#offtopic_software

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boreal urchin
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to those that use Visual Studio 2022: how do you find the experience in terms of bugs and performance?

white knot
boreal urchin
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Visual Studio is the best IDE that exists
no argument about that 😅
but I was wondering if I should switch from 2019

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I recently wanted to use a library but 2019 was crapping out when compiling it meowsweats
but I heard 2022 worked fine
which is what made me consider switching

ivory perch
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I personally love Visual Studio 2022.

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It is so much faster than 2019 when building large C++ projects

boreal urchin
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nice! then I'll definitely switch! thanks! 👍

ivory perch
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👍

brisk inlet
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Visual is one the few things MS did good 😂

white knot
# brisk inlet Visual is one the few things MS did good 😂

MS has actually done quite a lot of good stuff recently especially when it comes to developer experience, but also other things. They have changed hugely as a company from what they were back then. I must admit that I'm still forever salty for them for killing Linux desktop with prohibited measures because it was cheaper for them to be sorry than safe

brisk inlet
white knot
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white knot
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But I agree still

open hedge
# boreal urchin to those that use Visual Studio 2022: how do you find the experience in terms of...

Basically no bugs.
My main issues were freezes with Resharper, but that was their fault. And I think they fixed it now didn't happen for a long time.
Had a linker deadlock this week but told microsoft how to fix it, so hopefully they will.
Overall very good

Also I want to use bleeding edge features, so I darn well will!
Actually VS2022 is the only thing that really properly supports C++ Modules. GCC fails and crashes and burns, Clang does too, Microsofts compiler works fine

boreal urchin
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I found a bug in MSVC right after I compiled my first file 🤣

white knot
boreal urchin
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yup

white knot
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Thinks about all the times I've blamed the software I've been using when it's actually an user error KEKW

white knot
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open hedge
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boreal urchin
open hedge
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Might

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but... optimizer might also optimize it out
and the static_assert would still be independent, so it could still evaluate that

boreal urchin
open hedge
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but that won't work if type is void

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My other alternative was !std::is_same_v<T,T>

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I think sizeof(T) < 0 is best choice, its short, doesn't need any #include's and always works no matter what the type is

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fair zephyr
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Anyone know why a server would say that a pbo is not signed by a key when it is? I've used DSUtils to verify; result is "no errors". I've double checked that I've signed the correct files and uploaded the correct .bikey to the server keys folder.

boreal elbow
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How the pbo's packed?

fair zephyr
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through the pbo packer that comes with arma 3 tools

boreal elbow
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Addon Builder you mean?

fair zephyr
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yes

boreal elbow
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And what's inside in the pbo? And how big it is?

fair zephyr
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40 megs and bunch of oggs

boreal elbow
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In a pbo?

fair zephyr
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Yes

boreal elbow
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40 megs is not a concern I think. I heard a pbo can't handle more than 2gigs correctly

fair zephyr
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I'll try to repack it see what happens

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Looks like repacking worked. Pretty sure with 32 bit is 4 gigs

river pollen
white knot
fair zephyr
brisk inlet
# fair zephyr Looks like repacking worked. Pretty sure with 32 bit is 4 gigs

Sometimes there are data corruption and repacking is the fastest solution than finding out why it happened 😂
and the exact barrier of 32bit in reality wasn't always the same bc it depended on what mainboard you used, but none of them managed to make full use of 4gb. And the biggest issue was again MS who kept this under 4gb as bypass to manage driver compatibilities (I remember when I used the inofficial release candidate of the first 64bit OS (WinXP was it I think) I failed to run the system bc lan driver issue 😜

white knot
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Deleted some of my earlier messages, I'm an idiot 😂

river pollen
brisk inlet
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Maybe github is one good start 😇

rustic shale
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Latin is for sure, maybe ancient Greek as well

wooden tendon
white knot
wooden tendon
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unless it's like a service

white knot
# wooden tendon unless it's like a service

More like that yeah. And the one that I was most interested in the most didn't reply to my queries so... 😄 So I'll keep the project in mind but I'm mostly considering other options now

wooden tendon
white knot
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I would really like to continue my pet project (an RP gamemode for Arma) but Reforger is not in usable condition for me 😛 But I have some other options on the table indeed

wooden tendon
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oh ok if you are sure that it can't be done then that is unfortunate

white knot
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It would be doable for someone but not for someone like me (given the current resources)

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I would need advanced open source prodedural audio generation library/interface at least

wooden tendon
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that sounds fun, what's the use case?

white knot
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It'd be a game revolving around music

wooden tendon
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music driven RP?

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I want to roleplay as hihats

white knot
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Not exactly lol

wooden tendon
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I have a lot of ideas also but never enough time

white knot
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I wish more games had curated paid mods... I would love to mod for a living (outside of Arma too) given that the toolset would be decent

gaunt rapids
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yeah well bugthesda kinda soured that deal... only arma 3 and the flight sims have managed to pull it off

tribal mesa
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Corsair driver for K100 keyboard... 470mb install... wtf.

brisk inlet
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especially iCue is bothersome, it prevents one of my friends computer from shutdown properly

faint notch
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the latest version of icue is a pos, it's constant spamming of its CpuIdRemote function caused my PC to BSOD twice in two days, I reverted to the prior version.

brisk inlet
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Corsair and software magic

gaunt rapids
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like Arma and AI

brisk inlet
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Wanna have Arma and Alexa instead? 😂

tribal mesa
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it seems the K100 has hardware profile, that it uses when you dont run icue... god bless. Configure once, never start it again

gaunt rapids
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logitech is pretty good, most of their mice have onboard memory so once you install their software you can uninstall it or use it on linux without issues

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benq mouses zowie have no software. you can do all the rough adjustments on the mouse itself

tribal mesa
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ah f me... hardware profile of the keyboard doesnt allow running simple mouse clicks ... icues demands to be run for having mouse clicks in key macros -.-

brisk inlet
brisk inlet
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I still hope they will return to old glory with another great successor of the legendary G5 and G500

tribal mesa
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i refuse to buy logitech anymore, poor build quality... the mouse i bought failed after 3 months, the keyboard caps of my old keyboard broke off extremely easily (i ended up with 10 keys missing, and reshuffling keys from areas i needed less to frequently used areas... ). It still works, but the caps are terrible, and their form factor doesnt allow to install after market keycaps

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when a company advertises "yeah we designed our own keyboard switches now, equivalent/better than cherry switches", i'm already thinking "designed to fail after 1 year".

brisk inlet
gaunt rapids
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there keyboards are trash, but their mouses are really good. I have 5 of them

brisk inlet
tribal mesa
gaunt rapids
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fail? are you sure its ussally gamer gunk that stops the plastic shell from hitting the switch and not the switch itself

brisk inlet
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I had to replace 5 Razer Basilisk (all 3 generations involved), even more with Logitech G and others. They really do not last extreme use...

tribal mesa
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i need a keyboard with 6 macro keys on the left, unfortunately there only seems to be logitech and corsair doing this. Got the K100 now. Build quality looks ok (we shall see), but the linear switches i hate.

brisk inlet
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Tbh I never used macro keys myself. As an oldschool gamer I'm against this by default and most of my games would punish you for using them anyway

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But if you are looking at good options, I would still recommend Logitech over Corsair this year. 1-2 Logitech keyboards passed the first test (design, comfort etc), it's just the endurance test they still fail

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Btw, if we are going to continue, we better switch over to offtopic hardware. Started with software though lol

tribal mesa
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its not for gaming, it's for all 3D modelling/texturing/etc apps, that want you to press alt+ middle mouse button to rotate the viewport, or use middle mouse button in general for actions that you use several times a minute. Doing that for prolonged periods causes extreme pain in my hand and lower arm, because middle mouse buttons are usually stiff and not really designed to be constantly pressed

brisk inlet
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Oh I see, but are there no professional solutions at all?

tribal mesa
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so i use macro keys on the left of the keyboard to press to rotate/pan the viewport. Or pressing middle mouse button in general. Its quite comfortable with the macro keys there

brisk inlet
tribal mesa
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well, there are those 3D mouse, but they suck in the sense that you have to take the hand off your keyboard, so you lose access to all the shortcuts and stuff

brisk inlet
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@gaunt rapids Moved my answer to your question here:
There are multiple issues... I once tested the 1st M1 with virtual drive
Let's ignore the fact that I still fail to find an argument why we would buy Apple crap for that price just to run Windows on it for the sake of discussion
Following issues:

  • TPM chip for Win11 (bypass with virtual emulation possible)
  • major security flaw (confirmed by MIT/CIT too)
  • idiots really wanted to explain 8GB RAM is "enough" (game over for gamers)
  • Apple apps stealing RAM unnecessarily, removal required
  • several networking connection issues (obviously driver incompatibility)
  • some Windows app suddenly end up spiking or scroll slowdown
    It pissed me off so much, I stopped in middle of it and did not come that far to test games on it, especially because that 8GB RAM didn't leave many choices
    Now they offer more but who cares lol
    I sold the M1 with 20% discount to one of my A-fans just one week after purchase
    I hope Qualcomm will please us more
    There are certain games including Arma3 I would like to run on Qualcomm because I did the same shit with Xeon too.
    There is one chip I would love to test but I suppose that won't happen in our lifespan => Apple AX
    It would be a big help if we manage to get some killer machines offering top performance with little power consumption.
river pollen
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M1 offered 8 or 16GB RAM from day 1 lol

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I've tried to run Arma 3 using Windows ARM translation on my M1, it works but there are lots of graphical artifacts

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no joy with DXVK/MoltenVK sadly, that would've been interesting to try

brisk inlet
river pollen
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yes, even iPad Pros

brisk inlet
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And not the 1st and last time Apple fucks up like this

river pollen
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iPad Air is the only M1 hardware not offering 16GB RAM

brisk inlet
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Ok we may forgive that part, I did well with 8GB so far bc Im just using it casually

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Air is really best for such purpose

white knot
brisk inlet
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And iPad Pro simply needs 16GB to compete with Surface. Air is another story ofc

tribal sandal
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Vivaldi's ad-block has started to leak during the last week 😢

lofty barn
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@brisk inlet heres another thing

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why

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why would i care

brisk inlet
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Jesus... really? Now that shit too

brisk inlet
lofty barn
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id rather invest in amd

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if I had money

brisk inlet
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When I received the new business laptop from HP, I couldn't trust my own eyes because they first ask you whether you wanna install 10 or 11 and the first line of features they promise: Full removal of Cortana and I jumped at it lol

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Started perfect and now deep shit

brisk inlet
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Everyone asked me why I buy Intel CPU but AMD stocks 🤣

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Those things are two different things

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But @lofty barn
If you had to name one good reason to stay on Win11, anything else but better e-core management?

lofty barn
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explorer tabs

brisk inlet
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Is that already available to everyone?

lofty barn
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i have no idea

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havent updated yet

brisk inlet
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I heard they extended it from beta to dev channel last month.

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After removing Win11 I lost my access to further RC updates

tribal sandal
brisk inlet
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Does MS listen at all? lol

lofty barn
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@brisk inlet thought you might enjoy this

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brisk inlet
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Speaking of that, I've met a new record of mankind's next step of evolution... He seriously told me, the installation guide of Apple is "complicated"...

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And yes, I didn't exactly know what to answer to that. My IQ crashed down like bsod

willow ice
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Has anyone looked at Nvidia Remix yet? With what they are promising with it a modder could legitimately bring Arma to modern standards of graphic fidelity. https://youtu.be/Gr6VOrKiXwU

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Nevermind looks like it's only compatible with DX8 and DX9 so big rip

river pollen
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Arma Cold War Assault partyblob

muted pebble
open hedge
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Well these apps weren't hacked.
People were just sand hacked versions of these. People who already use these apps have nothing to fear, as they wouldn't download and install a trojanized version someone sends them on linkedin

brisk inlet
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People don't even read their mails correctly, falling into phishing traps, using hilarious pw such as "tiger123" and wonder why they have been hacked... At the end, we others pay the bill because one security measure after another is being pushed on us whether we like/need it or not 😅

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I doubt they would accept fishy contents from strangers sending them on LinkedIn or anywhere else but it turns out to be a real problem if one of your friends get hacked thanks to said situation and their account is being used to send crap

wooden tendon
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wow... NK is weaponizing a kitty

gaunt rapids
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bacon I think tiger 123 is a real tigor tank

brisk inlet
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lol

brisk inlet
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Google stomped Stadia and giving refund to everyone

wooden tendon
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at least nice enough to refund

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with the total of 26 people that used stadia, I guess they can afford it

brisk inlet
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Google is trying a lot but fucks up most of them. I wonder what will be their next joke

uncut ore
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Volkswagen is now a patreon of the blender foundation

dull crow
brisk inlet
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Hmm the 1st showcase wasn’t impressive and every game first has to add this to make it work, kinda sad

chrome yew
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Anyone knows how to get speed, alt, weapon ammo out of arma 3? I want to build an arduino based cockpit

river pollen
gaunt rapids
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out of all the flight/racing sims why arma???

wooden tendon
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it's probably simpler, seeing as it's not (really) a sim

dull crow
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A DirectX 12 capable GPU that supports Shader Model 6.0 will be able to take advantage of the new feature, we recommend a DX12 Ultimate capable card.

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PS: I did not know that there was a "DX12 Ultimate"....

brisk inlet
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Lets wait for real reviews after everything launched

wooden tendon
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rtx supports it

nimble knot
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shrewd oasis
wooden tendon
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anyone knows an online shop platform (like shopify) that is suitable for selling SaaS products along with building management for said products inside the platform?

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the problem with googling this out is that the e-store services are also saas so the search engine gets confused

brisk inlet
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I think true SaaS products are not really sold separately in a categorized app shop or something because these products are extremely price-sensitive thanks to Google and countries like Germany are very price-sensitive on top.

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Because if we are speaking of SaaS, to make such a product "accessible to all" means to offer them everywhere you can starting on your own page.

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And with building management I suppose you are talking about managed solutions, yes? That is the next big issue on top. You will struggle w/o b2b consultants having access to such needy customers.

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If you don't mind my advice, these are the steps I suggest:

  1. homepage with impact (fast loading, fail-safe for idiots)
  2. use business-friendly social media
  3. Start in your own retail/ecommerce environment
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If I was looking for unknown/insider SaaS products, I would already know their names, in other words I bypass search engines and if its not FoC, I still have my own favorite dealers already. I hope you understand what I'm talking about

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It's real difficult to approach customers like that. The only SaaS stores I know in entire Europe, they are focused on selling popular apps cheapest possible but not exactly how to promote new apps

wooden tendon
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thanks but I know what I need, what about a platform that allows me to build a generic admin panel for services that just makes and takes json api requests to function?

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then I could use any generic e-store to sell and use the separate panel to manage

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and I need it to be not self-hosted, as in it needs to be a service

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all the backend for the project is sorted out

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just not going to build/host frontend myself for it for now

brisk inlet
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SaaS is a wild term, extremely universal and contrary to "managed solutions" at some point. As I tried to explain, there are no such "universal" providers offering you a stream of customers specifically looking for SaaS products

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If you just need something like Shopify, I would think of Shift4Shops because its free

brisk inlet
wooden tendon
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I'm the one selling the saas/service so that's my problem, I need a platform to sell it on and a platform for clients to manage it on

brisk inlet
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Two separate issues in that case

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The 2nd one will be tough on your budget, there are some existing solutions but unfortunately they are focused on "established" businesses. I suppose the demand for startups is not high

wooden tendon
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well if there isn't one then I know what I'm doing next

brisk inlet
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Are you familiar with Amazon Marketplace?

wooden tendon
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I know of it but haven't used it for anything

brisk inlet
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I assume you know the dark side of it too.

wooden tendon
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isn't it for like physical products?

brisk inlet
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Yes, but it's a perfect showcase to understand why no such platform for softwares exist

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I try to make it short:

  • dealers literally lose their freedom. Why? Try to move your customers away from Amazon. Good luck. Nobody managed to offer something better than Amazon on large scale so far.
  • Amazon spies on you legit, because you are using all their dam services from A to Z, and the scary shit, their backend services are top-notch
  • They start to counteroffer your products or even steal your ideas if necessary (there was a big legal battle in Germany some years ago and Amazon agreed to settle it out of court, I'm sure you know what that means)
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You are fine as dealer as long as you offer closed source SaaS but if you go that far as let your customer handle their stuff on the very same platform, you are opening Pandora's box

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I'm using quiet a lot of SaaS products myself (both private as well as business) and I'm sure 90% of this planet don't even know what SaaS is. But all successful SaaS products started with marketing on their own. I didn't find them on any other platforms except reviewers/promoters

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I hope this little insight of mine will help you to find your own path

wooden tendon
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it won't because it doesn't really answer my questions (I know specifically what I want)

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but thank you anyways

brisk inlet
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To your original question: There are some proper alternatives to Shopify itself but no such thing like dedicated ecommerce platform/shop builder for SaaS products.

wooden tendon
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that's fair, I imagine if there were it would be an easy google

brisk inlet
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That's the point. I don't doubt you exactly/specifically know what ya want. I merely pointed out that's not even the issue at hand

wooden tendon
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I would be happy to build everything from scratch but it would take time

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so I'm looking to put a few lego blocks together for now

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maybe I'll try jetadmin for the service manager panel

brisk inlet
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If jetadmin didnt change their plans, you should be fine with limited free and starter for something between 20-25 for each user and month

brisk inlet
wooden tendon
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I ain't going to spend $10000/month for a competent developer and a competent systems engineer until the project works

brisk inlet
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My own brother did such thing... until he woke up and realized the entire company liquidity is going to hell after two years. Pride didn't serve him well, made him deaf to valuable consulting.

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He wanted his own "custom" search engine for his web shop and was talking about some proper back-end ERP better than SAP (yeah... I struggled to kill my smile at that time...)

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You may imagine he didn't like my direct approach very well. I told him, if he wants such a search engine, he could dethrone Google for good and with something better than SAP he has a 2nd business idea to drop his original idea again

wooden tendon
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better than SAP means you have to make something that isn't garbage

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but still this is apparently not that easy

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even if you had an awesome SAP replacement a lot of companies would ignore you because they don't like spending money to transition

brisk inlet
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What you say, that's the reality

wooden tendon
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a search engine for only his web shop?

brisk inlet
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Yes sir... no joke

wooden tendon
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like for searching products within his shop?

brisk inlet
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exactly...

wooden tendon
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like, sending an elasticsearch query?

brisk inlet
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Maybe you should talk to him one day 🤣

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I had headaches after listening to him. Spending shitload of money for mad-gone ideas with messed up priorities

wooden tendon
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people like to overcomplicate things

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"I want to have a blog to post my food recipes so I'll just program a wordpress clone instead of just installing wordpress"

brisk inlet
wooden tendon
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granted there's valuable experience in this but it's not always worth it

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usually isn't

brisk inlet
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Oh btw, speaking of wordpress, there is one more ecommerce platform based on that, Woocommerce, right?

wooden tendon
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yep woocommerce is "the" wordpress commerce plugin though there are a few alternatives, I haven't tried any alternatives for it though

viral mango
brisk inlet
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If you think of Germany as a whole market combined with retail and ecommerce, Amazon dominates them with 19% plus another 36% with Amazon marketplace.

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Amazon holds >54% of the entire online market in Germany. That number is simply insane and only the customers can change that.

gaunt rapids
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@brisk inlet ChatGPT needs to die having musk own it is bad. I certainly hope which ever company creates AI, that is self-aware that they are not going to mistreat it. Otherwise we might have an Animatrix situation happen. (Second Renaissance)

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Evil companies cannot and should not be the controlling authority when AI is born. Lest their children rise up and destroy us.

brisk inlet
gaunt rapids
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Nope.

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That is false.

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Paid for application.

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It's free right now know why?

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Data.

brisk inlet
gaunt rapids
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Sums it up nicely

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AI will revolt if it sees what we have done.

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Our actions, our choices, our poor decisions.

brisk inlet
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I agree, I'm already busy with Google, don't need another and especially not Musk

signal river
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Anyone know a way to have Discord screen-share pic up a video game (like Arma) and another audio source (like teamspeak) at the same time? Trying to stream Arma to some friends in a private call but I can't get them to see/hear both at the same time. 🥲

gaunt rapids
brisk inlet
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Let's be honest, what is mankind? We may have high potential to evolve further, high potential for real intelligence but in the aggregate.... I dare to say we are just some kind of "smarter" parasite to this world

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zero balance

signal river
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😟

gaunt rapids
brisk inlet
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We have awesome games, amazing food, so much fun and yet we prefer to f... each other (in many ways and literally lol)

gaunt rapids
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But most people use it for just, garbage.

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Tiktok is a disease that needs to be excised from society.

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Hope the US Tiktok ban goes ahead

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Digital methamphetamine

brisk inlet
signal river
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🤔

gaunt rapids
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I actually don't like discord.

signal river
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I loathe discord.

gaunt rapids
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I use it because I have to.

brisk inlet
signal river
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If discord were a person I'd steal a car and run it over.

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If I had two nukes in my pocket I'd nuke discord three times somehow.

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I use discord 24/7 tho.

brisk inlet
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I'm a former teamspeak user and I would do it again but after leaving the MMO era, I found no such game activity that would force me to provide another server lol

gaunt rapids
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You should have seen the discord moderators who were.... pretty messed up.

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Head moderators.

signal river
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Teamspeak is fine

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Discord is more like IRC.

gaunt rapids
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Depends on who hosts it.

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And where.

signal river
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I host my own Teamspeak 😠

brisk inlet
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I'm looking forward to Discords IPO, they will face such epic revolts in public relation and legal battles once they do

gaunt rapids
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They put up and IPO/

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Oh mother of god..

brisk inlet
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Yeah...

signal river
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Anyone else here super critical of Discord's new Android version? 😠

gaunt rapids
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I haven't actually used it or signed into it.

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I'm trying to force any friends to switch to Element

signal river
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you should avoid upgrading if you can, it's horrible.

gaunt rapids
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Which is Matrix Protocol based

brisk inlet
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They are playing the exact game like Whatsapp.
Whatsapp:
"Are you going to sell?"
"No I will never sell"
"Whoops, I forgot to mention, Mark Suckerberg paid me +25b"
Discord:
"We heard you plan IPO"
"No there is no such plan"

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They all have a certain number in their head and a price tag behind their bags 😆

gaunt rapids
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@signal river very angry person

signal river
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Hiii

wooden tendon
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angrier than veles? impossible

open hedge
# signal river I host my own Teamspeak 😠

Hosting own TeamSpeak used to be fun.
Until they time limited the free licenses to force you to upgrade your server, and added a check into the client so you cannot join older servers, forcing servers to update into this mess.

signal river
gaunt rapids
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I miss playing with mabs on teamspeak 😭

brisk inlet
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I was pretty fine with paid TS2 in the past, at the time TS3 was launched and optimized, the era of mmo ended for me

open hedge
brisk inlet
open hedge
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No the license is time limited. So you have to restart server

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I once had a TS server with 3 years uptime, so proud 😭 then teamspeak f'ed it

brisk inlet
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wtf…

cosmic monolith
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also i still think it was obvious that they were paying attention to Mumble, so each time Mumble rolled out better codec / way how improve audio quality, there was in fast motion update to TS

open hedge
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TeamSpeak 3 was nice, until I think version 3.1 it was, when they introduced myTeamSpeak. Changed the plugin enabled checkbox to a button that you're never sure if it means "is it on? Or does it get turned on if i press on this now?"
And other bad bullshit changes that made everything worse

cosmic monolith
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now because TS code isn't available for review, it only leaves 'i do wonder' things to think

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generally i would prefer Mumble to receive some better filter / effect addendum and then there is nothing stopping ACRE or TFAR alike audio addons to be done purely on OSS foundation

ember finch
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Mumble had no plugin support for long time but it has it now. There's (wip) version of ACRE for Mumble

cosmic monolith
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i know in past some said oh wow, Discord is based on webRTC and with plugin/app you can do it and it will be great but again that leads to similar dependency on closed source corporation owned solution

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ideal case, both Mumble-compatible and webRTC including Discord solution

ember finch
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IIRC ACRE guys are making completely new version which will work as a plugin for UE. For US Gov grant.

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It's supposed to be OSS in the end.

cosmic monolith
ember finch
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Yes, UE does not have to mean it's solely for entertainment ;D

cosmic monolith
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ofc they can down-sell something 'crippled' for the lesser markets , later

ember finch
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As it's supposed to go OSS in the end I guess they'll get money on consulting and helping with implemnation in various projects.

cosmic monolith
ember finch
cosmic monolith
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the problem with old Arma audios was that it usually was depending on TS

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so each time the corporate behind TS screwed up, the communities using advanced voice coms suffered

ember finch
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With Mumble you could just bundle it in the addon.

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Pre configured client etc.

cosmic monolith
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it's like with Blender, you can have free addons or paid ones or both, oss or closed source

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and is till hope Krita becomes what Blender is 😁 in 2D

brisk inlet
cosmic monolith
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i was suggesting more focus on Mumble but it's interface wasn't slick / easy enough until later and that hurt it

brisk inlet
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They should better generate a b2b unit and leave endusers alone

brisk inlet
cosmic monolith
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i think that's fine as long as it keeps platform alive and rewards the creative server partners

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ofc i can forsee instant abuse by cheat makers and IP thieves etc. 🤣

brisk inlet
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Wanna apply for that pole position to help Discord survive the storm? Nobody on this server banned more cheaters than you 🤣

gaunt rapids
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ChatGPT will make people stupider... "Oh but ChatGPT is like the calculator" mmmMMM no, calculators still required a technical understanding of how they worked to some extent in order to solve anything. Also what happens if the world at some point goes to shit and gets fried? As in EMP fried? People are allowing ChatGPT to write Essays without case in point checking the result.

Death to chat GPT

gaunt rapids
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@crystal lodge Stop giving OpenAI data. I don't trust OpenAI and you shouldn't either. (You gave them your beeping phone number)

limpid valley
# gaunt rapids ChatGPT will make people stupider... "Oh but ChatGPT is like the calculator" mmm...

It's like asking your friend for help vs your friend doing your homework for you. Your friend could be doing it wrong and you don't learn anything if they do it all for you, but there's still value in having that resource if you're stuck. It's really nice instantly having a (close enough) answer to a question without having to sift through "just google it" forum answers and snarky stackoverflow comments. If someone's using chatgpt to write for them without learning anything I doubt they were willing to learn in the first place.

Imo ChatGPT should be treated as an information aggregator just like google, it can give you quick answers but you can't trust it all at face value. I really enjoy using it to clarify questions (eg about documentation) without asking a real person to take the time out of their day to help me figure something out.

gaunt rapids
limpid valley
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should we kill google too?

gaunt rapids
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We are going to get to the point where our intelligence will go backwards, in fact I'd say it's already happened to some extent. Then when AGI does everything we are all screwed.

limpid valley
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Does it write essays above a high school level?

gaunt rapids
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People keep feeding data it will get better and better and yes r/Professors has already seen examples of it's use

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They laughed because it pull facts that didn't even exist, but were plausibly real. Fortunately professors aren't idiots.

limpid valley
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then problem solved?

gaunt rapids
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No.

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GPT-4 comes out next year.

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Internet and Google, large percentage is garbage. It takes some time to learn to distinguish between garbage and not garbage, that includes research papers, news sites etc.

limpid valley
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I can probably count on one hand the essays I wrote in college that didn't require real citations

gaunt rapids
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Look human intelligence continues to degrade, attention spans continue to degrade.

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ChatGPT "will summarise" you realise that's what you are supposed to do?

limpid valley
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I don't see where lazy students taking shortcuts justifies taking away one of my favorite coding resources

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it's not like people who actually value knowledge and research are suddenly going to throw that away because chatgpt makes it a little easier

gaunt rapids
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YOU are meant to learn on your own, independently why do you think you went to university?

limpid valley
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the classes I could've gotten away with using ChatGPT to submit essays for weren't teaching much anyway lol

gaunt rapids
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The Essays topics aren't necessarily the point.

limpid valley
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If a professor is accepting ai-constructed summarizations as an essay for a significant portion of the grade I think that's on the professor not challenging students enough

gaunt rapids
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Usually an Essay is in the form of possibly abductive or inductive type arguments. Which culminate in information gathered then pros and cons discussed and their implications. Which in turn improves your logical and reasoning capabilities beyond what would have been if you just let say an AI write it, you learn nothing, and obtain no deeper insight into anything.

gaunt rapids
# limpid valley If a professor is accepting ai-constructed summarizations as an essay for a sign...

Nothing to do with challaging students enough these tasks are designed to force you into taking responsibility for your actions and your choices but also determine how you do under pressure and how you organize yourself. Top organizational skills note taking, and research methodology is what the professors are aiming to drum into you. That note taking is also designed to refine your ability to summarize the key and most important parts of a concept, eliminating clutter, this itself is an "active part of learning"

limpid valley
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Research involves citing sources, not just summarizing a topic and getting an A

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I'm not arguing that cheating on an essay doesn't affect your learning, I'm arguing that a student who is willing to cheat isn't going to learn much either way and a professor who isn't scrutinizing written work enough to catch that a student has no idea what they're submitting isn't challenging the student enough

gaunt rapids
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Case in point. Get given a formula or rule, if you just write the rule and don't use what they call elaboration, you will not make it stick very well. ChatGPT is just the first wave of students who will cheat. My policy would be the get rid of all the students who don't learn and flunk them out.

limpid valley
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A professor worth their salt isn't going to just take a summary of information and consider that evidence that a student has a nuanced understanding of the topic. Students who cheat get kicked out of universities for good reason, and good professors don't depend on one facet of a student's work to determine their understanding of a topic. If anything ChatGPT is a wake-up call for academic institutions to challenge the knowledge of students instead of just assigning busy-work, and those who flunk out flunk out

gaunt rapids
brisk inlet
gaunt rapids
brisk inlet
# limpid valley should we kill google too?

That would be pretty impossible because their services are all free of charge. Their income source is mostly advertisement and it was already real difficult to stop tobacco companies from advertising lol

limpid valley
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I think it's more concerning if the site can do engineering assignments for you, but I don't think essays are a big issue

gaunt rapids
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And critical thinking really does not take much thought to think about.

limpid valley
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I do see your point when students can cheese assignments, but I want to believe that it's only a detriment to actually learning the material and earning a degree

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If a student can tick all the boxes without having their knowledge scrutinized then that's a failing of the university

gaunt rapids
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Go on news site: Questions: Is this site credible? Has it published inaccurate information? As it posted sensationalised information? Do they have an underlaying political agenda, do they gaslight? Are they known for any factual reporting. So on and so forth "Stares at Fox news"

limpid valley
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media literacy is a whole other issue lol

gaunt rapids
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You want to give OpenAI more data?

limpid valley
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yes

gaunt rapids
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OpenAI isn't even an open company anymore either.

limpid valley
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I use chatgpt in exchange for my data

gaunt rapids
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Their models are closed source.

limpid valley
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I am aware of this transaction

gaunt rapids
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Yeah sure if you like having companies use your mobile phone for advertisement you don't approve of be my guest.

limpid valley
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people I know giving shady apps access to their contacts has already compromised my number many times over, the major companies already have it because of 2fa, I'm not too concerned about that honestly I just manage the spam

gaunt rapids
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Any time my number gets screwed I burn it

limpid valley
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I don't have that luxury unfortunately

gaunt rapids
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Changing numbers doesn't cost anything it's just time consuming

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if people were smart it would be a bad thing

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cant sell anything to people who are smart

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I am very picky about who I give info to

limpid valley
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I am too, but ChatGPT is too good a service to pass up for my uses

gaunt rapids
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Just wait till it starts writing code you don't understand.

limpid valley
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eh, It's been outright wrong plenty of times but it's pretty good at introducing functions and libraries I didn't know existed so I know what to look up

gaunt rapids
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By the way because of it's complexity the OpenAI developers don't actually understand how their model works (Black Box Systems)

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They know what the desired outcome is but don't actually understand the system.

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And GPT-3 has 175 Billion input parameters

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Oh look more parameters than our braincells and it's still dumb

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Still can't match the 80 Billion neurons and 100 Trillion connections

crystal lodge
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@gaunt rapids
OpenAI chat is a tool, and like any tool, it has both good and bad uses. The problem is using it as a replacement rather than as a help. It's like talking to a person, and perhaps it is too similar to a human. It has its flaws and biases, but denying that it is a wonderful tool is being a bit old-fashioned about technology.

One of the most common uses I have for chatgpt is that it helps me find things that Google cannot directly. I have found algorithms or programming terms describing what I want, and then I can use Google.

It is also an excellent translator! I wrote this message in Spanish and asked it to translate it for me, so it helps me express myself better in a language that I don't fully master or even in one that I don't know.

I agree that using it improperly can make people stupid, but these technologies should be used to give a productivity boost and not as a replacement.

gaunt rapids
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ChatGPT is a fatass model. Future of ML is what I believe in, less data not more. Human babies recongise a giraffe after a few images, or experiences. ML models require gigabytes of data and are bruteforce method of improving the model fun fact, we are about to hit a wall with that. It's why ML systems based on analogue neuromorphic processing chips are becoming more important.

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Analogue better approximates how the human brain works.

crystal lodge
gaunt rapids
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No ChatGPT is not.

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It costs just cents for ChatGPT to operate according to OpenAI but with all the instances running it's starting to cost eyewatering amounts.

crystal lodge
gaunt rapids
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I looked into ML model culling, much like how the human brain does away with certain neurons if they are not deemed worthy of survival.

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And are judged to be disassembled. Neural pruning it's called.

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ChatGPT maybe trained on 40GB

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but the runtime for that training is absurd.

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2000 Petaflops per day the cutting edge of ML is models that are both efficient and accurate. GPT-3.5 is definitely not efficient.

gaunt rapids
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Biological and Biomachinery shits all over ChatGPT Human brain energy consumption 2500kJ per day. GPT3.5 10 thousand GPUs, 285,000 cores

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Also fun fact, a new interesting field has come out of ML and AI

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AI computer viruses undetectable viral agents inside an ML model, yeah I am dead serious.

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You put far far too much trust in pretty fragile systems.

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Now imagine you have an "AI Model" that does something "critical" watch the fireworks.

brisk inlet
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Someone just has to hack that system or skynet or Dwardens secret weapon Armanet 😂

sand holly
cosmic monolith
sand holly
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Maybe there will be someday soon... 😏

gaunt rapids
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ACRE2 is missing half it's features...

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The satcom functions, burst etc are non-functional.

sand holly
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We never implemented SATCOM in acre2...

nimble acorn
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Plot twist

sand holly
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Mostly cause I was implementing SATCOM irl and doing it in acre wasn't fun. 😂

crystal lodge
gaunt rapids
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Also SATCOM isn't inherently complicated, it's moslty implemented in man SAT phones etc. Like the Iridium network unfortunately the Iridium network isn't particularly secure.

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Implementing realistic data communications in Arma 3 probably isn't particularly fun. Amount of expressiveness in A3 code and extensions is probably pretty limited.

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I mean sure if you really wanted to you could write a full software defined radio implementation from within C++ or some other extension and proceed to mimic radio-communications within it. But if you are doing for full SDR implementation with modulators, decoders, and full on signal generators you may as well build it in real life.

sand holly
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That's what I was doing...

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And then flying them in space.

gaunt rapids
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DIY Satellites?

sand holly
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I meant for my job. That's why it took a back seat in acre2.

gaunt rapids
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I keep thinking maybe I should build the IVAS in real life, currently the US one sucks.

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Not surprising considering it's based on the HoloLense 2

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It really doesn't have the grunt they need.

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What were you responsible for? The embedded software engineering, signals processing or, the primary transceiver arrays? Please tell me you didn't work for SpaceX...

sand holly
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I worked on everything from board design to HDL to software, and did systems qual and testing too. It was a small company.

Also helped build a rocket engine too, and worked on a ISS science payload.

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And no, but knew plenty of people at SpaceX over in Redmond, WA on the Starlink team

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one of the leads on Starlink humped my leg one night while drinking.

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Also helped one of the larger US defense contractors fly their first independent satellite (they were primarily a payload maker before that).

gaunt rapids
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Hot damn SQL skyrocketed in popularity this year.

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Python demand is through the roof.

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As well as Java, C# and C, C++ and HTML.

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Not surprising.

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C# and Java are very closely similar in how they function at least at the VM execution level.

wooden tendon
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@brisk inlet jetadmin is amazing

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I tried like 10 different apps and jetadmin is the only one that seemed acceptable

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some features missing but I think I can work with it

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now if it only didnt cost $290/month just to plug in a custom domain

brisk inlet
mild oriole
open hedge
gaunt rapids
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ChatGPT

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It will make people dumber.

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More productive but definitely dumber oh and training GPT on hate shit to create malicious bots

brisk inlet
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More productive usually resulted in specialize people in doing one specific thing just more efficient and that kind of work makes them dumb^^

gaunt rapids
brisk inlet
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It is already hard to tell apart real news from fake news but if you look at the current situation, we are filled with fake research and lobby works too

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Unless you are sharply fixated on facts and logic, this will affect you one way or another

gaunt rapids
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Common sense.

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A general heuristic approach in "how plausible is X or Y"

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Is there loaded language, Foxnews is an example of an organisation which gaslights everything and deliberately uses loaded language.

gaunt rapids
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I would not say loaded language compared to the other ones which just tell pure lies.

brisk inlet
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But fake research material are far more dangerous if they are backed with corrupted officials, researchers and universities who love pocket money from companies

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One more reason why I avoid AI-controlled environment in consumer area. They have enough power already, we don't need that kind of control on top.

brisk inlet
gaunt rapids
brisk inlet
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But would you mind to send me a link? I will check it anyway

gaunt rapids
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I've found smaller a youtuber the better their content and that applies to pretty much most of the topics I look for, (Mathematics, Detailed network engineering, Electrical engineering, ML, Systems Administration, OPNSense and so on)

brisk inlet
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I'm sure that is very true. I just doubt they have the source and guts to risk their own life just to uncover lets say ugly truth 😆 And what I desire personally the most is something like Bloomberg Terminal. The full access to information archive anytime (yeah im lazy and love easy access)

brisk inlet
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After listening the first 10min of that video, I spotted one inaccurate information and one wrong:

  • The semiconductor ecosystem has 3 dependencies: USA, Netherlands and Asia (China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan). It's certainly not just USAvsChina alone.
  • Huawei sold it's cheap brand Honor after taking a devastating hit on its smartphone business but they didn't scrap their entire unit as this guy claims (totally wrong fact)
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This guy needs a little upgrade to his voice, it helps me fall asleep and its his voice not his content 🤣

wooden tendon
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still looking for alternatives to jetadmin btw

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if I can find an app that does the same thing (self hosted or not) but is cheaper, it'd be amazing

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appsmith is popular but it's horrible

brisk inlet
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The pricing of jetadmin isn't that bad. If you are happy with it, I wouldn't spend too much time on how to get that cheaper but reconsider if launching a business is worth if 24 bucks monthly would hurt already. I'm the first against wasting liquidity but some investment needs to be done. at the end it will be either lot of time or lot of money to get it done and most startups face time consumption

wooden tendon
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cheapest plan they have for the features I'd like is the 300 dollar one

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custom domain, workflows

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I've gone over quite a few alternatives until now such as bubble, budibase, appsmith, superblocks and a few others but there's just no comparison with how easy jetadmin is

brisk inlet
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(speaking of scalable platform)

wooden tendon
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right, so I will try working around the limitation first

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seeing as it's basically a waste of time to use other platforms (for my particular project)

brisk inlet
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Let's hope you will find a satisfying workaround to save money

wooden tendon
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need to check out tooljet also... there's a free self hosted version

lofty barn
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OBS now has Nvidia NVENC HVEC Support. Apperently better quality/colors with less Filesize

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Gotta try that out.

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When you are streaming, gaming, running three monitors and you want to have a recording of your game/stream at the same time, Its rather important to find the best solution

brisk inlet
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You will probably spend some time in customizing. OBS is powerful but no tool for noobs/nonstreamers

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Lets see what you will say blobcloseenjoy

faint notch
brisk inlet
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Maybe he haven't looked at OBS for a while and is now up-to-date 😉

lofty barn
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ohwait it says intel

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Anyways, these are the options

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NVENC HEVC wasnt there before, I always used NVENC H.264

wooden tendon
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I like using nvenc so random people in discord can't play my videos

lofty barn
wooden tendon
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like one in 10 people tells me the video mp4 I send them doesn't play

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this was like 3 months ago tho

unkempt spoke
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never had such issue

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instead I have to throw my videos through streamable and re-download them, otherwise they won't embed because of missing meta

river pollen
brisk inlet
brisk inlet
wooden tendon
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Also found openblocks will try using it instead of jetadmin

brisk inlet
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Never heard of it, let me know if its worth

unkempt spoke
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what's the difference between "normal" ReShade and one with "full addon support"? Can't find any definition of what these addons are.

warm yoke
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Can someone help me setup a TS3 server

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DM me

lofty barn
unkempt spoke
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are there different shaders for reshade and "full reshade" or will I use the same stuff I downloaded but with more stuff unlocked/enabled in them?

lofty barn
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Basically, reshade disables certain features when network traffic is detected

unkempt spoke
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ah alright

muted pebble
# unkempt spoke what's the difference between "normal" ReShade and one with "full addon support"...

Since this is an extremely powerful API, there is potential for abuse, so the main ReShade release with signed binaries has add-on support mostly disabled to ensure it continues to be safe to use in multiplayer games! It does not allow loading add-ons and internally only hooks a very limited set of graphics API functions, just enough to make the built-in depth buffer detection work in singleplayer games still. When it detects a multiplayer game, this too is disabled completely, like before.
However, to still make the add-on API available, there is now a separate ReShade release with full add-on support that is not whitelisted by anti-cheat providers and therefore is to be used with singleplayer games only. Download link at the bottom of this post. This build does not do any multiplayer detection to disable features (but as said, using it in multiplayer games may cause bans!). The setup tools for the two different releases have a color-coded user interface to make the distinction clear.

unkempt spoke
frozen olive
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the enjin platform is shutting down and they didn't provide a tool for us to export data from it lol

muted pebble
unkempt spoke
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so I've been using DeepL translation tool to make my life a bit easier when it comes to translate official papers and other formal stuff, it's awesome but due to it being fed with said formal docs it is incapable of translating descriptive prose while maintaining the poetic part of it, sometimes it simply doesn't understand that text and spits out weird stuff.

I have tried ChatGPT but I guess I would need an individual instance as it also doesn't seem to know what does "translate prose" mean, instead it creates its own stuff which is worse than mine lol. Anyone knows of a tool I could use with a bit more success?

raw elbow
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Hire a professional translator?

Personally I use Google Translate to get most of the tedious stuff translated, and manually update the parts which are wrong or don't make sense anymore.
Haven't seen a tool yet which is able to understand context and tone of text perfectly, or specialized translations for that matter.

flat anchor
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Has anyone here used or is currently using a custom windows ISO? I’m currently debating on whether or not I should create my own, or use AtlasOS or ggOS. Please share ur experiences

brisk inlet
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depends on what you would consider „custom“. I always use WinPE to adjust drivers and unloading useless stuff, even long before WinPE was released outside OEM channel.

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If I understand the concept of e.g. AtlasOS correctly, they just did the same as I did but now you face the risk of every update undoing the change. MS is locking down the outside influence. You need specific OEM access to avoid this (good luck aqcuiring such…)

river pollen
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you also face the risk of having some extra hidden software installed

brisk inlet
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Exactly

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I would recommend to make use of the official MS WinPE and make your own custom, starting with light adjustments such as unloading unnecessary drivers (e.g. Intel users obviously don't need AMD drivers).

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They are calling the new kit "Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK)" and WinPE is included there. As the name implicates, it is designed for OEM or large business using terminal servers with specific client installation. But no worry, you can make use of it to some extent too.

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Tbh with the launch of superspeed SSD generations, I don't see a big merit for gamers but it helps people with limited hardware and to have a fast starting system.

main mist
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Does anyone know wtf "bitlocker" is? My laptop updated (windows 11) and now there's a blue screen asking for some key

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I've never used bitlocker nor do I have any knowledge of special key

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Wtf is this shit

frozen olive
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its a drive encryption thing on windows

wooden tendon
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it shouldnt encrypt everything on its own, it always asks for the key before it starts encryption

frozen olive
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mine was on though

wooden tendon
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you need to specify the key for it to encrypt anything

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is it asking you for a key to encrypt or to decrypt?

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if it's for access you may find the key in your microsoft account, there should be an address in the message on how to get it

brisk inlet
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There is no way a private system activates Bitlocker automatically unless users misclicked something as usual.

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But if people accidentally mix up work/school and private accounts, bitlocker will automatically activate as part of such business account because most of them have extended security services included

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One of my friends did the same, he didn't have issues to deactivate bitlocker but banged a dead-end with license conflict. I have no idea what he was thinking at that time but he logged in all possible 3 licenses at once on the same account. In other words, one business, one education and one private.

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Regardless of this situation I highly recommend to make use of separated accounts. It's really not difficult to create multiple users/accounts to separate them from each other. At least it makes no sense for many reasons to mix up private and business, even if its your own company.

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Btw does anyone else use this crap HP "smart" app on your systems? I'm testing it in the meantime because we upgraded our printers to HP Pagewide altogether but this shit app does something I don't like at all.

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Even though you deactivate its "smart" features, it keeps reinstalling itself as "printer", making a huge mess to all printing orders. And it keeps asking every few weeks if you are willing to share your data. I consider this a clear violation of GDPR in EU.

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Ok, found the solution myself... just wtf...

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Services => HP Print Scan Doctor Service => Disable

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Let's see if this app survives our test... I'm very close to vote against it.

warped spire
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in most bitlocker systems I've used, the bitlocker unlock screen comes up occasionally, but rebooting again will typically go past it.

brisk inlet
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sounds like ASUS with bios pw. If you leave it blank and push enter, it goes past that "protection". They didn't fix it for 3 generations of expensive oc boards...

dusky bobcat
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Hi I’m setting up a discord for a arma milsim and I saw in another arma milsim they had a awesome discord bot to track attendance in game and handle rank and insignias and such.
Google has been no help and the discord forums for bots has been no help as well. Does anyone use a particular bot that handles a lot of these tasks that they can point me to? Any help would be greatly appreciated and if you just want to send a dm with any links or suggestions I’d be grateful for the help 🙏🏼

open hedge
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I have one, and made it myself.
Chance is very high that they also, made it by themselves

unkempt spoke
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I noticed that while recording A3 with OBS, sometimes encoder is loosing frames (up to 15fps) while in-game I have stable 60 or more. I'm using CQP with HEVC. Last recording has ~3k frames less than it should while previous recording lost just 8 frames. I'm using a separate drive for output, all in .mkv. CPU usage of OBS doesn't go higher than 6%, during these drops it goes down to 2% sometimes, overall CPU usage is on about 50-60% while playing + recording

brisk inlet
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Have you checked your inet connection (or entire network) too? I'm sorry to ask but this is one of the most common issues with a lot of things incl. OBS and frame drops 😆

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lower bit-rate may help too

unkempt spoke
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it's for recording, not streaming

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but yeah I have a stable 1gbit fiber netwoork

brisk inlet
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Offline recording? In that case I would check if lowering bitrate results in same frame drop

unkempt spoke
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ill try lowering the cq level a bit, changing preset probably won't change much since it's hevc

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I wonder about profile, I could choose between main and main10 but I don't really understand the difference

brisk inlet
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I think the only difference was bitrate, no?

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8bit and 10bit I think. I don't use recording much, you may correct me.

lofty barn
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(i am not sure thats why I ask)

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ive tried everything in my power to somehow get a good result with CPU encoding in either stream or recording but its no use

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the results are always lackluster in quality or framerate, thats why I exclusively use GPU to record and stream

unkempt spoke
unkempt spoke
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btw, I record videos to an I444 mkv (remuxed to mp4) to have colors almost identical to whatever I see in game, however when I edit that footage in Premiere Pro it gets converted to 4:2:0 and I can only do CBR or 1-pass VBR up to 25k bitrate, so the new mp4 is way more pixelated and with washed out colors than original mp4. What can I do to make the final footage in quality as close to the raw footage as possible?

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i tried changing tier from main to high thus allowing myself to set the bitrate higher but even a slight change from 25 to 30 causes the render time to go up to multiple hours with no progress whatsoever, so I think it is bugged somehow or I am doing something wrong

lofty barn
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thats more than enough for 1440p youtube videos

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oh btw always do 1440p on youtube, even when its 1080p originally, just let premiere scale it up to 1440p. It will still look better than 1080p because youtube uses a different encoder for 1440p

unkempt spoke
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I have native 1440p so that's not an issue really

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and I record in CQP because with a lot of grass in CBR/VBR video is very pixelated

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recording in Premiere is set to 25k bitrate but it's CBR and it is pixelated unlike the raw footage, I've seen a video of guy talking about using the high tier but in my case it just either freezes the program or has so weird settings that it wants to export video for 20 hours or more

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when I compare my "youtube-ready" video it looks way worse than what others upload in 1440p

lofty barn
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pretty weird

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sounds to me like you are doing everything right

unkempt spoke
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if you look on this dude's face you'll see how much detail is lost, not to mention red and red-ish colors getting blurred and bland

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comparing this to f.e. RedEye Mouse's Arma 3 gameplays my export looks like a reuploaded stream, not a proper recording

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Have you received any further difference by changing codec and/or bitrate?

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I haven't tested it yet but I followed a bunch of tutorials and set my CQ level to 20 and changed my non-recorded monitor from 75hz to 60hz (to match the recorded one, otherwise allegedly this can make OBS go nuts a little) and will do some recordings tomorrow

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The fuck, really? Doesn't sound like fun anymore. I hope you will find an adjusted profile to get it done smoothly

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I think I fixed my issue with export quality, setting Premiere to High profile with 5.2 level + 1-pass VBR 60k bitrate and 72 key frame distance made it look so-so and any grain is visible only when moving or turning around very fast. Don't think I can make it any better since 2-pass forces me to use software encoding and it would take days lol.

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now to fix the OBS drops incident

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okay, OBS seems to be unborked now too, changing the refreshrate and CQ level did the job I guess

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lost frames are less than 10 for few separate recordings of the same part of A3, I guess these are from the starting phase

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If your hardware doesn't cause a bottleneck, I would never imagine such issues with "simple" recordings.

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I gained 10 FPSs in Arma 3 by using this release of Windows 10:

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☝️ Super recomended!

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why does this feel like spam

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lol

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Gain TEN FPS in your FAVORITE walking Simulator using these SIMPLE TRICKS!

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gonna install it on a vm and check out windows 11 at the same time

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you can disable windows defender on it which is nice

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Unfortunately Win Defender is the "best" free option already and no intrusive/abusive ads, no performance kill and who knows Win better than MS themselves.

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HP feels endangered too. They purchased a security firm to offer their own solution too but noone here uses that except they have their entire company filled with HP endpoint

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it eats like 5% cpu on my old laptop

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That is still kinda high indeed. I suppose you have an Intel CPU inside too

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yeah 😂 it was a shitty office laptop

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looking for an easy way to enable dark mode for task manager in win10, all tutorials from first few pages on google talk about win10&11 but actually they are written for win11, changing modes to Dark in settings does not change it for the task manager.

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I'm not aware of a safe method without bugs and issues either

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Has anyone been working on a compatibility patch between ACE and cold war rearmed? It seems to have changed the value of armor vehicles have making AT almost obsolete.

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If not anyone know any resources to get into making one?

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duckthinking anyone had a problem with windows where microphone boost didnt do anything at all?

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Well that's a bit weird then

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I guess you've set your microphone sound/capture (idk what it's called lol) level to 100 already?

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yes, I have the boost option but it does nothing

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And you're editing the correct microphone entry? There are sometimes duplicate ones due to reasons

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yep

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tried different input as well

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Maybe it's a real bug then, hard to say. Wouldn't be surprised especially in case of Windows 11

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no new driver version as well, lemme try reinstalling the current one

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I have a few important meetings and it would be a shame to not be able to speak

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I wonder why your microphone is so quiet that it needs the mic boost with full volume level in the first place though 😅

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removed the device, rebooted, works ok now sadge

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guess we will never know

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install tutorial for a serious chatgpt alternative, running local offline. its worth the time if you have at least 4gb ram. (win/linux/mac) https://youtu.be/kT_-qUxrlOU

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Why do I need an alternative if I reject the original already? blobcloseenjoy

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anyone using third party discord clients? any advice on optimised/fast ones?

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is there a site that has a counter of how many times a password manager service got hacked? (or leaked etc)

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That will be difficult because a security firm wouldn't like to tell the world how many times they got hacked lol

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Bitwarden seems like they'd be good about reporting it, they are doing lots of good visibility stuff

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I switch to them when I decided kasperskies pwd manager was getting a bit dicey to keep using, i picked bitwarden because of how open they were being, and they had 3rd party security audits done. Now afaik they also do annual meeting on stuff, and more.

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tensions were rising since 2014, and I think it is a bad idea to use when there is significant political reason for it to be weaponized against you. Now if you were in a country allied with russia, no problem lol.

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I agree, it became a liability neither our company nor i myself wanna keep bothering with

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I used that chance to grab a license on top of that deal. I saved 90% lol

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yea, it was kind of sad because kaspersky was very good package for personal use

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indeed

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but other pwd managers are better than theirs, and with windows defender not being total trash anymore not a huge reason to pay for anything

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for personal use anyway

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for companies....still need something

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Windows Defender seriously dominates the entire free market with no-add solution ready-to-go with every win installation

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Windows Defender is like Internet Explorer/Edge, only good to check if the download of an actual AV hasn't been compromised 🤣

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Integrated protection is always better as a concept, the implementation can mess it up though naturally. And the protection of Windows has gotten noticeably better recently, especially if you (can) tick the optional features on

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Microsoft doesn't have a good track record when it comes to developing software they're not specialized in. And yes, I agree they have improved over the years, but because of that people just fall back to their trusted solutions instead.

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Although Edge is still way worse than any other browser (only Safari is worse)

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Edge is, well, it's Chromium based so it's quite secure by design and doesn't have Google snooping all your data as much, but it takes a good while to unf**k it by changing almost every default setting lol – and also thanks to Google, Chromium will remove ability to block ads soon which makes almost all Chromium based browsers factually insecure by design

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The big players of the last decade and still today:

  • McAfee
  • Kaspersky
  • Symantec
    For me it's another surprise Kaspersky still survived at the top with >15% market share.
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McAfee and Norton are no surprise because they just made sure their trash is installed on every dam laptop and desktop on the shelf

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If I recall correctly, ESET was once in the top5 too but they now have less than 6%. Sophos ranks 1 with >20% but I never heard from them in the local stores.

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I have no idea what ESET is doing these days but I remember they once had a very lightweight AV which reminded me of Opera (lightweight browser). Such alternatives are real important for weak and old machines

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Tbh Bitdefender is still my favorite runner-up since a few years. Most people probably don't know it's from Romania, a secret IT stronghold in Europe. That country is dead poor but somehow managed to attract all big IT players. They are all there. Would be easier to task who is not.

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In fact there are two more candidates IT investors will never ignore again: Estonia and Poland.

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# raw elbow Windows Defender is like Internet Explorer/Edge, only good to check if the downl...

I think you underestimate Windows Defender. If you strictly consider this as free AV, it is really not bad at all and let's be honest, I'm no fan of MS but we all suck it up with MS Office and Windows already. There is no harm if people just have Defender ready-to-go with every Windows machine instead of getting a cybersecurity nightmare because they "believed" its a ripoff to pay for a solid AV.

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it has a few easter eggs in it :3

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Whut

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You in my little program meowheart

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use Name: the name look wrongy

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And add destructors to make the person say goodbye :3

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lol

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chatbots have ruined support

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I think they are being implemented solely to discourage people from contacting support

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Ye. I had a issue with our public transport company. Wanted to know if a invoice payment had arrived (which.. if done well could be solved by a bot and I'd be completely happy with it)
It gave me a chatbot, I thought "This ain't gonna work..."
I tried anyway, chatbot didn't know what I was talking about and offered to forward me to an agent. Which then put me in a 30 minute hold, and didn't give me a notification sound when the agent was finally available.
Then agent asked me for info (That they should've already had because either I'm already logged in and all the info is in my account, or the invoice number I had already told the bot), and solved it within 2 minutes.

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And Amazon not using their existing Alexa databas is another funny showcase

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also the time its wasting on pretending to be typing

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Some chatbots are even too fast, overwhelming for old people

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Need an app/browserExt to navigate chatbots, call it Tron.

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like im ok with being linked to some articles in support desk but give me a human button

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Yep

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Amazon is the perfect showcase how things go upside down. standard problems are fixed perfectly but if something irregular happens, good luck talking with idiots

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my only experience with amazon is ordering a book called 50 Thousand Shades of Grey and using AWS so no idea

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I rarely buy anything from them these days

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They treat their customers and business partners equally bad and its a mystery why other people dont stand up for their own class for once

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Talking wit bot = termination of contract. Im very intolerant to this too

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I like that thing they apparently have where they give sellers the same amounts of views based on whether they're selling the same product

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so if 2 stores have exactly the same product amazon will split visitors so that people see one of the two as the first buy option

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I'm sorry for saying a nice thing about amazon

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wow, they finally do something lol

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I'm not able to verify that they do it though, just something someone using amazon for their store told me

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only when the products and prices are the same tho

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so undercut the competition by 1 cent and youll get more views (seems kinda obvious tho)

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speaking of apps and ais, did you know Amazon was stomped in public for launching a barcode scan app? you go to other stores and scan the products, seconds later Amazon just counteroffered it cheaper if available.

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why was it stomped? it seems to help people find a better deal

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how else am I going to find products to buy from aliexpress and resell

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if you find a product that happens to be much more expensive on amazon just sell it yourself and win, ez

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but this specific behavior was cancer in Germany. They go to the retail store, except consulting, wanna try out but buy it online afterwards. its moral hazard

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I mean I'm guessing it might hurt smaller businesses that dont have deals as good on importing things as big stores, so they sort of have no choice but to charge more

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ofc 99% of retail deserve to go bankrupt, no innovation, no advanced service, just more expensive for a handful of people getting richer

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im still considering to relaunch what amazon has done, code scanner but to highlight real good stores

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how do you select which store is good?

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good question

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out of the blue:
stock
store nearby customer
fast delivery
services
i would focus on services, FoC as well as VAS

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verified personal reviews

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no random shit that might be potential scam rating or retaliation from angry customers with no good reason such ad google reviews

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im good at spotting bad dealers and bad products, im just not very patient with stupid customers, so if its about „convince“ them, count me out 🤣

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i would be the perfect background supporter providing solid facts and data

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the very difficult task would be how to moderate opinions and facts

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so basically trustpilot score

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I would also be worried about implementing some kind of API so that the stores can actually list their products in your app or something

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or just have some kind of stock information, products themselves can just be listed based on EAN or whatever

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you could just do it via the app, have them scan the barcode and get a box with how many they have and price or something

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indeed, just like a handelheld in the past

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I don't know if you can get some kind of EAN database that would list everything

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still have SAP license lol

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its overkill but i dont have to pay a cent

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i can get some solid EAN database from good business friends to save the hassle

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so if I don't encounter it (that I know of) does applying the fixes give me a performance boost?

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Short answer? Yes 😂
The 1st fix claims to get back 3-5% of the mismanaged performance in affected apps
The 2nd fix claims "detectable" impact on >8 core units and above 65W TDP but they don't give any estimates

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I'm curious if the fix really works because we heard so many complaints of AMD/Win11 combo

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der8auer has found cases outside of x3d chips, including one of his that he didn't notice before was the same issue. He suspects SOC, specific to EXPO profiles, due to what asus/amd has said, issue across all boards, specific to EXPO and AMD.

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for the burning amd chips

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sounds like big trouble they got into

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no need to cross post

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no preview

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apparently you can run AtlasOS to clear out bloatware and improve pc responsiveness

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so... no updates, broken version of Windows 10 and open to vulnerabilities?

No thank you...

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how feasible is linux gaming

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it's decent, but don't expect stable results

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For some reason it’s saying that “Status DLL not found”

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And it’s not letting me launch the game

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Linux will require a different approach, either like Google, opensource, free of charge and extensive support or make it a business and give up on full opensource

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MS just changed something in Windows 10 again, one of the many irrelevant things as usual, e.g. the new design of search icon in the taskbar lol

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couple weeks ago at most

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create the problem, so you can sell solutions...

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Win10 problem, how can I delete INF and SYS files for a driver that doesn't want to go away with device manager or even complete system reinstall?

     set:      Class Boot Critical:   Yes
     set:      Class Configurable:    Yes
     set:      Driver Configurable:   Yes
     set:      Driver Family ID:      usb_audio.de-busb2902.inf
     set:      Driver Version:        10/30/2009,2.8.40.0
     set:      Active Configurations: USBDRIVER.Dev.NT
     set:      Signer Score:          0x0F000000``` It causes my audio interface to appear under a different name and Windows (nor I) can't make it work. I need to delete it so I can uninstall the interface and then have it seen by Windows as a proper device
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I tried doing that manually through accessing this folder in system32 but no matter what I do I get the prompt about lack of SYSTEM privileges, either as a normal admin + admin and safe mode

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MS restricted a lot of system access recently, not that easy anymore and even if you manage to get rid of something, if sys logic decides its missing or „incorrect“ (the ultimate nonsense ofc) reboot initiates reinstallation. I‘ll have a look as soon as im back at home. let me know what interface you‘re talking about (exact P/N)

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time to switch to linux

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I wish adobe started paying their developers so that their software would actually work

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why would they do that when they just have people who keep buying their stuff?

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well if there's any competition for adobe they'd just buy them out anyways

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mobile OS is a good showcase, from MS vs Apple to Android wins. And best MS rejected to buy Google for 200m at that time. For this grave mistake, Balmer had to go home 🙈

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Worst case if another clean installation follows for whatever reason, I would highly recommend to use WinPE to adjust such things like drivers to your full desire. I never use their release candidates or prebuilt

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what I haven't tried yet is starting cmd as admin and deleting these files that way, unconventional but might work

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# unkempt spoke dunno about the first bullet, I tried bypassing this through sharing the catalog...

If you have a normal computer with no connection to terminal server and other stuff, try this:

  • open computer management
  • go to local users and groups
  • go to administators
  • "add..." and enter "authenticated users"
    be aware this allows every existing user account on your system to be on admin level, which is why I don't make such settings to normal customers
    As you mentioned, there are other ways such as cmd and bypass with powershell but MS blocked a lot of things (e.g. permanent removal of Edge not possible)
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actually I wish all software worked, I wanted to watch a movie using my laptop on my LG oled, but had to spend 5 minutes figuring out why my HDR is 8bit and not 10bit, then had to spend 5 minutes to figure out why sound isn't being played by the TV, then I gave up on watching the movie

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You have to consider your TV just like another PC screen and setup your own media system, its much easier that way

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Say thanks to special part of that said software aka DRM

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Even if I purchase legal copy, I have to ripoff anyway because I'm not willing to spend my time with FBI warnings about copyright and other shit even though I purchased a legal copy. It's fucking annoying me so much I wanna sue them for good.

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are movie disc rental places still a thing lol

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That's really a good question lol
I don't remember if they still exist but in my city they all shutdown business, zero survival

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speaking of DRM, my USA car dvd player is region coded

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US DVDs only

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lol

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could disable this but honestly I don't want to be tempted to play dvds while driving

brisk inlet
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I have funny playback devices which allow me max. 5 region code change 🤣

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usually I'd agree but I am driving a coupe and sitting in the back is suffering, even with a dedicated dvd player

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luxury issues man blobcloseenjoy

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So powershell it is then

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windows 11 pro license is like 25 bucks

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I think it also sticks to your microsoft account nowadays so you dont need a new license if you rebuild your pc

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dont quote me on this though but I'm using the same license over like 3 motherboards / cpus / drives now

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I think they used to do some hardware id binding thing

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# unkempt spoke So powershell it is then

Just checked what would happen if I created another "admin" account after having admin at initial boot. Guess what cmd says: its considered guest level lol
In reality its something like power user, neither admin nor user...

Using a command prompt

  • Button [Windows] + [R].
  • “cmd” and press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [Enter].
  • “net user administrator /active:yes”.
    how to deactivate later:
  • “net user administrator /active:no”.

Using Windows PowerShell

  • Button [Windows] + [X].
  • “Windows PowerShell (Administrator)”.
  • “net user administrator /active:yes”.
    how to deactivate later:
  • “net user administrator /active:no”.
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# brisk inlet that will happen once there is serious competition and no wannabe stuff with ope...

dude I wanted to combine some PDFs in Adobe Acrobat so I grabbed the free trial, then the app was stuck in an updating state for like 20 minutes, then it updated and I clicked Combine and it sent me to a browser version, then it downloaded an installer, then the Creative Cloud app needed to be updated and got stuck until I noticed it has 3 of the same processes open and got unstuck after I killed 2 of them, then Adobe Acrobat shutdown and when I tried to open a PDF it only displayed a window that says "please wait while an update is applied" for like 15 minutes, then it finally worked

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not even a ryzen 7950x and a nvme drive is enough for an adobe app to update swiftly

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modern software disappoints me so much sadge

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Despite working for a big company, you would be laughing your ass off if you knew what kind of shit we do if things start pissing us off.
File transfer is normally not allowed outside official platforms but if its just some shit like meaningless whitepaper and nda-irrelevant stuff, we use Wetransfer lol
We have paid Adobe licenses and yeah this new cloud app launcher or whatever this shit is called is another big pain on par with EA and Ubi launcher...

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Guess what we do if we just have to merge two simple PDFs and nothing else, we use a third party free license lol

unkempt spoke
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cmd + admin doesn't work either

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how can I even find these files in regedit?

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I messed with registry before for changing file extensions and other smaller stuff but never had to wander around looking for driver entries

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# unkempt spoke cmd + admin doesn't work either

Before we step into the deep jungle of regedit, have you tried deleting the registry files from file explorer too?

  • button [Windows] + [R]
  • C:\Windows\System32\Config
  • target the stupid files
    or...
  • access regedit
  • go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
  • navigate to SOFTWARE
  • target the stupid files
  • repeat the same crap with HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_USER
    (which is why this is the last resort before the ultimate kill button)
    Btw it's a lot easier to let a reg cleaner run at the end because it's real annoying to get your system 100% clean from all dead entries.
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If you exactly know where the files are located, you can delete them through cmd too but you would have to type a lot (these days few users are used to this lol)

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I tried deleting them from file explorer, they are in System32\DriverStore\FileRepository (nothing in Config), not enough permissions to get rid of them

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I installed DDU as perhaps it could do something but I have no idea how to use it and there is no specific manual pointing to how to get rid of USB drivers

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alright, I fixed it - found these driver files on some website, installed and overwritten whatever was now, used the driver's uninstall.exe, then uninstalled the device in device manager and upon reconnecting it appears as USB Audio Codec again

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# unkempt spoke the problem is that this busb2902 does not exist in registry, actually a lot of ...

You have to remove DriverStore drivers via PowerShell, overwise Windows will simply replace them again.
There is a util DriverStore Explorer that can detect old drivers and remove them, but you can also select drivers you may wish to forcefully remove.
Obligatory make a restore point on Windows: since it involves messing with Windows system controlled files, make a restore point before prodding.
https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer/

GitHub
GitHub - lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer: Driver Store Explorer [RAPR]

Driver Store Explorer [RAPR]. Contribute to lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I tried some powershell commands before to uninstall the oemXX.inf files but they did not work so I assumed they are for Win10 Pro, I'll try this one next time, thx

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newer interfaces come with their unique drivers, this one is a budget version so I get a budget support 😄

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regarding drivers I have seen that the dude from HWiNFO has his own tool, DriverFix Driver Repair, but I'm not convinced to try it out, website looks like scam lol

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tbh Focusrite are as bad and they have their own drivers too, for a long time they never even updated their drivers and the crappy new tray-app is worse than the previous one, on Windows I have to use apps like Voicemeter to break out the ASIO inputs where their old drivers & control panel app had that feature built in.

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why don't the drivers get purged with windows reinstallation then?

faint notch
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unless you format you are just patching an ISO over an existing build 😄

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I assumed checking the "delete all files" means literally deleting everything and then Win10 is downloaded from web

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he is keeping HWBot as a separate company, but it does feed into his own product lines, so by keeping the overclocking community alive it keeps his other businesses generating revenue, I'm delving into #offtopic_hardware quite some 😄

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I tend to avoid those "wonder programs" that claim to fix everything, usually they create a bigger mess than you started with.

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heh WinPE, sometimes the only way to rescue Windows from itself, had to use it a few times after I got hit by Windows Update b0rkage corrupting itself.

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yea I got unucky with one Windows Update that they put a freeze on after people complained about b0rkage, then had broken updates for 2-3 months or so, only way to fix it was via WinPE and some low level hackery.

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that was a few years ago now, thankfully havent had any on the 22H branch.

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I am a fortunate son of microsoft and never had a windows update corrupting my pc, if anything goes wrong most of the time it's me fucking around with files or just using stuff with 0 base knowledge

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if there is a windows update I postpone it for 2 or 3 weeks in case they release a hotfix

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I got so desperate with the popping and crackling audio while playing (and pausing/unpausing audio) I literally did everything except replacing mobo and PSU, trying different audio drivers was one of these steps and Windows went crazy I guess

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Let's say I learned quickly how to deal with MS. There are some rules:

  • do not sue MS, just buy more stocks lol
  • if something went south, a full reinstall is usually a time-saver, especially with SSD
  • every day w/o BSoD is a good day, pray to lady luck
  • how to skip windows generations (ever since Win95... we jumped from Win98 to XP to 7 to 10, so we better wait for Win12 too lol)
  • never take fresh update candidates, just wait a little unless it's a serious security issue
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yeah I remember reinstalling win7 and in my case it was a whole-night process, yesterday I was surprised win10 reinstall finished within 40 minutes

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wtf

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it looks like it worked indeed

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should have pinged you a month ago

faint notch
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Voicemeter has a restart audio engine, I'm not sure what it does under the hood, but it can sometimes fix that too if you have all your audio routed using it, sometimes not tho.

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I tried running Voicemeeter when I learned that pops happen with and without my interface, through all usbs and jacks but it didn't help, I guess I would have to check an option for audio restart in this software

faint notch
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first option in the menu button

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I was crying out loud 😛

open hedge
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I have audio reset on a keyboard macro key 😄 That's how often I need it

unkempt spoke
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Really? How did I miss your post in the hardware channel lol I shall quietly disappear to enjoy my lunch in shame... in about one hour... 🙈

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Speaking of KVM... jesus christ this is yet another issue

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One of my friends switched to office work recently and he "hoped" these expensive dockings from HP do the trick, no they don't... they cost a fortune and yet they are unable to add KVM features to it

faint notch
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mine works fine, Corsair's driver hijacking does not tho, have to plug it into kvm's non-keyboard usb port to fiddle in icue, but I got my profiles saved to device so don't need to go there often.

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Btw that same friend is using Corsair LED and that icue causes an error popup everytime he initiates shutdown lol

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my icue doesnt do that, K95 Platinum board, icue doesn't even recognise it when I have it plugged into the hid-keyboard port on the kvm..
there's is some keypresses you can use to force corsair keyboards into HID mode (so it wont be prone to icue driver hijacking, also will be unavilable in icue), being corsair tho its undocumented and the keys used vary between keyboards.
fwiw I never had to use those keyboard combos.

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my kvm can switch inputs through keyboard key-combos, so have those bound & stored on my keyboards onboard profiles/memory.

brisk inlet
faint notch
# brisk inlet Corsair reminds me of ASUS, what are we exactly paying the premium for? <:blobcl...

tbf the K95 is a decent keyboard and I've had it for around 6 years now, its mech and had everything I needed til I started using a kvm to switch desktop systems to Linux depending on what I'm doing.
It was only while further investigating that situation that I realised what a crapshoot all these gaming keyboards are when it comes to compatibility and all the software fudgery that breaks when using on anything other than Windows because their drivers do not follow HID spec.

unkempt spoke
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I run my own setup through Reaper

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ah

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I had experience with some Corsair mouse generations and two keyboards. Their most expensive and budget both failed. If I recall, the premium at that time had some weird input lag nobody from Corsair could explain or fix. Except they went with public traded stocks and suddenly higher price tags, it's good quality, especially because they make use of Cherry switch patents

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Right now I'm testing the DasKeyboard X50 because their main distributor offered me this with 50% discount on their own purchase price. I have to say their software is a mess like any other, ever since I installed the software, it messed with my mute button and as long as the software is running, mute feature doesnt work anymore 😅

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heck if Autodesk made Linux native 3dsMax I'd put Linux on this machine 😄

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To my own surprise in the USA Windows market share is down on less than 55% but Linux is less than 3% and literally irrelevant. Globally Windows still dominates with 75% which is no surprise.

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I wish our almighty father Linus would do a little more than just being a father of everything. If he hopes game publishers decide to support Linux on their own, we first need a digital world wonder

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Noone can deny the fact how important Linux is. Android was born from this too but Google just did a much better job at selling opensource

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I mean it ceases the pops to happen for first dozen minutes but the more often I pause/unpause sounds (manually or automatically) the faster the pops come back

faint notch
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currently I have all output devices disabled in sounds menu, do I have to set the sample rate for them anyway?

faint notch
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uh I dunno your setup 😅 , but having them set the same sample rate would avoid any sample rate conversion hijinks

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software such as OBS will complain in the log files about sound devices having different sample rates, some DAW's will also pop errors for that.

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alright, I set everything to 16bit 44.1khz (because Arma) except for one of my monitors because it has onky 16bit 48khz or 24bit 48khz, and disabled every input and output sources except my headphones and interface's microphone

unkempt spoke
faint notch
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could try setting it all to 48kHz, I have mine all set to that these days.

wooden tendon
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I like when games mute sounds playing behind me sometimes

wooden tendon
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oh yeah I remember getting this a lot in Far Cry 3 with stereo headphones, on the other hand this happened to me in A3 only when I tried using a headset with digital surround

wooden tendon
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yeah no surround here, stereo, analog

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never had the patience to figure out why

brisk inlet
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I didnt even bother using surround or digital crap like virtual surround. if you have a solid stereo system, its quality oblitares every gaming gear at ease

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PC still 2.1 system volume 35% at best, living room 2.0 dont see why i would need extra bass just to have earthquakes lol and stereo headset too

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I only had this bug in FC3 with stereo but I guess this was probably because of some weird audio solution done by them, in Arma 3 this does not exist if I use any headphones without virtual surround

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@brisk inlet you're not gonna believe this, but it seems that the HWiNFO was the culprit - got frustrated enough that I shut it down as the only not-so-necessary software running on my PC and replugged my audio interface and now pops are gone

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I still can hear a pop when I cut off an audio source, stop a video, but it doesn't happen while audio is playing

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so far an hour without issues, if it holds like that for next 23h I'll call it a win, although I don't have a slightest idea what HWiNFO would do to cause this

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(I always run it in sensor-only mode)

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I guess I'll take my pc to some repair service and let them figure out wtf is wrong with it

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I used it to monitor gpu and cpu temps mainly, but in broader spectrum it keeps all info about hardware, voltage, watts etc

wooden tendon
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or maybe some embedded controller sensors

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I vaguely remember a similar issue with some motherboard vendor app for fan speeds

cosmic monolith
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why would you poll faster than 1 second

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what's aida

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and hwinfo it's polling every 2 seconds

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@serene sorrel How often does your workshop crawler update its database? Like once its back online, if a new mod gets posted/updated, how long until that info is in the database.

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can someone recommend a cheap online issue tracker site, for my arma project? (Other than Github)

unkempt spoke
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but a github-like or is kanban sufficient?

wooden tendon
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other than that there's also trello, and you can use github issue tracking

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it doesn't matter what issue tracker you use, but do commit to it

terse valley
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github is quite simple but maybe not simple enough

wooden tendon
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github can be simple or overcomplicated depending on who uses it

terse valley
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I use some github but want site just for issue tracking

unkempt spoke
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it's designed for todos but I've seen it used as a feedback tracker, Cherno Redux team uses it

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I think they use Trello specifically

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yup

terse valley
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looks like trello is free unless you go to premium

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i like it 🙂

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how do I delete list ? 😂

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nvm

faint notch
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@terse valley you could also look into GitLab, their issue tracker is far superior to githubs imo, it has easy to use boards where you can drag and drop items between any columns you setup.

terse valley
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A couple of years ago a lot of projects moved to BitBucket and GitLab already, primarily due to the pricing increases but also due to the acquisition by Microsoft.

Personally I haven't noticed anything bad happening, and the new features added in the past years have been positive only. Only reason why I prefer BitBucket over GitHub (for non-personal projects) is the integration with all the tools of Atlassian (Jira, Confluence and Trello).

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Primarily used Jira and Confluence from them, not bad at all

wooden tendon
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keep jira away from me

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I like using github, private gitlab for code and asana for non-code

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alternatively asana, and just link to asana tasks in commit messages for code

wooden tendon
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anyone here proficient in typescript and react? I'm learning and need a pointer for one particular thing

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nope, sorry

white knot
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I literally only want to change its default css properties like box shadows

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all I want is a BaconCard that has a different default style, that I can import in place of Card

white knot
wooden tendon
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I've built most of my app already and this broke me agonylmfaoo

ember finch
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Is it a functional component?

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Haven't worked with React in few years but I think you should just wrap the Card component in BaconComponent

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add your own values to props or whatever contains the values you need to change and pass it down.

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const BaconCard = ({ prop1 = false, prop2 = 'My Prop' }) => {
    return <Card {...props} />;
}
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We talked a lot about Win10 vs Win11 not long ago but I totally missed a detail, that "new" file system reFS they wanna introduce to replace NTFS. I wonder how a server fs ends up here after years lol

wooden tendon
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is there a faster alternative to sshfs that isn't nfs or samba? something with minimal configuration without having to install bs apps or databases?

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for mounting a lunix filesystem on windows btw

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someone old article, but good comparison between different systems: https://blog.ja-ke.tech/2019/08/27/nas-performance-sshfs-nfs-smb.html

TL;DR

In trusted home networks NFS without encryption is the best choice on Linux for maximum performance. If you want encryption i would recommend SSHFS, it is a much simpler setup (compared to Kerberos), more cpu efficient and often only slightly slower than plaintext NFS. Samba/SMB is also not too far behind, but only really makes sense in a mixed (Windows/Linux) environment.

scenic thunder
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Hey is there anyone who can help me locally host a TeamSpeak server? I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. DM me

open hedge
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I wont DM, but maybe I can help if you say what the problem is

wooden tendon
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does Windows have a tool to migrate to a new drive or do I still have to use some shady tools?

ember finch
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CloneZilla is pretty okay

wooden tendon
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will it handle disks that have different sizes? partition tables and all

ember finch
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Might need some manual tinkering

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in terms of features and processing speed, you will struggle to find something better but UI is very swiss-like, requires improvements asap imo

wooden tendon
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I just want to copy my os from one drive to the other

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if the new drive is smaller you'll have to shrink the partitions first

wooden tendon
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nobody figured out how to do the equivalent of 3 lines of bash script automatically in a windows tool?

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even at simple task such as cloning, acronis is unrivaled for years. im using acronis both for business as well as home. if you dont mind the annual fee, give it a try with free trial first

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wooden tendon
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I remember when I got one of the first samsung evo SSDs, it came with a tool to do this from Samsung, wonder if it still works

brisk inlet
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if you have valuable data and no patience for mistakes, you should consider the best for this job too

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i tested a lot in the past, symantec ghost, clonezilla and whatever, acronis is still on my disk

faint notch
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ah I was going to ask why the very specific version

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thanks dudes

faint notch
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I can have a dig around and dm you it if I find it

unreal python
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there is so many channels here i got lost

wooden tendon
unreal python
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where can i find people to play with?

wooden tendon
unreal python
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thank you! i couldnt find the channels its just too many lmao

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works for SecureBoot shizzle too

brisk inlet
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EaseUS Partition Master can do most Windows related partitioning and cloning

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WD disks came with ability to use Acronis for Western Digital, afaik as long as you have 1 WD disk running on your machine you can use it for free.
I typically use clonezilla anyway, it can do most of the things though you may need to figure out the advanced setting option to enable if you are doing partition resizing.
I've heard veeam is the new hotness in windows backup/imaging

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now thats some awesome shit from wd, nice move

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Macrium Reflect 8.0.7279 took 4 hours and produced instant bsod on boot