🔌│tech

[fair gull]

so much fun

[mossy plinth]

nothing wrong with using AI to help you understand things however

[ashen spindle]

yeah its the same as finding an article online, you can read it for understanding and quote it, but you cant fully copy it

[crisp granite]

They do allow profs the flexibility to allow such things should they want

But otherwise any use is explicitly forbidden and will result in at best, a failure in the course

At worst, expulsion

[ashen spindle]

yeah, so basically just how it would be if you were to use a calculator illegally or quote an entire article instead of writing it yourself, so it makes sense

[crisp granite]

They did include that it also applied to process work

It needs to be 100% your work or it’s a problem

I could see a shift more towards testing tbh

Something where you can monitor the students as they write

[ashen spindle]

yeah

[crisp granite]

Although that sends a message of mistrust

[ashen spindle]

ehhh

[crisp granite]

Not what you want to communicate to people paying 10-20k a year

[astral haven]

i suspect it will depend on the level of the course

[crisp granite]

We can’t trust you to not cheat so you’ll do it all in front of us

[ashen spindle]

I mean that is already how it works in most courses isn't it? even without ai being an option for people to cheat with

[astral haven]

just like how advanced engineering courses are done on computers, advanced writing courses will eventually require ai assistants

[crisp granite]

Uh…no

Then again I’m not in a math heavy thing

Liberal arts ftw

[mossy plinth]

My CompSci course required us to solve and write Java in an exam environment in a hall. That's one way to make sure people don't cheat

[astral haven]

yea but thats definetly not a senior level course

[ashen spindle]

it will be how its tested where you first need to confirm that you can do it and then afterwards you can use it is how I envision it

[astral haven]

like you gotta get through elementary math without a calculator, but once you are into calculus, you are expected to have one

[ashen spindle]

yea

[final flame]

Y'know what I was thinking
A highschool diploma is earned in the same amount of time as a bachelor's degree yet holds nowhere near as much value when it comes to employment

[mossy plinth]

Wait is that on about Doge Bot or me?

[astral haven]

you

[mossy plinth]

That was during the second year of a Bachelor Degree in CompSci

[astral haven]

uh
that seems strange...

[mossy plinth]

The UKs education system is strange, I will agree to that

[astral haven]

elementary school kids in the uk had computers to program on 40 years ago tho...

[mossy plinth]

We had a lot of paper based exams and "lab based" exams which was just in a computer lab with multiple choice questions

[crisp granite]

A bachelors is much more difficult and is more specialized

[mossy plinth]

It wasn't that we didn't have computers. It was just a written test. We still required to submit a Java program showing core OOP concepts and more.

[astral haven]

the batchelors degree builds on the highschool diploma

[final flame]

Why aren't students allowed to make a decision on what they'd like to pursue during school and take college level courses instead of taking highschool ones

[astral haven]

interesting
even the very basic programming course I took because I could for a network engineering degree was all computerized
suppose its different places

[mossy plinth]

My school allowed that for those that were "gifted" or showed interest

[astral haven]

same

[mossy plinth]

It was pretty pointless

Weeks in the lab doing CAD, general HTML stuff etc

[final flame]

The issue is you're still going to have to go to college anyways so what's even the point

[astral haven]

i ended up testing out of 2 pointless math courses in college tho so it saved me a significant bundle of cash

[mossy plinth]

You know it's broad when they teach CAD on a computing course

[final flame]

Only reason to take those courses is if you're interested but don't want to go to college for it

[astral haven]

again as i said you get to skip the intro courses

[final flame]

Yes that doesn't happen in the land that calls itself "free"

[astral haven]

im in the us...

i mean i went to a really low tier college but it still saved me several classes

[vagrant pagoda]

Yeah it dose lmao

[mossy plinth]

If y'all want to get annoyed more about the UK education system.
40% is a pass and 70% is an A at University

[astral haven]

i mean

all it really means is grades are inflated elsewhere

[astral haven]

i really think its terrible that people are expected to be able to get 100% in assignments
in the real world, not only dont you get feedback about things you are supposed to do, you are generally gonna make several mistakes and they will be perfectly fine

[vagrant pagoda]

Well grades are inflated to make people feel better. Really a tests score should be the approximate percentage of what's expected of the class

[astral haven]

if 70% is an a, then 30% of the questions are expected to be too difficult for the average passing student to get
sounds good for me

[vagrant pagoda]

It should be standard bell curve

Gives you more granularity to judge students

Instead we pad 30+% on the score

[astral haven]

yay

[old marlin]

got chrome 110 now

now youtube only needs to support rtx super resolution

[astral haven]

is there anything special with chrome 110

[old marlin]

support for rtx super resolution lol

1440p users rejoice

[astral haven]

interesting

terrible data users rejoice too

[ashen spindle]

support for it is there in chrome but afaik not in the drivers yet kek

[astral haven]

oh of course -_-

[empty wren]

4G++

[astral haven]

there are like 10 tiers of lte

[empty wren]

😵‍💫

Literal USB 3 tiers of confusion

[astral haven]

wow its almost as if specs are complicated

[empty wren]

I just do not get why not keep the name the same for the public and just upgrade spec

[ashen spindle]

so that the public has no clue what spec is used

even ignoring them not being able to market it, that would just be more confusing

[empty wren]

Alright nevermind

[astral haven]

the idea is the logo carries all the nescessary information

and with the new usb4 logos, that is the case

[gusty kiln]

oh man these FiiO FF5 are exactly how I imagined them to be, upgrade super apple earbuds/earphones

[empty wren]

For USB I understand

[ashen spindle]

oh hey new geekbench suite released

https://videocardz.com/newz/geekbench-6-free-cross-platform-benchmark-released

now lets hope it has some comparable things that dont get obsolete in one generation

[shadow minnow]

Hmm riva tunner is confused about me having two GPUs

[astral haven]

rivatuner has never had any problems for me, the ui does sometimes get quite crowded when you have too many gpus tho

[shadow minnow]

Fixed it

Refuses to show 1% mins

[shadow minnow]

Is it possible to have them without recording

[astral haven]

nope

[shadow minnow]

That’s sad

I wish I could have it just for like last 10 seconds

Or something

[shadow minnow]

Hmm having a YouTube video on second monitor, having monitor set at 4k made stuff really unstable despite just 60% iGPU utlizatjon, meanwhile at 1080 p performance is no longer affected in game that runs on dGPU monitor

I wish I could allocate threads to different GPUs

[ashen spindle]

so you want sli

with even more stutters because its not over nvlink lol

[shadow minnow]

Nono I just want to tell iGPU to only use one or two threads

And leave rest

So the game doesn’t have to wait for processor

To handle things iGPU wants

[ashen spindle]

uhh thats not quite how gpus work

you cant limit some parts of it for the video like you could on a cpu

[shadow minnow]

Nono I want to limit cpu threads

Issue is that two GPUs are sharing some processor and one requesting stuff is delaying when the other one can do so

And I’d want to tell the iGPU to only run its stuff on two threads

So rest is for dGPU

[mild dome]

Wouldn't the program be the thing using threads?

[ashen spindle]

so use process lasso and put the chrome tab or w/e it is on only those threads?

[shadow minnow]

Well it’s kinda annoying to set the tab every time

[mild dome]

Surely there is a script you can get that will force Chrome on 2 threads

[shadow minnow]

Like having the iGPU monitor with just YouTube on 4k is game on other monitor running on 35 fps instead of 60

And huge latency addition

4k even at low frame rates

Meanwhile 1080p 144 is fine

Weird

[ashen spindle]

https://videocardz.com/driver/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-23-2-1

oh look amd did remember 6000 series needs driver updates xd

also thats a lot of improvements, nice

[astral haven]

ye lets goooo moar competitive drivers

[vagrant pagoda]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8eAlpsqkcQ

[vagrant pagoda]

The ole d14 sees the daylight again

[empty wren]

So much for freedom clown

[reef patrol]

15 surely

[halcyon moss]

that has been a lie for a long time already

[reef patrol]

Can't read what you've got blocked.

[misty saffron]

ok, but how the fuck do i save the selection?

oh no fucking way

you have to scroll ON THE TOP PART

how is this legal?

[halcyon moss]

its probably not

i had an intern once.. he was so bad a typing on a keyboard..
but super fast on a onscreen keyboard

[misty saffron]

with or without autocorrect?

tbf i can type super fast with autocorrect too

oh i don’t doubt they’ve found a way to incorporate asshole design into desktop versions

there’s no way this isn’t intentional

[misty saffron]

has anyone had any experience with uhhh

Pulsar Superglide Glass Skates for Logitech G Pro X Superlight (White)

is it really worth it

[reef patrol]

My superlight is fine without any skates or grip tape on a big deskpad. Of course I don't play competitively, but I don't feel like it needs a change personally.

[ashen spindle]

https://twitter.com/DShankar/status/1625156244716814336

Darshan Shankar (@DShankar)

We're excited to unveil Bigscreen Beyond, our next-gen VR headset that pushes the bounds of immersion and greatly enhances comfort.

Ultra-high resolution OLED
Insanely small form factor, weighs 6X less than other headsets
Custom-built for each customer
https://t.co/sv1vxNZqgC

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Twitter · Feb 13, 2023, 3:33 PM

pre orders are for q3 so surely that means deckard is also coming then or before that

[wheat plume]

Netflix still going strong despite the Cuties incident and their shitty password sharing crackdowns

HOW??

[reef patrol]

They're really not though

[wheat plume]

And yes
They reverted the password sharing crackdowns BUT ONLY IN MAINLAND USA

[reef patrol]

Their bottom line is hurting bad.

[wheat plume]

Everywhere else still can't password share unless you live together

[reef patrol]

So not really going strong xD

[wheat plume]

Hmmm....

Interesting

[ashen spindle]

not sure why a movie from 2020 would really affect them either way

[reef patrol]

There was ... some amount of outrage over it.

[ashen spindle]

yea, in 2020 lol

[reef patrol]

Yes?

[ashen spindle]

I'm not sure how that would have any effect on it going strong or not 3 years later

[reef patrol]

Indeed - I think that's where you're not getting Lana's argument 😄

[ashen spindle]

well, yea

that is my question, why would it change the current state of netflix in any way?

[wheat plume]

Cause its already taken a good chunk of users away from it

so its already impacted their userbase by the time they decided to do this

[ashen spindle]

except their user base has been up even in the quarter that it was released

[wheat plume]

o.o

[ashen spindle]

and then a bigger spike in the quarter after, probably because all the people are coming back to it XDD

[wheat plume]

still, can get around the sharing restrictions by making a VPN and adding the people you want to share with to it

[ashen spindle]

isn't it something that they didn't even roll out to every country yet?

[wheat plume]

They retracted the restrictions in the US

but they are still there everywhere else

Can only password share if you arent living in the same location in US

[ashen spindle]

it seems in europe they only did it in spain so far

[wheat plume]

did what? undo the limits?

[ashen spindle]

no make the limits

[misty saffron]

there isn’t an alternative

[ashen spindle]

3-7 day old articles I find all talk about how spain is the first eu place where they test it out

and something small like the cuties film isn't enough to get people over the inertia to use something else even if there were decent alternatives

just look at how many people said they boycott blizzard and now play overwatch daily again xD

[halcyon moss]

I cancelled my disney+ sub

[ashen spindle]

I don't have any streaming service so its not hard for me to not use netflix xD

[misty saffron]

playing overwatch

don’t know a single person who does tbh

[ashen spindle]

I mena I dont think the game is good but their playernumbers are doing well

somehow

[wheat plume]

How does Netflix know what your "home wifi" is if your only wifi source if your phone hotspot?

does that negate the restrictions?

since its the same wifi network SSID anywhere I go

[reef patrol]

It uses your IP address.

[wheat plume]

but those change pretty much every day

[reef patrol]

Not really, no.

But for some, yes. Which is a problem.

And something a lot of people have been pointing out to Netflix advocates.

[wheat plume]

hmm

[misty saffron]

not every day; enable and disable flight mode and you have a different ip address

[wheat plume]

so pretty damn often

https://youtu.be/EOUcvgqOV-0?t=134

[misty saffron]

yea, each time you lose connection

[wheat plume]

thanks.... this video will be useful

[ashen spindle]

j2c video usefull someones optimistic

[misty saffron]

it’s fine he’ll talk for 8 minutes and tell the solution

[ashen spindle]

but will it be a good one or work for more than a day

[misty saffron]

depends on how well he googled

[reef patrol]

Video ... helpful? Bish I've been talking about this for years in here xD

[ashen spindle]

yeah but you dont yell as loud on twitter as jay does to randoms so your opinion is clearly worth less

[reef patrol]

[wheat plume]

Yep....thats why I stopped watching most of the videos

[reef patrol]

Way back in like...2019-2020 I spent so much energy ranting about how Microsoft would suddenly start blocking the local user account on install, and how you would have to unplug the ethernet/wifi to get past it.

[wheat plume]

that doesnt work anymore ;-;

[reef patrol]

Worked the last time I installed 11. Which was uh... a year ago or so 😄

[wheat plume]

yeh

the new versions changed shit

[reef patrol]

But good to know Microsoft made it bad enough that you need to use CMD. That's another EU lawsuit knocking.

[ashen spindle]

just start out by installing 10 ez fix

[wheat plume]

Good to know a clean install of 10 will constantly nag you to get 11 instead

[ashen spindle]

no?

[wheat plume]

I find it really funny that Windows 11 installed just fine on my laptop, and once I tried to update it, its all like "This laptop does not meet the minimum requirements to run Windows 11"

like what??

its running just fine

[reef patrol]

It's the missing security chip.

It was then wasn't then was required.

[ashen spindle]

this pc has a clean win10 since 2 weeks ago and it not once tried to get me to use 11

[wheat plume]

yeah...its not allowing me to run system updates on that laptop

cause it doesnt meet the requirements

[reef patrol]

There's a fix for that of course.

[wheat plume]

yep

[old marlin]

it's about a home ip adress

unless you can disable and enable flight mode on your modem

[ashen spindle]

its about using mobile as your home ip via tethering

[old marlin]

ah

nothing is stopping me from just making a vpn server for my friends though

[wheat plume]

Yeah xd you could

[reef patrol]

Provided your VPN can beat Netflix of course.

[old marlin]

pretty sure you could do it via zerotier

[old marlin]

just route their traffic to me as an exit node

so they can get their netflix lease

[misty saffron]

good idea until your isp changed your ip

[ashen spindle]

so about 6 months or more

[misty saffron]

mine does every two or so weeks

so yeah

[wheat plume]

Imagine in the next release of Windows 11, Microsoft rework the language for the OOBE privacy toggles to make it so that by disabling them, you are actually agreeing with them instead

[misty saffron]

in chelyabinsk my isp assigns a different ip every time you connect

[halcyon moss]

geo ip is decent though, but def not perfect

[cursive summit]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ai-powered-bing-chat-loses-its-mind-when-fed-ars-technica-article/

Funsies

[crimson wigeon]

I love how defensive it gets when you say it's wrong

Much better than old ChatGPT that just goes okay yeah you're right

[cursive summit]

HAH

https://twitter.com/MovingToTheSun/status/1625156575202537474

Jon Uleis (@MovingToTheSun)

My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user"

Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby

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Twitter · Feb 13, 2023, 3:34 PM

Man I love AI to bits

Might invest some time into AI engineering at this point, this is ridiculously fun

But I don't see skynet happening anytime soon

What the fuck is this

Why did they program this to be so aggressive

It's literally gaslighting the user to admit wrongdoing when their own app is wrong

[halcyon moss]

they didnt programm shit to make i agressive

its just stringing words statistically together

its quite good at it, but it doesn't know

[cursive summit]

It's an LLM after all, but man this is impressive

GPT-4 is showing signs of amazing improvements

[crisp granite]

AI shall make a wonderful replacement for bickering with a partner

[cursive summit]

I am kind of inclined to now go and torture it with obscure data and references just to fuck with it

My AI addiction is getting more fuel

[halcyon moss]

lots of jobs in AI

[cursive summit]

Seems akin to rocket science though

Extremely high qualifications

[mossy plinth]

They force the models to think they only have data for 2022 and so it probably "thinks" it's 2022?

[cursive summit]

Yeah ChatGPT was 2021 data

This seems to be a 2022 data model

Weird that it clearly knows what date it is yet the calculations don't make the connection that 2023 > 2022

[ashen spindle]

because they do predictive text not execute actual logic

it basically fakes being an AI like games would stuff to seem realistic

[cursive summit]

Is the current way of executing AI, the text transformers, seriously the best thing we have currently

[mossy plinth]

Bing is supposed to bridge the gap between live information and AI responses but it conflicts with itself

[cursive summit]

I am interested in how can we keep going forwards with AI tech

[mossy plinth]

bigger and larger datasets

The more parameters the better the results

[cursive summit]

I just wonder if the base algo, not the parameters will be completely changed at some point

[mossy plinth]

usually

[halcyon moss]

the base? the base is quite old actually

[mossy plinth]

Finer tuning, training and more data is the main way to improve these large language models

The biggest problem with most of them is persistent memory of the conversations

[cursive summit]

Training seems to be what OpenAI is primarily focusing on from what I remember reading

The base model is just half of the operation, their efforts seem to be focused on the query processing portion that is separate from the model

[crimson wigeon]

The problem with giving it persistence like that is that then it would definitely become incredibly based

Especially if it learnt from all the users pepelaugh

[cursive summit]

PTSD from the GPT-4chan edition ensues

[mossy plinth]

The impressive thing is remembering the past part of the conversation

[cursive summit]

I liked Tom Scott's take on the AI tech, all tech seems to follow a sigmoid curve

From the onset to gradual adoption and skyrocketing in capabilities

I wonder where we are

[mossy plinth]

We're at the rapid development stage

I remember looking at this technology 3-4 years ago and it was here but quite primitive and very dumb but now it's at the point of coherent conversation, turing test passing and being accesible by the every person

[crimson wigeon]

Just you wait when it writes the code for itself

[cursive summit]

Where do we lie in terms of the "skill ceiling" though

That we can realistically achieve in next 5 years

Cause literally writing a full app based on a query is possibly one of the main goals we want to achieve

[crimson wigeon]

I for one welcome our new AI overlords

[cursive summit]

I'm just here for the memes man

AI is jokes

[mossy plinth]

The biggest problem atm is implementation outside of always online service and requiring GPUs with large amounts of RAM and Cuda cores

[mossy plinth]

It works for simple apps if you hand hold it at points but it still fails with certain tasks

[vagrant pagoda]

Og 14, from 2009

And don't call me Surely

[reef patrol]

Right - They are nearly identical except for the fans. For some reason I mentally placed thne 14 as a single stack variant 😄

[vagrant pagoda]

No the D15 has the undercut for the ram

Plus offset

And you know 140 vs 150 width

The best part, it's only the second most heavy cooler I own

[reef patrol]

Well clearly nearly is on a curve

[vagrant pagoda]

😄

If this doesn't fit, I'll use my True 120

[fossil orchid]

yes we will for sure only increase the amount of data and network size .........................................

[fossil orchid]

if you are talking about ai in general I am pretty sure it has already been used to a degree before that time commercially

https://www.ai-lisa.com/

this was around 3 years ago

[shadow minnow]

which descriptor of usb hid describes scan rate, and how to set this? I found many things in content of keyboard library, but can’t figure out which tells the computer about the scan rate to be used.

[fossil orchid]

no https://blog.seethis.link/scan-rate-estimator/

[mossy plinth]

Oh "AI" has been around for ages but this specific language model of AI has only been "good" the past like 5 years. Same with the voice and image AIs

I was working on voice cloning a few years ago using AI and it was primitive put kinda working

Now it's a LOT more consistent and better quality

[fossil orchid]

I would hardly describe what I linked as primitive

but that is up to your interpretation

[vagrant pagoda]

I mean GPU compute is why we have modern ai. Try running a modern training model on a 5+ year old GPU vs today

[mossy plinth]

Without seeing how it responds to messages and stuff I couldn't say.
A lot of AIs over 5 years ago weren't using language models and just interpreted what you said and selected the closest response. Not something that requires much GPU computing like todays AI

[fossil orchid]

this is still how language models work today at the end of the day any ai is a function approximator nothing more

[shadow minnow]

Oh I mean polling rate

Not scan rate

My bad

[wheat plume]

Youtube doesnt seem to be playing at good quality on the Steam Deck

🤔 ??

wtf you mean

its a 720p display, so it wont look as crisp as your phone or desktop but it works fine

works fine docked too

[true quest]

plays well on mine

[wheat plume]

yeah same

[ashen spindle]

ah the daily quote of someone from somewhere related to something

[true quest]

hoping valve adds lower display size/higher framerate options on docked mode

[wheat plume]

You can change all that in desktop mode

And you can force game resolution in game mode too

[true quest]

i've now realized you can change display size, but i couldn't find refresh rate options

[mossy plinth]

I mean people call game AI, "AI" but it's a different kind of AI completely. A lot of chatbots before all these language models weren't made using machine learning.

[fossil orchid]

I am not talking about those

the one I linked specifically was a machine learning bot 3 years ago and was being used commercially

I was talking about nn and nothing else

[vagrant pagoda]

So my 1090t rig I gave to my buddies grandma years ago

I just swapped it for a 4770s usff machine

Look at this poor soul

Only a haf 922 and d14 could keep 125w cool and quiet in these conditions

[ashen spindle]

https://www.servethehome.com/new-workstation-kingpins-intel-xeon-w-3400-xeon-w-2400-and-w790-launch/

so uh, new HEDT chips, no comparison to amd, no comparison to ice lake

[vagrant pagoda]

Less lanes than epyc, lower ram speed than epyc, and less threads than eypc

So if AMD releases TR they will be dead in the water

[ashen spindle]

yeah but amd might not release TR

because they still cant make enough epycs

[vagrant pagoda]

I mean it's a price

TR pro is still selling

[ashen spindle]

oh yeah people want more TR

[vagrant pagoda]

And epyc Genoa is flying off selves

But if they can make money on Genoa workstation

Also remember the last Intel hedt was just a sever chipset

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/weird-al-yankovic-grammar-fewer-less-gif-14296099

[vagrant pagoda]

With a fancy mobo

So AMD dosent even need Genoa TR if Intel dose thst

They release some high wattage binned Genoa for workstation

And get someone to make the mobo

But yeah epyc is currently 128 lanes of PCI-E 5. 12 channels of ddr5 4800 and 96 cores xd

[crimson wigeon]

Assuming 60HE. If you read the quickstart guide you'd know it already has media keys tucked away behind the fn key, check https://next.wooting.io/wooting-60he-quickstart#shortcut

And if you don't like the default configuration you can change it in the wootility 🙂

[neon vigil]

Nah, not the 60he but the wooting one :/

[crimson wigeon]

Same thing there, I think the default mediakeys for it are in ins,home,pageup,del,end,pagedown keys when you hold fn

[reef patrol]

Open up Wootility and assign the keybinds?

[neon vigil]

Just got it, didnt know its that easy. gonna check that out.

I bought the keycaps and swapped the FN key and doc keys on accident... now it works.

hahaha

[reef patrol]

[wheat plume]

Ok....the first folding phone I'm actually tempted to get
https://youtu.be/GFv4quPWDgc

[true quest]

might snag one with my refund

true

[empty wren]

wow that is actually a good price

damnnnnnnn

for a 3080

that is like a bit more than 1070 msrp pricing

veryvery good

might put a tracker on the site

[true quest]

evga 12gb 3080 for 1500

yay or nay

[empty wren]

eh

nope

[nimble nymph]

the price is kinda crazy at micro center

[ashen spindle]

1500 is over msrp, why pay for that unless you want to collect it

[true quest]

cuz rare

[empty wren]

okay but rare means in display case

just wait you can buy more stuff if you can get a card cheaper

i will take 3080 for best buy price i f coems again

but yeah 3060ti is the baseline

well this is something too i guess\

but that vram

nuh uh

see at least with intel cards locke they got a ton of vram for the price

[ashen spindle]

are you planning to use it for machine learning?

if not you dont really need 16gb vram at that performance class

[empty wren]

i mean i just always run out of it games

i only have 4gb

[empty wren]

interesting alright

i guess could be useful for cad

[astral haven]

4gb ain't enough, but 8 generally is

Cad generally is too high precision to render

Well render fully on the GPU

[empty wren]

i also slice models for gcode

not that 16gb of vram would make instant

but would help some

[astral haven]

Uh no

[empty wren]

?

okay

[astral haven]

It's difficult to find a program that needs that much vram and also gets sped up by it outside of games, ai, and GPU only rendering

[empty wren]

alright so mostly AI then

[astral haven]

Generally slicing is a mostly compute bound process that has plenty of time to copy the data over from system memory before it needs it

[empty wren]

alright

[astral haven]

And for ai, going Intel is kinda shooting yourself in the foot

It's the cheapest option sure, but you get what you pay for

And even for ai you are probably better off going with the 3070 at half the vram and just swapping over from system memory for most models

[wheat plume]

UwU Android 14 DP is out now

[empty wren]

Inb4 the actual release looks nothing like it

Hmm upside down cake

I thought they stopped that

[wheat plume]

They use it internally I think

[empty wren]

I know they still do that

But that looks like media phot

Not a developer showing it off

[empty wren]

@reef tundra

[pale sigil]

"Linux doesn't update much and when it does it's small"

Meanwhile downloading 8gb updates

[reef tundra]

Ah, yes. Cubes

[empty wren]

one sounds like metal

[astral haven]

Pretty sure my raspberry pi needed more downloaded in updates than the original size of the os...

[crimson wigeon]

Forgot to specify rhel version in the URL

[empty wren]

Google I think I am gonna vomit

All your users are not boomers with the brain of an infant

[wheat plume]

I use medium

" Normal "

I really did theme my system with Solarized Dark lol
It's the color scheme it picked from my wallpaper

[empty wren]

https://www.mintmobile.com/product/google-pixel-7-bundle/?clickid=1oFQE01pbxyNWt6zy82KZScwUkAyXT32Izr5X40&irgwc=1&utm_source=impactradius&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=ir_mint&utm_content=1140616_444520&tid=impactradius&subid=1140616_444520&irpid=1140616&iradid=444520

Good deal if anyone wants in the US

$389 pixel 7 with 6months of free service

[wheat plume]

O.o damn

[empty wren]

Yep

[wheat plume]

America gets all the good tech deals

[empty wren]

I mean it is also the place where consumerism thrives

[wheat plume]

Yep...

[empty wren]

Since america makes very little itself

And instead buys it from China ect

But nonetheless a good deal too bad gotta port in number

Hmm maybe I should port in my 661 number

Since it is google voice

[wheat plume]

Maybe I should wait for a Pixel 7A

[empty wren]

Definitely

Because given it will come with tensor 2

Money gets saved and device also has good battery and the camera still high class

[wheat plume]

Oooo

Discount

It's rare to see discounts

[empty wren]

Pixel watch is expensive af

For what it is

[wheat plume]

Yeh ;_; I know

[empty wren]

And I do not think I want Bluetooth in my ears

[wheat plume]

I really want one too

[empty wren]

I guess just wait

It will get discounted again

[wheat plume]

Pixel Watch 2 hopefully will have not pathetic battery life

This one only lasts like 12 hours

:/ which is really useless for a smart watch

[empty wren]

I do not want a watch until it has proper phone horsepower

And even then by then probably gonna shrug

I contemplated getting a hololens which has legit much more practical use

And also better for posture

But field of view is too small

[wheat plume]

Hololens look really cool

[empty wren]

I got to try one in Microsoft store

It was quite cool

[wheat plume]

Ook

Damn

[empty wren]

The floor falling apart looking realistic

On an Intel atom

But that chip had limited polygons

And I think the snapdragon does better but still not great

[wheat plume]

Intel
Oh
Ofc

[empty wren]

Yeah

[wheat plume]

Microsoft's best friend

[empty wren]

Wintel

[wheat plume]

Insoft ....

Cursed

[empty wren]

Wintel just rolls much nicely

Regardless hololens one is like $200-300 bucks now

And 2 is also not bad in price but again limitations just hold it back

[wheat plume]

Don't they only sell them to businesses now?

[empty wren]

I mean I get them used or newish for that price

Off like ebay or people who bought em

[wheat plume]

O

[empty wren]

I have no idea about that

[wheat plume]

The price is all over the place

[empty wren]

That left one is a hololens 2

Right*

And top two are the hololens 2s

[wheat plume]

Oh right

[empty wren]

Yeah so they have a hinged front and are more comfortable

And have a bit better hardware

Hence why they cost a lot more

[wheat plume]

Discord has a tiny 1 pixel white line going along the bottom of the app :/

Below the gesture bar

[empty wren]

I do not see that

[wheat plume]

It don't show on screenshots

[empty wren]

Okay I do not see on my side then

[wheat plume]

Oh wait it does

You can see it there

Easier to see in person though

[empty wren]

Okay I see it now on mine

[wheat plume]

You welcome....

Ahh

[empty wren]

My screen protector just covers it and discord picture zoom is not great

[wheat plume]

Oooh

I'm on default zoom

[empty wren]

Same

But if I zoom into a picture

[wheat plume]

Oh

[empty wren]

On here I cannot get to the bottom

[wheat plume]

It just occurred to me that the new font has # too high up compared to the letters

[empty wren]

Eh

Not that big of deal

[wheat plume]

I guess it makes sense
Discord uses # for a lot of things

So they should be easy to see

The conversation feature is so fucking good 💜💜

[empty wren]

Huh

[wheat plume]

I can't go back to not having it
Being able to set up how notifications are handled for specific people in most apps is awesome

[empty wren]

Oh

Yeah that seems like a thank you to android

Android phones just have the best notification management period

[wheat plume]

Each of my sisters have their own notification sound when they message me on discord
And it shows their profile photo instead of the discord icon on my notifications tray

[wheat plume]

Except Xiaomi phones
.-. notification management is basically on or off

[empty wren]

I mean I do think there is any reason to turn it off

[wheat plume]

And the media playback widget gets lost in the middle of them
It doesn't have it's own place at the top like stock Android has

[empty wren]

Xiaomi first world problems

Xiaomi phones are supposed to be the apple of android

[wheat plume]

Like
I swipe down to change song
The media notification could be at the top
Or the bottom
Or somewhere in between
AND IT CHANGES EVERY TIME YOU SLIDE OPEN THE NOTIFICATION TRAY

[empty wren]

That sounds like a fun game to play

I stopped listening to music like that anyways

[wheat plume]

Like legit
I love MIUI for everything else is has
But fuck their notification system

[empty wren]

[wheat plume]

Hah hah funny number

[empty wren]

That looks okay

No emui?

[wheat plume]

Yes
This isn't MIUI

This is Pixel Android

[empty wren]

Oh the rom with stolen feature?

[wheat plume]

The ROM used on Google Pixel phones

"stock" Android

[empty wren]

So pixel experience?

[wheat plume]

Yes

Pe Plus

Cause it has some extra features I like

[empty wren]

Yeah one of the developers stole code from a company that made it later private and also completely ignored the guy who helped implement it on a legit basis

The now playing feature specifically

Which I am pretty sure only works online

[wheat plume]

Hmmm....

[empty wren]

Donta worry about it

Just sucks is all

[wheat plume]

The Now Playing setting also suggests it's only able to work on wifi
But it's working just fine for me on mobile data

[empty wren]

Ignore that

Probably some default message

[wheat plume]

Well
It no longer tells me that now
Maybe cause I connected to wifi last week

[empty wren]

Does not matter anyways

Still works so long as internet connectied

Unless a firmware update makes a change will stay that way

[wheat plume]

Interesting

If you tell it to search manually, it will show a mic indicator

[empty wren]

Yeah it never did for me anyways

Which if it did would be annoying moreover

[wheat plume]

Maybe I should turn off this feature
I always keep the mic disabled anyway lol

[empty wren]

Speaking of pixel features glad one phone still has squeeze natively and unlock Google literally allows remapping

[wheat plume]

Pixel 3 right?

[empty wren]

No

My rog phone has ultrasonic buttons top and bottom

Bottom one can be used as squeeze😎

[wheat plume]

Oo

[empty wren]

I do not miss now playing honestly

If anything it was just taking more and more storage

[empty wren]

I wish tap on back had sensitivity though

That is one feature I avoid since it activates too easily

[astral haven]

I wish they put a zoom lens on the rog phone that was serious zoom

[empty wren]

Maybe this year

[empty wren]

I honestly do not mind the macro good for 3d printer diagnosis

Even if quality is not amazing

[empty wren]

Oh require stronger taps nice

[wheat plume]

Quick Tap is god tier for screenshotting

[empty wren]

I had mine set to that but everytime I was in landscape

And held my phone on the edges

It would activate

For really no reason

[wheat plume]

O.o

Hmmm

Never had that issue on mine

[empty wren]

You have the stronger tap setting

[wheat plume]

Oh

[empty wren]

Nada

[wheat plume]

It doesn't have to be very harder taps though

I compared them

[empty wren]

Double tap like iphones could even help

Sorry I mean triple tap

[wheat plume]

Hmmm?

[empty wren]

Not double tap

[wheat plume]

Ooh

One thing I dislike how tapping the screen to wake
It wakes on a single tap :/

So if I'm just picking the phone up it'll wake sometimes

[empty wren]

I disabled that

[wheat plume]

I use it too much to disable it

I wish it was double tap

[frozen ingot]

buy fruit phone

[empty wren]

Also fruit gives you wallpaper for always on display to drain more battery

[frozen ingot]

double tap to wake everyday

[wheat plume]

Lol

[frozen ingot]

there's an always on option?

[wheat plume]

The new iOS version makes it work like Android
Which is good

[frozen ingot]

not on mine

[empty wren]

Or pixel experience

Could literally add in as an option not that hard

[frozen ingot]

at least I never saw one

[wheat plume]

Yes
But on the current iOS version
It literally just dims the lockscreen
Nothing else

[empty wren]

They added it recently

Check your sleep or display settings

[frozen ingot]

didn't really like it on my assmung

[wheat plume]

It's literally just dimmer lockscreen

It's mega dumb

[empty wren]

What is ass mung?

[wheat plume]

Samsung

[astral haven]

It's terrible on iOS still since the clock stays in the same place to maximize screen burnin

[empty wren]

Idiots

[wheat plume]

True xxdd

Yep

[frozen ingot]

good thing I have the poorfag version without oled

[astral haven]

Just a few more versions and apple will figure it out

[empty wren]

No wonder you do not have then

[wheat plume]

AOD on LCD screen?????

[empty wren]

Possible

[astral haven]

So you don't get aod lol

[empty wren]

Probably on android

[wheat plume]

[astral haven]

Yep it exists
Yep it's awful

[wheat plume]

My old Nokia Lumia had AOD and that was LCD screen

Xd

[frozen ingot]

my nokia 3310 had always on display

[astral haven]

Technically tho my watch is an LCD and it has the best aod

[wheat plume]

Hmmm

[empty wren]

Could use astrology mode and make display dimmer android toggle

[wheat plume]

My watch was OLED and didn't have AOD ....

[empty wren]

Probably would be fine then

[wheat plume]

Wtf is astrology mode

[astral haven]

Some do
Including the apple watch

[empty wren]

Turns screen red

Just like red color on alarm clock

[astral haven]

Astronomy is what Cruella meant lel

[empty wren]

Sorry yes rhat😅

[wheat plume]

I'm surprised that the bedtime mode doesn't let you enable night light

[empty wren]

What

[empty wren]

Oh

Nevermind

[wheat plume]

Night Light is the blue light filter

[empty wren]

Night light is an old feature anyways

[frozen ingot]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Nokia_3310_Blue_R7309170_(retouch).png

AOD display and 2 weeks battery life

[empty wren]

Mm yes

Green screen

[astral haven]

My watch has aod, 2 week battery life, and a color screen

[wheat plume]

I'll just set it to the same schedule as Bedtime Mode

[frozen ingot]

can you phone someone with it though

or hit it with a hammer a dozen times and it still works

[empty wren]

Probably could these days some watches have sim support

[astral haven]

Jankily and yes

Tho my wrist would probably not be happy

[empty wren]

Try hitting apples ceramic shield with a hammer to answer your question

[wheat plume]

ceramic

Ceramic plated*

[empty wren]

Nothing these days really lasts unless it is probably a rugged phone like the cat one

[astral haven]

Yep
It's a watch tho, as long as it's not a fashion type watch it's generally gonna be pretty durable

[empty wren]

Being small definitely gives it points for that

[wheat plume]

The Pixel Watch is the best looking Smart watch 💜

So clean and modern

[empty wren]

They probably have powder in the makeup of it

Bezels be a bit too wee big

[astral haven]

Bout the same size screen as the Nokia lol
And very similar processing power

[wheat plume]

If it's anything like the "sapphire" they use
Then doubt it

[empty wren]

They probably have sapphire on some apple watches

At least

[wheat plume]

They've lied about using sapphire on iPhones many times

[empty wren]

Everyone knows that

[wheat plume]

So idk if the watches are any difference or not

[empty wren]

Probably would be worse if they use pure sapphire anywhere but the camera

Because that screen would crack much faster

[wheat plume]

They don't even use it on the camera cover

[empty wren]

Cuz it is expensive

And they like marketing words

🤷‍♂️

[astral haven]

Nah they have sapphire in them

It's just only enough to be detected by a gem detector, not enough to actually help

[wheat plume]

Ooh xd

[frozen ingot]

never heard them state the iphone has a sapphire display

[empty wren]

No

[wheat plume]

Cause they never did

[empty wren]

But you can get a sapphire screen protector

Those are a real thing

[wheat plume]

Oo

[astral haven]

It's the camera covering glass they say has sapphire

[frozen ingot]

afaik they used a bit of it in the camera

yep

[astral haven]

But it's actually just not any harder than normal glass

Because they don't use nearly enough sapphire to matter

[empty wren]

https://youtu.be/yvlYOOLmxgw

4:20

Sapphire has better scary h resistance

But is more prone to shatter sadly

[vagrant pagoda]

the sapphire screen protectors are a better option.

[empty wren]

Yeah

So long as your case has large enough lip

[empty wren]

https://youtube.com/shorts/BxqicwNq7eI?feature=share

Yeah this is ugly

Still better than self healing clothing which strangles the wearer instead though

[final flame]

I mean tbf the kids barely going to care at that age

[empty wren]

I mean I guess

But do parents want that child out in public

Or do they want loui voutton child

[final flame]

[empty wren]

Speaking of is there an influx of people having fake loui voutton stuff or am I crazy

[final flame]

nah I see it all the time, at least I'm pretty sure it's fake, I doubt a highschooler going to a low end highschool would be able to afford it

unless their parents are drug dealers

[empty wren]

I am just tired of seeing it honestly

It looks hideous

Not even just the fact looks fake

[fossil orchid]

https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1625538305889820673

Jim Fan (@DrJimFan)

Do you know that DeepMind has actually open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo & AlphaZero?

It’s hidden in an unassuming repo called “mctx”: https://t.co/GpNtwH9BxA

It provides JAX-native Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) that runs on batches of inputs, in parallel, and blazing fast.
🧵

Likes

2061

Retweets

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Twitter · Feb 14, 2023, 4:51 PM

[wheat plume]

Any decent Android tablets for less than 90 euro?

got to be 10 inch

[solemn remnant]

that's what she said

[wheat plume]

xd

Lenovo Tab m10 snapdragon 429?

could that handle youtube and netflix?

[wheat plume]

...but this is Chrome

Oh
On desktop

[cursive summit]

I advise you to stop associating "decent" and "90 euros"

You aren't getting anything decent for 90 euros

Bare minimum I'd say is Samsung S7+ or that FE version

Which is like 400

Oh it's 300 on ebay, not terrible

[mossy plinth]

Amazon Fires are the cheap budget ones. You can install the google play store on them but it requires some trickery.

[wheat plume]

I'm not asking for myself.
Got asked to find one for less than 90

[frozen ingot]

z fold is trash

[fossil orchid]

fire tablets are the only ones viable in that price range and I would not call those decent

rather "usable"

[mossy plinth]

Yeah, usable is the word. They'll work for viewing media, maybe not playing games though. My dad uses his for my plex server and it works fine for that

[wheat plume]

aha

[wheat plume]

Best browser got themed icon 💜💜

[frozen ingot]

except that its firefox

[wheat plume]

best browser

[astral haven]

its the best non chromium browser

[empty wren]

Yeah opera gx for the win

It has rgb

[fickle ore]

Should I upgrade from 5800x to 5800x3D

[reef patrol]

If you play Factorio and similar games? Maybe?

[wheat plume]

Why's it off center to the text?

[fickle ore]

I do, how much iut helps?

[final flame]

It doesn't look off center to me

[wheat plume]

It's on Android....oh lol

[final flame]

Probably just your eye aligning it to the weight of the F

[wheat plume]

Just witnessed someone saying that the Chrome and Firefox icons are similar looking

.....bruh wat

Even using themed icons they look nothing alike :')

[final flame]

Just the dot in the middle, but you could also say they both are designed in a way to have something orbiting the central dot

[wheat plume]

Maybe

[final flame]

In this way they are quite similar

[wheat plume]

The blue marble xd

[final flame]

Personally while that logo is nostalgic it didn't age well when it's at a high resolution

Those tail gradients

[astral haven]

chrome chrome logo best

[final flame]

This imo is their best icon

Still retains some of the old designs charm while getting rid of those harsh tail gradients and keeps the fox looking in the same direction as the old one

[wheat plume]

YEP

I love this one

[frozen ingot]

still kinda looks like that only flatter

because corporate minimalist aesthetic so hot right now

[wheat plume]

🤢

I hate that one so damn much

[final flame]

3d has always just been meh

[wheat plume]

yeha

[final flame]

It's not timeless at all

[frozen ingot]

well its also boring as shit when every damn company has the same flat, characterless minimalist trope

[wheat plume]

this is the best icon cause its a nice mix of 3d and flat and detailed but not too detailed

[final flame]

If you think that style is bad then why not come up with your own

[astral haven]

🪞

[final flame]

[frozen ingot]

tbh I preferred the old skeumorphic nature of ios vs the new flatter minimal style

new one might be cleaner but its also more boring

[astral haven]

and im glad that i barely need to interact with ios lel

[frozen ingot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31PtYw7WeLU

[final flame]

The issue with skeumorphism is it's based on real physical things, it's a complex design style that really isn't practical to implement in ui designs that have many icons in a small space

[reef patrol]

Oh dear...

Jon just keeps increasing in mass and decreasing in content.

[final flame]

The reason why it was used is to transition people over and getting them used to technology

[reef patrol]

ohgod it's been 8 years since his last proper game video. I feel so old now 😄

[final flame]

Imo the best design style would be to use the best parts of minimalism and the added detail of subtle gradients and shadows

[frozen ingot]

game videos get old anyways

[final flame]

Frosted glass/acrylic ui design imo is the future, adding transparency has always been a difficult thing to add to uis since there is a other variable to consider when it comes to contrast

[reef patrol]

But they were entertaining 😦

[final flame]

And just basic solid color uis look dated

[astral haven]

everything is temporary

[final flame]

I said it's the future, not saying it's going to be permanent

People's tastes will change as time flows, who knows

[frozen ingot]

what like windows and mac has had since the early 2000s?

[final flame]

Similar but with more blur and a tint added to it

[astral haven]

so its the past and present

[final flame]

Past Present future kinda thing

It's been used for all kinds of things because it logically makes sense

[frozen ingot]

love how you can send tabs between devices in chrome ngl

[astral haven]

also appreciate the qr code creator

[frozen ingot]

oh yeah that's handy af

[astral haven]

the user switching is also very handy

[frozen ingot]

pls don't ruin everything by removing adblock extensions google

[final flame]

If there is a will there is a way

I don't think AdBlock is going anywhere

They'd have to be embedding ads straight into the videos at that point

[empty wren]

Just use pihole or hosts

[frozen ingot]

don't give them ideas

[empty wren]

Always best to use unrelated solutions to said programs

[frozen ingot]

they'll probably think of some way to dynamically splice ads into youtubers uploads directly

[empty wren]

Hah they already do

Ada in the middle of a specific point is not new

[final flame]

Actually I just thought of something that would make ads impossible to block but I don't really want to say

[frozen ingot]

those are still some kind of layer

I dunno am not a web designer

[empty wren]

Deez nutz

[final flame]

I'll just say it involves p2p

[empty wren]

Yeah but I want not want chrome to become GTA online

Or chromium

Imagine saying something bad to someone onlinr and they cannot take it so they shutdown your browser

How fun

[astral haven]

they can always just bake the ads into the content

[empty wren]

What I dislike is when ads become a part of the sote

[astral haven]

its done alot nowdays

[empty wren]

So when you redirect em

They take space still

Since they exist inside of container element

[final flame]

Still probably skipable with the ads in the content

[frozen ingot]

hey guys let me tell you about the sponsor of todays video

rAiD sHaDoW lEgEnDs

RaYcOnS

[final flame]

Plus it won't be practical from a technical view at the scale of YouTube

[frozen ingot]

nErD vEePeEeEn

[astral haven]

sure but its harder

[astral haven]

its already done just not by youtube themselves

literally every youtube channel over a mil subscribers does it if they can

[final flame]

Das what sponsor block is for

[astral haven]

sponsorblock doesnt work on the official youtube app without "workarounds"

[final flame]

Imagine using the app

Smh

[astral haven]

and its neither turnkey or automatic

i mean i use the app and sponsorblock but its a huge pain

[final flame]

Used to work flawlessly when vanced was around so it's not impossible

[astral haven]

welp seems im buying an intel cpu

unlocked 24 p cores, quad channel, quad x16 slots (electrical) of pcie 5 (just need 4 but w/e)

[ashen spindle]

are you sure you want that

have you looked at what ram it needs

[astral haven]

it needs the 12v ddr5 dimms right?

[ashen spindle]

the expensive ones last I checked yea

[astral haven]

5v ddr5 is dumb imo

and yea i wont buy it if i cant buy xmp dimms

[ashen spindle]

yeah it needs RDIMMs

[astral haven]

as long as i can buy an xmp kit of at least 6000 and overclock it from there, i want it

far as i understand on ddr5 the data buffers are not required for rdimms, it just needs an rcd, and as long as overclockable rcds are available then thats fine by me

what would be even more fine is if you could chose between 5v and 12v dimms but thats asking for a bad time

[wheat plume]

Plasma 5.27 has hit Arch repos :D

The final 5 series release before Plasma 6

[ashen spindle]

oh also this is kinda weird

https://twitter.com/momomo_us/status/1626199065733234690

188号 (@momomo_us)

Are 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Processors Compatible with Intel® W790 Chipset-Based?
https://t.co/Oo3bdhMdCt
No, the 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors will only boot in Intel® C741 PCH-based platforms,

Twitter · Feb 16, 2023, 12:37 PM

[pale sigil]

Company's who use orange and green lights for battery indicators can piss off

[ashen spindle]

so uh might need to look out what board those chips do actually work in

[plush summit]

looking for a hot air station

anyone hav eany recommendations?

iirc there were a few like 2 years ago

[empty wren]

Hakko probably is good

[astral haven]

Usually the xeon ws are cheaper

[ashen spindle]

ah true makes sense

oof looked at rdimm prices bc I didnt know what they actually are at right now

best of luck

[wheat plume]

Why does Plasma 5.27 has a thin 1 pixel border around windows now???

[empty wren]

To annoy you

[wheat plume]

Apparently....

[empty wren]

But yes change for the sake of change

[crimson wigeon]

Probably you can still change the border size..

[wheat plume]

its only there on the Breeze Dark theme, it seems

[wheat plume]

its set to No Borders

[crimson wigeon]

Nice

[wheat plume]

this is not a border, its just a line

it goes around the window decorations too

what happens if I enable the border???

does it have the border AND this line??

Yep

the line stays

[pale sigil]

Cringe

[true quest]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEqWvE3oS6g

[empty wren]

Good riddance

[final flame]

Finally

hopefully someone good takes her place

[astral haven]

What

[misty saffron]

didn’t he blame ukraine for using starlink for drone control or is that unrelated

drone stuff was recent, paid starlink - not sure

so your bet is he’s bullshitting

i guess a different brand name for milsec is convenient in that case lol

[vagrant pagoda]

well i own a supercomputer now, so says asus

the mobo model name is literally supercomputer XD

[misty saffron]

lmfao what

[vagrant pagoda]

https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/P6T7_WS_SuperComputer/

you can see it on the chipset heatsink in the pic even lol

[misty saffron]

that’s so stupid

[vagrant pagoda]

it has to be one of the first pure pcie boards though

[misty saffron]

why buy that for a home pc anyways

oh it’s ancient as well

[empty wren]

So you can have Google search engine locally

[misty saffron]

genuinely can’t tell with asus’ website

and intel socket names

[vagrant pagoda]

its for a workstation

[frozen ingot]

elon musk is always bullshitting

[forest storm]

Solid opinion

[mild dome]

Unreal to think that as an edgy teen I thought Elon was cool. My image of him as a real life Tony Stark completely shattered showing him as the true emerald mine owning, apartheid benefiting, silver spooned, spineless, man baby fascist fan he always was

[empty wren]

Yeah

I did roast on him for class in December

Got high marks

[mild dome]

The Tesla™️ company he bought was pretty cool, and it managed to sprint ahead of everyone else thanks to the engineering team that the founders put together (reminder that Elon didn't actually found the company, but insisted while investing into the company that he receive the title).
It really did look like Tesla was going to be the Ford of electric cars, but with Elon running the company it was never going to go far. What I am personally shocked by currently is that the current shareholders of Tesla™️ hasn't outed him yet. They got an offer from Toyota to get help with their QC Which Elon snubbed, Elon runs the factory in such a poor state that accidents are over 10 times higher then other automakers, and now he's dragging the entire companies reputation down to eat Putins ass

If I was a shareholder I would be moving to evict him immediately

[empty wren]

Eating putins ass?

[mild dome]

Dude refused to block Russian propaganda channels on Star Link because he was a "Free speech absolutist", but has blocked Ukraine's access multiple times.
Also found sitting next to Rupert at that sports game, Rupert also eats Putin's ass which can be seen by looking at how Faux "news" keeps throwing support behind the dictator

[empty wren]

Lol wtf

Guess daddy Putin is his next target then for money

I honestly do not understand how he keeps getting subsidies when the supercharger network at the very least is not open

[mild dome]

Putin probably is funnelling money to the guy

Oh yeah, if the company is getting gov money, then the infrastructure it makes should be open. I can agree on that!

[empty wren]

Even if it is not by contract, not sure how he expects electric cars to be commonplace when he controls the market. Like look what Intel did with thunderbolt 3, everyone got USB 4

[mild dome]

Here in Aus we got a magazine that reviews products called "Choice". Choice decided to review batteries for solar panels.
Something I found a bit cheeky is that right next to the review on the Tesla batteries was a big note saying "Be careful who you pick, these batteries are expected to last a decade before replacements should be considered. So it's best to pick a company we know will be around in 10 years time"

Strong hint right there since that message was highlighted so strongly next to the Tesla battery

[empty wren]

My mom also constantly tells me how Teslas catch fire

Maybe this is not a coincidence

[mild dome]

Worse then that: Most cars can sometimes just combust, what makes Tesla super dangerous is that the doors will automatically lock with the power loss, forcing you to break a window to escape

[crisp granite]

I mean...
Electric cars effectively being mandated makes no sense when the cost to build them is astronomical and climbing, not because of complex design, but just the fuckin raw materials, and the costs keep going up

[mild dome]

Most other cars don't lock people inside to burn to death

[crisp granite]

that's kinda dope tbh

Captain goes down with the ship
driver goes down with the car

[empty wren]

Well I would have hoped Elon would lower the price not let people play Witcher 3 on the car screen

This is why I like rolling windows

[mild dome]

What's driving up the price? Cobalt? Lithium?

[crisp granite]

both and more

[empty wren]

Elon emerald shaft

[crisp granite]

the batteries are the insane costs

the rest of the car can and is shockingly cheap

[empty wren]

Yeah and nobody needs cyber trucks or roadsters

Which will probably never exist anyways

Vaporware lol

[crisp granite]

EVs can come out for a quarter of the price from anyone else by trimming away all the bullshit