🔌│tech

[halcyon moss]

hm, how do i see the age of my account

[frozen ingot]

I used my brothers acount for the first few years, my own one is from 2007

[severe phoenix]

I had another account, perhaps even older

But I lost it in my foolish youth

back when key trading was popular

[frozen ingot]

played HL2 on release and I remember hooking it up to steam

[severe phoenix]

I downloaded Steam off Kazaa after someone in a match of CS 1.5 told me about it

Thought I snuck in to the beta or something

[frozen ingot]

the green steam

[severe phoenix]

Yeahhhhh

Good times

[vagrant pagoda]

Add it to your discord profile and the ave shows up on it

[crimson wigeon]

Or just look for the years of service badge on your profile

[severe phoenix]

1 more year and I get the Steam Pension

[pale sigil]

Lol

I wish I could retrieve my og profile

[severe phoenix]

I am that greedy person who wants Steam to do something special for us 20 years, dunno what, but a simple badge feels too litte 😛

And anything else too much

[crimson wigeon]

Am too young for that 😦

[vagrant pagoda]

Yeah I moved from live.net email to Gmail and got a new steam account

And don't have the old one

F

I got Gmail in like 06

Then slowly moved all my shit

Back then you couldn't change your steam email

[astral haven]

If they won't give me anything for this, you won't get anything just for having an account

[final flame]

Damn more games owned than literally on my wishlist

[fair gull]

[shadow minnow]

Why can’t you

Is there a way to get google to shut up

Anti competetive something something

Can’t close the pop up

And it collides with text in a weird way

As the blue part is transparent

[severe phoenix]

That's a small amount of games

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah, but a small fraction of what's there

[astral haven]

You have hundreds fewer lmao

[severe phoenix]

This is my friends count. :p

lol

[astral haven]

Oh geez lmao

[crimson wigeon]

bruh

[severe phoenix]

https://steamladder.com/ladder/games/ He's in 2nd place

Moved up a lot

[shadow minnow]

How can a steam account be worth 300k$ did he rob a bank

[severe phoenix]

Dunno

[shadow minnow]

I consider that a yes

[severe phoenix]

He's Russian so, it's possible

[shadow minnow]

Oh so he hacked a bank

[fair gull]

your friend is open to buy the new zelda on eshop for me right?

[severe phoenix]

lol

Nah I'll just get him to buy Wooting instead

[fair gull]

ya no wont happen

we dont ship to russia remember

[severe phoenix]

Not yet.

I said he would buy Wooting.

Not a keyboard.

Wooting itself.

[halcyon moss]

18 years

[fair gull]

we dont ship to russia

not even the entire company

[severe phoenix]

lol

[fair gull]

so this means he can buy me an eshop game

good to know

[ashen spindle]

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-Replace-AGESA

[astral haven]

getting rid of agesa is good news i suppose

[ashen spindle]

ya

[pale sigil]

Can't remember the email

Irs from a longgggggggg time ago

[wheat plume]

2004 Apple Cinema display...

[astral haven]

yea its a pretty dated display these days
really unfortunate they never replaced it directly

[wheat plume]

Studio Display 😅

[astral haven]

oh wait not thats the 2004 model not the 2012

[wheat plume]

1600 + 999 for the stand

• 250 for a vesa mount to use any other stand with it

[astral haven]

ooh i didnt see this one

thought they only had the pro display for 5k

[wheat plume]

tbh...still looks damn good

[astral haven]

yea back in my last job i had to recycle one of them

was rather sad

until i realized that it was using a proprietary connector

[wheat plume]

yeah...

they needed a way for making dual DVI into one port

[astral haven]

no they didnt

dual link dvi already existed

[wheat plume]

but they made an adapter for it to make it into a one port connection to the computer

[astral haven]

dual link dvi is 1 port

[wheat plume]

oh wtf

ok

[astral haven]

in fact db-59 which was made for connecting dual dual link dvis was already in existence

what they wanted is a single port that also included firewire

[shadow minnow]

I can’t seem to be able to find much about that connector hmm, any idea when was it designed?

[astral haven]

no clue

its pretty darn old

[shadow minnow]

I genuinely can’t find out when was it released

It appears apple display thing was designed 1998

And had extra usb and 25v pins too

Which is probably reason apple used it

Since well you could power monitor by it

[astral haven]

it was a custom one off connector

[shadow minnow]

And transfer usb data

[astral haven]

and it didnt have usb natively

it was using firewire

[shadow minnow]

Wikipedia says it did have usb but may be wrong

[astral haven]

monitor did

[shadow minnow]

But that the cable has

[astral haven]

wow thats even more messed up then

i thought they didnt support a breakout box bc it was firewire and firewire is a huge pain
but if its native usb its just laziness

[shadow minnow]

Yeah may be that

It’s really hard to find info on it

[astral haven]

either way glad that era is over and done with

unfortunately tho apple ofc prevents you from using mst, and as such requires thunderbolt for their monitors to work because using the standard high res modes is too consumer friendly

[shadow minnow]

Sadly standard with HDR

[astral haven]

wish everyone would just support hdr like youtube revanced on android does

basically just works perfectly

[shadow minnow]

I really wish that windows did emulated hdr on apps that don’t support it like macOS does

So the screen doesn’t go blank for few seconds everytime I switch SDR and HDR apps

[astral haven]

the annoying part is it supports it, i wish you could force it ojn

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1123osi/force_autohdr_on_unsupported_game/

in fact i wish you could force it on globally everywhere

cause it works singificantly better than the windows compositor's hdr

[shadow minnow]

Yeah, I think macOS just forces it by default globally if HDR is on

[astral haven]

yep, but macos's compositor is rather latent

[wheat plume]

Poor Mint...

Don't worry
We all know you are better than Ubuntu

[halcyon moss]

without ubuntu they would not exist, without debian ubuntu would not exist

[wheat plume]

Yep

Well
Mint has a Debian edition

[ashen spindle]

thanks for mentioning debian, that reminded me I really should update my webserver this weekend

still runs debian jessie

[wheat plume]

Xd

Oh

[ashen spindle]

yes, a bit old at this point

[wheat plume]

The Amish have computers, and they use Linux!

[fair gull]

NeVeR cHaNgE a RuNnInG sYsTeM

[hasty elm]

They tryna hide these from us

[misty saffron]

lanaposting
noun

1. portmanteau of lana and shitposting
   1a. the action of posting random images with no context

[hasty elm]

They probably gotta wooting keyboard too

[fair gull]

1a would be a verb not noun

[wheat plume]

xd

[misty saffron]

ok fixed

[fair gull]

still a verb

[wheat plume]

context is here

https://youtu.be/TjhFu5VUv5I

[misty saffron]

nope

wait i have a theory

https://youtu.be/TjhFu5VUv5I

[fair gull]

lanapost would be the noun

[misty saffron]

is a bot just reacting to all embeds

[wheat plume]

seems it is

[reef patrol]

How is this a surprise?

[hasty elm]

Cuz they got their wooting keyboard faster

[misty saffron]

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

[hasty elm]

Lmao

[misty saffron]

and i thought germans are better at english than russians...

smh

[fair gull]

welp

[misty saffron]

oh you banned already

i was testing in other channels

was about to say it seems to be a very bored human instead

[wheat plume]

LOL

[final flame]

Eq'd my er2xr to my perfection
@gusty kiln

It works so damn good with my current music

[wheat plume]

why is cheese so fucking complicated?

https://youtu.be/evV05QeSjAw

there is an entire fucking government funded research center and trade secrets and shit

[ashen spindle]

you dont think thats normal rather than cheese being special?

[frozen ingot]

because cheese is a science

[reef patrol]

Cheese isn't. Specific cheese is.

[ashen spindle]

any specific food that reaches mass scale will have control, research etc.

[frozen ingot]

most swiss cheese you can buy here is hole-less, ironically

[wheat plume]

its unholy

:')

imma leave

[frozen ingot]

or close to

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/Ovp7jrJdLAc

🤔

apparently the ICU cannot keep up to the screens refresh rate so there is stutter

cause it has to convert the screen to landscape at the same time

[frozen ingot]

I didn't know handhelds had an intensive care unit in them

[wheat plume]

ooff...

got to manually flash firmware

using a programmer thing and strange cables

like what???!!

I see....

oh

its a vacumn cleaner / hoover situation

got it

LOL that last one is my entire family

ive never heard anyone call tissues kleenexs before though

unless the are that brand

[final flame]

I mean I listen to a lot of Japanese music and Japanese mastering can be a bit funky at times, hatsuki yuras generally tends to be good but stuff from seraph can be very bad

Well I think it's mostly due to the equipment that it's mastered on

A lot of Japanese audio has quirky tuning

It works when it works but for anything else it's not that good

[wheat plume]

vgm is meant to be listened to with all the other sounds of the game ontop of it

so OFC mastering would be off

[ashen spindle]

yesn't

there are plenty of cases where its made for both cases

if its used in cut scenes for example when there is no other sound or so

[wheat plume]

true

aha..

[final flame]

The 3db bass boost for subbass helps a lot when it comes to stuff I listen to since it usually lacks a lot, there's also a 1.5db boost in the midbass

Well for anime osts it really depends on the artist

Some artists create their music as if it's intended to be listened by itself, and master it accordingly

[wheat plume]

istg, I thought you said anime oats

[final flame]

Kevin penkin for example makes some of the best ost music and it's properly mastered, with actual dynamic range

[gusty kiln]

Ooo nice

[final flame]

From my own experience a lot of Japanese tuning leans on the extreme dark side

Ironically since a lot of Japanese audio equipment is tuned on the bright side

Seraph and emille's moonlight serenade both have dark mastering

Well because they're live recordings from people performing it

The anime studios give them a lot of leeway to make music, Kevin even made music in a old church in Europe

[wheat plume]

I should have expected this

The flatpak for Epiphany uses the LibAdwaita theme in a QT environment

and not the theme that QT wants to apply to GTK apps

Hmm, does it at least switch to dark theme... hmm one sec xd

AYY

it does :D

it switches to dark theme automatically

ooo, blue titlebar for private mode

[cursive summit]

Lana discovered a browser

I know, big news

[wheat plume]

I alreayd knew about this browser

but it used to be so bad, Ididnt use it

but now it can do pretty much anything a normal browser can

[cursive summit]

What did you use for browsing the web before?

Notepad?

[wheat plume]

Firefox Sync :D

[cursive summit]

Command prompt?

[wheat plume]

watching youtube was barely possible on this browser just a year or so ago

[cursive summit]

So, notepad then

[final flame]

I'm more surprised you knew it was hatsuki yura lol

[wheat plume]

that must be horrible when it comes to shit ive said

[final flame]

nah just a lot of random lanaposting

[cursive summit]

As is now tradition

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/05/mercedes-locks-better-ev-engine-performance-behind-annoying-subscription-paywalls/ yay

[wheat plume]

lol

doubt

[cursive summit]

And I already forgot who you people all are

Hello? Was this pizza hut?

[final flame]

makes sense

[tribal dirge]

jetplane

[vagrant pagoda]

https://youtu.be/66n1nylac0M?t=569

20-25w playing AAA console games at 1200p

[ashen spindle]

Really makes me excited to see z1 tests

[vagrant pagoda]

i just has a normal apu though

[severe phoenix]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/828342888341045328/1104196389455548528/image.png I wonder what GPU they have. 😛

[old gulch]

Speaking of which, I can’t tell differences <6dB

[astral haven]

meh it just depends how wide range the boost is and how close together you get to listen

[latent mural]

awesome picture, did you take that?

[tribal dirge]

https://store.google.com/intl/en/ideas/pixel-is-open/

[cursive summit]

https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_stand_2nd_gen?pli=1&hl=en-US

Stand

As memey as the Apple Stand

Bruh this shit is still 999$?https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand

Fuck off Apple

[sharp badger]

Kinda interested in that Pixel Fold just dislike Samsungs with their extra apps

[rich pewter]

I mean of course it is

[wheat plume]

At least it also charges the phone

[cursive summit]

You know what also charges the phone?

A cable

Or a 10$ wireless charging pad

[wheat plume]

The 10 dollar pad changed it mega slowly though

[sharp badger]

https://youtu.be/gMkQPIji08E Perfect fit for the GPU

[reef patrol]

Oh it's that extended ITX form factor... what was it... BTX?

[sharp badger]

Yeah i think it's called ''YTX''
https://www.maxsun.com.cn/2023/0107/5874.html

[reef patrol]

Oh! Now that you mention it, it's a long longer than BTX. It's basically shrunk and rotated ATX 😄

[sharp badger]

Yeah it's like a chopped of ATX motherboard with the width of a mini-DTX/DTX

[vagrant pagoda]

Dtx was full length

Mini dtx was mini itx lenth

I had a shuttle PC with DTX, had 4 ram slots

I had the X79 with CFX

Using one of the goofy Koolance external mounted rads

[sharp badger]

The DIY-Ape King is 245 x 175mm and mini-DTX is 203 × 170mm so yeah mini-DTX is probably closest comparable motherboard but the layout is different on the Maxsun motherboard

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Predator-X27U-launching-soon-as-new-gaming-monitor-with-240-Hz-1-000-nit-and-OLED-display.714578.0.html

[azure dome]

to answer someone's question about quest 2 being the best zero motion blur display on the market right now: https://forums.blurbusters.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7694

backlight strobing is a technique used in LCD monitors that reduce sample and hold blur, quest 2 flickers it's backlight at a high frequency that reduces the blur (even hiding any gray to gray slow response vs an OLED) and has no crosstalk which leads to perfectly clear motion

might not be the highest resolution display but it's very clear in motion that gives regular displays with BFI (black frame insertion) or backlight strobing (for LCDs only) a run for it's money

[ashen spindle]

best in on category maybe, still limited to 60hz that way though

[azure dome]

I tried it at 120 hz and it works just as well, didn't see motion blur in many of my desktop games

sad it doesn't support VRR though

so you have to use overkill hardware to make sure you hit 1% lows of 60 or 120 fps

[ashen spindle]

no vrr, even 120 isnt the best, latency

its not bad but not the clear winner display wise, ignoring stuff like comfort of wear etc.

[azure dome]

agreed, my argument is motion blur only. Not latency, not resolution, not refresh. Just 0 motion blur

[fresh heath]

Okay even if it’s the best for no blur, there are a lot of trade offs lol
Like “It flickers badly like a CRT but some of you still love the nostagilia CRT-clarity zero-blur at 60 Hz refresh rate for emulators and/or consoles.”

[azure dome]

no flicker at 120 hz at 60 hz it depends on the user

if you grew up with CRT tvs and monitors it might be a none issue lol

those things were BEASTS

[ashen spindle]

hmmm idk I think compared to my quest my qdoled screen isnt fairing worse in that regard and the other aspects make it a clear winner there for me

[azure dome]

so interesting that you brough up oled

oled has instant response times yes, 100% agree but you still have sample and hold motion blur without BFI (black frame insertion)

and even then, I think BFI usually cuts the refresh in half in most cases, I think I've only seen LG tvs do it at full refresh

[ashen spindle]

oh yeah it's far from perfect and if you measure it maybe it does perform worse technically, but it seems better or at least equal to me due to other factors

only a theoretical discussion for me anyway because I think the quest is ass quality for wearing it lol

[azure dome]

It depends for wearing it because there's a LOT of third party accessories for it but yea I agree it's not the most comfortable thing to wear, we can both agree on that

[ashen spindle]

got a deluxe strap to make it bearable, the default one is just plain garbage lol

but compared to the index, that one I could wear without issue for so much longer

[azure dome]

I also have the quest pro with some modded pads

so far it's been a treat

way better than anything I could get with the quest 2

I prefer headsets with pressure on forehead rather than face

[ashen spindle]

never looked at one and I dont think we need one at work so I'm not even thinking about using that one xD

holding out for deckard soon™

[cursive summit]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-z1-apu-series-can-operate-with-9w-tdp

Not that far off of a Raspberry Pi

Impressive

[azure dome]

I heard they might implement VRR + backlight strobing for that model. Would be exciting

[ashen spindle]

Lots of speculation, all of it sounding great haha

[sharp badger]

Yeah and May 11th is very soon

[cursive summit]

What's on May 11th

[ashen spindle]

It helps if you read what you post to know about it

[cursive summit]

I am well aware that May 11th is Ally's launch

I was wondering if @sharp badger was responding to my post or whatever display talk you were talking about

Wasn't following what you were conversing about

[sharp badger]

Thought it was about the Ally

[cursive summit]

Z1 is indeed in Ally, the cheaper one at least

I wonder if the architecture jump will make it more efficient than the Deck

The graphical output of the Z1 non-E is pretty low, could pack a decent battery life

[astral haven]

That's nearly double an entire raspberry pi in the CPU alone...

[cursive summit]

I merely googled Pi 4 TDP and it said 7-10W

Idk if that was turbo or base

9W seems pretty good, still

[wheat plume]

Got to love Sony

making a gaming case for their phone that has a cooling fan, ehternet port and full size HDMI port on it

[cursive summit]

I don't get the ethernet port

But.. alright?

[wheat plume]

gaming phone!

[severe phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/modem-router-line-cable-pstn-gif-14899670

[wheat plume]

lower latency online LOL

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/GKp49mEUWYc

this would be soooo nice if it was OLED screen

144Hz though

VRR

can go down to 90 or 60 if you want

[pale sigil]

Still waiting for price

[wheat plume]

8400mAh battery

[pale sigil]

In Uk confirmed I mean

Still waiting on it

[wheat plume]

its only available in China unless you find a way to import it

[pale sigil]

Good tablet with a budget scteen

But at this point idc

[pale sigil]

It's getting a global release irrc

[wheat plume]

idk

[shadow minnow]

I don’t get why do they make the UI look like iPad so much ngl

[wheat plume]

Cause Chinese

[pale sigil]

Because iPad OS is gold standard

Duh

[ashen spindle]

bc making a different ui just to be different but then be worse isnt a good idea either

[pale sigil]

The only ok alternative is one ui

[wheat plume]

ColorOS*

;-;

[shadow minnow]

Well sure, but they made lot of aspects just to be Same not to be better, at least from what I saw in ltt review

[ashen spindle]

exactly

so if it can do more or is cheaper, its basically the better option

[wheat plume]

this tablet has split keyboard

and multiwindow

and all the MIUI Chinese ROM features

that global doesnt get .-.

Global MIUI is garbage

MIUI Chine also doesnt lag like Global does

https://www.giztop.com/xiaomi-pad-6-pro.html

@pale sigil

[pale sigil]

Oh I'm very aware of how to important

Jesus

Snapdragon

8+ gen 1

For that price

My biggest concern is warranty

Xiaomi is genuinely god tier garbage

Like, if a god had a big shit, that's xiaomi warranty

And I don't this store will have 2 years

Eh

[cursive summit]

gen 1+ for 449.00?

How did they manage

That's cheaper than what Samsung wants for S20FE

Ahh, LCD display

[wheat plume]

Xiaomi limit profit margins to 5% maximum

[cursive summit]

I can see where they are cutting corners, and that's completely fine

I don't at all like Xiaomi OS though

Actually, a lot of people

[wheat plume]

you probably dont like the Global edition, same... The Chinese one is a lot better

[cursive summit]

What is that? A pizza?

[pale sigil]

Um

[wheat plume]

Its a very VERY security and privacy based ROM only available on Pixel phones

[pale sigil]

Ikr who cares about Chinese phones

[cursive summit]

Ok, nerd

Thanks for not understanding the joke

[wheat plume]

XD

[cursive summit]

What is an OS? A pizza?

[wheat plume]

Yeah, customs OS on Android are called ROMs

yes

?

MIUI Is a ROM
OneUI is a ROM

all the versions of Android on different brands are ROMs

[pale sigil]

It uses android

It's a rom

[wheat plume]

GrapheneOS is using Android too

[pale sigil]

It's a version of Android

That's what I'm saying Lana

[wheat plume]

yeah

[pale sigil]

Well

Shut it because

[ashen spindle]

roms are android images, graphene is an os with android compatibility

[pale sigil]

Still a rom

[wheat plume]

Still a rom!

[cursive summit]

Community

Not an authoritative answer

[ashen spindle]

I dont think some random answer in whatever thread is a definition

[pale sigil]

Tbh that's where I was going

[ashen spindle]

https://www.howtogeek.com/790266/what-is-grapheneos-and-how-does-it-make-android-more-private/

[pale sigil]

The community generalise then as the same now

[wheat plume]

Also, Android ROMS are READ ONLY, you cant install anything that messes with ROOT

[pale sigil]

It's a common word used for such things even if it's not kiteral

[wheat plume]

unless you ROOT it

so yeha

they are roms

[cursive summit]

I wonder what ROM stands for..

[ashen spindle]

if anything its the opposite and more roms aren't actually roms since they are not read only

it getting a label from community != that being the accurate definition

[wheat plume]

what ROM is not read only on Android?

you normally cant do shit to the underlaying file system other than your own user folder

like how SteamOS is immutable

thats read only

except user folder

[ashen spindle]

but do they primarily live int he read only memory of your device

[wheat plume]

dafuq

[vagrant pagoda]

Any phone with stock root lol

It isn't ready only memeory

It's flash nand

Also any security os for phones is a farse

None of them have open source modem firmware

Modem has full read write access to ram

[wheat plume]

the issue with custom ROMs is not being able to use banking apps on them because they are not play store verified

so you need to root them and then hide the root and its jank

[vagrant pagoda]

That isn't an issue these days

Magsik is flawless bow

Now

I have it on 12.1 and it works on 13 too

[wheat plume]

The guy who makes Magisk got hired by Google, so he is not allowed work on Magisk anymore ;-;

[empty wren]

He can and still is working on it

[wheat plume]

He made tweets explaining he cant work on it a year or more ago

has that changed?

[sharp badger]

Got a Venu 2 have been happy with it, the Epix 2&Fenix 7 was released a few months after which sucked but eh, whatever will probably buy a new one when the Venu 2 don't suffice

[wheat plume]

government approved
wat?

oooohhh

Is Windows government approved?

cause thats got a built in keylogger

and data collection and adware

[reef patrol]

https://youtube.com/shorts/Mm2Qk5LIOog?feature=share

That's so China 😄

[wheat plume]

oohhhh

yeah, that typical LOL

[fair gull]

wha

he was able to work on it

[final flame]

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

[fair gull]

iirc they just imposed some limitations regarding NDA and it not interfering with his work at google

[wheat plume]

Why does the sound quality playing music from yt via MPV better than playing it on yt itself?

[halcyon moss]

Does it grab a higher quality stream?

[ashen spindle]

does it actually give higher quality or is that just a feeling

[wheat plume]

idk

but the sound is, just better to me

idk how

Im not even doing anything special

just the default flags to play only audio and to shuffle the playlist

idk what that means

...

apparently copying a link in Firefox and then pasting it after you closed firefox makes it clear from your clipboard

cause link gone

ooohh

[boreal isle]

Dude, is anyone else here potentially interested in force feedback mice?

Imagine if the aim going up and kinda all over the place happened on ur mouse, not the game.

Ofc nobody would use it in a competitve shooter, but could be an amazing experience for single player games

[reef patrol]

Not since Black and White.

[boreal isle]

Black and White is a game, I dont get it....

[reef patrol]

So... what... 22 years ago?

[boreal isle]

And force feedback technology evolved a lot

compare the N64 Rumble Pak with the PS5's DualSense

[reef patrol]

It was the last time I recall anyone trying to push for vibrating mice. Logitech got Lionhead to do a special mission that required it.

[frozen ingot]

force feedback mice sounds like its mostly just going to enrage you by throwing off your aim

[boreal isle]

Not for competitive shooters

But I feel like I'd have a lot more fun with the mouse throwing it off than the game doing it

What I rly wanna know is

can force feedback realistically throw it off enough

considering the average grip and sensitivity play on?

*people play on?

If the mouse just goes brrrrrrr its not rly enough, for it to be interesting it should be able to actually move the mouse

and kinda control the movement.

[frozen ingot]

I think the issue would mostly lie with the force feedback motors etc making the mouse heavier

and as we all know zoomers hate mice that doesn't fly away from a gust of wind

[boreal isle]

I def don't mind some weight

I actually add weights to my mouse.

But yea, I do agree, it must be viable for both the immersive thing

and competitive-ish play

cause ppl are not gonna be switching mice around for each game they gonna play.

I'm not even saying it's like surely a great idea, I'm just saying if I was in the business I'd definitely look into it, maybe prototype it.

[frozen ingot]

some do, also with keyboards

but its definitely a niche crowd that does

[boreal isle]

lol , yea

sounds like too much of a hassle

I do own 3 different mechanical keyboards

but I just use my favorite one lol

[frozen ingot]

I have two wootings and a couple spare mechs and membrane boards

but yeah hard to really use more than one at a time

[boreal isle]

once you get used to one

it feels rly off any other one

[final flame]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HVK55hEtjk

[wheat plume]

Is plasma desktop the only one that lets you see such detailed battery info??

[ashen spindle]

depends what other desktops put in by default? any Os can show that and more

[wheat plume]

yeh, by default

One annoyance with flatpaks ;-;

got to specify the exact package name for them if you wanna use them in CLI

[reef tundra]

What is a good generic cheap top level domain?

[wheat plume]

.me I think

[final flame]

xyz

quite cheap

[astral haven]

they are all cheap if you pick a longer url

[reef tundra]

KDE is neat

[final flame]

well they're also very cheap if you buy something not in demand

[astral haven]

yep

[reef tundra]

18 euro per year on one site

[final flame]

namecheap is also generally the cheapest domain seller

[ashen spindle]

netcup or others also have deals that make the domains even cheaper sometimes

[wheat plume]

I wish Plasma had dynamic desktops like Gnome

[astral haven]

my .com is $13 a year

lmao

cloudflare has a bunch for $11

[reef tundra]

Google offers 12 euro for xyz

[wheat plume]

And apps that aren't a design language from Windows 2000

[reef tundra]

Isnt XYZ banned by some websites?

[ashen spindle]

netcup has .de for like 5.5$

[final flame]

this is namescheaps price

[astral haven]

cloudflare has a random domain i found available for $9 for a .com

[reef tundra]

Thats german

[ashen spindle]

yeah

idk what you need it for

[reef tundra]

Dont you need german residence to be able to claim .de?

[final flame]

.Tv is Tuvalu lol

[final flame]

it really depends on the country

[ashen spindle]

uhhh idk, since netcup is the one providing it maybe thats enough

didnt really check that ever

[wheat plume]

Isn't most of their income from people buying that domain? :')

[reef tundra]

Because .nl requires you to have a dutch adress

[final flame]

if it's being sold on the domain sites then it's most definitely fine

[reef tundra]

Wait. .nl is so cheap

[ashen spindle]

it was included in my vps server so I dont even really pay for it either and had to check costs lol

[reef tundra]

8 per year

[astral haven]

.uk has no requirements and cloudflare has it for $4

[ashen spindle]

yeah but that means you willingly chose uk

[astral haven]

sure but its still cheap

[final flame]

heh .zip

[ashen spindle]

is .co.uk cheaper or more expensive than just .uk?

[astral haven]

.co.uk is limited afaik

[wheat plume]

So expensive...

[wheat plume]

There's a .uk tld??

[reef tundra]

Does the domainregistrar matter much other than pricing?

[ashen spindle]

... please

[wheat plume]

??

I only ever heard of .co.uk

[astral haven]

technically you are required to put in certain info to the whois, and some tlds are willing to anonymize it for you

[ashen spindle]

the .co part makes it a second level domain

[final flame]

not really, the upfront cost is, but once that's done it's a lot cheaper than something like .audio

[wheat plume]

OMFH
I wonder if logdotzip knew about this .zip tld when he made his website
Cause I don't think he uses that

[final flame]

or something that's really in demand it probably would be worth it

.zip is recent

[reef tundra]

You also have the GDPR

[astral haven]

shouldnt be related to the registrar tho?

[ashen spindle]

.zip has only been suggested to become one less than a decade ago I think

[astral haven]

afaik as long as you geoblock the content of the website from europe you dont have to comply with gdpr at all

[ashen spindle]

so actual years for it being usable even less

[final flame]

https://www.registry.google/tlds/zip/#:~:text=zip%3F-,.,zip domain means speed.

[rough osprey]

such a cheap domain

[wheat plume]

How much is an .na TLD?

[reef tundra]

Google it

[astral haven]

everything highly depends on how popular your domain name is

[final flame]

Headphones.com moment

I wonder how much that costed them

[reef tundra]

Also, if it has special purposes or directed to corperations

[wheat plume]

Didn't know .Irish was one!

We use .ie here xd

[barren basin]

There are so many

[final flame]

internet explorer domain

[barren basin]

There's .bike

[wheat plume]

Hmmm xd

I found .fit

[empty wren]

Why stop there, go with .ru

[wheat plume]

.... Oh
There goes my plan to make my own website

4 grand

Wtf why

[final flame]

because 2 characters

[wheat plume]

Bruh

[reef tundra]

You even have disgust tld

[wheat plume]

Ew

[reef tundra]

@crisp granite

The queb*c have gone too far

[barren basin]

Is there .Kosovo

[reef tundra]

Based

[barren basin]

Based if true

[wheat plume]

Hmmm

[latent mural]

XD

[barren basin]

Lad.na for Thai restaurant for lads

[wheat plume]

:')

LOL

Ofc is taken

Uhh

[jaunty valley]

what should the actuation point be for typing

cause .1 is really fasr

fast

[rough osprey]

that moment when over 100000 people have the same last name

kinda hard

i will try when the next internet gets developed

[final flame]

the fact that I need this

because for whatever reason copy paste just sometimes breaks randomly

[rough osprey]

nah u just hit the wrong button

[final flame]

no

[rough osprey]

yes

[final flame]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1083917271610691615/1091795341931716638/95C6A739-EDA1-4EFE-B852-4E36F48F3D4E.gif

[rough osprey]

😼

[south maple]

Finally took the plunge on de-standifying my computer monitors and putting them on arms today… should've done this years ago.

[crisp granite]

Yeee

I don’t like it at all

Should have rounded them all up and cleaned house while we could

[severe phoenix]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-reportedly-issues-dmca-takedown-for-switch-homebrew-projects-skyline-switch-emulator-development-ceased.632406/

[cursive summit]

Lol

So they make their move

Oh man if I could, I would take Nintendo into eternal lawsuits over this shit

[severe phoenix]

Nintendo is just one of the worst companies out there and people love them

[cursive summit]

Hasn't Nintendo already lost lawsuits about this

Homebrew ≠ piracy

[severe phoenix]

They're actually the reason emulation is legal

[cursive summit]

Teach them a lesson again

[severe phoenix]

Becuase they were so aggressive

[old marlin]

They even took down projects for extracting key files

Not even to dump games

[cursive summit]

So, lockpick

[old marlin]

Ye

[reef patrol]

Like I said the other day. If they keep this up, they will eventually hit someone who can back up a lawsuit with money to let it run it's course.

Aka. Fucking around and finding out

[cursive summit]

It's rather said that to companies like Nintendo legal fees won't even make too much of a dent

They can just keep abusing the legal system to do whatever they want

Maybe there should be a law where companies like these, if they lose a lawsuit, can't sue anyone for 10 years or something like that

[cursive summit]

What on earth

Like, I got a game that came out like, 3 days ago, and it keeps crashing my PC

[latent mural]

heres your answer

jk

sorry idk how i cant help much sorry

but

its a new game maybe a bug

report it to the devs

[cursive summit]

More like RX 5700 is unstable and still crashes

[fair gull]

can someone explain the difference between LC49G95TSSPXEN vs LC49G95TSSRXEN

one is listed as va and one as qled

[glad gyro]

Have you over or underclocked the chip? If not if it's within warranty return it. This should not be your issue

[barren basin]

QLED is an entirely different technology

Wait no I'm confused

QLED basically is just a quantum dot layer to increase color gamut

[cursive summit]

Lol you clearly don't remember how bad the RX 5700 is

[barren basin]

Allows some VA panels to do 10 bit color

[cursive summit]

Warranty doesn't apply for a card released 4 years ago anyways

[glad gyro]

Where I live Warranty is 3 years on all cards and you may not have bought it at launch

[cursive summit]

I didn't even buy the card, it's a prebuilt

[barren basin]

Then you would claim warranty on the whole machine

[cursive summit]

Man while I love the performance of the 5700, keeps up with the much newer RTX 3060, the instability is dread

[cursive summit]

Even heard of "2 year warranty", it's been like 4 years

Meh I'll see if there are any good second hand RX 6000's around

[glad gyro]

I guess I am just lucky where I live with consumer protection laws

[cursive summit]

We both live in EU I bet

[glad gyro]

Nope

[cursive summit]

WD's got databreached?

[fair gull]

figured it out. the G95TSSP is this years model and the G95TSSR is 2021

[uneven sandal]

This has nothing to do with any game crash. Basically your EndPoint Protection agent failed to retrieve certificate update information for your TPM chip (maybe Device Health Attestation check). Don't stress about this

[cursive summit]

Pretty sure my TPM is off

And I don't use any "EndPoint Protection"

[fair gull]

what game

[cursive summit]

Age of Wonders 4

[reef patrol]

Oh yeah AoW is a bit crashy.

Having the latest graphics drivers definitely helped me. There's also an additional settings in graphics that helps.

[fair gull]

and ure sure u disabled the fTPM?

deffo looks like a tpm error for sure

[cursive summit]

I'm on Win10, and I'm relatively sure it's disabled

I didn't go and enable it unless it's on by default

[reef patrol]

I have it on with no issues on 11

[fair gull]

i think its on by default check tpm.msc in run

itll tell you if its enabled

[cursive summit]

Well it's on then

[fair gull]

might try disabling it in bios

and see if that solves it

[cursive summit]

Roger

[fair gull]

weird though that the fTPM fricks up because of an unreachable url

[ashen spindle]

does it freak out though or does something else freak out and this is just a follow up

[cursive summit]

Why would TPM make my PC crash and freeze?

[fair gull]

googling it just shows AMD driver issues

and the only fix for the win11 folks was a dedicated hardware TPM

since vex is on win10 disabling it might just solve it

if he doesnt use it anyway no harm done

[cursive summit]

Is TPM in any way used in virtualization?

The reason it's on might be cause of VM's

[fair gull]

only if the vm needs it

like win11 vm

the only thing on windows that absolutely requires tpm is bitlocker

[cursive summit]

I was running Win11 in VM's, but that was the "debloated", extremely truncated version

And Bitlocker might be on cause Kaspersky uses that for data protection or something like that

So I guess it might be useful to keep TPM on, I don't particularly mind the PC crashes

Just sad that they do happen

[fair gull]

bitlocker usually encrypts entire drives

idk if kaspersky even mingles with it

ah they store the master key on their cloud server

[cursive summit]

I might have encrypted my drives honestly

I think I remember doing something with drive encryption

[fair gull]

youd see since they have a lock on the icon in "My PC"

or "This PC" or whatever it is

[cursive summit]

Don't see any locks

[fair gull]

then you dont have it set up

[cursive summit]

I wonder what did I set up, cause I do recall getting some sort of masterkey file and it told me to back it up

... which funnily enough I have no clue where that file is

[fair gull]

thats the bitlocker icon

and you need to unlock them all before using one by one

only the os disk is unlocked automatically by entering your account password

if you open the Manage BitLocker app you could check

[cursive summit]

Bitlocker says it's off

Now I wonder what was that key file that I was given by windows at some point

I wonder if that was account recovery?

[fair gull]

might be or you turned bitlocker off

but id just try disabling and checking if it fixes it

can always reenable if needed

[wheat plume]

Accurate

[barren basin]

Someone made a Linux distro that looks exactly like windows 10

Idk what it's called but I want to try it

[wheat plume]

Lindows

Yeah

they even copied the fact you need to buy a license for it

I hate shit projects like that

If you make Linux look and feel like Windows, then users will get into the wrong mindset that it will also WORK like Windows, so when they have to do something slightly different than how they normally would on Windows, they will get angry and hate it

This is why I love the Gnome desktop so much
It looks and feels MASSIVELY different to Windows and therefor you are required to keep in mind the differences and to learn Linux as a whole and keep an open mind on how it differs

[ashen spindle]

isnt lindows the 20 year old thing

[wheat plume]

no clue

but they have a Windows 11 clone now

wait

its called LinuxFX now

[wheat plume]

LinuxFX

[reef patrol]

I smell copyright infringement.

[wheat plume]

yeh xd

Im surprised it hasnt happened yet

^

People only like the apps that are on Windows, not Windows itself

:P

[ashen spindle]

not false, but people also dont care either way

[severe phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/bill-gates-south-park-shit-clean-that-shit-up-gif-21430243

https://tenor.com/view/thats-right-bill-gates-south-park-s17e8-a-song-of-ass-and-fire-gif-20388822

[wheat plume]

Im certain if you could customise the look and feel and workflow of Windows as easily as on Linux, then no one would use Linux

there is a lot of people who hate the Windows workflow

especially in 11 cause you cant move the taskbar anymore :/

[ashen spindle]

people want to use apps not browse files

[wheat plume]

wat?

wtf that got to do with anything?

[ashen spindle]

workflow can be a nice QoL but people use word, games, whatever and it doesnt matter if you can move a taskbar or not

thats not the reason why people use an os or not

[wheat plume]

I know 5 people who refuse to upgrade to 11 because they donty like the taskbar being forced to the bottom of the screen

that is the ONLY reason that they dont update

[severe phoenix]

5 idjits

[ashen spindle]

yes and your view is extremely skewed because you already interact with a niche group of people, if you look at the average pc user that aint the case

[wheat plume]

yeah but its probably not going to work on the newest version, or you only get a free trial before needing to pay for it

[rich locust]

hey! guys if i put taychon mode 1ms on, my keyboard crashes every 7 minutes

why is that

[ashen spindle]

#1019755933959733258

[wheat plume]

paying for software just to move the taskbar?

yes

thats shit

that is a thing the OS should already let you do

not up to the community to make

[severe phoenix]

Not having the Taskbar on the bottom is already sociopath behavior

[wheat plume]

left <3

[severe phoenix]

I mean you're quite insane so that's no surprise.

[wheat plume]

LOL

LOL

I can change that

can also adjust how THICC the panel is <3

44 pixels is the best IMO

on 1080p anyway

wut

...

SteamOS doesnt come with a firewall

rip

🤔 wait, it does?

not according to systemctl, it does not

<3

If I knew how to code, id make this widget be able to show a progress bar too

but I like it regardless :D

[cursive summit]

Oooh hell yeah

May 11th release

The camera sensor seems to have gotten a major upgrade

[reef patrol]

Looks increasingly difficult to put down a phone on a flat surface without damaging the lens 😄

[pale sigil]

Haha

Ye

[cursive summit]

Sony to me looks genuinely the simplest and prettiest as far as design goes

Old-style camera arrangement, in contrast to the Samsung/Apple camera quadrants

[reef patrol]

But tri-lens, so longer than a lot of other phones not using a square.

[barren basin]

Waiting for a phone with a back made of only lenses

[cursive summit]

Man I do hope Sony Xperia pricing went down even a little bit

It'll be 1599$ launch price and then it'll go down to 1199/1099$ a month later

[barren basin]

Jesus christ

You used to be able to built a totl desktop for that money

I can't imagine spending even a grand on a phone

[cursive summit]

Fair enough honestly, it's a weird market we live in

[barren basin]

It's a phone if it calls people and uses the internet I'm good

[cursive summit]

But what wouldn't I pay for a 3.5mm audio jack

[severe phoenix]

Lol

[cursive summit]

phone
Calling
What is this, 2004?

[barren basin]

If only I lived somewhere with public transit

[barren basin]

Texting

Ppl still do that right?

[cursive summit]

On discord and messenger/viber/telegram, sure

[barren basin]

Where is my global wifi blanket, Branson?

[cursive summit]

Who tf is branson

[barren basin]

Richard Branson

[cursive summit]

Never heard of em

[barren basin]

Billionaire, virgin brands guy

[cursive summit]

No clue

[barren basin]

Eh

Important part is

He had an idea to blanket the planet in wifi

Except that's not how wifi works

[cursive summit]

Sounds fun

[pale sigil]

@cursive summit ANC changed me life and I compared them to my earphones as they seal well.

[cursive summit]

Idk man that's how Starlink works

[barren basin]

Global plot for 100% autism

[pale sigil]

Plane and train it's god tier

[cursive summit]

Whatever works for you

Idc at all for ANC, it's useless

[barren basin]

Are you in Siberia or something

[pale sigil]

Just wish the audio was better.

[cursive summit]

Republic of Buryatya

[final flame]

just get er2 ez

who needs anc anyways

[barren basin]

Anc doesn't affect seal

[barren basin]

Ur shitting me

[cursive summit]

No I don't shit on you

That is weird

[pale sigil]

I meant i was comparing seal via earbuds Vs my acn headphones.

[barren basin]

Yes let me just get my ear hole impact driver

[pale sigil]

The reason I prefer anc is it cuts out pretty much all engines noises etc

[barren basin]

So you weren't commenting on the anc?

[cursive summit]

Welcome to normal earbuds

Ever heard of passive isolation?

[pale sigil]

What I'm saying is normal earbuds don't seem to cut out certain frequencies as well

[cursive summit]

They do

[pale sigil]

I can still hear remains

[barren basin]

Passive isolation is highly frequency dependent tbf

[cursive summit]

Skill issue

[pale sigil]

It's also a personal thing aye

I hear certain sounds a lot more than others

[cursive summit]

I am literally outside rn with earbuds blasting Radiohead, can't hear shit

[barren basin]

You are actually in Siberia?

[cursive summit]

Da, komrad

[barren basin]

Wow

[pale sigil]

All I'm saying is when I compared my earphones seal which were great, I can still hear things but very low, anc just kind cuts then out entirely or almost none existent

[final flame]

https://tenor.com/view/etymotic-earphones-black-hole-ears-gif-20826399

[pale sigil]

And being able to turn on transparency mode is nice

So I can hear normal without removing stuff

[cursive summit]

I also have transparency you cuck

[barren basin]

Yep still hate it

[cursive summit]

And I don't need ANC to have silence

[final flame]

they're just a earplug

[cursive summit]

Melomania Touch, best musical plugs with sound quality of headphones

Check it, 80$ rn

[pale sigil]

Oh well fair enough

[barren basin]

Passive isolation isn't great with lower frequency ambients

That being said anc kills dynamic range

[pale sigil]

But either way, I find it way more comfortable than an earphone seal which was my biggest issue.

[barren basin]

Anc phones rely on eq to sound OK

[reef patrol]

Vex... wtf xD

How can you not know Branson

[barren basin]

They live in Siberia

[cursive summit]

No clue who Branson Mansen is

[barren basin]

Wow you didn't even read

[pale sigil]

Idk Branson

Either

[reef patrol]

He owns Virgin, he's done space stuff.

[final flame]

why would average person care about some random person

[reef patrol]

He's the british Elon 😛

Before Elon was Elon.

[pale sigil]

Oh you mean

Person

Thought you meant a company

[barren basin]

And Elon is the cunt version of Branson

[pale sigil]

Ye everyone in the UK and least knows who Branson is since he pretty much dominates a lot of the UK market.

[barren basin]

South Africa is just worse Holland

[pale sigil]

Be nice if they actually made it to space

[barren basin]

Starfleet but British

[wheat plume]

Thanks!

It's from the Catpuccin theme github

Under the distro folder I think

[cursive summit]

Idk why you think me, from a random place in Buryatia knows some random space guy

I have no interest in space

[barren basin]

Do you have interest in yaks

[cursive summit]

The planes?

[barren basin]

The animals but sure

[shadow minnow]

I have actually talked with Branson yesterday, did I not introduce you?

[cursive summit]

I talked with Mansen too yesterday

[reef patrol]

[marsh glade]

Didn't virgin just go bankrupt?

[reef patrol]

I never said I was up to date

[marsh glade]

Yea sure did, last month they filled chapter 11

Oh apparently a component of their business not the entire thing

Someone should repo Necker island trololol

[cursive summit]

"Virgin Orbit reported $33.1 in revenue for 2022. "

Damn, I have more in bank than what a space company earned in 2022

[barren basin]

I don't lol

[cursive summit]

You don't have 33$ in bank?

Why are you in Wooting server then? These things cost a lot

[barren basin]

I said before

Friend got me one

Waiting for it to be made

[cursive summit]

Cause Lana's chonky?

[wheat plume]

gross

[wheat plume]

yes

I have too much belly fat .-. look pregnant :/

[cursive summit]

Probably are honestly

[wheat plume]

my hair gets curlier and messier and my skin gets drier but more oiley on my face .-.

[cursive summit]

Neckbeard things innit

[cursive summit]

Yo, mouse people, name me best value for money mouses

So not the "top end" shit but what's really really worth the money

Only one that comes to mind is the Model O2

What's a yama?

Looking for a smaller mouse though

Claw grip

So more a Viper and not a Basilisk, idk what the mouse form factors are called

Value for money, not more than idk, 60$ msrp/discounted?

[fair gull]

yama isnt a razer fanboi last i checked

[cursive summit]

Just call them yamatoklok then

I guess I'll use the RTINGS reviews to find something good but inexpensive

[empty wren]

Mk3 or bust

[cursive summit]

Mk3?

[empty wren]

650 Euros mouse

[cursive summit]

k, thanks for nothing

[empty wren]

Your welcome

Anyways g pro x super light if you can afford it and want wireless

[empty wren]

This is also helpful https://www.rtings.com/mouse/tools/3d-model-shape-compare

[barren folio]

eloshape has more mice available but it isn’t 3D

[pale sigil]

Noice

Scored a few noctua fan

[cursive summit]

I'm trying to repair the mouse that broke

Laser diode seems to not be working, neither scroll wheel

But mouse left and right are fine

I don't remember what the model of this thing is, it's some sort of Abyssus

And ffs, I can't pry it open

The mainboard is like glued or something to the plastic shell

[cursive summit]

Yeah it's fucked

Water damage

Prolly got fried cause of shorts

[cursive summit]

I was pondering between Deathadder v2 pro and model O, difference is like 15$ or so, decided that the deathadder is prolly better

But man fuck Synapse

[empty wren]

Just get starlight

[cursive summit]

Finalmouse?

Hell no

[empty wren]

😵‍💫 sounds like some serious soldering

All those tiny pins

[empty wren]

Warm it up a bit

But yeah you could go razer or roccat

[empty wren]

Is synapse even necessary these days

[cursive summit]

Idk

[empty wren]

I thought mice supported at least 3 profiles onboard by now

[cursive summit]

Anyways V2 Pro seems to cost 130$ brand new

Got it for 65

[empty wren]

Nice

[cursive summit]

A bit high but meh, I hope it lasts

Not for me anyways, my sister

She gets the hand me downs all the time, should get something not bad this time

[empty wren]

I paid $190 for one mice so it could be much higher

Definitely check out Amazon

[empty wren]

Usually a sensor or encoder swap is needed

Some mice do use optical parts now

You could go with a rog mouse also

The switches are hot swap but sad it is under patent

[cursive summit]

V2 Pro is optical

[cursive summit]

I already paid for it so.. meh

Glorious is an option

Although idk the pricing is a bit off

Getting a Viper 2 Pro for 15$ over Glorious Model O is a no brainer to me

The good Model O 2 and Model D or whatever they are called are like 100$

Far more than the 65$ I just paid