🔌│tech

[ashen spindle]

Benefit of yoshi p being on the board of directors, he just says no to NFTs

[old marlin]

• all their nfts projects werre shit financially

so they won't pull a konami

[ashen spindle]

Yeah it slaps even without having the one big standout like devil may cry has, it’s just great all around

And we almost didn’t get this OST if soken hadn’t won against his cancer few years ago

[pale sigil]

Nice

[cursive summit]

Acronis? Isn't that software?

[old marlin]

wtf is the acronis edition

yes

it is backup software

[cursive summit]

So they just give you a subscription or something?

Motherclucker, elaborate@pale sigil

[ashen spindle]

Licenses keys they have stocked up and need to sell most likely

[old marlin]

ig?

[ashen spindle]

So it’s just a deal that makes the sad cheaper and you can just ignore the software

[old marlin]

so you prob get a year of a backup software

you won't use

realistically

even if you want backup software

please don't use acronis

[ashen spindle]

Yeah but it’s cheaper than without lol

[old marlin]

they have proprietary formats

[old marlin]

yes

https://www.macrium.com/

macrium at least lets you use their free tool to recover backups etc

[pale sigil]

Just china mad

ATM how nvme prices have dropped

[ashen spindle]

It’s all memory

Look at ddr5 prices

[pale sigil]

If I had the money id get a 4tb nvme lol

Well I have the money

[reef patrol]

Buy two, 2TB instead.

[pale sigil]

But I'm trying to keep it for a bed

[pale sigil]

Would cost more ATM

But also I already have a 1tb nvme

[reef patrol]

Would last you longer.

[ashen spindle]

Do you actually need more or do you just wish you had it because it’s so cheap now

[pale sigil]

Not really worried about longevity

[pale sigil]

I'm maxed out on 3tb rn

It's frustrating

But no I don't need

Hence me saying I would if I didn't have to spend it elsewhere

Sister: "them headphones you gave me were good but I've seen better"

No fucking shit they are ATH m50xs

[reef patrol]

[pale sigil]

Then she argued saying about vinyl sounding better and that's why people get it... I said well yes but it's heavily overrated on how it "sounds better"

And most people buy because cool

And then she said to mum you could get a Bluetooth one

[latent mural]

yooo mansen sup?

[reef patrol]

[pale sigil]

All I was trying to say is I always wanted a vinyl player but now I feel cringe getting one because it's become cool again and I don't wanna be labeled

[reef patrol]

My boy - Owning a vinyl player has always been a label.

https://tenor.com/view/bart-simpson-the-simpsons-pipe-bubbles-gif-14556539

[pale sigil]

Ye but ATM it's worse

Sort of desk I want

[reef patrol]

I have that. Can highly recommend.

100 bucks

[ashen spindle]

make sure its one that can support the weight you need

might cost more but better to pay up and have it not wobble and also include safety features so you cant break anything when you make it go down

[reef patrol]

Any cheap one will handle having a desktop PC (a heavy one) and monitors.

SITTING on it while adjusting the height however...

[mild dome]

to get the same aesthetic an vinyl just lay a tortilla over a hamster powered lazy Susan

[ashen spindle]

handle yes, but the cheaper ones that only have one metal bar instead of two will wobble so much more

[reef patrol]

Mine's dirt cheap. Doesn't mine an inch.

Regardless - Always try before you buy 😄

[ashen spindle]

or be ready to sent it back after assembly and put it back xD

[reef patrol]

Oh yeah sure - Unscrewing a table sized anything and sending it back. As if anyone, least of all Pleasant would do that 😄

[ashen spindle]

of course xD

[wheat plume]

why cant native package managers give this option too?

this is flatpak app from Discover

[raw zephyr]

pacman should only leave leftovers in home, as intended

[wheat plume]

is there an flag to give it to delete all leftovers?

kinda like purge in apt?

[raw zephyr]

pacman won't delete your home config files

i guess there's a switch, but use it with caution

[wheat plume]

hhm

ok

-c it seems

[halcyon moss]

uhu that now it

[wheat plume]

wait no thats not files

[halcyon moss]

sounds very dangerous

[raw zephyr]

don't do -c

[wheat plume]

there is -n for removing .config files for the app

[raw zephyr]

-c will remove all deps including the ones that are still used

[wheat plume]

yeah...

does -s just remove shit thats not used once that app is gone?

ive used that flag a few times and it seemed to want to remove X session for Firefox....

so I said no to that

[raw zephyr]

as i said, i don't think pacman is ever meant to touch your home folder, it just wouldn't make sense

[halcyon moss]

hmm, dont completely agree, but its dangerous

[reef patrol]

waka waka

[raw zephyr]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Old_configuration_files

[wheat plume]

Im looking for any leftover files from EasyEffects but found this instead....

wtf I install using EAC?

Apex.... ooooohhh right xd

so strange to see this lol

[severe phoenix]

Need more nvme

[wheat plume]

Do they all show up in explorer individually or as one drive with all their capacity combined?

[reef patrol]

Depends on your setup.

RAID and so such

[wheat plume]

oo

Would all that going through one slot not throttle them?

[ashen spindle]

its x16 to x2 or x4 devices

so, depends

[reef patrol]

You would generally not access all of them all at once at full throttle. But yes.

[wheat plume]

oooohh

[severe phoenix]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLKCBK44?tag=espresso004b-20

Hava

This is amazing

(it jiggles your mouse so your PC doesn't go to sleep)

Truly revolutionary

[halcyon moss]

Can also be used to be sure you're not marked as being idle when you have monitoring software

[wheat plume]

🤔

[ashen spindle]

just use an ahk script instead of paying for a weird gadget lol

[halcyon moss]

Unless you can't install software

[ashen spindle]

I guess

[vagrant pagoda]

Dosent work if they can see what you are running

[ashen spindle]

I mean if they have that much control they likely also see if you dont do anything and only jiggle the mouse

[vagrant pagoda]

It's not there to just leave all day

Some shitty company's will literally penalize you every time your system idles

[ashen spindle]

if they do that as awell as stop giving you rights to install AHK it's either a job where you should not be encouraged to idle because lives depend on you

or you should quit

[fair gull]

-c sounds like it removes upwards deps... so the package and whatever used the package u removed

[old marlin]

https://www.amazon.com/Undetectable-Computer-Simulate-Movement-Entering/dp/B097ZXZLVR

[severe phoenix]

Lol

https://www.amazon.com/WD_BLACK-SN850X-Internal-Gaming-Solid/dp/B0B7CQ2CHH/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1G20H3TDLWMG5&keywords=sn850x&psr=PDAY&qid=1689077795&s=prime-day&sprefix=sn850x%2Cprime-day%2C66&sr=1-2

[ashen spindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buLyy7x2dcQ

ah a good dunk on the terrible marketing slides is fun

[reef patrol]

Should be downright illegal.

[halcyon moss]

yeah.. that was the entire take of that vid.

its a good product though

.. for an apple product..

[ashen spindle]

oh yeah, good product, costs a lot, illegal level marketing

[halcyon moss]

no replacable storage is still bonkers imho

[sullen pagoda]

yeah that is what leads to pointless discussion where some friend tells me how much better sth apple sth is and when i ask what part or for what use case nothing comes back aside from a 3 times as good in general

[halcyon moss]

summary: good performance, expensive, insanely low powerdraw

[ashen spindle]

not to mention stupid things like never letting the fans run as good as they can just to make it quiet...

its a pro device not a iphone, it doesnt need to be silent...

but no, gotta keep it silent instead of stopping throttling lol

[halcyon moss]

that is a bit strange indeed

[cursive summit]

Interesting

Starfield wasn't a bad IEM

Moondrop got to Starfield and Starfield 2 faster than Bethesda released their first

[ashen spindle]

and it works on release

[cursive summit]

Ah come on

Not even a chance

I firmly believe Starfield could have been launched last year to typical status of Bethesda games

But they got told off and now it'll work well out of the box

If I'm wrong then whatever, just Bethesda doing bethesda things again

[ashen spindle]

if the delay would have come after redfall release I would maybe even believe that

as a "hey guys we know this launch sucked, we are making sure the other titles are what we want"

not if the dealy came and then they still let redfall launch how it was

[severe phoenix]

https://blurbusters.com/frame-generation-essentials-interpolation-extrapolation-and-reprojection/

[cursive summit]

Let's see how it is when reviews come out and what the release looks like

I have many gripes with the game, and performance/stability isn't really one of them

I am rather scared it'll be boring as hell

[cosmic ivy]

Is there a price announced ?

[wheat plume]

Why does SteamOS still load this process?

its not needed at all after the first system boot

the OOBE one anyway

idk what the grub one does

[raw zephyr]

just disable it in systemd if it bothers you

[wheat plume]

it doesnt, im just curious why it needs to load

[ashen spindle]

I would assume on the steam or arch discord or similar someone might be able to tell you

[cursive summit]

Didn't see any

[pale sigil]

*Write that down, cat5e" -sister

it's like she hasn't been living with me my entire life.

[rough osprey]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23779039/microsoft-activision-blizzard-ftc-trial-win

yoo

[ashen spindle]

#🎮│game

[rough osprey]

bruh we changing channels every time

[ashen spindle]

It was just posted there so it’s easier to not have the same conversation twice

[pale sigil]

Hahahah

[astral haven]

well apple is better at running apps they make that they dont make pc versions of
and its also better at rendering prores (because non apple devices are banned from using it)

[wheat plume]

NothingOS is doing something really cool

You can turn any quick toggle into a home screen widget

[hushed lodge]

Can someone please provide a solution for this issue? I'm feeling extremely frustrated and desperate. I really need help with this problem.
https://discord.com/channels/167181566978555904/1128318411311677562

[ashen spindle]

rocky already replied to you in that thread...

[wheat plume]

I love how Carl Pei has said he's inspired by old Apple
Not the current one

The one from his childhood where they innovated and had new ideas

Seemed to be choosing his words carefully :')

[cursive summit]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/fairphone-3-gets-seven-years-of-updates-besting-every-other-android-oem/

• 7 years of continuous slowdown of your device to make you buy the next model

[old marlin]

just don't update then lol

[cursive summit]

That's what I try to do

Updates are horrible

[empty wren]

3 years of updates is nice though so long as the phone is not too low end

[misty saffron]

the reality is “we’ve put a 7yo soc in our new phone, it already barely works so 2-3 years is all you get”

[cursive summit]

Yeah I feel the slowdown even after 3 years of updates

My Poco is nowhere near as nimble as it was

And that's a relatively good SoC

[empty wren]

Also battery

[misty saffron]

also storage

[empty wren]

Ehhh

[cursive summit]

That should be not a problem anymore for too long

[empty wren]

Depends on the person

[cursive summit]

EU enforcing replaceable batteries will be a very interesting development

[empty wren]

Because a lot of people use cloud stprage

[cursive summit]

Though I haven't looked at what that bill looks like

[empty wren]

Gonna be difficult though to do so, and if done I bet prices will rise

[cursive summit]

I assume they are just wanting to go back to the era of easily openable backpanels

Maybe 3.5mm will also come back

[misty saffron]

no, the point is not gluing the batteries

to the point of absurdity

[empty wren]

Apple does have nice pull tabs

[misty saffron]

not nice enough from my experience

[empty wren]

Interesting take

What devices?

[misty saffron]

iphone se

they just break

had to make a fire hazard

[empty wren]

You would be surprised how the lithium based batteries can be abused

Before they give in

[misty saffron]

i was surprised

it was bent at a solid 70 degree angle

[empty wren]

But yeah it is best to avoid bending them

[empty wren]

Oof

[astral haven]

my s21 is on its 3rd major os version and it feels snappier than it did originally lol

[astral haven]

took like an entire year of replacing batteries on the 678 series to get a good procedure for them, and it involved minor heat and removing the vibrator thingey below the battery so you could pull straight

[misty saffron]

just bring back the iphone 4 pull tabs, man

[astral haven]

and obviously we also refused to do anything with the iphones that were bent
we even had an iphone 8 that got bent
was hard to tell because the back glass was straight, but the frame was definetly bent

[misty saffron]

wonder if anyone had managed to bend the stainless steel chassis ones?

[astral haven]

i mean yes but if jerry rig everything cant bend it by hand, its not a phone issue, its a "you stuck your phone in a press brake" issue

[misty saffron]

i’ve seen things at repair centers, unfortunately

12 pro bent because somebody has thrown it into a wall, lol

turns out wives can throw something really hard in process of trying to hide something

[astral haven]

aint gonna blame the phone for that esp when its not a particularly weak phone

[sharp badger]

https://fi.nothing.tech/pages/phone-2 This is not that expensive but wish that it would have a Zoom lens

[astral haven]

smallish camera sensors, no zoom yea, not sensor matched, no 1tb option, no card slot, no 3.5 jack, no wifi 6e, usb 2, last gen cpu

and its not even cheap

its just not crazy

[sharp badger]

Yeah

[halcyon moss]

https://m.dpreview.com/articles/7965305413/samsung-unveils-galaxy-s4-zoom-camera-phone-hybrid
When do we get this again

[astral haven]

tbh my phone has alot longer zoom range with a larger sensor on the main

mine is .6x, 1x, 3x, 10x optical vs the 1x-10x that the s4 is
the xperia 1 v is .7x, 1x, 3.5x-5x

[sharp badger]

Is there any other phones with 10x lenses other than Samsung Ultra series?

[astral haven]

s21u lol

[sharp badger]

Ah that one too

[astral haven]

and the s20u 🤣

with the same goddamn lens in all 4

except on the s22 they slightly decreased the size of the sensor

p40 pro+ seems to have one as well

[sharp badger]

Which lens?

There's some rumor that Apple will use 6x instead of 10x

[astral haven]

the f4.9 240mm equivalent lens

[sharp badger]

Well seems like the S22U/S23U have the same and the S21U has the 240mm

[astral haven]

they switched from a 1/3.24" sensor on the 20 and 21 to a 1/3.52" on the 22 and 23

the "change" in focal length is purely equivalent

the equivalent focal length depends on the sensor size too

the sensor is physically like a 40mm focal length or something

[sharp badger]

Okay 🕵️

[cursive summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnhCt9SQ2Y0

[astral haven]

oh dear, tldr seems poor cpu scaling, dlss3 is extremely easy to implement, the horrendus shader stutter has an option to improve it, but its off by default and doesnt fully fix the problem

[pale sigil]

Sister is looking at them micro PCs on Amazon

[astral haven]

rip nuc

[pale sigil]

I suggested a micro dell refurb

Because most of the micro PCs on Amazon are shite or fake

[astral haven]

what level of perf are they looking for bc the n300 and n305 units are pretty crazy low power

[pale sigil]

@astral haven basic things

Maybe I should stay out of it

She's looking at a Celeron

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah do that

[pale sigil]

She never learns

[iron wave]

Yeah those Apple numbers are super misleading.

The Nvidia memory lawsuit was really stupid.

[reef patrol]

The 3.5GB VRAM thing or?

[ashen spindle]

nvidia made sense that was literal false specs not just marketing

[astral haven]

and technically nvidia was not explicitly stating incorrect information, just omitting a major caviat

and bulldozer wasnt explicitly lying at the time, afterwards however a formal definition for cpu core was legalized to prevent that from happening again lmao

[reef patrol]

It was a pretty big fucking one - That customers couldn't workaround if memory serves. Couldn't tell games to NOT access that last 512mb of VRAM that utterly sucked, which tanked performance in newer games more than a card with 3½GB of GENUINE VRAM.

[astral haven]

🤷 the perf loss in 2022 was not substantial vs the 980 with 4gb

neither can run games at high enough settings or resolutions to care about that .5gb

[reef patrol]

Brain is running on old data here. I specifically remember there being articles showing that anything that tried to access that last 512mb of VRAM (which was noticeably slower) would tank performance ,specifically because of that. Games didn't know it was a thing, and to avoid it.

[astral haven]

it could in theory, but gotta remember the 970 also had cores cut off vs the 980

if you extrapolated core counts + lower clock, it was already supposed to be 20+% slower, and in reality games that didnt hit all 4gb were only 10% ish slower, and the games that did hit all 4 were the ones that ended up 20% slower than the 980

but it cost 60% of the 980

and then that went down to under 50% with the rebate

like the lack of disclosure was awful, but the perf at least was as advertised

[reef patrol]

Aight. If you say so 😄

Never had one, so I can only rely on my shotty memory and all the drama.

[astral haven]

me neither, but i lanned with a friend who had one, and he was very happy

and nowdays they are the only gpu worth buying under $50

[gusty kiln]

I still have mine

My 4460 became a bottleneck before the 970

[gusty kiln]

Tempted to sell mine but not sure if worth especially the shipping

[astral haven]

well if you were playing on triple monitor 1440p the 970 would have bottlenecked hardcore

but anything would

[gusty kiln]

Battlefield 1 is where i learned 4 nonhyperthreaded cores is not enough anymore

[astral haven]

oh my god
the 970 is only barely faster than the ally igpu

[gusty kiln]

Kek

[wheat plume]

I love how SCSI used to be called SASI :')

that sasi hard drive xd

[astral haven]

what

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shugart_Associates
wow fantastic

[wheat plume]

SASI

I wish that was still the acroynm :')

This drive doesnt wanna work today, its being very SASI

XD

[cursive summit]

White hat I hope

[wheat plume]

🤔

new YT Premium feature

Did they make the bubbles larger on NothingOS 2??!!!???!!!\

Id love the device without the light gimmick

This is the only Android phone with even width bezels on all sides of the display and that MAKES ME SO HAPPY

every other Android phone has a thicker bottom bezel compared to the other sides

🤤

so symmetrical

it bothers me

id rather have even bezels than one of them being bigger than the rest

even if they are all large by todays standards

[frozen ingot]

drilled hole in screen though

[wheat plume]

Yeah my phone has the teardrop notch

and those take up even more screen space :/

I dont either

[frozen ingot]

me either, or notches

[wheat plume]

if they are even thickness

I love when my headphones sound thick and boring!!!

[analog sinew]

mmmh other characteristics

[wheat plume]

Got to love how there are knockoff Apple Polishing Cloth

[thick elk]

When you say supports AAC/SBC your are really saying we actually don't support good codecs.

[wheat plume]

yeah

those two are bare minimum

[final flame]

aac is only alright for iphon

I consider aptx the minimum and ldac as a nice to have

[wheat plume]

yeah...miss me with the curved edge shit

[final flame]

I wish nothing would start selling in the US

[wheat plume]

(I say that but my phone has curved edges AND I HATE IT WHNE USING THE CAMERA)

They are

Nothing Phone 2 is in US now

[final flame]

Nice

Nothing phone and the Fair phone are my 2 options now

Since the fair phone wi be coming to the us

Probably won't upgrade for at least 2 years, my a14 still is running strong

I used my note 9 for almost 5 years

In fact I still use it, just not as a daily driver

Probably just would need a battery replacement to get it running again

Easily the best phone Samsung has released period, after the note 9 they stopped doing all the good features like the SD card slot and headphones jack

Headphone jack j can live without, but I do use the hell out of the micro sd

Yea

I don't stream my music, only local files, SD card is a must have if I want to save money

I'm not paying for the 512 or 1tb options of phones when I can get a 1tb micro SD for under 100

I have the snapdragon

[sacred sleet]

🥹

i want it so bad

but i'm dead broke

it was a wooting or skypad, and i got the wooting lol

its gonna be another couple years and a firstborn son before i can afford a skypad

yea

Skypads designs have always looked sick

but there non exclusive drops are so drab

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/kWceAw8I2so

😍

Stock Android is super slick since Material You theme

[astral haven]

and the fairfone is painfully slow with awful cameras on top of that

get a phone with overkill battery
im working on year 3 now ending the day with 50%

interesting

seems theres 2 frames

everyone else has structural screens which im not sure is better lol

[mild dome]

B-b-but if you could replace the bettery, then the investor's dividends would be 5% smaller

Won't anyone think of the poor multi-billionaires?

[astral haven]

the super dumb part is it helps the billionaires too...

the manufacturer is most often the one repairing the devices

and cheaper to repair is also often cheaper to manufacture besides glue

well apple is special

they are not actually using ssds on their machines

they are using the built in ssd controller on their cpu paired with offboard flash

the things that they solder on or add on a card are not ssds

at least starting with m1

[mild dome]

Conceivably if people could replace their own batteries they could use a phone for maybe 4-8 years.

The dying battery however forces a 2-4 year life cycle, effectively doubling profits

[astral haven]

thats also not true
its also possible to just not overvolt the battery so that it lasts forever

buuuut that would decrease the number on the spec sheet that makes them look good

lithium ion battery backup systems can run for 10k-20k cycles on nmc chemistry but not from 4.2 to 3.5, they use 4.1 to 3.6 which is alot lower capacity

my phone goes up to 4.35

[mild dome]

Heat is what kills these batteries isn't it?

It's also worth noting a lot of larger battery arrays lock a percentage of the true capacity away so that as cells begin dying it can start activating the unused cells to give the illusion of a tougher battery. Making it feel like it lasted longer to customers

Which isn't a bad thing, as customers would find consistency of larger batteries in cars and homes to be more critical then getting 100% of the capacity right away and losing that over time

[astral haven]

the main killer of batteries is charging,
heat doesnt help when theres too much, but a moderate amount of heat helps decrease the wear on the battery

and the larger battery arrays mostly lock the percentage of capacity via voltage not by spare cells

they do use spare cells ofc because statistics are not on their side

[severe phoenix]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZ3HVM26/ref=twister_B0BZ3QW2KQ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

[gusty kiln]

https://amz.run/6sMv

8tb ssd for 320

[runic depot]

Anyone here ever had to do an RMA for anything?

Well, 7 months after purchase, I had to RMA my monitor. A defect suddenly manifested.

This is what the defect looked like, for reference:

The photo doesn't truly capture how severe the defect was; the entire screen was a mess.

Anyway... long story short, this was my first ever RMA that I've ever had to do.

Got the ball rolling about 1.5 weeks ago, and have been stuck borrowing a subpar VA panel in the meantime...

I can't even play Planetside 2 right now... the ghosting and motion blur on this borrowed panel is awful.

The replacement monitor started shipping roughly 2 days ago. Current ETA is Thursday.

It's never soon enough; my PS2 addiction is practically screaming at me right now.

Like, the monitor I had was a ViewSonic XG2431 240Hz IPS panel. And during the 7 months I had it, it was a great monitor.

Its strobing backlight feature allowed me to use it for 60Hz console games with almost no motion blur at all, with the standard 240Hz mode being used for my PC games.

I only hope that the replacement lasts a good bit longer than a mere 7 months.

This is the official page for the monitor I had:
https://www.viewsonic.com/global/products/lcd/XG2431

If I had more money, I might have gone for a 300Hz TN panel. Ah well.

And unfortunately for me, OLEDs are unlikely to be within my budget range in the foreseeable future. No one is building 1080p OLED models, at least. Only 2k or above.

There's apparently no mainstream market left for monitors with reduced resolution, in exchange for much higher refresh rates.

Then again, that sort of thing was something that multisync CRT monitors were known for.

[astral haven]

at this point the monitor controller is becoming one of the larger costs in the monitor

as well as the power supply

where the panel really isnt mattering as much

and bigger number of ks looks alot better

[runic depot]

It would just be nice if I could get the benefits of a CRT, without having to break the bank with an OLED.

[astral haven]

oled is not similar to crt

strobing like dyac or elmb are tho

[runic depot]

I said the 'benefits.' Ergo, the superb contrast ratio, among other things.

[astral haven]

crts have contrast ratios below 700:1

and their response times are not that fast if you include both rise and fall times

lcds just used to be 2-3 orders of magnitude worse than they currently are

[runic depot]

Weren't CRTs still good at handling moving scenes in ways that LCDs often have trouble with?

[astral haven]

yes, but oleds have the same trouble

unless you strobe

but lcds are better at strobing than oleds

[runic depot]

Makes me sad that SED tech died before it could take off.

Specifically, this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-conduction_electron-emitter_display?useskin=vector

[astral haven]

nah its good lmao

[runic depot]

So utterly close to having a display tech that had a bunch of the strengths of CRTs, while being wayyyyy lighter.

[astral haven]

people forget that the actual benefits of the crt were very limited

the true improvements in look from crt were mostly taking advantage of the drawbacks rather than being real benefits

the biggest being true optical anti dither

but thats also in other circles called being blurry

[runic depot]

I liked the response times and motion clarity, personally.

[astral haven]

the response times were only half good

[runic depot]

Part of it was just the nature of how CRTs draw the image, wasn't it?

[astral haven]

and the motion clarity gets absolutely slaughtered by tech like ulmb or elmb

[runic depot]

Analog electron gun versus fixed-pixel LCDs?

[astral haven]

you are thinking of the input latency

not the response times

[runic depot]

A bit of both, honestly.

LCD response times are at least partly tied to how long it takes for any given pixel to change colour, correct?

[astral haven]

the input latency was great, and its just getting to the point of being imperceptible just now

[astral haven]

correct
and crts also have the same issue

[runic depot]

Well, in any case, I still wouldn't mind a lesser resolution monitor that had kickass refresh rates as its main selling point.

[astral haven]

yea but the problem is you dont save any money vs a higher res monitor with lower refresh rates

[runic depot]

It's not about saving money. It's about the tradeoffs I'm willing to make; the games I play benefit more from higher refresh rates and better response times.

And better framerates, of course.

[astral haven]

so just buy one?

500hz is plenty nice

[runic depot]

No one builds high performance monitors at 720p or lower.

That's what I'm saying here.

And I'd be okay with that, V.

My desk is kinda small anyhow.

[astral haven]

yea it would be tiny, and it wouldnt be higher refresh rate or cheaper

[runic depot]

...You realise that 720p describes a resolution of 1280×720, right?

[astral haven]

practically it would be a 14 inch screen as the practical largest that wouldnt just cause it to cost more than 1080p

[runic depot]

The resolution reduction would see some nice framerate gains in the games I play, though.

[astral haven]

well [citation needed] on that

[runic depot]

Planetside 2 being one of them.

[astral haven]

isnt planetside 2 heavily cpu bound???

cause noone is stopping you from buying a 1440p monitor and running it with integer scaling

[runic depot]

Yes, but GPU-bound events can still occur, especially if the particle quality is maxed out (tracers stop rendering at short ranges if you don't increase particle quality, and that's a problem if you're trying to walk your tank shots).

[astral haven]

not a chance

its really damn hard to make a particle system that isnt cpu bound

[runic depot]

It's also hard to make an MMOFPS whose performance remains 'playable' at that scale.

[astral haven]

and even if the particle system was on gpu, the shaders used for integer scaling would be sitting idle regardless

[runic depot]

Also, I still play the game, and I keep an eye on the performance metrics. There are definitely GPU-bound situations that occur at maximum particle quality in larger fights.

[astral haven]

so you can just run integer scaling on the gpu no problemo

[runic depot]

Integer scaling is messier, compared to native resolution.

[astral haven]

gpu is hitting 99%?
somehow i dont believe that unless you have a potato

[astral haven]

no, its significantly cleaner lmao

720p native vs 1440p integer scaled is no contest whatsoever

[runic depot]

In heavy fight situations, it absolutely does. Using a Sapphire Pulse RX 6700 non-XT GPU.

[astral haven]

uh
wouldnt worry about bleeding edge monitors with a midrange gpu

[runic depot]

High refresh rates are still nice to have, even if the framerate doesn't always exceed it.

[astral haven]

you should never spend $800 on the display and $300 on the gpu

[runic depot]

The ViewSonic I described was on sale.

[astral haven]

the viewsonic you described isnt pushing boundries

[runic depot]

And for the record, this GPU cost me $587.81 Canadian Dollars (after taxes and shipping fees).

[astral haven]

so about $300 of real money, got it /s

[runic depot]

For some reason, Canada gets really awful markups for most of the better GPUs.

Like, more than the exchange rate alone would justify.

Don't get me wrong; I'd love to have something better than this particular GPU.

But I took what I could afford.

[astral haven]

nothing on pcpp canada seems particularly out of line from what im used to

[runic depot]

Anything that exceeds $400 to $500 CAD is very close to the absolute maximum limit of my hobby budget. And even then, it forces me to eat lean for the month.

[astral haven]

well sure, but the same would be even more true for a monitor that costs a grand usd lol

spending most of 2k cad on a monitor isnt gonna happen if 500 cad on a gpu is hard

[runic depot]

The ViewSonic cost me $461.20 CAD. I ate lean that month, too.

But it was worth it.

[astral haven]

just wait a year for trickle up economics to take effect and the sub $400 us 1440p240hz will come to canada

[runic depot]

Realistically speaking, my next upgrade is probably going to be on the CPU side.

[astral haven]

that gets you a nice crisp 720p experience in game, and a nice and crisp 1440p experience out of game

[runic depot]

Specifically, I'm hoping to grab the 5800x3D when it's on sale.

shrug

[astral haven]

not outside of the us lol

[runic depot]

Like I said.

But yeah, that hefty 3D V-Cache actually has tangible gains in Planetside 2

People have playtested it, even.

[astral haven]

less likely to see those gains the slower the gpu btw

[runic depot]

As I said though, the GPU-bound situations occur in specific, heavy load situations.

And in fairness, the only time it really matters, is when I'm flying. For some weird reason, air controls have a tendency to briefly lock up during a GPU load spike.

[astral haven]

gpu limited happens more often than gpu bound tho

[runic depot]

Hence, why I mentioned the one time it tends to have any real impact.

PS2 flight controls are... weird.

Scroll up.

[astral haven]

what i mean by that is that even if your gpu is sitting partially idle, it may still be limiting your performance

[runic depot]

I'm referring to how they briefly lock up during load GPU load spikes; 95% to 99% load

And it's weird, because flight controls seem to be the only thing that actually locks up during a GPU load spike in that game. Tank controls don't lock up, infantry controls don't lock up.

And it's not a 'complete' lock up, but more like brief moments where inputs are not read until the load spike resolves.

Which makes for awkward aiming with an ESF (the main VTOL fighter in that game).

[astral haven]

you sure its not imc load that is causing you to get hit by iodie bugs?

it will not make the usb disconnect noise when the usb controller reboots

[runic depot]

Pretty sure. I had metrics enabled in-game, and consistently observed air controls would be interrupted when the GPU load spiked to 95% to 99%

[astral haven]

yea but those numbers can be completely wrong

the only useful metric of actual gpu load is tdp%

[runic depot]

The problem goes away if I cap the framerate to a value where 95% to 99% GPU load situations no longer occur.

I'm referring to the 'GPU usage' metric.

[astral haven]

yes but gpu usage can be a symptom of the problem, not the causee

[runic depot]

It's a known issue for more than just me, though.

[astral haven]

remember, a gpu can hit 100% gpu usage while running idle 99.9% of the time

and gpu usage can be under 50% while being by far and away the bottleneck, tho thats significantly harder to do

[runic depot]

And again, the utilization spikes occur only in those heavy particle load situations that I've described, where particle quality is maxed, and the fighting is heavy.

I even ran a multitude of loading and stability tests, just to make sure there weren't memory errors taking place.

[astral haven]

the game could for example be trying to load an asset from storage, but while its doing that, the gpu pipeline is in a loop waiting, your usage would slam to 99, your power usage would drop to nothing while it stalls, and the bottleneck would be your ssd or your ram

[runic depot]

Yes, even the 'torture tests'

The SSD I'm using will definitely be one of the other things I replace with an upgrade.

My current SSD is an Intel 660p series. Not the quickest SSD, but still an order of magnitude faster than the old HDD I used to own, ages ago.

[astral haven]

weeeeeeeeeellllllll

thats not always true

the 6x0p series are known for bogging down to below hdd speeds under load

[runic depot]

Hence, why I said it's not the quickest. And will definitely be one of the other components that get replaced.

[astral haven]

has the cratering prices made it to yall yet

[runic depot]

Shorter loading screens are always welcome.

[astral haven]

yea dang 2tb for 140 cad?
from samsung no less

what does it actually do?

[runic depot]

$140 CAD is well within my budget range, thankfully.

[astral haven]

not recommending it because its a samsung, but usually the samsung is the top of the price stack of the consumer drives

the sn850x looks sweeet

[runic depot]

I try to aim for the best performance I can afford to have.

[astral haven]

define best performance lol

[runic depot]

Well, for an SSD? Quickest read and write speeds at 2TB capacity that I can afford.

[astral haven]

cause the fastest ssd im aware of is only $80 on ebay right now
at least until cxl releases

it definetly isnt 2tb tho lol

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304638260691

[runic depot]

That said, I've been considering having a 2nd SSD reserved solely for the OS.

[astral haven]

few oses still fit in 16gb lol

[runic depot]

I don't mind having a 64GB model for the OS.

Or whichever size is required.

[astral haven]

unfortunately 16gb is all you get if you want an nvme ramdisk that doesnt lose data on power off

[runic depot]

Mostly just thinking that it would be convenient to have the OS on a separate drive, so I don't have to reinstall the entire OS when swapping out the drive I use for 'everything else.'

[astral haven]

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/P7mmP6/intel-optane-p1600x-118-gb-m2-2280-pcie-30-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-ssdpek1a118ga01
join us lmao

actually dont its not fast

it does absolutely slaughter in benchmarks tho

[runic depot]

Rather, the OS drive doesn't necessarily have to be as blisteringly fast as the drive used for game assets, right?

[astral haven]

yea
the real reason to use this drive is its actually stable
aka it doesnt lose data if you leave it sitting on a counter
but its so insanely expensive that its not worth getting unless you are as crazy as me

[runic depot]

Well, yes. But having to reinstall the OS every time I upgrade the drive strikes me as... tedious.

In regards to what V said, rather.

[astral haven]

but for the price of this drive you could buy a pair of 1tb fast normal ssds tho lmao

which is why i bought 4 of them and raided them together

[runic depot]

For some reason, a part of me smiles inside anytime I hear about people with RAID arrays.

[astral haven]

did i post menchbarks here?

[runic depot]

Just something about it feels... special. Old, but reliable, I guess?

[astral haven]

old sure
reliable no chance lol

[runic depot]

Rather, RAID was developed a relatively 'long' time ago, correct?

[astral haven]

not as long as the wheel, not as recent as stable diffusion

[runic depot]

Hardy har har...

Tech-wise, it's kinda old, isn't it?

[astral haven]

its deprecated is what it is

[runic depot]

Wasn't its main purpose to act as a self-redundant drive handler?

[astral haven]

raid controllers did that, but we dont use those any more

[runic depot]

Interesting.

In any case, any potential drive upgrades will have to wait until I get paid again.

[astral haven]

quad optane raid boiz

highly enclosure bottlenecked

each drive can basically run half of that shown benchmark

single drive vs the main drive in my computer

did he buy optane or just nice dc drives?

[runic depot]

Is Western Digital a viable brand for an SSD?

[astral haven]

yes

sn850x is probably your raw fastest option

[runic depot]

That was actually the exact model I was just looking at.

[astral haven]

heres a more normal nand ssd for comparison
top 3 numbers higher is better
bottom number lower is better

oooooh dear

[runic depot]

Gahhhh, that SN850X is 56% off right now, but I already maxed out my hobby budget for this month.

[astral haven]

this is why raid was made irrelevant
a single one of these isnt faster than the fastest network connections, but it doesnt take many...

[runic depot]

$154.97 CAD (regular price would be $359.97 CAD).

[astral haven]

including tax or something?

or is pcpartpicker canada showing in usd

[runic depot]

I'm looking via Newegg Canada directly.

And that price is 'before' taxes and shipping fees, but still!

[astral haven]

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/crKKHx/western-digital-black-sn850x-2-tb-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds200t2x0e

maybe wd direct is in usd?

[runic depot]

https://www.newegg.ca/western-digital-2tb-black-sn850x-nvme/p/N82E16820250247

[astral haven]

yes

follow the first link on the page i sent

[runic depot]

"Ships from Canada"

I checked.

[astral haven]

newegg has it more expensive

but i cant see the canadian version, i can only see pcpartpicker

[runic depot]

PC Part Picker is listing the exact same sale price on my end.

Right down to the last cent.

[astral haven]

open the wd link

[runic depot]

uBlock Origin blocks the WD link.

[astral haven]

yea its a tracking link

i can bypass ublock, but i have it blocked on a network level

[runic depot]

I installed uBlock Origin deliberately, though.

[astral haven]

🤷 up to you

https://www.westerndigital.com/en-ca/products/internal-drives/wd-black-sn850x-nvme-ssd#WDS200T2X0E

heres the actual link after looking it up online lol

so yea 135 cad confirmed

1 month delay tho

[runic depot]

I presume Newegg Canada lacks this delay.

I dunno.

Oh, hold on.

I just did a price check at the final checkout screen.

After applying taxes and shipping fees, the WD price actually winds up being slightly more expensive.

[astral haven]

Ffs
Lovely

[runic depot]

WD final price: $174.81 CAD

Newegg Canada final price: $173.57 CAD

That 1 month delay is probably the definitive dealbreaker, regardless.

Anyway, I put that SSD onto my Newegg wishlist. I suspect the sale will end long before I get paid again (next payment is July 19th), but eh.

At least I'll be prepared to grab one on the next sale.

[severe phoenix]

These prices are insane for sure

[thick elk]

So basically they just hide the option in the UI, I am pretty sure there will be addons in the browser to fix that

[thorn cypress]

google ☕

It seems like they're trying hard to get users to bypass "paywalls"

Just generic big company stuff where they try to make you suffer for paying

[reef patrol]

Most people aren't going to use command line tools to download video...on a video STREAMING service.

It's like downloading a movie, instead of just loading up Netflix and hitting play.

[thorn cypress]

Some people prefer their own video players

I guess

I think you can stream using youtube-dl

I use mpv and I can watch twitch streams using it

Yep

The keybinds are also pretty nice

[fair gull]

it is working as intended

the high bitrate content works without premium on the ios api i believe

[coarse meteor]

Dose anyone recommend good key caps for the 60he

Bc I am thinking of getting a wooting keybourd

[reef patrol]

Ours?

You'll have to be a lot more specific, if you want some solid suggestions.

1. Where are you located in the world?
2. ANSI or ISO layout?
3. 60HE? 2HE?
4. Any specific language on the keycaps?
5. Colours? Style?

[old marlin]

signature plastics makes like 3 or more keycap profiles

I think it is more about noy buying crap

I don't think they are asking for a set of keycaps that is ~100 USD or more

[pale sigil]

I've had some fantastic keycaps for like $35

Why so much hate

From mech world

[old marlin]

don't think it is hate

you can good keycaps for cheap

it's just that most keycaps at that price are not good

and they are certainly not the same

which is what a lot of people are claiming

[pale sigil]

Idk man

Mech community are assholes

A lot anyway

[old marlin]

I think it is just a lot of people that are

in general

[pale sigil]

I'm still salty about the past

Kept getting mocked for questions and when I struggled with my first keeb xd

[old marlin]

depends on where you are

r/mechkeys is horrible imo

[pale sigil]

Yup

[shadow minnow]

Do we have any news on the alpha lol apex fans?

My fans are annoyingly loud even when they’re not fast

[old marlin]

what

ah

you mean alphacool

[shadow minnow]

Yes

[old marlin]

no don't think we do

[shadow minnow]

Autowrong whoops

It’s so weird having wifi going up to 95mbps, used to like 10

[wheat plume]

Peak macbook keyboard design

the new ones suck

[raw zephyr]

what

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/ipJceL253Fo

slight performance improvement

[raw zephyr]

it's literally the same keyboard as the new arm based laptops

[wheat plume]

no? they dont have much space between the keys, right?

[raw zephyr]

looks the same to me, the older keycaps just look a bit taller

same scissor switch

mechanism rather

[wheat plume]

oh nvm

they do have space between them

but a lot less travel distance

[raw zephyr]

indeed

he should've tried some less bloated distro and see the results

(and DE)

[wheat plume]

I used to run Compiz with a shit tone of animations and blur and whatnot on my old laptop with 3GB ram and an AMD Athlon CPU

and there was no lag

so cool

[cursive summit]

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

Oh, more shit phones

[frozen ingot]

always

its 2023 and if ur not compulsively shitting out e-waste u ain't winning

[cursive summit]

Releases in a few days and it has a 8+ gen 1?

Major upgrade of an SoC over what was basically already DoA ewaste nothing 1

Yet they still couldn't cram an 8 gen 2, which is available?

Seems like a far more usable phone over the previous one

Price doesn't seem terrible

Has some lacklustre parts, lack of future-proof WiFi, battery is meh, charging is meh

But I guess it's still comparable to current top-end which is fine

But next gen will launch really soon so, it'll be obsolete in a few weeks

Oh damn 8 gen 2 is really damn on-par with A16 Bionic

Pretty damn cool

... and yet Genshin Impact still doesn't run 120Hz on Android, Apple only

[frozen ingot]

seethe

[thick elk]

I personally just wish smartphone makers would capitalize on the lower nand prices and make 512gb the new 256gb at the very least. Especially now that the micro slot has mostly been deleted.

It's kind of stupid that between cheap phones and paying a lot of money there is only unsuitable phones for me.

That being said my poco x3 pro can bridge the gap for a year or two at least.

[cursive summit]

Still just waiting for Xperia 1 V to be available

Few more weeks to go

[thick elk]

Those are rather small and expensive

[cursive summit]

Price actually went down compared to last version

But Sony is the no-compromise phone, packs all the features that are cut off on competitors

[sharp badger]

+1 on more storage with ''base'' phones 😅

[cursive summit]

I honestly never understood what on earth is dual IP rating

Sony is the only phone maker that has that from what I found

And I tried looking up and found no information on it

IP65/IP68

Like, that's a big difference

IP68 I'd literally scroll on my phone while taking a shower

65, I would not risk that

So which one is it?

[thick elk]

except for touch screens not working well with water

or rather capacitive touch screens

As for my storage usage:

But then the micro sd

[sharp badger]

https://www.pocket-lint.com/why-does-sony-list-ip65-and-ip68-for-its-smartphones/
''What Sony is actually saying is that Xperia devices meet both those standards. Other manufacturers - Apple for example - only list IP68. This would mean it's dustproof, but in this situation, Apple is only saying it meets the submersion standard and you cannot assume that it is protected against water jets.

So while it might seem that Sony isn't sure what it's saying, it's actually providing more information, which should give you great peace of mind about its devices.''

[cursive summit]

Yeah I searched a long time before May of this year

I suppose this will be one of the first posts that actually explain what's up with the dual rating

So it's actually double protected?

Damn I didn't know that you can actually list both certifications

Sony designs really nice phones

[sharp badger]

How's their Android skin? Good/Bad? kinda like how 1+(Some bloat apps though) have it or Stock

Samsung skin is ok but there's unnecessary apps installed, really liked their ''Edge'' where one could store apps but 1+ have that now too

[cursive summit]

Sony is vanilla android

No proprietary custom OS

Which is prolly pretty good, battery might last for longer

[halcyon moss]

Stock android is a bit bare bones tbh

[wheat plume]

I thought Sony was only vanilla in terms of the UI?
Don't they add extra features and whatnot?

They keep the UI as stock but add features stock doesn't have

[frozen ingot]

sony got a ton of special features

in stuff like camera

[cursive summit]

Which is nice

Stock experience, no shit bloat on top

Just add the extras like camera and whatnot

That's how it should be done

[severe phoenix]

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/14xq8cc/case_cooler_master_nr200_white_sff_miniitx_case/

[cursive summit]

I'd rather have a certified phone

[empty wren]

I remember OnePlus did take a similar approach with water resistance at one point

So maybe so long as a company is honest and documents the process it matters very little

Also in regards to ingress protection certification basically every one does not understand warranty coverage water damage

[analog sinew]

so do billionaires with submersibles

[sharp badger]

The 2 years OS + 3 years security updates are kinda bad from Sony

[analog sinew]

so i won't become a professional manta ray scrubber when I'm grown up? :(

[sharp badger]

Oneplus & Samsung have 4 years OS + 5 years security updates, Google 3 years OS + 5 years security updates

Asus seem to have 2 years OS + 2 years security updates on their phones 🤦‍♂️

[elfin axle]

anyone manage to get the artemis discord integration to work? I have it setup and a layer listening to a notification event. but the event never comes, even when a notification happens in my client.

i assume all this populates once the first event triggers, but it never gets picked up by the bot

[halcyon moss]

How do you know apple is on time?

[fair gull]

probably best to ask in the artemis discord server

[elfin axle]

true. good idea.

[astral haven]

Real good stuff

[cursive summit]

https://youtu.be/W5bzOPitCVk

[junior plume]

What's the difference between digital profile and analog profile? Trying to delete all the other profiles except for one but not sure how to

[misty saffron]

analog has controller emulation support

[severe phoenix]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/900027233580765215/1128799414463496192/image.png NVME prices are literally getting insane

I can't wait to see where they'll be in a year

4TB sub 200$ is the new norm, wild!

[pale sigil]

Fuck

10gb VRAM is nothing for stable diffusion

[severe phoenix]

Lol

[pale sigil]

ite

[severe phoenix]

THIEF!

[pale sigil]

fite me

[severe phoenix]

lol

[severe phoenix]

Wow, there were 1000$ 4090s on Amazon earlier due to stacking coupons

Some lucky folks got those

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/14y0tqx/gpu_gigabyte_geforce_rtx_4090_gaming_oc_24g/

Lasted like an hour

[empty wren]

This also looks so off

Least it aint bad as

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

The left is totally not creepy

Um whoah wtf

My link turned into an image

what black magic is this

Also this shit I have no idea what it is

Maybe it could be

I seen it happen to African people as well

[astral haven]

looks like one of my cousin's friends tbh

[empty wren]

[astral haven]

besides the jewlery

[empty wren]

Oh okay

[astral haven]

ive seen folks wearing stranger stuff 🤷

[empty wren]

I guess there is a guy who tried to become an alien

Or so he says

Also no hat

[astral haven]

yea well its not a sota generator these days

[empty wren]

Decent side face

This almost never happens

[latent mural]

<@&476752926044454928>

[fair gull]

why are you tagging a wooting admin

[reef patrol]

There was spam late last night. Read the logs, man 😄

[fair gull]

ah

[latent mural]

Some kid got hacked and sent a few nsfw links so I tagged mod team in the channels I saw em in

[fair gull]

i didnt really read the time ngl

[cursive summit]

https://videocardz.com/newz/asrock-radeon-rx-7900-xtx-custom-gpu-is-now-available-for-799-in-the-us

799??

Value is insane

[severe phoenix]

Insanely good value for wasting money

[old marlin]

wdym

good value in the current market

[snow moon]

Both AMD and Nvidia overpriced their stuff

[old marlin]

well yea

but give me the better value option

[snow moon]

Value is.... Y'know

[severe phoenix]

4090 is better value

[snow moon]

[old marlin]

no

[severe phoenix]

4090 is the best value on the market

Doesn't make me happy, but

https://tenor.com/view/excuse-me-hands-up-woah-funny-face-gif-14275996

[old marlin]

the 4090 is not twice as fast

but twice as expensive

[sharp badger]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.gsmarena.com/heres_the_oneplus_12_in_some_leaked_cadbased_renders-amp-59188.php 64MP OmniVision sensor for the Periscope lens (Might be used in the OnePlus Open too?) 🤔

[old marlin]

@severe phoenix show me the 1070 USD 4090

[cursive summit]

More and more news about Switch 2

[chilly sand]

Finally..

[cursive summit]

Announcement will happen this year, I'm certain on that

Launch prolly for middle of next

[chilly sand]

they launched with an outdated gpu and still 6 years later we never got an upgrade

I hate them.

[severe phoenix]

Easy

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/14y0tqx/gpu_gigabyte_geforce_rtx_4090_gaming_oc_24g/

[old marlin]

ig at that price point yea

[cursive summit]

That's what is so exciting about a new Switch 2 launch

Well, you could say that Switch 2 would also be launching with an outdated SoC

Since better ones are available currently than the T239

239 is supposedly based on Orin, and Grace, a successor, is available

Oh apparently Thor will also launch soon

But Orin should be more than good enough for last gen console levels of perf, DLSS, 1080p resolution at high framerates and fidelity

Damn Orin's a 2018 architecture, why is Nintendo always so late to the party

[chilly sand]

Maybe because they dont want the price to be too high

[cursive summit]

Eh, could make sense since how cheap they always price their consoles

[chilly sand]

So they just use old hardware that runs correctly

yep

[cursive summit]

Also hardware does take a long time to develop

So considering the old rumours that they were working on the successor back in like 2020, canceled it and supposedly now picked it up again

Would have been a pretty modern SoC if it launched in 2021

[chilly sand]

i dont play the switch a lot so its maybe not worth for me to buy the new one

BUT

ill still get one and hope for a crack.. hahah

i cant on my oled ;(

[cursive summit]

I do pray they botch the launch and we get homebrew on Switch 2

[cursive summit]

You can?

Modchips are available

[chilly sand]

For the oled?? are tou sure

you

[cursive summit]

Yes I am sure?

They have been a thing for years now

[chilly sand]

ill chexk that then

i didnt know..

[cursive summit]

I think it's these https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005589875504.html

Just, if you do get one, be careful as fuck installing them

There used to be guides, dunno if they are still around

But the installation requires high degree of precision and care

[chilly sand]

yep i know that thanks :)

[chilly sand]

I thought these would b expensive af

[cursive summit]

If you don't know how to use a soldering iron, and your soldering iron doesn't have thin ends, it's not worth attempting

[cursive summit]

They used to actually

They used to go for 100+$

I dunno what happened, that they are so cheap now

Maybe the big factories got their hands on the schematics

So whereas a few years they used to be really rare and expensive, with mass production they are cheap af

[hot sky]

can i somehow complety unbind a key in a mode? i want to unbinb the windows key when im gaming

[severe phoenix]

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/14ydx56/ssd_wd_black_sn850x_2tb_nvme_8999/

[reef patrol]

You have two approaches.

One is locking the WinKey with a toggle.

The other is switching to one of the other profiles on your keyboard, and then permanently removing winKey from it.

[fair gull]

cheaper than pokemon emerald and stores 125000x the amount of data

[reef patrol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muuhgrige5Q
I love finding really random, in depth projects like this. I have no idea what any of this is, but the dude is so invested 😄

[severe phoenix]

lol

[gusty kiln]

https://www.schiit.com/products/urd

$1300 cd player and DDC

[cursive summit]

Trying to comprehend why is it so expensive

And what makes it any better than a 100$ CD player

[severe phoenix]

Schitt makes bad products

I'd stay away

[wheat plume]

I hate that 700 euro is considered midrange for phones now .-.

[severe phoenix]

Bul

Bull

Even in the US that's still high end

[cursive summit]

It is not

Only stupid ass journos and Samsung/Apple buyers call that "mid"

[wheat plume]

https://www.androidpolice.com/nothing-phone-2-hands-on/

midrange

Oh
It's 600

Still high

[cursive summit]

8+ gen 1
mid-range

[wheat plume]

Right???

[cursive summit]

That's just an idiot of a journo writing shit they have no clue about

[ashen spindle]

If that’s not mid range what are iPhone then? Halo products?

[wheat plume]

Flagships

[cursive summit]

Shit products cause they are valued like trash

[wheat plume]

Yeah

[cursive summit]

Flagships are a fine word, but even flagships don't go above 1000$

Just shit pricing cause they can get away with it

[ashen spindle]

That doesn’t really change just because you dislike them

Folds go above a grand too etc.

[cursive summit]

Right

Cause just being 600$ automatically makes it mid-range

I sure would love you to list the features this phone lacks compared to S23 Ultra or 14 Pro Max

Come on, go, I'll wait

Good luck while at it too

[ashen spindle]

I really don’t care

Price wise that is mid range compare to the other phones on the market

[cursive summit]

The reality check is that Nothing 2 encorporates top end hardware that current flagships have

For what, half price?

That's sure sounding very mid-range to me

Xiaomi and others do the same

If we allow Samsung and Apple to dictate what's top end and what's not, we'll be paying 2x for phones again before too long

[ashen spindle]

So 600 gets you a flagship and 1500 also gets you a flagship? What’s the point if you can’t differentiate price points

[cursive summit]

Brand value

It's literally just brands

[ashen spindle]

You argue about features when it’s about the price

[cursive summit]

Wtf kind of argument is that

We are now segmenting phone tiers by price?

I sure would love to buy a 3310 for 1.5k and call it a top end flagship

Segmentation will always be features only

And these phones have comparable and equal features to your 1.5k "flagships"

[ashen spindle]

This started it and it’s about price and nothing else

[cursive summit]

Well, it's not considered mid-range

If some idiot wrote that it is, I don't care what you say, it's not

It isn't, and it will not be

[glossy drum]

Just because that started the conversation doesn't mean that's all there is to this conversation though.

[cursive summit]

700$ is well into high-end

[hoary tendon]

the phone is high end, but it has mid range prices

[cursive summit]

If some guy reviews S23s and 14s and thinks that 700$ is now mid-range, doesn't mean they literally are

[ashen spindle]

If you have well selling devices for double the price I find it hard to say it’s not mid range

[cursive summit]

Brand value?

[hoary tendon]

what is your definition for mid range?

[ashen spindle]

If it’s half way from the still well selling top end isn’t that kinda perfect spot for mid range?

[cursive summit]

It's not half way in terms of features, it's comparable if not on-par with features

Price should not be considered a comparison factor to classify phone tiers

[ashen spindle]

For phone prices I would consider 6 or 700 definitely mid range when you look at how many people spend much more

[cursive summit]

And that makes Pixels, high end Xiaomis, Asus, ROGs and others "mid-range"

When they pack best-in-class hardware in some cases

That makes virtually no sense

The very own S23 and A14 are mid-range if we take into account charging power

If not low-end

Chinese phones have 120W+, so that automatically makes them flagships

S23U is low end

Makes sense?

[ashen spindle]

So if I sell you a 600$ phone you call the price mid range low end or flagship depending on what the phone is?

You can define it by features but it makes little sense to disagree with Lana’s point when that’s not what she complained about

[cursive summit]

I would not call the phone anything depending on price, depends on what the phone is

Lana complains about the fact that people like that guy, and you in this case, categorize phones by price

It makes no sense, since price does not represent the quality of the phone

Features, quality of life, service quality, etc are not to be gauged by price

[ashen spindle]

Then I’m confused how you were able to disagree before the link was posted so it wasn’t known what the phone in question was

[cursive summit]

Good lord

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/li-fi-standard-released

Li-Fi finally becoming a thing?

Only problem with this would be transmission through solid objects

But a really good technology

I wonder if it would make sense to change the cellular grid to use Li-Fi for point-to-point bandwidth transfer into beacons, and 5G or such for local connect

[snow moon]

Doubt that will become a standard honestly

[cursive summit]

This could be an interesting way of replacing cables

[snow moon]

Do we have enough lithium?

💀

[cursive summit]

https://gpuopen.com/learn/fidelityfx-sdk-available-now/

[astral haven]

Making it a standard is easy
Making it widely used is the hard part

[gusty kiln]

We must create a new standard to standardize all these standards

[severe phoenix]

Where's my FTL Wi-Fi

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/FIEbMsOm-Uo

even bezels 🤤

[gusty kiln]

Bit annoying with the trend in tech of the next gen being an upgrade to the original rather than the replacement

[wheat plume]

the difference, damn wtf

and Pixel arent even known to take good video

nothing 2 is worse video than Pixel

[ashen spindle]

happens when diminishing effects appear, getting better cameras is simple at first until you get good enough etc.

[cursive summit]

Exposure is a bit hard to do

Tbf not that I really care about cameras that much but, how is it in normal light conditions

[wheat plume]

Ok, I like this laptop brand

can remove the mic and camera if you dont need it

[reef patrol]

More like don't WANT it. Since you're paying to remove.

[wheat plume]

Yeah, thats the part I dont understand

why you pay to remove it

[ashen spindle]

because its work to remove it

costs more to have someone remove parts than the few cents if you have it in all orders in mass amounts

[wheat plume]

Yeah, I guess...these are OEM resellers, I assume

wait do they only do laptops? I must check

ok the website literally contains the word laptop, so no desktops