🔌│tech

[dull hollow]

@mint python

IMO they sound better than the raws too

[mint python]

wait why can i click on the replied message

[empty wren]

Do you hand lube each switch?

Or are you using them as they come

[dull hollow]

factory

[empty wren]

I see well alright then

Guess you prefer the sound of polycarbonate then

[dull hollow]

heres a sound test of both switches talked about here if youre curious
#🔧│keyboard_modding message

[empty wren]

My raw set sounds similar to the other one after hand lubing

[mint python]

what keycap set are those? they look like pbtfans crosshair

[dull hollow]

they are

[mint python]

i was gonna get those cuz theyre so nice

[dull hollow]

i love them, theyre pretty high quality and theres no complaints here

pbtfan keycap boxing is exceptional

[wheat plume]

Do PlayStation controllers not work in Windows??
I heard they do nothing on Windows by default unless you use some third party app?

[mint python]

whatre the specs on the mmd c1

[dull hollow]

iirc they should be 33g initial force and 38g bottom out

[mint python]

bottom out travel?

[dull hollow]

3.4mm

[empty wren]

Either use steam or ds4 driver

[wheat plume]

Hmmm
My friend will want to use it on her PC when she gets one for fortnite...

[empty wren]

Might be fine with a dual sense if only fortnite wired

[ashen spindle]

If only there was a search engine where that can be found in a few seconds

[empty wren]

Chatgpt could also been just used honestly

[wheat plume]

Dual sense is the PS4 controller right?
The ps5 is dual shock?
Or other way around?

[empty wren]

Sorry your wooting server query credits have ran out. Come back tomorrow.

[wheat plume]

:')

[empty wren]

You got it backwards

Though there are for Xbox controllers with PlayStation stick layout

[wheat plume]

O
She said she wants to get an Xbox controller to use on PC cause she likes them better than ps controllers

Same though

[empty wren]

Great problem solved

[wheat plume]

I shall suggest the 8bitdo ultimate maybe

OMFH

https://www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-2-wireless-hsr-evernight/
The ultimate 2 weeb edition

[pale sigil]

It's a nice design tbf

[wheat plume]

Oo they have a wireless controller for the damn nes

[empty wren]

Looks like it has a dongle

[wheat plume]

Yeh
Plugs into the controller port

I said wireless not Bluetooth xd

[frozen drift]

https://youtu.be/5o3pYXNy2iM?

Great, so microsoft is like actively spying on gamers now. Look, I know gamer meld isn't reliable but either way I think the copilot situation is massively concerning and I will have to check my settings. How annoying

[lunar elm]

I wouldnt trust gamer meld at all

for all we know its probaly still gonna be another zen+5%

[frozen drift]

Yeah that's not the point of me sending the video. I am genuinely concerned about the copilot BS.

But yeah I mean they tend to hype up any news that they get, I think they are a big of an AMD glazer

[lunar elm]

oh copilot? i disabled that xd

[frozen drift]

Oh my gaming copilot doesn't even work because I didn't sign in xDD

[magic minnow]

@unkempt lake I wonder if I need a bigger psu?

[covert steppe]

2000 watt

[unkempt lake]

no

[magic minnow]

I just unplugged everything and made sure everything was seated inside

[frozen drift]

What is your spec anyway, I'd assume you listed it out earlier?

[ashen spindle]

gamer meld can be ignored, massive ugprade when talking about tiny APU upgrades for desktop, classic lmao

[halcyon moss]

Wat

[ashen spindle]

It’s the name of the character

[reef patrol]

Time to sue.

[ashen spindle]

Wooting was later I don’t think you’d want to

[reef patrol]

Didn't stop Nintendo did it?

[halcyon moss]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon

Should be obvious enough

[wheat plume]

Yep
Copilot Vision
Wooooo

It just berates you about how to use the mini map and objective markers from what footage I've seen of it so far

It can't actually tell you how to do something in the game

[steady sail]

soo they wanna use an AI to give u in game help

[wheat plume]

Yes
But it doesn't actually help you
It just tells you to read the objective and look at the minimap

[steady sail]

yeah soo its completly useless

[wheat plume]

Here's a video of it
https://youtu.be/lDMDStCbXH4

[steady sail]

nice job microsoft

[wheat plume]

Yeh like 90% of AI stuff

[steady sail]

i forgot to do this

https://www.instructables.com/OPA-Based-Alice-Microphones-a-Cardioid-and-a-Figur/ if someone is bored

DIY mic build

[wheat plume]

I thought someone did this already? wasnt it ASUS or ACER?

well, technically its in a tablet not a handheld.... same sort of form factor though

https://rog.asus.com/laptops/rog-flow/rog-flow-z13-2025/

[ashen spindle]

wtf kinda handhelds do you use that a 13 inch screen is the same form factor

[nimble arch]

iPad Pro-ass handheld

[wheat plume]

Id assume this is more powerful, and it uses a desktop OS so you can actually make more use of the power too compared to iPadOS

[nimble arch]

Nah, Windows on the tablet/2-in-1 format is honestly ass.

Those products are instantly worse because they're running Windows.

[wheat plume]

True

[nimble arch]

All the people asking for macOS on the iPad Pro are equally being stupid.

[wheat plume]

It would be amazing with Linux though <3 Some Bluefin going on

[pale sigil]

Didn't his get debunked @wheat plume

The whole tracking games etc

[nimble arch]

iPadOS is fine and plenty of app developers have done the right job in making proper versions of their software for that device/OS.

[wheat plume]

CoPilot Vision is actually a thing that is baked into the Xbox Game bar

[pale sigil]

Ye but

[wheat plume]

Maybe its not as useless as he showed? idfk

[pale sigil]

The whole watching a game real time was debunked

[ashen spindle]

thats also not whats being talked about here

[wheat plume]

i thought that was the point of it?

to watch the game to help you in it

[halcyon moss]

That takes a lot of processing to do that in real time

[halcyon moss]

I got that same chip in a hp g1a

Laptop is great in Linux

[wheat plume]

ayyyyy :D hek yeah

[steady sail]

the old Lenovo laptop that i saved with linux is working great

[wheat plume]

very cool!!!

[magic minnow]

How’d Haribo do 20000mah

For 25$!

[wheat plume]

🤔

[reef patrol]

smh no 65W supervooc

More like Haribo..n't

[wheat plume]

supervooc?

[lunar elm]

https://tenor.com/view/humbled-cat-gif-bie-gif-17493722235118145820

what’d they do to haribo to turn him into a power bank 😭

[steady sail]

missed opportunity from haribo that they didnt make the powerbank gummy bear shape

[tribal dirge]

you know what would be nice, an XboxOS optimized for tablet PCs

I think the XboxOS used on the ROG Ally can easily be adapted to conform to tablet ergonomics

or if you're enough of a stickler for that kind of experience just use Steam Big Picture mode

ROFL

[crimson wigeon]

Or y'know, Windows 8

[tribal dirge]

windows 8 was ass

even by tablet standards

[crimson wigeon]

But was a quite thought out tablet experience, especially compared to 10/11

[tribal dirge]

it tried to re-invent the wheel, when it could easily just copied iOS (now iPadOS)

iOS got touch interfaces right

windows 8 was like 70% there

the other 30% for desktop use

the issue with windows 8 is that it has the nice customer facing end, but then the back end like the menus and submenus are so tiny its impossible to use touch to click what you wanted in a lot of context menus

not to mention it didnt force a paradigm shift in how desktop apps were designed, so the apps you wanted to use are all impossible to use as well

[crimson wigeon]

Really just that some things still necessitated the use of the desktop, and UWP uptake was basically nonexistent, no-one wanted to develop for that

[gusty kiln]

https://onexplayerstore.com/cdn/shop/files/onexplayer-x1-pro-front-view.jpg?v=1756380870

[ashen spindle]

jfc

[crimson wigeon]

Beauty

[tribal dirge]

why

[crimson wigeon]

Bigger is better

[tribal dirge]

defeats the purpose of the main reason why people buy handhelds though

people like the nintendo switch because it is thin and compact that is easy to carry. as much as I like to shit on Nintendo, they did handhelds right.

steamdeck is too bulky in my opinion (steamdeck slim pls). same with ROG Ally (ROG Ally slim pls as well!!!!)

[pale sigil]

Oh my

[pale sigil]

Ngl I did this to my 11" tablet and it was so nice

[gusty kiln]

I bought a Legion go and I'm liking it

7" screen felt small at the store

[gusty kiln]

https://onexplayerstore.com/products/onexplayer-x1-pro-amd-ryzen™-ai-9-hx-370-10-95-3-in-1-redefining-handheld-gaming-device?srsltid=AfmBOoouGLNUuKqYUaPut3cSeU_QwNyEQG7LcZQNcDYIvRFvC3Yt6W75&variant=50707837878566

it's under a grand for the 8840U model

[pale sigil]

I just want a streaming handheld

With a decent screen

And not small

That also has WiFi 6

[gusty kiln]

shame oled tablets are still kinda exspensive

[pale sigil]

Are they?

What do you define as expensive

[gusty kiln]

seems like at minimum they start at like 700

but I'm sure there are cheaper chinese models, but hard to get a hold of

[pale sigil]

Nah

Samsung budget tablets were amoled

Oh wait NVM

Ire their budget phones that still get OLED

[gusty kiln]

cheapest here at Best Buy is a Tab S11 for 799

oled on phones are cheap but not tablet cuz of the size

[pale sigil]

https://www.honor.com/uk/tablets/honor-magicpad-2/ seems cheap

[gusty kiln]

lmao the website looks just like samsung

[pale sigil]

Are you really surprised lol

[gusty kiln]

499 euro is about 600 usd, so a little cheaper

still nothing below the 500 USD range

[pale sigil]

Wot

It's $437 in the UK

[gusty kiln]

the website says 499 for me

[pale sigil]

£329

[ashen spindle]

keep in mind VAT is included here

[pale sigil]

Oh NVM

Need a voucher

[ashen spindle]

if you want to compare it to usd remove the 20% vat first

[gusty kiln]

so about 500 usd

[pale sigil]

Damn that's an interesting tablet

[gusty kiln]

shame we don't get the chinese brands here

[pale sigil]

I'm still using this bad boy

Xaiomi pad 6 pro

It's been abused af tho

Getting used to a wheelchair and a tablet at the same time.... XD

[magic minnow]

https://myair0.com/en-us/products/orimouse-the_beige_new_colour?

[pale sigil]

AI giving peeps terrible advice oml

Context: when getting off the toilet I use a transfer board and my pants are down, however I suspect the edges are causing me pain so I was curious what ointments to use.

If you used a slide sheet you'll be coming off the board instantly lmao

[unkempt lake]

Yet you sent me ai screenshots the other day being like TRY THIS and then justified it by saying its like google

I'm still angry at you about the fact that you sent me a fucking chatgpt screenshot

:(

[crimson wigeon]

Just a few more billions and it'll be real smart and helpful pls

[nimble arch]

Some of my colleague at work, with the senior job role and pay cheque, fucking love to half-ass responses by using ChatGPT instead of reading the manuals.

[pale sigil]

Nonono

I said it's the new Google it

Twas the joke

https://letmegooglethat.com/

Lmfao, as a wheelchair user Im offended 🤣🤣🤣

[plucky olive]

Its been roughly a year since I first bought my Wooting!

Complaint's: I cant touch any other keyboard besides my Wooting, It just doesn't feel right anymore...

Benefits: I'll be here for an hour If I try to list them all ❤️

[distant tapir]

Is this bad?

[dull hollow]

but like... why

[sudden imp]

Dishonor upon your family

[wheat plume]

This feels like a war crime

[slow anchor]

I want to go with more than one monitor, the thing is my current one is 1440p, but I want to add 4k monitors to my setup, will it be a problem?

[covert steppe]

You'll definitely notice it if you look at it long enough, use the 1440 on the side as a little side one that uses a simple application like disc or Spotify where you cant tell the difference

[unkempt lake]

No

[slow anchor]

The thing is, my 1440p is a 45 in ultrawide

[covert steppe]

Facebook marketplace

[slow anchor]

😭

[covert steppe]

Realistically it's probably fine, you'd notice a slight difference between the monitors, but nothing major

[unkempt lake]

buy a super ultrawide instead

[vagrant pagoda]

240x100000

[tribal dirge]

why, just why

[plush stirrup]

has it's reasons

[halcyon moss]

Lol, that's just so bad

[plush stirrup]

yep

samsung gives 7years of updates on their S10 FE tablet... which is similar in price, worse specs and screen, but at least it's not outdated after a year...

[lunar elm]

its technically not wrong but like… its just weird

[bright briar]

what card is this?

[magic minnow]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PcBuildHelp/s/oOmNBnaYCA

[fair gull]

the worst rage bait ive seen yet. way too obvious

[pale sigil]

Is AI true here though

[halcyon moss]

I can't find it on the product page, already a bad sign

[pale sigil]

Really?

I linked it

https://www.honor.com/uk/tablets/honor-magicpad-2/

[halcyon moss]

Is it on that page? Because it isn't on the Dutch one.

One review I found does mention the same as the Google ai summary

That's honestly terribad.

[pale sigil]

I looked into it, there's no concrete answer on the OS stuff

Support is giving different answers, eg one is saying 7 years of updates lol

And some say two hear major

Its very bizarre lol

[crimson wigeon]

Most of the time the answer seems to be one major update and 3 years of security

[halcyon moss]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Honor-MagicPad-2-Tablet-Review-12-3-inch-144-Hz-OLED-price-cutter.896050.0.html

The Honor's Android updates are rather meager, unfortunately. While other Honor devices, including the Magic Pro series, receive up to 3 OS updates and 5 years of security patches, the MagicPad 2 is only slated to receive 1 OS upgrade and 3 years of security patches.

[pale sigil]

As I said, conflicted reports.

[frozen drift]

Anyone here uses a samsung galaxy flip or fold series phone? If yes do you use any inner screen protectors?

[halcyon moss]

Pricy risk

[wheat plume]

WAIT WTF

If you only get one Androud upgrade then you are stuck on 15 forever, 16 released like last month wtf

this is outdated on launch

[pale sigil]

I definitely agree

[pale sigil]

Most tabs are outdated at launch lol

[nimble arch]

Just buy an iPad Air instead of that.

[umbral heron]

https://tenor.com/view/tongue-out-gif-10899711823759253871

[nimble arch]

Why is that GIF? Yes.

I see that GIF used a lot and I've got no idea what the source material is.

[reef patrol]

WhoopsieDaisy.gif

[umbral heron]

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ah-eto-bleh

[nimble arch]

Great, now I know pointless lore.

I hope you're happy, Cals.

[reef patrol]

[umbral heron]

[steady sail]

https://tenor.com/view/nisekoi-marika-teehee-whoops-oops-gif-26013840

[nimble arch]

https://tenor.com/view/ryan-gosling-thumbs-up-ryan-thumb-ryan-gosling-thumbs-up-gif-324829573788110402

Me waking up for another day of pointless lore

Saw a video on YouTube earlier of someone doing a full Ubiquiti networking upgrade as they could finally get multi-Gigabit FTTP. People out here being able to get 5000/5000 for £80 per month while I'm stuck on a coaxial connection. 😔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfA2OXEvchc

[pale sigil]

I can get 2.2gb for £60 a month

But I don't think that's worth it aha

I'm paying 28 for gigabit ATM tho

[nimble arch]

It's something like £50 per month for 1150/100 on VM or £75-ish for 1600/120 from EE (once they finish the FTPP build).

Some of the other towns in my area can get CityFibre which is much cheaper plus it's actually symmetrical speeds.

[pale sigil]

Ye I'm on Cityfiber, I do not miss virgin media

Trash company with trash speeds

[reef patrol]

smh not symmetrical.

[pale sigil]

Some of the other towns in my area can get CityFibre which is much cheaper plus it's actually symmetrical speeds.

[nimble arch]

I believe 5000/5000 is the highest they currently offer on residential connections

Although the underlying infrastructure is XGS-PON. Some regional ISPs in t' norf already offer 8000/8000 with the same tech.

[reef patrol]

I upgraded to 1gbit when we moved here to Copenhagen. And... I can't say I feel like I need more.

Already struggling to use all that in a single connection anywhere anyway.

[nimble arch]

I'd prefer symmetrical upload before faster than gigabit just on the download

Although, for my current work at least, having multi-gig upload would be useful at certain points of the year.

[frozen drift]

Anyone here has transitioned from IOS to andriod or vice versa before? How does both OS feel?

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

[nimble arch]

“This changes everything”

Every tech thumbnail ever

[tribal dirge]

iOS to me is a lot smoother and less buggy than Android, however Android has a lot more variety in how you can customize it however, although the bloat on Android phones can be either not that bad or exceptionally bad depending on the phone brand

[frozen ingot]

ios as gotten worse and buggier in more recent years too imo

[leaden kiln]

I switched to an iphone 16 pro end of august from a fold 5, I like it better but there's a couple of apps I miss just a little

[tribal dirge]

nowhere near as bad as android though

I have experienced worse and more frequent bugs on Android than on iOS

[frozen ingot]

I haven't used android in years but it wasn't too bad last I did

[frozen drift]

I am thinking of switching from iphone 11 to samsung flip/fold series

[frozen ingot]

ew assmung

[frozen drift]

either next year or 2027, pretty soon so I'm thinking about it

[frozen ingot]

get something that'll last instead

[frozen drift]

o_0 haha alright

[leaden kiln]

my experience on my fold was pretty okay, not as smooth as ios but wayyy better than it was on my pixel that I had previously

[tribal dirge]

I like my google Pixel, until my work started requiring iPhone as work phones

[fair gull]

so just wait for apple to go folding devices?

[frozen drift]

I can always choose other brands but I'm thinking of getting some decent performing ones, not just cheap ones if possible(tbh Idk what is being compromised but I don't mind spending SOME money). The fold is quite expensive tbh, flip is still fine.

[tribal dirge]

because apparently iPhones have certain security clearances and audits that Android phones lack so that is why they made the switch so that they are able to get higher security clearances to be able to do more sensitive work.

[fair gull]

like the current rumors are 2026 h2 apple will release a foldable iphone

[frozen drift]

I don't think they are doing this anytime soon right? I kinda need one new phone pretty urgently as my phone literally blackouts(goes into loading screen with spinning loading animation) from time to time.

[umbral heron]

Another iPhone 6?

[frozen ingot]

apple has started adding unnecessary bloat to ios as well just so they can boast about actually adding new things, like it already has everything in software you'll need

[frozen drift]

I'm thinking of trying andriod phones instead now.

[tribal dirge]

I wish Apple didnt add ai slop to iOS

[fair gull]

android is going backwards atm

[nimble arch]

You just disable Apple Intelligence if you don’t like it

[frozen drift]

Like I said I want to try something more premium, and I feel like iphone's new design language is utter garbage in my eyes as well. The iphone 17 air is utter trash. It is regressing is where I'm getting at, nothing new/innovative.

[fair gull]

especially in terms of how open the platform is to third party apps

[tribal dirge]

true lmao, I do have it turned off

[frozen drift]

oof.

[fair gull]

im actually hoping apple does a nice foldable next year so i can switch to them the year after when the do the next foldable

[nimble arch]

I’ve got it enabled because I find the notification and email summaries useful. The models all run locally so nothing to gain by disabling it IMHO.

[fair gull]

i am so looking to leave android if they dont change course

[frozen ingot]

like these stupid extra lockscreens that you're supposed to toggle through, different background modes for your notifications etc, and some older apps they've straight up botched like the clock app

or the keyboard

you prepare your timer with minutes/secs etc, do nothing but lock your phone or switch to another app and it has reset the time you just put in

[tribal dirge]

Here is the thing, it's all optional lmao

[frozen ingot]

yeah but its in the fucking way

[tribal dirge]

Wack

[tribal dirge]

I don't mind android, everything just has so many extra steps in android

[fair gull]

well i dont mind it as it is right now either

just the direction they announced its heading isnt my android

[frozen ingot]

just putting your finger on the screen for a moment while locked accesses that damn lockscreen slideshow. dunno how many times I've had that shit go off on accident while I was trying to use the flashlight or just unlocking the damn device while distracted with something else

this is the kind of janky ass bloat I'd expect of a samsung or something not the supposedly efficient and minimalist fruit computer doctrine

[tribal dirge]

Ngl that hasn't been an issue for me, but I can see why that is frustrating

[frozen ingot]

sometimes you just have more than one thing in your hand and might have to rest a finger somewhere on the screen to hold it "oh did you want this feature" NO FUCK OFF ALREADY ASHHGFJ JD BB

I swear we're going backwards in terms of software and have been for some time now

[fair gull]

dont use your phone while wrangling your willy

[frozen ingot]

also bring back the skeuomorphic ios themes

the corpo minimalist thing sucks ass and always will

[crimson wigeon]

Soon

[magic minnow]

@unkempt lake https://abxylute.com/products/abxylute-snap-on-mobile-gamepad?

[plush stirrup]

yes, I looked further into it when I was looking for a tablet hence why I trusted AI

the specs of that honor one were interesting, but like 1 OS update, wtf man before I actually need those specs my OS will be too old to run things 😄

[crimson wigeon]

Sad state of such restricted computers, meanwhile the open x86_64 computers oh you got a 15 year old machine sure good enough for the newest OS it just might be a bit slow

[plush stirrup]

or a Samsung, considering they get longer updates and will run the same OS, apple has a minimum of 5years, Samsung 7 (though it's likely Apple will go above that 5y, but still)

[nimble arch]

Apple is more like 8-10 years once you factor in the security updates.

[plush stirrup]

yeah, if only we could have devices like laptops for example where the only reason it stops getting updates is because the hardware is getting too old, but to be fair compared to before 7years is already becomming great

[pale sigil]

Aye

[plush stirrup]

But it is not a guarantee, if they want to, it's 5 years, they will likely support it longer because they got a track record of that. But they could've easily said 7years like samsung as well, but they didn't.

DDR5 prices insane man xD

[tribal dirge]

It's because all the new AI datacenters are buying up lots of memory.

[magic minnow]

Aren’t ram companies holding back as well because of the tariffs

[tribal dirge]

The majority of the ones that started construction in 2021-2022 are now starting to finish construction and are now being populated with lots of computers.

[tribal dirge]

That too

[magic minnow]

Bruh bought this at 358$ and now

[plush stirrup]

I bought mine at below 300, lowest now is 600eur

[tribal dirge]

I am so glad I build my pc 6 months ago rather than waiting until now

[magic minnow]

Yeah this is insane

[tribal dirge]

And I got a 128gb kit

[plush stirrup]

😭

[tribal dirge]

Holy shit

[plush stirrup]

ye bought this for 300 not that long ago :x

so happy I did that lmao

[magic minnow]

Big console trying to keep indie pc gamers down

[ashen spindle]

thats just when they stop making one xmp kit usually, ram prices arent that much up in general

[plush stirrup]

this kit is just out

[frozen ingot]

I lowkey regret not getting more ram when I built my rig a year ago

[plush stirrup]

lowest prices

your only luck is a crucial pro rn, with very high latency compared to the others

[ashen spindle]

eh, price will go down again, and on the next platform we dont use ddr5 anyway so if you wait that long no point having more now

[plush stirrup]

Will take a while before it returns to what it initially was though

[magic minnow]

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wblock/id6746388723

New safari adblocker

[nimble arch]

W

[wheat plume]

Wait, Safari on mobile supports add ons but Chrome still doesnt .-.

FFS GOOGLE

[sudden imp]

WAIT REAPPY? No virus???

[pale sigil]

It happened to me in real time, the ram I actually bought went up £20 on overnight, thankfully Amazon refunded me the £20 "one off"

[reef patrol]

[pale sigil]

It wasn't the ones in the pic though

[marsh glade]

RAM got 50% more expensive in the last two months or so, to buy now is to bet that this will continue unabated

[pale sigil]

It'll recover but who knows how long till then.

[ashen spindle]

should buy ram stock isntead and sell the gains to afford ram

though tbf might be too late for that I think they already shot up

[magic minnow]

I’ve been using it for a month through TestFlight

Works better than wipr 2

[marsh glade]

By the time it's in the news, it's already too late

[sudden imp]

I did not know safari had extensions

[reef patrol]

And they called me Crazy for getting 64gb earlier this year... Heh

[ashen spindle]

thank you masnen my micron stock was 94 and it sold at 190

now I can afford another wooting

[reef patrol]

Honestly the price difference to 48GB was minimal at the time, and didn't want to stay at 32GB with such a big upgrade

[halcyon moss]

What are you, some kind of vm running developer?

[steady sail]

[fair gull]

man she must feel shit for having not made anyone happy with the win11 design

[vapid ruin]

Nah, I bet she at least get paid well

[pale sigil]

I was happy

[rough osprey]

better then windows versions before 🤷‍♂️

[pale sigil]

The only thing I disliked was the context menu

But I regedit the old one back

[halcyon moss]

Win 11 looks nice.

[reef patrol]

I heavily doubt she did it all on her own, and without heavy input and discussion

[halcyon moss]

Don't like the start menu being middle centered.. But it looks nice

[pale sigil]

I didn't at first

But I kinda like it now, I never click the taskbar anyway.

[reef patrol]

I don't like either or use either.

[ashen spindle]

its ragebait, that article is almost 5 years old and she just worked on widgets

[pale sigil]

Then again I was a freak who had it at the top with w10

[rough osprey]

[pale sigil]

The start menu is completely redundant for me, it has been for years.

Just give me search on its own with Internet search disabled and I'm happy, the windows powertoy one Is nice.

[halcyon moss]

I hate posts like this. Ppl can change careers.
This just focuses online hate on a single person. I bet she had to block all her socials

It's just being a meanie

[pale sigil]

Tis why if I ever am in that position I'm keeping my name out of it lol

[ashen spindle]

yeah its a ragebait account

[pale sigil]

Company accounts only

[halcyon moss]

Good boy for being an acclomplice

[gusty kiln]

I replaced jellyfin with emby and so far so good

basically the same but more stable

[frozen ingot]

how tf do you live to her age and never used a pc once

I don't buy that in a million years

[gusty kiln]

being amish?

[unkempt lake]

Do you expect anything else from a twitter user?

[unkempt lake]

Also in this case... visual design, doesn't require technical knowledge

It's more about knowledge of human psychology and how they interact with visuals

[unkempt lake]

Mac user

?

[thick elk]

Never tried emby, sync play work alright there, as that is my main use for jellyfin

[frozen ingot]

still, she never once used one in school, at a library or at work for her whole life

[unkempt lake]

Fancy private schools using macs?

[gusty kiln]

10.11.0 simply broke jellyfin for me

[leaden kiln]

Doesn’t a mac qualify as a personal computer
Assuming they that with pc since they say ”PC or Windows” instead of windows pc

[unkempt lake]

i'm not sure... a lot of people associate pc with windows

I mean even way back then

[ashen spindle]

who cares its a dumb argument by a ragebait account thats anti DEI anti woman etc. etc. just ignore and move on

[thick elk]

Don't use it that much, so have not used it since the recent update but when I started sync play basically the main reason I got it.

[frozen ingot]

that's why am ignoring those topics of it

[pale sigil]

Is there even any point for Intel these days

With gaming

I don't even think about them anymore and I just realised that lol

[ashen spindle]

yea almost every segment aside from "I want the best" is better served by intel

budget, midrange, creation, OC etc.

[crimson wigeon]

Yeah I want the best memory controller

[whole bramble]

intel nics are good

[ashen spindle]

thats not something you use for gaming though

[whole bramble]

unless you play games offline :p

i do like my b580, even though i havent been able to test it much

[compact scaffold]

yo guys can you help me out it’s not keyboard related though

i’ve got my monitor here all plugged up and everything and it’s still black

says DVI no signal

what do?

[ashen spindle]

new pc?

guess the pc killed him

[compact scaffold]

sorry making eggs, no i just took it apart to clean my desk and when i put it back together no workie

it has power and everything idk what’s wrong

[ashen spindle]

cable plugged into the gpu and not the board? any LED ont he board that shows an error?

might just have to reseat the gpu it might not be fully in

or cpu/ram isnt pressed in all the way if you took them out too

[compact scaffold]

i didn’t touch the inside of the pc at all just blew like pressurised air in to clean the dust and stuff, otherwise it’s all the same and it’s all plugged in the same

[gentle osprey]

Hopefully you didn't mess anything up with the canned air

[compact scaffold]

oh darn you think? that might be it but i don’t think it is because it all runs and stuff the monitor is just black

[swift osprey]

what actuation point do yall recommend for BF6?

[ashen spindle]

whatever you prefer to use

[swift osprey]

currently at .3 for WASD keys

[ashen spindle]

its all down to preference there is no better or worse than what works for you

[swift osprey]

what do u run?

[ashen spindle]

idk dont remember

[steady sail]

me with 1mm actuation point on all my keys

but yeah its completly preference what u use

as i use this setup, for typing/gaming

[swift osprey]

if rapid trigger is set to .15 active and .50 deactivate does it take priority over actuation point?

[weary cedar]

woke up today and my wooting is pressing down random buttons on its own wtf is happening

can’t even put my pin in to my pc

[steady sail]

unplug and replug

[swift osprey]

did u spill beer on it?

[weary cedar]

no lol no spilling

[weary cedar]

yea i tried

[steady sail]

try other USB ports or just use the on-screem keyboard

[weary cedar]

used a compressed air can to see if there was debris or something messing it up but i think it’s a software issue

that’s a good idea

yeah it’s working fine with the on screen keyboard it’s just the wooting acting up

alt caps lock and v are stuck

[steady sail]

make a post in #1019755933959733258

[weary cedar]

yea i think i will thanks

[pale sigil]

Aged well

[plush stirrup]

Excuses for an upgrade! 😉

[pale sigil]

Next tablet will have a screen protector and a better case XD

Thankfully I only paid £210 and goitt 2 years out of it

Struggling to type because I cut my thumb picking it up

All patched up

[magic minnow]

Bandage

[pale sigil]

Barley noticable

[plush stirrup]

I paid 99eur for my S6 lite LTE a little over 2y ago, somehow the screen is still alive, though it is almost in 2 pieces, as in it's separating from the tablet but still works, I suppose it only needs some glue

CPU is too outdated for today's usage though, so is RAM

[pale sigil]

I only use it for Netflix, YouTube and Plex tbh

[plush stirrup]

I only pay for primevideo, and I also use jellyfin, both still work xD

but multitasking is a no, even typing lags at times xD

[pale sigil]

I don't pay for Netflix or Crunchyroll

[plush stirrup]

like I can type a letter and it'll activate the hold for other character feature thingy

[pale sigil]

Netflix = Mum
Crunchyroll = Brother

I run my own Plex server

[plush stirrup]

netflix is blocked on my network for the account I got access to, though I changed IP so it might not be anymore

[pale sigil]

That's weird, unless it a region block.

[plush stirrup]

nahh the account sharing thing xD

[rough patrol]

That corner makes me think of those videos where cats bite the screen on macbooks

[pale sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-bite-macbook-destroy-kitty-gif-1597605186380759053

Omg

Yes

There was a funny one but I can't find jt

[rough patrol]

Bro really just lets the cat chew on it for several seconds and only intervenes when its too late

[pale sigil]

Oh that isn't a thing anymore due to their family share block, I have a VPN on my mum's router so I use it once a month for 2 seconds so Netflix thinks they are on the same network.

Literally just connect, play video and disconnect till the next month I do it again.

[rough patrol]

That sounds

Very automatable

[plush stirrup]

yeah idk if their router can even do VPN or if they'd let me, but I don't mind I got other ways 😛

[pale sigil]

For sure but it takes me less than a minute once a month so IDC

[marsh glade]

https://www.cseed.com/en/indoor-tv/c-seed-n1-tv.html

200k for a TV

[plush stirrup]

3.8kW of power usage lmao

[weary cedar]

i fixed it had to reset wootility to default settings

[tribal dirge]

oh shit

[gentle osprey]

$400k for the 165" model

[magic minnow]

I got the haribo powrbank!

20,000mah is insane for 25$

[analog sinew]

[rough patrol]

I should get it tbh

[magic minnow]

https://a.co/d/fbYqw3V

It kept selling out

[alpine patio]

cheap, light, 20k and licensed?

seems sus lol

[magic minnow]

Could be cause of the low speeds 22.5

[alpine patio]

22.5 is quite good imo

my current one is 22.5

[magic minnow]

I have an anker one, but this haribo one looks wayyyyy more compact

[alpine patio]

yea this seems just better than mine rn in every way and price

[fair gull]

now test it on really wonky 2.4ghz that cuts out sometimes

way better results if you do that

[gentle osprey]

gonna be like grade D/F with 200+ ms latency lol

[fair gull]

big number = good

monkey brain happy

[lunar elm]

AMD thought process creating whatever 9950X3D2;

[wheat plume]

How long until Google prevent side loading?

[nimble arch]

Globally? 2027.

[analog sinew]

the users will own nothing and like it

[vapid ruin]

well I do hope chinese phone did a modification to allow it cause I bet samsung wont

[wheat plume]

Aosp is being locked down too
Gonna no longer to freely available

So the Chinese brands are fucked too

[vapid ruin]

if I can't sideload wtf I'm using android for

[wheat plume]

Literally right?!

[nimble arch]

Pixel devices are kinda cool/useful if you're Google'd from head to toe.

[wheat plume]

Well
I need Android cause Bluetooth doesn't work properly on iPhone

[nimble arch]

I, however, am not a full Google ecosystem user.

[wheat plume]

It won't automatically connect to any paired device
It only automatically connects to the last connected paired device.....
So if I was using my headphones , then I get into my car to drive, iPhone cannot automatically connect to my cars Bluetooth cause it was last paired to my headphones

Meanwhile, Android can automatically connect and it also remembers the volume levels per paired device

[vapid ruin]

google wise, I only use youtube and gmail, so I'm fine in that regard at least.

[nimble arch]

I have not had that same experience with Bluetooth on Apple devices.

[wheat plume]

My friend has 3 Bluetooth devices and this always happened to her on iPhone

If she was using her earbuds
Then turned them off and went to drive somewhere
She'd have to manually connect her iPhone to the car Bluetooth

Even though both were paired device on the phone

She wants to go back to Android

[ashen spindle]

sounds like the classic issue of the bluetooth device needs to be reset because its list of paired devices is broken

[ashen spindle]

wow insane how that post form 3 years ago has a most upvoted comment that has a fix for the issue and wow its the thing I guessed

[umbral heron]

Spoiler: trigger warning

[ashen spindle]

I barely use bluetooth but maybe dont use a reddit post as an argument why its broken when the top comment says resert devices fixes it xD

hell might even be apple update is the culprit because they messed it up but I feel like if it can be fixed by resetting your 3 devices once thats more tolerable than changing phone brand where it can still happen lol

[vapid ruin]

lmao

analog cable ftw

a dongle solves the issue of not having one

[sick stump]

headphone jack

[umbral heron]

Bluetooth earbuds:

• have to charge them
• have to charge the case
• you forget to charge them - no music
• problems with pairing
• worse audio quality
  Wired earbuds:
• plug them in and they work
• oh no I have to deal with a tiny bit of wire oh no reeee

[ashen spindle]

ehh worse audio these days isnt really accurate anymore

if they do worse tuning or use worse parts thats not because of bluetooth

and the same way pairing can have issues, what do you do if your cable has issues and you dont have a spare

[frozen ingot]

one of my linkbuds refused to charge anymore after 2+ years

its very convenient though with wireless buds

[wheat plume]

The main thing I like about wireless buds is the carry case is small and it's easy to put them back in and carry it

With wired earbuds it's tricky to get back back into the bag

If my phone had a headphone jack, I would use it though cause I do have wired IEMs

[frozen ingot]

at home I mostly use wired but gotten used to wireless on the go

[wheat plume]

the overall relationship
Xdd why's that so funny to me?

[frozen ingot]

they were pretty gud sound and featurewise but disappointing reliability

kinda leaning towards airpods pro 3 when I get around to replacing them

[wheat plume]

How well do they work on Android?
Is the app for them available?

[frozen ingot]

I don't know am on iphone

my brother got airpods max or what they called with an android though and it seems to work well enough

[umbral heron]

Is AI a fucking joke?
Yes, yes it is.

[old marlin]

yea it's not the Canon 80-200 EF 2.8 it is the Canon EF 80-200mm f/2.8 L

[mild dome]

Any day now one of the company CEOs is going to walk forward and just admit "We aren't actually replacing workers with AI, the economy is just in a recession so we've been doing mass layoffs and hoping you wouldn't notice because we tossed an AI themed tarp over it to hide it all!"

[umbral heron]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/503560/911_Operator/ free on Steam

Steam

911 Operator

In 911 OPERATOR, you take on the role of an emergency dispatcher, who has to rapidly deal with the incoming reports. Your task is not just to pick up the calls, but also to react appropriately to the situation – sometimes giving first aid instructions is enough, at other times a police, fire department or paramedics’ intervention is a necessit…

Price

$2.99

Recommendations

14170

Metacritic

68

▶ Play video

[marsh glade]

Now that's a good price

too good

[whole bramble]

kids training to be irl 911 operators just like games trained all the military drone operators

[ashen spindle]

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/

[marsh glade]

The Department of Energy is a wild place

[ashen spindle]

6 months for a ai cluster, 4 years for the actually useful HPC cluster, bleak

[marsh glade]

They preside over Q-level information, for which the mere utterance of it can be consdiered high treason punishible by death

[ashen spindle]

also stock market did not care one bit which just shows how openai is the only thing that moves tech market which is scary

[marsh glade]

A fun thought experiment: what is the most dangerous thought humanity has ever had?

||I wonder if there is a neutral version of the proton||

[fair gull]

me no think me caveman

[fair gull]

probably rokos basilisk

[bright briar]

ddr5 32gb cl30 ram jumping up to 300 cad

[bright briar]

@unkempt lake shoutout to dashi for helping me

[fair gull]

you forgot to get thermal mayo

https://tenor.com/view/pc-cpu-thermal-paste-mother-gif-27156394

[bright briar]

im getting that later within the week with my new case

[fair gull]

pls dont actually put mayo between mobo and cpu

[bright briar]

this isnt my first time building a pc tony lool

but just for you i will

[fair gull]

ok

pls record so you can farm yt money

[bright briar]

"How to get MAX FPS in FORTNITE"

[unkempt lake]

I prefer peanut butter as paste

[fair gull]

so that after years the cpu is glued to the heatsink from the thermal paste and its glued to the mobo from the peanut butter

good idea

[bright briar]

[marsh glade]

Just follow these steps

[fair gull]

instructions unclear. built a nuclear power plant on mars

[marsh glade]

The factory must expand.

[steady sail]

just use kechup as thermal paste

[fair gull]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iyOeH8pzzNg

[umbral heron]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/suing-a-popular-youtuber-who-shimmed-a-130-lock-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/

[bright briar]

ty mark i will follow this video closely

[jaunty rose]

Thats so awesome!!!! i hope you enjoy all those awesome games you’ve been waiting to play!!

[covert steppe]

Fire choices

[pale sigil]

Why RGB memory

[ashen spindle]

90% of memory is rgb these days

[jaunty rose]

So it can remember in style

[zenith silo]

The rgb kits cost basically the same as non rgb now so why not

Some of the rgb kits I found were cheaper than non rgb while having the same specs

[steady sail]

yeah thats facts

[unkempt lake]

Actually he got the same patriot kit i made you get its just cuz his friend needed ram and he could get a discount for adding ram

Its a long story but he got his ram earlier cuz i warned him about poopy prices

[pale sigil]

See

Dashi made me and someone else get it

She admitted it

[crisp granite]

Dashi also is an indoor snek that does nothing but look at tech

and her cat

[tribal kelp]

meanwhile I go out of my way to avoid all things lighting in cases and PCs...

[empty wren]

On the upside less heat

[tribal kelp]

I mean, theoretically true.
Unsure if it's measurable.

I really should openrgb and delete the gpu lights. 😂

[lunar elm]

5090fe being in a wholeass full ATX case will never not disturb me

[gentle osprey]

Yeah FE is smol

[tribal kelp]

But it runs so nice and cool in there... : 😭

[lunar elm]

its not about the temps, its about the size of the card being in a large case

[tribal kelp]

well it used to be a 4090 FE in there

which was monstrous

[lunar elm]

now it feels lackluster in terms of gpu size xd

[tribal kelp]

such a bigass card

5090 looks better

[lunar elm]

objectively 5090fe looks better but the 4090fe fills up more space

[zenith silo]

damn 5090fe is way smaller

meanwhile the non fe version are fucking chonky

[tribal kelp]

yeah the 5090 FE is a thermal engineering masterpiece

It's just so impressive.

[lunar elm]

4090fe is like 3 or 3.25 slot card

[zenith silo]

if only it didnt cost as much as my entire build did

[tribal kelp]

right?

[lunar elm]

5090fe is 2 slot card, really nice how they overbuilt the card to 2 slots while having a 600w tdp

[tribal kelp]

I got it for no sales tax at MSRP with $5 shipping

[tribal kelp]

it's absolutely impresssive

[lunar elm]

i want a FE for the T1

5090’s kinda unrealistic for me tho, considering asking my friend to get either the 70 or
80 super refreshes

[tribal kelp]

I went from 1080 Ti FE to 4090 FE and wasn't planning on a 5090 FE until one was up for like 5 hours available at NEX... couldn't resist

sold the 4090 FE though, for what I paid for it (and probably could have sold it even higher)

[lunar elm]

i mean tbh at that point I’d consider it scalping but hey, your decision man, also wouldnt blame ya for taking advantage of idiots on the market still paying this much for a 4090

[tribal kelp]

it's insane to think that a stupid GPU that's a model year older can be used (but well cared for) and sell for more than it cost originally.

It's like they're friggin porsche 911s or something, an investment.

[tribal kelp]

I sold it on a dedicated discord that's there to help folks find cards, new or used, (they have stock alerts and stuff, it's the only reason I got either card), and they have a used forum that allows it to be sold up to exact purchase price but no more.

So I just followed their rules, did exactly that. Dude that bought it was happy. I was happy. Good enough for me.

Still absurd that I recovered all of my money but shipping.

[lunar elm]

its a top of the line card, those normally more % value than anything lower- This is more apparent when the 5090 launched with basically no improve in node- People just think its a beefed up 4090

for pure gaming I’d still pick a 5070ti or 5080 (fe) over a 4090 tbh

[gentle osprey]

by the time 6090 launches, I can still sell my 4090 for more than I bought for or roughly break even

[tribal kelp]

5090 was the ticket for running some of the LLM stuff I needed to run for converting thousands of PDFs into markdown language.

[lunar elm]

I plan to sell my aorus master ice for MSRP before 6090 launch lmao

[tribal kelp]

literally can't run the workload on less than 32 GB VRAM

[lunar elm]

Yea, bright side for the 5090 is that its the first consumer card featuring more than 24gigs

[tribal kelp]

yeah, and that means it can scratch the surface of some AI workloads

(or run the static 2d image workloads at native compile instead of cut-down versions)

It was a gaming improvement, but nothing mind-blowing. Just.... frames per dollar a wash.

(and still nothing runs native 4k with RT and Path Tracing (no fake frames or upsampling) ... despite 4 full generations of RT cards 💀)

also 6090 probably a year out

(or two years, and a year of bot-buying sold-out scalping)

[tribal dirge]

It's not more than 32 gigs, but is 32 gigs

[lunar elm]

sorry, meant to put more than 24*

[tribal dirge]

Ah

Yeah ig

[whole bramble]

there is the 4090 smuggling stuff

china casually swapping the ram and fitting 128gigs

[vapid ruin]

Everything is an investment if somebody wanna buy it for more later

[tribal kelp]

Yeah, and maybe that's where it went.

Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy.

Pretty sure it was a gamer though, because he sold his 5080 after getting the 4090.

[whole bramble]

tf?

[umbral heron]

[halcyon moss]

Ppl park at supermarkets, Ppl can charge car while in supermarket. Smart

[old marlin]

Also 3/4 brands there are german

And you have high adaptation rates for car tech here

[analog sinew]

lidl lohnt sich

[old marlin]

(kaufland also is part of the same brand umbrella as lidl)

[rough patrol]

oh is that why they both suck ass

[old marlin]

They are quite different in concept

[umbral heron]

Kaufland is the best, they have these nimm2 knockoffs which are made by Storck too and taste exactly the same
And Lidl has fresh meat and Parkside stuff

[old marlin]

Also lidl is fine?

[reef patrol]

Isn't that bad for the batteries though? Doing small chunks of recharging instead of a proper one overnight at home?

[umbral heron]

Cars have Li-ion batteries, and they love being recharged as little and as often as possible

[old marlin]

Technically yes, in reality it isn't too bad with modern packs

[reef patrol]

Ic ic. I don't car. I figured they just used larger and more cells like smartphones.

[rough patrol]

i'm lidl hater cause they advertise big with their cheap prices but you go there and you only get them if you use their app and give them all your data

and if you dont their prices are like the same as rewe which is generally much better

[old marlin]

They basically exclusively use more cells

[reef patrol]

Yeah... also not a fan of Lidl here either. No price scanner anywhere, no app option to read tags, and everything is a mess.

And the app for discounts shit.

[rough patrol]

and kaufland is so stupid, they always have massive stores but they never have what you want

[old marlin]

Reality is that the "higher end" supermarkets like rewe and edeka are just really cheap as well now

To be viable against discounters

[umbral heron]

Your Lidl is quite different than ours then

[rough patrol]

i just go to rewe now cause i can actually find stuff

[old marlin]

I don't think i ever needed a price scanner

[rough patrol]

my rewe is not big but they still have basically everything i need, even some drinks that you dont find at other supermarkets

[reef patrol]

Items are often not in the spot they're supposed to, or the price tag is missing on the shelf. So... yeah.

[old marlin]

Oh, that's not really a thing here

[umbral heron]

Here there's like usually 2 price scanners per store

[old marlin]

A lot of lidls are switching to electronic price tags as well nowadays

[rough patrol]

honestly i'd go to penny over lidl

[old marlin]

Never seen one here outside an electronics store

[umbral heron]

Usually 2 per Lidl, one near vegetables, and near alcohol aisle

Biedronka has 1 near checkout and Leclerc has like 6, every 5 aisles or so

[reef patrol]

Yeah we have those in most stores, Lidl included. Doesn't help if the item you have in hand isn't on the tag. And there's no price scanner (we have them in other competing brand stores)

[halcyon moss]

its rare to see them here.

but lidl has the best veggies for the best price near me.

[halcyon moss]

thats for ni-mh batteries.

[umbral heron]

Li-ions both in cars and smartphones like to be charged often and little
Charging only from 20 to 80% increases battery life almost 3 times

[fair gull]

ah crap it already is doing it

[alpine patio]

btw anyone familiar with bambu labs? theres a big ass offer soon and im looking to pick up my first personal printer

kinda lost on the things to get outside the printer itself

[umbral heron]

Great printer, I have A1
The only issue is that you have to use Bambu Slicer, to use other slicers you have to enable Developer Mode in printer

With it I'd recommend getting 0.2 and 0.4 hardened nozzle, and that's it
I bought several of these fancy plates, not really using them anymore

And if you want to print in something else than PLA, like PETG or TPU, get a cheap filament dryer like Creality Space Pi or similar

[reef patrol]

Have A1 as well. No complaints so far. Not using their apps though.

[umbral heron]

For filaments though I wouldn't recommend Bambu, a lot of people seem to have problems with it being pre-tangled for you in the factory
I'm running Rosa3D and Sunlu/Jayo plastics and I'm really happy with them

Oh, and if you want to print some fancy filaments with stuff in it, like carbon fiber or wood get a 0.6 nozzle for them, 0.4 clogs like crazy

[reef patrol]

I'm using some uhh... offbrand ones I got locally. Seems fine 😄

[umbral heron]

I noticed that cheap offbrand ones are really easy to print with
I have some pink TPU from no-name Chinese company, prints amazingly

[reef patrol]

I haven't done anything that required a nice finish. It's all internal structure. But eventually I'll get around to it, heh.

[umbral heron]

With TPU is more if it string horribly or prints nice
I have some premium orange TPU and it's a nightmare, strings like crazy, no matter if I dry it for 24h and then keep it sealed in dryer
Meanwhile this no-name pink one just prints great after 6h of drying on Generic TPU settings

[pale sigil]

Bambu is kinda overpriced

But I get why people like them, even with the controversy.

[reef patrol]

I got mine for free via company, and at a discount they were running.

[pale sigil]

Aye I remember

[reef patrol]

If that discount hadn't been there, it would have been the Mini instead. So no complaints.

[pale sigil]

Honestly, I'm not recommending when I say this but damn I'm still blown away by my ender 3 V3 ke

It's such a beast for so cheap

However I was eyeing the elegoo centauri carbon but they just announced the second version.

And they are potentially back tracking on the ams promise for the v1

[umbral heron]

A1 is one of the cheapest around here that don't need babying the whole time
No bed leveling, no playing with firmware, no dealing with extruder
Just load filament, wipe bed, press print in slicer and it works

[fair gull]

i only used an ender idk what version at my old job and it was a pain of a printer

constant leveling, slightest air temp changes could cause issues, had to install custom firmware to get some nicer features and such

[pale sigil]

That's why I say the ke is a beast

I feel like it's an outlier lol

My last ender I returned as it was just so fucking annoying

[umbral heron]

Ender is for people who want to have 3d printing as a hobby and not use 3d printing as extension for their hobbies

[pale sigil]

But it's rarely been hassle for me, just fill and print.

Auto leveling does its job fine, it's rare I've had issues really.

Petg is wonderful too once I realized it was the spool I had.

[alpine patio]

icic, im also looking at the a1, no other stuff needed?

[pale sigil]

I wouldn't recommend creality, I'm just saying the KE has been wonderful for me.

But tbh it's person to person experience, my friend had the p1s and it was a nightmare for him

[umbral heron]

Yeah, it basically comes with everything
Just get 0.2 nozzle if you want to print some detailed stuff like minifigs and 0.6 for wood or CF/GF filaments

[pale sigil]

I will admit I also love the open source aspect, I run my own software which I genuinely love.

I just ssh into the machine and ran my own stuff, mainly fluidd and moonraker

[alpine patio]

also

filament reccs? lol

[pale sigil]

And klipper is always a pro which creality only just started using

Oh the a1 uses a similar bed rail like the ke which is why it's plug and play and not needing to level a lot

[umbral heron]

Avoid Bambu, a bit overpriced for quality and a lot of people has problems with pre-tangled spools
Sunly and Jayo (Sunlu's OEM brand) are great price/quality
Other than that not really

[pale sigil]

Just get what's cheapest

I've rarely had bad experiences with filament brands

Eryone is good for example

Esun I've had the worst experience with

[alpine patio]

will do ill look up some local retailers

ngl i did not know wood filament was a thing

looks very nice

[pale sigil]

Well

Good stuff isn't cheap

[umbral heron]

People be doing crazy stuff with it https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1mnc66p/wood_pla_works_great/

[pale sigil]

I got some wood pla, it doesn't look great tbh, if you want the gold stuff they have actual wood fibers in them.

[umbral heron]

I have Sunlu PLA Cherry Wood, it's really nice

[pale sigil]

*good stuff

You can batch buy sunlu so cheap on Ali

It's decent stuff

[marsh glade]

Hell yea

Sure beats the Equifax settlement distribution of like $2.50

[whole bramble]

With the P1P on such a massive discount, why not go with that one?

[marsh glade]

All I remember from Bambu labs was the controversy they embroiled themselves in

Something something anti consumer bricking thing something something

[alpine patio]

oh i forgot

is the combo needed/recc for a1?

[whole bramble]

Yeah my bambu has been banished to no internet access until it breaks down and shits itself

I would only buy a bambu if i knew i could roll back the updates which i'm pretty sure you can do with older model printers

not the new 2 series ones though

but tbh it's not that big of a deal, it requires internet access to the cloud or use of some connector app

[marsh glade]

Until AWS goes down and you can't print

[whole bramble]

Well I can't sleep either way because me bed extends in an upright position when it looses dns so what does it matter /j

[umbral heron]

Not really
If you really want to print in multicolor then you can go for combo with AMS
BUT - printing takes forever and it produces a ton of "poop", waste filament when changing colors
I skipped AMS, not really need it, and if I want to do 2-color print I can pause print and change filament manually

[alpine patio]

icic good to know

if multi is the only benefit ill skip it def

[umbral heron]

Only if you want to use it with Bambu ecosystem, so remote access, cloud etc.
If you want to keep your printer local just enable dev mode and it banishes printer from Bambu cloud and gives you control over it

[whole bramble]

This

I run my printer with no ams, my parts are purely functional idc about looks

[alpine patio]

oh its just not avail in my region

[whole bramble]

:(

[old marlin]

they wanted to go cloud only

[fair gull]

very interesting way to bork a system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkm8BuMc4sQ

prob smth @umbral heron would laugh that someone even made the mistake

[umbral heron]

Yeah, using HP

[whole bramble]

how the hell do you not have backups of 28 tbs

That's an impressive amount of data loss while having backups

[vagrant pagoda]

that is after the public backlash

[umbral heron]

So backlash worked

[marsh glade]

Yes

[vagrant pagoda]

atfirst bambus solution for using you're own slicer offline was don't update

which is wild for a printer that gets 50% of its value from the firmware

also meant you couldn't buy new printers and use offline/own slicer

now you have to enable dev mode which makes it Lan only

[umbral heron]

Good
It should be LAN only anyway, no need to expose printer to Internet

[vagrant pagoda]

then you can't use any of bambus other software

no Bambu slicer, no Bambu app, nada

imagine the only way to use Gmail on iso made you disconnect from apples servers completely

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/okay-and-cole-ellis-wild-cards-so-what-okay-and-then-what-gif-14537741028603327052

[vagrant pagoda]

that software you paid for

[reef patrol]

Doing just fine with Orcaslicer here. I don't see a need for any of their apps

[vagrant pagoda]

its the only thing that makes Bambu different

[marsh glade]

That used to be added value

Then the said fuck you, and it became a detractor

[umbral heron]

Nah, it's the firmware, the whole self-calibrating and an army of sensors shebang
But it works with other software too, so OrcaSlicer instead Bambu Slicer, Home Assistant instead of Bambu app etc.

[vagrant pagoda]

the software is the only thing Bambu did different

they have zero original hardware concepts

its allthe software

[umbral heron]

firmware, not software

[vagrant pagoda]

and locking users out of future updates to that software

ffirmware is software

[umbral heron]

Here's it's completely different
And you can still use their great printer with your own slicer, automation, whatever, ignore Bambu ecosystem and not lose anything, as for everything there's a replacement

[vagrant pagoda]

other than firmware updates

[reef patrol]

Sure - But that was already resolved.

[tribal kelp]

Should have been 1,000x that amount if they wanted to actually teach Facebook a lesson. 😄

But yeah, it's less insulting than Equifax data breach giving you a year of free Equifax monitoring, where they need access to your data...

[frozen drift]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qwZ5TYVtunc

Asus ROG making a 96% layout HE keyboard like corsair

[vapid ruin]

ehh, feels like a meh. But one more thing to push woot to do a full sized refresh

[frozen drift]

Wooting is getting competitions in the HE keyboard field tbh, but the one big advantage is that wooting is the ONLY keyboard manufacturer in HE keyboard field that includes actual analog function, making it very attractive for people who are into racing games

[frozen drift]

yep. I am hoping that the full sized refresh ticks all the boxes for me, really want to try out wooting's keyboard for once in the near future.

[alpine patio]

[vapid ruin]

ahh, the usual

[alpine patio]

i kinda dont wanna buy it now lol

[spare badge]

why does keyboard quickly reconnect and disconnect sometimes, ive tried using USB port instead of hub alrdy

[rough patrol]

if you have an 80he it may be the internal cable being loose

[alpine patio]

and it makes it over the limit

so i need to pay import tax

yea im not going to get a printer

[spare badge]

tried replugging it, will see if theres still issues now thanks

can the problem can 8000hz, ive checked reddit and some say it

[steady sail]

it can

[spare badge]

;w; thats kinda sad

[alpine patio]

25 bucks for shipping accesories which is seperate from the machine shipping

[spare badge]

changed it to 1k and its fixed!

[spare badge]

as i said that it happened again

[ashen spindle]

#1019755933959733258 make a post about it there so people notice it easier

[spare badge]

thanks, i replugged everything if still doesnt work ill make one there

[tribal kelp]

Does the USB header that the 80HE is plugged in to make a difference? Signal to noise, transmission, etc?

[rough patrol]

not really as long as it meets spec and the controller isnt overwhelmed

[reef patrol]

The what now?

[rough patrol]

usb controller

[reef patrol]

The what now?

The USB daughterboard inside?

[rough patrol]

on the motherboard

[reef patrol]

I'm asking Shadow. The person who asked 😄

[tribal kelp]

Yeah, I'm asking specifically if the USB hub (on the motherboard, or its headers going to things like front panel I/O) can cause signal integrity issues in the cords going to the keyboard.

[reef patrol]

No. It's all digital.

[old marlin]

because digital means it automatically has no signal integrity issues

[reef patrol]

In theory connecting to the USB that the CPU controls, is theoretically lower latency.

[reef patrol]

In this context, yes I'd like to think so 😄

[rough patrol]

as long as everything meets spec you'll be ok

thats a big if with usb and cables but yeah

[tribal kelp]

Yeah, obviously a front I/O on a header plug is less ideal than a back panel I/O from the motherboard.

[old marlin]

USB 3.0 is so noisy that plugging a dongle directly into it can massively reduce wireless range lol

[old marlin]

eh, not necessarily

depends on how it is wired up

[reef patrol]

No kidding? So that's... basically all USB ports these days, hah

[tribal kelp]

True, depends on controller too

[old marlin]

you want it ideally plugged into the root hub

[tribal kelp]

This is why I asked, yes.

[old marlin]

yea you kinda need extensions to get them away from the port

[tribal kelp]

There's a reason folks use ferro rings on keyboard

Or mice

[reef patrol]

Ehhh...

[tribal kelp]

Often times ferro are built into the cords at the plug dongle.

(for sensitive stuff)

[old marlin]

that is more to reduce EMI from the device outwards

[tribal kelp]

Fair.

[old marlin]

not from other stuff inwards

[tribal kelp]

Yeah, that's fair.

I was essentially asking in a deliberately indirect way if the add-on "premium" cable sold at Wooting has a necessary functional advantage for the 8kHz response keyboards like the 80HE and upcoming 60HEv2.

As opposed to what comes with the keyboard by default.

[old marlin]

technically any USB 2.0 HS spec cable should work

[tribal kelp]

Yeah, provided it's to spec

[reef patrol]

Identical in practice. It's there to provide a known good, safe alternative to aftermarket, coiled cables that often don't work well.

[tribal kelp]

Ah great, thanks for explaining its purpose.

[spare badge]

is it normal to have 3 of these running at the same time, the keyboawrd is tripping again

[ashen spindle]

make a post in #1019755933959733258

[spare badge]

aight

[steady sail]

https://wiki.pika-os.com/en/home

[fair gull]

pokemon company and nintendo gonna be eyeing this one

also glad we now get even more linux distros than we had before

[steady sail]

truee

[pale sigil]

AliExpress nvme, looks like I won the chip lottery too as its the TLC Nand version not QLC

[tribal kelp]

The arch advocates need more to argue about. 😉

[bright briar]

Anyone have suggestions for 3D printers? I want to get into printing stuff but I have no clue where to start

[frozen drift]

I'm not very well-versed with 3D printing at all but if you want to do this once or twice then maybe you can seek 3D printing services and let them print for you instead? If not then buying a machine would be okay if you plan on doing many DIY projects.

[reef patrol]

We had a long talk about this earlier today in fact.

#🔌│tech message
Read from here.

[bright briar]

ty

[bright briar]

i do on plan on doing a lot of DIY projects as a hobby

[pale sigil]

Holy shit

[frozen drift]

then yeah just buy a 3D printer and follow their suggestions 🙂

[bright briar]

i just heard the 3d printers can produce toxic fumes. Idk if thats all machines or just some

i got pets so just looking out for them

[bright briar]

buy it no balls

[frozen drift]

man nintendo/gamefreak sucks so much it's crazy. I don't know why I see people buy legends ZA when the game quality is so god damn trash. It's absolutely ridiculous. I don't know how nintendo manages to f it up when they have a great success formula from legends arceus.

[pale sigil]

I'm very tempted lmfao

[bright briar]

the seller is amazon?

[lunar elm]

expedition 33 low preset+XESS ultra performance 1080p looks better than whatever slop legends ZA is

[pale sigil]

Amazon US

[frozen drift]

I literally cringe when I see my high school junior buying legends ZA. Like what the hell.

[pale sigil]

This price includes import fees

[bright briar]

oh you shop from america

i would buy it if thats a steal for you

[pale sigil]

They sell for a min £560 here on sale

[bright briar]

over here most cards are 900-1k+. The reaper is on sale for 879.99 cad

[lunar elm]

Some guy in school asked me what I was playing- I told them “Legends ZA on high graphics”

dude was not gonna have it with me

[pale sigil]

Really tempted

[bright briar]

do it

[pale sigil]

The only issue would be warranty

[bright briar]

everything is going up

yeah most likely will have to pay for return shipping if you decide to do that

[frozen drift]

Actually, the graphics to me isn't THE worst thing. I don't know why they cut down on the content so much. It's just crazy. Like imagine restricting the game to just A CITY, NOT EVEN AN ENTIRE REGION. And then the travelling is just within this small ass city like running around a circle, NO TRAVEL MECHANISM, just RUN AROUND and you have a weird as phone or whatever acting as a parachute. NO VOICE ACTING because nintendo is run by bunch of monkeys(even after 10-15 years). Like omg it's so triggering. Not to mention, the storyline is utter garbage too ngl. Imagine making bunch of debt collector/creditor as socially good guys. Like they could've make it so that you need to beat the rogue megas to collect some mega stone fragments for the floette and zygarde and have someone stealing floette's mega stone after you completed it, but NOOOO they just made it so that floette randomly loses control. HOW STUPID.

[bright briar]

but pleasant thats a good deal for a good card

just saying

[pale sigil]

Ye I know

[lunar elm]

this is why no pokemon game gon win any GOTY ever

[frozen drift]

The switch 2 graphics card suck balls anyway. Like the original switch graphics horsepower was complete trash by today's standard(it might have been okay in 2017/2018), but the switch 2 is an upgrade but still doesn't have good processing power at all

[nimble arch]

Me when Pokémon spoilers in the tech channel

[frozen drift]

oh lol, my apologies. But honestly, just don't bother with it, it's not worth your time.

I myself bought pokemon sword and violet(including their DLCs)

[nimble arch]

I already own the game and have been playing it on my Switch 2

It's fun, I am enjoying it.

[frozen drift]

and I think those are actually FINE products, especially violet and the DLC. But oh boy ZA is just complete and utter garbage

[lunar elm]

S2 gpu is basically a severely downclocked and powerlimited 2050 that is on the ampere architecture

[unkempt lake]

I finished ZA and quite enjoyed it

[frozen drift]

Hey man, I may be shitting on it very hard but if you bought it and is playing and enjoying it then good for you. Ultimately, we cannot dictate how you feel about it, but from an outsider perspective, it feels trash.

[lunar elm]

2 gen old hardware for next gen prices- thats nintendo

[pale sigil]

I don't know if I wanna rely on fsr XD

[frozen drift]

yeah I know, I thought it was like 3050 level but lower.

I think they cannot pack too much power into it as well? Maybe? because of heat issues.

[bright briar]

waiting on the super cards?

[lunar elm]

heat and battery yeah

[steady sail]

FSR 4 is pretty good tho

sure its not on DLSS level but

[frozen drift]

That's why I don't know what is nintendo doing man, their hardware is garbage and they cannot pump out good graphics partially because of this.

[lunar elm]

you wouldnt notice the difference between FSR4 and DLSS4 in active gameplay tbh

[pale sigil]

I know the difference between 3 and 4 is insane but damn 3 bothered me so much it's kinda stained it for me

[lunar elm]

oh 3 was horrendous

[frozen drift]

And yeah, it's funny how ZA is a game based on lumiose city but the original XY games that covered the whole kalos region had more freaking details in the city.

[lunar elm]

in image quality it loses out to FSR2 lmao

[frozen drift]

how?

[lunar elm]

they had the time and effort to design some NPC’s feet and slap JPGs on the buildings windows

[lunar elm]

it just looks worse

[frozen drift]

I suppose looks worse but better FPS?

Actually, does FSR frame generation exist?

[lunar elm]

FSR3 had slightly more pixelation

[steady sail]

yes, fsr frame gen is a thing

[lunar elm]

FSR3 has FG yes

https://tenor.com/view/fsr-gif-22015334

[frozen drift]

How did AMD use FSR for frame gen?

If I am not mistaken, DLSS used AI from beginning until today but FSR 1/2/3 was using motion extrapolation or something right?

[unkempt lake]

lmao

[lunar elm]

interpolation*

and optical flow

[pale sigil]

This is difficult XD

[unkempt lake]

Amd had shit drivers years ago it stained amd for you cant use amd anymore

Use your brain its ridiculous

Just because it shares a name come on

[nimble arch]

FSR 3.1/4 is a huge improvement.

[unkempt lake]

Literall

[frozen drift]

oh yeah interpolation yep, they interpolate the data between two frames

[unkempt lake]

Fsr4 looks as good as dlss