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astral haven
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the metallic sound is just pain

frozen ingot
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but sony has no anime waifu on the packaging

coarse cloak
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^

astral haven
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i see no downside

frozen ingot
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/s

astral haven
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regardless, salnotes zero for example doesnt sound like a mistake was made in tuning it

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hopefully moondrop corrects that with the chu2

coarse cloak
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cant get salnotes zero w free shipping so id pay so much more, rip

astral haven
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pay somone with amazon prime for them?
or just buy them from linsoul

coarse cloak
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bro in amazon it's 70usd lol

astral haven
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excuse me tf?

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oh you arent in usa

coarse cloak
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welcome to brazil prices tf

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yea

cursive summit
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Salnores zero are meh

coarse cloak
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is the qc from chus really that horrible

cursive summit
astral haven
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i have both salnotes zero and chu
and chu are unuseable

coarse cloak
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but its chu 2 now

cursive summit
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Ever heard of "it's your own problem"? dogekek

astral haven
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🤷 havent heard a single review that liked the sound

coarse cloak
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whatt

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i saw like 3 reviews from people praising the chu's including the sound

astral haven
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every single review was saying its good for the price without comparing anything even remotely within a similar price bracket

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noone says it stands alone on sound

coarse cloak
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how's chu 2 1$ cheaper than chu

astral haven
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buy it and youll find out lel

coarse cloak
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tru

astral haven
coarse cloak
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probably, warranty issues here aren't really anything anyone thinks about

astral haven
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yea but you need to with moondrop...

coarse cloak
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that bad? f

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if build quality means im gonna need to replace id rather gamble with something like this

astral haven
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i havent gotten the tripowin or the s2 yet, but i can confirm the cra+ are pleasant to listen to as long as you reaaaaaaaaaally like bass

coarse cloak
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well i can just lower that on eq 🤔

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i kinda just wanna stop using EQ (SoundID reference, with flat target) so anything that's good out of the box would be heaven-sent for me

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did you get the chus @zealous cloak

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LOL

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and chu 2 gets released..

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LMAO

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ok at least chu 2 is detachable cable

astral haven
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google says soundid reference is derived from harman

coarse cloak
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when it stops working

cursive summit
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I just saw a comment that a person with those exact same Panasonics upgraded to Chus and they never looked back

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99% of all wear and degradation cases in IEMs is the cable borking

astral haven
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lol get cheaper cables

cursive summit
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Get a new cable for 5$

coarse cloak
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^

cursive summit
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They aren't expensive

coarse cloak
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im gonna look into cables rn

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what do i search

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3.5mm to 3.5mm?

cursive summit
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0.7mm to 3.5mm dogekek

coarse cloak
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wtf

astral haven
# coarse cloak yeah

that comment is wrong, we dont perceive flat as harman
harman is just what people like to hear

coarse cloak
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yeah i forgot to send the other comment

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correcting that part

astral haven
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heres chu

coarse cloak
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is that good or bad i cant read frequency curves i just use soundid to target flat

astral haven
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further from the dotted line = further from soundid reference

coarse cloak
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ok not horrible

astral haven
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and you can ignore everything starting at the 8-10khz spike since this rig cant measure that

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heres the truthear zero red

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crin hasnt measured the cra+
but they are less bass and better treble than this

coarse cloak
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is cra+ out of the box good for you

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im gonna check out the other two iems on the mystery box

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if theyre both good ill just get the mystery box lol

cursive summit
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@coarse cloak I will be dead honest with you, the one time I ever listened to carmonben's audio advice, it was absolute trash dogekek

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So don't dogekek

coarse cloak
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LOL

cursive summit
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Watch some YT video, far better track record

astral haven
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to be entirely fair, you didnt listen to my advice

coarse cloak
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i have 30 tabs opened on those iems rn

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so its ok

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have couple of hours to look into cheap iem to buy and learn some more abt it

frozen ingot
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I recall a certain someone claiming all wireless headphones sounded like garbage but somehow $20 chinese iem sound great because wires

coarse cloak
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wires..

astral haven
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that someone wasnt me
cra++az09 combo goated

cursive summit
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Cause if that's me then you are wrong on both claims

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Wireless sound like garbage for the price tier, it's like 3x up-price for comparative sound quality of wired

astral haven
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yea thats wrong

cursive summit
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And I never claimed Chu was ever sounding good, just good for the price

severe phoenix
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astral haven
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its only good because you havent explored the other options

coarse cloak
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if they sound good with EQ i dont rly care since i dont use anything without them

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LOL panasonic

astral haven
coarse cloak
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hmm

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could wait until a review drops for chu 2

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then i get it at the same time as my wooting, since im only getting it in august

astral haven
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like id be fine with folks recommending the chu because of how cheap it is because its for example half the price of the salnotes
but its just not half the price

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the mh755 was $7

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at $7 it was fantastic

frozen ingot
severe phoenix
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Yeah it's gotten a lot better

astral haven
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if you want less bass, the akg n400 were $50 for awesome sound

elfin axle
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@elfin forge if you wanna keep talking about it i'd rather chat here for now.

astral haven
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and if you want to just have the sound of whatever you have, you can just get the kz az09 to make anything wireless from kz, cca, (or any of the other companies that use that connector)

frozen ingot
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yes most of the time wired sound better than wireless for the same pricepoint, but these days the differences are closing in

coarse cloak
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same stuff w mice

astral haven
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thats only true to around $40 tho
below that theres just not enough money to put both a competent iem and a competent wireless chip inside

frozen ingot
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a lot of the time its probably even the same drivers shared between the regular and its wireless counterpart and you're mainly paying a little extra for the wireless hardware/batteries

astral haven
frozen ingot
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I mean the cable is just a bridge between the dac/amp in your pocket device to your headphones, you just bake in a dac/amp into the headphone itself

cursive summit
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Lol this is funny

astral haven
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yep
but it costs $1 to get a decent dacamp chip
it costs about $5 to get a decent wireless chip
it costs about $7 to get a decent combo unit
+$1 for the battery, another $ for the pcb and button
thats $9 of components minimum

cursive summit
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So I had no clue what that Meta Twitter competitor is called

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Saw a name "Threads" in Twitter, was like "I'll google that"

astral haven
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isnt it something like threads or something?

cursive summit
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That's fuckin funny

ashen spindle
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its twitter but via instagram

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not launched in the eu bc data privacy things need to wait

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though you could install it as android apk on your own

astral haven
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what is this goddamn timeline, that facebook is the good guy
first llama now this

ashen spindle
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its weird

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but I take a deal with the devil to beat satan

frozen ingot
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yep, its always going to cost more, but these days the difference can be surprisingly small for popular makes

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I don't think I'd be too far off assuming wireless are outselling their wired counterparts most of the time nowadays too

astral haven
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the other problem is that noone makes native wireless versions of $300 wired units

frozen ingot
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particularly for IEMs

astral haven
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as much as a lottery the b3 is, if you want wireless b3 you need to buy a b3 and a wireless adapter

astral haven
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yes

cursive summit
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Cute IEM, expensive though

astral haven
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thats not to mention the insano tier a la ier-z1r or monarch 2

theres just nothing natively wireless over $300

frozen ingot
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maybe the manufacturers face diminishing returns trying to peddle that segment either from lacking interest or requiring too expensive/bulky hardware to make it wireless

astral haven
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🤷 i think the main reason is you can just buy your own wireless adapter for $70 to $100 that is audibly perfect over 95db sensitivity

frozen ingot
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you can only stuff so much into IEMs before they become kinda awkward to fit in most peoples ears

astral haven
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but that does mean that you will never get to the same price

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now sure the difference between $1700 and $1770 is less than the regional taxes

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but that still means it cannot be the same price

frozen ingot
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there's also over-ears

astral haven
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closed back over ears are rough

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iem sound quality scales a ton faster

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open back is better sure but thats not portable

frozen ingot
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yeah don't think the price will ever be identical

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portable yes, could literally be hidden away in your ears, no mm

astral haven
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like really the big problem is when you get down low on the price point, the gap widens in price

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if it cant be used on public transportation its not portable imo

frozen ingot
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its actually pretty common to see people on the bus/tram with airpods max or whatever they called

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or similar size over-ears

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at least where I live

astral haven
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but thats overears

frozen ingot
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well that's what I said

astral haven
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only advantage of overears over iems at the same price point is noise cancelling

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the sound is significantly worse for closed backs vs iems

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at the same price

frozen ingot
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you can spot some closed back but I think its mostly the die hards that put up with that in public

astral haven
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airpod max are $600 or whatever, but they dont soud as good as $50 iems

frozen ingot
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I mean there are open back headphones that sound excellent, but since they demand quiet surroundings you'll lose out on everything good you'd buy them for as soon as you stray outside your anechoic chamber mm

astral haven
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and most iems are closed

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and dont suffer from that problem

cursive summit
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"there are open back headphones that sound excellent"

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You mean nearly all?

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Open backs sound incredible

obtuse yacht
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Hey guys im thinking of building a new pc build but i feel like i wont get the most out of my money especially with intel and amd being on par, any recommendations? My budget is 1800 dollars

astral haven
frozen ingot
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yeah there's plenty of really shit open ears

astral haven
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its not like closed backs where there are literally 2-3 good units, and which of those you like is highly preferential

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you have hundreds of good options out of the thousands of models
and most of the thousand are at least passable

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but you still have more bad than good

cursive summit
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Ngl I can barely think a single model that sucks

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DT990 I guess but that's debatable

astral haven
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most of the beyers are heavily preferential

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but that doesnt put them into the bad category, just passable

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oh right the best example is that takstar i think the takstar 580?

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its the oem model and driver source for a ton of chifi open backs, but its actual pain

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about half of the 580 derived stuff is real bad, and half is real good

gusty kiln
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Dan clark closed backs are apparently decent

astral haven
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and the cals are closed and basically the only option that isnt iems at $50

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ive mixed on cals before lol

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was for a gymnasium tho so it actually super did not matter

severe phoenix
astral haven
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are those the new akg n700?

gusty kiln
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Shure closed back are alright

astral haven
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again tho anything that gets outperformed by $25 iems gets dq'd if its over $50

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there are even onears that sound ok

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here at work i have the epos sdw60 and they sound ok

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but they are like $150 or whatever and get rekt by the n400

gusty kiln
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shrug_weeb I use earbuds 90% of the time

astral haven
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actual earbuds or iems?

gusty kiln
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It is interesting that you can get a monarch mk2 for 1000 that is S-tier vs headphones

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Actual earbuds

astral haven
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there is in fact a difference jacona

gusty kiln
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I'm just saying iem are irrelevant to me

astral haven
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they shouldnt be tho

gusty kiln
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At least on crincle's opinion

astral haven
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focal clear are A+ not s

gusty kiln
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"Closest"

astral haven
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this is the highest rated headphone with 2 stars

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all of the 3 star headphones are b's

gusty kiln
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But either way "only $1000" for endgame iems is an interesting proposition

gusty kiln
astral haven
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yea the ierz1r are rather old at this point
most of 5 years old

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ier-z1r mk2 when

gusty kiln
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Monarch mk2

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The mk3 are coming

astral haven
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imagine paying $1000 for a tv when you arent a cinematographer

gusty kiln
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That's like saying imagine buying a 4090 when you're not a pro gamer

astral haven
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yes I can imagine that

gusty kiln
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Ips/va TVs are dirt cheap nowadays

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Or basically anything not oled or some unique tech

astral haven
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now I am part of the 4%
but i can still imagine what its like since i spent a grand on a monitor

gusty kiln
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I would buy a 27" G8

astral haven
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32 inches was good enough for me

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if you already have a monitor arm, its just a few inches of placement different

gusty kiln
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Mainly for ppi when I use it for 1080 esport gaming

astral haven
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ppi actually does not matter as long as you can control the distance of the monitor from you

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move it like 4 inches back

gusty kiln
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Though never seen 32" with native 1080p

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Might be ok

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The 27" 1080p at work looks alright

astral haven
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27 at 1 meter is 115 ppd
32 at 1.18 meters is 115ppd

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as long as you have a tiny amount of space to move it back, its better

gusty kiln
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Oh yeah did you watch linus video with the virtue glasses?

astral haven
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yea

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no shocker

gusty kiln
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I honestly never felt motion sickness with the xreal

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Even when moving

astral haven
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you tried with max brightness with the privacy shades?

gusty kiln
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No

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What's interesting about that config?

astral haven
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as long as your vision is primarily reality, your brain doesnt care

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but as soon as you are mostly seeing the content, you will get sick

gusty kiln
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I've used them in complete darkess

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Dunno if that is comparable

astral haven
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while standing?

gusty kiln
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No in bed but moving my head around

astral haven
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thats surprising
playing static content?

gusty kiln
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Yeah YouTube and tv shows

astral haven
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interesting

gusty kiln
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My favorite way to watch shows

astral haven
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maybe you have to have part of your vision normal?

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there is also a solid 40% of the population that is immune to getting sick from vection

gusty kiln
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Maybe but I haven't tried standing and moving

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Ah

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It is interesting that some reviewers don't mention motion sickness

astral haven
gusty kiln
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Heh yeah

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Also the blurred edges they mention in the video

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I rarely get that unless the glasses are nearly falling off my face

astral haven
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thats a viture issue
you have the xreal right?

gusty kiln
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Yeah

astral haven
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yea the viture has diopter adjustments

gusty kiln
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Ahh

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Wonder if they were drifting during the video shoot

astral haven
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made by the same oem
but the diopter adjustments make the quality worse for everything

gusty kiln
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Ooff

astral haven
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nah its just optics arent possible to optimize for multiple diopters perfectly, there will always be some errors

gusty kiln
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Luckily I have good vision

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Don't need any adjustments

astral haven
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same (for now)

gusty kiln
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Kek

astral haven
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my entire family on all sides need correction now

gusty kiln
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Would you go lasik?

astral haven
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tho my moms side is far and my dads side is near
so maybe they cancel out?

astral haven
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hopefully tho by the time I get to that point, we have good enough AR glasses to do full field replacement, then i would just get lenses perfectly optimized for the glasses

gusty kiln
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Best buy recently got stock

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The question is did the 4090 get the new plug

astral haven
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i really hope for someone to make a gigapixel consumer sensor that is mft sized, and throw a pair of em in the front of a VR headset

gusty kiln
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Sounds super expensive

astral haven
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isocell hp2 is under $100

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5 of them is $500

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you missed the context

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yes thats the point

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context was this

gusty kiln
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A friend of mine sidegrade(?) to a 42" c2 oled from the samsung G9

astral haven
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oled vs lcd is just personal preference tbh

gusty kiln
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I would pick the G9 personally

astral haven
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I wouldnt, 16:9 is far superior imo

gusty kiln
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Yeah but I'll use it like 2 16:9

elfin forge
elfin axle
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gigachad

astral haven
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now i shouldnt be saying anything since i use quad 16:9 here at work

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  • a 5th touchscreen
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cant really show you what im working on lol

gusty kiln
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Currently have center 16:9 and two portrait 16:9 at home

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On the side

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Kinda want 16:10 portraits

astral haven
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tbh if these were 4k or even 1440p i wouldnt have anything vertical
my vertical is for documents
if it was 1440p i could just use half of a 16:9

gusty kiln
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Yeah my portraits are 1080p

astral haven
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currently talking to you on half 16:9 1080p

gusty kiln
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Kek, yeah that's how I see it up at home

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Top is discord bottom is telegram

astral haven
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what

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wtf is the point of portrait half 16:9

gusty kiln
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I was so glad to find a portrait extension for btwitch

gusty kiln
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Can't do all monitor landscape

astral haven
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aah icic

gusty kiln
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I do have my music taking up everything on the other monitor

astral haven
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yea i wish someone would make a 48 inch 8k panel that takes 4 4k inputs

gusty kiln
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That's probably only 1-2 years away

astral haven
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would need the worlds most powerful scaler chip but gib nau

astral haven
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remember ive got a g8 neo

gusty kiln
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Oh didn't say 240hz

astral haven
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yea every time ive gone up the refresh scale i havent wanted to go back

gusty kiln
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240 should be fine for most people

astral haven
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started at 72, which permanently ruined 60hz for me
upgraded to a 180hz which i kept at 144hz for a while to prevent ruining 120hz for me
but i once accidentally left it at 180hz for a month, which ruined 144 for me forever

gusty kiln
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Might need 1000hz to feel like a huge jump from 240

frozen ingot
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am not gonna be in any hurry to move past 144hz

astral haven
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eventually upgraded to 240 and now 120 really annoys me

gusty kiln
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I'll never go back to 60 on mobile

astral haven
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my work pc cant output 4k240 😭

gusty kiln
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120 minimum

frozen ingot
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60 I could notice the pain even without any other reference

gusty kiln
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Rip

astral haven
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at work i am stuck with 60hz

gusty kiln
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Same

frozen ingot
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yeah on phone I don't really care enough for anything above 60

astral haven
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yea my phone is 120 and i mostly dont mind since im mostly just watching vids

gusty kiln
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Infinite scroll wheels are sooooo nice with a portrait monitor

astral haven
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not same here lol
my work iphone feels awful to use just swiping between apps and the forced animations

gusty kiln
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"Used android phones"

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Iphone are easier to sell

astral haven
frozen ingot
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I feel like I'd rather 60hz and longer battery life than the alternative

gusty kiln
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Just get both

astral haven
gusty kiln
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S23 ultra after the s24 ultra release is my upgrade path

astral haven
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theres even a 3rd party app for my phone that lowers the panel to 48hz

astral haven
torn granite
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Plus 120hz doesn’t really make that much of a difference on battery life, at least with the pro max series and the higher end Samsung phones.

astral haven
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samsung has non vfr models that dont care

frozen ingot
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I guess, but am not sure if I'd bother disabling/enabling it back and forth

astral haven
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but yea all the new ones are vfr

gusty kiln
astral haven
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mine is 1 60 and 120 only
theres a janky workaround to enable 48hz but its jank

frozen ingot
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I mostly look at static text or images on my phone, apart from some videos

gusty kiln
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Shame foldables don't support dex

torn granite
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The variable frame rate does help cause it automatically lowers the frames when you really don’t need it. Which is why it does save on battery life in a way. Forcing 120hz constantly might be more noticeable in draining battery life

astral haven
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i practically have it constantly forced and i still get more battery than i get on my work cell which i dont use nearly as much

torn granite
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That’s the power of technology over time lol

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Always finding ways to improve

astral haven
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my work phone was released a year later

torn granite
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Then I’d take that W any day lol

astral haven
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samsung has had this feature for 10 years without variable refresh

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its called panel self refresh, and its an easy w for oleds since you can just stop sending new frames and itll keep showing the same data

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my laptop only supports 60hz signal, but since it supports panel self refresh, the gpu can just go to sleep whenever theres a static image on screen

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doesnt help at all for stuff like this tho which is way cooler

coarse cloak
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wild

astral haven
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amd really should not have pulled out the bs with the half x3d

wheat plume
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gosh damn...

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fucking nitro :')) in this car

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Like a V6
Like a V6
Nownwnownwonow now im chugging some fuel like a V6

cursive summit
astral haven
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isnt that more than the mau of twitter?

swift heron
astral haven
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is that real or ai
its so hard to tell these days

fickle ore
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goooooood goooooood zuck

astral haven
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as geohot said, twitter only needs a team of 50 in reality

reef patrol
fickle ore
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but its ded

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sad the stock didnt react to news

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well tbf atleast it didnt go down like the rest

ashen spindle
astral haven
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what?

fickle ore
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Threads will be pog with Quest 3

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:3

ashen spindle
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the guy who got sued by sony for exploits he got from some irc channel and recently tried to get money while "fixing" rocm?

astral haven
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?

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he just complained about an issue with rocm causing kernel panics

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and the sony "exploit" was a key he posted on his website

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he actually was part of the towelroot and og iphone jailbreak teams

ashen spindle
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he raised 5 million with tiny corp to make rocm work globally and then kinda left and now is back on it

astral haven
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tinycorp isnt for rocm?

fickle ore
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wtf is rocm

astral haven
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amds cuda clone wannabe

fickle ore
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ive been seeing news about it for years and its never anywhere

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ok

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that explains it

astral haven
ashen spindle
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Our short term goal is to get AMD on MLPerf using the tinygrad framework.

astral haven
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he was comparing a770, 7900xtx, and 4090, and the 7900xtx was the only option that literally could not complete the benchmark

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then when he was trying to figure it out he noticed that the rocm example code would literally cause a kernel panic in linux

astral haven
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remember he ran comma ai from nothing into a $1500 self driving computer that is 2 years behind tesla and closing while not lying about capabilities

ashen spindle
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cant read deeper am posting in between raid pulls lol thats just what I read elsewhere the other day and seemed to add up, didnt dig super deep

astral haven
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yea the dude is definetly very unpopular, but hes also extremely upfront
and basically his entire (post hacking) life's work is on github

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didnt the stream get posted here?

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apparently not

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Date of stream 3 Jun 2023.
from $1499 buy https://comma.ai/shop/comma-three
Live-stream chat added as Subtitles/CC - English (Twitch Chat) - three-dot menu icon - Show transcript

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cursive summit
astral haven
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probably tied to your facebook and instagram accounts

frozen ingot
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truth social must have really taken off for him to care about zuccs new platform

astral haven
# astral haven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr0rWJhv9jU

but yea @ashen spindle you can listen (nothing to see) to this stream at 2x speed, itll take about 5 mins to explain the issue, 20 mins if you want to see nvidias reaction to a much less problematic issue
and the result is now that amd finally has a proper bug bounty program

cursive summit
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Ohohohoho

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BREAKING: X Corp. threatens to sue Meta over Twitter clone “Threads” in a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg for engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”

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ashen spindle
wheat plume
#

Who TF is X Corp?

cursive summit
wheat plume
#

o

cursive summit
#

Can't you read?

fickle ore
#

aint going anywhere

#

Anyone know which oled tv to get that is budget friendly?

ashen spindle
#

no but hdtv test and rtings would be the two places to check

gusty kiln
#

Wake C3 already? I thought the C2 just came out

astral haven
#

new one every year afaik

#

im not buying an rgbw oled tho

#

no thankey

gusty kiln
#

That msi 49" looks nice

#

That's what I would get

fickle ore
#

LG G3 has MLA but 2.6k :/(

astral haven
#

also rgbw

#

cheating brightness

gusty kiln
#

It's rgbw vs triangle pixel layout

astral haven
#

now if it was rgbww?

#

maybe

#

but thats not what they are doing

astral haven
ashen spindle
#

the a95 seems fine, just, twice those prices xD

fickle ore
#

Idc about rgbw or triangle layout, it's just for tv not monitor exceling

fickle ore
#

Need my anime from oled

#

Tbh I'm beyond pissed I can't watch netflix on my sofa when gf is playing FFXIV lol and I need to sit on my PC to watch

#

Cuz we aint got a smart tv

astral haven
#

yea because its not cheating brightness

gusty kiln
#

I want 2 of these as side monitors

fickle ore
gusty kiln
#

And CAD

fickle ore
#

😦

astral haven
#

holy shit lenovo, we actually have 9 machines of the same model out of the 20-30 we purchased which have the exact same issue
the laptops wont respond after being shut down and left alone for ~2 days
how could that possibly be a software issue?

gusty kiln
#

Yeah lenovo seems pretty shit on hardware when it come to oem machines

astral haven
#

thinkpad is dead
i havent heard of these sorts of issues with ideapads tho?

gusty kiln
#

Yogas have a lot of issues but different customer base

astral haven
#

yea but pressing the power button and nothing happening seems like anyone would complain about

gusty kiln
#

Kek

#

Saw a video where the power button relies on a cheap plastic piece to actually interact with the pcb

#

Was on a lenovo laptop with a side power button

astral haven
#

nah these are the fancy fingerprint power buttons

gusty kiln
#

Ooooff

#

Even worse

astral haven
#

if you perform a hard pinhole reset, it starts responding

#

but every time you leave the machine shut down for a weekend, it dies again

gusty kiln
#

Def framework next laptop

astral haven
#

god i wish linux was dailyable

gusty kiln
#

Is the p31 ssd still the best for battery life

astral haven
gusty kiln
#

I thought that too

#

But I can do without touch now

astral haven
gusty kiln
#

Ooo

astral haven
gusty kiln
astral haven
#

just because it can be used every day without crashing doesnt mean its dailyable

#

by that i mean good enough to do all the things you need to do in a day lol

astral haven
#

on what?

#

name a machine without compromises

gusty kiln
#

Orphan crushing machine

#

High end dell always look nice

astral haven
astral haven
#

dell has the precision lineup

#

and the higher end precisions are chonky enough

gusty kiln
#

At this point just carry around a minisforum pc with the xreal

#

And a keyboard with touch

astral haven
#

its crazy that im considering a surface to get a stable laptop experience

gusty kiln
#

3:2 is pretty nice

astral haven
#

and also only $1200 with upgradeable storage tho 2 gen old cpu 🤮

#

even has dolby vision for @prisma crag

gusty kiln
#

Oh yeah standard surface don't have touch

astral haven
#

what?

#

all the surface devices have touch lmao

gusty kiln
#

Wait really

#

It's been ages since I looked at them

#

They haven't updated them on years other than spec bumps

astral haven
#

sure but spec bumps matter alot for tablets

#

and they have tb4/usb4 on all the high end stuff now

gusty kiln
#

Oh wait i meant surface laptop

#

But they still have touch

astral haven
#

surface laptop regular is boring but also has always had a touchscreen

#

and now has tb4

#

i may even be interested in an i3 n305 surface go 4

#

surface laptop studio seems so sweet tho

#

we are ordering them to replace surface books that fell out of warranty and they seem extremely fun and pleasant to use

#

also 2p16e laptop chip when

pale sigil
#

@rancid panther slowing syncing my Netflix....

#

Plex next

#

Well there's past content from there too tho

marsh glade
#

That poor guy has been pinged twice today alone

#

Surprised he's still in the server

chrome estuary
empty wren
#

Lol

#

They are already losing value if gen 4 and below

jade lintel
#

intel cpu in laptops

astral haven
#

at least intel laptops support sleeping

jade lintel
#

lol ig thats true

astral haven
#

i wish someone besides intel had invented thunderbolt
heck the original apple optical fiber concept sounds the best to me still
if ibm had made it, everyone would be using it now

#

but on the other hand intel invented usb in general so we cant really complain

shadow minnow
#

I mean Intel didn’t invent thunderbolt on their own but more in collaboration, was it ibm and apple

astral haven
#

yea but apple passed it off like a hot potato

#

and ibm provided the signalling tech to kickstart the project, not really the spec

cursive summit
#

Lol what

#

This is a real email, right?

#

I don't remember scheduling my account for deletion

brazen dagger
#

if ur worried just log in thru the client and not the email i’d say

cursive summit
#

I am on it?

brazen dagger
#

oh

#

probably a goober then

cursive summit
#

Like I am literally in discord rn am I not? dogekek

brazen dagger
#

shit u rigt

cursive summit
#

This is weird

astral haven
#

different account fam

cursive summit
#

I got 2FA and everything

cursive summit
fair gull
astral haven
sullen pagoda
#

well your account doesnt seem to be verrox#3664

fair gull
#

also since when are you verrox

cursive summit
#

I used to be before the new username system

fair gull
#

no?

astral haven
sullen pagoda
#

it says vexx

#

ye

cursive summit
#

But I don't have any alts pepesweat

fair gull
#

anyway id check the raw email headers as its almost 100% fake

#

also youre logged in right now

brazen dagger
#

its scam mail then 100%

fair gull
#

so even if it was real you already solved it

astral haven
#

prolly made an acount near the begining, in 2015 or 2016, your current account is from 2017

brazen dagger
#

but it wouldnt be the same email then would it

cursive summit
#

This is the only account I ever had

sullen pagoda
#

then ignore it. you are logged in. dont click anything in that email

astral haven
#

its been over 5 years, you could easily have forgotten that you accidentally made one before, then forgot about it because you didnt use it

brazen dagger
#

i dont think you can make accounts with same emails anyway

cursive summit
#

I am aware how phishing works, I still don't know why I got this

fair gull
#

phishing

brazen dagger
#

beware the phisherman

fair gull
#

you got the email because of phishing

cursive summit
fair gull
#

it is

cursive summit
#

Eh whatever

brazen dagger
#

AAAHHHHHHH

cursive summit
#

I hope this isn't some new scam of sorts

#

Seems to have come directly from discords email service though

fair gull
#

idk why you even consider it to be real when its not your old username or new one

#

its clearly some really old datadump

#

someone probably finding your discord tag on some forum account or smth

cursive summit
#

That's a while away

fair gull
#

also why do i never get sort of good phishing emails

#

i always get the obvious fakes

astral haven
cursive summit
#

Isn't Google rn on Tensor G2?

#

It does

astral haven
#

not sent, signed

cursive summit
#

Yes it's signed

fair gull
#

signed can be spoofed just saying

astral haven
#

if it says signed, then its real and you have an alt you forgot about

fair gull
#

im not sure if the average phisherman invest the effort for good email spoofing

astral haven
sullen pagoda
cursive summit
#

Eh whatever, I just ignore the scams

#

They do be fun though

#

Anyways, isn't Google rn using Tensor G2?

#

If G5 becomes available in 2025, they aren't going to be using it immediately, they will have to go through G3, G4 first

astral haven
#

who knows
they may have different tiers

cursive summit
#

"@discordapps.com"

astral haven
#

^

#

signed by discord.com is extremely hard to fake without compromising something

#

but signing it is not easy

cursive summit
#

I wonder if it's a scam email, maybe there's some discord exploit similar to the one that Google had where you get Google to send an email to the recipient with the scam

#

I forgot through what service that propagated, was it hangouts?

astral haven
#

i think so

fair gull
#

id always chjeck received and received-spf headers

astral haven
#

next question is what is the domain of the link they gave you

fair gull
#

those cant be faked to my knowledge unless they actually hacked into the servers

#

at which point they might as well be real

#

pls give raw email dump with your email redacted

#

i really wanna see

astral haven
#

again discord signs their stuff
the signatures shouldnt be fakable

cursive summit
fair gull
#

very real email from discord

cursive summit
#

Yeah but the information is bogus

astral haven
#

i tell you its probably an account you forgot about

fair gull
#

ye seems the most likely

cursive summit
#

I think I would remember if I had an account I scheduled for deletion in the past few months or so

fair gull
#

pretty sure they get auto sheduled if not logged in for years

cursive summit
astral haven
#

what if its discord themselves deleting bc it hasnt been used in 5 years

cursive summit
#

Whatever lads, if it's real then it's not a new scam attack

fair gull
#

even if it was a new scam idk why people would fall for it

#

either they actually dont use the account so they delete the email and dont care

#

or they log into discord daily

cursive summit
fair gull
#

and dont care

cursive summit
#

Cause that one was ingenious how they used google's own mail client to scam you

astral haven
#

actually it wasnt the mail client itself

cursive summit
astral haven
#

hangouts was actually signing messages as if it was from google themselves and sending that email to whoever you wanted

fair gull
#

really wonder when people will start not clicking, downloading and opening everything they see or get sent

cursive summit
#

I get quite a bit of spam, and some come with pdfs

#

Now I am aware about pdf exploits, but these are clean, I scanned em

astral haven
#

remember by default your mail client will download images that you receive unless you disable it usually

cursive summit
#

However they are damn massive

#

One was several tens of megabytes for a single page pdf

#

Clean though, not my AV nor online checkers detected anything

#

Tried looking for padded hex data, wasn't padded

#

Just a massive ass single page scam pdf

astral haven
#

you sure it wasnt randomized data?

#

or image data added instead of simple padding

cursive summit
#

Idk mate, that was a little while ago

#

This one though seems normal, not really an inflated pdf

fair gull
#

inb4 it opens some obscure encoded hacking vector that av doesnt detect

cursive summit
#

I'd highly doubt my AV wouldn't detect it

astral haven
#

unless you are using like crowdstrike or the enterprise version of windows defender I doubt it would be able to detect something with fancy enough obfuscation

cursive summit
#

Since when is windows defender good, last I checked reports are that it's still lacking compared to other AVs

astral haven
cursive summit
#

Also it's not even Defender anymore, something like Security or something

astral haven
#

the consumer version is just good enough

#

365 defender and Sentinel are severely more intrusive, but more accurate

fair gull
#

cant really have security without it being intrusive imo

astral haven
#

yea and ms defender relies on you downloading any programs through ms edge for any form of downloaded file security

fair gull
#

i think chrome actually also passes it through defender

astral haven
astral haven
fair gull
#

ah

astral haven
#

anyways the av software that can hit 100% accuracy are the ones that record literally every action every program on the computer performs and records it if its even remotely suspicious

cursive summit
#

Good old Kaspersky

astral haven
#

uh no

cursive summit
#

If kaspersky doesn't flag it, the damage remediation will save my ass in the end

astral haven
#

sure but it wont save you from session hijacking for example

cursive summit
#

How would it not

#

It scans all traffic in and out

#

To the point it gets annoying sometimes

astral haven
cursive summit
#

I can?

astral haven
#

then someone can exfiltrate data by hiding it as https traffic

#

thats why enterprises use significantly more invasive software than simple "AV" to protect themselves

astral haven
wheat plume
#

I wonder would it be possible to install a new infotainment system into my car
It's got a weird dash design and shape so idk ....don't think I can just slot one in

astral haven
#

might as well keep defender (online ver) enabled tho

#

yea

#

happens

#

done and done
but even still heres the list of applications discovered by our endpoint protection service

#

also you will never get a business level insurance provider to give you insurance

#

our insurance provider forced us to switch from av to edr/xdr if we wanted to keep our existing rates

#

you heard nothing from me lol

#

ive also heard sentinel one is good 😉

coarse cloak
#

Symantec Endpoint Protection is pretty good

#

I thought you were talking about symantec's since it literally ends with what you were saying lol

cursive summit
#

Is endpoint protection a mostly enterprise thing?

astral haven
#

yep

coarse cloak
#

yeah figured after you said "i don't even know what enterprises use for endpoint protection"

cursive summit
#

That sentinel one seems to be enterprise only

#

I wouldn't mind getting a top notch protection suite

astral haven
#

basically requires a dedicated fulltime staff to run

coarse cloak
#

I used symantec and the base version was very good, to the point that it was annoying cause I used to delve in game cheat development

astral haven
#

symantec is actually not great from what ive heard

coarse cloak
#

oh for my usecase it was, probably isn't for everything

#

plus I can't rate it in an enterprise level at all lol, was just for my personal desktop

#

for me it was almost really great, not excellent and not close to perfect

astral haven
#

the high end ones are crowdstrike, sentinelone, vmware carbon black, defender 365, qradar,

#

the only one you may be able to practically get is malwarebytes edr

coarse cloak
#

xdd it is ironic

cursive summit
#

Zero days are no joke though

pale sigil
#

ive had to manually enter so many

coarse cloak
#

wtf

pale sigil
#

This is mostly Netflix

#

via a plugin

#

Plex has more pepesweat

#

I just dont wanna pay for trakt plus to sync it

cursive summit
#

Google has that cool bug hunt program thingamajig

astral haven
#

yea but how about allowing us to unlock our systems if we know we arent being targeted?

#

eu is legislating it so hopefully we will get it eventually

#

yea well it doesnt let me do my thing

#

i want to not have to worry about an app store

#

i want to be able to develop for my phone on my phone

#

sure lemme just use webgl

#

oh wait
facepalm

#

yea but most could use it

#

webkit has proooblems

#

eff didnt like it

#

and at least on android you have the option of picking your engine

#

🤷 i need to find that eff article again

#

i distinctly remember pure foss chromium being the only option that could be fully locked down and anonymized

#

🤷 you can however minimize your generated data

#

tor cannot do that by virtue of the massive scrutiny

#

sure
but seeing the perfectly average amount of trackers is possible with chrome

#

no matter what you do, you can be identified as a webkit user if you are using webkit

#

and thats about 1.2 bits of entropy vs the 0.7? bits that chrome can be

#

a pure chromium user can pretend to be a safari user

#

a safari user cannot pretend to be a chrome user

pale sigil
#

Ya mam is a safari user

astral haven
#

a chromium user can pretend to be whatever they want

#

chrome

#

not nescessarily chromium

pale sigil
#

Is your profile pic ai

#

Ye

astral haven
#

again while that is true, because using the chromium engine itself has inherently less entropy, you can always pretend to be something with higher entropy
its not possible to decrease entropy if the browser doesnt allow it
chrome and safari dont allow it
tor and chromium do allow it

wheat plume
#

What number for the rev counter should I downshift at?

#

@dawn epoch
Ooo
Hey
You are back again!

astral haven
#

the most anonymous you can be is by not visiting websites
the next you can be is by downloading chrome on windows 10, leaving everything at default, and only visiting websites on the alexa 100

astral haven
wheat plume
#

I knew I recognized the name!!

#

Had to check your join date just to make sure xdd

#

Ooohh...you joined 3 days ago though

#

Oh wait
June

#

Nvm

#

Misread that

#

That's an understatement

#

:')

#

Ah....
I have a new car now

#

And it doesn't struggle with hills!! 😍

#

It's still 2010 but more power

#

It also has volume controls on the steering wheel

No more needing to reach halfway across the fucking dashboard to turn the volume dial like I needed to on my previous car

#

💜💜

#

I did lose the gear shift indicator though
New car doesn't have one
I was forced to learn how to read the rev counter....

#

Upshift at 30
Downshift about 25...I think

#

Yeah
This one feels a lot better to drive
And the steering is a lot smoother too

#

Yeah....

#

I'm too broke to afford automatic

#

That's what I did until I also learned the rev counter

#

engine braking
Hmmm?

pale sigil
wheat plume
#

Oohhhhh

#

If I'm coming up to a stop
I just put my gear into neutral and brake until stopped

#

No downshifting

astral haven
#

ha having a car with gears

ashen spindle
#

yes engine breaking did indeed not change its meaning since 3 weeks ago xD

wheat plume
astral haven
#

thats not true at all

wheat plume
#

Oo

astral haven
#

few cars dont have the component called a gear like

#

but when people say that a car has "gears" they are implying there is more than 1 option of gearing

#

and my car has 1 gearing

ashen spindle
wheat plume
#

Yeah I know

astral haven
#

heck both my parents current and previous cars only have 1 gearing as well

#

hybrid cvts best transmission

wheat plume
#

I didn't forget that conversation
I just don't think what I do is engine braking

#

Engine braking requires you go down gears

#

I don't

#

I just let it roll in neutral while braking and holding the clutch down until I stop

astral haven
#

teeeeechnically whenever the engine isnt receiving gas and the clutch is engaged, you are engine braking lol

wheat plume
#

Oohh

#

Ok

astral haven
wheat plume
#

I do need to keep the clutch down until I stop?

#

Or release it after going to neutral?

#

The car won't cut out if I release the clutch in neutral when moving??

astral haven
#

if you are in neutral, the engine is disconnected

wheat plume
#

Ahh

#

Ok

#

5 years roughly probably

astral haven
#

ive literally never driven a manual and i know this lmao

wheat plume
#

Bit rude xd

astral haven
#

if you are driving a manual, you really should understand what the things do...

wheat plume
#

I know when and how to start moving and shifting gears
I just don't know the behind the scenes things

#

And since the new car
I know how to use the rev counter

astral haven
#

everyone calls it a tach lol

wheat plume
#

Still haven't figured out how to use the windshield spray ...can't find the button or whatever

#

And no
It's not pulling the right handle towards me like my previous car

#

I want one so badly

#

The torque is insane

#

And so smooth and quiet

#

I'm in Europe....
Car is basically mandatory here to get most places

#

You wanna drive 20km to the nearest shop on a bike?

#

Good luck!

#

Yep

#

Not in this car

#

I tried that

ashen spindle
#

Have not driven a car in he last 10 years heh

astral haven
#

Stalk lol

wheat plume
#

It didn't tell me how to use the fucking cruise control.....

#

I still haven't a clue what the upper button does

#

No

#

I looked

#

It's a few hundred pages of owner manual
With a separate owner manual JUST FOR the radio system :')

#

A lot of shit in the manual is stuff my model doesn't have though

#

I have the base model

#

2010 Seat Ibiza Reference model

#

I need to find a replacement logo for the front grills
The logo insert is missing
I got it like that... One of the previous owners must have lost it

#

It doesn't do that

#

Trust me
I've tried many times

#

I looked
It seems mostly full

#

Yeah
I can use the front and rear wipers

#

Maybe it will only spray when the wipers are active?

#

I didn't try that

#

Why would the wipers automatically turn on?

#

Is that a modern car feature?

#

I did read it...

#

I have the base model

#

Maybe the others have that feature

#

But mine doesn't

#

The wipers are very much manual on my car

#

I can choose what speed they swipe

#

But they can't start on their own when it rains

#

Yeah
That's what I'm saying
My car can't do that

#

It is
But also not

#

A lot of things in the manual are for other models

#

I have the base model in that series

#

Nah
I have the correct one for this car
But they only print one manual for the entire series of said model...
So I just got to ignore anything that talks about shit my model doesn't have

#

It's like owning an iphone 14
But you got the manual for the iphone 14 Pro Max...
It'll talk about everything your phone can do but also the additional shit the pro max can do

#

It sort of is

#

Roughly

#

Basically

#

Xd

#

I have friends

#

The hardest part of coding for me is getting syntax right for things new to me

#

Especially in python
Every fucking library seems to have it's own syntax .-.

#

Flatpak though

#

Yeah ...it seems to get in the way of normal usage

#

Qubes is solid
Or tails

#

Yeah xd
They are different

astral haven
#

Running freebsd is also an option if only for the virtue of not being able to run a web browser (at least last I checked) lol

wheat plume
#

What

#

Firefox runs fine in bsd

#

Yeah lol

astral haven
#

Ah sad

#

Oh I was thinking of freedos oops

#

Sure but if you want security, the only way is to actually limit scope
If you can't browse the web, you can't click on a virus link lol

wheat plume
#
  1. no wiper fluid
  2. wiper fluid but leak
  3. NCT never bothered to check for fluid therefore passed without fluid
#

I need to check tomorrow if it dries up enough to go open the hood

#

They don't

#

Well the wipers don't

#

Idk about the pump

#

It can't be broken
The NCT would have failed

#

I doubt it

#

I'd assume they would if it's the mechanic himself who drove the car to the testing center

#

Fair point

#

Even so
My mechanic wouldn't miss that

#

Mom doesn't deal with this mechanic

#

I went there myself

#

:") no

#

He never really mentioned anything about the car
Other than the first day I went down to see it before he started servicing it to prepare it for the NCT

#

True

#

You made me remember Ubuntu Satanic Edition
I miss that one a lot

#

I think Jewbuntu is still around though

#

:") possibly

#

I never use a distro other than the main ones

#

And mostly just plain old Arch these days or Fedora

#

It's easy to install the Nvidia drivers in Arch too
sudo pacman -S nvidia

#

I don't blame them
More and more Ubuntu based distros are switching base to Debian now

#

Even mint wants to drop their Ubuntu base

#

I think if you use the ArchLinux Tweak Tool
You can use that to install them also but I'm not sure

#

That's a tool that the Arco Linux team put together but now it works on most Arch based distros

#

It's full of amazing options
Really worth an install

#

This isn't a script anymore
It's a gui app :D

#

I took the lazy method....
I used the official archinstall command to install Arch

astral haven
#

and my arch came with my computer lol

wheat plume
#

Doing that will give you the option to automatically install Nvidia drivers

wheat plume
astral haven
#

1 guess lol

wheat plume
#

Steam Deck

astral haven
#

obviously

wheat plume
#

Xd

severe phoenix
#

Steam Deck with a 4090 mobile in it

#

Let's go

#

:p

wheat plume
#

Rip battery life

astral haven
#

the steam deck is already real hawt lol

severe phoenix
#

Just so we can see it be done

#

"Here you go, with 5 minutes of battery life you get the best performance"

#

"With low power mode, you can get up to 15 to 20, depending on the game!"

wheat plume
#

I recommend that option

It also handles the install of your choice of kernel, audio server, desktop and GPU drivers for you

severe phoenix
#

Weighs 5 pounds

astral haven
#

tbh tho the 4090 mobile scales down to 120w, and idles in the 6-15 region depending on screens

#

and if using igpu can hit zero

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so with the steam deck battery and just adding on top of current power usage you would get at a minimum 16 minutes lmao

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Just be careful ..

  1. connect to internet before using the archinstall script
  2. it's still in beta... It crashes a lot so you'll have to run it again
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people recommend amd because amd is nice

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Nvidia drivers are a hassle
Just not installing them

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and nvidia is mean to the software devs

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You'll get screen tearing and whatnot

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but what works works

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And the fix is awful

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or is it just an arch thing

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i mean as long as you get a slower gpu its cheaper lol

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I'd highly recommend using Gnome desktop if you have a Nvidia GPU on Linux

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It's not Arch only

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it did not happen in ubuntu 2 years ago

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I find the fix for screen tearing works reliable and well on Gnome

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and i just did a bone stock install

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Plasma desktop crashed my games about an hour into playing them when the fix was applied

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Idk what that's like on Nvidia
But if you wanna go ahead and use that!

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Cinnamon is a very nice balance between customisation and features

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It just looks really boring to me

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The themes and shit are so boring imo

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Especially mint's default wallpaper

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kali is xfce right?
my friend who uses linux is a hakerman so it does ostensibly work on nvidia gpu

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Seriously
Why is this the default?

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There's no color

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Yeah but it's not default

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for real tho the ventura wallpaper is extremely pretty and changes gradually with the time of day

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dunno about the newer oses but the mac i use at work is stuck on that so thats what i get

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I don't mind MacOS
If I didn't use Linux I would definitely rather MacOS over Windows

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Windows drives me insane with BS

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the windows bs just costs time to fix

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the macos bs costs time and money

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All those little issues that stack up just piss me off

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and the ios bs is unfixable

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Nah
Fuck iOS

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there is a free solution to that

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Yeah
That shit is useful

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I use the bulk rename so often

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most of the major complaints with windows are being worked on by microsoft

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microsoft is just not very competent

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yea ios is extremely secure, you gotta give em that

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I use a lot of apps that aren't on iOS
And I really hate the UI design

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but it doesnt have the option of relaxing

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And the shit notifications

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and there are some insanely dumb limitations

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in what universe do i want apps to be as far from my hand as physically possible????

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and why is the only solution to that to clutter up my screen with random bs that i dont want to use

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Yeah... The home screen is still the same as when iOS first launched
Just with new icons and widgets

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and widgets have only been around for 2 years

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Yep

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it took them an entire 10 years to add what was blindingly obvious from the beginning for everyone else

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android lacks a lot of niche professional apps that ios has on the flipside

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I love my Android home screen

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it is

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the only app that im aware of that has no android alternative is the controll app for the lytro

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and thats because they folded before they released the android app

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Procreate is a popular app for artists that's not in Android

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its also a drawing app

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how many of those are there???

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you got boatloads of apps for recording, instruments, effects, mixing etc basically lifted from the pro audio recording industry

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since ios runs the same low latency apis as mac os

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not many

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and you don't have the same audio/midi performance in android at all

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🤷 yea the android audio stack is pretty messed up
however you can run alternatives and its actually rather common to use

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there are some neat stuff on there, its not completely dead or empty

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i know for a fact that dmx performs better on android
and ive never heard of a situation where midi performs worse than dmx

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but i also dont use midi so ymmv

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but on average the applications for android are a lot more amateur level to my experience, usually developed by smaller players

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the stuff on ios usually has the same professional features and code as dedicated hardware or plugins for desktop audio workstations

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one great example of ios pain is NDI
Ndi decided that they would discontinue the free version of their app
on ios its gone forever
on android you can still use it

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or at least in that same tier but built ground up for the touch interface

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all 5 options have the same options for fl studio

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yep

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some have managed to branch over eventually

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like cubasis can be had on android now

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this is only practically true for the apple developed apps these days tho

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or the deprecated ones

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which btw is another advantage of android over ios

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but android audio/midi api is still lagging behind a lot

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its actually possible to run deprecated apps even if they have been removed from the app store

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in ios several apps running the same standards can cross-interact and run audio/midi through each other as well

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maybe its possible on android, I haven't looked into that

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id rather spend $100 on a burner phone and compromise it than spend a couple grand a month on a subscription

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but latency/desync is probably going to be more of an issue there

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tbh if you're not in the market for those kinds of niche applications and use cases there's very little missing between the platforms these days

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bluetooth is generally not used for this type of thing at all

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if it communicates wirelessly between different devices its typically over the wifi

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ive seen some use speakers lol

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again tho any good modern mix engineer will at least listen to their music on airpods just to verify

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yeah video/photo editing is another strong suit of the platform

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