done this any way to go with the contours and instead they were like

naw let's just cut this hole here

despite that, I bet it sells like the best vehicle ever because for some reason when people buy cars like that they seem to go nuts for shit that's ugly on purpose

[jaunty light]

Why isnt it cut out where the logo is?

Koreans are a menace

[jaunty light]

What if we had
Had fried rob thighs in the baseball audi? 😳

[lost python]

[sly elk]

i can as well, but only in a convertible with the top down

turns out leather seats get awfully hot when exposed to direct sunlight

[lost python]

Well can't be worse than the metal from the belt though

[sly elk]

yea but you don't set your butt on the metal from the belt clip and the rest of it is plastic

[lost python]

I did that once by accident

It was not nice

[sly elk]

ouch

I remember in old cars, the socket was also entirely metal

[lost python]

Why wouldn't you want to burn your hands afterall

[lost python]

Ah fuck that

[sly elk]

you pushed on the black GM thing inthe middle to open it

[jaunty light]

Just dont wear seatbelt

[lost python]

[sly elk]

lol

[odd sand]

The classic GM seatbelts. Nice. ;p

[sly elk]

I remember ford having very similar ones, lol the cars my dad had when I was little had them

when I was born my parents had a taurus

then later my dad downsized to a ford tempo

the metal was awful on a hot day xD

[sly elk]

There are still some vehicles with them but it is pretty uncommon

Like the cheapest Jeep Wrangler still has them

I think the one thing that is dead entirely is physical key ignitions

Even the cheapest cars are using push button start now

It’s not worth the money to make a keyed ignition for the lowest end car

And besides the push button receiver is likely more reliable

The keys are going to have a transponder regardless

Oh yeah I hate that

The more time goes on, the more I hate it

I’ve been seriously considering swapping my Jeeps radio for something else to get rid of the 4g connection because they sell the data lmao

GM has been doing that with onstar forever

[sick edge]

That'll rack you... 90000$

[sick edge]

That... that I'm sad about.

Got car before solar powered AC/s. ;~; am sad

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/OrdinaryGamers/status/1527029210430193664

Mutahar (@OrdinaryGamers)

I know Apple doesn't like Windows but come on.

Likes

135506

Retweets

14803

Twitter · May 18, 2022, 8:51 PM

[dull garnet]

300ZX tho

[velvet flint]

sigh

can anyone help?

I accidentally installed a kids tracking app on my phone and I can't disable or uninstall it

"Needs password to uninstall my ass"

not even android debugging can help

[dull garnet]

Ask your parents

[wide hill]

abd uninstall didn't work?

[deep sapphire]

Which one

[deep sapphire]

Makes the Camaro blind spots seem tame!

Remember when they redesigned it and it was so ugly they redesigned it again the following year

[sharp star]

lmao

ew

[deep sapphire]

https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/f9f6f0923cdc99467e73aecb0ad4fe5b2bc08bd0/hub/2017/11/29/16ceac81-c8e6-42e9-8d2a-7ec18ae5e9a3/2018-chevrolet-camaro-ss-1.jpg?auto=webp&width=1092

They should’ve left it alone

It looked better before

I kinda want a Camaro though they are excellent cars, specially for the price

If you get the 1LE package it has magnetic dampers and GM makes the best system

[umbral moss]

I wish the camaro came with the holden commodore body panels 😔

[deep sapphire]

Tfw no more Chevy SS

[umbral moss]

does chevy offer the SS trim on any car anymore?

I thought it was all ZR or ZL

[deep sapphire]

Camaro

[umbral moss]

the camaro isn't a ZR?

[deep sapphire]

Nope

1SS or 2SS

[umbral moss]

that's not a confusing product code structure at all lmao

[deep sapphire]

Only difference is features

[umbral moss]

I forgot GM's product codes are as byzantine as toyota's

[deep sapphire]

1SS is a solid value if you don’t care for safety features

[umbral moss]

if you're driving a sports car you've already chosen chaos

[deep sapphire]

It’s like 38,000 for a 6.2 V8 sports car

Total bargain

[umbral moss]

can't wait for the EV camaro to show up

they already have a hybrid vette and apparently a full EV one in prototype

[deep sapphire]

I heard the Camaro might get dropped again

[umbral moss]

not a surprise, it has shit margins since it's a $38,000 V8 lmao

[deep sapphire]

They don’t sell well because everyone says they feel like a coffin to drive

[umbral moss]

you can put the same engine in a vette and charge twice as much

[potent arrow]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHRFHFJFIFISIWISX

Hxjdjcjd

[umbral moss]

yeah, I can see that too

[potent arrow]

Gm shitters

Ew why tf are y'all talking about Camaros

[umbral moss]

I don't mind a small passenger space but I would prefer it to be a small outside and a small inside

not a yuge outside and tiny inside

[potent arrow]

Boomer vehicles

[deep sapphire]

I think it’s something you’d get use too but it basically requires blind spot monitoring

And if you’re taller then it’d really suck

[umbral moss]

yeah, I've heard the camaro is basically designed to fit the guy who designed it

if you're taller than 5'8 it's miserable

[deep sapphire]

Haha I believe it

[potent arrow]

It's miserable for short people too

[umbral moss]

because it's a camaro ha gottem

[potent arrow]

It just feels heavy to drive :P

[deep sapphire]

Just buy the Cadillac same car but you can see out of it

[umbral moss]

that's the ATS?

[deep sapphire]

Yeah but with magnetic dampers that doesn’t really matter

It has enough low end torque where weight isn’t a huge issue IMO

[umbral moss]

imagine sports cars with electric motors

no need for superchargers when you have 500lb-ft at go

[potent arrow]

Spine breakin

[umbral moss]

an excellent way to shit yourself

[potent arrow]

Feels like a wet sock still

[umbral moss]

press the throttle too hard and your ribs become one with the seat

actually, the car I'm most excited to see an EV of is the fucking miata

[potent arrow]

absolutely did not drive it only once at a car meet,

Miata??

Bruh

[umbral moss]

the miata is peak sleeper car, it's so fucking light

you don't need a 700whp engine to make it go fast

[potent arrow]

Yeah, but you put a ev in it...it'll do a wheely

[umbral moss]

[potent arrow]

Or the fucking frame becomes pretzel

Either or

[umbral moss]

it'll be fine, probably

I've seen people put hayabusa motors in a fucking smart car

[potent arrow]

Yeah Vinny b

He's a Quebecois

He had to reinforce it quite a bit

Did you see his locking diff on it?

Absolutely fucking cursed

[umbral moss]

I thought smart cars were perfectly safe and the frame was super reinforced to survive an accident

not at all a hamster ball with wheels

[potent arrow]

Yeaaaaaaaaaaah

You get hit by a highlander in that thing and you become human windows XP pinball on the highway

[umbral moss]

if you get hit by a modern highlander it'll just drive over you like an inconvenient curb

based 7 foot tall hood and 3 foot clearance

[potent arrow]

pfft

[royal forge]

So, as my laptop had its nvme replaced. Do you guys think it might run ER better now?

Or should i expect chunky performance still

Considerin that the nvme was attributed as the cause of the crashes etc

[umbral moss]

🤔

why would nvme be the cause of crashes, unless there's a problem with the board or the drive

[inland mauve]

Elden Ring runs better the closer your PC is to a PS4

[umbral moss]

imagine having a PS4 😔

[inland mauve]

if I had a PS4, I would play it on there

it doesn't run very well on my PC 😔

been waiting for them to fix it but

I am starting to have this feeling they won't

[umbral moss]

from software isn't known for optimization

didn't it take like, two years for dark souls to be playable on PC

[inland mauve]

it took DSFix

hopefully we'll get an ERFix

[outer sand]

you are right actually

so what's the solution for this? just replace with a new one?

[umbral moss]

unless it comes from FS directly, I wouldn't bet on it

all the modders are in horny jail because of ranni

[deep sapphire]

Yeah I wouldn’t bother trying to fix it just buy a new monitor

You’d have to take it apart, grab the panel part number and order it from China which could take several weeks and would probably cost you 70 bucks

[umbral moss]

shipping probably costs you $70 on its own because air freight is boned right now

[deep sapphire]

Right

Basically totals the value of the monitor

[outer sand]

ty ty

a chance to make my 2 monitors identical lol

[royal forge]

dont even fucking start

it's a whole fucking saga

[umbral moss]

alas, I have not the time to sit for the ongoing saga of > the company refuses to acknowledge their product is shit and spent two months giving me the runaround

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1630-to-feature-512-cuda-cores-4gb-64-bit-memory-launches-may-31st yup.... it's real smh

nvidia releasing ewaste 😭

[lost python]

Ah Nvidia being Nvidia

Guess the OEM sales are really worth it

[outer sand]

thinking of buying those desk arm monitor stands, are they good?

or like should I just use my TV that I never used for a monitor? 😹

literally bought the TV just to improve aesthetic of my living room

[lost python]

Depends on which you really get. Some are high quality and very solid, some will just bounce around everytime you dare to breathe

If you get a solid one, then it's worth it

[outer sand]

and it requires a specific monitor yeah

a monitor that has the holes to attach the arm to it

[lost python]

Almost all of them have that nowadays

Except some shitty cheap ones or exotics

[outer sand]

ok ty ty

[potent arrow]

Just make sure it has vesa

vesa is the standard

I personally like monitor arms for more desk space

Just make sure you get a properly rated one

[outer sand]

this is the spec, around 200 sold in total and 15 sold in the last 24 hours

seems have no brand, have no idea if it's good or not

https://youtu.be/__K4V8pFhf4?t=174 what's the reason of it being wobbly like in the video?

twist on the desk? 👀

[potent arrow]

Spec, as in weight

I use a cheap 100$ Amazon special

[outer sand]

ok ty ty

[deep sapphire]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Alvin well TIL General Mills made this lmao

[odd sand]

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

[deep sapphire]

@potent arrow MY FUCKIN BRAND NEW DEWALT STEP BIT JUST BROKE DRILLING OUT SOME 1/8” COPPER LINE ARE YOU FUCKIN FORREAL

[modest moss]

Should have bought milwaukee obvs

[sly elk]

totally legit

[deep sapphire]

Lmao I own the HF ones too, they have held up fine but aren’t very sharp

Can’t really complain though they aren’t expensive

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-100-Position-Chrome-Flex-Lock-Ratcheting-SAE-Combination-Wrench-Set-6-Piece-H100CFLRW6PCSAE/314256098

Just bought this set they look pretty cool

Though why they negated 3/4 annoys me

I can’t find an individual 3/4 wrench for them either

[sly elk]

oooo neat

framework updated their laptop

and they're selling all of the new parts as upgrades to existing ones

https://community.frame.work/t/introducing-the-new-and-upgraded-framework-laptop/18646/25

[sick edge]

Isnt that... what they said theor whole dealw as?....

[sly elk]

yep!

but it's exciting that they actually delivered on that friggin promise

[odd sand]

So much for highly reviewed /s

[boreal surge]

Well it’s the point of a modular laptop. That being said it sounds exciting that they’re successful enough for a 2nd gen

Issue now is being cost and performance competitive with existing options.

[odd sand]

Multi-billion dollar lab and still providing techs with $10 keyboards and mice... orz

[sly elk]

I mean, lots of labs are that way

[deep sapphire]

Lmao ikr

Fuckin soft ass metal and the drill bit breaks

[sly elk]

for a shared lab computer, I'll take the cheap keyboard if it means they clean it regularly and it's never gross (or they replace it when it does)

i'll never say no to some nice cherry blue keyboards in the lab though

[odd sand]

I just really hate typing on chiclet keyboards. They're so slow and easy to mistype

[sly elk]

i like the good ones but the cheap ones are really gross

[noble nimbus]

yoooooo this new AMD driver is ridiculous

[sick edge]

I mean. they're not GAMING OR AMYTHING.

mechanical is totally a quirk for dork people. XP

[odd sand]

You bring up a good point though, they probably use chiclet for sanitary reasons. Can't get dust and crumbs and whatever stuck between the keys like a standard keyboard.

Doesn't even need to be mechanical, I just hate chiclet keys lol. I used a Dell Multimedia keyboard for a long time

[sick edge]

I mean.. probably shouldnt be.. eating in there.

[odd sand]

Sure. That's why I mentioned dust first, since it's a validation lab.
I had one of these for like 8 years before it got super mushy and I bought a Ducky kb. Never had a key go bad on it tho

The newer ones of the same type feel a lot more flimsy tho, so they probably don't hold up like they used to

[sly elk]

yeaaa the keyboard should be getting sanitized at least monthly, if not weekly,

<

[sick edge]

Membrane baby!

[sly elk]

i used to get to see this in clean rooms >< AHHHHHHHHHHHH

I never liked that dell keyboard. But I acknowledge that it has a cult following

[odd sand]

Do you want to see inside my Ducky kb? /s

[sly elk]

If you go to a random big company's IT helpdesk and ask them if they can get you "one of the good keyboards"

100% chance you're getting that one

hahaha ya know how mechanics often have some kinda decal or sign or flag on the wall with their favorite tool brand?

I'm surprised I've never walked in an IT room and seen a DELL sign on the wall

[odd sand]

I got it on accident actually. I ordered a replacement internal laptop keyboard for one that got spilled on, and they sent that at first then told me to just keep it when I called to complain and get the correct part lol

[sly elk]

and like, Dell pens, and Dell bumper stickers

(amusingly, Apple does the stickers at least :D)

[jaunty light]

Big corpos dont give out merch

[sly elk]

idk about that

[odd sand]

Our SOC ordered mechanical keyboards, but they got these very basic Logitech ones and they double-type randomly.

[sly elk]

I think they do give out screen speaker bars and other random new junk nobody actually uses

[jaunty light]

They always give out trash, at best, at thr big conf events

You gotta go for the small to medium ones to get good stuff

[odd sand]

Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised with that Dell kb bc previous to that I was replacing keyboards like every 18 months

[sly elk]

aye

my experience with dell membrane keyboards is they squeak and the keys are loose

but that may be newer ones

[odd sand]

And as I said, I've held the newer versions of that same keyboard and they're like half the weight. So I assume that means they're garbage now

The older keyboards we had were these...

They would get conveniently hidden in an office cabinet somewhere at first chance if they made it back onto the floor ;)

[odd sand]

Oh YT comments. Guy trying to say a Q6600 w/8800GS and 4gb ram was a "high end gaming system" in 2008. Also while claiming he spent only $500 on it. (That CPU part alone is listed on Ark for 530)

Also the IPC on that gen was terrible, so you would be replacing it within 3 years, meanwhile 2nd or 3rd gen Core i-series easily gave you more than 5 years. (Discussion was about whether PCs today were a better or worse value/cost compared to years ago)

[jaunty light]

2008? Uh naw dog

[odd sand]

If we set aside the insane GPU price surge the last 2 years, you can get a passable PC for dirt cheap

If we use 3% inflation per year as a gauge, that means 42% inflation. So a supposed $500 system then would have been $710 now.

[sly elk]

mmm

i have mixed feelings about that 😄

[jaunty light]

Dont try use maths on us...

Inflation isnt real btw

[sly elk]

the 9700k I got for christmas 2018 is fast for some things and getting really long in the tooth on other things

i want a 5950x XD

[jaunty light]

[sly elk]

i'd trade the 5fps loss in game X for being able to start game X, swithc to something else for some reason, and 2 hours later realize i forgot that I had game x open

[odd sand]

You can get a 12400F for $170, 16gb ddr4 for $60, lets say GPU prices are sane again and have a 3060ti for $400. Other misc parts might take that up to $800. Or could get like a 1660 super instead for $250. That's going to get you 1080p @ 90-120fps+ depending on the game. A 2008 system was playing most stuff at like 30-60fps

[sly elk]

yea the 1660 argument is funny because there's still people here talking about how the 3080 is gutless x

XD

[odd sand]

Ehh... I think in your case it's more that you don't have hyperthreading

I have a 9900K which is essentially your CPU with hyperthreading and its still plenty fast

I used my 3770K from 2012 to 2019 and ran Div2 1080p on High @ 90fps or so

[sly elk]

idk if having HT would have made the difference

16 threads.. ok I suppose

yea this goes back to me regretting not getting the 9900k hahaha

[odd sand]

Yep, double the threads makes a big difference in modern workloads bc most stuff doesnt saturate an entire core on its own

Seems like most auctions for used 9900K are still like $300-400

[sick edge]

Not gonna lie the dell keyboards kinda chonky

[bitter tartan]

@modern iris Also wards arent a storage hog
With the way they are setup in ff14, yes they are.

Because you don't have access to their servers

If it was that easy and braindead to just add more houses

they would've done it ages ago

Don't forget this is the same company that had a barrel with a flower have the same amount of polygons as a player character

same company that loads all your glamour plates alongside your character

and same company that essentially causes a server meltdown if you move a glamour dresser inside a house while someone is accessing it (which is why we don't have glamour dressers for houses)

ff14 is so much jank and spaghetti code that the italians are envious

Cool

this ain't old republic

Do you know how to discuss? cause dropping to personal insults ain't it chief

Also

Instances don't matter

3,000 instances
They're all still stored separately on the server

you're literally refusing to acknowledge that ff14 is full of jank and spaghetti, which is a fact

[potent arrow]

@umbral moss cerakey is being sent out to vid reviewers

they look solid as fuck

literally

and I like the sound of em

[modest moss]

He's right, you're wrong.

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/based-uh-hello-based-department-based-department-american-psycho-patrick-bateman-gif-22458382

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/kip-technology-love-napoleon-gif-5150148

[odd sand]

It's the poor business decision that keeps on giving!

I don't know exactly how the housing is stored on the backend, but as Sadlynn was referencing in a less than diplomatic way: YoshiP the lead game director for FF14 has talked about on multiple occasions how the poorly written 1.0 game code from before the re-launch has caused them lots of headaches and made certain things "not possible" due to how many things it touches in the game code.

They had outsourced a lot of the game development for FF14 1.0 and it was very poorly done, so while ARR was able to salvage the game, a lot of the underlying code is still impossible to work with short of completely rewriting the entire client from scratch.

It's a similar idea to how Blizzard stated they were unable to change the default bag size in WoW due to how the code was written. So the 2nd thru 5th bags grew ever larger over the expansions, but your "1st bag" was always the same 24 slots or w/e

So it's entirely possible the housing system has some fucky DB schema where the writes cause log-scaling issues and prevent caching or slow it down. I forget exactly what the term is called. But you try to design your tables in a such a way that they don't cause exponential i/o problems

[odd sand]

https://www.thedrive.com/news/600k-mile-kia-sorento-driver-milks-10-year-warranty-for-9-engines >Traded in for a Saturn Vue for $18k ... how is a Saturn still worth 18k at 14 years old?

[sly elk]

The market is weird

[jaunty light]

What the company says: we rebuilt it from the ground up
What they actually mean: we took the codebase and put a new UI on it

Every MMO has this problem tbh, either because its ancient or because they dont know what theyre soing (cough korean companies, new world)

For years RS3 had a broken friend chat system where you had to login to OSRS to manage your FC cuz it didnt work in RS3

Plus the clan system had to be rewritten from scratch which took years

[odd sand]

To be fair, rebuild means you are working with a base of some sort, not "rewrote from scratch". They still put in 18 months of redevelopment working insane hours so its not like they were trying to still cut corners at that point

[sly elk]

naw what ya do is make the MMO client in adobe flash 😄

[odd sand]

How did that Sorento owner manage oil changes every 3k miles if they were driving to California and back? It's a 2000mi trip, so that would mean either getting an oil change each way, or after 4k mi round trip. Also how bad of an engine did those have to shit out consistently after 67k all highway miles?

[sly elk]

they could stop halfway

but, I'd be surprised if they were changing at 3k

oh geez they say it averages out to 3k., nevermind my nonsense 😄

almost every car I owned suggested 3k for 'heavy duty' use only (primarily city driving)

[odd sand]

They sound OCD given they kept an immaculate set of records, including all gas receipts.

[sly elk]

yeeeah

and despite that, went through 9 engines

[odd sand]

So I actually wouldn't be surprised if they had some specific Kia dealerships along the way they would schedule oil changes for.

Then again, I suppose they wanted to make absolutely sure they would honor the replacement of the engines

The weirder thing is the dealer not having newer motors to swap in instead of faulty new old stock lol

[sly elk]

I get the impression the motor design itself is defective

and there is no solution

the funny part to me is they've been defective for over a decade now

[odd sand]

And then they traded it in for a Saturn Vue Redline AWD Suv that gets 23mpg highway

[sly elk]

one of my coworkers at my internship in 2013 had a brand new sonata... then the engine caught on fire

the part I thought was insane was that they replaced the car with another sonata

[odd sand]

Supposedly it was a workmanship issue and the motor design itself was fine.

And the newer versions of the same motor have been fine

[sly elk]

then i really don't know

the other thing i find surprising is that they had replacement motors in stock every time

from what I remember of that reddit thread, they commonly are a week to a month wait

maybe they had a saturn before

idk why some people buy what they buy lol

[odd sand]

I mean, it sounds like they went to the same dealership and they knew they had the 10yr warranty, so probably after the 2nd motor replacement and regular oil changes, they knew to have a motor onhand once a year for them LOL

Also to buy a 23mpg suv in 2022 with these gas prices...

[sly elk]

i've always lived in california and almost every car here is a honda, toyota, or subaru.. so I have never felt the desire to have one. so I make bad financial decisions time and time again when it comes to cars.

*or bmw

there are certain ones that catch my attention, like supras, miatas (even those are pretty common tbh), and things like a clean oldschool CRX that somehow hasn't been modified

[odd sand]

I had a lot of compliments on my Stinger from ppl at my apartment complex when I first got it. And in WI now I just had some german/euro accent guy compliment the car in the Target parking lot last week heh

[sly elk]

yea

but like, I'd never buy a rav4. I probably wouldn't buy most of the things in that class in general though

[odd sand]

Teslas are also very common in CA

[sly elk]

yep

[odd sand]

I actually had a Tesla dealership a few miles down the road

[sly elk]

and while I thought the model s looked neat when they first came out

i'd never buy a tesla now 😄 too common

[odd sand]

Sounding a little hipster there ;p

[sly elk]

I don't think I care about driving a common car though

I need to think about that

I think I'd still consider a model S, since I like that form the best

the 3 looks too stubby, the Y looks ridiculous

the X looks ehhhh but the only reason I find it interesting is the gullwing doors

but the S is long and low enough it looks like a stretched out porsche

[kindred brook]

should I get 600 bucks in amazon or bestbuy if I wanted to buy new pc parts and waited for a sale

[odd sand]

I'd assume Amazon is going to give you better deals. Just make sure you select the correct seller. You know how Amazon is about you think you're buying from Amazon or some company directly, and it turns out its some shady reseller in HK

[sick edge]

Alright, who wants it for 900? XP

Seriously chooses to pop AFTER the 3080 queue.. I KNEW I signed up for the 3070 one.. uuuugh

[paper tusk]

theda II (direct injection) has known manufacturing flaws causing oil starvation > spun bearings, and crankshaft failure. a seperate known problem, is the high pressure pump fitting failing and causing fire

the flaw is metalic shavings that are not properly removed that clog feed channels

[umbral moss]

made in partnership with chrysler

the defects are part of the design

[sharp star]

working on the cable management but I already like this case

the stock fans are already super good, I just added a 120mm fan for exhaust

[lost python]

Looks good but what is that tumor above the CPU cooler?

[umbral moss]

looks like some kind of dumb fan duct thing

[lost python]

A top mounted PSU?

[sharp star]

The PSU's in there

[umbral moss]

top-mounted PSU in 2022

[sharp star]

Yeah top-mounted PSUs aren't heard of much nowadays but I don't find it unwelcome

[umbral moss]

I'm still a bit surprised that PSUs are still so large

[sharp star]

Nah

[umbral moss]

I would have thought GaN topologies would have landed for PSU power electronics and we'd be looking at micro PSU units

[sharp star]

It's a standard ATX PSU

[umbral moss]

sure, but the "power" part doesn't need to be so damn big

a 1300W PSU is like 18 inches long

also, the cables should be part of the tower itself, rather than the PSU module 😤

we've always done it that way

[modest moss]

People think bigger equates to better maybe

[sharp star]

I like bigger because I have more space to work with

[umbral moss]

it's a combination of heat dissipation and the electronics themselves

semiconductor based PSUs still take up a good bit of space, even though they're way more efficient than analog designs

rip toroidal inductors and step up/down transformers 🪦

[sharp star]

before and after cable management in the PSU shroud

[modest moss]

Before is fine

[umbral moss]

adding one cable wrap

fixed

[latent grotto]

ngl I just jam the cables into the space for the psu

As long as it fits

[kindred brook]

when is the new intel

and ddr5 price drops happening

wait 2 more years for ddr5 price drops?

I can technically wait anothe ryear and get another 600 bestbuy bucks

[uncut mesa]

Okay so I just purchased a AMD Sapphire Nitro RX 570 8GB & I was wondering if its compatible with a Gigabyte ga-h110m-s2h Motherboard ?

[hard drift]

Yes

[hard drift]

Next gen possibly and we need another generation still for ddr5 to reach even lower but some kits even now are fine

Plus amd using it for am5 means wider adoption so prices will go down after that too

[kindred brook]

hmmmmm

[hard drift]

Also intel hopefully moving to full ddr5 for 13th gen

So give it another generation or two before even thinking about it unless you literally need to upgrade which you don’t

[uncut mesa]

Awesome

[hard drift]

Generally speaking any gpu will work for the motherboard given it’s still pcie so you could get say a 3090 or even next gen and use them but there most likely will be a bottleneck depending on the cpu you use and what resolution you play at

[uncut mesa]

Does this particular one have a Pcie ?

[hard drift]

yes, that slot large slot right there is a 3.0 x16 slot

you won't have to worry too much about technicalities since you're just now upgrading and i doubt you're upgrading again soon since you just got a card

[uncut mesa]

Kool kool

I means I can set up the PCU with no issues

Thanks alot 🙂

[hard drift]

np

[potent arrow]

Every Mobo has PCIE

[umbral moss]

maybe this means they'll have working IMC support instead of the ad hoc dumpster fire that always happens to first gen intel chips with a new DDR spec

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/why-huh-but-why-gif-13199396

[potent arrow]

@deep sapphire btw Im fnally signed a deal on a truck

[deep sapphire]

What did you get

You said you wanted a ram right?

[potent arrow]

2500 BH

[deep sapphire]

What do you need a heavy duty truck for haha

[potent arrow]

2022 (they just upgraded my 2021 to 2022)

I'll be using it for the shop and whenever I work with my dad

[deep sapphire]

What is BH

[potent arrow]

Just a fancy trim : P

[deep sapphire]

2500s are gas guzzlers and usually ride like shit compared to half ton, I would only get one if you need to tow a trailer often IMO

[potent arrow]

It was a basically ok I'm spending the money, why not get some nice seats and stuff

Yeah, I'll be towing a trailer atleast 2 seasons out of the four

[deep sapphire]

Yeah high trim trucks are basically luxury boats now days

[sly elk]

pics? 😄

[deep sapphire]

The new Silverados look really nice

[sly elk]

what color is it? 😮

[potent arrow]

I have two trailers technically, and towing them would save money

[deep sapphire]

Yeah that’s fair

[potent arrow]

I can grab some tmmrw, I'm going to the dealership to pic it up

[deep sapphire]

6.4 HEMI?

[sly elk]

ahh ok

[deep sapphire]

Or did you get the cummins

[sly elk]

are they still selling a cummins?

[potent arrow]

Yeah they are

It's the 6.4 hemi

[sly elk]

neeeaaat

[potent arrow]

I was tripping there and I was like wait did I get a Cummins

[deep sapphire]

Yeah they still offer the cummins but they only offer a 6 speed transmission with it which is kind of a joke when ford and Chevy offer a 10 speed

[sly elk]

oh dear me lol

[deep sapphire]

So it has less power and worse fuel economy than the competition

[sly elk]

you're gonna get like 10mpg with that hemi aren't ya

[potent arrow]

Behehehe

[sly elk]

I mean they're great for highway driving

[deep sapphire]

I rented a 6.4 HEMI

Oh god

They guzzle gas

[sly elk]

in the cars they get 20-ish mpg highway pretty darn easily

[potent arrow]

TBF!!! 50% the company will pay for the gas

[deep sapphire]

Coming back from Iowa I got like 12 MPG

That’s highway btw

[sly elk]

(i forgot it was the 6.4L)

yiiiiiikes wtf

[potent arrow]

And when I'm doing things like school commute, I'll be using my civic

Sooooo

[sly elk]

do they not have MDS cylinder deactivation on those?

[deep sapphire]

Though tbf that stretch is extremely windy and is mostly up hill

It kept wanting to hunt for gears cruising at 70

Which is why a 6 speed is dumb

[sly elk]

yea that's such a bummer

especially considering the hemi + 8 speed zf makes a good combination everywhere else lol

[deep sapphire]

They offer a ZF 8 speed in the half tons why not use them in the HDs

Right

[sly elk]

maybe torque?

like the combination of torque + axles + weight?

[deep sapphire]

The ZF 8 speeds are legendary

Yeah probably

[sly elk]

yea it's like one of the best reasons to buy anything from them lmao

yesterday I read a funny post on the jeep forum about that

like someone was questioning why anyone would bother with the crappy manual the jeeps have atm (it has.. issues)

it blows my mind they'd do that on an enthusiast vehicle but here we are 😦

no wonder

they are using the ZF 8 speed in the 2500 6.4L now

you only get the 6 speed if you get the cummins

i.. want that

[potent arrow]

Lol

I think I got a good deal

Then again I'm paying in cash

Ouef my wallet

~57k CAD

[deep sapphire]

That’s not too bad for a HD

That’s like 50,000 US so that’s actually a bargain for a truck haha

[potent arrow]

Yeah, I'm fairly happy with it

We will see how happy I am when I do my first tow with it lol

[modest moss]

Sarah I'm very disappointed with you

Buy an EV instead

[potent arrow]

I do not have the money for an ev truck

[sly elk]

how much does the lightning cost anyway?

looks like 53k USD

[deep sapphire]

Bro this dude in self checkout has a full cart of shit and is scanning it super slow

Fuckin Walmart

[jaunty light]

Sarah: yea im payin 57k cash
Also sarah: cant afford ev!

[potent arrow]

Good luck getting an ev for 57k Cad here

good luck geetting one at all

I dont want an ev sedan, I need a work vehicle

[deep sapphire]

Plus losing half your range in the winter

Which up north is half the year

EVs are great but not right now

[umbral moss]

maintaining the walmart checkout experience

[hard drift]

This is what happens when they rely too much on self checkout 😔

[deep sapphire]

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing he literally had at least 40 items in his cart and abunch of produce and he took probably a minute or more for each item

Like dude

[hard drift]

Lol doesn’t surprise me

We’ve had to do it for full carts because the people manned checkouts are usually closed

And the self checkouts always break so it’s like 1-2 instead of 4

It’s fucking awful

[sick edge]

I mean.. there should be like 4 ststions right?

And its walmart so probably 8 actually

[sick edge]

and yeah no one want to remember a script to scan your groceries.

[hard drift]

It’s simple, takes two seconds i used to do it

[sick edge]

No one else wants to do it after you. =P

Not to am official capcity anyway

[boreal surge]

Head empty doing work discovery: man has a man page

[lime wasp]

So computer people, I have a question about cases and setups - specifically ITX cases.

I'm looking at making my build into an ITX one for two reasons; one I like the way they look and two because my current build in a 4000x has like 1/3rd of an inch on the back and front if it from the edge of the desk.

I'd be keeping my Zotac 3080, 5800x and hopefully my RAM from my current build.

But the three cases I've been looking at are;

• Thermaltake Tower 100
• SSUD Meshilicious
• Phanteks Evolv Shift XT

I know the Meshilicious is everyone's default choice, but to me it's kinda bland over the other two. I've broken it down among the three but I still can't decide because of certain things;

• The Tower 100 and SSUD can use ATX PSUs, meaning that I don't have to buy a new one, but the Phanteks needs an SFX PSU
• The Tower 100 has the issue where it can only take 120mm Rads, or air cooling for the CPU. It also seems like the airflow is a little low? But overall cost is lowest for this case (since smallest cooler and no need for a new PSU)
• The Phanteks seems like it has good airflow especially in AIO mode, takes a 240mm Rad and ties with the SSUD (case costs less, but requires a PSU that the SSUD doesn't) while also looking better

[sick edge]

3080 in an ITX case = Hot boi

[lime wasp]

All the other ATX cases that are smaller than mine while being decent quality are either too long (the big issue with my desk) or straight tempered class everywhere (which would be worse than the Meshilicious or Evolv Shift XT).

[odd sand]

Hmm is Nyaa down for anyone else?

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/why-huh-but-why-gif-13199396

[jaunty light]

so u can be a gamer

[deep sapphire]

I think I’m gonna pick up another one of those carts and mod it so it’ll be a 10 drawer

Being able to lug around all my tools on a single cart is handy

[jaunty light]

just get stronger and put it on a backpack

weakling

[inland mauve]

dude I gif-searched for "nyaa" to post a funny reaction gif on this but half the results are cringe ass streamers

😔

go ahead and gif-search for "nyaa"

[boreal surge]

Well you can always google and regret

[glossy timber]

Hanks honkers

[sly elk]

for when you wanna shit post from your mechanic bay

I suppose that's probably their old computer that they decided to use in the shop instead of tossing it

for a sec i thought that was a crack at the 'world's smallest violin' joke

[deep sapphire]

fuck sakes lol

[royal forge]

@modest moss @potent arrow HERE WE FUCKING GO AGAIN

[potent arrow]

That's a ram issue bow

Reseat your ram

[royal forge]

Oraite.

Gotta go dig out a screw driver

[modest moss]

F

[wintry drift]

connecting to the car onboard computer? but i thought they had more compact sensors than actually hauling a whole ass computer

[glossy timber]

There are some things which work less well at that framerate but it's far from broken

[paper tusk]

14 used to be shit tier buggy at triple digit fps but it was soft fixed by capping the polling rate of physics (so you dont fall through the world) so the side effect of animations being dumb. not a very good fix but this is typical se development quality

(computex teaser for x670 chipset mobos)

[sick edge]

Looks like... a latch.

[paper tusk]

iirc crash remaster is a glorified unity port so blame lazy programming

elder scrolls is just bethesda not caring since havoc was from the era where 75hz was the best it got (and usually is capped to 60hz physics polling intended to be tied to display rate)

same bug with gta 3 engine games

[sly elk]

I just found out that mercedes OEM oil comes in really fancy bottles lol

[paper tusk]

meanwhile the actual oil the service department uses is lowest bidder

dexos is dexos

[sly elk]

i wonder who buys it

dexos quality oil in itself isn't a $1/bottle oil though lol

it's usually full synthetic?

but the $20 5qt bottle at walmart is 99% as good as the $50 5qt bougie brand

[paper tusk]

not sure

my go to lube is a slightly different brand (looking for it)

[sly elk]

I spend the extra $5

there is totally no need to

[paper tusk]

https://www.amazon.com/Rotella-Truck-5W-20-Synthetic-Motor/dp/B07MSN8MZG

[sly elk]

one time I bought royal purple to see if it was really purple

I was disappointed

[paper tusk]

the amazon listing is slighty jacked price wise. will look again

33.19 for 5qt at walmonster

[sly elk]

and the royal pruple is indeed purple

but it's more black-ish

which IMHO is annoying AF for motor oil

[paper tusk]

$26/5qt at fleet farm

[sly elk]

oh yea

when the gas truck oil came out it was really cheap

everyone was raving about how great it was for the price

[finite stone]

This is probably a rather out there question but I'm not sure where it really belongs to so

For anyone with a Surface Go 2 (Core m3) or Go 3 (Pentium Gold) version with at least 8GB RAM, how well does FFXIV run at 1280x720 Standard (Laptop)?

still 60hz

[sly elk]

Reminds me of when I was plying forza 5 on my 3080ti lol

The fans were going nuts and I was like wtf and then I go close to my tower and it feels like when you preheat an oven and open the door

Lol

But seriously I don’t care how efficient a card is, if it pulls 380w it’s going to be a portable space heater

[finite stone]

stock rx480 flashbacks

[sly elk]

The crazy thing about the ex480 is here we are all these years later and heh what, 6500xt? Same shit

Yeah amd is amazing

I remember overclokint the one my Powrrbook had lmao

And the Radeon I had in my power mac g4 as well lmao

That was the one time I went “let’s see how much I can OC before there’s artifacts”

Fun times lol

Over clocking a laptop gpu thouhh

Lol this was a long time ago

There was also a random point where iBooks had a low end desktop Radeon chip lmao

[modern iris]

please i been working my ass off and have about 700 in budget. what is a good student laptop than can handle coding/programming and video editing, but mainly, ffxiv 💀

[potent arrow]

idk if 700$ can get you anything not Doo Doo shit tier for video editing

Programming you can do on a potato with a screen