technology-discussion

[potent arrow]

But video editing and gaming is something else

[sly elk]

I new.

I mean* probably some kinda acer

Those usually have banging specs for under a grand but the build quality can be what you’d expect for the price lol

[modern iris]

okie thanks i’ll look around

[sharp star]

https://twitter.com/ProtonInspector/status/1527644296836435968 who in the government thought this was a good idea

Fake Proton (@ProtonInspector)

Incredible

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or Apple, whatever

[odd sand]

I find it funny how ppl with sports cars will congregate with other nice cars. Slept in my car last night bc I couldn't get a hotel at the con... And this loud rumbling happened, thought it was parking enforcement or something but no, it was a mustang deciding to park next to me at 6:30am in an 80% empty garage....

[potent arrow]

I had this happen so much but for civics at my school. If I park in an empty parking lot, when I get out it'll be surrounded by ten other similar gen civics

It's incredible

[odd sand]

Same ones that think 140db fire alarms are a good idea

[potent arrow]

Those I can agree with, sometime you need those during big panic

But for amber alerts and shit? I have a bunch of phones in my shop for screen repair that are on, and if there's an alert?

God damn my ears are fucking gone

[uncut mesa]

Is it required to to connect the hard drive cable to the power supply or is it optional ?

[potent arrow]

Connect it.

It is not optional

[uncut mesa]

Alright

[odd sand]

The fire alarms are so loud it's physically painful trying to get your shoes on etc.

[deep sapphire]

Ha yeah that’s pretty ridiculous that amber alerts would be that loud over some headphones

[latent grotto]

Amber alerts are way too loud

[boreal surge]

Loud, annoying, and useless

I've turned them off on my phones

[late basalt]

Little shit was probably blasting music at 100% to begin with

The amber alert gave his ears a quick death that they deserved

[uncut mesa]

So uh how do I fix this ?

I've tried going into bios & fixing it from there

But I didn't get much luck

It's pre-built but I just recently added a new PCU for a Card I got

[latent grotto]

Pcu?

[sly elk]

PCU!

[latent grotto]

[latent grotto]

Can we get some clarification here

[uncut mesa]

Basically the PC I have is a pre-built one I got back in. 2017 but I wanted to add a new Power Supply for my new Graphics Card to work

[latent grotto]

Oh psu

Inb4 they connected the sata power cable but forgot the data cable

But yea go into bios and check your boot devices and make sure your os is the first one

[uncut mesa]

I've fixed it

[coarse stream]

Yo. I was thinking to upgrade my monitor to 2k ultrawide. Anyone can give me their thought or recommend monitor? Currently using 27” 1080p but 240hz. I dont mind downgrading to 144hz since i dont play esport game anymore. Purpose was for playing xiv and other aaa games.

I alr comparing msi mag342cqr and meg 343cqr. But theyre VA panel and im not sure if i want to downgrade the contrast from IPS. If anyone using those monitor and know how it fare with IPS monitor pls let me know

[deep sapphire]

no, but they offer a feature thats enabled by default that limits it

but you can turn it off

which IMO is how it should be, and frankly apple is pretty bad about that

it took them years to finally let people download apps over 200MB on data lmao

that shit pissed me off so much

like fuck off, just put a warning and call it a day

everything should have a smart volume feature

its insane to me abunch of devices still dont have that

like when you're watching a movie and it goes from quiet as fuck to super loud

thats super annoying

Like Steve Jobs basically said that when he was still alive in regards to security

They give you an obvious warning that says this app or website could be harmful but if you want to continue go ahead

https://youtu.be/39iKLwlUqBo

Haha

[odd sand]

You probably bumped some cable loose to the hdd

[sly elk]

Hehe

[odd sand]

Assuming the drive didn't outright fail

[sly elk]

I wonder what steve jobs would have done about some things today

sometimes PSU cables aren't made very well

yeeaaahhh

I haven't seen that much since the 4 pin molex drive connector days

on those the sockets would often be kinda loose and you'd have to connect by holding the connector at an angle to force all the sockets to line up with the pins

oof speaking of apple @deep sapphire someone on macrumors was pondering apple buying EA

dare I say it, I think that might be the best potential buyer

i think they'd kill microtransactions

[deep sapphire]

Radeon?

wait why do you have molex connectors in a PC new enough to have NVMe

I havent seen a PSU have molex support for like 10 years

LOL

[sly elk]

yep yep

i was careful to make a comment about molex 4 pin connectors above xd

although admittedly most of those '4 pin molex' are actually 'AMP' connectors

there's this mechanic jack dude that has videos that keep showing up in my fb feed. seems to have a big business fixing cars in asia somewhere and some of the stuff lol

video of them changing a radiator on a car

they just casually yank the bottom hose off and let the coolant fall on the ground

[coarse stream]

Bump since its lost in wall of text

[sly elk]

you can get some ips 3440x1440 34" things pretty cheap

that tech has been around a long time now

i love how the stripes go across the empty drive bay cover

[deep sapphire]

Zenith lmao

they made some god awful TVs near the end

[sly elk]

lol so did RCA

[sly elk]

zenith had a friggin cool logo

[deep sapphire]

yeah they did

looks like something out of a 60s comic book hahaha

[sly elk]

they were also the brand of choice for all the school TVs in my town lol

[deep sapphire]

I recall them being really cheap

I grew up in section 8 so everyone had a Zenith

they were always broken

hahahahaha

[sly elk]

that does explain a lot

[odd sand]

Yeah for whatever reason everyone calls them molex even though AMP started the form-factor lol

[glossy timber]

Mole my ex

[sly elk]

yea we had a few of these but most were the older variety with the metal cart and the wood grain tv

oh yea totally this tv

v

but not with the wooden furniture chassis

[deep sapphire]

I kinda miss the iconic american companies

Zenith, RCA, Magnavox, Motorola

[sick edge]

yes, nothing like.. Apex... Pffft

Motorola stilla round I think?

[deep sapphire]

I guess Motorola is still technically a thing but they are a shell of their former selves

[sick edge]

Well they don't really do commercial anymore

THink they do more internal corpo stuff now

[coarse stream]

ive read the review for these newer VA panel and they says the color quality is not much different with IPS panel , tho i want to hear more ppls opinion before dip in..

[deep sapphire]

they spun off their consumer and enterprise divisions but a lot of their assets were purchased by other companies

google bought the motorola handset division

the modems were spun off as Arris

[sick edge]

currently in the closet.

[deep sapphire]

lmao apex

like some cheap bestbuy store brand

[sick edge]

Dood, this is the tv I played Skyrim and New Vegas with.

And I was always complaining I couldn't see my money and stuff...

IT WASN'T ON SCREEN! XD

[sick edge]

Game by default didn't match it. XP

[deep sapphire]

yeah that was the worst

a lot of games of that era had poor text scaling on tube TVs

[glossy timber]

Skill issue

Just scale

[sly elk]

I didn't realize magnavox was american lol

I think that's probably a good example of excessive corporate greed/demand for short term profits trashing a company?

to the point that it's just a brand used by fly-by-night chinese companies to hock garbage at old people

"oh wow bell and howell! I had a wonderful bell and howell typewriter! This $50 android tablet must be quality!"

[silk jasper]

Does anyone know how to stream Netflix on discord? Ping plis

[sick edge]

Id imagije you just.. stream it

[potent arrow]

no due to the DRM it wont let you

[silk jasper]

Any other option?

[potent arrow]

I cannot condone piracy here

[real edge]

why slovakia out of all places lol

We will get them as gaming monitors right....right? Hahahaaaaaa

[wintry drift]

why slovakia out of all places lol
if it's the same reason as sony: eu access and comparatively lower labour costs compared to other members

[sharp star]

https://youtu.be/ZtnBr-v2ufs tl;dw it’s somewhat fixable, but to fix the entire system would require an entirely new case, power supply, and motherboard

[sly elk]

ooooo

[misty pawn]

https://tenor.com/view/cpu-funny-gif-18982899

[sick edge]

oof

[misty pawn]

i just fixed that

had 1 bent pin, straighten it ass much as i could

and it works

[sick edge]

Pins? Where we're going we wont need pins

[misty pawn]

did stress/stability test and it works

[modest moss]

Bent pins are always a fun time

[real edge]

I cannot imagine buying a 300+ euro product only to get a bent pin somewhere and panicking

[deep sapphire]

ha, M28 is old school

has the old milwaukee logo on it haha

[potent arrow]

I watched as someone dropped a Threadripper onto tile flooring

[real edge]

linusdroptips?

[modern iris]

Does ffxiv require more cpu or gpu usage

[sharp star]

CPU

[odd sand]

I had to fix a few pins with tweezers when I bought an AMD CPU in the early 2000s. That was definitely nerve-wracking

The crazier thing is, didn't AMD only switch to LGA with like, Ryzen or Ryzen2?

[real edge]

those are AM4

idk if its lga

[hard drift]

LGA isn't on ryzen

PGA is what amd uses atm but am5 will be LGA

[real edge]

ohh that is interesting

hm

I wonder what made them switch

[hard drift]

easier to do a bunch of bins in the socket rather than on the cpu

[odd sand]

So AMD still hasn't switched to PGA? Oof...

[hard drift]

you realize PGA is what they are using atm

[odd sand]

Can you imagine buying a 5950X and dropping it...

The pins would probably be so close together you can't even fix it with tweezers like the earlier ones

Assuming the pin-out for AMD is anywhere close to Intel

[hard drift]

you can still fix them with tweezers

[odd sand]

I haven't owned an AMD since the X2 3800+ bc they kept shitting the bed for 10 years

Then when I was in the market around the time of the 3000 series, the hypetrain from all the bandwagoners made stock impossible to find, so I just got a 9900K and called it a day

[potent arrow]

I just get whats better for the cost at the time

I need 16/32 min : P

[latent grotto]

one sec lemme take out my 5950x and drop it real quick

[odd sand]

I had 4/8 before that, so 8/16 was an acceptable upgrade at the time. And I didn't end up using it as much as I thought as well, as far as server stuff on the side, because I bought a Xeon anyways for a home server.

13900K is sounding like a spicy boi though, so we'll have to see how it benches against the AM5 chips.

Supposedly 24/32 68MB cache 5.7-5.8ghz max turbo

[hard drift]

not a chance will it have that high of a turbo

[odd sand]

The 12900K already has 5.5 so 🤷‍♀️

[latent grotto]

What if thats just on p cores

[odd sand]

I'm sure that would just be on p cores, yes. And only like 1-2 of them at a time as well

[hard drift]

it'll just be p cores and i wouldn't want to see the cooler needed for it to do it smh

[odd sand]

I'm due for a new cooler anyways, so I'll make the jump to a 360mm radiator then. Been using the same H100i since 2012

[latent grotto]

Found it https://youtu.be/u6WDvzlmtSM

[hard drift]

😔

[odd sand]

I mean, if you didn't mind constraining it to one location, you could probably rig it to one of those Mitsubishi heat pumps lol

[hard drift]

also this is wrong, it's 5.2

i'd expect 5.4-5.5 boost more than likely if they increase it

[odd sand]

They're probably referring to the newer top-binned ones released by Intel

The KS I think they're called?

[hard drift]

KS is a moot point since it’s not released with the lineup until after if they need

[deep sapphire]

FINALLY

[odd sand]

Is that a water bottle or a crockpot?

[deep sapphire]

LMAO

[hard drift]

You actually got one…

[deep sapphire]

Fuck yeah

[hard drift]

What a nerd

My dad said no to that

[deep sapphire]

Your dad is wrong

[sick edge]

I also would not trust a tool company to make a thermost or a cup, yeah

[modest moss]

Hank is gonna go home and spend all night on pixiv and fill that

(With coffee)

[odd sand]

Linus finally got Yvonne to do a video huh? I don't think I've seen her featured in one before, but maybe there are a few kicking around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rof4GJ5sc44

[deep sapphire]

The coffee tastes good in it bros

Worth it for being a fanboy

[modest moss]

Such a tool nerd

[deep sapphire]

😂

[hard drift]

Nerd smh

[odd sand]

You haven't overclocked it tho

Of course, this takes us to a bigger issue, that TV ratings are highly inaccurate and just based off best estimates from a small number of TV ratings boxes in certain homes and then weighting those results. In the coming decades this will become more accurate, as more networks and TVs adopt the ATSC 3.0 standard (under different names in other countries outside the US), which among other things like 4K capabilities, will allow the network to 'talk' to TVs directly and know exactly what people are actually watching.

Pulled this snippet from a Reddit thread bc it made me think about: And what happens when authoritarian govts can poll this stuff and find out who is watching opposition content on their TV =\

[sick edge]

Overclocked.. thermos?

[sick edge]

The thing that happens now

With them pulling related information anyway. XD

[odd sand]

On an unrelated note: I wanted to keep my current phone for another year, but one thing I had forgotten about was my current one doesnt support aptX or LDAC, which would be nice to have. Not $1200 nice tho

[sick edge]

I wanna say.. I know one of those is a bluetooth thing right?

[odd sand]

Ooh this looks promising: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aawireless#/

(Because even if I get a new phone, the car only supports SBC)

I don't know why companies don't make it easier to upgrade this shit. Okay, you want to protect your margins on your phones, cool. Why not sell a patch for $20-30 to enable LDAC or aptX then?

[inland mauve]

don't ask question, look at advertisement and consume product

[odd sand]

Actually, I can't find any info on what codecs that AAwireless thing uses, so it may only be intended for cars without bluetooth. Bc it's pointless if your connection to the dongle is itself SBC heh

[sly elk]

car electronics are hard to upgrade because in revision 1 of a car, they buy whatever some consultant from panasonic or whatever sold them

then in revision 1.1 they redo bids and buy it from hitachi instead

and they also bought the new dash cluster system from hitachi that only works with the hitachi electronics

and so you can't upgrade from the 1.0 radio to the 1.1 radio because they don't know how to talk the same language

[odd sand]

Except the codec thing is in Android, and since I have Android Auto it should just be a licensing matter

But the same is true of phones. My Razer phone didnt want to pay for the licensing for aptX, but you can still see the disabled option in the OS

[sly elk]

oh ok, now that's asinine

[deep sapphire]

Status report

Coffee still hot

[agile roost]

Lol

[deep sapphire]

True where is the red lithium support

[jaunty light]

[pastel idol]

Is Internal storage stuff is called a ssd

[latent grotto]

Its one type of internal storage

Although you can also have an external ssd

[pastel idol]

I wanan get more storage for my ps5 but idk where to begin

[deep sapphire]

shut the darn up

[latent grotto]

thats all you need to know tbh

Pcie gen 4 sequential read 5.5GB/s. Most common size is 2280. probably don't need a heatsink

[pastel idol]

Ill have to look at it

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/heckin-cute-valid-not-uncute-gif-20387570

[deep sapphire]

hahahaha I've seen this video

[latent grotto]

https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-PCIe-Internal-Gaming-MZ-V8P1T0B/dp/B09JHL33X7/ref=sr_1_2_mod_primary_new?crid=BJIT7F7UAAZI&keywords=samsung%2B980%2Bpro&qid=1653263406&sbo=RZvfv%2F%2FHxDF%2BO5021pAnSA%3D%3D&sprefix=samsung%2B980%2Bpro%2Caps%2C99&sr=8-2&th=1

if you want something cheaper you can look around but that should be fine

[odd sand]

It's very easy. Takes 2mins and a fine-tipped screwdriver. Pull the cover off the bottom and that metal strip by the fan is the expansion slot

(Happened to still have my PS5 stowed without the covers on from a trip)

Sony says it needs to be 5000MB/sec or better, but afaik it will accept standard 3500MB/sec ones just fine as well

[latent grotto]

yea from what i've heard you'll get a warning about the speeds if its below what they recommend but you can still use it anyway

[odd sand]

Ratchet and Clank in testing still ran fine, but I guess the question is if future PS5 games might require more

[odd sand]

I assume if you were getting a PCIe4 as directed, those would all have DRAM cache anyways bc the 4.0 ones are a higher end part

[pastel idol]

that's why i ask for help that's all gibberish to me lol but ill just get that linked one

[odd sand]

Sabrent Rocket has one and its only $130 for 1TB so 🤷‍♀️

[pastel idol]

so a heat sink is a good thing?

[paper tusk]

just make sure the heatsink fits. that's the biggest limitation , not necessarily the sustained read rate (or better yet io's per second)

[deep sapphire]

TECHNOLOGY

[modest moss]

FUCK TECHNOLOGY

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-reveals-its-x670-extreme-x670-and-b650-chipsets-for-first-gen-am5-motherboards computex soon

[odd sand]

You could probably leave the cover off the drive and it would be fine if it came to that, but yes it has to be a few mm thick heatsink. Not one of those ridiculous ones with fins that stick up 1cm

[jaunty light]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-scary-technology-old-people-oh-no-gif-12751578

[sick edge]

heh

[sly elk]

geez if anyone wants something really cheap for water cooling

https://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Support-Certified-Warranty-CL-W138-PL14RE/dp/B071R2P8M3

$50 280mm

[odd sand]

Think about how much money was spent to make something so ugly

[latent grotto]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B27_j9NDPU3cNlj2HKcrfpJKHkOf-Oi1DbuuQva2gT4/edit#gid=0

[limpid quarry]

I managed to snag an i9 11900k for $250 brand new sealed. Clearance sale.

[sharp star]

I'm sorry

[hard drift]

sorry for your loss

[limpid quarry]

why is that?

because of all those tech meme?

[hard drift]

because it's eh compared to current offerings

[real edge]

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

[limpid quarry]

Yes I have seen that video like 10 times

12th gen Mini ITX board is $500 in my country

[hard drift]

[limpid quarry]

Yes

$500 for a ITX board if I want to get 12th gen CPU

Then another $700 for 12700k

[sharp star]

you could've gotten a 10900k

[limpid quarry]

I know the 12th gen is crazy but cost is way up

[hard drift]

10th gen was bad

[limpid quarry]

10900k no stock

[odd sand]

Lets just say... it's still in stock after 2 years and it's on clearance for a reason...

[real edge]

even an am4 cpu would've been better

even tho its at the end of its lifespan

[odd sand]

12400F is reasonably priced, but I assume you want more than 6 core

[hard drift]

i mean can get a cheap af motherboard for am4 and then pair it with a 5800x3d or whatever for bang for buck (please do not do this)

[sharp star]

oh yeah

Sold my 5950X yesterday

[hard drift]

nice

[limpid quarry]

well the meme perceive it bad because everyone expect a jump but it did not but it is a fast CPU regardless if I compare to nothingness

[sharp star]

That was a good move because I was able to pay off over half the electricity bill

[hard drift]

[sharp star]

The other half is taken care of by one of my sisters

[limpid quarry]

anyways $250 11900k what can go wrong

[hard drift]

looks at powerbill

[real edge]

you now have a small power heater, enjoy

[sharp star]

I know right

[limpid quarry]

power here is cheap

[sharp star]

Power here is expensive

It's also summer

[limpid quarry]

$80 monthly - all I pay for utilities

[sharp star]

Speaking of selling things, I need to track down my replacement GPU fans so I can sell my old GPU

[real edge]

yeah the gpu market will crash again soon

so better sell it fast

[sharp star]

I might sell it for like the $700 USD range since prices aren't down here in Asia yet

[real edge]

if u want a slightly inflated price for it

[limpid quarry]

Already did here. Pretty much back to MSRP

[sharp star]

I'm still seeing RTX 3070 Tis for 51-52k PHP which is around $1k USD

[real edge]

that is crazy expensive

not even in the EU its that expensive

[sharp star]

I know

it's dumb

[real edge]

does that mean you can buy cards for msrp from the US and sell them at a profit in asia

[sharp star]

lol maybe I should but that's pretty advanced scalping

[kindred brook]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/uvjhbg/looks_like_scalpers_are_having_trouble_selling/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[sly elk]

mmm macrumors take on airpods max vs the new sony headphones

Compared to the aforementioned WH-1000XM4, the WH-1000XM5 headphones have an updated design, but the ‌AirPods Max‌ still have the classier, higher-end look. The WH-1000XM5 features a plastic body and the headphones are not as premium as the ‌AirPods Max‌, which is likely what accounts for some of the price difference.

am I alone in thinking the sony headphones look classier?

[sharp star]

lmao get fukd

[limpid quarry]

Mine is arriving on Wednesday for the Sony XM5.

[lost python]

Nah I agree. The sony look nicer

[dull garnet]

neither

[deep sapphire]

Yeah until the head band snaps in 6 months

I will never buy another Sony product again, my fuckin battery health in my charging case is shit again after RMAing it a year ago

My AirPods can last 4 years but Sony headphones require RMAing and still suck

[sly elk]

lol

admittedly my main pair of headphones is a 3 year old pair of beyerdynamics that I use daily

4 year old airpods o_O

I pondered buying the airpods max a couple times XD

but I dont' think the battery is easy to replace in them

[deep sapphire]

Headphones should work for at a minimum 2-3 years without issues

Apple is pretty good about replacing your AirPods for cheap if the battery is bad

[sly elk]

on the max it's $80 to replace the battery

that's not awful

[deep sapphire]

I’ve heard people getting them for 50-60 bucks

[sly elk]

yea I paid like 85 for my airpods lol

for $85 i love them

[deep sapphire]

They are really nice for casual use

Very comfortable

[lost python]

My Sennheiser earbuds last forever

I like them

[sly elk]

i think the beyers are super comfy

[deep sapphire]

Sens are good too

But these XM4s

Holy shit

[sly elk]

that said, the airpods are great for pairing with just about anything pretty quickly and easily

[deep sapphire]

I have so many issues with them

I could make a paragraph

Never again

[lost python]

[sly elk]

sad to hear that sony electronics quality is the same as it always was

[deep sapphire]

Yeah I don’t get it like 90s 00s they were always quality

[lost python]

Sony, Samsung, etc that's why I don't get stuff from them

[deep sapphire]

Now days they can’t make a fuckin toaster without it failing

[sly elk]

nah

sony was never that good lol

my bro used to buy their walkmans

those things were always breaking

[deep sapphire]

People can meme on apple all they want AirPods just work, they’re comfortable and they sound good enough

[lost python]

Sony TVs were probably the most solid thing to ever come from Sony

[sly elk]

iirc their monitors had a kinda bad reputation for blowing flyback transformers

[deep sapphire]

Haha

[sly elk]

idk about the TVs

they had great picture quality!

[lost python]

My CRT was a tank

[sly elk]

and for that they've always been highly sought after on the used market lol

though the 21" trinitrons are a nerd status symbol the same way old thinkpads were

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-demonstrates-ryzen-7000-zen4-cpu-reaching-5-5-ghz-while-gaming

[deep sapphire]

I thought you were leaving

I can’t wait for Intel HEDT

[hard drift]

I was

[deep sapphire]

Being AMD burned that bridge

Because AMD hates it’s fanbase

[hard drift]

It better be better than threadripper but I’m doubtful

[deep sapphire]

It will be

It’s Intel

[hard drift]

Since amd will probably flip the new one to consumers if it is decent

[hard drift]

10th gen sure was great huh? And what about 11th?

[deep sapphire]

10th was

11th wasn’t

[hard drift]

Not really

10th had extremely minimal gains for gaming

[deep sapphire]

I mean it wasn’t bad it was just pathetic for it to be called another generation

[hard drift]

Vs 9th

[deep sapphire]

Yeah but it gave you 4 extra threads for the same MSRP

11th took those away

Consumed MORE power

And performed the same single threaded

[hard drift]

Oh yeah hank, the amd cpu still better rdna2 igpu

[deep sapphire]

[hard drift]

Intel destroyed 😎

[deep sapphire]

guess who has more money

Intel

[hard drift]

And they still have awful igpus years later

[deep sapphire]

Who tf uses an igpu, I’m not a poor European

[hard drift]

I mean that’s beside the point

[deep sapphire]

Ryzen doesn’t even come with them unless you get some shit APU

[hard drift]

It’s nice for budget builds

[deep sapphire]

[sly elk]

poor european?

[hard drift]

Ignore boomer hank 👴

[deep sapphire]

Wym unless you get a bangin quad core you don’t get an iGPU

Even intels flagship come with them

[hard drift]

You do smh

[deep sapphire]

No you don’t!

[hard drift]

5700g

[deep sapphire]

Wow nice 3600

[sly elk]

yea if you're in the uk you'd be a tradie

and have a van

[deep sapphire]

LOL

[sharp star]

https://youtu.be/BRtBB2VnF8M

[deep sapphire]

Get in the transit

[hard drift]

True but it’s not a bad igpu atleast lol

[deep sapphire]

Yeah the whole system is bad

[hard drift]

I’m done 😔

[sly elk]

manly

[deep sapphire]

Typical AMD user, cracks under pressure

[deep sapphire]

Sick wheels

They look so small lol

[hard drift]

I’m just done talking about the same stuff 😔

[deep sapphire]

I love AMD they make the best stuff

[sly elk]

the thing that always cracks me up about europe is their towing habits

[deep sapphire]

They tow with a Subaru

[sly elk]

in the US, to haul a trailer with a couple jetskis you need to have this F650 SUPER DUTY HD

in europe the exact same fucking load would be towed by a 2 door pugeot or something

here in the US that would be a small "toy hauler"

ok this one can't possibly be legit

ooooh

to be fair, american trailers get ridiculously large

[sharp star]

so analog keys on AMD laptops?

[sharp star]

Corsair laptops

[sick edge]

Is it? I'd call it peppermint.

[sharp star]

Here it is

AM5 CPUs

[sly elk]

and of course it has the angry grille

the basic rule with chrysler cars is they look better stock

jeeps, chargers, challengers, 300s

[sharp star]

AM4 cooler mounts compatible with AM5 CPUs

neat

[sly elk]

most jeep mods make them handle worse and a lot of them will speed up rusting

some will lead to suspension components wearing out faster, leading to death wobble issues

then there's shit like bias ply beadlocks that are great for tactical crawling over boulders at 0.5mph

not doing 90mph on the freeway

but because some dumbass likes the way they look, onto the weekend cruising rig they go

[odd sand]

That's really roughing it

I think if I were willing to spend the money necessary to get a triple axle like that, I would just get a whole RV. Otherwise you can't even enjoy the RV while traveling, you'd have to sit in the truck until you got there

[sly elk]

right lol

besides that size looks obnoxious

are there any good campgrounds that accommodate something that huge

[odd sand]

The handling would be awful, as would your gas mileage. Just the extra gas cost would probably be the same as renting one for a week lol

Given the prices of those things, you'd be better off just putting away like $200/mo as an RV rental fund rather than buying one. It would be cheaper, or at the very least you wouldn't have to park it somewhere and maintain it

[sly elk]

yup

the same is true for the RVs lol

afaik they become a "every time we go on vacation it breaks down and/or needs major repairs" thing

[jaunty light]

he has finally ascended

[odd sand]

Because most people don't bother doing proper maintenance on it, I assume. They may do basic winterizing, but not running it once a month or w/e and making sure its lubed properly. Leaving it sitting on the tires so they get a flat spot or crack, etc.

[paper tusk]

or maintain slide out seals

or inspect the roof (the biggie for towed rv's is delamination of the sidewalls which is decomposition of the plywood layer if it doesn't have azdel or another plastic inner layer)

[somber solstice]

Looks good tbh

although i am more interested in the GPU

where is it

[deep sapphire]

[jaunty light]

[umbral moss]

🤔

you can directly refrigerate a PC, that's what phase change coolers do

sub-ambient cooling does require some additional considerations like putting some kind of dielectric grease on the socket so it doesn't accumulate moisture

[kindred brook]

oh shit so is my new PC goign to be an AM5

or is it all hype?

BETRAY TEAM BLUE?!

[hard drift]

Don’t do it

Wait until next gen

[kindred brook]

AM6?

[hard drift]

No

As in after 7000 series

[kindred brook]

I'll keep saving my best buy gift cards

😮

my 6700k seems "slow"

[hard drift]

You don’t want to deal with a new platform trust me

[kindred brook]

is it slow

compared to these new cpus

[hard drift]

For what

And what are you gaming at

[kindred brook]

streaming/editing clips/gaming

4k

[hard drift]

Then not really

Streaming/editing maybe but that’d be it

[kindred brook]

I WAIT THEN

[hard drift]

Gaming is gpu bound at 4k usually

[modest moss]

Raz just buy something

[kindred brook]

my gaming fps dips when playing league and streaming

NOOOO

I WILL HOLD

and keep complaining

[modest moss]

You need to end this obsession

It's unhealthy

[kindred brook]

I just like having people to talk to

[modest moss]

People would talk to you

[hard drift]

Look at utilization if your CPU is pegged at 100% then maybe of other than that I really wouldn’t worry about it there’s probably something else

[hard drift]

People talk to me and I don’t talk about buying other random shit

[modest moss]

He has a 3070ti so his gpu isn't a problem

[kindred brook]

sometimes when I stream and game

it spikes to 100%

then I lose some FPS

its weird

like I get rando 20 fps drips

dips*

[modest moss]

He should buy a 12700k and some fast ddr4 and stfu about buying hardware for 3 years

[hard drift]

Are you using the nvenc encoder

Because if you’re using the CPU encoder you’re dumb

[kindred brook]

yeah I think default

I'll check o.o

[hard drift]

Double check because it shouldn’t be using the CPU encoder especially when you’re on Nvidia they have an excellent en coder for streaming

[modest moss]

Btw we watched his steam a while back and it was perfect, he was only seeing the stutter locally

[kindred brook]

does AMD not have a GPU encoder

for streaming?

[hard drift]

It does it’s just way behind nvidia for that one

[modest moss]

Stream*

[hard drift]

Yeah this does actually happen though so I can understand it

[hard drift]

One of the things that setting them behind is the fact that they haven’t come up with an encoder to match Nvidia

[kindred brook]

what causes that

[hard drift]

It could be a number of things

[kindred brook]

oh I thought I was going crazy

when my stream was smooth

and like I was lagging on my end

[hard drift]

In this case if it’s not using the GPU encoder than it is definitely because your CPU is behind for 4K streaming I’d also downscale your stream to 1080 because doing 4K really doesn’t benefit most people

[kindred brook]

my streams are downscaled yeah

[hard drift]

Just make sure same with the encoder

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-its-am4-platform-will-continue-for-many-years-to-come incase this wasn't already posted hopefully we get some new new x3d stuff

also the new chipsets are very odd for am5... x670extreme, x670, and b650 no a series this time around so i'm guessing the new "a" chipset is now the "b" chipset

also the new cpus all have igpus if i'm understanding this right @deep sapphire checkmate intel

[real edge]

I find integrated IGPUs a waste of silicon mostly

most of the people buying top cpus usually have gpus as well

I liked them better separate

so that the people who want them can get those and those that want max cpu performance can get the ones who do not have waste of space inside them

[hard drift]

i mean given that it's for all of am5 that means lowest end can game well depending on how few gpu cores lowest gen has

[hard drift]

also it helps with diagnosing issues

so it's a nice to have but not always needed

[real edge]

yeah but they had to make room for those somehow right

[hard drift]

plus it'd allow you to in theory flash your gpu if you bricked it using your igpu

[real edge]

the IPC uplift is like what, 15%?

[hard drift]

15% but the speed increase is also substantial

[modest moss]

I'm interested to see the am5 equivalent of 5600g

[hard drift]

you're talking the highest one is the 5950x with like 4.9ghz and the one showed in gaming reached 5.5

[hard drift]

i am willing to bet a 7400 or something will beat it especially for igpu

[modest moss]

The dream is not needing a gpu and getting high settings at 1080p

[hard drift]

i think we're there 🙏

[modest moss]

I'm assuming it'll use a bunch less power

[hard drift]

considering the leaks showed skus with twice the gpu compute units as steamdeck

[modest moss]

Fuck my electric bills

[hard drift]

and steamdeck does pretty damn good

[modest moss]

I want my games to look good, I don't need them to be 4k

[hard drift]

also given that the new amd cpus support faster base speed ddr5 and higher max speeds the igpu will demolish(hopefully)

although the one thing they didn't mention is how long am5 will last this time around like they did with am4 when they said it would be supported a while upon release

[deep sapphire]

I’ll agree with you on that

When my 1070 shit the fan (thanks EVGA) the iGPU came in clutch lmao

[hard drift]

hank agreeing with me??? the world must be ending

[deep sapphire]

[hard drift]

so do you also agree that intels igpu is going to be destroyed

[kindred brook]

@hard drift

maybe its because I do 60 fps

o.o

[deep sapphire]

Don’t matter to me, I’m still using a 6700K lmao

[hard drift]

your video bitrate is a bit high, should be 4500-6000

so i'd mess with that and see if it still happens

[kindred brook]

kk

[umbral moss]

high end AMD CPUs coming with iGPU is useless if you plan on making a full ginormous tower

but I've been lowkey waiting for the onboard graphics benchmarks for the new AMD stuff to see if I could fit a serviceable PC in a passively cooled box

[misty pawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC_4poGiEJo

[deep sapphire]

Only 15 percent IPC gains? And you said 10 series was underwhelming

[hard drift]

pfft i mean alderlake wasn't much better lol, only 18%

[deep sapphire]

18 percent sure sounds higher than 15!

[hard drift]

i mean it's not even out yet, once testing is done we'll see 🙏

it already demolishes what intel has if their r23 benchmark is anything to go by

not to mention atleast i don't need 300w for my cpu

[umbral moss]

if it can play FFXIV and overwatch at 1440/144 with max settings it's fine

[hard drift]

you can already do that on old stuff

[latent grotto]

but who plays overwatch

[umbral moss]

not out here looking to play cyberpunk 2077 with raytracing and shit at 4k/144

[umbral moss]

one chip

the design requirement is that it has to be just CPU, RAM, and an SSD board

[hard drift]

oh you're talking just igpu?

[latent grotto]

we'll have that when they release the ps6

[hard drift]

doubtful

[latent grotto]

ps7

[hard drift]

we'll have it in pc before a ps6 comes into existence

[latent grotto]

[hard drift]

you figure the ps4 -> 5 took like 7 years

and people still can't get it easily

[umbral moss]

for overwatch and XIV? can't imagine igpu is so far behind you can't run it at 1440/80 at least

[hard drift]

so we probably have another 7 years before ps6

[hard drift]

igpus are for sure far behind for that still

[umbral moss]

big sad

[hard drift]

considering the steamdeck does 800p

[umbral moss]

isn't that because the steamdeck has to be battery powered

so it's using a laptop sku

[hard drift]

not necessarily, we don't really have desktop parts to compare yet

but i imagine we're at around 1080p 60-80

[umbral moss]

unpog

[hard drift]

i mean that's still a big leap for igpus

[umbral moss]

I wanted to condense my desktop tower into a flat box to leave at my girlfriend's apartment

instead of having to haul a 150 pound steel monstrosity

[hard drift]

well don't expect 1440p anytime soon

probably another 2-4 years for that in terms of igpu

and that's for 60 fps

144 probably longer unless tech really starts booming

[latent grotto]

good workout

also makes it harder for someone to steal

[umbral moss]

I mean, it also makes it harder to take back when she inevitably kicks me out

so

[hard drift]

[latent grotto]

skill issue, difference in "baby come back. you can blame it all on me"

[deep sapphire]

Intel’s next architecture isn’t even out yet and that’s supposed to be the next Tick architecture

[umbral moss]

zen 4 is equivalent, isn't it?

[hard drift]

we don't know

[hard drift]

yeah but we'll see it might get delayed just like arc which has been delayed like 6 times lol

[deep sapphire]

Good products are worth waiting for

[hard drift]

also it's coming 2023 not 2022 supposedly

[deep sapphire]

Oh really?

[hard drift]

and it's mobile first

[deep sapphire]

Rip

[hard drift]

so get fucked intel

[deep sapphire]

That’s common

They always do that

Mobile is the money maker

[hard drift]

yes but 2023 and mobile first

doa

[latent grotto]

i thought it was summer 2022

[deep sapphire]

That’s what I thought

Q3 this year

[hard drift]

i'll see if i can find other sources

another article saying rumored Q3

but nothing from intel aside from "Second half of 2022" and this article saying late Q3

[umbral moss]

soon (tm)

just like arc

and 5nm transistors

[hard drift]

i mean arc is barely making it to the US lol

it "launched" but only in like south korea

[umbral moss]

poggin

probably because it can only play SC2 at high fps

[sly elk]

this is looking nice

the hood lines up with the side windows, there's no hoffmeister kink

fucking nice

best looking lambo I've seen in a while

the design is ironically very un-lambo-like though

[umbral moss]

I thought it was a generic BMW concept

[sly elk]

it needs to be painted bright green and have a spoiler

[umbral moss]

then you said no hoffmeister and I was like, wait, can't be a BMW then

[sly elk]

lol

it's giving me early 90s camaro vibes

it needs T-Tops

[umbral moss]

yeah, with the unpleasantly long nose and weird proportions

[sly elk]

fair nuff

I like it though

i'm even getting italian car vibes off it

[umbral moss]

I'm largely tilted by it because it clearly has to make room for a giant V12 engine

that it doesn't really need

[mortal condor]

So LG phones through T-Mobile are apparently glitched/bricked

Worldwide

Because of some weird error in an update that's corrupted? IMS on those phones

And now LG is scrambling to fix it today with not so happy customers invading their mentions on Twitter

[odd sand]

Would that be Rev2 of this P/E core design, or their own version of chiplet?

[odd sand]

Verizon master race. I take it up the butt and I like it

https://tenor.com/view/mujikcboro-seriymujik-gif-24361533

[mortal condor]

Have Metro By T-Mobile but phone is Samsung so i'm unaffected by this weird error

[sly elk]

verizon is a boomer status symbol lol

until the iphone became available on verizon, anyway

[odd sand]

I have it bc rural coverage was always shit with Tmo and only okay with US cellular

[sly elk]

so is coverage inside any well-built large building

[odd sand]

Whereas I could drive into the ass end of nowhere on Verizon and still get data coverage

[sly elk]

if I was in any class in college and was like "oh my phone's signal sucks in here"
it was like a 100% guarantee someone would overhear and tell me that their verizon phone worked just fine

i used to have fun with that

[odd sand]

I forget where we were driving, but my friend lost data coverage a solid 30mins of highway driving before me on a trip once. He was on US cellular

[sly elk]

cingular/at&t always had the worst signal, period

t-mobile and sprint we could play games to see who had better coverage

vzw always had coverage everywhere but those people paid like $100/mo when the rest of us paid $30/mo

[odd sand]

Mine wasn't that bad, it was like $50-60/mo

But yes, you get what you pay for.

[sly elk]

and i think cingular/at&t wasn't bad because of the reach, it was just its popularity, especially post-iphone-launch

if you went in a mall or a concert at&t/cingular would be the first one to get overwhelmed

[odd sand]

I say that, but I'm currently paying $110/mo bc of my grandfathered unlimited data. I'm finally thinking of dropping it bc the modern unlimited plan (where you just get limited speeds after awhile) has gotten to the point where you can do like 20-25gb in a month before you're limited to 3G

[sly elk]

post vzw iphone, the status symbol became getting the newest iphone every time one came out xD

[odd sand]

Verizon would usually set up another temp tower at events like that to reinforce the node

I remember at Anime Central, the signal in the basement level was always non-existent, then around 2015 or so they added a micro-tower inside the hotel and you'd get 3bars then.

[sly elk]

nais

xD the last time I went to ax, my xs crashed and burned and wouldn't turn back on until the battery died

[odd sand]

I was one of the people pushing them hard to adopt Guidebook for scheduling

[sly elk]

yea you really do get what you pay for

[deep sapphire]

Lmao I switched to Verizon briefly thinking I would get better service, it was just as bad and I paid twice as much. I think Verizon is more reliable in really spotty areas but not twice the price better

[sly elk]

vzw goes hand in hand with those rewards credit cards that give you free hotels/flights/concierge/airport lounges

great for traveling, otherwise eh whatever

[odd sand]

They were complaining it was like $1500 and I pointed out we have like 15-20k attendees now ... that is peanuts to put on a good convention. Instead of having schedule changes written on a whiteboard at Conops and expecting ppl to walk there and see

I feel attacked! (I have a Chase Preferred)

[deep sapphire]

Tmobiles 5G is substantially better now though, in comparison to its original implementation

[odd sand]

Is it actually 5G now? Bc I know they were selling LTE+ as 5G for a long while

[deep sapphire]

When I first got my 12 pro having 5G on was completely useless and nothing would load

It’s 5G UV

Not really “true” 5G but it seems faster in some areas

Not really a fan of how apple implements the auto mode though it doesn’t seem very consistent

[odd sand]

Yeah, I figured. Bc their 5G maps were like bright red for the entire US even in bumfuck nowhere. And I was like, there's no way.

[deep sapphire]

Which doesn’t surprise me apple modems are pretty meh

[sly elk]

that's like the best cashback rewards kinda card too, isn't it?

or at least was for a long time

[odd sand]

Their example map of Verizon was showing only it's true 5G rollout so it was just a few dots here and there lol

[deep sapphire]

Don’t you love that

[jaunty light]

Its magic.
Source: trust me bro im tmobile advertising guy

[sly elk]

oh yea my xs modem is trash

[deep sapphire]

oh my god don’t even get me started

The XS was BAD

[sly elk]

it lives off wifi in my house

[deep sapphire]

It’s much better but yeah

[sly elk]

if I turn off the wifi the speeds are like, bad 3g

[deep sapphire]

I had the XS max I know your pain

[jaunty light]

Iphone owners: god iphone is so trash
Also iphone owners: gets another iphone

[deep sapphire]

If you had 2 bars or less your service was 3mbps

[sly elk]

not always 😄

I jump back and forth depending on what I fancy

[odd sand]

You get 5x points for hotels and flights booked thru the card portal, and 2x or 3x pts on various things like groceries and restaurants. Then 1x for everything else. Every so often they provide a free credit for stuff. Like in 2020 we got $50 in free groceries

[deep sapphire]

iPhones back then had a dispute with Qualcomm so they sourced intel modems which were trash

[sly elk]

atm best buy has some trade in special where I could sell them my old gs9 and get a z flip 3 for $350

[odd sand]

I think there are sometimes other points bonuses for specific businesses if you log into your account and check every month

[sly elk]

but if I add in tax-on-the-full-MSRP

fuck it, it's not worth it

[deep sapphire]

They then bought out the intel modem division and the 11 and up use in house designed modems

[sly elk]

qualcomm is gross, though

[jaunty light]

at least its not broadcom

[sly elk]

I kinda hate qualcomm for killing wimax 😄

[deep sapphire]

They are but they had much better modems

[sly elk]

true

[odd sand]

My friend told me to trade in my phone if I wanted a new one, but #1 I'd have to just get a Galaxy and #2 they give shit tradein value for anything that isn't an iphone or Galaxy flagship

[jaunty light]

Intel has always been notoriously shitty though. How they ever greenlit puma generation is ???

[deep sapphire]

That’s one of the best perks of iPhones, good resale value

[odd sand]

You can still get like $200 for an iphone8 or something silly like that in tradein, but when my Xperia was 3-4 years old the tradein value was $35

[deep sapphire]

I have no idea they just needed multiple sources for modems and Qualcomm kept apple in litigation hell until they said enough and dropped them

[sly elk]

if you stay on the treadmill

sometimes it's like $200 to go from old iphone to new iphone

[odd sand]

That's what I most hate about the handset market, is how bandwagon it is. There are like 2-3 phones with huge traction, and nearly everything else sells an order of magnitude less. Not even bc they're bad phones but bc nobody will look at them

[sly elk]

but for t-mobile, for example, that often requires the $$$ newer plans like magenta max

and then you're stuck with "monthly credits"

which I hate.

[jaunty light]

Im ready to pony up $1600 for xperia 1 iv!!

[deep sapphire]

1600 bucks for a phone guaranteed to have issues cause it’s Sony

[jaunty light]

Just kidding bitch i can buy an a7iv inatead

Or a lens..

[sly elk]

THATS WHY I HAVENT UPGRADED

RIGHT THERE

[odd sand]

I was eyeing another xperia, but we'll have to see.

[sly elk]

the #1 reason why I'd want an upgrade besides intel's trash modem in the XS

is to get a better camera

.... and an a7iv would be way way better

[deep sapphire]

The 14 is coming soonish

[sly elk]

this is the part that triggers me about the whole

[jaunty light]

I need to see how much $ I can get for my III

[agile roost]

I literally get to basically upgrade to the next model for free every year because the resale is insane

[sly elk]

"who needs dedicated cameras anymore when phone cams are so good"

NO THEY ARENT

[odd sand]

I'm seriously considering doing delivery at my old job on fri and sat nights for some extra money until my CC is paid off, otherwise I don't think I would have enough to go to Japan in the fall

[deep sapphire]

20 bucks on Facebook market

[jaunty light]

:OmegaLUL:

[deep sapphire]

Pretty much

[sly elk]

PHONE CAMERAS SUCK

[agile roost]

Especially if your iPhone is unlocked

[sly elk]

idk

[jaunty light]

Theyre good enough for whipping it out, thats it tho

[agile roost]

[deep sapphire]

Lewd

[sly elk]

I feel like iPhone resale is not as great as people make it out to be

plus it plays both ways

sure the android flagship is worth $35 trade in next year

[deep sapphire]

Compared to the competition it’s significantly higher

[odd sand]

I'm on a 4-10s schedule, so from Thurs morning to Sun afternoon I have fuck-all to do usually and it gets kinda boring. So like 4hrs on fri and sat just driving around doing deliveries would actually be a stress release for me

[sly elk]

but if you wait 3 months

you can probably get that android flagship for like $300-500 anyway

[deep sapphire]

If you upgrade every year you can basically pay 200 bucks for a new phone

[sly elk]

because once the shine wears off, they start doing BOGO deals or 50% off deals or

idk

[agile roost]

This

[odd sand]

I got my Razer Phone2 for like $600

[sly elk]

best buy samsung shenanigans where they give you $500 for a 2 year old samsung phone

yea

[jaunty light]

Hm no thanks

[sly elk]

once the new release sheen wears off and they've sold to the whales

they tank

[jaunty light]

Then again I only paid 1700 for mine, with the kit lens that I sold for 100 bucks

[deep sapphire]

Only

[jaunty light]

So not terrible depreciation

[deep sapphire]

[sly elk]

tey want 2k for those now ><

[odd sand]

I still have a Sony a65. Bought it planning to go to the winter olympics in 2014, but that never happened.

[deep sapphire]

Nokia N900 chads where you at

[jaunty light]

Man the z6 was like 2700 lol

[odd sand]

Using it for vtubing only, I'm sure /s

[sly elk]

i'd love to upgrade from my olympus epm2 :\

I have to say though

for $200 + a $150 lens upgrade a few years later, my goodness did I ever get some mileage out of this camera lmao

i want someone to do that again

put a banging sensor into a stupid body with no good physical controls

[dull garnet]

didn't the a7 only overtake a dslr with the iv

also bruh that body price

I wonder if people will become nostalgic for dslr over time

[jaunty light]

No, mirrorless has been parity for ages

[dull garnet]

not what i read

[sly elk]

I mean, you can get competitive picture quality out of cheaper cameras, but I think the a7 line's shtick was they also have great video quality

i also thought the stereotypical streamer cam was the a6000

[odd sand]

That's why I got the a65 at the time: It was 10fps continuous bc of mirrorless for the same price as a Canon that did 5fps. Figured that would be better for shooting sports

[jaunty light]

Remember that people will argue brand or type for ages, as well as COLOR SCIENCE

[sly elk]

yea it's funny because the canons used to be expensive AF because it was the brand to have

then sony stole their thunder in the casual crowd

i'm not sure how it is with pro cams though

but iirc aren't the sony ones being used for like NFL sideline video or something?

[odd sand]

Pro-tier its probably still Canon and Nikon, but I think Sony has risen to being a solid alternative

[sly elk]

like they can hook it up to a 5g modem and make this small easily portable rig

[odd sand]

But its like iphones and galaxy vs other phones: The brand has traction

[jaunty light]

Shrug. You might care about brand if ur already in the ecosystem of lenses and dont wanna compromise lens performance

They only go for like 1300 priv party

[odd sand]

I dunno about Nikon, but I know a lot of the Canon ones work just fine on Sony. I think it might be with an adapter tho

[sly elk]

ecosystem

I hate ecosystems

[odd sand]

I rented something like this chonker for my last trip to Japan

[sly elk]

i loved that micro four thirds was a standard across companies ❤️

[odd sand]

Mounted to my Sony a65. The lens is so heavy you mount the lens to the monopod, not the body lol

[sly elk]

lol

[jaunty light]

Yea but you gotta rely on a $200 something adapter. AF will never be as fast on another mirrorless system as native

[sly elk]

honk I mean that all the mft cams shared the standard so for the most part the lenses were interchangeable

[jaunty light]

No @ shinon

[sly elk]

oh

[odd sand]

I hear you can even use old Minolta lenses on Sony as long as they're newer than like 1995 or something

(Since Sony bought out Minolta's camera division)

[jaunty light]

You can use anything on mirrorless with an adapter, results may vary

Idk how old E mount is tho

[odd sand]

I mean it's a direct fit bc Sony A-mount is Minolta's original mount

Or whatever is the older mount. I forget if A or E is older

[jaunty light]

E is fs newer

[dull garnet]

muh 100% ovf

[craggy breach]

Nice

Due

Dude*

[potent arrow]

I personally shoot with Sony bodies, and Ive never bought new lenses

always used older canon glasses and have a few minolta and other random lenses

my a9 and my a6000 are my babies

[dull garnet]

my friend bought a fuji and only considers fuji glass

its like bro that's a £800 50mm

i'm too cheap to even buy nikon/canon lenses, old sigma seem to work pretty good tho

[odd sand]

Yeah Sigmas are fine for non-pro work

[sly elk]

friggin apple. I have a permanent notification on my work mac about accepting the new icloud terms and conditions

except I can't

furthermore, I can't log out of icloud because find my mac is enabled, and I can't disable find my mac

presumably because the icloud terms of service thing hasn't been accepted

apple really needs to friggin stop making shit that deadlocks itself like that

ha!

GM EVs Could Get Dual Charging Ports to Recharge in Half the Time

what's more murica than taking up 2 EV chargers

[odd sand]

So are they going with 2x 400V instead of going with 800V system?

[potent arrow]

Sigma is fine for pro work

The distortion that I notice on their lenses are easily fixed

And there isn't that much chromatic noise

And I would consider them sharp as hell

[jaunty light]

Tbh people have a warped idea of pro like we talking million dollar company photo or wat

Or the classic, make money from photography?

[sly elk]

i think headphone enthusiasts are a different game lol

you just reminded me

https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/62753-nvme-ssd-designed-for-audiophiles/?do=findComment&comment=1160711

that dude powers their 12v and 5v rails with linear power supplies

[dull garnet]

that sigma was the best performing 50mm on my body at that time according to dxomark, though that would have been nearly a decade ago now

[sly elk]

i think that dude's PC build takes the cake though

just like, they have multiple power supplies to do the job of an atx unit in search of lower noise lol

they're powering the SSD separately from the motherboard

[dull garnet]

shuffles feet nervously

luckily storage is as cheap as it has ever been :p

[sly elk]

They clearly don’t understand the concept of this SSD drive. The whole point is to be able to power to drive of a clean LPS instead of the motherboard. The difference between MB and LPS is clearly audible and provides an audible positive improvement when using a decent linear power supply. It’s very easily to test as well. Flip the dip switch between internal MB and external LPS and let your ears decide which sounds better.

I was offered to beta test this “audio grade” SSD drive for honest feedback with the option to return it, no questions asked. So I embarked on this beta with an open mind putting all technical stereotypes such as the <ones are ones and zeros are zeros>. Yes, I have an Ethernet switch in my system that has an updated OCXO clock and is powered by a linear power supply because it makes and audible difference endorsed and confirmed by friends and relatives… in my system setup.

[dull garnet]

gotta have elevated cables

[sly elk]

the theory about this shit is

if you have your headphones plugged into an amp, plugged into a DAC, plugged into the USB port on a computer, plugged into an ethernet switch, etcetc

[sly elk]

any one of those devices could produce noise and corrupt the analog signal coming out of the amp

[dull garnet]

hey I have that blue cable

t h i c c

[sly elk]

but if the sound coming out of the DAC is corrupted by the network switch their computer is plugged into

maybe they should re-evaluate the quality of their DAC and their house wiring?

[odd sand]

Some of this stuff it's like: You're not wrong, but are you $10k right?

[dull garnet]

cue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJy6VJvSCk

[sly elk]

honestly some of these things really are just wrong

[odd sand]

They're spending like $1000 in special cables and power supplies etc. for like 0.5% improvement

[dull garnet]

long as it makes them happy :)

[sly elk]

the only place the $1000 cables would matter is between the dac and amp, and between the amp and the speakers

[odd sand]

Blow their minds by pointing out the recordings had mic wires just lying on the ground, so the whole process is tainted from inaccurate masters /s

[sly elk]

you could get all fancy and buy a fancy USB cable, but a USB-IF certified cable should be fine

[sly elk]

they want to hear the inaccuracies as captured by the cables laying on the ground

[dull garnet]

i spent like £20 on a usb cable for my dac amp

🤡

[sly elk]

I could hear the crackle at the top of the octaves from mick jagger having bronchitis 2 weeks before this recording

SPELLBOUNDING

[deep sapphire]

Koss headphones

[dull garnet]

naw

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/wongrande-gif-24458192

[boreal surge]

Cool, got target specs and price?

[inland mauve]

I have a DAC plugged into my computer with a USB cable

and my headphone plugged into a converter from headphone jack to tulip connectors

and that's about as far as I'm willing to take this audiophile thing

I get the search for optimization but you just get such diminishing returns after a while

and optimizing anything before the binary data is converted into analogue signals is completely useless

[odd sand]

Did you see how Koss was like a mini-GME over the last year+?

Koss just seems so random compared to the others

Boomer audio equipment

[umbral moss]

koss was one of the other meme stocks that got short squeezed during the GME incident

it wasn't going up because of people Really Believing In It

people saw it had like 45% short interest with a lot of shorts coming due in less than a week so reddit piled in and gamma squeezed them

[odd sand]

Sorry, I was thinking of Bose with the boomer audio statement. Koss is like a poor man's Bose.
Here is peak 90s boomer audio:

[umbral moss]

also, koss isn't, like, bad, it's just average and the stock is beaten down because of earnings misses

it's hard to be a profitable headphones company when everyone is like "must have airpods"

no wireless, no annoying peen in the ear canal, no sale

[odd sand]

Also, their stuff is very plain toast, as well as average as you said.

So people want to buy cool looking shit like Corsair or Steelseries or something

[umbral moss]

apparently their pro-focused stuff is good

it's not like, studio master level but it's breddy gud, especially for the price

[odd sand]

Yeah Koss I think was the first company with Hi-Fi equipment or something like that

They just have chosen not to take advantage of the new boom in audio equipment thanks to streaming, so they've been left behind

[umbral moss]

yeah, they got games workshopped

they could have adapted to the new market but were like "nah, we're too boomer to make changes"

so now they're in the shitter

[sick edge]

So you DONT want to game on it?

😖 arent thinkpads infamously not great for gaming?

?

m... most moderb laptops do? o-o.. whats the correlation to being good for gaming a nd a thunderbolt port?

I mean if uoure mostly gonna work on it with light gaming sure

Im still confused about the correlation of the port woth gaming. XD

but also ok legion isnt the thinkpad aright

....EXTERNAL GPU!ok...

now I'm caught up

Friends yold me having an external gpu is dumb, just make a proper pc. XP

Ill look into this cause all you say now confuses me. XD

ideally kot on my phone

[modest moss]

Oh shit egpu

That's bidori's kink

[sick edge]

Hibestly my option rather than building a desktop was an egpu. but they were also really expensove for what they did....

[sly walrus]

what would you play on it

basically nothing gets mac ports anymore

[deep sapphire]

thats hot

[sly elk]

ahhhh be careful with that

i had one of those at work!

[sharp star]

Or pressure Valve to release some kind of Proton version for Mac

[sly elk]

i used it every day for about a year, then when the pandemic started i started working from home and left it there

one day I go in after like a year and a half

plug it in, laptop works great with it

30 mins in the thing makes a comically loud pop and dies

i think the problem for me was that it tried to charge my laptop 😄

[sick edge]

They have no incentive for this. XD

[sharp star]

exactly

[sick edge]

Who eould thenpressure be from.. all those MAC GAMERS?!

https://tenor.com/view/lol-laughing-hysterically-laughing-out-loud-funny-steve-carell-gif-22904325

[agile roost]

boot camp windows 10 and then connect an egpu

😎

[sick edge]

It will emulate but it cant actually take advantagebof the m1 architecture o believe

whichbos the whole point

[agile roost]

I have the razor core x chroma

Works great with my Mac mini