🔌│tech

[ashen spindle]

Because 99% of people saying they like or want cuda support never used it

[vagrant pagoda]

I mean loads of productivity apps use cuda

[marsh glade]

Well he cuda used it, you don't know

[ashen spindle]

yeah but most people who say they like cuda dont even know what tools actualyl use cuda and would be better lol its such a vague concept for some people

like a "ah yes cuda, the thing that only works on nvidia so its a plus point" and nothing specific

[vagrant pagoda]

Yeah but the number of people that use cuda vs number that uses opencl is not even close XD

[ashen spindle]

yeah but using it doesnt mean its actually a limitation or exclusivity

[vagrant pagoda]

Also with all the AI images stuff, loads more people using cuda

[analog sinew]

cuda wuda shuda

[pale sigil]

Aren't they used for AI?

And I've edited videos, does that count?

And played around in unreal engine

[nimble arch]

Skype is getting shutdown this year, apparently.

[crimson wigeon]

Good riddance

[ashen spindle]

and all of that works perfectly fine without cuda, its just calling cuda code on nvidia vs HIP or rocm or whatever on amd

and like unreal is made to work on consoles, do you think they would use mandatory cuda code when every consoles is amd based

[whole axle]

9070xt with 16gb is sadge

[nimble arch]

https://x.com/Skype/status/1895477868261412953

Skype (@Skype) on X

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[ashen spindle]

I mean you're not going to make use of more than 16gb in that performance tier really

[whole axle]

True

Just saw a thing of a 32gb version

Tho I doubted that very much

[ashen spindle]

workstation card or something later down the line probably

[whole axle]

Makes sense

Unf they didn’t do higher tier cards

9070xt will be my next upgrade tho

Nvidia is in shambles

[stray jacinth]

Yeah didn't expect it but I guess I'm staying with AMD

[whole axle]

Only thing I’m even remotely caring about for Nvidia is reflex 2

Gotta see that in action

[stray jacinth]

Price is good. They improved the feature set I was looking at. So I'm excited now.

[whole axle]

I hope they do a like surprise high end card for when these cards to extremely well

Just for another f u to nvidia

[ashen spindle]

not this generation

[whole axle]

Ik

Hence surprise

[ashen spindle]

nah supply chain too big for that to not be leaked or rumoured at any point

[whole axle]

True

[stray jacinth]

9070 XT3D

XD

[whole axle]

Well RDNA 5, fsr 5, 10090xt

[ashen spindle]

so anyway in an unrelated note, sup

[reef patrol]

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-killing-skype/

Holy - Shit

[rough osprey]

rip

[ashen spindle]

today mansen is the slowpoke for a change

[reef patrol]

Ah gosh darn it. Someone beat me to it. I am the recycler

[vagrant pagoda]

So they merged msn/live and Skype, but not it's dieing, is teams the only replacement?

[nimble arch]

♻️

[cursive summit]

Finally, it can fuck off

[vagrant pagoda]

Eewwwww

Sapphire has a 9070xt nitro with a 12vhpwr

[steady sail]

a few variants has 12vhpwr

[rough osprey]

best connector

[steady sail]

i mean we have to see how AMD/AIB used the connector and actuall tests

[unkempt lake]

You were right i was a doomer

[digital cliff]

what happen

[ashen spindle]

9070xt msrp is 599

[wind parrot]

amd cards this year zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[vagrant pagoda]

So given how bad the 50 launch was

How many minutes of 9070 stock dose it take for it not to be a paper launch?

Like 5?

[ashen spindle]

Well there has been stock since like CES or earlier at retailers

[wind parrot]

either way, they will go out of stock and scalpers will re sell them with extreme markups

unless they make so many that it will not go out of stock

but i doubt that

[steady sail]

amd might have a bigger stock then nivea

[vagrant pagoda]

But at $600 it's gonna sell very well

So idk how long it will stay in stock launch day

[wind parrot]

"$600" lol

[vagrant pagoda]

If anyone can get cards at MSRP it's amd

They are famous for dropping the price a few months after launch too

[wind parrot]

thats true, but im not waiting a few months

[ashen spindle]

I mean even if it’s not msrp, look at 50 series pricing lmfao

[vagrant pagoda]

XD

Yeah even 700-800 wouldny be bad if it's 4080 speed

[ashen spindle]

5070ti is like 300-450 above msrp here

So it starts at 1180€ instead of 850

[vagrant pagoda]

The leaks in China look like a ton of msrp models

[ashen spindle]

Models yes but how many retailers that will sell at msrp xD

[analog sinew]

when do reviews go up?

[whole axle]

What brand made the best AMD cards? Xfx, sapphire?

[balmy vector]

When i finish eating this 9070xt

[misty matrix]

sapp

[balmy vector]

Taste testing

[analog sinew]

ooh okay

👍

[whole axle]

Who tf….

[misty matrix]

hire

[whole axle]

I think I’m the dumb one here

Idk

[misty matrix]

sapphire

[vagrant pagoda]

Sapphire is to amd what pny is to nvidia

They made the reference stuff for a long long time

[wind parrot]

i miss EVGA

[whole axle]

Pny?

[wind parrot]

sat here with my EVGA 3080 ftw3

[whole axle]

They are terrible no?

[wind parrot]

wish they still made cards

[vagrant pagoda]

PNY made all of Nvidias reference and quadros for ages

[whole axle]

Ah

Idk I heard they weren’t good

I’ve just been getting xfx

Might switch it up this year based on reviews and performance

I did hear sapphire was regarded the best

[vagrant pagoda]

Sapphire also makes high end stuff

PNY has only made ref/mid stuff

There was talk about kingpin going to pny but that didn't pan out

[whole axle]

So sapphire was probably the best brand for AMD then?

[vagrant pagoda]

Nvidia brought all of the ref stuff in house and made it founders

Generally sapphire and xfx make the best amd stuff

[whole axle]

Gotcha

The magnetic air xfx looks so dope

Unless sapphire is better performance wise I’ll probably get that

[sudden imp]

The sapphire nitro cards look so clean

I do wish they made more mono looking cards like pure white and black

[whole axle]

Pure black would be peak

[sudden imp]

frame gen on fsr4 and dlss seem pretty similar now and I don’t really see the benefit in competitive games

Maybe story games but I’m not that fussed by frames in story games though

[whole axle]

At least for me

My cp77 and wukong feel a lot better with more frames

[wind parrot]

140+ fps mandatory in every game i play

especially since i just ordered a qd oled 360hz

[whole axle]

^

Yeah I’m getting a 500hz oled later this year

[wind parrot]

probably gonna be more like 240 fps mandatory now

[wind parrot]

sweet

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08HLRSNS3?ref=ppx_pt2_dt_b_prod_image i went with this one as itll do the job + i want a monitor dot for games

[balmy vector]

as long as i get 60+ fps in my story/slower paced games im fine

[wind parrot]

i dont want to run an external program for a monitor dot

[whole axle]

W

[sudden imp]

If a modern class gpu can’t run a comp game like csgo or marvel rivals ant atleast 140 id demand my money back

[wind parrot]

i mean we were talking about story games, if its comp games i want at least 500+

[steady sail]

im happy with 240 xD

[wind parrot]

each to their own

[steady sail]

like im not gonna be better with a 500+hz monitor xd

[wind parrot]

i use to play csgo at like 20 fps back in the day so i like my frames

[wind parrot]

you will see the enemy quicker tho

[balmy vector]

Gotta be 10,000hz minimum

[steady sail]

and ?

[wind parrot]

if you have like a 150 ms reaction time it might matter

click their head faster

[steady sail]

cool i guess i dont care xD

[balmy vector]

Not true gaming until you got 1,000 hz monitor for roller coaster tycoon

[wind parrot]

trueeeeeeeee

[steady sail]

i mean u might see them faster but there is still a chance that i would miss the shots still soo i dont see the reason to get a stupid high hz monitor

[wind parrot]

yeah you dont need a 500hz monitor

165 will be just fine

or a 144

[steady sail]

no one needs 500hz at all xd

[wind parrot]

its just a nice to have tho

[steady sail]

a good waste of money LOL

[wind parrot]

i mean

what is money if not to be spent

[balmy vector]

to be eaten

[wind parrot]

afraid you cant eat plastic

[balmy vector]

we do already

[wind parrot]

yeah

micro, not major like money

[balmy vector]

no we got macros too

[wind parrot]

and macros

even nanos

[balmy vector]

very tasty stuff

[wind parrot]

NANOMACHINES SON

[balmy vector]

STANDING HERE

I REALIZE

[vagrant pagoda]

What's your csgo rank then?

[wind parrot]

csgo is dead, cs2 its like 27k ish just pissing about in premier

[vagrant pagoda]

At 27k 500 fps isn't gonna make you any better

[steady sail]

i mean most monitors at CS touneys are 240hz and thats it

[old marlin]

they were because 360hz used to suck

so they are hesistant with faster ones

they switched to 360hz only with the zowie XL2566K afaik

[steady sail]

than that

idk i dont follow cs

[old marlin]

same

but I know they love zowie/benq

and that 360hz (used to) suck

[wind parrot]

i never said higher fps = better

and i dont play cs2 daily all day in tournaments etc

i just piss about in it for a few weeks out of the year

bad game

[gusty kiln]

so how we feeling about the AMD presentation?

[steady sail]

its not bad not great

[ashen spindle]

It’s good, missing ROCm day1 support and no halo tier

[gusty kiln]

it is funny how mid tier suddenly became mid-high end

[gusty kiln]

is rdna 4 on monolith only a stop gap?

[astral haven]

295x2 had 2 512b interfaces

[unkempt lake]

295x2 was just... wierdly awesome

I miss wacky shit like that

[gusty kiln]

the fury cards were fun

everyone wanted the nano

[ashen spindle]

Yes. They have enough experience to make it work, it’s just a matter of how big do they want to go/what resource for packaging so they get/what does management allow

[gusty kiln]

i only ask cuz monolith usually idles better

[ashen spindle]

Not really

See arrow lake

Or strix halo

Cost/skill issue not from chiplet

[astral haven]

halo doesnt idle that well tho...

[ashen spindle]

It can go down to like 1w and isn’t made for it.

Not perfect but it’s in the area if not really making a difference if you design for it

[astral haven]

when sleeping lol

1w total system power on the intel evo spec also includes the screen...

[ashen spindle]

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-founders-edition/43.html

Look at idle here

Rdna3 has issues with multi monitor but those don’t come from chiplet design

So for idle alone it’s not an issue to not be monolithic

[gusty kiln]

either way I do wana own an AMD gpu for once lol

but only if it can 2X my 4070ti super

[astral haven]

Comparing GPU with 32gb of 1.8TB/s memory to 256b at 16gb and being less than double is pretty impressive

[ashen spindle]

yes, hence the point being monolithic isnt a big factor when vram matters so much more for example xD

also after b580 did much better than expected intel managment supposedly was shown the "we told you so" card from the engineers and I hope the same happens at amd so both companies make bigger gpus

[unkempt lake]

That was fixed a while back in a driver update

[ashen spindle]

no

[unkempt lake]

I mean it used to be like

Way worse idle wise

[ashen spindle]

never disputed that?

[unkempt lake]

but one thing

I don't ger the whole omg idle power matters so much

Most people run wallpaper engine or apps like that anyways

Which well will lead to it never being really idle

[ashen spindle]

not to mention they even put multi monitor setup as an improvement onto the rdna4 slides so its not like amd werent aware of that being an issue still xD

[unkempt lake]

I don't get why people csre in the first place tho

Like

[ashen spindle]

because its added cost, added heat, added fan noise and plenty people use desktop time aka not full gpu load but more closer to idle

if its idle or 10% load is still a massive difference if the base idle is 10W ot 50W

[unkempt lake]

card can easily run at 0 rpm...?

Cost... i mean it's fairly small and if you're buying an expensive gpu and worry about small electricity costs then maybe you should like... not buy a gpu right now

[ashen spindle]

"you spend a lot so you shouldnt care about spending even more" is such a wrong take

[gusty kiln]

for me it's mostly about the heat generation

10w vs 50w is huge over time

[ashen spindle]

im not saying the power bill is killing someones income but more money paid is more money paid

[unkempt lake]

I live in a cold ass country

So to me i really don't mind

[digital cliff]

mmmm, ass country

where can I find that?

[ashen spindle]

I don't really mind it here so I dont get why people dislike it elsewhere
is how that reads tbh

[unkempt lake]

Oh i get how it may be annoying elsewhere

[ashen spindle]

so how is it then hard to understand that people care about it

[unkempt lake]

But people could always idk

Open a window

?

[ashen spindle]

mh yes I love open my window when its 40C outside so my 30C room thats getting heated up by the gpu just heats up even faster

like what

[digital cliff]

on my way

[unkempt lake]

commit live in a colder country

[digital cliff]

me when it's never 24°C+ in room

[unkempt lake]

or a country with cheap electricity

or a country with ac

or a country with all of the above

[ashen spindle]

yes I surely will do that instead of just caring about idle power on my gpu

[digital cliff]

yes let me just move

[unkempt lake]

its super easy

you take your little legs and walk

[digital cliff]

be sure to move to ass country if you're going to though

[unkempt lake]

me running a 7900xtx and a 2080 rig at once

in the same room

My place doesn't have an indoor tennis court

[ashen spindle]

maybe you should move to a country where the places have indoor tennis courts

[unkempt lake]

I don't need to

I can open a window

:D

[ashen spindle]

I dont get it why wouldnt you just move

[unkempt lake]

You realize i was doing a haha funny earlier

Right

[balmy vector]

I dont think ass country would be the coldest

[digital cliff]

well not really because you've had those tier of takes unironically before

[balmy vector]

Be pretty warm

[ashen spindle]

yeah there was 0 indication it was supposed to be a joke lol

[digital cliff]

yeah not to mention just in general a great place to be

[unkempt lake]

That's the funny thing about talking to me

[digital cliff]

I mean who doesn't love ass

[unkempt lake]

You can't figure out if it's a joke or not

[ashen spindle]

no thats just an annoying and not at all funny thing when talking about normal topics

[unkempt lake]

:)

I may have some odd takes sometimes you couldn't figure out that "y dont you just move" was a joke then i really think you have bad critical thinking skills

Like

It's ridiculous... on purpose

[leaden kiln]

was the stuff you said just before also silly on purpose?

[unkempt lake]

Some yes some no

Do i have to add /s and /j to everything i type jeez

[ashen spindle]

yeah see there is a difference between going "why do people care about heat just move to the artic" which is an obvious joke and going like 1 level higher each time where you cant be sure if its serious or a joke

so if I think you genuinely do not understand how it could matter for people in other places, the assumption "people should just move/change something" isnt far off

[unkempt lake]

The only thing I was serious about in this whole talk was

#🔌│tech message this

[digital cliff]

yeah the issue is you didn't set a tone or make it apparent through contradiction/dichotomy that one thing is a joke and another is not

being deadpan and half being a joke and half not and expecting people to get it is unreasonable

[unkempt lake]

it's just fun watching you all squirm and get confused i'm sorry

[digital cliff]

it didn't land, take the L and move on

happens

[unkempt lake]

Also i've been in here for over a year how haven't you guys picked up on this yet

[vagrant pagoda]

you like squriming because youre a snake?

[unkempt lake]

https://tenor.com/view/snake-dance-wiggle-smug-gif-12321950992802521634

[ashen spindle]

because its not possible to pick up when the supposed joke isn't clear until 5 layers deeper

[vagrant pagoda]

damn scalies ruin everything

[ashen spindle]

like I still dont know which part was starting not being serious anymore

[unkempt lake]

yes

ok quin

[vagrant pagoda]

perfect

[unkempt lake]

just... question everything

Ez

[balmy vector]

Ok but what makes ass country so great

[ashen spindle]

no I'll just not reply and not try to be helpful anymore so I dont waste my time xD

[unkempt lake]

my ass

[balmy vector]

You’re a snake

Theres nothing there

[unkempt lake]

Come on don't be boring like that take a chill pill and laugh a little

[unkempt lake]

are you sure about that chief

[balmy vector]

For a snake, yes

[unkempt lake]

if snakes don't have an ass then how do they poop

explain that

checkmate

[vagrant pagoda]

i must refrain from answering so i dont get banned.

[unkempt lake]

dashi wins fatality

https://tenor.com/view/mortal-kombat-gif-13069212326083661143

[bright briar]

i heard amd gpu is guuuud

[unkempt lake]

Yessir

[bright briar]

https://tenor.com/view/superman-henry-cavill-hope-freedom-usa-gif-8766742696550033721

the gaming community after the amd gpu announcement

FRICK nvidiaiaiaiaiaia

[balmy vector]

Now you’ll get amd aiaiaiaiaiaiai

[reef patrol]

AImd?

[steady sail]

sadly thats not gonna happen as most ppl still gonna buy nivea

[balmy vector]

Yeah that works

[unkempt lake]

Wonder if amd can actually

Gain a proper market share

Or if nvidia's mindshare is still too great

Its insane the amount of people who disregard amd cards just cuz change is spooky

[old marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/jojo-bizarre-adventure-gif-11387564

AIAIAIA

[bright briar]

https://tenor.com/view/jojo-jotaro-kujo-jotaro-dio-jojos-bizarre-adventure-gif-25822947

[distant tapir]

I have been trying to use Equaliser APO + Peace to improve the quality of the microphone on my Audeze Maxwell but I haven't gotten it to work. It doesn't actually do the changes I have listed. Anybody know the fix or had this issue?

Yes I have "give applications exclusive priority" disabled for the microphone

And the volume bar you see down there apparently goes by system audio rather then the mic. So when I listen to a video it starts moving. Using the microphone does not make it move. And yes I have the Audeze microphone chosen

[sharp badger]

Have you tried switching between the Game and chat options in sound?

[astral haven]

you probably have to remove the system audio in the equalizerapo config
I found peace to be janky so I always used eqapo directly

[gusty kiln]

it's nice that a lot of dac/amps are coming with eq built in

[distant tapir]

Where is the config?

[analog sinew]

gotta say removing the 12vhpwr cable felt good

[sharp badger]

Did you get a AMD card?

[astral haven]

this thing

[analog sinew]

indeed i did

[sharp badger]

7900XTX?

[analog sinew]

yep

[sharp badger]

Nice

[bright briar]

how you find the holy grail

i thought it was sold out everywhere

[unkempt lake]

not in europe apparently

[bright briar]

this is why canada sucks

[analog sinew]

yeah it was in stock still

[sharp badger]

We've got tons of XTX

[analog sinew]

it seems to be drying up tho

[sharp badger]

Most of the cards are so damn long

[unkempt lake]

Also i've seen canada computers resrock some xtxs @bright briar

[bright briar]

TO HELL WITH THEM DASHI

[unkempt lake]

i only bought from them like once in my life

the hell did they do xd

[bright briar]

i hope they close down

[unkempt lake]

The one time i bought from them i got what i ordered

[sudden imp]

Pricing for the 9070xt isn’t terrible

[bright briar]

i rather take my chances with amazon kicking my gpu around like a fotebol than buy from canada computers

[unkempt lake]

what happenned

With canada computers

Where did they touch you

[bright briar]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-thousand-yard-stare-thousand-yard-stare-cat-ptsd-cat-soldier-cat-war-gif-9110270742088459827

[sharp badger]

Would need to change to an air cooler to fit a 7900XTX

[bright briar]

they cream pie my cpu with thermal paste

[unkempt lake]

Depends on your case i guess

[unkempt lake]

Why did you let them build your pc

https://www.vuugo.com/product/xfx-speedster-merc-rx-79xmercb9/?tracking=5108053939762

Also here found you a 7900xtx in canada

Ur welcome

[bright briar]

i was young and naive

[sharp badger]

Yeah got a 280mm AIO in the front

[bright briar]

https://tenor.com/view/cpu-nutella-nutella-chocolate-thermal-paste-meme-gif-24395210

do you understand the pain dashi

[unkempt lake]

Also even if you cake a cpu in thermal paste its not thay big of a deal

Unless you get it like

[bright briar]

it leaked into the mobo

[unkempt lake]

Under the cpu

[unkempt lake]

Not conductive

[bright briar]

thats what happened

[unkempt lake]

That's a small annoyance

But most thermal pastes ain't conductive

[bright briar]

wasnt just a little dashi

my cpu had to file a police report

so much trauma in that day dashi

[analog sinew]

i see no downsides here

also holy moly that 7900xtx with the bracket was a longboye

[sharp badger]

Not really and an air cooler should keep the 12700k cool enough for gaming

[bright briar]

what brand you get

[analog sinew]

xfx merc 310 speedster whatever its called

[sharp badger]

344mm long wowie

360mm is the case max for me lol

[bright briar]

tak you

[analog sinew]

i what? O:

[analog sinew]

yeah its a hecking chonker

but its not so fat

[bright briar]

trying to say thank you

[sharp badger]

Yeah

[analog sinew]

oh

i also liked that its smooth and solid

my previous GPU was an ASUS one with all those jagged plastic bits

you cant even hold that

cause there is just no flat surface to grip

[bright briar]

no coil whine?

my 3080 has some coil whine but its not bad

i heard worst

[sharp badger]

I've only had noise from the DDR5 & not the 3080 lol

[analog sinew]

idk yet i havent had a chance yet to push it :D

[sharp badger]

It's some wierd high pitch noise from the DDR5 sometimes under load

[analog sinew]

umm did my staem download crash

weird

paused itself for no reason

[sharp badger]

Sorry you can't access MH:Wild yet

lol

[bright briar]

when i play some games like cyber punk

thats when i hear it

[magic minnow]

https://tenor.com/view/cheems-doge-cyber-cyberpunk-synthwave-gif-26546653

[bright briar]

https://tenor.com/view/jonny-silverpaw-cyberpunk-cat-wake-up-gif-7819654919683398161

[bitter sphinx]

do we think there will be a RX 9070 XTX?

[bright briar]

the corpos got all the tuna

[steady sail]

Nope

[steady sail]

Samurai wake up

[spiral island]

https://www.theverge.com/news/621796/mozilla-firefox-terms-of-use-ownership-data update on the Firefox data usage situation

[digital cliff]

meanwhile I didn't even see this outrage

goes to show how important it was

[sharp badger]

Same

[steady sail]

I cant wait to get my hand on the 9070 non-xt or xt i want it now

[bitter sphinx]

how do u know

[bitter sphinx]

XT is much more worth it, only 50 more

[steady sail]

Bc it would go against what amd wants

[unkempt lake]

5 mins later: hungary bad its too expensive i can't buy it 😡😡😡😡

importing scary

i give up

[steady sail]

I waited for u to say it

[steady sail]

Actually i would gonna buy this time

[unkempt lake]

I'll believe it when i see it!

[steady sail]

Im gonna send a screenshot about the purchase

[bitter sphinx]

the 7900 XTX is still kinda keeping up with the 5080 almost, non ray tracing games
do u think the 7900 XTX is still faster than the 9070 XT?

[steady sail]

Just wait for offical benchmarks at this point

[bitter sphinx]

im just asking for guesses

[last charm]

It doesn't drop on its own, either 4.0 8x or 3.0 16x it's me forcing through bios, if I don't force anything it just tries to boot 4.0 16x without success (Never get to windows)

[steady sail]

Me on 3.0 x16

[vagrant pagoda]

id say iffy board

[steady sail]

The 9070 xt would kinda perform close to the xtx but we have to wait

[vagrant pagoda]

just run it at 3.0x16

[bitter sphinx]

fair

[last charm]

I'm on 3.0 x16 rn, and tbh I don't really care, it's just that after a cold boot it's stuck at 1.1 instead of 3.0, everything is slow af (When I say stuck at 1.1, it is, it won't change even under load)

To fix this I need to restart

And that's kinda a pain in the ass to do that every cold boot

[steady sail]

Thats sounds like a board issue

[last charm]

I wouldn't really mind if it was just a restart, but I'm playing valorant and it seems like vanguard isn't starting after the first restart, so I need to restart a second time to get it working properly

[steady sail]

Something is fucked up on ur pc

[last charm]

Probably yeah, I can't do anything about it, I'll probably have to wait till I change my mobo

[digital cliff]

for sure considering the prices for the 9000 stuff

[bitter sphinx]

hmm

idk what to get

[digital cliff]

would be kinda nuts selling a 600$ card that beats a 900$ card

just wait for benches at any rate and make a decision after rush is over

or nab one at release if you really know what you want and can get it at good price

[sharp badger]

Yeah

[bitter sphinx]

I am just waiting for NVDIA verified priority access results to come back to see whether or not i can try getting a 5080 at retail price

[astral haven]

that used to happen fyi

[digital cliff]

yeah always smort to wait until you have enough info

[bitter sphinx]

if not ill decide between the 9070 XT or the XTX depending on if the prices will drop

[steady sail]

I mean id u want more vram go with 7900 xtx

[unkempt lake]

Most likely in raster

But not in RT

[unkempt lake]

connector go melt

[bitter sphinx]

dang the 5080 is 1k MSRP?

[trim crane]

I'm probably gonna get the 9070 XT from the 3080Ti

[steady sail]

Yeah and over 1500$ non-msrp

[astral haven]

remember nv super throttled 5080, its very very efficient, itll be hard to melt

[trim crane]

i will definitely benefit from AV1, performance/watt on 1440p, and having it just work on Linux too :D

[bitter sphinx]

if i were to get it through the verified priority access program i'd be able to get it for MSRP but hmm

1k still a lot

[bitter sphinx]

its 1.8k USD for me rn, MSRP, retail stores

[digital cliff]

sounds good if you want linux stuff

otherwise it's probably not the most huge stepup honestly

[trim crane]

Also SteamOS 3.0 whenever the official image is out!

[unkempt lake]

yes its such a good deal with a 50% power linit

[astral haven]

no, 100% power limit is low

[digital cliff]

I've no clue or interest about that but definitely the other stuff

I mean to be frank I personally had no issues on a 1060 on linux; now I rock an AMD system and the experience is the exact same

but then again I don't have any advanced configuration or particular needs or wishes

long as monitor displays picture I'm good I think

[trim crane]

I'm glad to hear it's been solid :D

[astral haven]

usually folks complaining are folks not using a user friendly distro, nvidia doesnt work to make the janky (but highly customizable) distros work

[wheat plume]

Wellbeing?! wtf xd

Guess this is because GNOME runs on phones too, maybe

[astral haven]

i mean people who are interested might also be interested in having it on desktop too...

[wheat plume]

maybe maybe

[halcyon moss]

I am :p

[wheat plume]

why are the borders so THICC by default on COSMIC?!!

I like window borders better than a window shadow thats not visible in dark theme anyway...but this border is too big

[pale sigil]

ok maybe having 2.5gb aint bad

@ashen spindle

[distant tapir]

I delete what. That top bar?

[pale sigil]

oh boy

[astral haven]

Its in the config in thus app, Uncheck or deselect apo from the devices besides your mic

[distant tapir]

What? I'm confused. Where do I uncheck it

[lapis brook]

i need help. i thought my 60he was broken because i had keys that would auto hold down. i just bought and setup my wooting 80he and im having the same problem. my ALT key continues to be held down for no reason until i click it again.

[ashen spindle]

unplug the keyboard and plug it back in

otherwise #1019755933959733258

[astral haven]

There should be a configuration menu that lists all the devices. And then you can uncheck all but the one you want.

[lapis brook]

ive done that multiple times. but thank you

[distant tapir]

I only have the mic checked

[astral haven]

Interesting, might just be a peace bug
Save your config and uninstall peace I guess

[unkempt lake]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/on-may-5-microsofts-skype-will-shut-down-for-good/

[marsh pewter]

how does it feel to be the one getting "♻️" reacted?

[unkempt lake]

i hate all of you

I'll hecking recycle you

Take that

i trashed you too

MANGO

HOW DARE YOU

recycle me one more time and i take away your moumou privileges

[marsh pewter]

WOAH HEY

[unkempt lake]

I HAVE AN HOSTAGE

[dawn ridge]

Can someone help me, when I went to download v5. My keyboard basically shut off and no longer types. It’s not detected in wootility and resetting doesn’t work. I’ve tried different cables and ports and same result. Doesn’t turn on but makes the windows new device sound

[marsh pewter]

stick to 1 channel

make a thread in #1019755933959733258

[dawn ridge]

Thanks

[spiral island]

If it is Moumou so help me

https://tenor.com/view/liam-neeson-i-will-find-you-taken-gif-5593626

[unkempt lake]

moumou when i tell her we're going to hide in brasil

[soft elk]

does roller on keyboard with wooting not work after the update?

my roller bindings in wooting arent working

[unkempt lake]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-9060-series-officially-launching-next-quarter

[bright briar]

man the way gpu prices are going over here in my country ima ride out with my 3080

[wind parrot]

me when

[ashen spindle]

do I really need to do the recycle react xD they mentioned that in the launch stream

[balmy vector]

do it quin

[marsh pewter]

do it

NOT ME

[balmy vector]

gottem

[wind parrot]

hehehehe

[unkempt lake]

why are you moody callum

you should be happy

[unkempt lake]

don't do it

[wind parrot]

:( thats why

grrrrr so moody

[bright briar]

how much was that 9800x3d? over here its $689

[marsh pewter]

<@&1098943457654997093> he's doing this in multiple channels

[latent mural]

im not lying

🤷

[lyric hatch]

That's cool but don't spam every channel with it

[pale sigil]

@latent mural don't spam, consider this a warning.

Timed you out for a day.

[wind parrot]

487 gbp

[wind parrot]

^

[bright briar]

is you a maple syrup canadian?

[marsh pewter]

canada isnt real

[wind parrot]

gpb is great british pounds lol

its 612 usd

in american dollrydoes from my currency

[bright briar]

fr

[unkempt lake]

it's not canada it's moumouland

[bright briar]

mb i didnt see you posted the amount it cost

in gpb

[marsh pewter]

https://tenor.com/view/cats-toby-the-cat-nod-yes-yes-yes-hooman-gif-17105827

[wind parrot]

lol yeah

[pale sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-bean-mrbean-bean-mr-bean-holiday-mr-bean-holiday-movie-gif-3228235746377647455

[trim crane]

Do AMD GPUs need ROCm support for DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.6 or 19?

[unkempt lake]

Rocm support is coming its just not in the launch driver

Also as far as i know the only amd supported thing is davinci resolve is smartaccess video (basically intel quicksync) if you have a 7000+ cpu and 7000+ gpu

[trim crane]

So I guess I will be a happy camper with the 9070 XT, but I will have to wait a bit?

[unkempt lake]

You'll have smartaccessvideo working right away

Its like quicksync but for amd

You have a 7800x3d iirc?

[trim crane]

9800X3D

[unkempt lake]

Ye

Will work with that

[trim crane]

Will it be better with ROCm support when it arrives?

[trim crane]

honestly the fact we still have access to SAV is good at least

but if they can just add it later, then it's not a big deal

[unkempt lake]

you have a 7900xtx tho

[trim crane]

because I did wanna get into light blender and DaVinci Resolve Studio 19

[unkempt lake]

I think they're more focused on the gaming crowd at the moment

[trim crane]

fair

and still, im a gamer first and foremost

[unkempt lake]

Creators mostly run nvidia + intel w quicksync anyways

Like... the only things the intel ultra lineup shines in xd

[trim crane]

but blackwells encoders might just make intel take a hike or smt

thats like the biggest thing going for bw

besides tbe insane VRAM on the 5090

well at least we get a really good encoder and decoder for RDNA 4 which makes me really happy

i wanted to upgrade to AV1 for recording and streaming for a while

[unkempt lake]

i genuinely cannot even remember the last time i recorded anything on my pc

Must have been... uh

Back when i had my 2080 2 years ago?

I recorded something yeah

Like once

[digital cliff]

I recorded something lately and used va-api and it was fine, I don't really know anything past that

6900xt doesn't do AV1 encode and AMF needs jumping through hoops on linux

[raw zephyr]

dont bother with amf, vaapi is just fine

[trim crane]

i mean that is one of its pieces of hardware

[cursive summit]

https://xcancel.com/Olrak29_/status/1895376510523187440

https://xcancel.com/Olrak29_/status/1895381545449574527

Interesting, Aerith Plus?

Didn't take long I guess https://bsky.app/profile/plagman.bsky.social/post/3ljbhm2txns2a

Pierre-Loup Griffais (@plagman.bsky.social)

Not happening.

www.pcguide.com/news/steam-d...

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Bluesky · Feb 28, 2025, 10:33 PM

[somber coral]

Can anyone suggest a cheap one drive nas?

I’m gonna set one up for my family to use I have a 12tb drive rn

[cursive summit]

QNAP TS-133-US?

There's TerraMaster F2-221 and Asustor AS1002T v2

A lot of shit

[reef patrol]

I should warn you that doing a single drive is a terrible idea, if you expect any kind of data security for anything important.

[somber coral]

Oh lol

[cursive summit]

RAID is dead 🦀

[somber coral]

Ngl I’m assuming one drive would be cheaper so

[somber coral]

But then what nas would you suggest?

[cursive summit]

Asustor AS1002T costs about as much as one drive bays and has 2, if you wanna do RAID

[somber coral]

What’s the difference between raid and not raid?

[cursive summit]

Something with data security, mirrors files in case one of the drives gets corrupted and you still get your data back

[somber coral]

Ohh

[cursive summit]

I've never had shit corrupt so I virtually don't care lol

I guess security is the wrong term, redundancy is what people mean

Your data is technically more secure (reliable, not gonna corrupt) with redundancy

[somber coral]

So basically like it backs stuff up twice

Raid 10 would mean it backs it up 10’times?

On different drives?

[reef patrol]

I'll bite. What is more common?

[cursive summit]

I know shit all about RAID, wouldn't even bother

If you are storing just movies and no important documents, don't even bother with RAID

[reef patrol]

That's not data loss. That's user error.

[cursive summit]

One drive NAS would be enough in that sense

[somber coral]

Nah documents are gonna be stored

[reef patrol]

It's not supposed to.

[somber coral]

And work files and stuff

[cursive summit]

How much in size?

[somber coral]

Uh idk

[cursive summit]

Like, tens of gigabytes?

[reef patrol]

And besides you could absolutely set up a garbage bin approach, if you've got a bad case of dumbass.

[somber coral]

12tb

[cursive summit]

What the fuck

[somber coral]

Potentially more depending on how much my mom wants to put into it

[somber coral]

I had 24 before

[cursive summit]

I was going to say you should just stuff them into AWS but yeah that's not happening

What was that about furry porn?

[somber coral]

Did my message get deleted or did I deleted it myself

[cursive summit]

I saw furry stuff

[somber coral]

I was gonna delete it myself anyways

But did mansen get to it before me

[somber coral]

Nah what ur tripping

[reef patrol]

[somber coral]

Bro chill I’m too invested in getting help to get banned

[cursive summit]

Do you even need a NAS?

[somber coral]

Yes

My family does

[cursive summit]

Fair

[somber coral]

My brother and mom are all complaining abt no storage

[cursive summit]

You'll defo want more than one bay for that much storage

[somber coral]

Why tho

It’s one drive

A singular 12 tb drive

I can get two bay for more security

[cursive summit]

Would make more sense to get a couple of 8s and configure the third one for redundancy

[somber coral]

Too broke

[cursive summit]

You got an unused motherboard and a CPU somewhere perhaps?

You can just DIY a NAS

[somber coral]

I sold it a week ago 💀

It was like single core though

How does one diy a nad

And wouldn’t syncology be easier to configure and stuff

And troubleshoot

[reef patrol]

You take a computer and you install a NAS OS

[cursive summit]

Linux

[somber coral]

Ohh

Sounds like my next project then

What’s the hardware requirements?

[cursive summit]

It runs

That's about it

[somber coral]

💀

[analog sinew]

storage space is also good

[somber coral]

12tb enough?

[analog sinew]

idk what you wanna save

[somber coral]

I’ll do some research tmr and see if my mom is interested, how much does it cost?

[cursive summit]

Tbf not an outrageous thing to make a NAS out of is a Raspberry

They kinda get hot but it works?

[somber coral]

I’m not that broke

I can prob Facebook marketplace a cpu and cheap mobo

[cursive summit]

not that broke
Around 200$ NAS
Raspberries cost like 100$ nowadays

[somber coral]

I don’t have a psu tho like wouldn’t the power draw be more

[cursive summit]

Yeah I think a Raspberry is still pretty sizeable purchase

[somber coral]

Eh I’m ok with 209&

[cursive summit]

Well either make your own or just buy a Synology of sorts

[somber coral]

Wait for 200$ I can just Facebook marketplace a nas no?

[cursive summit]

https://tenor.com/view/john-mulaney-comeback-kid-you-can-do-whatever-you-want-gif-14324540

[somber coral]

Free will🌞

[devout raptor]

amd cooking with 9000 series?

[cursive summit]

9800X3D is pretty damn good no cap

[somber coral]

Synology DiskStation DS216se 2-Bay NAS Unit

For 100 cad

[cursive summit]

That does not have a 9800X3D I don't think

[somber coral]

Hear me out now

[somber coral]

We put one into it

[cursive summit]

Yeah I am not hearing you out on this one

[somber coral]

It’ll run the Minecraft server at the speed of light (ignore how that’s ram not cpu$

[somber coral]

Nah but Synology DiskStation DS216se 2-Bay NAS Unit for 100 cad

[cursive summit]

That's pretty good I guess

Apparently quite old and unsupported?

If you're fine with a slower one, then prolly fine

[somber coral]

Uhhh wdym by slower one

Like slower to transfer files and stuff?

[cursive summit]

Yes

[somber coral]

LenovoEMC PX4-300d NAS Network Attached Storage Server

Now for100$ cad more

So 200cad

[cursive summit]

Scheduled Availability: June 2013

Is there nothing more.. modern?

Like if it's a NAS, you want it to actually have decent networking

It's going to slug as soon as anyone actually wirelessly connects to it

[somber coral]

Uhhh lemme see

There’s synology for 300

218+

Ds416

Ds410

[cursive summit]

How much is a brand new DS220j

Or F2-212 and AS1102T

[somber coral]

8 bays goddamn

Oh wait

I’m dumb

[cursive summit]

I'm looking at the DS220j and it's literally 185 bucks here

[somber coral]

Google is twekskikg rather

300$ on Canada computera

Yea abt 300

F2 is 250

As1102t also 260

[cursive summit]

AS1102T supports 2.5 gigabit networking so that's an okay option

[somber coral]

Yeah I think that might cook

I’m too cooked rn it’s 2am

I research tmr for now I sleep

I bid you goodnight and many thanks for the help good sir

[cursive summit]

Canuck problems

[somber coral]

WAIT

CAN I BUY AN OPTIPLEX OFF SOMEONE

AND TRINSTALL THE NAS OS

AND USE THET

[cursive summit]

Brutha go to sleep

[somber coral]

I can’t the idea popped up

Also would the power draw be more if I did a diy os

[halcyon moss]

The os plays a part, it's prob both Linux anyway. So config matters. But hardware is also a large part.

Synology diskstation "just works" and to. Me that's worth some moneys

I have a 416. its very slow and out of support

It's fine for basic Nas stuff though. But don't expect high throughput

[halcyon moss]

See above

[cursive summit]

TerraMaster seems to have the most tech packed into them

But their software sucks so you should install OpenNAS or FreeNAS from what people are saying

I guess they renamed into TrueNAS from what I'm seeing

[steady sail]

https://www.truenas.com ?

trueNAS is still there

oh wait

my brain is fried after 2 and a half hour of sleep

[charred nexus]

https://x.com/gawroskit/status/1895516239591850008?s=46

Tomasz Gawroński (@GawroskiT) on X

Sapphire nitro+ 9070xt has protections in place for the 12VHPWR connector.
Not only that they even covered the radiator FINS so the cable wont get damaged!
And on top of that magnetic back cover to hide the cable.
Superb engineering.

X · Feb 28, 2025, 4:47 PM

Omg this card look really good

[cursive summit]

1000$ msrp

[steady sail]

even with the 12vhpwr connector

[charred nexus]

Bring back GPU that looks like a brick

[steady sail]

sapphire is one of cooler looking cards now lol

[cursive summit]

Ha, cooler

Triple entendre

[charred nexus]

https://tenor.com/view/ba-dum-tsss-drum-band-gif-7320811

[latent comet]

What u think about this

Motherboard ; MSI B850 Gaming Plus
CPU : Ryzen 9 9950X3D
Graphic Card : RTX 5090 MSI Gaming Trio OC
Watercooling : MSI l360 Coreliquid
Case : MSI MPG Gungnir 300P Airflow
Ram : Corsair Vengeance CL30 6000MHZ DDR5 32gb
PSU : MSI MAG A1250GL 1250W
SSD : MSI Spatium M482 + 1 Extra SSD Adata 1TB

I'll assembly a new computer with these components

[ashen spindle]

Get a cheaper air cooler and are you certain you want a 9950x3d and not a 9800x3d

[balmy vector]

5090 lol

[ashen spindle]

The ssd seems also expensive for no point unless you are getting it in a bundle

[nimble arch]

That's a lot of MSI hardware

[old marlin]

MSI case 💀

[analog sinew]

why is a case with a gigantic blocked front an "airflow" case

[old marlin]

it's a low porosity mesh

[analog sinew]

okay then the image is scuffed

well alr then

[old marlin]

no like

low porosity, without light it looks like a solid panel

because it mostly is a solid panel

[ashen spindle]

Most people care about optics so I leave case feedback for the last point xD ssd and such don’t really have any looks to it

[old marlin]

true

[ashen spindle]

Like if someone says they want an aio for looks when air cooler is cheaper I don’t even attempt changing the case xD

[old marlin]

I mean they are just asking for confirmation, not for feedback

[analog sinew]

but what feedback "hey i wanna buy the most expensive components in every category is that good"

[ashen spindle]

I do not give validation I only give feedback

[steady sail]

i would have gotten a North XL instead of that shit looking msi case

[digital cliff]

and the answer is no, you should try to find the gold-trimmed ones just to be sure

[analog sinew]

Trump build

[ashen spindle]

Most expensive would also be the liquid cooled msi not the peasent air cooled gpu

[balmy vector]

Be the gordon ramsey of pc part talk

[analog sinew]

something about donkeys?

[balmy vector]

And sandwiches

[amber flame]

are snappy tappy and rappy snappy not the same thing when it comes to gaming?

[ashen spindle]

One is razers name one is wooting name for it

[amber flame]

sorry, meant snappy tappy and rappy snappy

[ashen spindle]

https://wooting.io/post/rappy-snappy-tappy

[reef patrol]

Finally some good fucking cache.

[fair gull]

Wheres the RGB FANS?!

https://tenor.com/view/triggerfav-gordon-ramsey-hells-kitchen-lamb-sauce-gif-13424533

[waxen shard]

is it still possible to make wootility minimize and not be able to be tabbed into in wootility v5?

[wheat plume]

If Firefox does add AI, I will need to switch to another browser .-. but every Chromium browser has AI too so wtf

[leaden kiln]

ungoogled chromium?

[fair gull]

given that there is no real reason to run keep wootility rinning it has no minimized mode

[wheat plume]

cant use uBlock Origin on that

and uBlock Lite is terrible

[leaden kiln]

time to brick this badboy

[wheat plume]

whats that?

not at all ;-;

[leaden kiln]

its a vr headsets
some of the past fw updates have been pretty rough 😓

[wheat plume]

it does?!

I may keep Firefox for my isolated Web Apps but for main browsing..... I need to switch :/

I only use one website in the apps so it doesnt matter much, maybe?

[ashen spindle]

tf does "firefox adding ai" even mean

like is it using ai to screen websites you use or does it just have ai feautures you can ignore

[wheat plume]

They are making the data collection and management more vague in the Terms of Use and Privacy Notice documents

people think its to allow them to use your web data to train AI for some new browser feature

I hate Brave's UI so damn much though

cant make it look like a native GNOME desktop app like I can for Firefox

[ashen spindle]

simple solution is just dont bother until firefox actually makes changes and not has potential changes on the horizon that people dont like so it might not happen

[wheat plume]

this is sketchy :/

[cursive summit]

Lana, this has been talked about multiple times by now

[stiff path]

Wait wut

Is that for all of firefox or just some feature

[leaden kiln]

looks like they added software ipd adjustment which would be nice, greyed out for me but someone else was able to use it

[cursive summit]

https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/mozilla-updates-firefox-terms-again.html

Recent news, don't know if it's a nothingburger but Mozilla has been doing some weird shit lately

A lot of people are unhappy with shit they are doing, like focus on AI, Pocket, accounts, etc

Seems that Mozilla has put data privacy second, which is a bit against their slogan of "defending your digital rights"

[wheat plume]

all

[cursive summit]

Holy shit

Read 14,800MB/s and Write 13,400MB/s

Holy mother of speed

That's actually not.. unapproachable

I always just how little speed ever actually mattered for something like Windows to function, opening folders, apps, browser tabs, surely 7000 MB/s realistically doesn't feel any different from 14000 MB/s

Transfering files? Sure, that's where the real advantage is. Maybe even installing apps. But.. very limited in actual practical application, no?

[ashen spindle]

gl cooling those gen5 ssds so it actually sustains the numbers lol

[nimble arch]

Game loading times going to be insane

[cursive summit]

Heatspreader ain't going to cut it?

So I guess minifan time it is eh?

Didn't people utterly despise minifans on.. was it early AM5s?

Some mobos came with minifans to cool them for some reason, and people went apeshit

Oh yeah that was X570, still AM4 era

But yeah specifically for cooling M.2 that'd.. prolly do a decent job?

[leaden kiln]

my am5 motherboard has a really small fan on it but I think I can turn it off in the bios, not for thr ssd though

[analog sinew]

my x570 fan was okay

my x870e has a vrm fan for no reason but it can be turned off in bios

[cursive summit]

Not that one, that one I think is specifically for M.2s

[analog sinew]

yeah theyre usually connected

[cursive summit]

ITX M.2s tend to be really damn hot

[analog sinew]

they chipset has to be there somewhere too

[cursive summit]

The ones that people got really annoyed with years ago were these

I remember a lot of meltdowns how fans on motherboards is a bad thing

[analog sinew]

i mean they are annoying

[ashen spindle]

the issue was those fans would be on even during idle and not very quiet

[cursive summit]

Tbf I still hold no opinion on the topic, all I know is that specifically on ITX M.2s tend to get hot af, so I'd welcome a fan there

[analog sinew]

just to save on 3$ of milled aluminium

[ashen spindle]

nah the chipset was kinda garbo so it needed more cooling

[cursive summit]

Was B550 not garbo since.. you know it actually worked normally?

[ashen spindle]

am4 and am5 chipsets are all kinda bleh

[cursive summit]

How so? How are they worse than Intel's

[ashen spindle]

less connectivity

higher powerdraw but could ignore that but its quite limited what you can add to one and how much given the link to the cpu is much less than on arl for example

wont matter for people who just use a gpu and 2 ssds

[stiff path]

Time to switch

Can anyone recommend a good secure browser thats not chrome or edge or opera lol

[ashen spindle]

grab websites via commandline I guess

(aka there isnt one)

gotta pick the least evil

if you can ignore the owners past I suppose

[analog sinew]

wonder why mozilla went " cowabunga lets do what every other browser does"

did they get new Management or what

[cursive summit]

You could arguably say that Mozilla is good because they do the opposite of what everyone does

[wheat plume]

S H A R E H O L D E R P R O F I T

[cursive summit]

Vivaldi

[wheat plume]

the reason for enshittification

[wheat plume]

thats Chromium

[cursive summit]

What shareholder, aren't they a.. non profit?

They are a non-profit

[wheat plume]

I know but im saying in general ;-;

[cursive summit]

They didn't say no to chromium, they said no to chrome

Vivaldi has some nice features

That I tried to reimplement into my Firefox and it looked like shit

Cool browser

This is the feature I seriously like

They call it workspaces, but really it's just tab trees

You can group tabs into.. tabs

And I find that ridiculously useful

Firefox does not have a good replacement that feels intuitive, sadly

[unkempt lake]

It's cuz they're broke

[cursive summit]

They're doing pretty fine

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/b200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf

As a nonprofit their finances are pretty much public knowledge

[unkempt lake]

2023's report was rough dunno about 2024

[cursive summit]

2023s report literally shows them 10s of millions in the + as a nonprofit???

They're doing fine

[unkempt lake]

i rhink im having a brainfart

head hurts

focusing hard

[cursive summit]

Iirc 2024 Form 990s are past deadline by now so I think the 2024 form will be published.. soon?

I'm not a financial lawyer in U.S, but I did hear that 2024 financial statements already had to be filed a while ago

Idk when they go up for public disclosure

Which is owned by the foundation

And included in the financial statement, as law requires

[digital cliff]

do you understand what it means

[chrome prawn]

Mozilla has gone to dogshit lately, aint gonna lie

[cursive summit]

Still better than everything else

[steady sail]

i always hated firefox

when a random update completly reseted the whole browser

[cursive summit]

It's not perfect, almost no software is

But it does do its job well for me, and I sure as hell am not using a chromium browser

Tbf most problems mozilla refuses to fix, community does (they literally implemented webusb cause mozilla can't be arsed to)

[stiff path]

Not really, could you explain

[digital cliff]

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#notice

then read this and don't be baited

[cursive summit]

Tbf where even is this chatbot in my browser

I do not want one, especially not to slow the browser down, but I've never even seen any place that refers to it

[halcyon moss]

I've never had that in all the years

[steady sail]

it was over 10 years ago LOL

[halcyon moss]

...

[steady sail]

or even more i dont remember

[cursive summit]

You sure you just.. don't want to hate something for the sake of having a rageboner and complain about it?

I've used Firefox for nearly 20 years, always been a faithful companion

[analog sinew]

the design got messed up on mine all the time

dont change the look

i liked it

[cursive summit]

Huh, Firefox has a sidebar function now?

And that's where the chatbot is?

I didn't even know Firefox had a sidebar function

I'm on latest version 135 and I can't even find an option to enable that sidebar

Oh it's something I've already gotten rid of, it's a widget you click on and it opens bookmarks, but there's now a dropdown to select ai chatbot

Totally not confusing

[cursive summit]

What the fuck is this thing https://videocardz.com/newz/xfx-launches-rx-9070-xt-quick-silver-esport-card-with-custom-shroud-design

There's brick, and then there's.. this monstrosity

[balmy vector]

Very gamer

[cursive summit]

It's weird, but I like it

And I don't know why

It's.. kinda plastic looking? I mean, it is. But it looks weirdly fake?

[balmy vector]

Oh god the fans just have X on them

Incoming bad jokes

[cursive summit]

And the X is offcentered

Now that will actually piss me off

Now I genuinely hate this design, they didn't even bother to center the X

[steady sail]

but the x was always off centered

[analog sinew]

whats so bad about it

it looks like most gpus tbh

the red accent i kinda like

[balmy vector]

They gotta make more accent colors

Give blue and ill think about it

[cursive summit]

I didn't mind how it looked until I noticed the letters on fans

Now I genuinely despise this thing

[analog sinew]

who sees those anyway

[balmy vector]

Dont need accuracy if you already maxxed out the stat

[cursive summit]

There's that monster, and then there's the CHAD BRICK

Praise the 🧱

Literally a 🧱

[steady sail]

i love the Pure version a little bit more tho

[analog sinew]

this was my old card lol

[balmy vector]

It all goes back to simple geometric shapes, as it should

[analog sinew]

yes

but so is that xfx

[steady sail]

it is

[balmy vector]

Says it on the rgb

[cursive summit]

https://videocardz.com/newz/gmk-confirms-evo-x2-mini-pc-with-ryzen-ai-max-pro-395-strix-halo-will-launch-between-q1-q2-2025

[balmy vector]

Guess you gotta have more purple rgb, your accuracy isnt maxed out

[cursive summit]

I wonder how the chinese will price Strix Halo PCs

Seriously, what is the price that AMD charges for nothing but the Halo chip

[bright briar]

ima wait for the 6000's series and get the 6090 and call it 69 gpu

[steady sail]

for $6969.69

[bright briar]

pain

3080 go brrrr

[cursive summit]

R9 Nano was peak

[nimble arch]

Radeon VII

HBM2

[leaden kiln]

I had my 7970 until last year
downgraded from (hd) 7000 series to (rx) 6000 series

[unkempt lake]

i saw we go back the the insanity of my gtx 980

[balmy vector]

Ew

[unkempt lake]

https://www.zotac.com/us/product/graphics_card/geforce®-gtx-980-amp-extreme

I bought this

For like 800cad

When it released