🔌│tech

[astral haven]

at the sewer level where you have to grab onto the rotating wheel and have it swing you across a gap like 100 feet up and its running at 12 fps because they havent done any optimization yet
I actually did not throw up

[latent mural]

even lowered graphics settings to low and it still crashed so it wasnt a vram issue and im playing at 1080p

[astral haven]

but oh my god did i have a killer headache after finishing

[latent mural]

rip

[severe phoenix]

6 months after buying those 99$ HD600s, I finally had the chance to sit down and use them for about an hour. Was pretty good, in terms of soundstage, it didn't sound like normal headphones at all, sounded like my floorstanding speakers

My HD598s always sounded good, but always a little small, with the HD600s, not an issue

[astral haven]

very interesting
the 600 series is very much not known for that large soundstage

[latent mural]

where did it go

ive seen taht before

[old gulch]

nvm

you talked about being painful

[latent mural]

for me

[old gulch]

only a feeling, not saying objectively better for gaming

[latent mural]

it is

because it has half the input lag

[old gulch]

that video was testing ppls ability

[old gulch]

well overall its not that bad

[astral haven]

higher refresh is objectively better
it just isnt NEEDED

[old gulch]

If it was, I would be typing at half the wpm on my magic keyboard in a timed test

because double latency

._.

[latent mural]

i wouldnt be "okay" at fps games if i was on 60hz

[old gulch]

not true.

[latent mural]

it isnt needed if u just play story games

[old gulch]

admittedly it was trash for Asphalt 9

a meme racing game thats keyboard based

[astral haven]

and your keyboard is one way only

[old gulch]

but bluetooth isn't reliable

[latent mural]

bluetooth stinks sometimes

[astral haven]

it also works great sometimes

[old gulch]

me sayinig the latency could've been variable

[old gulch]

wow

man didn't read about the Cyberpuink 2077 alternative ending

[astral haven]

jka we are talking about monitors not about keebs

[old gulch]

storming a facility with only yourself

against like 20 guards per room

and known for its difficulty

[astral haven]

excuse me what

[latent mural]

i play every game on max difficulty and they run at 60fps and its just fine

[old gulch]

mhm

[astral haven]

since when is cyberpunk known for its difficulty

[latent mural]

except for when they dont wanna run and they just crash because they are new

[old gulch]

not a first person account, but what are your views on don't fear (the reaper)?

did ya do it

[astral haven]

i dont remember level names

i do remember the boss dude in the lobby being a pushover

[old gulch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBRJZ7at-lk
1:30 ish onward

if you die, rip, and it plays out like the suicide ending (how characters react when credits roll)

[astral haven]

thats not difficulty, thats wasting the player's time

[old gulch]

ok

fair

[old gulch]

imo nothing matters but latency to an extent

[astral haven]

thats extremely untrue

[old gulch]

for FPS*

[astral haven]

as long as your rtl is under 80ms you are gonna be fine

if your fps is under 12 its gonna be pain

[old gulch]

I meant monitor wise

[latent mural]

lol

[old gulch]

maybe colour has something to do with it

TN panels commonplace in CS:GO

[astral haven]

play on an eink screen and tell me how it goes

[old gulch]

my first regret buying a Kindle

I forgor it no colr

[astral haven]

kindles are fantastic for reading books

[old gulch]

ik

little slow coming from big tech computer use

and reading pdfs mostly

who does, now?

[astral haven]

but if all that mattered were latency, everyone would be playing on crts

refresh matters alot

[old gulch]

oh ok

all I heard was it didn't really

[astral haven]

and pixel clarity is hella important

[old gulch]

oh right it was an fps argument

[astral haven]

yes

[old gulch]

I need a list next time round

[molten crypt]

Hi all, I just have a question about the 60HE, if I only buy the lekker switches would I still be able to use all the benefits of the 60HE on my custom or would i need all of the internals of the 60HE as well?

[astral haven]

plenty of folks using zowie 144hz monitors when 240hz and 360 and 480hz are available

[astral haven]

the sensors are on the pcb, the switch only has a magnet inside

[old gulch]

so good monitor = wowza pixel clarity, latency common sense, not a pain to maintain, colour and not monochrome display, refresh rate

[molten crypt]

Thanks

[astral haven]

thats only for modern fps games tho ofc

[old gulch]

right]

doom 1999 probably doesn't care for pixel clarity

[astral haven]

you playin cs 1.6? blur tf out of that lmao

imo far more important than the environment is the content

and oled is actually not fantastic for ultradark use due to the minimum brightness

dllcd >>> oled when its dark

[old gulch]

I mean ASUS ProArt would be rubbish if s1mple owned it

[astral haven]

🤷 simple would slaughter all of us regardless of what functional monitor hes given

wow discord ts didnt like that message

[old gulch]

and likewise a Zowie XL2566K would give Marcus Brownlee hypertension editing on it

[astral haven]

ew why

the only thing the xdr is good for is video

[old gulch]

lmao, we should have him play CS:GO on a portable monitor connected to a Steam Deck min spec and face off against linus on the LG OLED with his heatsink mod connected to s1mples real pc

[astral haven]

60hz on the desktop is a scourge

and the only difference between steam deck specs in terms of perf is the screen being glossy vs matte

they all have the same cpu and ram

[old gulch]

and give him a controller

[astral haven]

just have him use the steam deck on its own

no controller, no monitor just the deck

[old gulch]

🧠

[astral haven]

got all that built in

[old gulch]

then give Linus mobii eye tracker

and s1mples pc setup

[alpine imp]

Does lubing 60HE make it faster?

[reef patrol]

No. Just makes the keys feel smoother and quieter.

[alpine imp]

How do I lube it tho

Is there an easy way without taking the whole thing apart

[reef patrol]

No.

[mild dome]

Nope

Lubing isn't required, but it's a nice thing, takes a lot of work tho

like baking a layer cake

[reef patrol]

https://youtu.be/WN_-GYLTfpY

It's a multi hour process.

[alpine imp]

I will not be lubing my keyboard then 💀

Maybe I can hire someone for like 10 bucks to lube it because I’m kinda scared I’ll mess it up

[reef patrol]

Yeah the going rate is usually like 50 cents to a dollar per switch depending on who you ask.

[severe phoenix]

It's a 50 cents job

total

[reef patrol]

[reef patrol]

Jesus... EKWB's Discord is still completely left unchecked and admin less.

[thick elk]

Oh boy

[latent mural]

i wanna check that out

[cursive summit]

So I encountered the term "Li-Fi" for the first time today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Fi

Anyone know where this is? Why isn't it a thing yet?

[wheat plume]

Ive seen demos for this years and years ago

but yea..idk anywhere that actually puts it to use yet

Phone chips are almost as CPU performant as the Ally??

[reef patrol]

Yes?

[wheat plume]

....gosh damm

[severe phoenix]

Phones are powerful Lana

[wheat plume]

Yeah...

[severe phoenix]

That's why they cost like 1200$+

[wheat plume]

but like

[severe phoenix]

But, they're not the right architecture.

😛

[reef patrol]

An Ally is just a big smartphone.

[wheat plume]

I didnt think they would be comparable to laptop chips

[reef patrol]

Just like my Android TV is just a giant tablet in that sense.

[severe phoenix]

I love my NVIDIA shield, but can we have a 2023 Model please.

4-6GB of RAM, stronger CPU is really all I want

[wheat plume]

I know of a lot of people woh love the Shield!

im not fully sure what they are .. xd

[halcyon moss]

i dont love my shield tablet anymore 😦 slow sloooooow

[severe phoenix]

NVIDIA Shields are TV boxes

Basically

Useful little guys if you have a media server

They can stream almost any format

[wheat plume]

oooohh

but I heard people using emulators on them too?

[severe phoenix]

And the Pro Model has AI upscaling, which is actually pretty decent

Yeah

[wheat plume]

They are just Android then right?

[severe phoenix]

They can run emulators

[wheat plume]

aha

[severe phoenix]

Yeah

They can even run some Nintendo games natively

😛

[wheat plume]

hehe

[severe phoenix]

https://wccftech.com/zelda-twilight-princess-on-nvidia-shield-received-impressive-graphical-update-through-deep-learning/

[wheat plume]

wait wait

this is dumb

[severe phoenix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jTXX9s9CLA

[old marlin]

wtf

[wheat plume]

Genshin supports controller on PC but not on phones?!

[severe phoenix]

The NVIDIA Shield uses the same chip as the Switch

So it only makes sense

[old marlin]

also it's android

[severe phoenix]

This isn't running emulated, is all i want to say. It's a native build for the shield

[wheat plume]

Switch is ARM, right?

[old marlin]

I suspect that nvidia has some software to easily convert a shield game to a switch game

[halcyon moss]

next shield tv will come when the switch 2 exists

[old marlin]

yes

[severe phoenix]

basically

[old marlin]

but it's legit same architecture

[severe phoenix]

Genshin Impact supports controllers on iOS

Not on Anvoid.

[old marlin]

OS is the major difference

[wheat plume]

ffs

[old marlin]

there is no other reason why borderlands 2 on the switch would exist otherwise

[severe phoenix]

Yeah it's like how it supports 120FPS on iOS, and only 60FPs on PC and android

[wheat plume]

.-.

[severe phoenix]

Of course, a mod exists to uncap it on PC

[nimble canopy]

only supports 120 fps on ios
just how horribe is that game coded

[severe phoenix]

It runs and looks gorgeous

On PC with the frame rate unlocker

Honestly, I got a 4090, but I can run it at 4K DSR, 200% render scale, maxed settings, and 175HZ, and only see like 40-50% usage

that's effectively 8K

[old marlin]

eh

[severe phoenix]

And it looks good

[old marlin]

not suuuper impressed with the look

[severe phoenix]

II mean it's simple, but sharp

[old marlin]

the artstyle carries it somewhat

[severe phoenix]

Yeah

[old marlin]

rest is just stupid neuron activation with pleasant scenery

and not actually good graphics

[severe phoenix]

A lot of games in it's position runs worse, though

Oh yeah I do wish I could get into Genshin, but after staring at Ganyus ass for a few minutes it feels like that's al I need to do and should go play a better game 😛

[wheat plume]

LOL

[old marlin]

game is bad anyways

[wheat plume]

^

[old marlin]

gacha game

immediatley bad

[nimble canopy]

i want a game that does not have gambling

[old marlin]

you know what the worst game actually is nowadays

warframe

on the switch

💀

3 minute load times

[misty saffron]

didn't know you're young

[nimble canopy]

you have not played enough moded minecraft

[wheat plume]

A Hat In Time has 3 minute load times on Switch 😢
but that runs silky smooth once loaded 💜

[misty saffron]

otherwise you would've been subjected to 10 minute load times in gta 5

[nimble canopy]

i remember my 20 minute load times

[old marlin]

thing is you don't have to wait on other people loading in for that

if I play a railjack mission

which would load in seconds with pc players

and like maybe 30 seconds with a ps4 player

it's legit 3 minutes for switch players

that you get to wait

or when you get in a mission load screen with one on mission startup

💀

[wheat plume]

A Hat In Time takes maybe 10 seconds to load on my Deck, but up to 3 minutes on Switch ...

[nimble canopy]

[wheat plume]

both running from SD Card

[old marlin]

switch is so immensley slow

it's pure pain

[wheat plume]

ye...

[old marlin]

not to mention that I already struggle to understand how people play that game on controller

switch makes it even worse

[wheat plume]

oooooIT HAS MODS?!?!

[severe phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/genshin-ganyu-genshin-impact-give-me-your-money-gif-20103449

[karmic oar]

is a hat in time any good i never got around to playing it

[wheat plume]

Nah, fuck Ganyu
Venti is best <3

[wheat plume]

DOOOO IIITTTTT!!!!!!!

Its so so so so worth it

[karmic oar]

i bought it like 2 years ago and its been sitting in my library since lmao

[wheat plume]

OMFH PLAY IT

[karmic oar]

i was too addicted to celeste at the time

[wheat plume]

ITS AMAZING

<3

I love this game

I beat it on Switch but I also have it on Steam... xd

[karmic oar]

well guess imma have to give it a shot

lmao

[wheat plume]

Do it

youll learn about the place you put food when its been bad

:P

[severe phoenix]

You would like Venti

:p

[wheat plume]

venti is so freaking ADORABLE

AND I WANNA HUG HIM

[karmic oar]

well i need a game to help me cope for 2 more weeks before my keyboard arrives so a hat in time it is

[wheat plume]

^

[severe phoenix]

Ok but we got Dehya, Mona, Kequig, Yelan, Shogun and that crazy pink haired girl to pick from, and Shenhe, and you pick Venti.

😛

[wheat plume]

Its a 3D platformer kinda like Mario 64
but really cute and super funny and great

[karmic oar]

as long as the platforming is good ill be hooked

i do love some good platforming

has been a while since i played a good 3d one

most good ones ive played in the recent years are pretty much all 2d

[wheat plume]

my fav level is the Owl Express <3

[thick elk]

I still remember running the original witcher on a Pentium 4 before the enhanced edition. 15m load times existed there.

[wheat plume]

bruh

[severe phoenix]

The Enhanced Edition is still one of the most amazing things to happen

Devs just going "Ok we're gonna take all our profits and bet the future of our entire studio to make the game right"

Patches ended up bigger than the original game

[thick elk]

In case of the witcher 1 it really worked out for them

[severe phoenix]

Yeah

That's what I mean

The original release was bug written, with bad voice acting and poor performing

They spent like a year and a half patching it to hell instead of cutting and running

Absolutely worked out lol

[severe phoenix]

One slow downlaod

[wheat plume]

yeh....

[old marlin]

very relatable

about what I hit as well

[halcyon moss]

battlefield 2 😦

[shadow minnow]

That’s pretty fast

[thick elk]

Oh yea bf2 had some poor loading times there also

[pale sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/monsters-university-snail-going-on-my-way-omw-gif-5461800

[halcyon moss]

Kitboga is a master at talking over scammers and coming up with stories XD

[shadow minnow]

I really liked the ones where he goes along with them

And like pretends his car was actually stolen or such

But ngl the redeeming cards is getting kinda overused

Also fun ones are more scammers

At once

[sharp badger]

Has anyone tried the Spotify AI DJ? 👨‍💻

[crimson wigeon]

I live in the wrong country so can't try it lol

[shadow minnow]

That’s pretty horrible for brave

Overall

[pale sigil]

Indeed

[severe phoenix]

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-exos-x18-st18000nm000j-18tb/p/1B4-00VK-00616?Item=1B4-00VK-00616&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=promo&utm_campaign=EMC-Automation053123A_USA_1_CLUSTERING_22-_-EMC-053123-Index-_-Desktop Internal Hard Drives-_-1B4-00VK-00616_MKTManual&ignorebbr=1&cm_mmc=EMC-Automation053123A_USA_1_CLUSTERING_22-_-EMC-053123-Index-_-Desktop Internal Hard Drives-_-1B4-00VK-00616_MKTManual&ignorebbr=1&cvtc=22362120

ERECS3A23

40$ off

[astral haven]

220 for 18tb isnt bad but its also pretty normal $/gb afaik

also fix that link pls

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KPL474H

[marsh glade]

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-exos-x18-st18000nm000j-18tb/p/1B4-00VK-00616

[astral haven]

Thank you lol

[fickle ore]

was 6% at open ehhe

[ashen spindle]

We know Wall Street does not directly relate to how good a product is xD

[fickle ore]

ofc not :3

[severe phoenix]

https://preview.redd.it/e55khehgn53b1.png?width=1024&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=6b92b944e9799cfefb75917abc71e59dd3583aa1

[gusty kiln]

rip 7000

[fickle ore]

sad

[ashen spindle]

Just shows that it has a huge flaw in who gets the prompt xD

Or that the others categories are a fail, since I doubt that’s all unknown samples

[astral haven]

its highly likely the survey hasnt updated to list 7000 series

[astral haven]

unknown has gained more market share in the last month than the 6800xt has

[sharp badger]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/hyte-thicc-q60-aio-water-block-includes-5-inch-ips-display $299 & will "arrive" in September. Interested to see the thermals it'll deliver

[cursive summit]

Hmm

Quest 3 news tomorrow?

[marsh glade]

Facebook is going to change their name to AI

Since META is dead

[cursive summit]

https://tenor.com/view/trash-ron-gif-21637649

[wheat plume]

Is the name of that really "thicc"???? Xxdd

Why are discord link previews mega low resolution since the last week or so?

[reef patrol]

Looks fine here. Probably your connection.

[bronze escarp]

Anyone know a good mechanical number pad

[pale sigil]

Yup!

I've noticed this too.

[pale sigil]

500 down so nope

[reef patrol]

Looks fine here. Maybe Discord's UK/Irish nodes are struggling?

[astral haven]

not doin so hawt ye

https://downdetector.co.uk/status/discord/map/
for those of you with poor discord connections lol

since when?

he has repeatedly stated they are focusing on ai as a key technology to enable the metaverse or whatever

yes?

thats like saying valve is killing vr since they are focusing on steam

🤷 thats a htc product

and the steam controller is proof that valve is happy to throw away a hardware product that still has a dedicated fanbase

[wheat plume]

They were forced to kill the steam controller
;_;
They got sued

Yeh

[frozen ingot]

the issue for zucc is the metaverse is an idea only younger people would be interested in and that demographic hate his guts

[wheat plume]

Which is why I'm scared about the current lawsuit with immersion

Deck 2 may not have touchpads

[frozen ingot]

his main audience are facebook boomers

[wheat plume]

Facts

[pale sigil]

Was the real reason

People sued him for that

[wheat plume]

marginal

[ashen spindle]

they won that btw

[wheat plume]

Who?

[ashen spindle]

it was overturned and they won the appeal

[wheat plume]

Valve won????

[pale sigil]

https://twitter.com/Theswweet/status/1431777646128484353?s=19

James Galizio (@Theswweet)

YO, VALVE WON ON APPEAL FOR THE STEAM CONTROLLER LAWSUIT LET'S FUCKING GO

https://t.co/u5eag6OZvg

Likes

290

Twitter · Aug 29, 2021, 12:36 AM

[astral haven]

yea i remember something like that

[pale sigil]

Valve

[ashen spindle]

lana this is like years ago

[wheat plume]

No no ....

The current one

The deck touchpads

[astral haven]

thats not the steam controller

[frozen ingot]

lets fucking go is such an overused expression at this point

[ashen spindle]

you talked about steam controller and thats a case they ended up winning

[astral haven]

the sc was killed right when the deck rumors started

[astral haven]

not when the deck 1 was released, just when rumors started

[ashen spindle]

lana I literally replied to

[astral haven]

thought it was 2019 but basically

[wheat plume]

Yeh ..

[astral haven]

yep dec 2019

what?

[ashen spindle]

the appeal was like 6 months after or something like that

and for the steam deck it doesnt matter, imagination wants to license tech to make money, they have no interest in suing them to stop selling when they then cant make money from just getting to a deal

a patent troll wants to get money and/or stop the company selling it, a company that has actual licenses wants them to sell more

they just want their share

[wheat plume]

Valve have more money than Nintendo?????

Doubt that

[astral haven]

@prisma crag hi im the owner of hawaii, you need to pay me $50 per square foot of land you reside on
heres your bill
$42690 - payable to carmonben

[wheat plume]

Wtf

[ashen spindle]

yes valve have more money

[astral haven]

yea and its not by a small amount

[wheat plume]

I'm very surprised by that...

[ashen spindle]

its one of the reasons I never understand people saying the 30% cut valve takes is needed to keep it running lol

ignore all the egs and other points, that makes them so much money

[astral haven]

valve has around 400 employees estimated
nintendo has 6k+ and is a public company with shareholders

[ashen spindle]

as well as they have massive costs that valve doesnt have on hardware side

[astral haven]

yup

and now to be fair they both receive similar amounts of money from software sales estimated

but valve is so much lower overhead

the switch barely isnt

they really should just move to micro sd cards

[frozen ingot]

didn't know the switch even had cartridges to begin with

shows my interest in the thing

[astral haven]

depends on the sd card

i recently bought a pair of the samsung ultra high endurance micro sds

they are so goddamn cheap

thats rated for 6.5k pe cycles

for $30 for 256gb

[wheat plume]

Yeah
I have one of those on the Switch

Maybe I should swap it over to the Deck since I use that way more

The issue is the card is just 128gb

[astral haven]

yea ive got a 1tb on my deck

i also upgraded the deck internal

old pic right when i got it but you get the idea

[wheat plume]

Oooo
SSD upgrade

[astral haven]

yup

got the 64gb and the upgrade

[wheat plume]

Nice nice

That's the best way

If you are ok taking it apart

[astral haven]

i got the upgrade real early tho so it was dumb expensive

[wheat plume]

My laptop has a matte display and it's fantastic

[astral haven]

https://www.ifixit.com/products/micron-2400-nvme-pcie-gen4-2230-ssd?variant=40034191966311
if i had waited for ifixit i would have ended up paying less in total than your 512gb deck
when I got it tho it was alot more expensive

[wheat plume]

In the upgrade kit photo
What's on the right?

[astral haven]

thats a replacement emi shield

[wheat plume]

Oh

[astral haven]

the stock one just slides on tho ez pz

[wheat plume]

Yeah
I noticed in videos you can reuse it if you don't unravel it

I'd probably be ok doing this upgrade
Except the battery ribbon cable part

One of the videos I watched, he was worried he scratched it too much when trying to get it unplugged

[astral haven]

teeeeeechnically you dont neeeeeeeeed to unplug the battery

[wheat plume]

But you risk bricking the Deck if you don't....

So you basically have to remove it

[astral haven]

🤷 the risk is low

[wheat plume]

Really?

[astral haven]

just make sure its shut down 🤷

[wheat plume]

Yeah duh xd

[astral haven]

its just like any other laptop

are there any cases of folks bricking theirs with a shut down deck?

[wheat plume]

Not sure

Maybe check Reddit for that

[astral haven]

the one thing is you gotta reformat afterwards
which is like
yea?

[wheat plume]

Saw a video one time of a guy doing this SSD upgrade on his Deck

Got pissed off when he tried to boot the Deck afterwards and it took him to the bios and not SteamOS

He started complaining about how Valve need to get off their ass and make it so that you'll boot back into SteamOS on the new SSD

[astral haven]

you say that but modern macbooks have the recovery built into the bios

[wheat plume]

This is what having a preinstalled OS does to people...

[wheat plume]

That's pretty smart actually....

But I'd also like to point out he uses a windows desktop and doesn't own a laptop

[astral haven]

i really wish that folks would build something like rufus into the uefi

[wheat plume]

Right???.

[astral haven]

especially for a console...

maybe just have a bootloader for a memory resident online os
then you could make it so that if it cant reach the specific image its looking for you can input your own url

[wheat plume]

People are pointing out that the rog Ally UEFI is able to use the controller
But that's not unique xd Deck does too
Tbf
The Deck UEFI is a lot lot lot more basic than the Ally one

[astral haven]

worked well enough for me

[wheat plume]

I only used it to increase vram to 4gb

[astral haven]

and i obviously needed to use it to reinstall the deck os

[jade lintel]

Damn AI is dumb as a pile of rocks

[mild dome]

Need to send the AI to school

[astral haven]

modern rock piles are getting real smart

[jade lintel]

pretty sure igpu vram doesnt matter in most cases

itll just take what it needs

[astral haven]

except if it has to "take" itll cause a stutter

[jade lintel]

show me this stutter

[astral haven]

open the deck, play any aaa game that isnt rdr2 and needs more than 1gb of video mem

[jade lintel]

dont have a deck

when i had a laptop with amd 5900hs

i changed my igpu vram to 64mb

didnt do anything

[astral haven]

and you were running linux?

[jade lintel]

was running windows, does linux have worse management for that type of thing

[astral haven]

"worse"

its different

[jade lintel]

worse being stuttering

i would rather not stutter than stutter

or does it really try to keep it at the vram cap

[astral haven]

🤷 on windows you get the stutter regardless of vram usage on igpus however theres no particular extra stutter when you run out of dedicated vram

[jade lintel]

when does the stutter occur on windows

its tough that i bricked my laptop

[astral haven]

my tablet just has stutter in general

happens on desktop even

doesnt happen at 60hz tho, only 120 and up

presumeably related to dram bus load

[jade lintel]

whats your tablet specs

[astral haven]

lower res youtube vids run fine, but the real high res stuff has a bad time especially when moving the cursor

1065g7

and to be fair i use it on a 4k240hz monitor

which is a pretty crazy feat for the igp there

the deck has trouble in general with my monitor

refuses to start on plugin, you gotta set it to safe mode, plug in the monitor, then disable safe mode

[jade lintel]

yea in the spec sheet, intels not saying it can do 4k 240

[astral haven]

yup
so i dont blame it

but it is likely a vram bandwidth limitation

[jade lintel]

its running off 3733 if its low power memory, maximum

so its not gonna be able to do too much

[astral haven]

like the monitor is literally is higher bandwidth than the vram

[jade lintel]

its likely it will work

bc the dock has display right?

so it can do alt mode dp

[astral haven]

Oh nope my b, GB vs gb
the monitor is still 68gbps

[astral haven]

yes but the question is that the version of video over usb c that the cable is using...

[jade lintel]

go for it @prisma crag

[astral haven]

yes
but what does the cable use

[jade lintel]

wdym

if you mean what i think you mean

1.4 is latest

[astral haven]

no

[jade lintel]

so anything older should be backwards compatible

[astral haven]

there are many ways to put a video onto a usb c cable

dp alt mode is *** a common one***

its not the only way

[jade lintel]

it could send through data?

but the other end is displayport

[astral haven]

yes
so its technically possible that it is a MHL alt mode adapter

it could be a tb3 adapter

(super unlikely)

and it could theoretically even be a hdmi alt mode adapter with an hdmi to dp adapter chip

tho anyone who makes that monstrosity deserves to be court martialled

[jade lintel]

thats playing with possibilities lol

[astral haven]

theres also displaylink and virtuallink which also exist tho barely

[jade lintel]

those are a lot of fringe options

[astral haven]

likelyhood ofc is itll work but wont know unless you try

and the issue with the deck isnt the cable, its the software

cause the hardware works fine

but yea vram limitations are a real thing
the monitor itself could consume 1/4 the total dram bandwidth of my cpu

if it functions in macos, itll work on deck
macos has some pretty awful self imposed software limitations regarding usb and displayport

the advantage tho is that if its mac compatible, what it can be is very limited

[gusty kiln]

under 1700 for the 32:9 240Hz qd-oled monitor

honestly thought 2k

[mild dome]

Isn't that roundabout the price of the G9 Neo?
Seems like the temptation for me to swap is only increasing

[sharp badger]

Yeah 😆

[neat oriole]

Just found out RARBG shut down

[reef patrol]

Never knew them. But the reasons given were pretty grim.

[neat oriole]

Rip one of the best public trackers

Well, probably the best public tracker

God it’s going to be so annoying from now on

[reef patrol]

Time to go private 😉

[neat oriole]

Idk of any private trackers

I mean piracy is still big in Russia I guess

Guess I’ll have to find some Russian trackers

[reef patrol]

coughIPTcough

[neat oriole]

The saddest part is they weren’t like raided or anything, just couldn’t keep it going

[neat oriole]

[reef patrol]

Only the finest place to get my Linus Distros.

[halcyon moss]

displaylink suuuuuucks

noticeably laggy

[barren thunder]

Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is a time-limited psychotherapy that focuses on improving interpersonal functioning, symptom resolution, and increased social support.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[reef patrol]

They will migrate as always.

[severe phoenix]

Wait we losing rarbg?

[old gulch]

typo(?)

[severe phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/no-god-please-no-nooooo-no-please-no-no-god-no-gif-26334009

[reef patrol]

[old marlin]

how is a public torrent tracker supposed to earn money

the people that use it do so to not spend money

[severe phoenix]

It has been too long since I went private, where will I get fgt releases?!

[cursive summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rwc5_tDyAg

[old gulch]

heard somebody here uses RSS feeds. What do you focus on? Something in mind/owned purchases/hype?

[reef patrol]

People use RSS feeds? In 2023?

[old gulch]

proper term was RSS catcher, dunno if its synonymous

[old marlin]

ik someone that does fro tracking FCC listings

[old gulch]

I use it as well, but got carried away adding everything

what are some useful outlets to follow?

oh, you can do that?

no wonder the diversity of posts

🙏

tysm

in my good books, appreciated

[old gulch]

@prisma crag isn't something being developed to overcome this?

can't remember the concept name

[reef patrol]

Why can't I use Messenger to send tweets?

Why can't I read text messages with Discord?

Why won't Instagram let me create reddit threads?

[old gulch]

my daily anguish

[cursive summit]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/reddits-api-pricing-results-in-shocking-20-million-a-year-bill-for-apollo/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social

[old gulch]

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

BINGO this is what I'm on about

[reef patrol]

ew

[old gulch]

any remarks mansen?

nvm wiki doesn't say enough

[reef patrol]

I don't like translation layers. Keep social media separated 😛

Only exception being Apple and Android's garbage text message systems, because those were never supposed to exist in the first place.

[old gulch]

could work for some, could crash and burn for others

like call functions in OTT messaging apps

my parents believe old school phone calls are the way to go

I don't like discord calling either

but are even more reluctant to answer proper calls

[reef patrol]

Calder called me once on Slack once, and it gave me such a heart attack.

Out of the blue - never used it. Damn social media and phone functionality 😄

[halcyon moss]

i use it once in a while, but most of the time i sent a google meet link

[gusty kiln]

Rip, there goes a huge chunk of stemio's sources

[vagrant pagoda]

I use Usenet and irc

Torrents haven't been all that useable in a while

[reef patrol]

Usenet? Do you also have a fax and two tin cans with string attached? 😄

[severe phoenix]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1104834999397658807/1113801297905324142/2s-mini-led.jpg

Mini LED handheld...probably cost like 1700$ min lol

[shadow minnow]

Why though, considering iPad pricing

[ashen spindle]

Didn’t you also expect the ally to cost above a grand or so

So I’m not trusting your guesses that much

[frozen ingot]

maybe he did the mistake of thinking the workers assembling it would be paid fairly

[gusty kiln]

Did you see LTT pricing coverage on the msi monitor?

[ashen spindle]

Yeah

[gusty kiln]

Crazy

[ashen spindle]

Looking forward to see how well the panel does for sure

[gusty kiln]

Guess oled have finally become mainstream and not some exotic tech for monitor

Still at least a grand entry cost

[ashen spindle]

I mean Covid only delayed that, lg already planned to stop lcd production in like 2019

And fully shifted to oleds

[gusty kiln]

Interesting

[cursive summit]

https://www.techspot.com/news/98905-apple-app-store-11-trillion-business.html

Damn, an app store worth more than Nvidia

[latent mural]

fricking windows

[ashen spindle]

https://twitter.com/BenjiSales/status/1664278025058545667?

Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales)

Meta Quest 3 VR Headset Announced

• Launching this Fall
• $499 for the 128GB version
• Highest Resolution Display
• Next-generation Snapdragon chipset, more than 2x as powerful as Quest 2
• 40% slimmer
• Redesigned controllers

https://t.co/GWJi98WVz2

Likes

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Twitter · Jun 1, 2023, 2:29 PM

[pale sigil]

Hmmm

https://www.meta.com/gb/quest/quest-3/?utm_source=lm.facebook.com&utm_medium=organicsearch

It looks so goofy

[severe phoenix]

Whatk ind of display and what rez

[latent mural]

@wheat plume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1goEhlXSFlg

[cursive summit]

Tf is "highest resolution"?

In terms of VR devices can do already 4K

So, what's next? 5K?

8K?

[pale sigil]

5k was done already tbf

But technically speaking

[cursive summit]

I remember reading that Quest 3 is just a Quest 2 refresh, display shouldn't change too much

[ashen spindle]

what

[pale sigil]

It could be per eye Res they be on about

2px higher than the current highest

[ashen spindle]

for one you got the numbers mixed up there for 2 and 3

[fair gull]

u know how csgo is a csgo2 refresh

[ashen spindle]

for the other just read the article and dont guess what the bulletpoints mean if you dont get them

[hasty elm]

If I buy a quest shoot me @turbid fossil

[cursive summit]

Indeed, sorry hubby

[sharp badger]

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/power_supply/streacom_s_new_zs800_hybrid_sfx_power_supply_rethinks_small_form_factor_pc_builds/1 Hmm 🤔

[cursive summit]

Not a word was said about resolution in that article

[severe phoenix]

900p

[ashen spindle]

it mentions its their highest resolution, not the industries so its not going to be higher than a pimax obviously at that pricepoint

[cursive summit]

So, unknown

Prolly between 1440p and 4K

[astral haven]

no even worse
the app store received in 1 year is as much money as the entire value of nvidia as a company

and nvidia has a pe ratio of 200

[sharp badger]

With all the Microtransactions in games nowadays kinda not surprised even i payed for the Clash of Clans Season pass when i played it waay to much

[astral haven]

im pretty proud of getting to where ive gotten without microtransactions

[turbid fossil]

Bet

[sharp badger]

I have a TH13 & a TH10 account haven't bought anything on the TH10 acc. but the upgrades take soo much time once one reaches TH10 - 11

[astral haven]

yea im th10

ive gotten 4 of 5 builders through just clearing the plants and stuff

[sharp badger]

Same

[astral haven]

2.5k gems is gonna take soooo long

[sharp badger]

Here's my accounts, started the second because upgrades took soo long on the first also CW started to become more fun with the TH10 - TH11 space too rather than the TH12 - TH13, it requires soo much planning and not misspressing stuff lol

https://www.clashofstats.com/players/pdc-8RVC0PU9/summary

https://www.clashofstats.com/players/eci-x7-229UVG8QU/summary

[astral haven]

mispressing?

[sharp badger]

Yeah with spells and troops not going where one wants

[astral haven]

i havent fought a battle in like 3 years lol

this new cart thingey that you get when you get defeated is my main source of savings lmao

[sharp badger]

Lol ok and yeah when i log in once in a while it's filled

[astral haven]

Have you seen a lower trophy th10 before lol

[cursive summit]

Off to #🎮│game with your cancerous mobile games

[cursive summit]

Ah they doing the Bing AI thing

[astral haven]

yep

[cursive summit]

Usually I ignore that cause it's in the sidebar

Google seems to insist you read it

[astral haven]

its opt in then you have to hit a button to make it appear

[cursive summit]

AI is the new big revolution after all

[astral haven]

this is what it looks like enabled but before hitting the button

[cursive summit]

Ahh I see

Not terrible

[astral haven]

and you can toggle features independently

[cursive summit]

I don't see that option for me

[astral haven]

its in beta

[cursive summit]

I wonder what model it's based on

[astral haven]

https://labs.withgoogle.com/

[astral haven]

1 guess lol

[cursive summit]

Not 2?

They really wanted to emphasize how good 2 was

[pale sigil]

Afaik it's only us

[cursive summit]

Ohhh it is on 2

[pale sigil]

Atm

[cursive summit]

https://ai.google/

"Learn more about how PaLM 2 powers Google's generative AI features"

[astral haven]

its on the most recent palm as always

[cursive summit]

PaLM2 is rather exciting

[astral haven]

yo what?
is this true?

[sharp badger]

It was popular to drop trophies and be very low because of loads of good loot around there when the TH10+ people stopped playing before updates some updates to stop that arrived 😅

[pale sigil]

Quest 2 isn't 60hz tho

[cursive summit]

Makes sense

[cursive summit]

has 90Hz mode

[pale sigil]

It can reach 120hz

[astral haven]

yea it started at 72hz tho

[cursive summit]

What are the sources?

[astral haven]

which also isnt 60 but 🤷

[cursive summit]

It should list where it's getting the info from

Bing does

Typically it's highly unreliable

[pale sigil]

Very

[sharp badger]

Is it the ''Highest Resolution Display'' available?

[astral haven]

it doesnt and all of the other drafts say 60

[cursive summit]

It's a godsend for coding though

AI and coding is ❤️

[pale sigil]

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/oculus-quest-3-release-date-rumors-specs-news#:~:text=According to Brad Lynch%2C a,by 1%2C832 pixels per eye.

[astral haven]

so i searched it on the actual google and used that and uh wow google

[cursive summit]

I need to look up on my sources

I swear that leaks said it was the same screen

Ahh

No

https://fossbytes.com/meta-quest-3-gets-leaked-everything-you-need-to-know/

4,128 by 2,208 pixels (2,064 by 2,208 pixels per eye)

[fickle ore]

Yay :3

[cursive summit]

Reliable, cause of a firmware leak

Mixed reality though

[fickle ore]

IDM, just wanted OLED kinda but w/e. Will prob get it

[pale sigil]

I wanted oled again

And better fov but the latter was probably unrealistic

[cursive summit]

What are "pancake lenses"

Instead of curved lenses, I think the term is concave here, they just flat?

[fickle ore]

free marmalade

[astral haven]

the lenses are constant thickness and do some insane tricks to bend the light

but they are not flat

[cursive summit]

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

fuck off bing

"flat thin camera lens"

[astral haven]

that is a pancake lens

these use pancake optics

[cursive summit]

Guess we're expecting a similar thing on the quest 3?

[astral haven]

yes

and the big problem with these fancier optics is they dont let as much light through

its really awful for oled

[sharp badger]

The Vive pro 2 has better lenses though?

[astral haven]

heres a random example
you can see the pretty crazy beam path

[astral haven]

🤷 define better
the quest ones are "better" weight and volume

[sharp badger]

Better Pixel-per eye

[astral haven]

the big advantage of the pancake optics is the extremely short distance between the screen and the eye

the total length of the quest pro from front to eyeball is similar to the distance from the screen to the front of the lens on the vive pro

https://sadlyinreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image-3.png

[cursive summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ROjH40QgbQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKJzUqdrsp4

[astral haven]

oh and fun the quest 2 is going back to its original price lmao

[pale sigil]

Lol

[sharp badger]

https://twitter.com/BjoernKarmann/status/1663496103998750721?t=b_L4-lIMdTUiUh1UfrgoZQ&s=19 🤔

Bjørn Karmann (@BjoernKarmann)

Introducing – Paragraphica! 📡📷
A camera that takes photos using location data. It describes the place you are at and then converts it into an AI-generated "photo".

See more here: https://t.co/Oh2BZuhRcf
or try to take your own photo here: https://t.co/w9UFjckiF2

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4622

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Twitter · May 30, 2023, 10:42 AM

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/yeet-lion-king-simba-rafiki-throw-gif-16194362

[crisp granite]

I'd rather pay a thou for just the hardware, no bullshit attached, for use as a PCVR rig

so the quest 3 is a "upgraded" version

same fucking problems

[cursive summit]

Quest 2 is obsolete with Quest 3 releasing

Especially at 499

Quest 2's resolution for me is really barely usable

I don't really feel comfortable with those quest lenses

[crisp granite]

I don't really feel comfortable with meta products in my possession or near me

[cursive summit]

Idk my quest 2 is doing well

I just created a fake account for it, and been using it for quest link and nothing else

I even forgot that quest is supposed to be playing games on its own

Like a standalone unit

Quite useless to me since Link mode is ftw with Steam VR

[crisp granite]

the existence of RE4VR as an exclusive to that stupid storefront will forever haunt my thoughts on oculus

original

tbh, it is a dramatically different game

just in how it plays

popping ganados with my trusty blacktail in VR is a dream I will likely never get to experience because fuck meta (for exclusivity bullshit and anti-basics nonsense) and capcom (not listing it on other platforms after all these years)

reportedly so

I could see using the striker and blacktail at the same time tbh

blacktail for enemies at a distance, striker if shit gets too close and personal for my comfort

oh

my

fucking god

RE4R is getting a FREE VR DLC

for...PSVR2
not PCVR

like RE7VR (worse than fallout 4 VR, still love it)
and RE8VR

haha

:(

[frozen ingot]

gotta give the console crowd special treatment or they'll cry about not getting enough exclusives

even though they're getting pretty much all exclusives

[crisp granite]

first VR game I ever played was RE7VR

and I know that barely counts

still use a dualshock for it loooool

but the screen is strapped to your head and it is a first person title, so I guess?????

I tend to not pay attention to the PSVR2 exclusives that genuinely make it an exciting platform

because I have absolutely no interest in paying north of a thousand bucks for pieces of hardware I didn't need to spend on (like a game console I'll only use with a VR headset that was an additional cost), plus the costs of the actual games which I've often already paid for on steam

I might consider it if I still can't get all the great VR ports on PC when the PS5 becomes EOL and the PSVR2 gets cracked so I could use it as a PCVR headset as well

[cursive summit]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-motherboards-come-with-a-firmware-backdoor

[ashen spindle]

you can probably pay more like a quest 2 business edition that has no login required

[astral haven]

or get a regular quest 2 and set it up using your cell hotspot, and as soon as you download virtualdesktop you turn off the hotspot and change the password

[maiden leaf]

I corrected the address and sent an email. Please check and fast delivery. why don't you check?

[reef patrol]

Our customer support team is working hard on getting all tickets resolved as soon as possible. But there are a LOT to go through. 🙂

[astral haven]

actually now thats an interesting question
How many cameras will the q3 have?

[frozen ingot]

stop sending so many emails all the time smh

wooting can't answer in time if you do

[astral haven]

well thats concerning
the quest 3 doesnt seem to have any upwards cameras
2 color 2 bw front, 2bw on the bottom sides

will it work with the old normal battery life controllers?

excuse me wtf

neither IR ring nor cameras on the controllers?

either way, apple vr headset on monday?

i really wonder what apple is gonna do for their headset

I really hope they come up with some magic that allows the headset to work on any random usb c port

[astral haven]

eh i have knuckles

[ashen spindle]

openXR works extremely well

knuckles are the choice with a lot of different hmds

[astral haven]

^

if it can play games in steam on pc it can use knuckles

and?

why not?

i already have them

point is im cautiously hype for the apple headset

[ashen spindle]

let me check what my position on apple stocks is before I doom it or hype it

[astral haven]

lol
none here

friend uses g2 with knuckles and it works great

except for when the cable on her g2 broke
that was un fun

they bought the knuckles kit

your loss

if you are spending g2 money, you can get lighthouses

and heck, if you want the poor tracking experience, you can just get 1 lighthouse

single lighthouse is better than that lol

im talking quest 1 and 2 level loss of tracking when you move the controller behind your back

heh

[ashen spindle]

[astral haven]

the only way that inside out controllers ever wont suck are via slam like the quest pro

https://i0.wp.com/kguttag.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Meta-Touch-Pro-Controller-Block-Diagrams-001.png
what a monstrosity lel

ew oled

[frozen ingot]

man we had stuff like this in the 90s, spoons changing color from cold liquids or cups with pinup girls on them that undressed if the cup changed temperature

[hasty elm]

Looks dope actually

[reef patrol]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/us-military-drone-ai-killed-operator-simulated-test

Oh no

The AI reasoning is exactly what you'd expect. It was given points for destroying its target, the operator tried to stop it from doing so... So it killed the operator...and the control tower preventing it from getting points

[cursive summit]

https://tenor.com/view/доббисвободен-добби-harry-potter-dobby-the-elf-freedom-gif-16615829

[wheat plume]

AI on things designed to kill??

No thanks.

[cursive summit]

It'll happen, want it or not

[mild dome]

This is relevant

[sharp badger]

https://www.motorola.com/us/smartphones-razr-plus/p New Razr* foldable releasing with a more usable front screen

[old marlin]

razr

not razer

[fair gull]

the only true foldable https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_razr_v3i-1352.php

[hasty elm]

@red oyster hates this phone for some reason

[sharp badger]

Oops 😆

[shadow minnow]

I thought this was onion from the title

[reef patrol]

sure, Jan

[shadow minnow]

https://twitter.com/harris_edouard/status/1664397003986554880

Edouard Harris (@harris_edouard)

@jon_flop_boat @ESYudkowsky @Grimezsz @ArmandDoma Meaning an entire, prepared story as opposed to an actual simulation. No ML models were trained, etc. It's not evidence for anything other than that the Air Force is now actively considering these sorts of possibilities.

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Twitter · Jun 1, 2023, 10:22 PM

[sharp badger]

https://fi.nothing.tech/pages/technically-refreshing Nothing making beer? 🤔 Their Phone (2) seem to be releasing next month according to rumors so this might help with marketing

[sharp badger]

https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-um790-pro?utm_source=US-sssss&utm_medium=UM790PRO-SSS New Minisforum box comparable to the Beelink GTR7 that was linked here a while ago

[shadow minnow]

I was looking into this ngl looks kinda cool

I think um790 has a better ic

Actually nvm

Hmm

[sharp badger]

The Beelink should be available with the same Chip

[shadow minnow]

The crowdfunding for it doesn’t seem to be going too well

But the crowdfunding one is a better value for sure

How hard is it to get your money back from failed indiegogo projects

[sharp badger]

Don't sound too bad but there's probably some Refund Policy that one might have to watch out for https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us/articles/526876-Indiegogo-Refund-Policy

[reef patrol]

What refund policy?

IG and KS don't give a shit about backers.

[vagrant pagoda]

Yeah igg and ks are gambles

You never know what you get going to get, if anything, by design

[reef patrol]

Never got my Apple case. LTT even covered it 😦

Hit and run.

[frozen ingot]

I've never once funded a kickstarter/indiegogo project

because of reasons like that

[fading ore]

I mean, a lot of projects genuinely fail and can't deliver what they intended

[reef patrol]

This one was just radio silence all of a sudden. No apology or anything.

Took existing backers like 6 months to even get IG to admit there were problems and prevent new backers from joining.

[frozen ingot]

yeah most of the time there's nothing malicious behind its failure I think, but still doesn't help you getting any money back 😅

[fading ore]

Yeah that happens a lot as well. I'm not entirely sure why some groups go silent instead of admitting they failed. Perhaps some legal reasons?

[paper spindle]

Safer to stick to projects that are in the pre-production phase where they're not likely to need more than one KS round.

I think KS only allows one round for the same project?

[cursive summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7af_LGtD_jc

[cursive summit]

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

May's Steam survey is out

[shadow minnow]

Am I blind not to see os distribution

Also opinions on um790 vs beeline gtr7

[ashen spindle]

Yes it’s literally the first point in the list

[ashen spindle]

Go like 4 pixels down…

None of these are a list those are graphs

[fair gull]

impressive he got to film without any censoring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3uh7s3Scuo

[shadow minnow]

Any suggestions

[fair gull]

dw linux gets still beaten by almost 2x macos

[ashen spindle]

Ngl I thought you were asking about cars when I read GTR7

[pale sigil]

Left my house at 67%

Now at 45 ;-;

I've been in the cinema for most of the day!!!!

[ashen spindle]

Even longer for other parts, where it makes rdna2 cards xD

[latent mural]

what?

i dont get what you mean?

💀

[astral haven]

What difference would it make?

[latent mural]

brooooo

whyyyy

nvidia whyyyy

ok

its time to switch to radeon

xd

[astral haven]

tbh its alot better than the reverse

[latent mural]

at least its cheaper

and same performance mostly

[astral haven]

whatever to get less hawt

[fair gull]

idk how an assembly line would change much

the video shows nothing specific to the gpu uses

[astral haven]

well foundries are very different from cooler manufacturing

[fair gull]

i mean its still impressive to see how they rma, the tests they do, the validations, their tolerances

its wasnt just "heres a pick and place and thats it"

[gusty kiln]

Could be decent secondary/tertiary monitors

Though a 16:10 portrait monitor would be ideal

[ashen spindle]

if only it was 120 and not 100hz

[gusty kiln]

Though cheap va screams black smear

[sharp badger]

Would probably be down to Cooling, Ports, Colours would fit one the best , Beelink GTR7 has some magnetic powercord though also more ports

[sharp badger]

https://minixpc.com/products/beelink-gtr7-gtr7-pro-mini-pc-amd-ryzen-9-7940hs-ryzen-7-7840hs-rdna-3-gpu-dual-channel-ddr5?variant=44047543697642 It's also a bit more expensive

[shadow minnow]

But it’s on sale rn so price is a bit different

Does it have USB C PD

Unsure now

[sharp badger]

Which one? or nvm both should have it

[cursive summit]

https://youtu.be/TFp9NJchrag @prisma crag

[shadow minnow]

It’s on sale while on Kickstarter stage though

[polar mica]

i got my wooting today and now i am wondering if there is any difference if i use an usb-c to usb-c port instead of an usb-c to usb-a

[astral haven]

no

[reef patrol]

None whatsoever.

[polar mica]

okay thank you

[cursive summit]

https://twitter.com/Mr_Rebs_/status/1664671472290234371

Rebs Gaming (@Mr_Rebs_)

More images of the Starfield controller and description:
-Navigate the stars in Constellation colors.
-Interstellar grip inspired by spaceship panel design.
-Transparent triggers: See bronze rumble motors inside.

Twitter · Jun 2, 2023, 4:33 PM

I hope these are real

They look rather nice

[pale sigil]

Still ain't used to the punch camera @wheat plume

I can't "not notice it"

I don't think I could cope with a notch

[cursive summit]

You have problems with your OCD then

No normal human would be like "punch or notch" are "noticeable"

Like, what's more important to you, complaining about your device or what's displayed on it?

[pale sigil]

Having a good battery

Which the 7a doesn't seem to

[astral haven]

?
how is it not noticeable?

[cursive summit]

Cause it's not?

There are more important things than complaining about phone designs?

[ashen spindle]

I can ignore it but that doesnt mean its suddenly not noticeable lol

[astral haven]

^

[ashen spindle]

like it doesnt bother me at all but I still easily notice it

[astral haven]

if you dont care about it sure
but then say that

[cursive summit]

So you'd say that this kind of punch hole design is noticeable?

[astral haven]

yes

thats what my phone has

[cursive summit]

Cause I have completely forgotten my phone has a selfie camera

Cause guess what, I don't notice it

It's not a problem, where are you people inventing problems from?

[astral haven]

sounds like you have a problem lol

my eyesight is 2020

[ashen spindle]

I didnt say its a problem I said I can notice it

[cursive summit]

Like, why not have the pop up camera then?

That hasn't gotten into fashion yet

Pop up camera, sure, it's mechanical and prone to failing, but that fixes your non-existant problem

[ashen spindle]

I think you are mixing up people who can notice it and dont care with people who notice it and are bothered by it

[cursive summit]

You would have to be special to be bothered something like a punch hole

[astral haven]

if you cant see these dots your eyesight must be worse than 20/200...

[cursive summit]

Oh no, it's simply that my phone's design hides it perfectly

Like it's not there

[astral haven]

...

[ashen spindle]

its literally just preference of a look, if you are bothered by the look you dont like it, that's not something you need to be special for lol

I notice it and could not care less, pleasent notices it and dislikes it, it's quite simple

[cursive summit]

I am annoyed by every single phone review complaining about the tiniest and most miniscule things

[astral haven]

and im more on the quin side of the spectrum

[cursive summit]

Like, focus on the important stuff, not "this phone has a punch hole so it's bad"

That genuinely really irritates me

[astral haven]

get over it
just because you are legally blind doesnt mean that we are...

[cursive summit]

Keep coping that you find problems where there are none

[ashen spindle]

you forget the point were we dont see it as a problem just literally see it

[cursive summit]

Kind of similar that point where it's hard to accept that people that find it a problem actually exist when I don't

Like, why would you find that a problem? There are more important things to get irked over

I don't fathom why would it be a debatable point

[ashen spindle]

if you find it hard to accept that people have issues with something you dont have issues with, how did you survive on the internet so long

[cursive summit]

Actually, simple

Ignorance

I just don't care

Live your life the way you want to live

[astral haven]

ignorance is right lol

[ashen spindle]

you seem to care a lot about the fact that others dislike something you arent bothered by lol

[cursive summit]

But when people complain about the simplest and most miniscule things, I can't help but ask "how"

How do you notice these things and complain

Like, why does it irk you?

Unfathomable why it would matter

[ashen spindle]

I mean that is reaaaaaaaly simple, people just notice different things more easily than others

[cursive summit]

Eh, people just find ways to keep themselves occupied

And sometimes it's incomprehendable

[ashen spindle]

it's really not that difficult to understand if you look at something for a long time and one person dislikes a design point and the other doesnt, that the first person will dislike it even if its miniscule

[cursive summit]

Well, if it's such a problem for peeps, I can't help but just feel pity and sorry

Anyways, disrupting the conversation with this https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/u-s-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-bid-to-sue-reddit-over-child-porn-1.6419338

Never even heard that reddit has problems with that shit

[astral haven]

and the supreme court didnt hear it either lel

[ashen spindle]

probably because they just dealt with a section 230 complaint recently

[wheat plume]

Various levels of autism or add

Or another range of things like that

[cursive summit]

Damn

[astral haven]

anyways we arent letting you off that easily
you need to understand that the word "noticed" just means became aware of, and that just means someone was able to observe it
I noticed that the hvac turned on
i noticed some dust on the lid of my laptop

[cursive summit]

You didn't have to go that hard in on Carmonben

[cursive summit]

https://tenor.com/view/ok-boomer-the-office-old-man-michael-scott-gif-15530652

[ashen spindle]

disorders can make you more sensitive to such things, doesnt mean a "regular" average human is incapable of noticing and/or disliking something thats not the main focus of an object

[astral haven]

regardless for phone niggles
i really dislike how poor the zooms are in most cameras
low key want a xiaomi 13 ultra
now sure its not the same sensor as the main sensor in the camera, but the other 3 sensors are the exact same 50mp .7 micron sensor from the ultrawide up to the 5x

[wheat plume]

Like me and really quiet high pitched whines

[ashen spindle]

perhaps, though like with most cases that could also just be from having better perceiption for a thing, like those specific frequencies for example

[sharp badger]

How's Xiaomi's software?

[astral haven]

good enough to take pictures

[sharp badger]

Better than S23 Ultra?

[astral haven]

anything up to 10x zoom is better
but the max xiaomi zoom lens is just over 5, where the s23 has a 10x

as always iphone better video processing, but iphone photos are relatively bad

and actually not so sure about poor video on the xiaomi, i just didnt check

and yea iphone zoom is awful