technology-discussion

[potent arrow]

Who needs fans

[hard drift]

SFF does 😭

[potent arrow]

Pc is fine

[sly elk]

operation strix!

https://tenor.com/view/twilight-spyxfamily-glasses-gif-25413413

[modest moss]

Sarah did you fix your loop?

[hard drift]

Doubt it knowing sarah

[modest moss]

oh yeah there was definite seepage onto desk

[potent arrow]

lol I wrapped Teflon around the Barb and shoved the tube on harder

[modest moss]

[potent arrow]

It's still holding

[umbral moss]

one of my reservoirs has a leak at the rotary joint

it's been leaking for oh, uh, at least 7 years

I just refill the reservoir every so often

[potent arrow]

See Ed gets me

[hard drift]

Lmao

[umbral moss]

I broke an acrylic CPU block that way

[hard drift]

You asked for it

Nobody cares about water temp

[umbral moss]

hand tightened it and the acrylic was like "cool, I hate it" and had a hairline crack around the fitting

so it was leaking directly onto my GPU for about a month

I didn't know it was leaking until the PC started shutting down randomly

turns out getting water into the PCI-e x16 slot isn't something the board particularly enjoys

[modest moss]

you spent half the price of my PC on your loop, I'd fucking hope it's cold

I spent about £2k in the end, including monitor

https://tenor.com/view/you-fools-have-more-money-than-sense-bill-richard-brake-tremors-shrieker-island-gif-18548365

[hard drift]

Lmao not you fools, just ice

[modest moss]

at least I have apple pie

[umbral moss]

watercooling hardware is capex

you buy it once and use it for like 10 years

[modest moss]

my noctua dh15 will last for that long for a tenth of what Ice paid

[sly elk]

so nice. meanwhile my setup is like

but i also run the fans slow

[modest moss]

well I'll probably need to replace the fans, but eh

[hard drift]

That’s the benefit of air over aio

[potent arrow]

Are you like my gf who still fucking uses a pascal waterblock on her 3090?

[umbral moss]

pumps and reservoirs are always good

tubing too

although I do need some new tygon non-plasticizer tubing, my supply from 2013 is all yellow and gross

[sly elk]

the power of having 3 radiators ❤️

overall looks good 😄

[modest moss]

all my parts except monitor will be here by tomorrow

[hard drift]

🙏

[sly elk]

(I taped the commander pro's temp probe to the backplate of my gpu lol)

[modest moss]

what time are you arriving to build it Bidori?

[potent arrow]

Shue spend some of that money on me

[hard drift]

Whenever you schedule my plane ticket

[potent arrow]

I need a new gunpla

[umbral moss]

give me money for computer parts 😔

[potent arrow]

[modest moss]

you have more money than me

[umbral moss]

I require a new PC

[potent arrow]

That's veritably false

[modest moss]

you spend tons

[sly elk]

the power of a mesh case

[potent arrow]

I just spent 25% of my savings on school.

[hard drift]

🙏 I’m finally getting management so I’ll have more money for pc stuff soon

[modest moss]

you have savings

[potent arrow]

Ur British

[modest moss]

that's this conversation over

rich canadian fucks

[potent arrow]

[umbral moss]

would you believe that money is literally worth nothing

and it only has an imaginary value that everyone agrees to

poggin

I'm not a fan of paying $40 to put gas in my tank

oh you had an adjustable mortgage

rip, enjoy being dead

it's $40 a week 😔

93 octane 😮‍💨

[hard drift]

We knew this lol

They are hoping that now that it’s finally in stock at MSRP people will be more willing to buy it

[umbral moss]

I wish I didn't have to drive to work

or come to the office

I'd save so much money

[hard drift]

That’s not scarcity

[umbral moss]

for as much as everyone thinks I have a big brain, I never grasped programming

[hard drift]

Programming is a headache 😭

I took a college class on it but that was pretty much it

[umbral moss]

I just want to get paid enough to be able to afford my house and see my girlfriend without having to eat sawdust lmao

the last time I tried to program anything I was in high school

[hard drift]

But sawdust is tasty /s

[potent arrow]

Why am I not surpised

[umbral moss]

but yeah, pay me $200k and we'll talk

[kindred brook]

yo

49" monitor

amazon selling for 400

[hard drift]

Don’t need a degree if you can get certifications

[kindred brook]

maybe wrong price?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZSGR4CH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[hard drift]

Certifications trump it

[hard drift]

I like the agon line 🙏 waiting for the miniled versions

Depends on the job

Networking, a+ it all depends

[umbral moss]

I just want to get paid to do nothing all day

[hard drift]

Sponsorships mean jack usually

[umbral moss]

and have enough money to buy stuff

[potent arrow]

I'm still stuck in school

[hard drift]

Cloud and data in general

[potent arrow]

Shoot me

[hard drift]

I keep getting told to go to school for all i am curious about 😭

Even my dad has stopped answering some of my questions lol

Even though he basically has enough credits for a phd

He gave me some of his books and told me go study and do a+ lol

I’m not working for google smh

[potent arrow]

I'm a c slut

Because I'm hardware

JS and anything OOP can piss off

[hard drift]

The last language i touched was c#

Not going through google either unless i absolutely have to

Awful company smh

[umbral moss]

don't be evil

[potent arrow]

PUBLIC STATIC BALLS

[hard drift]

I hate their handling of shit plus their whole thing with advertising and russia lol

[umbral moss]

I certainly do want to get paid $300k a year

[sly elk]

C and C+ are my bread and butter

[umbral moss]

I'd absolutely put 30% of that money away for retirement

[sly elk]

the downside is I don't get 300k/year

the upside is I have code running in space

[hard drift]

Nah, I don’t want that kind of money lol

That’s too much

[umbral moss]

I make $98k now, it's not nearly enough to cover my expenses 😔

[hard drift]

Where do you live

[umbral moss]

NY

[potent arrow]

Sam Francisco or Toronto or NY

[hard drift]

Lmfao

[potent arrow]

ahahah

[hard drift]

That explains it

[potent arrow]

ahahahahhahaha

[umbral moss]

it's $3500 a month just to run the house

[hard drift]

Yeah, it’s not much better here

[umbral moss]

knock off another $250/mo to visit gril on the train, maybe another $400 to go out to eat with gril

looking pretty grim re: finances

plus that assumes I buy literally nothing else

poggin

that's why I don't mind having to pay for a house

but it does make things exceedingly tight because gril refuses to move in

[hard drift]

Lmao

Why tf

[umbral moss]

because it's too far from her job

there's some rule 4 reasons too

[hard drift]

Ah okay

Wait which rule is 4

[opal panther]

Information

A full list of server rules can be found in #about-this-server

[umbral moss]

just annoying because if she did live in the house we'd be set 😔

I have a rough idea of my budget

[hard drift]

Rule 4 is an umbrella lol but I’m guessing politics

[umbral moss]

I blocked out $3500 for house expenses because that covers the bulk of my expenses

oh, I'm way short the last two months

[hard drift]

2500 for gifts???

[umbral moss]

but I've also been depresso spending on kickstarter

[hard drift]

I’m sure it is lmao

12 family members? Fuck that

Nice

That’s because of what they had to do for chickens recently

They had to kill a bunch because of some disease

I mean the effect wouldn’t be right away usually

And nuts

?

Is that bad?

Oh

Ewwww

[sly elk]

I would love to make 300k/year lol

I appreciate the help you've given me with that so far ^^ I plan to reach out more someday. just not yet. I realize that's counterproductive. 😄

[fair parcel]

VW pickup

[deep sapphire]

MMHMMM ONLY AMERICAN TRUCKS IN THIS CHAT

[fair parcel]

that actually looks sexy

[royal forge]

https://tenor.com/view/donuts-ranger-drift-drifting-skid-smoke-gif-13634749

[deep sapphire]

https://tenor.com/view/sorry-oops-gif-24020200

[fair parcel]

Ford is made in the USA

[deep sapphire]

South America has different trucks

All 3 automakers have plants that make trucks here

Besides GM Canada which has existed since like 1910 lmao

[sly elk]

MURRICA

i think it's funny how they had to make it more aggro looking in order to satisfy customers

somewhere, someone in a board room was like

"NOW THATS A TRAHWK"

https://tenor.com/view/whistl-in-diesel-truck-smoke-wheels-gif-17517028

https://tenor.com/view/break-car-fall-apart-broken-ride-gif-4915243

https://tenor.com/view/jeep-off-road-break-gif-17188297

[modest moss]

Is it mad to run plex on the new box? Should I be keeping it on a lower power thing that I just turn on when needed

[desert field]

Guys, I bought a second monitor today but I have no idea how to arrange the new setup 🤔

[hard drift]

Preference thing lol

My monitors are like a foot and a half apart

I’m constantly turning my neck

Nah

My monitors are far apart and elevated so I’m not looking down

[modest moss]

Man ninite is so great

Also props to ms, the 10 install process is actually ok

[hard drift]

11 is not so much better

even the install process isn't better

[sly elk]

centered so that when you sit at your desk and look straight ahead you're staring at the gap between them

[hard drift]

You mean you don’t want a gap between them?

just a note, that is not for a joke lol, i actually prefer that

also another cursed thing i do is my windows to drag onto the left screen i go all the way right

[sly elk]

@hard drift https://youtu.be/LrGucxOZxlc?t=286

[sly elk]

heheh I don't understand why when programmers have a vertical monitor setup, the vertical monitor isn't the middle one

i was thinking i'm getting bored of looking at /r/battlestations because all the setups look the same lately

but this one's not bad

[hard drift]

not a chance for either

[modest moss]

@deep sapphire have you seen this fuckery?

[hard drift]

[modest moss]

I actually want to mute him for posting that

[hard drift]

😭

i don't have space to actually have them close together tbf

i'd be blocking my closet door if i tried

[modest moss]

your obsession

[hard drift]

😭 it's not my obsession

[modest moss]

orly

[hard drift]

i've been in this server for several years ty very much 🙏

[deep sapphire]

Wtf

https://tenor.com/view/nintendo-reggie-nintendo-of-america-confused-whats-wrong-with-you-gif-5400719

[hard drift]

i literally cannot do it properly 😭

i will literally block my closet

[deep sapphire]

God the east coast

Living in 1848 houses

[hard drift]

it's terrible how small my room is

this apartment is actually pretty terrible lol

[modest moss]

you've linked that website 130 times in 9 months

[hard drift]

there's 273 days roughly in that timespan

so that's pretty good

[modest moss]

every other day

[deep sapphire]

I think bidori likes video cards

[hard drift]

😔

[modest moss]

most lads his age are on certain other sites every other day

bidori be like OH EM GEE PCIE5

[deep sapphire]

I’m looking at vintage Camaros

https://youtu.be/xdyGfiIirD8

[modest moss]

did you ever actually order another vehicle, or just feeling trapped by the 500 deposit and ignoring it?

[deep sapphire]

I can’t make up my mind

I’m a mess

On one hand, a truck is more practical. On the other, a Camaro

[modest moss]

I mean

could you afford to continue insuring current truck for practicality AND get a Camaro?

is 2 vehicles an option?

[sly elk]

^ insuring 2 vehicles may not even cost extra vs insuring just one depending on the company

[modest moss]

so keep classic Hanktruck, buy newish Camaro

do you have parking for 2?

[hard drift]

😭

[hard drift]

i don't like "certain other sites"

it's old and boring lmao

[modest moss]

👴

[hard drift]

😔 nah it's just the same shit over and over lol

[sly elk]

for me personally a truck would not be practical

[deep sapphire]

Good idea

I’ll own 2 vehicles that get a combined MPG of 25

I miss my Camry the more the fuel prices continue

[modest moss]

it's okay, I trust you'll buy an EV when it's practical for you

[deep sapphire]

Once solid state batteries come out

I am full on

[sly elk]

i wonder what kinda gas mileage the ford flex gets

[hard drift]

we need to upgrade the electrical grid first 😔

[sly elk]

18mpg average it seems

[deep sapphire]

Why, they don’t make Vega cards anymore

[modest moss]

anyone with half a brain will go full EV once it's actually cheaper with actual good range and fast charging

[hard drift]

we won't be charging shit if everyone goes EV

[sly elk]

so, why not?

[deep sapphire]

It’ll work out

Supply and demand

[sly elk]

yea

[deep sapphire]

All that jazz

[hard drift]

not when rolling blackouts are more common now

[deep sapphire]

I haven’t had one occur here in over a decade

[hard drift]

you live in the middle of fucking nowhere lol

[sly elk]

there';s also always the option of having solar power and a powerwall or something

idk

[hard drift]

in actual places with inhabitants they do them pretty often

[sly elk]

I can't help but wonder how uncomfortable the tailgate seat config is

[deep sapphire]

My parents owned a Mercury sable station wagon

That had seats like that

[sly elk]

idk

[deep sapphire]

You felt like a badass

[sly elk]

these aren't made to ride in facing backwards

they just tilt back like that so you can sit on them with the back open for idk, tailgate parties?

[modest moss]

that looks like a range rover from the front

[sly elk]

but as you can see the headrest is in an awkward position lol

[deep sapphire]

Ford stole a lot of design from the Brits during this era

The Ford Fusion ripped off Aston Martin big time

[sly elk]

yea they look like a range but better xD

[deep sapphire]

[sly elk]

range rovers are fugly

[deep sapphire]

https://vexgateway.fastly.carvana.io/2001787017/hero-no-letters.jpg

Nice Aston- wait

[sly elk]

oh apparently you can take the headrests off

eh

the fusion was nice looking

[deep sapphire]

Can you take the ford off

[sly elk]

i think they also had the bad transmission problem xd

[deep sapphire]

Wow what a shocker

(Not like GM is any better)

[sly elk]

but they were classy looking for the price

[deep sapphire]

So like, why can’t ford have any consistent design language

[sly elk]

idk

like GM's weird rounded square stuff?

I will soapbox and say I actually prefer a company to not have a corporate design language

[deep sapphire]

Like when you see a dodge or Chevy you know it’s one

Ford it’s like, they change the grille design every 5 minutes

[sly elk]

like i'd rather see a lineup of cars that didn't look like they fit at all

[deep sapphire]

didn’t you say you liked the 90s Taurus

[sly elk]

hmm

oh you mean the hideous oval one?

[deep sapphire]

Yeah

[sly elk]

it's a hideous assault on the eyes

[deep sapphire]

A car design so bad it has a dedicated Wikipedia section about it

[sly elk]

but I admire their guts to produce it

and like

marvel at that fucking rear window

[deep sapphire]

Eugh

[sly elk]

it's so ugly XD

[deep sapphire]

It’s so bad

[sly elk]

but I am just

i'm amazed they produced it

[deep sapphire]

AERODYNAMIC

[sly elk]

like they let the designer have their way all the way to the dealership floor

[deep sapphire]

Ford was the worst offender of bubble design

[sly elk]

normally only chrysler up until like 2010 let that kinda shit fly hahaha

GM is the worst of the big 3 when it comes to expressive design

[deep sapphire]

Remember that short lived F-150 with the bubble tailgate and lights

GM is hit and miss

[sly elk]

like

GM focus groups EVERYTHING

I feel it when I get in the cadillac and slam the door and turn it on and start driving it

[deep sapphire]

I think they can make some great looking vehicles but other times they just don’t get it

[sly elk]

you can tell that every single aspect of that car was focus grouped to death

including how the door slams

and how the turn signal click sounds

[deep sapphire]

GM was the worst in the late 2000s

[sly elk]

they probably went to a grocery store and asked average 80 year olds

[deep sapphire]

Every vehicle they made looked the fuckin same

[sly elk]

to give their opinion on a sensible door slam

which was why I kept coming back to chrysler lol

they're like

imma fucking make this car have small windows

"but what about visibility?"
"naw bro fuck that"

ford did thta with that nasty ass taurus lol

dude must've been meth'd out

drawing ovals all over the place lmao

BRUH LETS MAKE THE RADIO AN OVAL

[deep sapphire]

That stereo

[sly elk]

it's straight up mental

[deep sapphire]

My ex drove one of those

It’s all coming back to me

[sly elk]

and I love that part hahahaha

[deep sapphire]

My dad drove an E-250 for work I hung out in that thing a lot

[sly elk]

i bet if you brought some like

fancy pants BMW designer dude

and had them sit in a 1997 taurus

[deep sapphire]

MAX A/C

[sly elk]

they'd have seizures

[deep sapphire]

Do you want A/C or MAX A/C

[sly elk]

oh yea

and then the controls all have words on them

[deep sapphire]

GM is bad about that too

I think American cars all did that

[sly elk]

FLOOR VENT

[deep sapphire]

You drive a Japanese make it’s all symbols

[sly elk]

MIX

[deep sapphire]

Chevy it’s like “VENT” “SERVICE ENGINE SOON”

[sly elk]

oh wait

who needs knobs

[deep sapphire]

The temp gauge has actual numbers

[sly elk]

knobs are for @#%

GIANT SLIDER THING

NOW THATS AMERICAN

[deep sapphire]

Mine is 130-210-260

[sly elk]

pft ford

[deep sapphire]

Like why can’t you just have it C to H

[sly elk]

L - [NORMAL] - H

[deep sapphire]

Hahaha

Yeah the normal range is like the entire middle

[sly elk]

8 wodner what this came from

max a/c just means ac + recirc

which is annoying in a way because it means you can't do recirc at any other point in time

[deep sapphire]

Yeah, you’d be amazed how some people still don’t know what recirc does

My friend Chaz was saying his heater sucked in the winter on his Camry

I was like “are you using recirc?”

He was like wtf is that

But if you think that’s bad

[deep sapphire]

My truck automatically engages recirc

In 1991 or 1992 they added a manual recirc mode

But 1988 to 1990 it was automatically controlled

Like ???

[sly elk]

those seats look comfy

and sloppy

[deep sapphire]

Expedition?

[sly elk]

i think it's a suburban

[deep sapphire]

Ah alright

[sly elk]

the expedition was more uh formal looking i guess

idk

excursions though

oh you know what

i think that first pic was an excursion hahaha

[deep sapphire]

Excursions are ridiculous

F-250 chassis family vehicle with a big ass engine

The 7.3 variants are crazy expensive on the resale market

Like 50 grand lmao

[sly elk]

I had an ecoboost with the towing and fx4 package for 12k miles. 60/40 highway/city driving and averaged 27mpg. It’s a nice truck and would have loved to keep it but had to change to something nicer.
the maverick does get good gas mileage

but it's a ford so there's that

[odd sand]

I got a car wash on the way to the car show and there was an irrigation sprinkler spraying across the entire road so my car is all spotted now

But cant be as bad as the lady I saw 2mins later heading towards that sprinkler in a convertible with the top down

[sly elk]

gg lol

[real edge]

under 800

[sly elk]

but it doesn't have a pentagram on the back so

https://tenor.com/view/evangelion-asuka-look-down-anime-gif-14807599

[sharp star]

and acquired

saving this for the Deck

[sly elk]

i find builds like that really charming

[sly elk]

https://computers.woot.com/offers/apple-magic-trackpad-2z-4?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=CJ&cjevent=c1045ce0fe9c11ec81f734120a1c0e0e&utm_source=Slickdeals+LLC&cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww

[modest moss]

I didn't order cable ties

F

I wanted black ones

[hard drift]

You don’t have reusable ones?

[modest moss]

I've never bought any

maybe the things will have some

[hard drift]

Yeah that’s how i got all mine

Psu, gpu, monitor

?

[modest moss]

your pc is fucked again?

[hard drift]

Lmao

Ice is badluck

Just rollback drivers smh

And i highly doubt it’s them lol, it’s likely you

[deep sapphire]

Lmao probably OC’d the memory way over the limit

[hard drift]

probably, i mean why wouldn't you with a waterblock

[hard drift]

why can't you

sucks to suck 😎

sounds like you wasted money on your pc

it's the fact you're on w11 🤢

[modest moss]

everything is here now I think ; ;

[hard drift]

livestream the build process

[modest moss]

lolno

[hard drift]

😔

[modest moss]

bit concerned they might have sent the wrong monitor though

doesn't say -B on the box

[hard drift]

does it say it on the manual though?

[modest moss]

haven't opened it yet

[hard drift]

🙏 hopefully it does

[real edge]

-b is the black version of the monitor

I looked it up

[modest moss]

I guess it's just retailers sometimes not using the -B on their listings

dickheads

[umbral moss]

just remove the panel and make your own chassis for it

now it's whatever color you want

[hard drift]

[umbral moss]

don't look at me with that tone of face

just paint the shit whatever you want if you don't want to take it apart

[hard drift]

[deep sapphire]

Only 1200 bucks no big deal

[hard drift]

that is going to weigh a ton lol

[deep sapphire]

It comes in 3 pieces but yeah I’ll need some help with it lmao

[hard drift]

be glad you don't live here

carry that bitch up 4 flights of stairs

[modest moss]

you spent 1200 on a toolbox?

[hard drift]

that's a tool drawer not a box 100%

[modest moss]

it is both

it says chest

[hard drift]

[modest moss]

you tool

c o m b o

[hard drift]

i doubt hank bought it for the toolbox aspect 😭

[modest moss]

he bought it for the label

[hard drift]

you're right, so it'll sit there and collect dust

[umbral moss]

story of hank's life

[modest moss]

he'll fill it with printouts from pixiv

[umbral moss]

based

[hard drift]

vandalized with them 😭

[umbral moss]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hard drift]

jesus

[deep sapphire]

She sure is pretty isn’t she

😌

[hard drift]

not at all

[deep sapphire]

Hater

[hard drift]

i'm not a fan of the red 😭

[deep sapphire]

Wtf red is the best color

Because it’s Milwaukee red

[hard drift]

smh

[deep sapphire]

Wtf

[umbral moss]

that's their apartment

yeah, it's a whole small house

just moving to your neighborhood

[sly elk]

ah might be somebody who tried to move long distance really cheap

lol

that sounds about right

oh so they moved the friggin container

yea that's not an unusual way to do international moves

[hard drift]

🙏 i've done it before

[hard drift]

you forgot the catgirl stickers all along the inside

[modest moss]

cat girl image storage

there's a time limit

[hard drift]

a time limit?

[modest moss]

yes I will only put in a small amount of time

[hard drift]

lol

[modest moss]

because I don't care that much

[hard drift]

understandable 🙏

[deep sapphire]

Hahahahaha

Have her on there

[hard drift]

Simp

You have these on hand smh

[deep sapphire]

I love my armpit waifu

[hard drift]

Into the archive it goes

[deep sapphire]

[hard drift]

Lol

That’s honestly pretty ugly

[deep sapphire]

That’s just fuckin stupid

You freeze plumbing you risk them bursting

[hard drift]

I was hoping it was just an aesthetic 😭 either way bad

Either way it’s bad

Instantly loses points for looks

[deep sapphire]

Pretty sure it’s glued on trash

That case is so 2005

I love it

[hard drift]

Just put it on your tubes/reservoir

[modest moss]

I'm just gonna put pig stickers on my case

I got stickers made of the art Gin did of my FFXIV pig

there was an offer for 12 stickers for £0.99 delivered so I was like sure

they got delayed so when I asked the company to check on them they offered a free expedited reprint

and then the others showed up yesterday too

so I ended up with 24 pigs for 99p

can't be bad

[sharp star]

https://hyte.com/store/hakos-baelz-y60-case-deskpad-bundle/ you guys forgot about this

[hard drift]

stop i really am tempted to get this lol

[sharp star]

just like how I was tempted to make a cringe anime build that consisted of the case, GPU, and RAM at minimum but ultimately decided to save

[hard drift]

it honestly looks like a nice case

but i'd do my own decals if anything

[deep sapphire]

https://youtu.be/-7bIDbaU_zQ

[sly elk]

that does look fantastic.

[sick edge]

If I had an art degree, I could argue something something your modern consumer media has taken over the tv dinner tray, but since I dont, this is just a jank solution to me needing a pc stand. (posted in the wrong spot)

[sly elk]

lol 🙂

maybe this

oo speaking of pedestals

that's a cool looking sink

[sick edge]

I dont thinknitnneeds the base st the bottom

it should just shwoop into the floor

[boreal surge]

That looks... needlessly expensive

[sly elk]

I agree infinite that would look sick

[sick edge]

as do all cool looking things.

marble in home looks cool

[boreal surge]

Would clash with the walls without the house tho

[sick edge]

you just used up 50K for some rocks

[boreal surge]

Would only work if like the house was generally designed to be modern

[sick edge]

thos hpuse has blinds. so Im thinking mod 2000s

or texas midn2010s

[sly elk]

lol

yea you're right

[lime wasp]

I forgot to mention; after a ton of OT I finally finished my PC upgrade.

[sly elk]

looks good!

[hard drift]

nice

looks better than mine ever will lol

[sly elk]

did you buy the elite lcd separately or did it come that way?

I can't remember seeing the elite aio kit in while

ooo neat toilet

[lime wasp]

I bought the kit separately. I had the 360 AIO in my old build.

[sly elk]

paragon time to get some gifs for that cooler ^_^

ahh ok

for a min i thought your name was paragon fairy

i am now disappointed XD

[modest moss]

was it you with the funny shaped room/setup?

[lime wasp]

The statue was part of the upgrade too.

[lime wasp]

I don't think so?

[modest moss]

must have been someone else with a similar nick or pfp, they had very specific constraints about a case upgrade and where it could go in the room

[sly elk]

that corsair case gives me star trek vibes

OH I REMEMBER THAT

they didn't wanna put their computer on the floor

but it was in a very awkward spot that took up most of the desk?

[lime wasp]

Maybe it was me. But I got the 5000T because while it was bigger than my old case the stand was actually smaller footprint than my old case and it actually fits perfectly on the desk.

[modest moss]

yeah it had to fit in a tiny specific area on one side of a desk, not a trolley where their headphones were or in a big gap behind the desk or something

[hard drift]

it's an upgrade you can get for all corsair coolers i believe

[modest moss]

I hope it was you because it sounds like you're happy and solutions are good

[sly elk]

yea I was just asking if they found a white aio kit somewhere

I don't remember seeing one

[hard drift]

[sly elk]

I have the same cooler ^_^

[modest moss]

Bidori guess where I'm gonna put my new pc

On carpet

[sly elk]

corsair sells the LCDs in black, white, and ice

[hard drift]

like mine?

i'm kidding lmao, mine is on carpet but i put wood underneath it

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-high-five-whats-up-gif-21373743

maybe I'll find some wood

or not

idk

[hard drift]

lol

[sly elk]

I have the ice version 🙂

[hard drift]

those cables 🤢

[hard drift]

CURSED

[lime wasp]

I like how you wen Rainbow Unicorn puke for the RGB.

Meanwhile I just tried to theme my RGB after my SPARTAN in Infinite.

[hard drift]

https://tenor.com/brOtX.gif

[modest moss]

really looking forward to the zero rgb in mine

[hard drift]

getting rid of spare metal

[hard drift]

🙏 same

[sly elk]

yea idk I always liked the rainbow puke

it helps that my case has tinted glass and my room is brightly lit lol

[lime wasp]

That GIF is making me violently angry.

[hard drift]

lol

stop looking then

[sly elk]

it is disturbing

but, yea. RGB is definitely not in style anymore XD

[hard drift]

i hope so

some nice coolers out there but rgb ruined them

[potent arrow]

Holy fucking shit

fuck

rogers

Jesus christ

Nationwide outage

[hard drift]

jesus

[potent arrow]

I didnt have net from

6 am to now

The worst part is I couldnt use debit or credit anywhere

I couldnt use 911 services

Cant even buy gas

[hard drift]

wtf

[potent arrow]

Oh right data was down too

sms

and phonecalls

akldjaslkdkajs

[modest moss]

https://tenor.com/view/mad-max-guitar-guy-gif-18984063

Canada right now

[potent arrow]

Literally lol

[boreal surge]

Oh yeah I saw on reddit or something today

25% traffic drop from canada

Possibly BGP related

[boreal surge]

Lol and yikes

[tranquil breach]

LOL

Yeah Rogers is fucked right now

[potent arrow]

UGHHH

[tranquil breach]

No Debit purchases, banks have a TON of services down

[potent arrow]

ETRANSGER WONT WORK

adkjkaslkad

[tranquil breach]

Internet down for a shitload of the country

Apparently my ENTIRE fucking city relies upon Rogers for debit payment processing services or some shit

At least the network infrastructure

Made it a huge pain in the ass to get gas or get groceries

[hard drift]

2nd year in a row wtf is going on with rogers lol

[sick edge]

I like it

[late basalt]

ran by ERCOT maybe?

[hard drift]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-reportedly-offers-to-shuffle-ads-business-to-avoid-justice-department-lawsuit/ar-AAZmWJM and this is why we don't use google when possible

sneaky bastards

[sly elk]

sup

[dull garnet]

New CPU time

[warm lagoon]

anyone recommend a good reliable AV ? the one i use is wreaking havoc on my cycles.

[real edge]

AV?

[royal forge]

Adult videos

Always wreaks my sleep cycles

https://tenor.com/view/after-pokemon-go-community-weekend-pointing-gif-13003512

[dull garnet]

Hitomi Tanaka

Genuinely though, you don't need more than the windows built in av

[royal forge]

I think she streams on twitch nowadays

[dull garnet]

Based

I think so too, she "retired" after all

[royal forge]

she probably gets paid more and gets to wear clothes

so that's probably a step up

[modest moss]

nah it's too hot and chaotic here

maybe tomorrow night

[hard drift]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-threadripper-5990x-gets-overclocked-to-4-82-ghz-beats-100k-points-in-cinebench-r23-with-691w-of-power all that power and powerdraw

[hard drift]

that's not how that works chief smh

[hard drift]

i mean that cpu is a monster lol, 64 cores 128 threads

[deep sapphire]

Oh but when Intel and nvidia have high power consumption it’s a problem

[hard drift]

lets see intel keep pace with a threadripper at the same or higher wattage

it can't

intels workstation platform has been dead compared to amd for years for both performance and powerdraw

[deep sapphire]

So is AMDs because nobody buys it

[hard drift]

only because amd did something fucking stupid by not originally planning to launch threadripper 5000, now they are doing 5000 for consumers finally 🙏

[modest moss]

if AMD were good, I'd have bought their parts

ez

[hard drift]

except they are it's just rest of world pricing being fucked lol

[modest moss]

I mean I could have got 5900x for less than 12700k

but Intel

[hard drift]

yeah but 5900x isn't better than 5800x3d

unless you really need those extra cores which i doubt you do

[modest moss]

12700k is better than 5800x3d

and costs less

[hard drift]

12700k is not better

[modest moss]

better all round cpu

[hard drift]

better overall sure, gaming no

not to mention it's only 40 cheaper and the intel motherboards are more expensive generally speaking

[hard drift]

that has no content smh

[modest moss]

such a fanboy

[hard drift]

no, because if money wasn't a problem 12900ks is the thing to go for

[sly elk]

well yea $2k processors and $1000 motherboards aren't exactly going to fly off the shelves

-fondly remembers when x99 and x299 were not extravagantly expensive compared to regular Z290 and i7s and stuff-

i also remember when i9 was only made for the HEDT platform

hrmmmm

[hard drift]

[sly elk]

hmm yea the 9900 was the first i9 that worked on the regular socket

the real reason I always liked the HEDT chipsets was the 8 ram slots

symmetrical motherboard layouts are sexy

[royal forge]

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-to-feature-2520-mhz-boost-clock-almost-50-higher-than-rtx-3090

I swear this kopite7kimi guy is just making shit up

I dunoe about how fast the GPU business goes

but

isn't it a bit late for specs to keep changing?

[hard drift]

i mean they have a good rep anyways

[royal forge]

i guess

but how can the specs keep changing?

[hard drift]

not to mention there's been talks of them delaying it because of 30 series stock

[hard drift]

it was like this last gen too with word spreading on amd/nvidia gpus

[royal forge]

if they delay..

ooof

[hard drift]

i mean it'd make sense if they know a rough idea of when amd is to come

they want to get as much profit from 30 series as possible

the rumor is they both already cut their orders for next gen cards

[hard drift]

also another reason there might be more validity to this is the fact that they're using tsmc this time around

so it's more efficient and they might be able to push it that much more

since they are going from what, samsung 8nm to tsmc 4?

[royal forge]

awww

i was hoping to build

[hard drift]

build when?

[royal forge]

well

when the 4000 series drops

[hard drift]

lol

[royal forge]

assuming its not too ex

[hard drift]

i mean if speculations are to go by.... it's going to be insane

[royal forge]

sigh

aint that the truth

[hard drift]

well you figure it's likely going to be more than it was already, and actual msrp was pretty terrible depending on the card

[royal forge]

yea

i kinda expect it tbh

i mean, nvidia will defo never go back to previous pricing

[hard drift]

i mean even if it did lmao

20 series wasn't much better

a 2080ti was already 1200 msrp

[royal forge]

i'll be honest with ya

the last time I built

was with a 970

[hard drift]

yeah, prices have been fucked for over 4 years now

[royal forge]

i WAS gonna try and get the 3080 on announcement

but well

[hard drift]

the 3080 given how bad the 20 series was, was the bread and butter of the lineup imo

[royal forge]

ye

but since I live in SEA

by the time it hit out shores

prices shat the bed

i think there was a very very brief window where the prices were MSRP

but ya know

[deep sapphire]

Sucks they didn’t have competition then

[hard drift]

i mean they did, that's literally the reason the super line came into existence lmao

[deep sapphire]

[hard drift]

don't give me that

[lime wasp]

After my upgrade, there is really only one more thing I wanna get but it's too expensive to justify and too hard to find.

I wanna find a 3080 (or 3090 if it was the same price) that had an AIO so that I could lower my GPU temps and lower the noise overall.

But so few companies make them, and it's hard to justify since I already have a 3080.\

[latent grotto]

i feel like saying something that you could do about that but if i do @hard drift will probably smack me

[hard drift]

nah idc

[lime wasp]

?

[latent grotto]

there are mod kits to put a water block on your gpu

[lime wasp]

I know, but doing a Custom Loop is way beyond what I'd trust myself to do.

[latent grotto]

there are ones that attach to an aio but i have no experience with them 🤷

[hard drift]

the ones that are aio are pretty good, i got one for the 5700xt

[latent grotto]

i wouldn't do it though if you're not comfortable cuz last thing we need is you bricking your gpu somehow

@modest moss if you want to stop a potential accident now's your only chance

[sly elk]

https://tenor.com/view/spy-x-family-anya-forger-anya-face-cara-gif-25692896

[modest moss]

🤷‍♂️

[latent grotto]

Disclaimer i take no responsibility for the actions of any person

[honest yew]

Does anyone know when world transfers will be back up? It's been down for what seems like weeks now (since I started playing again).

[modest moss]

nobody knows

they'll announce it on the lodestone when they're back

[hard drift]

tbf the installation for an aio gpu block is actually simple. it's pretty well labeled and the directions are easy to follow

but i do not recommend taking apart a gpu still under warranty 🙏

the absolute hardest part is making sure it's the right aio block for your gpu

[latent grotto]

Tbf just cuz something is easy doesnt mean someone won't fuck it up

[hard drift]

i mean not everyone learns as easily so it's to be expected 🙏

not to mention making sure you don't overtighten your gpu screws and crack the gpu

[latent grotto]

use your milwaukee power tools to tighten the screws

[hard drift]

....

[sly elk]

i'd say maybe 2 ugga duggas

[latent grotto]

https://tenor.com/view/spy-x-family-anya-anya-forger-anya-spy-x-family-anya-spy-x-family-anime-gif-25679849

[sly elk]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QX-QJZq6iy0

[sly elk]

yeaaa those are sexy

not as sexy as your waterblock

but still sexy

[odd sand]

Vanlife more like Lanlife

[sly elk]

wireless lan

really really really wireless lan

[sly elk]

heh two headlines on ars that make me laugh

Google proposes moving ad business to Alphabet to keep regulators at bay
"It's not google ads, it's Alphabet Ads!"

Meta removes Facebook account mandate from Quest VR—but is that enough?
Right, you no longer need a Facebook account. But you WILL need a Meta account... wait.....

[sly elk]

oh wowww

sauce: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/vuy9bc/new_bulid_has_done/

jfc the comments in there are straight up a toxic waste dump

[real edge]

yeah its mostly either normies or 12 year olds trying to demean a solid custom build

[jaunty light]

I have nothing against anime girls and stuff but Neon Genesis Evangeleon is an Anime which is holy. It's one of the early but best sci fi animes ever ( Besides Akira and Ghost in a Shell)

I'm moderately confused

[sly elk]

yea I don't get why some people try so hard to push a specific style

that one gives me akihabara vibes

if you do non-rgb it's possible to be just as flashy if you use custom cables and nice components

[jaunty light]

comments are definition of hoes mad

[sly elk]

LOL

[jaunty light]

color me surprised when all the haters are running a 7th gen i7 and a gtx 1660

[sly elk]

that is mine in there XD

heheh

i kinda like the mac heathen options XD

fixed

[jaunty light]

should make another reddit account just so I can flame people here

[royal forge]

Pcmr?

Why bother

[jaunty light]

true would get bored after a couple minutes of mouthbreathing

[royal forge]

It used to be p aite

Memeing as usual

But what is supposedly joking around ends up attracting those who think those comments are legit

And that they're serious

[jaunty light]

excuse me, i am superior to you because i have a computer that runs windows on it

[royal forge]

Well mine has RGB

AND STEAM INSTALLED

BECAUSE I'M A gAMEr

[jaunty light]

[sly elk]

like yelling at people because they don't have their AIO radiator the way steve from gamers nexus said, with the hoses coming out the bottom

[royal forge]

Tbh, isnt that actually recomended?

[sly elk]

or yelling at people for having glass furniture

[royal forge]

Dont need to yell, but

[sly elk]

or yelling at people for having rgb

or yelling at people for not having their mic on an arm

[royal forge]

Good to tell people about it

[jaunty light]

if ur on a sub built around elitism and ur belittling people, dont get mad when we comment that u only have a gtx 2060

[sly elk]

pcmr and /r/battlestations got kinda shitty a year or so ago 😦

[royal forge]

As if they use their mics that much

[jaunty light]

[royal forge]

Das a shame

It used to be quite wholesome at times

[jaunty light]

im thorry, you dont have a thure sm7b on a $200 mount? what r u some kind of PLHEBIAN??

[sly elk]

I kinda hate that mic now

[royal forge]

I remember everyone started flexing the ?philips nanoleaf

[jaunty light]

it's a good mic but it's expensive and most ppl buy it for the wrong purpose (everyone else has it)

[sly elk]

it seems like the sm7b is the most popular mic for people who have midtone voices but want to sound deeper

[jaunty light]

i have one but it's because i don't have a silent environment

condensers 100% sound better for me

[sly elk]

i don't either, but idc because I don't wanna have a mic 5" from my face

[jaunty light]

but I lowered my noise floor about 20dB on average moving from an NT1 to an sm7b

[sly elk]

so i associate the mic with annoying redditors and ... joe rogan.....

[jaunty light]

[sly elk]

🤮

[royal forge]

Dunoe bout u guys, but i never talk

So

[sly elk]

i only talk for work

[royal forge]

Mics are useless

[sly elk]

and frankly i'd rather not

and the mic i have is more than good enough for that

none of my coworkers use mics

they just use the laptop mic, or conference phone

I hate the conference phone the most

because laptop mics can sound good on a good day

[royal forge]

Oh man

[sly elk]

calling into webex always sounds bad, no matter how good the phone is

[royal forge]

I love the mics that pick up everything

Its like "i guess i aint hearin shit"

[sly elk]

laptop fan has decided to enter mach 5

"Hi I just wnn -WHEHERHRREERRERREERREERre-touch base_WHERHERREREERREERERER"

oh yea whenever i talk to my boss

i get to hear our coworker who talks very fucking loud in the background

since their desks are next to each other

[royal forge]

We use Zoom for our "lectures"

[sly elk]

one day i was talking to another coworker that sits across the fucking room 35ft away

I COULD STILL HEAR HIM

[jaunty light]

yea we issue generic plantronics to people and my mic was picking up people 7 cubes over talking

[sly elk]

lol

[jaunty light]

i had to mute and go over there and tell them to STFU because it was a meeting with people 348234 over our pay grade

[sly elk]

actually come to think of it

our ceo, during all hands meetings

uses the laptop mic

unless someone sets up the conference phone for him

all hands during pandemic times when everyone was working from home were a sight to behold because the person in charge sucked at setting the mute options

and randomly people would join and not be muted

and start talking loudly about dumb shit while everyone could hear them

[jaunty light]

yea literally this

guess it's better to be someone yapping about random stuff than ||those people that got caught wanking off on webcam||

[sly elk]

yea our company can be pretty savage at times

but not that savage

many years ago I remember one time we hired a ton of students for internships one summer and they were all from the same uni

one of the vice presidents went nuts lol

soooo there was a game room and idk what exactly happened

but the management got pissed and locked the room and told everyone no more game room untilf urther notice

it had a couple of big sofas....

I can only guess what happened

[jaunty light]

party time

[sick edge]

Theoretically, and not to be an accomplice or to show any intent.. but where would I get an escooter for not market price that can handle 300lbs?...

cough

[modest moss]

aids jokes aren't funny or appropriate for this server, please don't

[odd sand]

My old laptop was like that and I used it in a class lecture hall. Talk about embarrassing when everyone turns your way bc they're trying to listen and it does that while idle for no reason

I was afraid to try opening it up and cleaning it out bc last time I did that I couldn't get it back together and damaged the screen bezel

[odd sand]

Lower caloric intake and commit to a schedule even if its only walking a mile or half a mile at the start.

[eager sandal]

pcmr is pretty elitist so im not surprised

[odd sand]

I mean, the comments are not very tactful in there, but that is social media in general. Also they're not exactly wrong.

As a cohesive aesthetic of a "battlestation" that is kinda a clusterfuck

Bc you're taking in not just the tower but the desk and whole way it ties together

[alpine quail]

Idk if this goes here, but i just created a discord for my FC and im curious as to how you get custom emojis or get emojis from this server, over there

[odd sand]

I think the only way you can use emojis from other servers is if you have Nitro

[hard drift]

without nitro it's not possible unless you steal them and even then, limit is 50 without boosting the server

[alpine quail]

so if i had nitro, would everyone in the discord have access to the emojis or would it just be me?

[hard drift]

just you, there's no way to make it for everyone without stealing them

[alpine quail]

So there isnt a place that has templates that people can use to upload to their discord? Not wanting to "steal" anything \

[hard drift]

you'd have to ask the higher ups on that one, i have no idea

[odd sand]

I dunno if its really stealing if the art is stolen from movies or cartoons or something in the first place heh

[alpine quail]

idk how anyone could even do that

[odd sand]

Not to mention the vast majority of ppl have profile avatars lifted from something/somewhere else heh

[sharp star]

I would unironically do that but I don't think I'll do decals

[undone vale]

Building a new PC with a 1440p Monitor and an i5-12400. FFXIV is my main game.
Whats the lowest GPU I can go with to get +120 FPS on the 1440 monitor?

[sly elk]

meh.

I will go on a limb and say most of the battlestations posted to /r/battlestations fall into the "utilitarian" category

cheap desk with everything mounted to it on vesa arms :S

what makes a cool setup in there is great wall art or decor or whatever

sometimes there are some really neat custom tables though

all that said, I think it's rude af to say bad stuff about someone's computer/setup 😦

wow that chair o_O

[hard drift]

Probably 3060ti-3070 area

[sly elk]

i see too many arms and i'm thinking

transformers! more than meets the eye!

[potent arrow]

I'm still very happy with my set up

I'm not sure if like

[sly elk]

yours looks great, btw!

[potent arrow]

Or what I have to do with my power stack :|

I need to clean this up

[sly elk]

(and I do not for a moment think my setup is anything more than utilitarian with a bad attempt at style that everyone hates xDXDXDXD)

[potent arrow]

But idk how

[sly elk]

that little case is pretty

hmm if you have the ethernet cables on the desk like that

[potent arrow]

Same,ones super utilitarian and purpose orientated.

[sly elk]

if you had money to burn, i'd suggest getting some fancy looking ethernet cables, and definitely velcro ties

[potent arrow]

Yeaaaah the Ethernet needs to be there

[sly elk]

oo

i have that same wireless charger lmao

[potent arrow]

Lmao

[sly elk]

do you have it plugged into your computer or a power brick>?

I stopped plugging it into my computer because I was thinking it might be one contributor to my BSODs

[potent arrow]

Goes into that USB power bank

[sly elk]

ahh ok

[potent arrow]

That power bank is like... 300w?

[sly elk]

that's a usb switchbox though?

ohh dang

[potent arrow]

Nah it's just power

[sly elk]

oh i see the power bank thingy

[potent arrow]

Has one type C, 3 USB a

[sly elk]

yea there's certain cables i gave up on doing anything about

[potent arrow]

All fast charging and supports charging laptops

[sly elk]

like my headphone cable

it's just there, and there's nothing I can do about it

[potent arrow]

Yeah same lol

[sly elk]

i've seen clever setups where they route the wire under the desk and have a hanger at the edge

that does get the cable off the desktop, but the problem with that is there's less reach

[potent arrow]

So like that power bank there. It can charge four laptops at once, then eahc laptop is plugged into the switch

[sly elk]

do you find yourself often messing with laptops?

[potent arrow]

Then I can use MS deployment kit to install windows concurrently

[sly elk]

I ended up doing this lol

[potent arrow]

I mean I do so much IT work on the side

I have a pile of dead HPs in the basement

With some MSI and dell shitters thrown in

I'm trying out the wireless charging rn to see if it's viable for iphone repair

I.e topping off devices while I work

[sly elk]

oh ok ^^

[potent arrow]

And see if it's good enough for when phone ports are absolutely fucked and inner to charge it