🔌│tech

[pale sigil]

Ancient sites for the ancient tech? Go figure haha

[hasty thunder]

Router > Switch > split to Server and my home network switch > 1 Gbit for home network, 10 Gbit for Server, done

[ashen spindle]

ahh thought you had a 10gig from vodafone directly

[hasty thunder]

besides, is Docsis even capable of 10 gig?

[ashen spindle]

4.0 is yes

[pale sigil]

4 yes

Likely? No

[hasty thunder]

[vagrant pagoda]

no wifi for phone?

[ashen spindle]

https://www.vodafone.de/immobilienwirtschaft/blog/technik/docsis.html

[hasty thunder]

at least Vodafone had a more robust plan than Telecom

[ashen spindle]

thats not hard

[hasty thunder]

agree

[smoky frigate]

I am moving to a house with awesome 6mbps DSL. pretty much every ISP wants to have 2 years minimum for 20bux a month for that

[vagrant pagoda]

starlink?

[smoky frigate]

nope, that's the DSL offerings...

I checked LTE/5G network and to be honest, I don't trust the technology not to suck ass

I was sure I'd get it yesterday but reconsidered 😛

[vagrant pagoda]

no i mean get starlink over 6mbps

6mbps dsl is going to 1-2 most of the time in my exp

[smoky frigate]

how is latency on starlink

[vagrant pagoda]

Not great

But 6mbps dsl will be terrible for gaming

No way it will have enough upload speed

[smoky frigate]

sure. neither is an option, then

(at least not permanent)

[vagrant pagoda]

Tbo

4g with a real external antenna pointed at the tower might be the best best

But no port forwarding for the most part in any of the consumer 4g I've used

It's all cg-nat

[smoky frigate]

I almost got a 5G router but Paypal stopped processing my sending money. maybe because the bank account was unverified. I verified it and will now wait a few days.

[vagrant pagoda]

Get a trial sim for the carrier the 5g is for

And see how the coverage is

[pale sigil]

Up until 2015 I had 3-6 down 0.50 up

[vagrant pagoda]

That's going to be 4g extended 5g unless you're in a city

[smoky frigate]

tbh I can't be bothered to check now. I will live like a monk without internet for a few days, play Factorio, and figure out what to do

[vagrant pagoda]

Xd

Do you have phone data?

Use pdanet USB tether

[smoky frigate]

nope, the SIM card is free but has no data

[vagrant pagoda]

How do you live with no mobile data?

[smoky frigate]

predownloaded maps for navigation, shooting SMS when needed

been doing it for over a year now!

I work outside a lot, so during work they have to call me if they want anything

[steep creek]

tbf i have 3gb data per month, but i rarely use more than a gig so it just transfers over to the next

i have stacked up a lot, lol

[smoky frigate]

for some godforsaken reason, my whole department has a whatsapp group

which I won't join unless they hand me a phone + google account for that 😛

[rough osprey]

windows update on the same day as mac update

lol

[wheat plume]

Does this update get Copilot?

[rough osprey]

yes

hope its easy to disable

and doesnt run in background

ah no copilot in eu

[steep creek]

@astral haven looks like they finally did it lol

[rough osprey]

i can deinstall cortana 🤯

[astral haven]

MacOS?

[steep creek]

yah, sonoma. Screenshot shows the mouse menu though, unsure about trackpad

[shadow minnow]

What used to be the default?

[steep creek]

It was on by default, you couldn’t disable it easily before

[shadow minnow]

Tbh I like it being on

But it’s good to have a choice

[astral haven]

Trackpad I won't complain too much about acceleration.
Now apple just needs to add touchscreens to their laptops

I also just learned about this feature in windows trackpads

You don't just scroll right to left and wrapping around, you scroll both directions when switching windows

And you can customize 3 and 4 finger gestures on all precision trackpads

[wheat plume]

This is the only thing I'm jealous about Windows that I wish Linux had

😢
Bring back headphone jack on every phone

Lame

One Android version

[mild dome]

Yes!

[wheat plume]

Means it'll only get Android 14

And that is here next week

[astral haven]

Prolly not for that phone lel

[wheat plume]

Hmmm?

[astral haven]

It'll probably be a while before it gets 14

[wheat plume]

Oh....
Idk
14 was meant to release on 5th September

And all the brands were expecting that
Then Google delayed it a month with like 2 days warning

[empty wren]

OnePlus is down bad but to be fair their company changed since a while back

[gusty kiln]

only samsung and google now if you want more than 2 android OS updates

[empty wren]

Samsung beats Google funnily enough

They do 4 years of major updates

But yeah would be nice to see more 3 years of updates oem commitments

Motorola also doing 3 now

https://www.androidauthority.com/phone-update-policies-1658633/

Sony is also a joke

[gusty kiln]

google plans to do 7 years of updates once the Pixel 8 launches

[empty wren]

Holy crap

[gusty kiln]

prob 5 OS + 2 Security though

not 7 OS

[empty wren]

Phone will be bugged down so much

[gusty kiln]

kekek

[empty wren]

Even with 5

I guess nice for people who want to keep their phones longer and do not care too much if it is x% less fasr

[gusty kiln]

yeah I think 3-4 is the sweet spot for upgrade cycle, at least for me

[empty wren]

Yep

Also I swear the battery life goes down every other release or so

Fair phone interestingly

Does a lot of firmware updates

And that phone is midrange in processing power, with a deprecated processor

https://9to5google.com/2022/03/10/2015s-fairphone-2-gets-android-10-rounding-out-7-years-of-software-support/

[hollow vortex]

funny some bozos on github will update a rom for 10 years after the official support is stopped

custom rom community is incredibly based ngl

[empty wren]

Yeah so long as some supports said device

Older devices definitely need some kernel tweaking though. The firmwares out there these days are basically identical maybe called different and have a different logo. Bloated devices can still benefit from light firmware though.

[astral haven]

Yea most devices get dropped (by random devs) cause the soc maker stops making drivers

[young pecan]

Then we run into the classic FOSS problem where the dev probably has no idea how to properly secure their thing and leaves it full of security holes.

Computer science is an underused field of study, especially when you consider how prevalent programmers are. The amount of people that just don't sanitize inputs is... appalling.

[vagrant pagoda]

90% of custom rom stuff is removing or changing ui shit

[young pecan]

Right and that might mean something if the ROM is even built properly in the first place and didn't get 0days showing up after support is ended, leaving the fix up to nobody or probably someone with no idea what they're doing.

[empty wren]

Graphene os literally drops pixel devices when Google does and supposedly they harden the phone more

[young pecan]

I mean Graphene is apparently good but I still wouldn't be ballsy enough to install it on something I'm supposed to use. Dev is... concerning.

[empty wren]

Fair enough

As time goes on the security fault is partially on Qualcomm anyways, they refuse to provide updated software components past x years

Thankfully Google decoupled a lot of parts to play updates and security updates, though security patches are still to the OEM to push through

[vagrant pagoda]

man what ever copy protection CR uses keeps dropping monitors from my surround

[astral haven]

https://www.techpowerup.com/314126/amd-ryzen-7-7840s-lenovo-exclusive-apu-benchmarked
this laptop looks sick
if lenovo makes a 2 in 1 edition i might be down if minisforum is slower on the draw

dual usb4 + a full featured 3.2 port

[loud olive]

agagagagagagagag

[astral haven]

actually its au, ag is silver

[hollow vortex]

real

[vagrant pagoda]

amazing 30w is so close to thr45w

amd must be binning the shit out of them

[astral haven]

?

nah ryzen just doesnt always use full tdp unlike intel

an intel p core can consume 30w on its own, thats real tough for zen 3 and 4 afaik

[cursive summit]

https://videocardz.com/newz/cpu-z-update-confirms-amd-ryzen-threadripper-pro-7000wx-series-7995wx-with-96-zen4-cores

[solemn remnant]

threadripper sounds so violent

[severe phoenix]

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-ponders-dlss-10/

[mild dome]

Gonna be honest DLSS 10 tastes like investor bait. Like after seeing so many buzzwords go by it really feels like AI has gone from a cool technology with some limited uses to THE buzzword of the decade to pull investors for dumb shit

[pale sigil]

Colours aren't real pft

I am

Can't lose what you didn't have

[fickle ore]

ULX update: Free Xgrips ty I guess

[old marlin]

well it would just be glossy otherwise

since you just get epoxy texture

[lofty pivot]

finalmouse schedules are a joke lol, they just make it up as they go

[fickle ore]

hope not more than 2 weeks delay

[wheat plume]

https://9to5google.com/2023/09/25/oneplus-oxygenos014-dynaimc-island/

[old marlin]

they gone full china

[wheat plume]

The title is a lie
It's more like the timer that appears in the status bar when on a phone call and the call screen isn't focused

[old marlin]

wait

[frozen ingot]

wasn't oneplus always chinese?

[old marlin]

how is it even a ripoff

just because you can interact with it without pulling down the bar?

[old marlin]

yea but they don't sell within the EU anymore

BBK pulled out entirely

[cursive summit]

So, it's a software implement?

Not an actual notch?

So they outdid Apple

Cause why tf did Apple think that a massive in-built NOTCH is a good idea

[lofty pivot]

yeah, but it's not game changing or anything

[cursive summit]

When you can just make it in software

[lofty pivot]

they did it because they need that hole for camera until they fully are able to hide it

[old marlin]

yea but the new one is just much lower than the old notch

so was the notch

[raw zephyr]

no

[cursive summit]

How about we make the dynamic island fully software and toggleable off

And then do this groundbreaking invention

[old marlin]

you can't

[cursive summit]

https://tenor.com/view/xiaomi-mi9t-phone-camera-gif-14708432

[old marlin]

the island is the holepunch

ah

[lofty pivot]

that's where the notch has to be lol

[old marlin]

would not be easy to do

since they have a bunch of stuff in there

[raw zephyr]

oh yes let me have a slide out for ir so i can use faceid

[old marlin]

I think it is like 2 IR emitters, 3 cameras?

[fickle ore]

OnePlus parent company Oppo can't sell in most EU countries/India anymore since they're not paying royalties for Nokia 5G tech/wireless tech. Same goes for VIVO soon.

[old marlin]

oppo is not the parent company

they are both owned by bbk

[cursive summit]

Faceid is shit design and should be replaced with touch

[lofty pivot]

I'm sure apple would be happy to remove the island whenever they feel they have a solution to have the camera and other things there, until then the island is a pretty decent solution

what, I love face id

[raw zephyr]

get used to this, they have the worst takes ever

[fickle ore]

Ah. Idk, all the lawsuits mention just OPPO and all daughter companies including oneplus, etc

[cursive summit]

Faceid is just for hoarding biometrics

[frozen ingot]

faceID is fine

[lofty pivot]

lol

[old marlin]

oppo is not the parent company though

it is bbk

[cursive summit]

Pop-camera replaces the punchhole camera's biggest fault, which is that you get privacy

[frozen ingot]

really annoying how it asks for password occasionally though

[raw zephyr]

how is touch any different from it? LOL

[old marlin]

idk I prefer fingerprint

[cursive summit]

Cause touch is used for biometric identification when it comes to official documentation

[lofty pivot]

if anything I want more face id, put it on my macbook so I don't have to reach over to log in when it's on a desk

[fickle ore]

Well Ig the parent company isnt sued then but others are...

[raw zephyr]

https://tenor.com/view/big-trouble-if-i-speak-if-i-speak-i-am-in-big-trouble-speak-big-gif-23519858

[old marlin]

not in any way, just give me the source code of how they do that part and I am fine

[lofty pivot]

they can do that already by holding your thumb if you want lol

[old marlin]

afaik they sued multiple subsidiaries

[frozen ingot]

its 2023, what's privacy?

[old marlin]

due to how they operate

[frozen ingot]

[raw zephyr]

ios is definitely more privacy focused ootb than your average android phone

[lofty pivot]

honestly absurd anti apple takes is as silly as absurd pro apple takes

[old marlin]

is it really

[cursive summit]

If anything it's a step forwards cause the few attempts at concealing punchholes with pixels have been so far very halfassed

[lofty pivot]

makes the argument look silly when you make the crazy man anti apple arguments instead of the rationale ones

[fickle ore]

I wonder if they'll pay or not and take the business hit of not being able to sell within EU at all. India market is too big a loss for them. Nokia is bound to gain 1-2 billion $ if they agree to pay.

[frozen ingot]

yeah its always like this, people get really tribal over stuff they don't even use

[old marlin]

they already retreated officially

[fickle ore]

Yeah but not from India yet

its ongoing

[old marlin]

ah

idk

[cursive summit]

I have honestly no problems with puncholes

Like, my Poco I completely forgot even has a front facing camera

I don't use it, I don't notice it

[last wing]

im just waiting for the day apple allows desktop apps on ipad os so i can only buy and ipad instead of having to buy a ipad with a stylus (apple pencil) and whole other device for desktop apps

[cursive summit]

But Apple just... really wants you to know it's there lol

With a massive ISLAND

Like, no, please god no

[fickle ore]

https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/devices/oppo-pays-23-of-its-india-sales-to-nokia-as-per-court-order/103129545
India court just holds this money afaik for Nokia until agreement happens.

[old marlin]

lol

[raw zephyr]

i swear this android vs ios debate shows up here every week

goes on for about half a day

[wheat plume]

Lol

[lofty pivot]

it's always vex lol

he goes off on anything apple

[last wing]

both have their merits

[lofty pivot]

^

[cursive summit]

Tbf this isn't even some android ios debate

[raw zephyr]

nobody asked really

[cursive summit]

It's how Apple somehow has the most brilliant engineers yet makes the stupidest decisions

Like making notches popular again, somehow

[lofty pivot]

anything remotely related to apple and he has to tell everyone all his views on every apple thing he hates

[last wing]

the notch isnt that bad

[cursive summit]

Calm your throbber donny, you are exaggerating

[raw zephyr]

he's right.

[cursive summit]

Apple does plenty well

I focus on where they fail

Like a fookin island mate

[lofty pivot]

you focus a lot it seems

[raw zephyr]

who cares?

[last wing]

i still run a iphone x and honestly the notch does not bother me in the slightest

[raw zephyr]

does it sell?

yes it does

[frozen ingot]

I don't even notice the notch on my 11 either

like there's content on the screen, why would I stare at a notch

[last wing]

i dont consume content on my phone really so its not that big of a deal to me

if im not at my desk i consume content on my ipad anyways

more screen real estate

[steep creek]

Yah it’s nice. Shows the time remaining for my public transport pass too

[last wing]

plus i prefer the ipad aspect ratio for watching stuff in

[frozen ingot]

makes me wonder how we used phones in the past

[raw zephyr]

to call people

[lofty pivot]

we used to flex over who could sms using the numpad the fastest

[raw zephyr]

one thing that nobody does nowadays

[cursive summit]

They either have tons of bezels, or no bezels

[frozen ingot]

like 75% of the front of the phone was buttons and bezels, how did we even read what was on the display?

[last wing]

thats all i use mine for now, call, text and music

[raw zephyr]

sounds about right

[old marlin]

very big feature

[steep creek]

Yep, and timers why I use a lot hah, lots of nice little things with it

[old marlin]

never been done before

why do you need a dynamic island for that

[raw zephyr]

why not?

[last wing]

its why i refuse to upgrade, other than battery degredation from lifetime use their is 0 reason to upgrade for my use reasons

[old marlin]

it's just the regular top bar

but moved down slightly

for some items

[raw zephyr]

i only upgrade because of the camera, but it doesn't really matter the last 3 generations of iphones

[old marlin]

the camera is probably the biggest improvement the last 3 gens

not saying it is worth to upgrade because of it

[last wing]

im planning to buy a new phone next year only because its more economical to buy a new phone than pay to have the battery replaced

[raw zephyr]

someone who thinks with their head

[lofty pivot]

the camera is all every phone announcement is these days, unless you're into phone photography/video then it's kind of whatever these days for those phone event announcements

[last wing]

i still use the ipad 2019 air which is lightning so i have to upgrade that also if i want to go full usb c

[old marlin]

just buy a normal phone

[raw zephyr]

same

[old marlin]

and buy a nice camera with the remaining money

[last wing]

^^

photography has been a hobby that ive always wanted to do

[steep creek]

Sweet cat

[last wing]

but it can get expensive pretty fast

if u get into it

[old marlin]

you can buy a used A7 III + a mid tier android for less than an iphone 15 pro

[last wing]

i would never buy a 15 pro anyways

i still use my phone x haha

still alot of money though

i would never pay 1k for a phone

[digital cliff]

but then you'd have two devices

[last wing]

just an unreasonable amount of money

[old marlin]

yea but if you want good photos you get actually good photos

[raw zephyr]

no idea where you live but no way you can buy a7 iii + phone for less than ip15 pro lmfao

[digital cliff]

oh yeah a7 III is 2k btw

[old marlin]

lol

a7 iii is 1.7k new

[raw zephyr]

just checked second hand, 1k for a7 iii from 2019 just the body

[old marlin]

and like ~900€ used

[raw zephyr]

you would need to get a really shitty phone then

[lofty pivot]

cameras are one of those things you find a lot of them for cheap 2nd hand because so many people buy them and realize they never use it lol

[old marlin]

actually really easy/cheap to retrofit google photos integration

[steep creek]

Point 3 is a big reason why I still bother with smartphones. Too inconvenient without one lol

[old marlin]

but like realistically

you can get a nice digital camera

• a 400€ phone

for less than an iphone

[digital cliff]

and you'd still have 2 devices

that's not going away

[old marlin]

if you buy your iphone for being a camera

[old marlin]

obv

[raw zephyr]

i think we have another contender for worst takes of #🔌│tech

[lofty pivot]

depends on area and such

[old marlin]

it's the equivalent of buying the highest end gaming notebook for uni

yea sure you can game on it at home and take notes at uni

but you can get 2 devices that both do their job better for a similar amount of money

[raw zephyr]

how is it equivalent?

it's one device

[lofty pivot]

i hope they refresh the sony fx3 but have electronic nd filter

[raw zephyr]

are you gonna carry 2 devices with you? probably not

[last wing]

this is a L take if u are buying a high end notebook that is going to be ur main driver regardless LOL they are expensive as hell

[old marlin]

that is exactly my point

cheapest "4090" notebook is almost 3k here

[last wing]

up point doesnt make sense? a camera is designed with something specific in mind as is with a phone they are completely different things

[old marlin]

yes

[last wing]

1 just happes to have features that are similar to the other

[raw zephyr]

so you are telling me to carry around a cheap phone with shitty camera and an expensive mirrorless to take pictures of notes?

[old marlin]

what

[raw zephyr]

exaggerating, but that's what you are saying

[old marlin]

you can still make pictures of notes with a phone

if you want to make pictures of notes you don't need an iphone 15 pro

a 300€ phone would do just fine

[last wing]

this costs more than my pc and i have a full on 3090ti suprim x LOL

[old marlin]

and if you want a phone that can actually make really good photos you are sol

[pale sigil]

https://reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/s/VMBh8nggre

Someone got a quest 3 incredibly early haha

[old marlin]

like they are fine now

but a dedicated digital camera will just be better at it

[raw zephyr]

this just to be outdated next year

[last wing]

i mean it would still work fine for years

[old marlin]

yea or you could have a PC that would still be totl + a passable notebook that would easily last you 5 years for light tasks

[last wing]

my 8700k works perfectly fine and its 6 years old now

[raw zephyr]

indeed but it's not latest and greatest

[old marlin]

uhh

yea

that is how tech works

[last wing]

"first world problems"

i dont have the new shiny awwww

[raw zephyr]

i guess you don't get my point

[old marlin]

I mean somewhat

but you could still easily upgrade a GPU down the line

"easily"

but not impossible

you'd still be in driver hell

[pale sigil]

Quest 3 has 8gb ram damn

[raw zephyr]

i recently upgraded to 7800x3d + 7900xtx, latest and greatest now, next year it's gonna be irrelevant with where tech heads

[last wing]

also when it comes to cameras some of the older ones tend to be alot better but thats opinion based

[pale sigil]

Til this was a thing

[last wing]

external graphics card

[old marlin]

has been for a few years

[cursive summit]

Cursed concept Apple hates cause it would make their devices run actually well

[old marlin]

afaik they just didn't bother to make drivers for any gpu

[cursive summit]

Other than upselling higher tier hardware, there's no reason why they wouldn't embrace USB4 or TB4

[old marlin]

in theory a powervr card might work

[cursive summit]

But Intel macbooks I think had TB3?

[old marlin]

and?

[cursive summit]

And drivers are up to AMD/NV to make

[last wing]

if you're into film and that natural grain look. a digital camera is never going to match, u can try emulate filmic look but it will never be the same

[old marlin]

egpus don't care about either

[cursive summit]

Well wholly but mostly

[pale sigil]

eGPU is such a wonderful thing that I want so bad but am waiting for it to be perfected

[old marlin]

and there were egpus for macbooks

[pale sigil]

USB4 solved a lot of limitations right?

[cursive summit]

Macbooks NEED eGPUs

[old marlin]

no

didn't change anything for egpus

[cursive summit]

Yet Apple wants you to upsell on higher tier M chips so there is no Thunderbolt support

[old marlin]

was mainly standardizing security features that tb3 already had

[pale sigil]

Or thunderbolt4

[old marlin]

yea because performance and efficiency wise m chips are a no brainer

[cursive summit]

And suck in graphics

[old marlin]

in a laptop at least

[cursive summit]

Really badly

[old marlin]

yea

[cursive summit]

Where eGPU would be crucial

[old marlin]

well

then go yell at amd

to make macos arm drivers

[last wing]

apple give me desktop apps on ipad os!!

[old marlin]

[last wing]

it uses the same chip as the damn laptops

[old marlin]

but i feel like that is a "diablo 4 on macos" situation

[lofty pivot]

Why would you need an egpu on these new MacBooks for everyone except super niche professionals

the base level pros already edit 4k amazingly well in final cut withoout frame drops

[old marlin]

would be extremely useful in rendering

which is not that niche

[last wing]

when a large amount of games support m then sure

[ashen spindle]

Rendering, gaming, ML/AI

[lofty pivot]

i'm sure you'd see an improvement but for a lot of editing and rendering the base m1 pros are kind of nutty already

ai maybe would be a good one i suppose

[old marlin]

like my laptop 3060 will absolutely DESTROY an m2 ultra in rendering

[old marlin]

was talking about 3d renders

like blender

[lofty pivot]

ah

[last wing]

they just fall badly in stuff like 3d rendering

they're not bad

but dont come close to full gpus

[lofty pivot]

i actually have an old egpu below my desk, pity they were all hamstrung by thunderbolt transfer rates once you got to higher end

[cursive summit]

Gaming is barely a thing in Apple ecosystem

And eGPU would really help

[lofty pivot]

no one buying an apple for gaming lol

[cursive summit]

To the point where I'd consider going Apple if they embraced eGPU

[cursive summit]

So they are contempt with just losing marketshare?

[last wing]

i like ipad os but i hate macOS

[fickle ore]

cant lose soemthing you never had

[old marlin]

they did

[ashen spindle]

Not buying for gaming but if you have it why not just use it if it works

[lofty pivot]

sure, it's such a small segment for apple users, I much prefer gaming on windows

[ashen spindle]

Like if I have a Mac and then want to game I could just use an egpu instead of a whole pc

[lofty pivot]

i got no problem with that - but egpu or not honestly won't change much for apples gaming ecosystem, majority of people aren't buying it for gaming

the gaming is just a bonus

[cursive summit]

Why not... be able to do everything on mac like game and 3d render without a hitch on equivalent or better performance on all titles than Windows

[last wing]

i dont like apple's philosiphy either, hardware locking components so u cant upgrade the device you OWN

[cursive summit]

Mac's just for some reason not supposed to be made for gaming? That's really not clear minded from a market share perspective, you want people to buy your products

[lofty pivot]

what?

[old marlin]

like halo ce was originally planned to be a mac title

[lofty pivot]

no one said you can't use them for mac, just that it's not their focus for their users

[old marlin]

exclusive at that

[lofty pivot]

I have an m1 max that I love for work, but I don't game much on that unless I'm travelling and then it's minimal gaming

[ashen spindle]

But they are pushing for it, not as the first selling point ofc

[old marlin]

atm gpu performance is pretty poor

[last wing]

i dont like the idea that macs are for professionals

[old marlin]

[reef patrol]

Mac Address when Linus takes over

[lofty pivot]

it's not - i'm not saying that at all

[last wing]

you aren't but apple is

[old marlin]

me when I proove that osx is a gaming os cause it runs doom 2

[lofty pivot]

honestly it's cause if you look at their demographic for people buying macbooks it's only a small portion that are doing much gaming

so they don't put much focus there

[old marlin]

ok

while we are on apple stuff

they fucked up

bad

[lofty pivot]

especially with apples absurd mouse accel

[old marlin]

their cases are not usb-c compliant

and ignore the keep out zone

so you can't use all usb-c cables

[ashen spindle]

If they don’t put much focus there they wouldn’t put game porting kit and all out there

[lofty pivot]

you can't even remove the mouse accel on macs fully and have to rely on 3rd party softwares to try remove as much as possible

[cursive summit]

Darling, please, tell me why I am trolling with some good arguments

[last wing]

their demographic is literally college students who wanna flex brand status for the most part lol. a macbook is a status thing more than anything

[cursive summit]

Like, this

[old marlin]

does it have rawinput

[cursive summit]

It's not meant for games yet Apple invests into game tools

[ashen spindle]

Mouse accell got an added option for that recently

[lofty pivot]

nah a huge demo is professions in IT/programming

[old marlin]

a permanent one?

[ashen spindle]

People were literally talking about it in this channel a day ago or so lol

[lofty pivot]

sure college kids do buy it a lot to flex as well, but a huge portion buying the pro models are from the programming crowd

[old marlin]

most recent thing I knew was that you had to manually disable it after every boot

ah ok

I mean

[lofty pivot]

that and final cut is so absurdly optimized for mac hardware

[old marlin]

the m-series chips are pretty nice for laptops

if they manage to properly follow them up for once

they could just be decent machines overall

[lofty pivot]

the m series was a game changer honestly. I'd never been able to edit 4k like that before without frame drops/stutters

[last wing]

as laptops i think they are really good for the prices with m

[lofty pivot]

being able to live edit raw 4k footage was a nutty upgrade from existing laptops

[old marlin]

a mb air m2 is like ~1k starting price

if you just want a solid laptop

with decent battery live etc

not a bad price

esp since you prob get less jank than with other laptops

[last wing]

apples battery conserving is really good

[old marlin]

I personally would not buy one

but they are good laptops

[last wing]

its one of the very few things i praise apple for

[old marlin]

people just love to overspend

by buying the high tier models

when they absolutely do not need them

[lofty pivot]

I still say their ipads are the best thing they make. It's just that once you own one you don't need to buy one for 10 years because they work so well

[last wing]

desktop app support needs to come

i shouldnt have to carry round a ipad and a laptop

[lofty pivot]

I'm still on the old ipad air 2 and it's chugging away lol

[last wing]

being able to use grease pencil in blender on a ipad would be nice

[thick elk]

Just don't expect websites to keep working on that ipad air, it's a relatively small group and safari is basically the new internet explorer as is tech wise.

[lofty pivot]

good joke. I live in korea- websites already don't work on desktops

[last wing]

i think apple is scared it will replace the macbook air if they give it desktop app support

[thick elk]

At work we decided to no longer actively support older safari versions and will use css that does not work on them at least.

[lofty pivot]

until a year or two ago I had to boot up old internet explorer just to access the foreigner immigration website

good times.

I'll probably buy an ipad mini whenever they fix the jelly scrolling though. I think it's perfect size for reading/home use

[thick elk]

quin typing a huge 3 word essay right there.

[fair gull]

n o .

[ashen spindle]

Oh did it show the typing bug again I wasn’t typing anything

[thick elk]

for some time now, it showed you typing yea

in pulses

[lofty pivot]

it's usually if you leave it on phone app or whatever where you were typing before

then it shows you as typing constantly

[thick elk]

I should have a silent typing indicator plugin in vencord right now as I have a tendency to leave half finished messages on screen.

[wheat plume]

🤔 This true? I dont have Windows on my laptop to try it

[reef patrol]

If you have office installed? Yes.

And a ton of other shortcuts.

CAN be removed though

[old marlin]

I doubt you cannot unbind it at all either

if you somehow manage to accidentally press a 4 key hotkey all the time and it annoys you you can basiclly block any hotkey in powertoys

[wheat plume]

lol

[reef patrol]

I don't have it. So you definitely can.

Also who facerolls that many keys

[reef patrol]

Man's got a point.

[old marlin]

which office do you have

[old marlin]

ah, 5 keys even

counting = hard

I don't have it

[reef patrol]

2021

[old marlin]

but I don't use 365 or most current office version

ok

so it is 365 only presumably

[wheat plume]

OH LOL

I looked into it, its from the time when Microsoft added dedicated Office keys to their keyboards

hhmmmm

[old marlin]

but also only with office 365

[wheat plume]

dafuq is Yammer?

[old marlin]

because mansen does not have it with the most recent version of non 365 office

[wheat plume]

xd

[old marlin]

uhhh

looks like twitter

for companies

aka prob dead

cause everything is teams now

[ashen spindle]

Mansen we need that as a sticker

[reef patrol]

You just know there's a giant corporation somewhere in the US that adapted this super early, and now the management refuses to move away from it on penalty of death.

[old marlin]

or "search with google"

[ashen spindle]

Google

[wheat plume]

LOL

[old marlin]

as it always happens

I mean I could not give you a reason why edge would not be a good browser

I just simply have not used it

the only reason why I like edge

is that windows server used to not come with a useable browser

so you always had to get an installer over the network

[wheat plume]

Nate LOL XD

hes one of the main plasma contributers

KINKEDIN

[last wing]

tbh only time i really use firefox is when im doing webdev

devtools for firefox r nice

[raw zephyr]

i use firefox exclusively

[last wing]

i use chrome coz im too lazy to comit the switch over

plus i like being able to transfer passwords across all devices

u can probs do that with firefox but im lazy

[wheat plume]

I use Firefox too

But I sandbox Chrome for YouTube

I have YouTube in it's own isolated window

🤔 210 for these??

Hmmm who's the market

[old marlin]

you haven't seen much yet

this thing was ~2.8k usd in 2017

from samsung

was basically totl hardware

apparently still a big market in china for these

was called the w2017 btw

[wheat plume]

Bruh

[old marlin]

that thing is really funny

it is a gigantic flip phone

[wheat plume]

NGL it looks classy AF

I like it

Wait that's Android also
Damn ok!

[solemn remnant]

looks gassy to me

[old marlin]

yes

it was that years galaxy phone hardware

in a different formfactor

would have been the S7?

[digital cliff]

I wanted to get one of those asia-only android flippies

but asia-only

and yeah kinda expensive nonetheless

I saw some for 500-600€ I think

[old marlin]

I don't see the appeal of this over one of those blackberries tbh

[digital cliff]

I dunno never seen a blackberry

[old marlin]

the ones with the slide out keyboard

[digital cliff]

ever since.... 2005

[old marlin]

what

[digital cliff]

they are not for sale here

[old marlin]

was quite a neat design back then

[digital cliff]

at all

never were

[old marlin]

yea they had issues getting into android

this was their last one afaik

had a fixed keyboard

the keyboard was capacitive

so you could use it as a trackpad iirc

[digital cliff]

would want specifically a flip phone

[wheat plume]

This reminds me of the phone I used to have way way way back

Slide up phone
Keypad beneath the screen and you slid the screen up to use it

[old marlin]

I mean without it, it is still a pretty normal android smartphone

not especially thinck either

[cursive summit]

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/optimizing-hybrid-laptop-performance-with-cross-adapter-scan-out-caso/

CASO?

This is a new thing apparently

"Microsoft CASO Makes dGPU & iGPU Switching Possible on Hybrid Laptops Without MUX , Works Across AMD, NVIDIA & Intel Chips"

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/nvidia-buys-illumina-the-ai-foundry

[pale sigil]

Tbh I like the Samsung flip

Idk why

[old marlin]

you mean the z flip?

[pale sigil]

Ye

[wheat plume]

https://www.cyberkendra.com/2023/09/webp-0day-google-assign-new-cve-for.html?m=1

oh not again....

WebP RCE bug

any app that uses WebP is affected

(use ad block on this site...its horrible)

[ashen spindle]

Not a new thing they just put something they found as a generic one out now

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/google-quietly-corrects-previously-submitted-disclosure-for-critical-webp-0-day/

[wheat plume]

[pale sigil]

Really need to get pihole up and running again

Auto playing videos too

I have brave installed but this was Google news

[fair gull]

who could have guessed a google force thing could be bad

ngl im still just waiting for their chromium exclusive web apis to have massive holes

[wheat plume]

Google make LibWebP?

[fair gull]

pretty sure they had a big part in it if i recall right

[wheat plume]

ah

[fair gull]

nope its all theirs

[wheat plume]

o

[fair gull]

well who would have guessed

i wouldnt

so format by them and libwebp by them

[ashen spindle]

WebM, WebP etc. is google

[fair gull]

vp8 and vp9 as well

i guess av1 to a certain degree as well

seeing how it came from vp10 and some others

and i think the early on logos also were just vp8/vp9 but saying av1

[thick elk]

Still the way it's governed now seems fine, same with the avif image format.

the problem is when google is pushing something that is just google.

Of course jxl is a better format probably

[devout raptor]

Quick question; is a dp 1.2 enough for 1440 165hz

[ashen spindle]

with DSC yes

actually 165 might just be at the limit without compression even

but either way, yes

[fair gull]

i think this highly depends on HDR or not

with HDR it might be a bit over the like 21Gbps

or 20?

[ashen spindle]

21. something

[fair gull]

somehwere around there

id say without hdr it should work even without dsc

yeah

so the hdr pushes it quite a bit higher

[fair gull]

should also be noted that while the connector and cable might support it the gpu might not

[fair gull]

the frigg is this in macos14

[fair gull]

time to sell all these zero days ive been sitting on

[wheat plume]

Typing Indicator....its just meant to tell you where the active text box is on screen and show if you have caps lock on ... but its massive

[fair gull]

except it only plops up if i dont type anything for minutes

so i doubt its a typing indicator

never had this before

ok but how do i yeet it forever

the capslock indicator is also useless

[ashen spindle]

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/gpus-from-all-major-suppliers-are-vulnerable-to-new-pixel-stealing-attack/

I feel like this is going to open a whole new can of worms

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/oTE04dLCitM

[thick elk]

Seems not much has changed in that regard. Granted, I worked with school desktops but still.

[vagrant pagoda]

we made boot usbs when usb drives got cheap lol

[pale sigil]

They blocked booting on our school computers

[vagrant pagoda]

they did thast

then we make windows boot usb

and used the windows bootloader to run itn

XD

us having lunchtime ut matches is prob why its so hard today

[thick elk]

We didn't have school laptops but the windows ran some custom shell on top of an admin account, which of course was not hard to bypass with some tricks.
Also the blocklist for sites we could not visit was not on a network level but rather within internet explorer.
Running portable firefox from USB worked around that (Actually used it first because internet explorer was garbage even at the best of times)

[bronze kite]

hi there i ordered a power supply of amazon and it’s getting shipped from the us and i live in the uk, do i need to buy a different power cord ?

[thick elk]

??? I don't see how we weould know that

[reef patrol]

Power cord? You might need a different PSU.

Depends on whether or not it will handle US and European power standards.

[bronze kite]

alright

[ashen spindle]

if its not super budge its can do either and you just have to see if the included cord fits

[thick elk]

Did you order it from the uk amazon? if so it's probably fine, besides that most psu's work, on 240v, just kind of an odd question here.

[reef patrol]

Definitely an interesting one 😄

[bronze kite]

yeah i ordered from uk amazon but i just realised its getting shipped from us lmao

[reef patrol]

The voltage differences are something to keep an eye on. If it is too budget, it might not have a flip switch or anything.

[bronze kite]

i’ll prolly buy another one

[thick elk]

Probably fine.

[ashen spindle]

nah by budget I mean like sub 30$ or so

anything else can do 240v just fine

they dont have different models

[bronze kite]

can i send a link to the psu?

[thick elk]

Just dump it in here, sure

[bronze kite]

Cooler Master V850 SFX Gold Full Modular, 850W, 80+ Gold Efficiency, ATX Bracket Included, Quiet FDB Fan, SFX Form Factor, 10 Year Warranty https://amzn.eu/d/hE0x1Ha

[thick elk]

Seems fine

[bronze kite]

so u think the power cord will be the uk one ?

[thick elk]

There are 2 reviews from the uk, they probably would have mentioned it if it came with a us cord.

Besides that, these are pretty much the most standard cord you can find, Not having at least one spare would be pretty rare.

[bronze kite]

alright

thanks

[cursive summit]

https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-9-27-amd-unveils-purpose-built-fpga-based-accelerator-.html

Ayo

Is 16nm in FPGAs impressive?

https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/llm-startup-embraces-amd-gpus-says-rocm-has-parity-with-nvidia-s-cuda-platform

Eh.. no

[vagrant pagoda]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LQeY3T66eM

[final flame]

Which one would y'all get and for what reason

They're the same price just want some opinions

[cursive summit]

Idk I just use screw-on adaptors

[thick elk]

Depends on if for your use a straight or angled adapter is better.

[cursive summit]

Good question, are you straight or swing?

[gusty kiln]

what are you plugging into?

[final flame]

Would be plugging into my magni

Oops wrong reply

[cursive summit]

I have a simple screw-on adaptor for my magni

At least my K702s cable supports a screw-on

[gusty kiln]

is the magni in front of you or to the side?

[final flame]

The issue is there are no 4.4 balanced to unbalanced connectors that are screw on or are of the Sennheiser type

[final flame]

Front

[gusty kiln]

in front = straight
on side = right angled

simply for ergonomics

[final flame]

Debating whether id want to use the straight one since if that cable gets yanked at all it's going to have so much more leverage

[gusty kiln]

hmm

or just upgrade to an amp with 4.4mm

[final flame]

Right angled id also have to use a 6.35mm adapter too, which I have

Heh I wish I had the money to

Oh yeah jacona Im sending the custom cable back

[gusty kiln]

oof

[final flame]

It was way too stiff of a cable and had issues with microphonics

[gusty kiln]

damn that sucks

what material was it?

[final flame]

Yeah, they offered me a full refund so I'll be accepting that offer.

[final flame]

Silver plated copper

[gusty kiln]

meant the outside material

[final flame]

Hart audio cables Paracord cables are really nice though, very flexy and affordable

[final flame]

I'm not too sure the specifics but from feel it was more of a hard to the touch plastic

[gusty kiln]

yeah, that's who I would go to for a nice cable

[gusty kiln]

ew

[final flame]

Compared to the almost grippy kind of what seems like silicone rubber that's used on iem cables

I don't know what the material used for that is

[gusty kiln]

btw what headphone are you trying to adapt 4.4>6.5?

[final flame]

The clears 💀

[gusty kiln]

oh kek

[final flame]

This is the cable I found, but it only is available with 4.4

[gusty kiln]

no adapter with a little big of cable inbetween?

that would be my choice

[final flame]

Nah conventional cables don't normally have that, that's why I wanted a hart cable since they have the minixlr interconnects

But you know how that turned out

[final flame]

Holy shit this should be illegal

[coarse cloak]

did they not test formatting in mobile

[final flame]

The unsubscribe hyperlink is barely visible

[coarse cloak]

LOL

classic.

[final flame]

I mean better than making it the color white and putting it on a white bg

[coarse cloak]

yep

[final flame]

But still damnit kohls

I don't even shop there

Why would they stop, even more things to profit from

[coarse cloak]

woah

[final flame]

Although ig they would be making more profit from the streaming service

Wouldn't be surprised if Disney fans bought blurays and paid for streaming though

[vagrant pagoda]

took like 2 seconds to find it

[final flame]

There's a lot more text there once zoomed out

[vagrant pagoda]

its not called fine print

[coarse cloak]

LMFAOOOOOO

[vagrant pagoda]

haha

gmail dose it for you lol

[coarse cloak]

yea

not all of them have it tho, just checked

[final flame]

Yea

[ashen spindle]

https://www.meta.com/de/en/quest/quest-3/ right forgot meta connect was today

[crimson wigeon]

Hm, almost tempted to just fucking get it because I want VR man

but... DECKARD...

[ashen spindle]

it's a good deal for the price

deckard will be much more

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah but think of how amazing it'll be!

[ashen spindle]

well im using the index from work so I'm waiting lol

https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1707139856751841302 oh mi300 info before november

[vagrant pagoda]

2064x2208 per eye isnt bad

90Hz, 120Hz (experimental).

120 at full res would be nuts

WiFi 6E too

if it has 6ghz

ill get one 100%

6ghz is 2.5gb max

so you could easily get 1+gbit to the headset

[astral haven]

Relative to other vr headsets sure
Relative to replacing my monitors it's awful tho

[vagrant pagoda]

you sit 2 inchs from them?

XD

[astral haven]

Exactly

The pixel density of my monitors is so much higher because I sit so far away

4k27 at 1 meter is 117 ppd
The quest 3 is allegedly 18

The varjo vr-3 is 30 in the periphery with 70 in the focus area

[astral haven]

My mistake I just searched the page
Passthrough AR is 18 ppd, the displays themselves are 25 ppd

[astral haven]

What a revolution lel

[ashen spindle]

oh fuck I just realized

no deckard drop during connect

dang it

lets hope for day 2

[astral haven]

Oh yea shooy

Csgo2 released lel

datamine time

[ashen spindle]

well steamvr update also so maybe

[spark gorge]

This SM7B preamp is a nice idea, usually (this is also my case), these mics are very quiet and you need to increase the gain sooooo high to hear it

I just wish this bypass switch will only have effect on the preamp and not on the lowpass aswell

[rough osprey]

wait it does?

thats weird

[astral haven]

What

Bypass is to just directly connect the capsule to the output approximately

[final flame]

you need a cloudlifter, that's why it's so damn quiet
these are dynamic mics

it's not necessary but it's far more ideal

"Alternatively, if your interface/preamp does not have enough gain, you can add a phantom powered preamp between the SM7B and your interface. Phantom powered in-line preamps such as the sE Electronics DM1 or DM2, Triton Audio FetHead, or Cloudlifter add 25-28 dB of additional gain. "
Taken from shure's website

[spark gorge]

Wait, I didn't know that

I can use Phantom power from the soundcard with the Shure Sm7b ?

[astral haven]

no

the db is probably gonna take phantom power, but its not out yet

[final flame]

for the extra 100$ the preamp version of the mic costs it's well worth just to get either a interface that is able to drive it fully or a preamp

[astral haven]

eh cabling and the closer the preamp to the capsule, the less nonsense happens along the way

an inline is a pain, and a high quality interface is alot more than $100

[final flame]

negligible performance gains eh

[spark gorge]

In my case I already use the SM7b with a Roland Quad capture, so I have enough gain to make it work

[astral haven]

youd be surprised how much you can get when you are dealing with really long cables

[final flame]

you're already going to be buying a interface anyways, so just get something good

[astral haven]

sure but how good

my mixing desk is fkn atrocious and it was all i could afford
spending an extra idk $1000 on it wouldnt have gotten me much better, and again im more talking about professional productions

and yes my desk can support phantom powering 10 mics

[final flame]

MotuM2 is a solid interface for the price

[astral haven]

evo4 is cheaper and also relatively good

but neither are gonna solo the sm7b without a preamp changed my mind

ok wow thats shockingly good

[final flame]

Shure reccomends 60db of gain for the sm7b

for the minimum

[astral haven]

yea so that converts the motu from 129db to 69db nice

🤷 check reviews

and see how much gain folks are putting on it

the m2 is pretty sweet, and it gets you a db over the evo4, as well as a more complete interface, although the evo4 has all the settings, you just have to read the manual to figure out how to use it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7EJRZXokS0

yea thats actually plenty good

[final flame]

Fetheads can also be had for as low for 60 bucks
if you do get a preamp

[astral haven]

oh thats a preamp
i thought it was a microphone
yea something like that will help

fethead is cheaper and more widely used tho

[final flame]

could also probably find a ton of them used

[rough osprey]

depending on what sound you wabt

[astral haven]

The preamp generally doesn't effect the sound much if it's even a halfway decent ons

[cursive summit]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892135/jony-ive-sam-altman-ai-device-openai-ceo-apple-designer

https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-5-benchmarks

[thorn cypress]

yooo rpi5

[cursive summit]

https://venturebeat.com/ai/oops-google-search-caught-publicly-indexing-users-conversations-with-bard-ai/

Is that even a problem

They are shareable

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2023/09/27/major-chatgpt-update-ai-program-no-longer-restricted-to-sept-2021-knowledge-cutoff-after-internet-browser-revamp/

To be fair it hasn't been restricted since the premium service rollout earlier this year

Peeps that paid got GPT-4 and it could use a search engine

[halcyon moss]

Tbh, it's a bit silly that it still doesn't have a m.2 slot. SD cards are still the biggest failure point of these things

[marsh glade]

No they pulled the web functionality for a few months and just re-implemented it

[cursive summit]

Ah, that's unexpected, but good that they reintroduced it

[cursive summit]

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/28/jony-ive-iphone-artificial-intelligence-openai/

I'm sorry but what now

Verge had a far better article than this

[old marlin]

gotta make it as clickbait as possible

[steep creek]

AI feels like a marketing buzzword to me now

[cursive summit]

Always has been but also the biggest scientific breakthrough I would say we have ever had

[steep creek]

Yep that pretty much sums up my opinion as well

[cursive summit]

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/28/reddit-is-removing-ability-to-opt-out-of-ad-personalization-based-on-your-activity-on-the-platform/

Ew

I guess advertisement diversity really fell and they have to do something about it

[reef patrol]

Reddit has ads?

Sounds like a skill issue.

[cursive summit]

Is that a joke about adblocking?

[reef patrol]

Yes. Because Reddit is shit.

[cursive summit]

I should probably download some modded reddit apk's cause ads will get more annoying now

[reef patrol]

Are you SURE you want to use the browser?

[cursive summit]

I really dislike viewing any website in a mobile browser

[reef patrol]

Why yes Reddit. You genuinely don't have to fucking ask me every, single, time open it up

[cursive summit]

Browser experience is just horrible

[cursive summit]

That's with any app though

Do the same with Steam

Or idk, insta?

[reef patrol]

Uh no. No it is not.

[cursive summit]

Yes, yes it is

[reef patrol]

I use Twitter as a webpage. No prompts or popups there.

[cursive summit]

I know for a fact it is cause Steam STILL keeps opening up the "do you want to launch this with" whenever I google some game

It's just android being bastards

[reef patrol]

Facebook either. So clearly not "every app"

As for Steam. It just sucks in general. Doesn't matter what platform. It will consistently forget I am logged in and ask me to. So I stopped bothering.

[steep creek]

for me, reddit on phone was more bearable before the api changes. i dislike their own app

[cursive summit]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/chinese-hackers-stole-60000-emails-us-state-department-microsoft-hack-senate-2023-09-27/ @dawn epoch stop hacking U.S government for the chinese

[reef patrol]

Not really related to this ... but sure

[vagrant pagoda]

https://youtu.be/FkI4OaTx7u4?si=zLEFk7Ucnc5MZyns

[reef patrol]

I never said anything about not being signed in.

This is just using the service in a browser.

X works just fine now. They turned publicly visible tweets back on a while ago.

That just isn't correct.

[cursive summit]

That is correct

X doesn't even display comments anymore unless you are logged in

At least on my end, if I am in private browsing on some twitter link, I can't see comments

[digital cliff]

yeah services love driving users away

[cursive summit]

Have to copy the link to main browser to see comments

[digital cliff]

not that I used Twitter before, but certainly won't even open it now because what's the point

reddit's the same, although I did use that one

haven't opened it since the API change though

[reef patrol]

Alright if you say so. This doesn't have anything to do with my specific rant about Reddit pestering me to use their app, if I dare use a browser - every - single - time I refresh a subreddit

[vagrant pagoda]

X dose the same thing to make an account though.

[reef patrol]

Reddit does it - if you are logged in though.

Kind of a different thing.

Twitter doesn't.

[vagrant pagoda]

Yes that's why I said make an account, not download an app

[reef patrol]

It's... not the same thing though.

[vagrant pagoda]

Both make the site unusable unless you comply

[reef patrol]

One requires you to have an account, the other will pester you regardless.

we are not the same

[cursive summit]

Old reddit 🤢

[old marlin]

old and new reddit both suck

reddit on phone is worse though

browser would be ok without the nagging ig

[cursive summit]

What's wrong with reddit mobile

Like, I have been using reddit on my android for years, and I have few complaints, but nothing horrible

[old marlin]

if you click on a reddit link

[dull rampart]

yeah, I guess 2005 website design sucks
and 2023 website design sucks
so there are no 'good ol times' for reddit

[old marlin]

in your browser or discord

and you try to go back

you don't actually go back to where you were

you go to the home page of reddit

[sudden anvil]

yo guys

i just got my new keyboard today

why i cant press slash

it wont come out

[dull rampart]

I wonder if compact reddit (i.reddit.com) was ever any good though, yes in my view better than mobile

[sudden anvil]

weeeeeeee

[cursive summit]

Not really a big issue?

[dull rampart]

well yeah but people here disagree

[sudden anvil]

can anyone help me

[old marlin]

it is to me

[ashen spindle]

#1019755933959733258

[sudden anvil]

.-.

[old marlin]

because I don't browse reddit

but just look at singular posts

[cursive summit]

Well, I'm sorry, cause for that I just double-back click to close the app

[old marlin]

yea

[cursive summit]

Or go to tab view and switch tabs

[old marlin]

and then you don't end up where you were

[cursive summit]

Which to me is perfectly fine

[old marlin]

you end up on your homescreen

goin into tabs is unintuitive

[cursive summit]

Uh, no you don't?

[old marlin]

you do

[cursive summit]

On my poco it goes back to whatever app I was using

[old marlin]

it would

if it wasn't reddit

like regular links work

reddit in browser works

just not the reddit app

[cursive summit]

That's just not how my reddit app works lol

That is bizarre, I constantly hear bitching about the reddit app yet I just don't have any of these issues

The only issue I have with reddit app is that I cannot for some reason sometimes view comment trees

They just disappear

old.reddit is ass and I will stand by it

I started using reddit in like 2018 when the new one was already a thing, so old.reddit is a thing I have never even seen before until I found out it existed

And it's just really bad

New reddit to me at least is actually amazing

Really like the personalization

[dull rampart]

yeah, and subreddits are choking on the lack of their own personalisation

[cursive summit]

Idk what content you are viewing but mine is perfectly normal

[steep creek]

I don’t know about android, but on iOS the Reddit app removed the ability to sort your home feed by top / hot etc. now it’s decided by Reddit, sometimes it recommends good posts, other time just fresh post I have no interest in seeing

[old marlin]

great

[cursive summit]

Just don't use Apple lol, problem solved

Why would anyone use an inferior platform to droids

[steep creek]

Yeah a workaround is to create a custom feed, you can sort there but it’s still a bit annoying

[steep creek]

I’ve had android phones in the past, but enjoying my time on iOS for now. Watch is a big reason behind this

[cursive summit]

That was just bait lol

To see if anyone gets triggered again

"AlL yOu dO iS ShIt oN ApPle" lol

Idk nothing on Apple news front so, what is there to say

[steep creek]

lol fair

[cursive summit]

I have to say I am somewhat impressed with Apple's ability of a "no-compromise" build quality

[steep creek]

i dont care about fanboying, i just buy what i like

[cursive summit]

Where every single point of a device is just really good

Fantastic screen quality, build is wonderful, audio is great, performance is snappy

Yet it lacks the min-max aspect of Windows

Like, Apple can't game for shit lol, it's just horrible at it with no dedicated GPUs and beefy APU chip design

For 1500$ I can get either a well-rounded Macbook Pro with that touchbar thing which I really like

Or a Windows laptop with some weird ass plastic build, bad screen, but an RTX 4070 which will run games for a long time to come and ultra FHD

I wish that Mac had more "gamer" options

[halcyon moss]

🤢

[steep creek]

Personally I prefer mostly Apple, just not their computers. I need windows for my major, but apart from that I just don’t like the macs that much