🔌│tech

[steep creek]

https://corp.mediatek.com/investor-relations/financial-information/monthly-revenue

That’s some year to year progress

[astral haven]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lJmkTSoWLc
Holy smokes

thats not a great print but wow thats fast

[steep creek]

Woah that’s speedy

Kinda amazed

Also the steam deck as a timer 😂

[wheat plume]

I love seeing the Deck just randomly show up online

It's so fun xd

[mild dome]

bort

[severe phoenix]

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1am4ylf/cablemod_gpu_adapters_pose_a_fire_risk_recall/

[silver flume]

got my PCS coming up and will be moving to germany. gonna be nerve wracking to think about having to ship my computer. gotta hope there is no damage done when its in packing and containers lol

[digital cliff]

you should use that expanding packing foam stuff

or just line everything with plastic bags and squirt full of expanding PU foam

[digital cliff]

yeah if want a brand name then that I guess

[rough osprey]

https://x.com/tomwarren/status/1755663634020049200?s=46 lol

Tom Warren (@tomwarren) on X

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[pale sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/bruh-meme-gif-26978290

[wheat plume]

Lol

[unkempt lake]

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4080-super-stock-running-low-in-the-us-no-msrp-cards-available

[digital cliff]

ngl these are the things that will eventually get me back on windows if they keep this up

make terminal more powerful, make customization more of a thing and suddenly there are less reasons for me to stick on the ol penguin

[cursive summit]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/VR-porn-a-no-go-for-Apple-Vision-Pro-users-as-capability-blocked-by-Apple.801282.0.html

I'd refund after that

[upper talon]

what else would you use it for tho?

[cursive summit]

Nothing, obviously

[crimson wigeon]

What a waste

[smoky frigate]

porn is a huge part of technology getting adopted, they are leaving money on the table. not that they'd really need it, but sooner or later someone else will swoop in

[umbral heron]

[halcyon moss]

iphone did fine without porn

[rough osprey]

huh

[crimson wigeon]

Far as I know the web browser does not have any such blocking

[misty saffron]

you got baited yet again

[cursive summit]

What

[misty saffron]

this is just an example of safari never supporting vr videos

(no, 360deg videos aren't vr)

all you need to do is enable webxr experiment in settings and use a webxr video player

[crisp granite]

totally predictable
it's almost as if a high performance GPU with...actually ok value in terms of price to performance this gen would just be gobbled up

[ashen spindle]

Absolutely not predictable because it has nothing to do with demand

It’s just that shipments got delayed which is also the reason the reviews were only on launch day

Eu shipments did not get delayed hence prices and availability are absolutely normal here

[crisp granite]

it would in a limited sense, regardless...
if there wasn't any demand, even with delayed shipments, there wouldn't be this problem

[ashen spindle]

It just shows it’s more than 0 demand

[astral haven]

if 30 people wanted them and nvidia produced 20, it would look the same as 300000 people wanting them and nvidia produced 299990
the visible effect of 10 gpus being slowed down in transit is the same either way, and 1 of these two examples is vastly higher demand than the other

[cursive summit]

Prices are still very shit lol

Not sure why I would buy a 4070 Super for 700 euros+ whereas a faster GRE is like 550

[ashen spindle]

Idk how that’s even relevant to the 4080 super stock situation

[unkempt lake]

No msrp cards is an issue tho

[crisp granite]

I got mine for that

¯_(ツ)_/¯

a week ago wtf

it's been that long?

[ashen spindle]

cards are at msrp here and will be in NA as well soon again

[unkempt lake]

Hopefully so

[ashen spindle]

msrp still sucsk but this is just short temporary shipping issues

[unkempt lake]

I mean the whole point of the 4080 super is that its cheaper

If it can't be found for msrp then... it has no reason to exist or be purchased

[severe phoenix]

That doesn't sound very democratic

[timber mantle]

That's because she's a French Canadian anarchist

[severe phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/helldivers-2-helldivers-surprised-shocked-scared-gif-14616193401603705407

[gusty kiln]

no one want the flip flop 4080 super

all other models don't exist on microcenter

[unkempt lake]

It's kinda shaped like a menstrual pad

[gusty kiln]

[unkempt lake]

Multifunction device

Worth buying

Killer feature

Sadly it's gonna be a one time use 😦

[gusty kiln]

doesn't help that it is 100 over msrp

[frozen ingot]

who even cares what their gfx card looks like

as long as it works and cools properly I really couldn't care less

[crisp granite]

I got a pretty plain looking zotac card
and I can't even see it in my case

[frozen ingot]

vanity is the name of the game for sure these days

[umbral heron]

Oh, 4090 Trinity, yeah

[crisp granite]

so I don't actually care

[digital cliff]

I just care what my case looks like, anything else is irrelevant as I don't have a window

[crisp granite]

what case do you use, Fleimi?

[digital cliff]

Fractal north

[crisp granite]

my spidey senses say that ain't an ITX card

[umbral heron]

I don't have a window from kinda different reasons...

[crisp granite]

NOICE

[digital cliff]

it matches my desk exactly

matte black and dark wood

[frozen ingot]

like half the people in this discord barely seem to be able to use their keyboards unless they have a colormatched coiled abomination to plug into it

[cursive summit]

5700XT users do

Imagine having a literally dented card

That also always runs at 100 celsius

[frozen ingot]

its a radeon so wouldn't expect anything else

[cursive summit]

I never heard my blower card ramp up

Prolly yes cause it's completely stock

[frozen ingot]

as someone who grew up with 90s computers one or two loud fans ain't shit

I had a cd-rom drive whirring nonstop like 20 cm from my ear for hours while gaming back then

[halcyon moss]

No more spinning metal either

[ashen spindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj-wZ_KGcsg

@fair gull nvidia guy also goes over that part is called what latency

[fair gull]

i like this chart already

nice and clear

[novel oar]

@fair gull hi I have a question, I’m planning to order Wooting 60HE+ is it in stock?

[ashen spindle]

look at the store

[novel oar]

I did I’m just a little bit confused cuz the 60HE says it’s in stock but the 60HE+ says “back order”

[ashen spindle]

one product being stock doesnt matter for another

[novel oar]

@ashen spindle so ur saying do I just order now?

[ashen spindle]

it will show you an estimated time and then you decide if you want it

[novel oar]

Okay, and if I get the 60HE+ do I have to build it myself?

[ashen spindle]

thats the whole point of the module

[novel oar]

Okay

[novel oar]

So if I order 60HE+ can I pick which colour it is too?

[ashen spindle]

just look on the page what options you have

[fair gull]

😍

so the talk explains a lot and confirms what i thought of the process but gives very clear labels for what latency is what

[novel oar]

One more question: if i buy the 60HE+ is it better to get the module or just get the prebuilt just cuz I don’t wanna build it

[ashen spindle]

I mean if you dont want to build it get the prebuilt one..

[novel oar]

Ok

[cursive summit]

Huh

So the idea is.. collect all of the world's venture capital and just spend it on AI

Yeah I see nothing wrong with that

[marsh glade]

You know who's got 7 trillion in pocket change?

[cursive summit]

Your mother?

She's a lovely wealthy woman

[marsh glade]

The Fed who can just magic it into existence 😂

[cursive summit]

How about

We don't

I saw values over 100 trillion at some point

Someshit like 300 trillion

No clue who wrote them but I thought that was insane

[marsh glade]

https://ground.news/article/sam-altman-seeks-trillions-of-dollars-to-reshape-business-of-chips-and-ai_b741ad
A curious read

[cursive summit]

I don't quite get though why some people believe AI is a bubble

I firmly don't think it is

[ashen spindle]

it absolutely is

[cursive summit]

Now if let's say.. Meta or Google stocks up like 10 billion worth of H.100s, will they buy 10 billion of H.200s in 2 years? Probably not

Would that count as a bubble burst?

[ashen spindle]

no their spending isnt relevant

it's spending that wont make returns

and most of the VC funded startups that just offer a chatgpt wrapper for their function wont find a sustainable model to make profit

and reminder bubble doesnt mean if it pops the tech is gone

[marsh glade]

There's a level of exuberance in the market, and it's trading at all time highs. It's reasonable for some number of people to scream bubble

Ironically, those with conviction that it's a bubble and is about to pop, who put their money where their mouth is, become the willing buyers at higher prices later...

[cursive summit]

Considering the computational costs required, AI isn't going to get cheap anytime soon

And if current trends are considered, will become more relevant and in demand

Costs will only go up

[ashen spindle]

oh I absolutely think it will still go up for a while, but it's quite simple math that you can't sustain something if you never make profit on it

not like a state is going to subsidize AI startups like its transport

[marsh glade]

Considering the massively complex supply chains to enable chip fabrication, and the decreasing stability of global supply chains, chip costs are only going up

[ashen spindle]

N2 over N3 is likely a 50% cost increase per wafer

[old marlin]

at some point people will have to realize that the way they are doing AI as a concept is a dead end

[ashen spindle]

AI itself isn't a bubble as much as the financial models of how its done

[cursive summit]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-chases-30-billion-custom-chip-market-with-new-unit-sources-2024-02-09/

[astral haven]

I am actually not sure about that
there are improvements on both the algorithmic and hardware fronts available still, and computation is likely to keep improving for quite a while

in storage we can build stacks of transistors 200+ high per chip, and stacks of chips 16+ high
when we get desperate enough, we will tap into that for more than just a tiny bit moar cache

[old marlin]

That won't change how it conceptually works

It is only regurgitating existing data

And "optimization" to make it's output less erratic made it at least equally more focused on not doing anything "unique" (aka random) with the data it has

At this point it will only start to converge more and more

[river burrow]

private companies get trillions in funds (people's tax money), only then to actually just profit themselves and never give back to the people who invested in them through the government, also by avoiding paying taxes themselves by any means (also by lobbying and deregulated themselves to pay almost no tax and as few other restrictions as possible). But this is mostly only in USA where it's possible, a capitalistic system going completely amok.

[smoky frigate]

oh this is the entire western world rn, profits gets privatized and costs put on the taxpayer

[river burrow]

well not all of it, it's definitely much worse in US than any other place.

it's trending maybe towards this other places yeah, something we must be aware of (like right-wing forces growing in europe).

they grow in europe because neo-liberalism is something that ultimately leads to this.
neo-liberalism's conclusion is almost always just fascism.

[river burrow]

but I guess with AI it's a bit different, if we get AGI, so then people should get just like more stuff overall, since efficiency and everything will go up a lot.
also if AGI will be available to everyone.

and this is why it's bad for like artists to push for some regulations, because regulations will only limit all the people, but not the corporations that with much more capital and stuff will easily bypass regulations in some way, but people won't.

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/dsyVzW71KJs?t=146

wish they called them the Chu Chu :')

DETACHABLE CABLE
GOOD

[thick elk]

Used them for a couple of months, sound fine with eq and despite the wider nozzle fit great for iems. can wear them multiple hours in a row without too much issue.

[cursive summit]

Oh I was waitin for this one

[mild dome]

Bubbles doesn't equate to scams, they mean overvalulation of the market. Like the dotcom bubble
The internet wasn't going anywhere, but a lot of companies started up on investor funds with no plans to ever actually workout a way to make money. Once everyone realised this the market crashed as money was pulled out of a lot of these businesses and moves elsewere. However the internet still remained.

"AI" has definitely inflated into as bubble. With a lot of businesses marketing themselves to investors purely on the words "AI", and not much more. No developments, no innovations, nothing new that other real AI developers are doing. Like if AI wasn't a bubble we really wouldn't be hearing people screaming about it from the tops of hills. Companies would be a lot more humble about the tech

[cursive summit]

Not going to buy it but Chu 2 is defo interesting

IEMs are really getting on my nerves though, they just make my ears hurt with how uncomfortable they are

Headphones superior in sound and comfort

[near mortar]

The nozzle seems to oxidize for some aswell

[cursive summit]

You mean, rust?

[near mortar]

The nozzle is not iron

[cursive summit]

Copper?

[near mortar]

Brass

So Copper and Zinc

[cursive summit]

Not sure why it wouldn't be plastic

[near mortar]

Probably more cost effective for them making it that way rather than manifacturing a plastic mold

I probably also looks more premium

[cursive summit]

I think I remember hearing Moondrop 3D prints their plastic?

[thick elk]

Also like with most moondrops they are sensitive to moisture from your ears. I have experienced that a few times, required removing the nozzle and some hot air.

[honest gull]

Anyone got any sort of entry level oled panels I should see about checking out? Probably gonna upgrade my displays next in my setup

[cursive summit]

How much are you willing to spend

OLED isn't cheap

[honest gull]

Probably like 500-600

[near mortar]

Don't bother with the cheapest LG OLED

It's very dim and the brightness adjustment is very aggressive when just browsing the web or whatnot

[honest gull]

How much should you spend as a baseline on oleds? Is 600$ enough for a good panel?

[near mortar]

Depends where you are, but i doubt you'll find anything for that cheap currenlty

[honest gull]

Yeesh

What about 1000$

[cursive summit]

Yeah OLEDs don't typically go down below 700$ at minimum

1000$ you can get top of the line panels

Perhaps even a QD-OLED

[honest gull]

So is 700$ budget?

[cursive summit]

700$ is like lowest tier for OLED last I checked the display market

[honest gull]

Man o man

[cursive summit]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C9L9MQF3

Like this one is rn 30% off

Has good reviews on Rtings, 700$

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/acer/predator-x27u-bmiipruzx

[honest gull]

That’s nice

Crazy specs

[cursive summit]

Not a QD-OLED though so, burn-in and longevity concerns

Just like with all OLEDs lol

[thick elk]

Actually using a € 250 ish oled myself.
nice portable monitor to watch tv-shows in bed. but that's an entirely different purpose.

[honest gull]

What about higher end 1440p 240hz displays

[near mortar]

There's suprisingly little amount of stuff in that specific spec

[cursive summit]

Ehh, this I guess? Lower refresh though

Philips too🤢

The good shit is at least 900$ by the looks of things

[honest gull]

Wild

https://a.co/d/1tuvktR

Over 800$

[cursive summit]

Just cause it's fast

Not worth buying

[honest gull]

I really wanna upgrade my displays but damn are top of the line panels expensive as all hell

[cursive summit]

Just get a 500$ miniled lol

[thick elk]

They could very well drop during the year as next generation panels arrive

[honest gull]

I’m using a 240hz 1080p that I eventually wanna upgrade to 1440p and my second monitor is a 1080p 75hz panel

[cursive summit]

What's your GPU

[honest gull]

4070ti

[cursive summit]

Yeah that's fine for 1440p 240ish Hz, I personally think 170 is just enough

[honest gull]

I get 240 in most games. Not all of them though (Cyberpunk intensifies💀😭)

[cursive summit]

https://www.rtings.com/discussions/sGe7Fao8yTEA_r1f/review-updates-philips-34m2c8600

Tbf that Philips QDOLED for 700$ seems fine

I don't see why 170Hz wouldn't be enough

[honest gull]

I’ll have to take a look

[digital cliff]

I hope they come down to 200-300€ at some point

like for a 240hz1440p oled thing

[cursive summit]

Well IPS did from being quite expensive

[digital cliff]

yeah

[cursive summit]

MiniLED is prolly first in line

Then OLED

And eventually MicroLED ☺️

[honest gull]

The chus were my first pair of iems. Boy did I fall down that rabbit hole

Rip wallet

[digital cliff]

I dunno the differences

[cursive summit]

If you don't have a Blessing you didn't fall down a rabbit hole

[honest gull]

We’re gonna get to the point in technology where oled is like bad and they’re gonna have an entirely new form of tech that’s superior

[cursive summit]

OLED is bad

[honest gull]

I mean in terms of how advanced the tech is

[cursive summit]

Idgaf what anyone says, a panel whose colours are expiring over time is not a good panel tech

[honest gull]

I’m just saying I’m excited to see how panels evolve

[cursive summit]

NanoIPS is better tech, miniled as well

MiniLED is just a smaller brother of MicroLED which is the real deal

[honest gull]

Still wildly expensive

[cursive summit]

MicroLED? Yes

Miniled is pretty affordable

But we might see some proper microleds maybe in gaming display factor this year in commercial market

[honest gull]

A lot more affordable than I imagined

I stand corrected

[cursive summit]

As low as 300$ish

[steep creek]

miniled blooming in dark scenes ruin the movie watching experience for me

[cursive summit]

Tbf I like high brightness so it might not be as much as a drawback for me

[steep creek]

maybe microled solves this but its far out for now

[cursive summit]

It just seems like the next big thing and I'd much rather have miniled over oled

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/yJq8Cq9LixE

its cool that the recent app screen has live app previews and not just a screenshot of the app like Android displays

[coarse cloak]

interesting

[thick elk]

I hope the on-screen keyboard at least supports modifiers, Kind of an anoying thing on the kde one, good luck effectively using it in a terminal, or just when you happened to need a key combination.

You may think you don't need it but you really do.

[jade pecan]

i have a question can u make a scroll wheel smoother less "clicky"

[thick elk]

you can probably replace the rotary encoder for one that is less clicky.

[pale sigil]

My dream is for Linux on phone that isn't shit

[wheat plume]

Gnome desktop has the best rename dialog ever 💜

I hate when you rename a file and it removes the previous name as soon as you start to type
So if you need to reference the previous name, you can't

[halcyon moss]

Android

[wheat plume]

Yeh lol

[frozen ingot]

locked down linux google style

[pale sigil]

Nu

[thick elk]

I also wish an open linux desktop to run well and be usable on a phone.
Lately feel like android is not moving in the right direction.
Making it less attractive / harder to take ownership of your device.
Pushing their own services, making task switching a lot worse.

Just take the share menu: you can no longer replace it, it thows share nearby on top, even if you don't want to use it. If you replace the default SMS app it will still show those on top.
OEM skins are a thing but I wish there were more direct ways of replacing defaults as a user.

Not to mention the horrible dependency of play services

Root helps but doesn't solve everything, because a lot of things are pretty hard-baked and would require a lot of effort to actually solve, too much for the small community that is there.

[halcyon moss]

Root unfortunately makes some apps unusable 😦

[thick elk]

It's kind of a cat and mouse, mostly works fine with play integrity fix though.

I rarely run into trouble with root, even using one app that checks for it.

(Knab)

[halcyon moss]

I always though gnome shell would. Work very well on a tablet. Seems like a phone works great as well

[empty wren]

Bank apps can be bypassed with safety net bypass

[halcyon moss]

That used to be very flaky

[empty wren]

Well it used to easier before

Just takes a bit more effort now

Such as virtually reverting to a different build number and version

Not even that complex

I do not remember though if it bypasses hardware attestation(Nevermind was a matter of making key attestation fail causing to return to basic attestation )

[astral haven]

Actually rlhf specifically has optimization pressure to make it more erratic
If it converges too much, just increase the weight of the initial compared to the rl and bam you are more erratic

[old marlin]

Still converging

[astral haven]

And the point of a llm is that it Intentionally includes some randomness, the whole theory is that you are in fact creating something new that is very similar to existing things, but just a little bit different

An llm will never make great leaps and bounds (we hope) but it's by design making minor changes to existing work

[tight narwhal]

Just bought the finalmouse ultralight x, do you all think its gonna be a good replacement for my gpx?

[cursive summit]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amds-radeon-780m-integrated-graphics-hits-315ghz-in-ryzen-7-8700g-overclocking-test-37-faster-on-average-with-igpu-and-memory-overclock

[cursive summit]

Upgrade? Lol no

More like an alternative

Mouse market is stagnant and there's no new technologies to make it any more interesting

It's all marketing and looks

[gusty kiln]

just restocked today

[cursive summit]

Ay jiggy

[gusty kiln]

like I can drive there and get it now

it's the only msrp 4080S I can get today

but giga

[cursive summit]

Come on, doesn't matter

Seems 4080S is indeed hard to find at msrp, weird

[gusty kiln]

kek yeah tbh

asus owns like the other 2 brands in some way

[cursive summit]

Seems like there's a 4080 below 1000 bucks

Prolly used, I can't see it cause Amazon filters out anything that doesn't ship to my country

If 4080 is meaningfully cheaper than the Super there's 0 reason not to get it, considering the AT BEST 3% improvements

[gusty kiln]

well the super will have the slightly improved connector guaranteed

4080 didn't sell well so who knows how many new-old stock there is

[cursive summit]

Seems like 4080s are somewhat sticking to MSRP

Which is higher than 4080S

[astral haven]

you never know with gigabyte
remember this?
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-gpu-design-details-emerge-about-pcb-cracking

[gusty kiln]

they're dead weight money at all those stores

[gusty kiln]

oh yeah, was that for both 3000/4000?

[astral haven]

yep

[gusty kiln]

ooof

maybe I'll try PNY, but 4070tiS

[astral haven]

nvidias naming smh

[gusty kiln]

I miss the days when picking gpu aib was easy

EVGA or bust

[fickle ore]

just pick one that has lowest ROR

[astral haven]

and how would you find that out lel

[fickle ore]

Pick based on history data from previous gen

[astral haven]

and how would you find that out

[astral haven]

especially consindering issues like this where they all went to ebay because they couldnt be returned

[fickle ore]

idek they post on reddit regularly about ROR from some vendors

Havent looked for a while

[broken leaf]

They ever gonna make custom straps

😭 😬 :interrobang.

[true quest]

IEM recommendations go

[astral haven]

budget go

[true quest]

any price

[astral haven]

ierz1r
chu2

[reef patrol]

Unlikely. Grab the measurements over in #🪛│modding_faq and get someone to make one for you.

[broken leaf]

Thanks 👍

[sharp badger]

E.g. EM6L, Crinacle Zero. got the CHU II and they're decent i guess

[unkempt lake]

I mean as long as he has a proper anti sag bracker or is vertically mounted he should be good

[thick elk]

revenge of the horizontal pc

[cursive summit]

Just RDNA1 things

Thanks, Radeon

[sharp badger]

What card do you have?

[cursive summit]

RDNA1

You can surmise which one

[sharp badger]

5700XT

[cursive summit]

Without the XT but yes

[sharp badger]

Oki

[cursive summit]

It's interesting, I haven't had that driver crash for a good while now

[sharp badger]

A friend had a 6800XT and he wasn't happy with it so he sent it back and got a 3080 TUF instead

[cursive summit]

Many months

In early days of RDNA1 I had them nearly daily in some titles lol

Then drivers improved so it kinda became monthly, and less frequent with more driver updates

Though RDNA1 seems just inherently faulty that they keep happening

I would pick NV over AMD, but I am not paying the premium tax

Unless Nvidia constantly price-matches AMD, I am buying the lower priced cards

[sharp badger]

Yeah, understandable

Is there any new info of Intels new GPUs?

[cursive summit]

Nope

We'll hear of RDNA4 before we hear of Battlemage

And hell knows when about Blackwell

[ashen spindle]

which makes sense since rdna4 launches first out of all of them

and bmg we just know they also killed the supposed flagship like rdna4 ironically

but thats about all

[cursive summit]

Intel had a flagship?

Well that's hype gone

Tbf GPU news are not trustable that much

[ashen spindle]

?

a product being axed is as just as likely in gpu as in cpu space

[cursive summit]

Still doubt it

Nothing is confirmed until the announcement keynote

[ashen spindle]

yeah but thats the same as any hardware

nothing special for gpus there

[wheat plume]

Hard drives are faster than I expected them to be
This is a USB one, portable

[balmy vector]

Honestly pretty good

[gusty kiln]

8TB+ HDD can go up to 250 MB/s

[ashen spindle]

is it? looks like its not even making full use of usb2

[gusty kiln]

USB 2 is like 60 MB/s max

[ashen spindle]

yea but this is MiB

[astral haven]

which is 62MB/s

[fickle ore]

Men in Black

[astral haven]

so usb2 maxes at a theoretical 57MiB/s

[gusty kiln]

still waiting for something with the capacity of HD and silent operation of flash

[astral haven]

micro sd card arrays time

[gusty kiln]

[thick elk]

There are definitely Large SSD's around, just more expensive per gb

[gusty kiln]

have they made quint-level cell flash yet?

[astral haven]

no, and actually things are moving away from qlc

you can stack more layers of tlc easier, the current highest density is pretty much a tie between qlc and tlc

[gusty kiln]

shame the flash mafia fixing the price again

[astral haven]

🤷 are they tho?

theres a balance between getting absolutely screwed and ending up with all competitors selling at a loss due to overproduction and price fixing

[sharp badger]

Storage cards
https://www.apexstoragedesign.com/apexstoragex21
https://sabrent.com/collections/memory-and-storage/products/ec-p4bf

[thick elk]

There are working demo's of PLC nand but we will not be seeing it for quite some time in practice. Considering QLC nand is already problematic.

[astral haven]

and tlc is improving a ton too

[thick elk]

Definitely, still every step up the gains are smaller and QLC still is quite far behind TLC

So before we actually go to PLC it would take quite some time.

[ashen spindle]

ah right was looking at bit not byte numbers

[thick elk]

I don't know if it's a technical limitation, but It generally feels like SSD's do not throttle all that well at higher temperatures.
VS a cpu / gpu that can adjust itself a little bit to ride the limit.

[ashen spindle]

I imagine mostly because cpus are designed around it

also you can adjust that more by lowering clocks, you cant just idk lower flash clocks

[thick elk]

I know, maybe with even more power hungry controllers we get to ones that are designed around throttling

[ashen spindle]

yeah maybe

[wheat plume]

IDK what type of audio magic Fedora Worksation does

but holy shit, the audio quality IS AMAZING

Compared to the Arch install I just came from, its incredible sounding

[ashen spindle]

so arch has broken audio you mean

[wheat plume]

not broken

just bad sounding

sounds very lifeless and dull

no substance behind it or whatever....IDK audio terms

[smoky frigate]

weird, it should sound the same

[ashen spindle]

so broken if they cant replicate how a given sound effect sounds like

[wheat plume]

they both use pipewire so yeah, theoretically should sound the same

[smoky frigate]

I used to get loads of audio bugs using WINE for a good year now, and I've fixed it only like 2 weeks ago

it was driving me nuts

[ashen spindle]

either fedora uses some audi effects so it's not showing the real audio effect or your arch was broken then

[wheat plume]

not sure. but gosh damn this sounds so fucking good

its legit no comparison to what it sounded like on Arch

same laptop, same headphones, same headphone jack

[smoky frigate]

laptop audio can be flaky, I can believe it

[wheat plume]

Im listening to the new IDLEs album RN

and fucking hell its amazing sounding on Fedora

I am using flac audio

I like flac

[smoky frigate]

next time you get weird audio like this on linux, check alsamixer, there could be some weird settings toggled by default

I have no idea why the card I have offers de-emphasis (it has not been important since the 1980s), and for some reason you can set the type of lowpass filtering it does

[sharp badger]

Spotify HiFi soon™️ (With Atmos maybe)

[wheat plume]

Spotify HiFi™️ : just an extra 15 Euro per month!

[smoky frigate]

if you ever wondered why the Quake soundtrack sounded so strong in the upper end of the frequency spectrum (example here: https://youtu.be/SFVufWdP4YI?t=242), it was mastered with pre-emphasis, which is an technique used to reduce noise on cassette tapes

[wheat plume]

oo

[smoky frigate]

it was briefly common on CDs for similar reasons but by the 1990s it was already not used anymore

but for some reason quake had it

and this 2010 sound card I have also has this feature in hardware (???)

if linux, for some reason, had this feature on by default, everything would sound muffled

and I'd be none the wiser until I checked the titanic piece of shit called alsamixer 😛

[wheat plume]

the titanic piece of shit called alsamixer

Yep .....

[smoky frigate]

cause yeah, this option is listed nowhere else...!

[wheat plume]

Oh hmmm
How do I check? Idk if I wanna
The sound is amazing and I don't want to mess with shit

[astral haven]

my hardware digital mixer doesnt even support it

[smoky frigate]

if it sounds fine, you don't need to check anything

[astral haven]

the digital resamplers that i use to feed it support it tho

[smoky frigate]

but if you want to, type alsamixer in command line, select your card with F6 and have a look with the arrow keys

[smoky frigate]

de-emphasis? some stuff is hard to die I guess

[wheat plume]

Tbh
I don't want to subject myself to alsamixer

[astral haven]

it doesnt actually change the audio, it just adds or removes the bit to signal that there is or isnt emphasis

[smoky frigate]

oic. my card does actual de-emphasis, but only if I tell it using a console application. I have never seen this feature in any windows drivers for that card, and never on any other linux sound hardware. only using this card, on this OS 😛

[astral haven]

this is a physical button lel

[wheat plume]

Why does Chrome ALWAYS OPEN at this window size??????/

I fucking hate it

[reef patrol]

We will never fucking know.

[wheat plume]

Maybe I should send a merge request to Chromium github that makes it open at a reasonable size....

cause this is stupid

[ashen spindle]

does yours not open to the last remembered position?

[reef patrol]

No. Just slightly offset.

Every - time

[smoky frigate]

for me (ubuntu, brave browser) it always remembers the position

[ashen spindle]

same on windows, always the position it was closed on

[ashen spindle]

so it opened a few pixels to the right or just completely different from last time?

[reef patrol]

It remembers this position.

[wheat plume]

nope....

this every time

[ashen spindle]

idk if thats on chrome then and not an issue with the environement or something

[wheat plume]

I thnk its Chrome

cause it happened on Plasma too, but Plasma has Window Rules feature I used to force the window to the size I want

[ashen spindle]

if it's working perfectly fine elsewhere it would make me think it's likely something else

[reef patrol]

I've had this for years across installs and hardware.

All Chrome, only Chrome.

[cursive summit]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-begins-zen5-enablement-for-gnu-compiler-collection-gcc-new-avx-instructions-added

[near mortar]

There's nothing special Fedora ships with regarding pipewire

Just the upstream from freedesktop

[cursive summit]

There's nothing special about Linux to begin with

[near mortar]

There's nothing fundamentally different from the binaries you get from Arch

The result most likely nulls to silence

[ashen spindle]

bring back the tinfoil audiophiles arguing different memcpy() makes sounds better

[smoky frigate]

new audio chips sometimes require downloading firmwares which a lean distro like arch may not ship by default

[smoky frigate]

oh god no those were the dumbest fuckers around

[near mortar]

What are you on about?
Device driver firmware is shipped with linux-firmware if necessary

[smoky frigate]

I helped someone on the arch matrix channel with a weird audio card he had, and the solution was getting some firmware from the AUR

[near mortar]

If it's proprietary neighter one will ship it by default very likely

[smoky frigate]

he then needed to crank a few things in alsamixer to get it to output. just saying, laptop audio can be fucky depending on your distro

[near mortar]

I doubt that's distro dependant

what was the package

[smoky frigate]

don't remember, and searching will take forever, I won't bother

If I run into it myself one day I'll know 😛

[near mortar]

New and improved audiophile malloc()

glibc implementation was too noisy

[smoky frigate]

I remember one guy putting a $8 doorstop on his DAC against "microvibrations" and then describing the difference it makes to his sound

[near mortar]

These guys should instead of listening to audio should just go into the industry to work as signal analyzers by themselves

If this is the level of detail they hear

[smoky frigate]

I bet they'd pick out the sounds of UFOs against distant supernovas quite easily

[near mortar]

Runs an FFT in brain and visualizes it

[ashen spindle]

only signal they could analyse would be the noise they produce

[wheat plume]

if its proprietary, Fedora aint gonna have that by default.... they only allow you to install apps from a filtered Flathub repo that removes non-free apps XD

got to manually setup the actual Flathub repo if you want non-free apps

[near mortar]

Fedora ships linux-firmware which ships unfree binaries by default

[wheat plume]

speaking of Fedora, I just got lsd XD

I love lsd!

[smoky frigate]

bon voyage

[wheat plume]

lol

[wheat plume]

🤔

im using meslo font cause it was suggested by mmy zsh theme

[smoky frigate]

zsh gives me weird errors and bullshit, I switched to fish and I love it

https://fishshell.com/

the site is in comic sans, how could anyone resist?

[wheat plume]

LOL

I used to use it for a while

install zsh-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autosuggestions and youve basically got the perks of fish

Gnome is such a pretty desktop 😍

[wheat plume]

O.o

new privacy popup ive never seen before

[smoky frigate]

that's probably due to wayland blocking it otherwise

[wheat plume]

Maybe

[wheat plume]

LOL

[near mortar]

Wayland doesn't block it, inorder to capture anything you have to access the DRM

Since all windows are just clients getting something from the compositor, which render on their own

[wheat plume]

:/

something is messing with my flameshot

[near mortar]

Use the GNOME built in screenshotter

[smoky frigate]

using print screen doesn't work?

[wheat plume]

it does but not flameshot

the default gnome screenshot tool is fucking useless

I wanna use flameshot instead

[smoky frigate]

man toilet is cool

[wheat plume]

oh, this is cool!

Thanks zsh

[near mortar]

It's not a ZSH function
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PackageKitCommandNotFound

[wheat plume]

OOOOOHHHHHH

Thanks, Fedora :D

[cursive summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8nJobY1SGM

[wheat plume]

there is a command to find th details on the audio server and I forgot what the command is ;-;

its like lx something -A

or you can use -G for graphics details

[cursive summit]

Lana just ditch Linux now that Windows is getting a sudo command

[wheat plume]

no

[cursive summit]

Become normal

[wheat plume]

never

[cursive summit]

Well that one was expected

[wheat plume]

:P

I really like Firefox's touchpad gestures <3 <3

can swipe left or right to go back and forth the pages

I FOUND THE COMMAND

inxi -A or inxi -G for grahics info

[violet cobalt]

does anyone know how to disable alt+tab alt+f4 and winkey while gaming??

[strong sundial]

for winkey that'd be fn+caps+win

on a 60he at least

[violet cobalt]

got it thanks! what about alt tab combo?

[strong sundial]

you'd have to figure out a way to do that in wootomation or something similar

at least afaik

i went the extreme route and made a profile that remaps every button (except the ones i need) to nothing

[violet cobalt]

i see, thanks!

[lethal brook]

what is the differents between the wooting 60he and the wooting 60he+

[vague needle]

A couple of mounting points being different for modders

[lethal brook]

What would you say is better for gaming

[last ravine]

same internals minus the screw in stabs

so literally no difference, both are the same minus the screw in stabs

[cursive summit]

It's...an actual phone

I was hoping it was a FiiO type media player

[old marlin]

which is almost a phone

but without a GSM module

[cursive summit]

Well this one it seems will have one

Considering all the different bands in the world, I'll be surprised if they make it work internationally

[old marlin]

if they design it fully in house I owuld be surprised

but I would not be surprised if this is a cooperation with like BBK, xiaomi or any other chinese phone company

in which case it would prob cover at least china and US bands

since those are prob the biggest markets for something like that

[cursive summit]

Can they even sell in U.S?

[rough osprey]

💀

i dont wanna see the OS

[cursive summit]

It's just going to run android, probably vanilla

Just like FiiOs do

[zenith silo]

would they even be able to sell them in the us if thats the case?

i thought the us was trying to (or did) ban the sale of chinese branded phones like xiaomi, huawei, etc

[thick elk]

Moondrops success outside iems has generally been mixed. I do not have high hopes for this.

[cursive summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNYx72Elgss

[cursive summit]

Headphones aren't bad

Cables are pretty damn good

DACs were also good iirc

[thick elk]

Joker seems pretty bad though

Dacs are not especially noteworthy from what I have seen.
You could say the same for the cables

Also the cables are mostly iem cables part of the iems which are more often great.

[cursive summit]

That's kinda their only miss

[cursive summit]

Still not bad though

Moondrop has some misses, market oversaturation even, but they don't typically release bad products

[smoky frigate]

gsmarena stopped measuring phone DACs in 2019 because they were all good, better than human hearing
if it can drive big mclargehuge headphones, then that'll be another thing. but audio quality wise, you're getting ripped off buying these

[cursive summit]

What

You've clearly never seen FiiO M series lol

[thick elk]

I think more importantly most phones removed 3.5mm making the point mute

[cursive summit]

You are telling me you can't pack leading edge audio processors in a phone?

[thick elk]

There were definitely differences between dacs that can be relevant.

mostly around driving more power-hungry headphones but in terms of distortion and not messing up the frequency response, for most users it has been a solved issue.

[cursive summit]

FiiO M17 can drive anything while having ridiculously good measurements and a "phone"

Remains to be seen what Moondrop is trying to achieve

But yeah FiiO are defo leading edge in terms of portable media playback imo

[thick elk]

Sure you can get a better measuring devices, but if the noise produced sits below what is audible it's not important for most users.
I am pretty sure the dacs on most phones are not 100% transparent but are close enough.

[digital cliff]

I'd care about portable audio more if I wasn't using TWS buds anyway

besides that, as long as they are bulky and awkward I don't know if they'll draw a crowd

[thick elk]

It's not about not caring its simply about phones 3.5mm jacks being good enough to not matter.

[cursive summit]

If Moondrop knows anything they'll be adding a balanced output

[thick elk]

Of course balanced output, driving harder to drive headphones, sure there are reasons but it's a niche case

also solved by an external dac

[cursive summit]

Also, it's a phone, a portable media device

You are not going to daisy chain a DAC and an AMP separately while going out

FiiO has pretty damn good internals comparable to those of 500$ or so DACs and AMPs

Moondrop should do the same if they are marketing towards audio people

[thick elk]

But once you are actually making a phone, you will be more constrained by practical limitations

I am also unsure how well moondrop does on the software side, as suddenly that becomes crucial

[chrome estuary]

i fuckin want one, i have absolutely no need for it but i really want it.

[smoky frigate]

sure but it'll sound the same for a 10x markup, don't get tricked

[cursive summit]

No it won't, and no it's nowhere near 10x markup

[smoky frigate]

there might be a difference in graphs, which is great if you hear with your eyes

[cursive summit]

k, keep trolling

[digital cliff]

I'm inclined to agree

doesn't matter much if DACs in most phones are already transparent

[smoky frigate]

you do with your money what you want m8, if you have convinced yourself it will sound better, it absolutely will

[digital cliff]

now if they only added good audio processing into motherboards so I could ditch my schiit stack

[cursive summit]

Gigabyte has been adding decent audio processors in their mobos

Nowhere near a stack though

[vagrant pagoda]

20c drop is amazing

Reminds me of the early gen intel core

[ashen spindle]

not a surprise since the apus aren't soldered

[thick elk]

If you want to tune an ultra compact igpu build, it seems like a good option.

[radiant wind]

Any idea where I can find these ones?

or similiar ones

[cursive summit]

On your keyboard

[radiant wind]

👁️

https://tenor.com/view/despicable-me-minion-minions-clap-clapping-gif-561643868428822739

[cursive summit]

Nice spam

[halcyon moss]

You also gave a useless answer vex

[tawdry urchin]

hey i need help

so like

i upated my smart game booster on steam for audio

and like now whenever I join vc wit ppl i cant hear them but they can hear me

how do i fix tht?

[ashen spindle]

your what on steam

[tawdry urchin]

this

[ashen spindle]

well for starters uninstall that and never pay money for such scams

[smoky frigate]

that's very probably snake oil lol

[ashen spindle]

at best it's snake oil or maybe enables something like PBO, at worst that makes your pc unstable

[cursive summit]

Nah it was just the expected answer

[pale sigil]

It seems that apple use USB c for their apple watch chargers now?

[tawdry urchin]

it's free

also i got my problem fixed

[ashen spindle]

ok thats good but still, uninstall it

[steep creek]

yea for quite some time now

[pale sigil]

Well, that's a pita for me xd

[ashen spindle]

anything these tools do that could be actually good is better to do manually or have someone help you with it, because then you dont break anything

[pale sigil]

Inside us a USB a port

So that you can only need one wire for the whole thing

[steep creek]

oh that sucks

[pale sigil]

I can buy one of those little adapters prob

[steep creek]

well i guess you can pick up type a but you will be missing out on fast charging

or that yea

[pale sigil]

Does the watch even have fast charge

Btw I wish this was mine but I have android so I've never been able to get one

[steep creek]

yea it does but i think only series 7 and above

[cursive summit]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-7800-xt-available-at-e499-in-germany-rx-7900-at-e699

499 is alright, I would prolly rather buy the GRE if it's similarly priced

699 is good pricing for EU but I just wish it was 599

Fuckin mindfactory though doesn't ship to EU which is very annoying

[valid forge]

do i need to have a mixer to use IEMS?

[smoky frigate]

no

you need nothing special to drive an IEM

[valid forge]

okay okay

because i buyed this

https://i.imgur.com/FDzzoQi.png

[smoky frigate]

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/truthear-x-crinacle-zero-iem-review.37380/

these measure amazing for 50bux

audiophiles will find reasons to dislike them to justify the 600bux they spent on their equivalent sounding products lol

[valid forge]

they are going to be my first iems

[cursive summit]

Good stuff for less than a fiddy

[cursive summit]

BuT mUh MeAsuRemeNtS DoN'T MatTeR!

cme?

Sounds useless

Anyways I hate IEMs in general

My 70$ Hexas are less detailed than my 100$ Melomania Touch TWS

[dull axle]

I run the moondrop Kato's

IEM's are nice to have Good to run thru for gaming or anything related

[cursive summit]

So I am kinda just done with in-ears and going to run headphones from now on

Headphones absolutely destroy IEMs in sound quality

[dull axle]

Dude You've missed out on the last remaining Sennheiser stuff

from EPOS

They've alrdy exited out the market if you want to game on it ig

[cursive summit]

Are you talking to me?

[dull axle]

Aye

[cursive summit]

I have no interest in headsets

I already have good open cans

[dull axle]

O nice

[cursive summit]

Looking for something like Audeze Maxwells for closed backs to replace my TWS

[dull axle]

I was going to say the old EPOS sennheiser H6pro's are closed and have a open back variant

And ive not tried audeze i hope theyre good tho if i ever get'em

I was looking into AT for the M50's

Oh the custom molded IEM stuff

[dull axle]

Let me know if theyre any good tho i might replace my EPOS sennheiser H6pro once its busted

[smoky frigate]

that looks like it would pull a lot of the gunk out of you ear, nice

[dull axle]

Na its silicone so it isnt as messy

But the left over residue is going to be a bit hard to clean esp after molding

^

Ye

Its usually like that but you're going to get used to it in like a second

Ig for my case it happens, since ive removed my ear wax weekly since they melt instnatly

[smoky frigate]

I don't have IEMs but I am considering getting the truthears linked above, I doubt that you can find anything comparable for the price in the foreseeable future

[dull axle]

instantly*

[dull axle]

TruthEar's are not bad

But from what i hear the origin's top

Kato's and TruthEar's

[smoky frigate]

I dunno, are they more accurate? if a product markets itself as a monitor, I only care about how well it measures

[dull axle]

Ye thats what i meant

As well

ina way

[dull axle]

It depends on what model

ima take a look at the truthear's tho that its linked

[dull axle]

Cuzz for my case i find the Kato's audio very

Accurate

Esp with a Amp from them

https://moondroplab.com/en/products/kato

O and you can turn on mentions for me

Cuz i am constantly switching servers looking at messages to reply too

Welp idk, cuz i dont own any TruthEar's

[smoky frigate]

seems to be pretty good, but doesn't look like it beats the truthears for price/performance

[dull axle]

Then ig its your answer then

[cursive summit]

Katos are okay

Very ugly FR graph

[smoky frigate]

overall more accurate than the truthears

[cursive summit]

Tf do you mean accurate

It just has a massive bass shelf and elevated treble

Basshead IEMs

It looks shit tbf but Katos don't look good either

[smoky frigate]

more accurate, not accurate...

reading comprehension

[sharp badger]

No Maxwells tested there yet 👀

[cursive summit]

There's no such thing as accurate lol

Accurate according to what

[cursive summit]

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/audeze/maxwell-wireless?

They're great

Lack of soundstage seems a bit sad though, I am an airhead

[smoky frigate]

the closer they are to frequency response curve, the more accurate they are

this is why you measure them

[cursive summit]

You know that targets are different?

And up to preference?

[smoky frigate]

oh lol it even says right there, preference. looks like I was wrong

[cursive summit]

Imo Hexas sound okay, they just really lack soundstage

Not much bass, mids shine

But everything just sounds congested

I would be amazed if there's an IEM with the airiness of an open back set of cans

[sharp badger]

Eh i've been happy with the Maxwells

[cursive summit]

Wait you have them?

[sharp badger]

I sometimes have to remove one of the earcups to hear if the sound was from the room or in the song

[cursive summit]

Iirc you had... Sennheiser HD800?

Or was that Dag

[sharp badger]

No Dag i guess

[cursive summit]

Ah

Anything open back you have to compare the soundstage to?

[sharp badger]

I've got the K550MKII and Maxwells so not really

[cursive summit]

There's not a single place in the whole country that has them for tryouts, and I am against buying electronics I potentially might dislike

Cause, well, it's against the law to return them lol

[sharp badger]

Ah ok would be good to find someplace to test them then somehow 😅

Didn't try them before buying but i've been very happy with them

[steep creek]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQR4mY7uwRY

faster in reverse than some cars are going forward, lol

[cursive summit]

Better purchase than anything Tesla can release

Albeit at what, 10x the cost of a Model X?

Oh damn it's 2.44 million

So, about 30x

[zenith silo]

I love seeing people compare ice cars to Tesla's like, "a TeSlA iS fAsTEr"

Nobody fucking cares timmy

[cursive summit]

Nobody asked

[cursive summit]

Car's really quiet though

[zenith silo]

Third pedal makes dopamine go brrrrrrr

[cursive summit]

But spins like a turbine

[steep creek]

price wise its probably fairer to compare the taycan or maybe eqs, but rimac is faster than them all pretty sure

yea its really quiet

[frozen ingot]

people argue this point as if every road on earth was one straight line

like yeah it might be a rocket ship in a straight line but in tight twisty corners its a 2,5 ton whale of a thing

[steep creek]

ahah, beats it in the ring as well as charging, thing charges so quick

https://youtu.be/oyLWLtSwZlI?si=qD3akO8CMZ2P6J_u&t=421

at 7:05 ish you can see the hydraulics, makes our buses look like snails in comparasion lol

delivers 20 kwh over 4 minutes

[wheat plume]

does anyone here know the command to launch the new Gnome desktop console app?

its just called "Console" in the menu and idk what command is actually used to run it

gnome-terminal is the old one and gnome-console does nothing

this one....

🤔 apparently its kgx

UGH

[pine oyster]

anyone can help me?

need to choose the correct usb-c socket for 60HE

thinking of re soldering the original one

[velvet radish]

I have Hexas what are some good suggestions I can upgrade to

Open ear is good too

[cursive summit]

Uh, normal headphones?

Hexas I heard are mini-Blessings in terms of IEMs

So if you want some good IEMs get Blessing3s

[pale sigil]

3d printing fun

[little valley]

any chance somone has some clue bout veeam?

[final flame]

never really going to get "real" soundstage from a iem anyways

and in many ways soundstage is a result of tuning mostly

[final flame]

blessing 3 has less overall bass and it's overall tilted differently compared to the hexa which makes it sound like has even less bass in comparison
I would wait on the dusk variant for the b3

[final flame]

budget?

[warped gull]

Not really a flex consdering the chassis of a Taycan vs a Plaid. And as far as charging speeds, where are you actually going to get those speeds outside of NACS?

[pale sigil]

It came out so good

And its genuinely strong

[sharp badger]

https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-strengthens-rtx-40-board-design-amid-pcb-cracking-issues

[unkempt lake]

And they dont honor warranty for their previous customers

Scummy

[mild dome]

The fact they redesigned the board probably opens them up to liability as it's a subtle admission that the problem does exist

[final flame]

The world if EVGA still made gpu's

https://tenor.com/view/the-fifth-element-flying-cars-city-new-york-city-gif-6889407961196363621

[mild dome]

Nvidia couldn't handle their power

[sharp badger]

Weren't there other GPUs that cracked? Also more companies are scummy with warranties

[sharp badger]

Comparing the 4080 vs 4080S the latter looks better on the Videocardz link

4080 vs 4080S

[mild dome]

The US needs to go to bat for their consumers more, companies dont pull this shit so often in Oz thanks to the ACCC slapping them around for this shit

[steep creek]

Possible but not that common as of today, ionity charging network supports up to 350 kw

[frozen ingot]

its just business as usual for gigabyte

[umbral heron]

I see zip tie has been deployed

Kinda makes sense though, way less strain on PCB with flat connector

[velvet radish]

Under $400

Headphones/IEM idc

I currently have sennheiser momentum 4, apple airpod pro, and truthear hexas

[jade phoenix]

Guys i need a good 1080p 240+hz monitor for 300-400cad range can anyone help

1ms response time too

[velvet radish]

https://a.co/d/3RDihVJ

same extreme low motion blur panel as the ASUS ROG monitors

[jade phoenix]

Bless bro preciate it

Is ghosting good on it i assume it is i dont really care to much if not

Im actually bout to kms, why is this cheaper than the 180 hz monitor i got, its so over

[velvet radish]

Bc its koorui

I have the 1440p monitor from them

[jade phoenix]

If koorui is cheap then i might see of they have 1080 360hz then

[cursive summit]

They don't iirc

[velvet radish]

Only problem I have is the VESA mount is annoying and if you play fps games it’s hard to get your face close to the monitor with the stock stand

[cursive summit]

Koorui is a panel manufacturer, that's why they are incredibly cheap

[jade phoenix]

Prolly just gonna use the stand i have on my current monitor

[zenith silo]

27 inch 1080p

[velvet radish]

I have the worst recommendation ever it seems

[zenith silo]

27 inch 1080p looks like shit

That's all

[ashen spindle]

#🐸│memes

[frozen ingot]

1080p banned in 2024

[halcyon moss]

only 720p

[ashen spindle]

https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-cuda-zluda

[crimson wigeon]

Neat

[umbral heron]

I mean, I can see why AMD on one side likes this project - it allows to run CUDA on Radeon after all - but on the other they want to push ROCm adoption, and CUDA being standard for everyone certainly wouldn't help

[ashen spindle]

the project is abandoned lol thats why its open now

[umbral heron]

Sure, but that's most likely why AMD decided to drop supporting it

[ashen spindle]

yeah probably

[final flame]

Yea for that budget I would reccomend a HD6xx or 650 and get a dawn pro or something similar

[pale sigil]

Hd6xx I can recommend

Best headphones I ever bought, however my AKG K612 Pros were fantastic too

[fair gull]

https://tenor.com/view/rick-roll-gif-25363094

[cursive summit]

Try the Aune AR5000

[pale sigil]

Don't trust vex

[cursive summit]

Punches away above their weight, easy to run unlike 6XX which require some kind of dongle at very least

[cursive summit]

Don't trust this lad either

[pale sigil]

The only decent thing he's ever said was his love for akg

[cursive summit]

6XX have issues, they are not flawless

[pale sigil]

Didn't say they were flawless

They are also quite cheap tbf

[cursive summit]

Their tonality is good

Their drivers are pretty not bad for dynamic drivers

But man are they also just clustered

No airiness, mid soundstage

[digital cliff]

I disliked the sennies fwiw

[cursive summit]

The new Aunes look really damn good, fancy, electrostat sound

Also HD6XX you will need at least basic amplification

[fair gull]

i just bought an orchestra as my new soundsystem

[cursive summit]

Meanwhile, Aunes get driven by 3.5mm jacks from phones cause they have IEM levels of sensitivity

[pale sigil]

[cursive summit]

Shite trash

[pale sigil]

Ik you love Samsung's dongle

[cursive summit]

What

I hate the samsung dongle

It's the opposite of good

[pale sigil]

Maybe I'm getting mixed up with someone else

[cursive summit]

But it being shite actually made my ex-headphones actually sound good

NDH20s are so fucking muddy, so fucking bassy that the samsung dongle being actual trash made them underfed and nowhere near as muddy

Shite dongle made shite headphones sound acceptable lol

But I sold those off so fuck them

[pale sigil]

Fair enough

I want an amp/dac again but the one I want is never in stock

[cursive summit]

I do genuinely wonder if NDH30 sound alright

I heard they found some fans with the open back variant

But man do I hate Neumanns prefered sound signature, it's just so bloated

[pale sigil]

Tbh

I feel like I'm never going to get the sound I want without spending a fortune.

For example I loved my m50x headphones for some things but overall tbh are shit compared for my hd6xx

[cursive summit]

They look quite neutral

Lol unironically similar to Maxwells

Bit bassier but that's easily fixable with +5db EQ on the low

[astral haven]

i recommend iems

very cheap and a ton of sound signature options

[velvet radish]

I have a scarlett audio interface should I go for the HD6xx or the Aune?

[cursive summit]

I mean, what are your audio preferences

Do you like bass?

Do you listen to hip hop/R&B or classical music

Like, headphones all have their own little soul, some are bassy and do great with rap and stuff, others are more boring, neutral, but shine with music that's instrumental

Sennheisers are fun to listen to, Aune would be more neutral and less bassy but instruments would prolly shine more

And you should prolly run HD6XX just fine off a Scarlett

[pale sigil]

Can confirm

I don't use mine anymore but it did indeed work.

[final flame]

6xx overall has a pleasant (heh) sound signature for the vast majority of people

lacks subbass but that's basically the only main issue people have with it's tuning

[pale sigil]

That is indeed true

[cursive summit]

Imo best purchase is the one with the better driver

Signatures are fixable with EQ

Aune has a really damn good driver

Electrostat-like

[final flame]

not everybody is willing to go through and eq something to their exact taste
if that was the case everybody would just get planars that's end of story

[cursive summit]

I actually dislike planars lol

Normal drivers are better for me than planars

[final flame]

planars are one of the best options to use when eqing due to low distortion

[cursive summit]

I like my AKG stock tuning and the driver performance is pleasant

I do hear some technical issues where they do struggle sometimes, which kinda surprise me that my ears can catch that

But I had some time with Hifimans and boy are they just worse than my AKGs lol

[final flame]

I run my 6xx and Clears stock 95% of the time
both have their own traits which I like

[cursive summit]

I'm kind of in the camp of people of "if you listen to it, and don't like it at first listen, it's not for you"

Why would I "burn in" my ears to just trick my brain into liking something I don't like at first listen

Liked the K702s at first listen, they were different to K371s I used at the time, but they were familiar enough to stick with them and my ears adjusted soon enough and I've been happy since

Hifimans just sounded completely ass

[final flame]

what was the issue of them specifically if you remember? the treble?

or just overall tonality

[cursive summit]

They sounded distant

Not intimate or anything, just distant and boring

[astral haven]

the positive word for distant is large soundstage
and the positive word for boring is neutral

[cursive summit]

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24070426/microsoft-windows-11-dlss-ai-super-resolution-feature

Piss off, I don't want to care for your shite 11 yet you are really trying hard to make me to

So, HDR improvements?

[final flame]

heh
if only

talk about this dogshit interface and how color management profiles work in windows

[astral haven]

fyi there is a new interface its just rare that it works

[final flame]

the issue is less the interface and more how windows actually applies the color management

it's not done globally, only added to "color managed applications"
and for whatever reason it's able to be screenshotted

[astral haven]

with icc color management sure
but the new color management is universal and hardware level

[smoky frigate]

switching between the color profile from the winders driver and "automatic" I can't see a difference

[final flame]

so if you run any kind of color management profile, your screenshots and screencaptures pick it up

[astral haven]

no

[astral haven]

only via this interface

[final flame]

and lemme guess the new interface is only in windows 11

[astral haven]

yes?

but also the shit interface still exists

its a new system to 11

its actually not that easy, youve gotta give apple credit for making colors actually work, because the standards for different parts of the chain are all different, and conversion without slowdown is hard

[smoky frigate]

pretty fuccin nutz that according to the screenshot, it appears to be working on wine too

For reasons unknown to me, AMD decided this year to discontinue funding the effort and not release it as any software product. But the good news was that there was a clause in case of this eventuality: Janik could open-source the work if/when the contract ended.

[astral haven]

thats pretty solid
still gets smoked by optix, but optix isnt perfect

https://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=radeon-cuda-zluda&image=radeon_cuda_7
and the performance is really all over the place lol

[smoky frigate]

so.. they pay someone for 2 years to make a CUDA replacement, stop the funding, and then go "you can release this as open source if you want lawl"

sneaky AMD

[astral haven]

their lawyers probably were like holy smokes we do not want to be involved with this, how can we make it not our fault

[smoky frigate]

maybe. but lolyers probably wouldn't want it released at all. I would guess this is AMD's sneaky way to hurt the competition and help its bottom line without officially releasing a product. I like it

[astral haven]

amd has pretty chill lawyers

at least as far as i can tell

[ashen spindle]

its more likely it was a backup plan if the rocm6 development wasnt going to work out

[astral haven]

sure but it was a backup plan because nvidia probably would not have been happy

[smoky frigate]

it's the smarter move for sure

[ashen spindle]

not nvidia but also amd would prefer to have their own and not have to rely on cuda for mi series

[astral haven]

definetly

[cursive summit]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-8000-Hawk-Point-in-testing-Zen4-refresh-outperforms-Meteor-Lake-in-number-crunching-and-GPU-perfromance.802637.0.html

[warped gull]

Exactly my point. Though Taycan is first to 800v Architecture , they definitely dont have the charging network to support it. NACS expansion and advancement will only accelerate due to other manufacturers adopting the standard. CT also on 800v architecture, and I'm betting the rest of the fleet will be following soon.

[steep creek]

Yeah I guess this applies to you because of nacs, here we use ccs typically though so it’s a bit different. Regardless you’re right that not every charger over here is able to output 320 kw, most do between 100-250 ish but can’t remember right now

[warped gull]

EU? Just hope they adapt the standard. Porsche themselves have stated they will switch to NACS in 2025.

[steep creek]

norway

[astral haven]

but cybertruck split packs to charge at "400v"

[steep creek]

yea would be nice with a standardized charging port

[astral haven]

and as of today tesla has zero of the gen 4 supercharger cabinets that support 800v

many 800v cars cant split pack, and thus have very slow 400v charging

[warped gull]

Maybe today yea, cause the CT has only begun to hit the streets, who do you think will be first to put out the widest coverage and support of 800v? And have you seen the CT's charging curves?

[astral haven]

EA, and yes they are painful

EA alone

everyone else besides ea combined

[warped gull]

Yeah so what does it even matter, you have wide coverage that has higher downtime and malfunctions VS NACS, and most can't even accomplish quick charging speeds?

EA is a joke.

[astral haven]

🤷 my parents car also has never failed to charge at an ea, and the 1 time they didnt get fast charging speeds, they plugged in at 60%

does ea need better service?
yes
does ea need a better app?
yes

[warped gull]

You can have 800v architecture all you want, but are you on a widely reliable standard that can actually support it is the big question.

[astral haven]

does it work for most people?
yes

[astral haven]

what standard

[warped gull]

NACS